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@ShugendoRa The issue is: What daily practices are you doing? For how long? How seriously are you doing them? Nothing else really matters. That is the key. Without serious practices you will never get enlightened. Which teacher you listen to doesn't really matter if you don't have your practices down. And once you have your practices down you hardly need a teacher at all. That is the paradox of spiritual work. No one can do it for you.

"Truth" is a pointer to actuality or Being, which is not a concept. If you hold truth as a concept, then yes, for you it is a concept, but that is not was pointed to by the word "Truth".

@isabel Both! First you will realize you are the whole room. Then you will realize you stretch out in all directions and dimensions forever. You are every room that has ever been or will ever be.

@Moreira Yes, there are many hippies and bums in Hawaii. But I did not say living on the beach like a bum. I said buying your own land and building a small shack. That is very doable if you save up some money. In Hawaii you can even live off the grid using solar panels and a rainwater catchment tank. Heating and A/C are virtually unnecessary there. See my Hawaii solo retreat blog videos. Also, you don't need to slave. Learning how to make money is not hard. There many ways to earn six figures per year and enjoy the process. You just need a vision to do it. You can't be doing it out of a desire to become a bum. Cultivate a desire to genuinely contribute to humanity. It is so much more fulfilling and pays well when properly designed. Learn some business, sales, and marketing skills. This is easily acheieved online through courses, workshops, audios, and books. You also need a plan for getting old. Your health will worsen and so will your ability to work. Healthcare ain't cheap. Don't take stuff like healthcare for granted. Without government you'd probably die in your 50's or 60's due to lack of healthcare, disablity, etc.

@MM1988 Like I said before, the problem is you have not had your first serious mystical experience, so you are doubtful. The solution is to have it. This can be done easily with 1 hour using psychedelics. Which is precisely why they are such an important tool. Advanced practitions do not need psychedelics because they are aleady had many mystical experiences and are fully bought in. Newbies need psychedelics to show them what they are missing, what it would take them 10 years of harcore practice to glimpse. Psychedelics are the scientific way of finding God. They are totally empircal and easily replicatable. Clinically proven beyond any placebo or doubt. That's what makes them such useful tool. Never before in human history has there such an easy route to spirituality for newbies as with today's modern psychedelics. This issue of doubting mysticism is utterly unneccessary in today's age. You might as well be doubting kangroos. If you doubt so much, why not just go to the zoo and pet a kangroo? It costs $30 and takes 1 hr.

No, you are just misunderstanding their teachings. THIS is the kingdom of God! Heaven is EVERYWHERE! Just lose that ego. There is no salvation elsewhere unless you find it right here, right now. Nirvana is ego-death.

This is extremely ignorant thinking. Without government you would not even be able to live in a house in the forest because some gang would come slit your throat in the middle of the night or enslave you and seize your house. Without goverment you would not even have enough education to know what a country is! You would not have the internet, or property rights, you would not even know how to read or write, and many other things that you take for granted. Hawaii has very low property tax and the land there can be very cheap on the Big Island. You can buy plots of land for $30,000 and Hawaii weather is so nice you can basically live in a tent or a yurt and grow your own fruits and have chickens for eggs. Although food and construction in Hawaii costs about 1.5x more than mainland USA. But don't expect survival to be free. That is just ignorance. Rather than planning to be a leech, think of ways you can contribute to society. You will be much happier that way. It is not that hard for example to set up your own farm and meditation retreat center.

@Ninie You can't think you way out of this problem. You must make a distinction between thinking this stuff and observation of actuality. Less thinking, more observation is necessary. Learn to sit and observe without emotionally reacting to anything at all. Stop judging things, stop fantasizing about the future or the past. Stop thinking about yourself. Stop thinking about your life. Just sit and observe the present moment. In the present moment there is nothing sad or bad. Start to notice when you are conscious vs when you are reacting emotionally to anything at all.

@F A B There's no choice really. If you kill yourself, you'll just end up right back here. There is no end to it. Oneness means, there's nowhere else you can go.

@Space But here's the kicker: earlier in his life he used to be Born Again Christian. LOL

@Girzo You should also read the encyclopedia to learn that whales are not fish

Every 2 weeks is good as long as you're integrating the insights well. You will naturally not want to trip that often after a while because the trips should get too deep.

@Brenzo2 That's right. The "substrate" is Groundless Ground (AKA, Emptiness). The substrate is no-substrate If it seems mysterious, unknowable, unspeakable, ineffable, and paradoxical -- that's right! It is!

P.S. The shortest articulation of a cycle is a single dot.

Sounds like you're describing Samadhi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi Which is basically a mild version of nondual consciousness / mystical experience. But you are only feeling the tip of the iceberg now. With more practice it will go much deeper. It can even go so deep that your body and the entire universe will disappear! It feels timeless because it is! Time is a concept created by the mind. When the mind is still for long enough, time will cease to exist. In fact, every moment, every experience you've ever had, has been, and currently is, timeless.

@Conceptually-made Given your age I would attribute this mostly to lack of experience. Socialization is a skill set. Being intimate with women is a skill set. You need many hours of practice to get good at it, especially if you're shy, awkward, under-socialized, autistic, or very introverted. Put yourself into a lot more social situations/relationships and practice being very authentic, vulnerable, and intimate. Not sexually, but conversationally, emotionally, etc. Do not confuse sex for intimacy. A little game you could play with yourself is to try to see how fast you can get real intimate with a total stranger. Like, walk up to a random person at a Starbucks and try to get intimate with them within 15 minutes of conversation. The trick is to do it without creeping them out. The first few times you try it you will come across weird and creepy. But through experience you will learn how to make it feel natural and positive for the both of you. Oh, and BTW, the whole trick to sleeping with women quickly is building intimacy quickly. You can do it within 1 hour of meeting her through lots of training. There are many tricks to speed this along, like being fully present, having very strong eye contact, speaking slowly, smiling, being warm and friendly, and touching her body frequently in a non-creepy manner. It's amazing when done right. But requires enormous practice unless you're "a natural." Which obviously you aren't otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation.

In the very moment of ego-death it is realized that your biological birth was just a story. It is realized that you are not a physical or a biological object, but an idea. This idea is eliminated, as though it never existed. Not only that, it becomes almost impossible to imagine how you ever thought you existed. Imagine life minus you. That's ego death. Everything stays the same. But you are missing! In other words, absolutely nothing changes! Just its always been, and how is right now! There is no you reading this sentence. The sense that there is a you reading this sentence is a fantasy. The end of this fantasy is ego-death. Ego-death is not an idea or a belief, it is state of consciousness. Accessing this state of consciousness requires intense concentration and stillness of the conceptualize mind. The conceptualizing mind is what is sustaining the fantasy of a you in the same way that a video game console sustains the appearance of Super Mario. If the console is unplugged, Mario disappears.

Yes, because self and other are identical in the end. See video: The Theme Of Things Going Full-Circle

As is every human being Since YOU are God, you'd be worshipping yourself. That is okay as long as you're aware that you are worshipping yourself. Then it becomes like a cosmic masturbation session. And since you are the only thing in existence, all action is ultimately masturbation. Loving only those parts of reality which serve you or make you feel good. Of course, like I said, ego (you) is incapable of true love. True love requires eliminating ego. This requires some serious spiritual practices like Kriya yoga or self-inquiry or psychedelics.

Best excuse EVAR!

@Giulio Bevilacqua Be careful, that might be the attraction of the devil, trying to distract you from the Greater Jihad. As a general rule of thumb: stop fucking around and get on with the Greater Jihad!

Since all is one and there is nothing but The Self, self-love is really the only kind of love. But this not the self you imagine you are. I am speaking of loving the entire universe unconditionally, especially all the evil stuff your self hates. That is true Self-Love. The ego is not capable of real love. It only knows pseudo-love. Ego only cares about gets it needs met. That is not real love. That is egotism.

Oh good God... not him again... It really takes effort to be that dense.

@Ninie The ego is not going to die quietly. Taking antidepressants will only make things worse. It's like you're pressing the gas pedal and then slamming the parking break. What you need to do is become conscious of what this depressed feeling is about. Why it is happening? Not on a personal or psychological level but in an existential level. Why do you suffer at all? What is suffering about? What is sadness? Why purpose does it serve? Why are you creating it? In this work you must suffer consiously, otherwise you aren't really learning anything, you are just acting out unconscious egoic patterns. You could do that for 50 years and not come out any wiser or awake.

Psychedelics have been used by all cultures for over 20,000 years for this purpose. So there is no disputing it. Not to mention the clinical studies. The distinction between objective and subjective does not exist. There is no such thing as subjective experience really. That is an illusion created by the ego. All "subjective experience" is actually Absolute Being if the ego is absent. Being is prior to proof. Truth is prior to proof. Proof is a concept, Truth is actuality.