Manjushri

Uni's gonna start soon and I probably won't be able to sleep this much. What can I do to reduce my sleep time? If I sleep less than 10 hours, I feel not fully rested, unable to enjoy life to the fullest, be conscious, etc.

I'm trying to be open minded here. If you hear about something from an enlgihtened person, you gotta consider it!

Any biologist here to explain to me how the fuck do you get meat and bones and a pumping heart to be sentient and to have energy to move and whaaaaaat????

Leo said this in one video.

I met a girl yesterday. Conversation goes on and she mentions she's into buddhism and meditation. I'm like - cool this girl might be worth it. An hour of talking later, I see that her appeal to it is very very ego driven and that she is basically 100% ego. Any ideas how to shit test people to save your time? Also, where would you actually be able to find higher quality people (which places)?

>tfw (the face when) you get enlightened!!!

Not just for girls, im talking everybidy

I was thinking - how do you actually have meaningful conversation... I naturally have good social skills and have a personal conversation style which pretty quickly leads me to deep topics and connection. Despite that, I still feel I don't connect fully. What's the point of conversation even? To make free associations? To share experience? About the second one, there's this thing called circling - where you look at the other person in the eyes and say what you feel. I've done it a few times and its really powerful, makes for meaningful conversation. I want to learn how to lead conversations that... idk what. are meaningful?

I just go through the motions, sometimes it hits me and im really grateful. but usually just content. and and i should be like really fucking happy for having both of my legs, arms, eyes, a young healthy body,etc.

I have some spare time so I was thinking why not make some pocket money for my travels. What's the best way?

And not the absolute truth?

So it isn't even non-duality? It's just 'mu'?

This has been an obstacle for me for quite a while now. Intellectually knowing that it's out of my control doesn't help (most of the time)

@Nahm and what do I do with this knowledge?

@Gabriel AntonioAntonioAntonioAntonioAntonioAntonioAntonioAntonio// didn't suffer much, yeah i am highly sensitive, it's just that i thought going to a party would be fun but i didn't know at the time that i wasn't actually even in the mood for it. and i even stayed there. i care about my sensitivity too, so i don't do things that numb my reward system. it's basically me just bitching about a small mistake and unpleasant sensations (i had shit sleep that night which made unpleasant feelings linger on another day) im trying hard to live each day as the best and last so such mistakes hurt me gravely if you get me. it's stupid shit party, shit music, didn't do anything, wasted time and energy, got my dopamine sensitivity fucked, basically sisyphus' doing. made me angry lol

@Solace nooooo bro some mistakes just have nothing to learn from they're just stupid. but on the other hand, i wouldn't of have made this post had i. not made a mistake... hmmm

@iamme Well it basically boils down to - I do thing - thing has unpleasant outcome (sensation) - i angry. aversion or i do thing - i desire other thing done - i angry and beat myself up

I can feel that this is the most important thing to do in life,though i have no arguments for it. Why is higher consciousness worth pursuing? My only argument would be - if ya aint conscious, ya aint livin.

@Feel Good I don't really understand. Can you explain?

uhh. ok. so i understand it intellectually that it's determined, and that i can't control it, nevertheless i get angry. eg last night i went to a shit party,could of have used the energy to lift at home, wasted an hour there idk why i even stayed, got my dopamine sensitivity raped by shit music, and had sleep troubles later. it still hurts so fucking much!!!

I mean, you guys are all probably familiar with this because it's what Leo's talking about. Though it's different to intellectually understand it and to viscerally grasp the insight. Lucid dreams are a great teaching ground for non-materialism, literally a perfect environment, because everything seems so vivid, so real. Yet what is that world made out of? So I had like 5-6 lucid dreams last night. In the first one I was staring at a cat which seemed so real. But I told her 'you're not real, this is a dream, so what are you made out of?' Then I got it. What Leo was talking about. It's such a paradigm shift, you know. And I'll still be materialistic in waking life. But I felt it, in the later dreams where I sat in half-lotus in the air. It's actually so liberating, to know that e. g. pain, which is such a limiting sensation for the things we do, is illusionary (thich quang duc who set himself on fire and didn't budge an inch). Life is but a dream, drifting on a stream, consciously it seems...

I have no idea but the concept seems much more appealing to than office. And I guess it'd pay more since I'm in a 3rdish world country. But what's important is the freedom to travel and work! What are the things you can do even? The options seem endless online!

I would be ever grateful! Bump till he sees it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana

don't see it mentioned often here. whatya think of it?