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@now is forever We could say the same thing about humans farming cows. Survival is a complex affair, often selfish as well as symbiotic. You can't be totally selfish because in the end selfish and selfless are one. Hitler was nice to his dogs and even the worst mass murderers have done kind things for some people. You can't find a 100% selfish organism.

People are like children and sheep, what they want is not good for them and they have no idea what they really want. This doesn't mean you force them into anything, this means they require conscious leadership. Shows them what they are missing. Show them who they can be. Wake them up to their own highest possibilities. Without conscious leadership the world will destroy itself.

@inFlow Nice, now do that during sex

What kind of silly knots have you tied yourself in??

Meditate, don't eat for 4 hours, then plug it, get mindfucked, then eat after the trip is over. Repeat every day. Until you can't take any more.

@Norbert Lennartz Be here to learn, not to promote your stage Orange libertarian positions.

@Mikael89 Splitting hairs. There is only one thing: Absolute/God/Consciousness/Infinity/Self or whatever you wanna call it. Everything is just levels and aspects of this one, of yourself.

Every seriously awake person understands he/she is God. They just may not put it in those words because they know most people will balk at that. So instead they try to quietly guide to realize it for yourself without explicitly saying it to your face, because they know this triggers the ego. It's called spirituality for a reason. Don't overlook the obvious. There is no way to escape the fact that you are God. This is the very heart of awakening. Do not try to turn God into some secular materialist thing. It actually is God, not anything else. This must be faced head on. Accepting yourself as God is an important aspect of this work because people are so in denial about it. You can't be embody God so long as you're in denial that you are God. It's the ego which is denying it.

@herghly I have not done one.

@RawJudah Yes

@TheThingy When you get really serious about this work, solo is the only way to go. You don't need anyone. You don't need a shaman. You ARE the shaman. You ARE GOD! And all the answers are inside of you. You will never grow faster or deeper than doing a solo retreat. Here is where you truly confront yourself. This is how all the most advanced yogis do it. Want to grow more in 1 month than you have in 10 years? Take 30 days off for a solo retreat. Add in psychedelics and BAM! There is no faster way to grow yourself.

We have enough devilry and distractions here without an online chat. It would turn toxic quickly. Just use the forum.

The day Sadhguru realized that his loyal followers were going to forcibly shave him

@Bestyle2209 Tell her to try doing a 30 day solo retreat.

This is ignorance. Study how complex organizations actually work.

The day Sadhguru finally saw someone more hairy than him.

Not either/or but both.

@abrakamowse @Shin Guys, enough horsing around.

We are not saying to do away with all dualistic notions. Language is always dualistic so that would not even be possible. What we are saying is to be more conscious of the socially constructed nature of human institutions and culture.

@mandyjw Firstly, you can do both. Secondly, if everyone took your attitude we'd be living in Nazi Germany or worse. If you care about human life, your worldview must be GLOBAL! Mankind's greatest challenges are GLOBAL. This cannot be resolved by just focusing on your local community. That's what got us into so much trouble that we're in today. This planet will be destroyed if we don't adopt a global perspective immediately.

Then when the government goes to hell, don't be surprised and don't complain. Cause that's what such irresponsibility creates. See, the problem here is, you take good government for granted. If you spent a year in Iraq you'd really be able to appreciate the importance of good government.

Of course that already happens. But its too small to really address any serious world problems. What you're describing is called: American society. Here it is. You're in it already. The question is, how do make this society better for 300 million people? You are underestimating how much these kinds of constructions contribute to your sense of self and how much they shape the behaviors of hundreds of millions of people. This is not merely about you. This is about entire societies and cultures.

In practice, no you can't, because we live in a globalized world. You cannot just build a wall between your community and the outside world. Because fundamentally everything is interconnected. Eventually your commune would die out or become a cancer. The issue of running a good society is very complex. You cannot it do it in isolation, or by sticking your head in the sand, or by ignoring issues of mass scale. Whatever solutions you imagine must work at the scale of 100s of millions of people AT LEAST, and even at the scale of 7 billion. Otherwise you're not actually addressing the deepest issues, you're just offloading them on someone else to solve. Yes, you can create a small commune of millionaires who live on a golf course in a gated community with security guards. But this is all made possible by the larger society which maintains the police, military, legal system, monetary system, education system, fire department, important regulations, food inspections, vaccinations, environmental protections, trade treaties, taxation, nuclear weapons, telecommunications, immigration, airports, etc, etc. Your little commune could not exist without all that as supporting infrastructure. Just as an example of how everything is interconnected: let's say you build your perfect little commune on a tropical island. Everything is going great until some large corporation decides to use your island chain as nuclear dump site. A giant oil tanker full of nuclear waste material come and dumps 100 tons of radioactive material on a neighboring island. This material leeches into the water and gives 70% of the people on your island cancer which you cannot cure without flying back to the mainland. But to cure your cancer requires you pay $100,000 in medical bills which you cannot afford because you lived on a remote island with no major economy. You have no way to stop this from happening because your island is without any political power. So your commune very soon dies.

I don't have a source in the way you expect. You come to know such things after years of studying all sorts of books, gurus, retreats, and teachers. There's not just some one book I go to to get my knowledge on Hinduism. It's much more messy than that.