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@now is forever Hi!

@NoSelfSelf To suffer because of meaninglessness is to find the meaning itself meaningful.

@luckieluuke In my opinion, science is not doing any enlightenment work. Self-inquiry is done by applying a method to its own definition. Science would have to ask: "what is science?" and try to scientifically answer that question by constructing experiments, synthesizing data on various sciences, etc. The way in which science is defined makes this question nonsensical/paradoxical I'm not dismissive of science, as I earn money by solving problems in the scientific framework. It is a useful and a very well-developed perspective, but it does not have all of the answers.

@7thLetter Because they feel belittled by Leo and his work.

@Preetom Yeah, I get it. It's just imagination. @Barry J Not disappointed at all.

While both are non-egoic. I like to imagine that after non-dual realization of no self, there will be another, higher-order ego that will eventually emerge. From that point of view, we would look like cavemen .

No, you just got 'high functioning' ass-backwards and that's what is keeping you egoic.

By becoming ignorant to fear. Ignorance is the other face of wisdom. The path out of the mind is simple - just pick something and stick to it despite all the egoic emotions that arise. "The fool that is consistent in his folly will have become wise" You can find inspiration on this particular path from Lao Tzu's story.

@SFRL Live off it minimally for as long as I can and make self-transcendence my full-time pursuit. Upon death: pass it along in a sensible way.

@How to be wise Well, the question is: do you believe the theory you just created yourself? If you don't, then what's the point of sharing it? There is a vast difference between unconscious and conscious absence of the mind. There is a difference between a Zen master and a newborn baby. There is a difference between transcendence of the mind and not having any in the first place.

@MM1988 Because you won't die. The pure observer that sees 'through' a person (and its suffering) lacks any qualities, it is literally nothing. When you see 'other people', you may assume that they have 'another instance' of this pure observer that has no qualities, but this is just an assumption. The pure witness has no qualities and therefore it cannot be numbered. It is singular and absolute. You are literally 'other people'. Even if this person you call 'you' will die peacefully, you will be reborn and experience this suffering again. The only way out is to dissolve the difference between suffering and peace and pass it along to other beings.

@Leo Gura Does this influence your stance towards Peterson in any way?

@SgtPepper It's not about information on psylocybin, but on Peterson's stance towards it. Related video that I found:

@Serotoninluv I think that you listened too much to your image of who Peterson is, and too little to what he actually said in the video. What about the rest of the talk in which he seemed genuinely impressed by the results of the study? I'm not a Peterson fanboy, but I'm definitely a fan of not bashing him for something he's not guilty of.

Think of it this way: enlightenment is the dissolution of the difference between happiness and suffering.

@Genghis Khan Welcome home

Here's something that I realized today: The body is the child. The mind is the adult. Your job as a mind is to take care of the body by observing its desperate fits of pain, anger and sadness. The body doesn't know any better. It just screams out of helplessness. Like a newborn. Be gentle with it. Don't try to talk it out of its fits. It won't listen. It can't. As you are talking to it, you are the only one that understands the talking and all what you are doing is distracting yourself away from the screams of your baby. Just being near it, watching it, is enough to calm it down. Acknowledge its suffering. Understand the why. When it's calm - make sure to take care of whatever upset it.

@F A B You can always find a woman that is more attractive than your partner, regardless of how attractive your partner is. The physical attraction that you feel towards a woman is a free pass that lets you skip the flaws of her character for a while. All people, upon close inspection, are fundamentally flawed and generally - a big trouble to be around. To me, the only reason to commit to a relationship is because our flaws play each other in a way that requires both of us to change. The more you change, the more valuable the relationship becomes because of the shared history of influence. The more you fight in a way that makes both of you crack your shells - the more united you become. This is how I understand relationship with another human.

Youtube's algorithm is nothing compared to how we filter our own reality by turning the blind eye to things that are uncomfortable to us. I wouldn't be too surprised if it simply caught up on our ability to deceive ourselves. That's what machine learning is all about, after all - picking up patterns of large scale datasets.

@How to be wise @Leo Gura The lines are drawn with a stick in the sand. @Leo Gura I guess it's the difference in identification, but I don't think that it invalidates what I'm trying to convey here. In a parental relationship, the child has every bit as much to say as the adult, even if the adult denies it and the child is unaware of it. It does not matter which is the child and which is the adult. What matters is: are they both aware that they always work in communion? They are in harmony, even if they fight to establish the 'correct' course of action. Even if one scolds the other and the other is silently disobedient in sneaky ways. It is strange how peaceful a (sometimes brutal) fight can be when done in a mindful way. @How to be wise Your identification as an enlightened teacher distracts you from the meaning that I'm trying to convey. I can see in what sense you are right and why it contradicts what I'm writing. Can you see my point of view in a way that does not make me a child/student/ignorant in your eyes? @cirkussmile ? @DrJava I wouldn't say that one is any 'smarter' than the other. They talk in different, but complementary languages. The body influences thoughts, and thoughts influence the body. It is not really that important whether you call it a mindbody, or a bodymind. It's more like bmoidnyd.

@How to be wise That's a pretty story. It's irrelevant to my post though. I'm describing the relationship between non-discursive feelings and thoughts. The fact that I called the center of the former 'body' and the center of the latter 'mind' is anecdotal. If you prefer to call 'body' a dead hunk of senseless meat - it's your choice. I prefer not to. @Preetom Sure. That's a lot of words to convey silence.

It's not sad. Would you rather have a broken heart? Or is your heart broken because it's not broken? "Now" is the only future and the only past. Now is forever. Sometimes, we have to clean the closet of clothes that we've outgrown. Even if it hurts. You have my best wishes ❤.

@Ampresus I subscribe to this channel, but I watch it very rarely. His videos are describing what are the characteristics of a charismatic person and his tips are to 'be like that'. I think that it is backwards. A truly charismatic person does not have a list of things to do and to not do. They simply are and people follow them. I think that it is much better to think of why you are the way you are and transcend it. At some point, people will start to acknowledge your inner work by following you.