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  2. Frame it how you wish but of course everything is already the case. It doesn't mean you know it beforehand.
  3. "You" have never walked down any street.
  4. NO-Self is already the case no matter your realization of it or not, however I'm not suggesting you dont work hard to awaken, I'm simply speaking from the Absolute, but as a relativistic finite self you work your ass off to realize what you actually are which isn't something to gain paradoxically. As an illusory self you need to bust through that illusion, pierce through that veil, but the illusion of self is already the case. You realize what is already the case. It's like looking for your glasses while they're already on your face, right now you do not know that you are wearing them until you recognize that you haven't found anything but simply remembered that it's already here. Obviously you seek and search for that which isn't elsewhere but simply hidden in plain sight but also it's not a thing to find.
  5. Report - Day 05 (Final Day) I started the meditation retreat at 2:08 PM and ended at 6:21 PM. I divided the retreat between 1 hour of meditation and 5 minutes for bathroom breaks, writing insights, and stretching. Process, Events, Insights: I began the last day of the retreat thinking about the next challenges on my list to tackle. I had an insight about making my personal and spiritual development related to hardcore challenges and experiments rather than just acquiring information and reading books. I got distracted for a while listening to rap music in my head. I returned to the focus of the meditation. I had an insight about doing challenges and solving problems that I truly admire and care about. The reason for doing the challenges is about who you become after completing them, having gone through a tortuous process. I had an insight regarding the importance of asceticism, suffering, and accepting the process. The first person that came to mind was David Goggins. I was able to understand experimentally why he does what he does every day. This revealed another insight about David Goggins' mindset and how I perceived myself in the same process after 5 days of retreat. You start to develop an addiction to hardcore challenges, imagining what can be done, realizing how much you'll evolve if you complete them, and how much it will make you an uncommon, powerful, different human being. Contemplation: When you look inside yourself, what do you assume exists? An inner voice? Emotions? Thoughts? An inner world? Is this true or invented to deal with other human beings? I had an insight about possibly using only 3% of my potential as a human being. The retreat certainly raised my expectations and possibilities about what's achievable in my life from now on. I realized how extremely violent and challenging the retreat had been. I remembered Dr. Benjamin Hardy's book "10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less." The addiction to doing extremely hardcore challenges is possibly related to the amount of benefits gained after completing them. After 5 minutes, I started feeling an absurd level of self-confidence, like a psychopath. I tried to stay still, but it was truly absurd energy. 5-minute break. I returned from the first break with an insight about the meditation retreat itself. The retreat was about everything but meditation. It trains you to do something extremely difficult, go through intense hardships, suffer, feel all possible emotions, and deal with that emotional rollercoaster. I continued meditating, but feeling anxiety and excitement at the same time. I lay down to rest a bit and continued the meditation process. I realized that today was the easiest day of the retreat. 5-minute break. I returned from the break and started having visions related to the future of robotics, imagining various types of robots, functionalities, and how robotics will change humanity's future. I returned to focusing on the meditation, feeling my whole body and breathing in a synchronized way. I contemplated: What happens if I don't connect my concept of being ME with what occurs in my inner world? (Emotions, Thoughts, Sensations, Images) I realized that if I don't connect my self-image/concept of being myself with my emotions, thoughts, and sensations, life STOPS being ABOUT ME. After this insight, a new subjective experience emerged. When there is no I, who is going to think or feel something? I realized I was existing just as a body without a conceptual I. This was one of the most insane experiences I've had. After a few minutes, I continued intrigued with this possibility of being/being in the world. In this experience of being just a body existing in space, nothing feels personal to you, nothing affects you. There is only calm, silence, and extreme tranquility. Contemplation: Who is existing inside my body? 5-minute break. In the last hour of the retreat, I had the experience of how important it had been to do this. The retreat taught me about consistency, persistence, dealing with chaotic processes, and accepting this emotional rollercoaster. I had an insight about the creative process, doing challenges, or solving problems. The process will almost always be messy, non-linear, or chaotic no matter what you're doing CREATIVELY. My mind started projecting noises in the room, and I thought someone was entering my house. But it was no one—just my mind trying to distract me. I did a meditation counting from 100 down to 1. I focused for a few more minutes, and the retreat ended. (Translation made by AI - Portuguese to English)
  6. Btw all modern spirituality that tells you, "You are consciousness," is simply a sublimation of the living organism's need for permanence. Faced with the fear of disappearing, the organism identifies with something superior, consciousness, which cannot disappear. Therefore, it feels safe. It's all a scam. True spirituality is much more challenging. It requires opening oneself to non-existence, which is absolutely real, just as real as existence. You can't understand what reality is because it's beyond of any understanding. Understanding happen in reality, it's just a form. Reality is total, and you can be open to it, because you are that.
  7. Kanye being a deranged anti-semite? Perish the thought
  8. Maybe you're setting the bar too high for yourself? Try and take things as they come rather than make everything out to be like it has to be a success. The hot cup of coffee in the morning, the warm water from the shower, the fresh air breathing into your lungs - sometimes it's the simplest of things that make us come alive again.
  9. Been putting myself out there more: nearly 30 myself and never dated so I felt like I had some catching up to do. I'd say my game's alright but I'd like to try for something more committal and serious rather than just pulling and one night stands.
  10. Those courses aren't scams though. The course I feel for had less substantive content than the LP course and cost 60 000 dollars. Scam courses use so many tricks to psychologically manipulate you into willingly making a bad deal. Success guaranteed or money back, etc. With the course I fell for I had to go through a 30 minute interview. Then the day after the guru contacted me to personally tell I was "selected" for the course, making sure that I knew that he was normally very busy and that he was taking time out of his day to congratulate me while flying in his private plane (his couch). And Brett Jones is on the lower end of scamminess. A lot of the bigger scammers manipulate you into making consecutive purchases to get the "next level", etc.
  11. His leg got almost crushed. If somebody almost crushes my leg that person is going lit.
  12. Yeah, there's a real risk Iran just swaps one authoritarianism for another. History shows that pattern. But: Even if that happens, it's still an upgrade when women can walk outside without being arrested for their hair. When you can criticize the government without being executed. When LGBTQ people aren't hanged. Imperfect freedom > theocratic brutality. And dismissing Iranian women burning pictures of the Ayatollah as 'TV spectacle for the West' misses the point. That's a human being risking her life to reject oppression. Whether or not the system that replaces the regime is perfect doesn't erase the legitimacy of her resistance. You're right that power structures persist. But South Korea went from military dictatorship to functional democracy. Eastern Europe post-USSR isn't perfect but it's freer than under communism. Panama post-Noriega is more prosperous and free, please check this. I'm not naive about what might come next. But I'm also not going to be so cynical that I can't recognize people fighting for their life as meaningful, regardless of geopolitical outcomes.
  13. It's hard-won, achieved with great difficulty, because it requires dissolving all your energetic barriers. And these barriers are genetically encoded, built by life over millions of years. They are the need to remain, the absolute fear of non-existence, the need for control, the need for belonging, for acceptance, for being part of something, the need for self-preservation. Your perception bounces off these barriers; it's inevitable. Breaking them down is no easy feat.
  14. Writing the final report.

  15. I'm quiting psychedelics until I'm 40

    No1Here2c replied to TheGod's topic in Psychedelics

    Not to truly complicate things, but there is the very real possibility that some of us won't make it to 40. given this poignant observation Perhap we invest further contemplation, or launch a deeper investigation into this decision-making process?
  16. Plenty of times. Its not much better when you buy a genuine course or take a genuine step towards a goal and it ends up in the dirt either though. It's just life mate. You got an education how to spot frauds. It'd have been nice if you were conned or scammed earlier on in life to avoid it now, but either way you learned a hard lesson and either way it feels the same way at 5, 15, or 55. Like crap.
  17. I don't think Leo sells courses on how to sell courses. As that's what the poster is implying he bought elsewhere, unless I am reading it wrong.
  18. I thought it was funny … yes I agree with you . Its almost an intuition, self recognize self, how we sometimes can sense if someone is speaking from a place of having a self like most of us or is genuinely speaking from “another place”(place of no place). Not that it’s necessarily important because I agree we should be concerned with ourselves first and foremost (in healthy way, I know what u meant originally, spiritually, ). But maybe if we can recognize clearly duality it’s a step towards recognizing non duality (now I’m just philosophizing) …
  19. Ok, point taken, I will consider this and contemplate deeper. I'm interested in what you have to say about the following: How do you distinguish what's good or bad in the relative domain, for humanity as a whole? Do you think that killing each other is just part of humanity and that we will never get past it? Are you not just spiritual bypassing the entire topic by saying "Be mindful of projecting what you feel is “basic dignity”."?
  20. From your subsequent post I am going to infer you think Iran will not be an authoritarian capitalist state, X amount of years from now when the rebel tendencies die down and the theocracy is reformed into the control of bankers, rich families, dictators and oligarchs. Its the global pattern, specifically Iranian society at its roots and structure is not a girl burning pictures. This looks good for the TV for us in the west, and it caught your eye, maybe its even good to inspire a fire. Its not going to be what the country is made out of going forward. That'll be the usual economic apparatus and governing instutions that always exist, and few of them are going to be what you consider stage green. Much as i'd like to believe people when they tell me see enough of one side of a coin (fascism) and you get the other, that's not what we are experiencing right now.
  21. Today
  22. I understand it's hard not to hear that as a negative, but it is not about making yourself wrong or starting a war between two aspects of yourself, so to speak. You're perfectly fine. The place where these things come from, however, is a fantastical world of one's own making. It's mere philosophy. Like, I bet my money the guy on the video has a solid sense of self to which he's attached, like everyone else.
  23. No its not that at all. This is more of what the neo-advaitans want to feed you. It is the realization of no self period. It is not realizing what is already the case because you do not know the self is an illusion until you do. So this is foolishness
  24. Yogananda also said that Jesus appeared to him confirming that his teachings in "The Second Coming of Christ" was correct.
  25. My father could easily have died recently when he was hospitalised. The thing he appreciated the most was just my constant daily presence throughout the whole ordeal. Yes I spoke to him, and asked him how he felt and what he was thinking, and I gave him some advice, and joked around with him about the hospital food and about doing laps around the ward with his movement therapist. But just being present and having that connection there is the most important thing, everything else is a bonus.
  26. @Inliytened1 Enlightenment isn't something obtained. It is the recognition of what is already here. It is not something to grab, it is the letting go and realization that there is nothing to grab onto to, but this is not the same as not seeking, because if you don't seek, you won't find the needleless needle
  27. "you" will never get it. Drop with Love
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