Leo Gura

@MrDmitriiV I think you're misunderstanding what an introvert is. Introvert: someone who get energized being alone, drains energy being with people. Introverts make fewer but deeper friendships. Doesn't like to approach new people, prefers new people to approach them. Extrovert: someone who gets energized being with people. Extroverts makes lots of shallow friendships. Loves to approach new people and make new friends.

Yes, that's my point. That makes language relative vs absolute.

@Voyager I find that trips don't require much thought. They know just what to give you. Just be mindful of dosage and set and setting.

@tsuki All language is dualistic. For language to work at all it requires making relative distinctions. You're way overcomplicating this. The Absolute cannot be spoken or even thought. Wittgenstein did not fathom nonduality and his philosophy is not worth much even though he has a few great lines to quote. Derrida's analysis of language is much more on-point.

Lol, so passive-aggressive!

I don't think the question was whether it's doable. The question was, why do it?

A pathetic excuse.

Traps abound in this work. We overcome the lower traps to advance to the higher traps.

A taste of your own pedantic medicine

It's a very important distinction. If you fail to make this distinction you will get yourself into all sorts of trouble. Most everyday language is coming from and speaking about the relative domain. This needs to be clearly understood. So if your spouse says to you: "Hey, did you take the trash out?" you do not reply with, "I don't exist and trash is just an illusion." When a question is asked from the relative domain, the answer must meet the question where it is at. And as for the Absolute domain, it's really hard to speak about anyway. So anything you say about it will ultimately devolve into contradictions and paradoxes because language is dualistic. We do our best speaking about these things, always remembering that we will always fall short of the Truth with our explanations. Do other people really exist? Nope. But we must still live life as if they do for practical reasons. Is money real? Nope. But we still need to earn it to feed ourselves. Is food real? Nope. But we still need to eat it in order to keep the illusion of our bodies going. Is time real? Nope. But we still need to set our clocks to the same time so we can coordinate. In a world of only illusion, illusion becomes the reality.

@moon777light You will get better and quicker at feeling it with practice. When you first start, your practices will feel rusty. That's okay. Just keep doing the best you can. Don't let perfectionism interfere with your practice. Give yourself time and leeway. Trust that things will sort themselves out after a few weeks of practice.

The ego likes to make a big epic struggle out of awakening. Stay mindful of how you're playing up the drama. It isn't necessary. You can trip calmly in a very pleasant yet profound way. Every trip is unique. One trip doesn't really say much. Do 30 trips and then you'll have a decent sense of the terrain and where you stand. P.S. It sounds like your dose was way too high. Stay at 125ug of LSD (1 tab) for now. Blasting your mind with psychedelic overdoses is counter-productive. You want to find a comfortable dose where you are able to contemplate and still remember.

It's important to make your first psychedelic experiences pleasant, not sickening. Otherwise you'll never want to do it again. LSD is the better way. I don't take any psychedelics which would make me feel nauseous or sick. It gets in the way of the contemplating and it's totally unnecessary. The natives take it simply because they have no better options. Puking your guts out is just unnecessary with today's technology.

@Gligorije You need to be much more careful about distinguishing an empirical observation from the conceptual schemes and interpretations you give to it. "Gravity" is NOT an empirical observation. It's a conceptual scheme which you're using to explain many, many various kinds of empirical observations. Before Newton invented gravity, it did not exist. But objects did still fall downward on this planet. But "gravity" is way more than the observation of objects falling down on this planet. Which is precisely why it took a genius like Newton to invent gravity. People had been observing falling objects for thousands of years but had no notion of gravity. A cat clearly sees objects falling down. But a cat does not know gravity. Gravity does not exist to a cat. Although the cat is still affected by "it".

By your logic, there isn't a me to get what you're saying, nor is there a you to complain about my not getting it You are mixing up relative and absolute levels. When I say something like, "You're missing out on psychedelics" I am speaking in common parlance. The plain fact is that people who have never done psychedelics have no idea what they're missing. Don't muddy the waters here with petty pedantry. For someone who's stuck thinking enlightenment is a waste of time, the proper guidance is: go do a psychedelic. Problem solved. Now they will be ready to start doing spiritual practices.

Sounds like you got some inner demons to work out. The point of tripping is not to trip once, but to trip and contemplate consistently. Whatever fears you've got need working through. Rather than playing around with a friend, next time, sit quietly and contemplate reality. Don't take the devil thing too seriously. The devil is not other than God.

@tsuki Relative vs Absolute Be careful about mixing up those two. When we speak of other people we are making relative distinctions for sake of convenience.

Buy a plane ticket.

Precisely because it's too direct. The problem with enlightenment is not that one can't do it, it's that one doesn't WANT to do it. To want enlightenment is to already be 50% of the way there.

@Serotoninluv Right, the key thing we're really saying is that reality is groundless. There are no fixed anchor points, except for the Groundless Ground itself.

@Serotoninluv Going even deeper, "different wavelengths of light" also do not exist. That is also a limited perception/interpretation.

@Gligorije You live pragmatically, just to survive and meet your basic needs. This is no way to live. This is like being a zombie or a slave. So of course that will lead to depression. It's a guaranteed recipe for misery. Imagine instead living as though you are inside a dream or a work of art. Full of wonder and passion at every turn.

@Widdle Puppy Nothing = Everything

That guy don't know jack about creativity. The whole key to creativity is that it produces entirely new things. Yes, it builds on itself, but true creativity is always new. Creativity created the entire fucking universe from scratch! Creativity is infinitely intelligent. P.S. And he's wrong about love too.

Time to upgrade to LSD If you're gonna be using substances, might as well use the best, purest, and clearest ones. The least addictive ones.