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Pretty sexy style .. but the amount of time it would take to think about your appearence .. not so sexy ...
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If you care about lasting enlightenment, "when you get the message, put down the phone" seems more accurate than not. My first LSD trip at 18 showed me the problem of suffering, dukkha, perpetual dissatisfaction, seeking, grasping, clinging. It was so apparent to me that I just laid in my bed for hours with a slight frown, trying to avoid the feeling of tension when deciding to do anything. And trips after that were more just ventures into forms, Maya, highly abstract spaces of mind, of extreme self-reference and irony, of deep sensations of profundity, complexity, vastness. But of course, the mystical unity experience was always lingering in the background, trying to creep in at the center stage of experience. But I was then grasping, clinging to experience, the moments I could do that. The trip became a game of trying to avoid the truth creeping in despite the growing discomfort as the trip progressed. And the end of the trip was soaked with weed to alleviate this sense of discomfort, to avert the eyes and bodily sensors from what was truly the lesson. Only when I laid down all drugs, a true feeling of spiritual quest was revealed.
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This is why a big part of the protest in Europe lose credibility, pushing the majority away from it. Calling it 'completely predictable' reduces a century long conlifct to a simplistic unrealistic narrative. If we apply this logic everywhere, every act of violence becomes "predictable" and just a result of feeling of injustice or the need of venganase, but this doesn't solve anything.
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Here's a good example of independent mindedness. 55 second clip In my adolescent years. I had a "bad" LSD trip. Actually it was the comedown that became very unpleasant. In hindsight, this was simply an onset of fear. About 5-6 years ago at age 52. Within a 6 month period, I took LSD at least 30 times. Most often at doses of 400-600 micrograms. Not once did I have a bad trip. I believe bad trips occur with lower doses when doubt and fear enter as the trip begins. With a good stout dose. At onset (30-45min) one is overwhelmed and hurled into this experience leaving no time for one to drift in doubt allowing fear to develop. This is my opinion anyway. Note; Set and setting,,, Having a safe and secure environment for tripping is very important.
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To be honest I'm tired of social media
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I’d say Attack on Titan. I love it because it’s not just action — it’s psychological, political, and deeply emotional. The way the story evolves from a simple survival plot into something morally complex is incredible. Every season makes you question who’s really right or wrong. The character development is intense, especially watching how trauma and power change people.
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Yet you're looking for distractions during it. Maybe still and quiet is what you need so you cannot be distracted.
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UnbornTao replied to No1Here2c's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@No1Here2c Those are ideas, intriguing ones perhaps, but ideas nevertheless. I'd focus on removing beliefs rather than on piling up more so-called knowledge. Just be real with yourself, and move in that direction. I think it'd also be useful to get increasingly clear on the difference between mind activity (such as holding an opinion) and objective reality, or what's actually going on. This is key. -
Yes, turn to the dark side.
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Either that, or he finally attained Nirvana.
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yes that's kind of why i thought maybe running is a practice that's easier for me to start than meditation as it's more dynamic.
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@bazera okay so it just takes some getting used to:)
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I agree with this up to a point. However, the path to God is fraught with obstacles. A degree of paranoia is necessary to avoid falling into the many traps that the adversary has set for you.
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Dude this is just sad. And the humans are just laughing at what they don't understand because it would be too painful to admit what they're feeling.
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I’ve just started using this as well as this forum strains my eyes!
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He downloaded a new personality.
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Agreed. The least likeable person in the world. And that’s quite an achievement when you live in the same world as Morrissey.
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Looks like it's put that poor fucker to sleep too.
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Don 't ask us, ask the girl. Don't make a plan, be in the moment. Follow your heart, listen to yourself and her signals, be authentic and honest.
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So not clear . I'll approach girls get a date . So here's what I do ( right ? ) plan is kiss the girl and then invite her ... Well I don't know . I don't have a chill area , I just have sort of a single bed . What activity would I invite her over to do , watch a film . I could ask about if she lives alone or with others and then through conversation there will be an activity I can suggest to do at hers ? What activity would I do at mine ? What's the best way to really do this . Is there a high rate as to girls that would sleep with you on the first date ? Is there something I am missing in terms of this whole situation and the way I think about it . Should I be going out on night outs instead to have more success rate since there is low success rate with this ? R.i.p.s.l.e.e.p Thanks for the help
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Breakingthewall replied to Terell Kirby's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Natasha Tori Maru the mistake that i see in Ralston is ontological, not something banal, but of course this is my opinion and probably you would think that who's wrong is me. Look: For Ralston, mental flow is illusory because what ultimately is, is direct awareness of mental flow. For me, mental flow is what it is in the form of mental flow, and what I am is what it is in the form of a dual perceiver. Perception is not the foundation but the expression of what is in a concrete structure. For Ralston, perception itself is the foundation. Consequences? If you follow Ralston's line of thought to the end, you arrive at solipsism and absolute closure. If you follow the line I propose, you disintegrate as a center and arrive at absolute openness If you place perception or consciousness as the foundation, you place yourself, the perceiver, as the absolute center. This is neo-Advaita spirituality, and the problem with it is that, while calling itself non-duality, it establishes an essential duality: the real, consciousness; the illusory, that which appears. In my view, you can jump from the dense emotional level to the perceptual level where everything is perceived as flow, but the only thing that changes here is your subjective experience, not the ontological category of your experience. Ontologically, everything is what it is. Subjectively, one type of perception is free, the other trapped. Both are the reality. -
Good news.
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manuel bon replied to manuel bon's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I imagine that giving my life situation, to some extent I feel called towards truth, but at the same time I also use it as escapism -
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Michal__ replied to Michal__'s topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yeah, I am not saying I'm solipsism realized. I've definitely had more legit than legit psychedelic experiences that prove the world is just my imagination... -
Breakingthewall replied to Terell Kirby's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
It could works, same than Tolle s ideas. What I meant is that what I get from watching his videos is that he establishes an essential difference between the sensory and the mental, categorizing the sensory as real and the mental as false. In my opinion, this isn't the case. It's like when Tolle says, "It's always now." Is something bad happening to you now? Then why are you suffering? What's happening now is that you're suffering. Not because of something in the past, but because of a created mental structure, a neural pathway, a stable quantum cloud that is a universe in itself that is happening. This structure takes the form of the "past" because the mind functions by creating a timeline. This isn't false or illusory; it's a natural force that creates civilizations by synchronizing millions of individuals as one, creating art, culture, science, philosophy. I completely agree that it's essential to break free from the chains of the mind, but that's not achieved by categorizing them as illusory. It's confusing, traps you. Or at least that's the case for me. The only way for me is the The direct, non-conceptual understanding of the energetic mechanisms that close off, that trap you in the vibration we call mental suffering, perceiving them directly and confronting them without evasion, and without categorizing them as "illusion." If you categorize them that way, you are within the mind level that assigns categories and meaning. If you see them directly, you are a step above, at the level of direct structural understanding. At that level, everything is the same category: real. It is living reality flowing in its forms, and suffering is living reality. It is at this level that suffering is deactivated because here it is not "suffering", it is the flow of the real, like everything else. Maybe Ralston is pointing in the same direction? I guess so, but I never understood that listening him.
