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  2. “In April of this year, members of Le Refuge, a Buddhist group located near Marseilles, invited me to lead a ten-day retreat on the topic of the skillful use of desire on the path of Buddhist practice. This is a topic around which there is a great deal of confusion, so I thought it would be a useful theme for the retreat. Because the Buddha identified three types of craving as the origin of suffering and stress, many people have jumped to the conclusion that he condemned all forms of desire. However, he actually taught that skillful desires—aimed at abandoning the causes of suffering and developing mental qualities conducive to the end of suffering—play a crucial role in the path to the ultimate happiness of nibbāna, or unbinding. In fact, the desire to put an end to suffering plays such a dominant role in guiding the path that all the Buddha’s other teachings, including his teachings about the self and the world, are designed to serve that desire and to achieve its aim: a happiness so great that it puts an end to the need for desires of any kind.” “Desires for the End of Desire”, 18 March 2026, https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/DesiresForEndOfDesire/Section0003.html. I have not read the book. “And, in the end, you have to get rid of your desire for God. Then you are It!” (Levenson 1993, 113)
  3. What God is - is what is happening right now, at this moment, on this forum.
  4. You are a Human being in a dream with a (hi)story. That's true, too. Out of that perspective you see & interpret everything, while writing those words with human hands.

  5. Leo

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

    I think it's a tad more complex than that. Parents could care about you, for example, and yet still have a very limited love. The best they can do, which can be not much. I'd argue that there could be a truthful enough model (which is still only a model, but hear me out) of levels of love. I'd say that unimposing love is above imposing love, for example. Basing this simply on my own love realizations and insights into what God is about. Does God impose? (question is flawed from the start, but roll with it? ) Regarding tough love: I can share honest masculine feedback with my best friend, and he can do with me. But we both understand that we don't know what's best for each other, and this is always stated when giving our views. Maybe it's not "tough" love anymore, but then again: maybe the virtue of "true" tough love (that thinks it knows what's best for someone and imposes it) is not so high from the start. The removing of a bear trap example is complicated. If the person doesn't want the trap removed from the start (for whatever reason), I think you still shouldn't impose yourself on them like "I'M GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY." And if they want it at the start but scream during the removal, their deepest will is still the removal of the trap so you're not imposing, you're aligned.
  6. I am not in space and time, I am here and now, you are also.
  7. If only we were on a forum which main focus is Consciousness, Spirituality & God.
  8. Same. Rarely do I find a girl I enjoy with so much to the point I can actually say the sex is better than jerking off. And the effort I have to go through to find that rare gem in itself is such a huge waste of energy and time, that it makes the sex with that girl less worthy. A big part of good sex also comes from training the girl to know how to please you. This is only possible if you actually enjoy spending lots of time with her.

  9. A Syrian story in progress

    integration journey replied to integration journey's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

  10. Distinction Journal

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

    Wednesday: March 18th, 2026. Lurking silently in a forum is distinct from offline eavesdropping.
  11. Do you see the same with nuclear weapons?

  12. Distinction Journal

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

    Wednesday: March 18th, 2026. Laughter as a time-expensive distraction is distinct from paying attention.

  13. Distinction Journal

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

    Wednesday: March 18th, 2026. Absorbing a bunch of information is distinct from actual comprehension.
  14. But He can't not be God. Except he can, but only for a finite time. God invented time to have the experience of not being God. He made the impossible possible while at the same it remains true: He was never not God, He only imagined to be finite. But He forgot it so completely, that He still hasn't figured it out yet, while the GODDESS laughs Her ass off at Him. All incarnations come from the Masculine Eternal Principle while the Feminine Eternal Principle gave birth to the universe. It's precisely that Split that allows anything to exist at all—and together they birth LOVE in an eternal dance of unfathomable Beauty & Ecstasy. Her nature is Darkness & His nature is Light.

  15. Distinction Journal

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

    Wednesday: March 18th, 2026. Compassion for those who suffer is distinct from feeling pity.

  16. Distinction Journal

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

    Wednesday: March 18th, 2026. Alignment with life's brutal reality is distinct from psychological indifference.
  17. Of course
  18. @Natasha Tori Maru You have to program moderator ai to have a bias. Thats the purpose of a moderatoration. You cant be non bias and be a moderator.
  19. God can do whatever God wants. Its one of the perks of being God. And by all appearances what God wants to do right now is jerk himself off an internet forum and yell at himself over who is having the better dream.
  20. I'm not sure about everything, but about that I'm absolutely certain. There's no other way. It's already the case, but WE/YOU don't know that yet, because we're in time. But that's only temporary (ha).
  21. It cannot be explained it. By design. If there was a perfect explanation (rather than really good analogies), it would have been explained already. If there was a logic, there wouldn't be a mystery. If the mystery wasn't there, you wouldn't know to go looking into it. See how that works? It can only be known through direct experience. I pray that you get the huge sigh of relief oh crap I just forgot lolololol version.
  22. Its your prerogative to believe that. But you've written it like a hard fact... It's just the way you see things, you don't know if such event will happen for sure.
  23. they sort of reversed maga. really consciousness is just about how much can you doubt everything. including doubting about everything
  24. ok but what if your perspective is absolute solipsism, there is no others to acknowledge, everyone is just you. does he accept this perspective ?
  25. Your time is running out trump you nothing but a muppet brained hornswoggle of a numskull of a man.

  26. Leo

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

    Tough love? I think love is when you care and identify with someone. How you choose to express that love is up to you. Carefree love, passive love, unimposing love, unresponsive love, is only one way to express love. If somebody you love is being bitten by a snake, or is stuck in a bear trap, you removing that from them might hurt them and they might scream to stop in the short term, but it might ultimately help them and that's your goal. Love in a relationship does without a doubt benefit from valuing what the person you love thinks and feels is right to do. That's why I suggest and don't impose. Although that also depends on the situation.
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