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  2. @Lyubov Jesus is at the core of their spiritual beleifs its someone you are introduced to at like 1 years old.

  3. Video, audio & book Journal

    Emptiness-one replied to Emptiness-one's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    1 Why Did Buddha Say Life is Suffering? - The Consciousness Podcast with Peter Ralston Is life suffering? Is life the living things or your personal life, is this the broad summary of existence or the individual (likely the egoic self). There is no reason to say 'Life is suffering'. We don't know exactly what the Buddha is suggesting. Can be the individual self having a bad time, that is true and a lot of it is unecessary (which ending unecessary suffering). Unecessary suffering is vast. Clearing out all the anguish that leads to suffering would make a person a lot happier. You would be free of all that stuff also. Ralston doesn't believe he was talking about the individual psyche. (For me it is the attachment to wanting the world to be a certain way and when the attachment to instigating an outcome drops away the suffering). Do something physical to get yourself out of your mind and this will improve your mood. Because you exist, you are separate and isolated, this is the dualistic worldview that cultivates distinctions. Due to the separateness of the ego, this leads to a creation of loneliness. The self is like living in a bucket, and transcending the self, this creates the unity. Choosing the self, the identity that is fixed, is the choice of the devil. This is mirrored in the pyramids as a symbol for the pharaoh hardening his heart. To serve in heaven is to surrender the identification with the certain identity. 'To reign in hell is the definite self contained within a prison of you, to serve in heaven is to give the identification up' The act of being a self is what the Buddha meant by suffering, this is what Peter Ralston believes. The proble of life is always the problem of you. How do I become the type of person who does those types of things and gets those types of material things.
  4. I noticed in myself, that I didn't intellectually believe it, but for some reason the beliefs made me happy. I did not consciously choose to hold onto these beliefs, but my mind insisted on sticking to what family and culture mentioned while glorifying it. I ended up having dreams in which I met Jesus even though I also explored many other religions aside from Christianity. it seems that it might have something to do with lacking a stable direction or identity which religion offers. The person might want simplicity if they find deep spiritual work extensive, exhausting, and confusing. Religious themes are also common in trauma narratives as Jesus offers to heal people. If a person is drawn to spirituality in the hopes of avoiding suffering, then they might revert to religion if they were ultimately not motivated by truth. I'm not quite sure I understand why, but those are some guesses.

  5. PROJECT : MEANING

    oOo replied to oOo's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Welcome to May 1st! We are officially only 1 month away from the middle of the year! Mark out your shoes and level your bootstraps! As we are booming out of the gates here. Today I will be releasing more than just example entries. Everything concerning today will be released later in the day. Upon preparation I have naturally noticed patterns between observations enough now that I can create a scorecard that makes it easier for people to connect the dots with their own observed internal patterns. We will be working with these score cards for at least 8 weeks to test their validity across time before they are integrated, if at all, into the site hosting site. Given the marked changes that have occurred in my own psychological awareness, separate to stage 1 and 2 scoring cards I will also be providing unique models drawn as scoring cards for my own psychology. This week the scoring card will be on “Alternate Self-Simulation - Maintaining Alignment and Emotional Salience”. Prior to this work, I possessed the ability but much less the emotional salience (ability to accurately emotionally read an alternate simulated self in the context of emotional present self reading) to be able to pull it off consistently, so I just never bothered. Now for the first time ever, I have already mapped integrity loops in determining, maintaining and adapting across self-simulations of alternate versions of self because of the deeper training I have dedicated to stage 1 and 2 exclusively, where other stages, although largely mapped, relative to training so far have been left on the shelf so I can suit hop and turn up appropriately to this journal to prepare and share the promised weekly entries relative to the assigned timelines for release. Best regards.

  6. Please help

    Cred replied to Monster Energy's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Carl-Richard The style of a lot of my responses is akin to the fragment in Jena Romanticism. It is primarily meant to be thought-provoking rather than 100% true. When it manages to make you contemplate about my points, it has completed its purpose, even if you come to the conclusion that the perspective is limited.
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  8. context?
  9. yes i can relate:)
  10. Jesus wasn't staring a religion, he was telling individuals how to transform themselves and to take their cues on that path from their inner communion and to not rely on the cues from the religious establishment. Of course his teachings were converted into an establishment. It was integrated with the pagan religions (and mystery schools) on the go at the time for maximum appeal.
  12. It's a tongue in cheek nod to the hypocrisy of claiming truth is the most important thing there is while being completely ignorant of it. But I wouldn't accuse anyone here of being able to tell the difference.
  13. Atrocious way to die.
  14. I have always been cognizant of that nature is extremely brutal and violent. Humans have animals beat in cruelty only by scale. I remember sitting near a small lake watching a baby duck when suddenly it started screaming and a seagull came swooping down and picked up the duckling. It was literally kicking and screaming with it's duck feet dangling in the air till its little voice disappeared. That was a seagull. The most normal bird ever only second to pigeons. They be killing babies on the down low, casually. That's nature.
  15. Stand up comedian Bill Hicks joked that wearing a crucifix was like walking up to Jackie Kennedy wearing a sniper rifle pendent and saying it was to honor JKF.
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  17. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Hmmm...
  18. The solution is to kick netanyahu out of office and prosecute him
  19. What is a son? A human being created from a mother and a father that had sex, was conceived, or maybe in vitro, then born. Fine enough, we can all agree. But what about adoptive sons? They were biologically conceived by other parents, but they were then adopted for whatever reasons, and raised by another set of parents. So everyone accepts these adoptive sons as sons raised by the non-biological parents. I don't see anyone telling those adoptive parents that they can't call these adoptees their sons, because only biological sons are real sons. We could say that the word son can be applied to both biological sons, and also adoptive ones. I think this can also apply to trans people, more or less. Even if what we call biological sex does not align with the gender, and they adopt the other one, because that's what feels good and authentic to them, and they socially fit more in the other gender group, generalizing quite a lot. So the word woman can be applied to both biological women, and also trans women. You don't need to do the distinction all the time, but in some contexts could be. So that's pretty much it. You can move on now.
  20. I actually agree with the majority of what you’re saying here, in particular that there isn’t a separate “controller” self managing thoughts. That part resonates. Where I see it slightly differently is this: So when a thought like “I am anxious” appears, I’m not ignoring it or suppressing it. And I’m also not trying to replace it. I’m just noticing: In other words: So the shift isn’t: But more like: On the emotional side, again we agree that fear, contraction, etc. can be felt directly. That’s important. But even there, the practice is: So instead of: it becomes: And interestingly, that doesn’t suppress anything. It actually allows it more fully, because nothing is being resisted or claimed. So for me, meditation isn’t about controlling thoughts or dissolving into them, but instead: Not by force, just by seeing clearly:
  21. Next time you can choose to incarnate as a tree (or any plant) in a wild area that is difficult for anyone to reach and live peacefully for many years 🙂 Some trees are 100–200 years old. This is a nice break. But here, your soul chose to incarnate as a human on this specific planet and in this era (provided you had a choice). Do you have any idea why your soul would choose such a thing? Maybe your soul wanted some challenge or growth.
  22. I've noticed a weird trend where some people who I saw as free thinkers and attuned to mystical states (usually keeping it relatively dogma/religious free) almost sort of revert to Christianity especially if they are western minded. what gives? Usually they are living a very material life.
  23. Maybe, who knows? All I can say is that your ego desires are not god's desire, so when you die and become God your desires will be different, so maybe you will change your mind about what you want to create
  24. so i can just decide to not and do something else? like lets say i create valhalla for myself.. if i do that that's also reality from that moment on right?

  25. Please help

    Carl-Richard replied to Monster Energy's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Only generalizing, or generalizing a lot, can cause some issues. An antidote could be listing different alternatives and then synthesizing them. For example, with sex addiction, you can list many things: trauma, personal predisposition, personal beliefs, culture, neurological issues, cognitive styles, attention, awareness, executive control, values, life orientation, suppression, transmutation, habit. And sex addiction might not even be the right concept here. The OP seems to be struggling with some obsessive-compulsive thoughts around sex. It can often come from a desire to control or do things properly, which can come from many things, perhaps a belief, perhaps trauma, or personal experiences that cause lack of control and expressing it through control over sex can be a byproduct. Or perhaps a general cognitive style of control. And maybe you can challenge that need for control with acceptance, either by accepting the controlling behavior or relinquishing the need to control at all. What are you aiming at with the control after all? Feeling at ease with yourself? Or is the goal more important than that, is it bigger than yourself (maybe it isn't in this case)?

  26. German Calvary

    NewKidOnTheBlock replied to No1Here2c's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    This right here, is the real german cavalry lol

  27. German Calvary

    NewKidOnTheBlock replied to No1Here2c's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    And this is why you don't do drugs, kids!
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