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@Serotoninluv Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Humans have intentions sometimes. A rock falling on your head doesn't. But both are acts of the universe all the same.

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@Dj1 HCl will burn very easily. You have to master the technique through trial and error.

@beastmode If I threw creativity or contribution into the trashcan and you never saw them again, would you care? Do you care about them both as ends, not just means to ends? If one is just a means to the other, throw it out. If you care about each one individually for its own reasons, then keep them both. If you find they are just synonyms for the same basic idea, merge them into one.

You're shooting yourself in the foot without realizing it yet. See... One of the greatest kinds of happiness comes from giving to others meaningfully (i.e., being meaningfully useful in the world). Being creative is also one of the greatest kinds of happiness You live in a society, where most meaning is connected to society in some way So the optimal situation would be: a job where you are maximally useful, which is maximally creative, which is maximally meaningful. But instead you choose not to do that. So what will happen? You have effectively consigned yourself to working 8 hours per day doing something which is: not useful, not creative, not meaningful, just to pay your bills. By choosing not to have an impactful career, you've chosen a mediocre career as the default position. Good luck being happy with that strategy. But hey, it's what you wanted: cleaning people's toilets for money while you play your jazz flute on the weekends at home for your cat If your career is anything other than your greatest passion, then that means you're spending 50% of your waking life doing something less interesting and fun than you could be doing.

All good suggestions above. I will just add: get used to it. Boredom and sleepiness are one of the mind's best defense mechanisms against Truth, so it will use them often on this path. It might take you a year or more to work all that "sleepiness stuff" out of your system. Sleepiness is not just sleepiness. Sleepiness is loaded with a bunch of psychological issues and neuroses. It will gradually get purged as you keep up with your practice. But, also, of course, make sure you're getting enough sleep at night and don't eat anything for at least a few hours before you meditate. Nothing like a full stomach to make you sleepy.

@Ether First few years are pretty slow, especially if your meditation is sloppy and weak. Stick with it anyways. It gets exponentially better with practice. And take some week-long retreats to super-charge your practice. Or add some psychedelics to it and you'll get 10 years of growth in 6 months.

Yes, the infinite intelligence of the All, inherent in everything. It's hard to believe until you experience it first-hand.

@ajasatya The crazy thing is, for a guy in his 40's, he looks ridiculously young and healthy. So maybe he found the elixir of life!

@kieranperez Great!

Serotoninluv's GF: "Honey, I love you." Serotoninluv: *slaps her across the face* "WAKE UP! There is no you or me! There is only Buddha-nature, and it loves all equally."

@Max_V You should name your child Spruce Spyro

In the context of this discussion about this freaky frog, yes. This reminds of another Vice documentary about a guy who injected himself with cobra venom every week for 10 years. Now that's fucking hardcore. He makes the craziest psychonuat looks like a pansy.

You have to learn to recognize consciousness even when it doesn't fit your expectations.

Yeah... don't seem too pleasant. I would stick to regular psychedelics. Putting yourself through hell isn't necessary.

@SirVladimir You can't lay on the nonduality lectures on a wounded, grieving ego. In a situation like that, you apply compassion, then you bring up nonduality LATER, once he's not emotional. The whole point of an emotional reaction is that the mind is resisting reality. So of course at that moment the last thing it wants to hear is a nonduality lecture. That's like talking calculus at a mule.

You know... Adderall is basically Meth.

@Swagala The real you don't exist. Ta-da! So what are you calling "me"?

Hard to imagine humanity not still going. The question is, at what pace? In what condition?

@kieranperez Research, research, research. See my latest blog post.

@Revolutionary Think The mind cannot stop the mind. Stopping the mind requires some serious meditation/self-inquiry. Years of it. Or some deep tripping. Keep at it. Don't try to stop it in the ordinary sense of telling yourself not to think while laying in bed. That doesn't work.

@kieranperez Psychedelics help with all matters, even those you didn't know you had. The problem is, you're on a chemical cocktail of stuff already, and who knows how all of that will mix? Worst case scenario, it can kill you. You should do serious research online to find people who were taking your kind of cocktail and see if they had any complications with psychedelics. Mixing SSRIs and psychedelics is a bad idea. Ween yourself off first if you want to become a psychonaut. That is the best general advice.

Precisely! Which is why 99.999% ain't enlightened and won't be for a long time to come. The trick to understanding reality is that whatever happens is precisely what was supposed to happen. If you work your ass off and get enlightened, that was supposed to happen If you work your ass off and don't get enlightened, that was supposed to happen If you sit on the couch your whole life eating Cheetos, that was supposed to happen If you read this and decide that all is hopeless and you are victim, that was supposed to happen If you read this and decide that you will double your efforts and that leads your enlightenment, that was supposed to happen How do we know it was supposed to happen? Because it happened!

@cle103 You should be grateful you've had enough wisdom and motivation to get this far. If you made it this far, you can make it to the end of the rabbit hole. No one said this would be easy. We are talking about suicide here, after all. The ego will not give up without a fight.

@Source_Mystic Yes, of course, as it must be. When you truly grasp it, there is nothing to say. And nothing said can make you truly grasp it. That is the game we are playing. Fish huddle together only in the darkness, because they are too scared to step into the light.