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How come? Prior to any activity, existence is. By definition, it is the basis or condition for anything to exist. We can imagine that it isn's subject to any particular process; rather, it is what gives rise to the very possibility of things unfolding. What is an experience of "existence" with no language? What is language - without taking it for granted or considering it as a secondary or trivial thing? Can "message", "information", or "communication" exist without language?
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Friday: December 5th, 2025. Looking forward what can be is distinct from looking back.
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I last week went to dinner with my extended family, who are from Lebanon. Everything went well, I was talking to them about career, a new girlfriend from Europe and all that, and I overall had a nice time. But I created quite a bit of drama when I casually mentioned that I was going to Buddhist meditation retreats. I've posted about this on the forum, but back in May I did a 5-day meditation retreat with two monks from Taiwan, and I loved it. As part of my spiritual growth, I go back to the meditation center every Sunday, I read authentic translations of the Buddha's discourses, and I have a new retreat for eight days planned in late December. So I mentioned this stuff just casually, and my Aunty raised her voice and said, No! No! You can't do that! There were two elder women sitting to the right and left of my Aunty, and they started telling me, ' Hussein, you are Muslim! ' I tried going to my younger woman cousin to talk about what happened, and she didn't take my side at all, and instead was trying to tell me that Islam was peace and to not go back to that place anymore. My Aunt wants me to cancel my meditation retreat, and to delete the pictures I have of the retreat from my phone, because one of the pictures includes a photo I did with a Monk, we were standing, smiling with our arms over each other shoulders while someone else took the picture. A day later I called my Aunt to thank her for inviting me for thanksgiving. I made a promise to myself that I wasn't going to mention religion. We talked a bit and she said how much my elder cousin loved having me. But then during the end of the conversation she said that I was to promise her that I wasn't going to go back to that place [the Buddhist meditation center and temple]. She then said that her and my elder cousin were going to "set me right" [on the right path]. My Dad called me and apparently my Uncle called him to complain, 'why is your son not a Muslim'. My elder cousin is married and has kids, but I think during his youth he went to a special college or school where they taught him deen and fiqh (both concepts from Islam). My Aunt and elder cousin both have my phone number and they're going to try to coordinate with each other to bring me to the Mosque. Before I drove home, they gave me a prayer mat (for salah). Should I go? Just to be polite. Because they loved having me.
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Friday: December 5th, 2025. Forgetting something and remembering something are two distinct present experiences.
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Friday: December 5th, 2025. Moving forward and turning back are distinct for obvious reasons.
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James123 replied to James123's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Who says or claims that? (Very important) Can absolute say anything? Or any say arises and falls within? İncluding hello? -
Friday: December 5th, 2025. Closing a door and closing doors, metaphorically speaking, are distinct.
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Friday: December 5th, 2025. Opening a door metaphorically speaking is distinct from opening a door physically speaking.
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TheSelf replied to James123's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I meant because it's free, Absolutely free. How can the ground of existence does give a fuck what state your mind is in or even if it died or not. And I AM that, The pure presence, the mind and it's states could be there nor not, but I AM. The light, awareness, pure shining being. Free in every way. This is something people cannot understand in a psychedelics experience because experience is a movement belong to the mind. This is when all mental movements dies in the Now in All levels and you still see You Are. Absolutely aware, absolutely alive and pure, shining as ever. -
kavaris replied to VeganAwake's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yea thats not bad. I mean, theres no ways to communicate what you are feeling or experiencing whilst its happening. There are maybe hints at, maybe. I mean, I just refer to it like a "gyration" of some sort, like we go around one edge of the experience {trying to describe it} only to realize that by that time we are the other end of the spectrum, therein we've misrepresented the ~whole via the other end -
Do you know how little I do game? You guys have some weird view of me, like I'm out hunting for girls every night. I don't chase girls or sex at all. The reason I talk about game is to help desperate guys out there to move up the hierarchy of needs so they don't end up deluded Incels.
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Inliytened1 replied to Never_give_up's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Well that's the whole discussion right? Is it something more than what can come out of materials. Like neurons. Do you think that? That it is just some random scientific process? And again it you do you should be able to explain how neurons make it happen. -
Breakingthewall replied to Never_give_up's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yes, of course, if for you consciousness means infinity, then its different . I thought that you meant consciusness, you know? Perception, being conscious, awareness. Not Infinity. You should tell infinity instead to avoid confusion . Anyway, infinity usually means something that has not end, for example the numbers are infinite. -
Use post rational intelligence to help revolutionize the fields of medicine and/or education with science and engineering. Or maybe just use post rational intelligence to build Deep Tech that can improve downstream products/areas including med and ed.
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So basically, I think, we can say that development is our ability to consciously tap into the natural fuzziness of our thinking (which is close to, or even practically infinite given the complexity of our neural network) and align with it while needing less and less to reduce it into firmer and simpler versions.
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I don’t know Riviere but indeed I looked at some Lacan works, my paradigm here is probably influenced by him even if I mainly stick to Freudian language elements Ahah no it’s complicated in general. Deleuze is even way worst 😬
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James123 replied to James123's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yes. But, it is not absolute doesn't give a shit (because, absolute is always what We are) but, It is not because of the absolute that we make ourselves miserable, but because of ourselves or because we trust in mind. Doesn't give a shit or giving a shit creation of the mind. -
in the life purpose course, i've finally arrived at the section on values assessment last week. i've tried to do some of the exercises but find that it's difficult to get clear on my values. the hardest part is probably that i am supposed to imagine what my "ideal" self would value, which is driving me more into hypothetical "should" territory where i imagine some picture book version of myself....it's hard to say if this would be the authentic me though. for example, i can't get quite clear on how much i actually value community. is it just social anxiety that's in the way, or is my desire for engaging with other people in a communal way naturally low, or something inbetween? it's also really hard to determine if a value is mildly important vs the thing everything else hinges upon for me. and i have the same issue with many other core values as well. i guess it's a bit of a catch 22 because you need to know your ideal self to know what you value, but you need to know your values to know your ideal self. and then this usually culminates in me trying to analyse myself like some omniscient narrator, rather than connecting with myself. any advice on how to gain a bit more clarity? is there any method to make this inquiry simpler, rather than drifting off into too theoretical territory?
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Lol I hope not
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Because do you think an enlightened person spends 24 hours a day obsessing about spiritual practice and "staying present" and trying to not be caught by thoughts? No. They are relaxed, living their life. If you want the rest of your life to be filled with obsessive thinking about a state you're wishing was the case, clinging to it, rather than trusting it, letting go and giving yourself time for the state to flower naturally in a state of rest, by all means, do that. But that won't be enlightenment. Enlightenment is when your baseline state, your default state, the state where you do not aim to achieve anything or wish to change anything, is presence. So giving yourself time to rest allows the enlightened state to flower. That said, moments of intense obsession can be useful for breaking through plateaus and cultivating the state that you want to flower in your baseline, but at the end of the day, you want the baseline to become that state, so sometimes let the baseline be the baseline. Or just drive the obsession to the maximum extent and see how it eventually leads to a glass ceiling that can only be broken by letting go of the practice. That said, there is nothing in it for you in enlightenment anyway (and that's not just a funny joke; it's literally the case). So if you just want an intermediate thing of less thoughts, more meaningful thoughts, a relatively more profound level of existence, then just meditate and do whatever you want (which is not that dissimilar from proper spiritual practice anyway). And even then, give yourself time to rest, because a mind that doesn't rest or constantly tries to suppress its own activity becomes a constipated and stunted mind.
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Husseinisdoingfine replied to Ponder's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Yugoslavia was the ideal example of Socialism as it had a unique emphasis on workers' self management. See this paper below: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.5.4.187 And this video: If socialism simply doesn't work, then how do you explain this? -
Inliytened1 replied to Never_give_up's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Define Infinity. Because they are the same. So this is how ludicrous your claims are. Neurons in the brain create Infinity. -
Breakingthewall replied to Never_give_up's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
i explained but ok. First define consciousness -
Tea is delicious! I'm currently drinking a DavidsTea 'Buddha's Blend'. Good job British.
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can you write this on a sticky note/regular note, tape it on your fridge, and look at it every morning? maybe have an additional note pad at hand and every time you get an insight as to how the pursuit of the above could look like, you write it down and try to follow up on it? might make a huge difference to simply get started moving toward what it is you want. also, what stands out is the word "should". maybe inquire into where these shoulds come from and how they contrast with what it is that you WANT? saying this as someone who has a rough time knowing this myself...but i think by now i understand the value of asking this question in the first place, even if it still takes time to figure out the details.
