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electroBeam replied to ardacigin's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
No that's definitely not true. I was thought to have dyslexia by my teachers, a disease which prevents your left side of the brain functioning in the same way as most others. It is definitely possible to be bad at maths, and realizing so has many benefits. I was called lazy by my parents and punished for my bad marks even though I studied hours upon hours. Imagine if the world was aware that you could actually be bad at maths? No punishment and acceptance of the grades and a focus of doing a different subject you enjoy. -
electroBeam replied to ardacigin's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I've had the exact same experience, but concluded a completely different answer. Why I say this is because I've literally been in, and experienced being stuck, and being non stuck, being spiritually gifted, and being spiritually non gifted. I Know, and have observed that the things that have made me unstuck were watching Leo's videos at the exact right time, and at the right place in my life. Materialism broke down when I started watching Leo's videos and miraculously I quit university - the materialistic pumping machine. Such coincidences was not a partial support but the CAUSE of materialism being destroyed. Leo has a point, everyone isn't the same and is certainly different. In University I use to study at least 40 hours a week for maths and still failed. I knew friends who didn't study at all and passed. I also clearly(with evidence) identified WHY I was failing, and observed within myself that the way I was thinking was the cause of the failure, and others clearly didn't have this way of thinking. Also cognitive abilities like memory change massively. As he says, it is a massive relief and joy to admit and realize that my failures were not from being lazy, but from this innate different way of thinking. -
electroBeam replied to ardacigin's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
This idea that spirituality is a born gift really goes against my experience. I've been through periods of my life where I was very spiritually attuned, and periods where I was less attuned then a drunkard. These periods did not go linearly. Infact they went cyclic! The difference between whether I got lots of mystical insights and was interested, and whether I didn't was 100% determined by the organisation of my mind. It was determined by how many dysfunctions I had and how many beliefs I had. It was also determined by whether I was watching Leo's videos or not! It was determined by whether I was fighting with my parents, or we were happy. If I was spiritually gifted, I would be having mystical insights no matter the environment or dysfunctions. Likewise for when I wasn't. I have experienced, and have been as a small self, both deeply spiritually gifted, and spiritually illiterate. And that's in the same life, heck in the same month! -
electroBeam replied to ardacigin's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Isn't past lives environmental factors - but over lifetimes haha? If the differences is explained through past lives, then the individual still put in heaps of effort and time, just in his past life. -
electroBeam replied to ardacigin's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
In a way, your personality is a collection of all of the experiences you've had, and indoctrination your society has told you and you've believed. Its not some inherent soul that's unique to you - this is false. The buddha, as an entity, is fundamentally a collection of life experiences and indoctrination by society. You can think of the Buddha as a book shelf full of books which describe the experiences and indoctrination from society. Now from this perspective, does it really make sense to assume that the Buddha was enlightened because he as an entity is special? How important are those books on his book shelf? Of course there are genetic components involved, but I find it really hard to be convinced that genetics plays a big role in success of the person. The majority of spiritual success is determined by how high quality the software is in your head. How loose is that software? How easily does it change? How easily does it keep you from being trapped? How many issues are within that software? How dysfunctional is it? These are huge huge factors when considering enlightenment. -
electroBeam replied to ardacigin's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
A deep insight which you're overlooking is the strong effects of the environment on one's consciousness. I can only speak for myself because 1) I know myself 100% truthfully(and its not hearsay) and 2) I haven't read no where near sufficiently to even judge hearsay at the levels you are able to. The environment plays just as strong, if not stronger role on how enlightened you will be. Be careful not to misunderstand me, I'm not supporting the 'talent is not born its made, 10000 hours' argument, I'm saying that we even in duality we are strongly tied to our environment. No matter how individualistic you are, the environment determines(subconscious/unconsciously) the actions you choose to do and the success that comes with it. If you try and enlighten yourself inside a ghetto, even if you're the buddha you will not be able to do it. If you try to enlighten yourself in an ashram, no matter how dull you are, the chances of success increases significantly. This is because you become a cell, a part of the ashram/ghetto system, and the system's properties get meshed into your individualistic properties. Of course, you may still come across as an outlier, you may still be totally different to the people in the ghetto/ashram depending on your tendencies, all I'm saying is the place you put yourself has massive consequences on your behaviour. Have you taken this into account when looking at spiritual people? Would the buddha ace yoga if he tried to inside a ghetto? Would shinzen young not be able to access higher levels of consciousness if he was in the presence of the living gautama buddha? Don't fool yourself into thinking these people are individualistic entities separate from their environment, their environment moves their being massively. You need to distinguish talent from environment if you wish to explain the phenomena you're trying to explain properly. I did an experiment with myself. I watched your videos and talked on the forum for 6 months. I then didn't for 6 months. My personality and talents changed dramatically between the 2 periods. When I went and immersed myself with Sadhguru's community, my talents and personality changed massively again. This really showed me the power of the environment on talent. -
electroBeam replied to Bryanbrax's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
WTF are you doing man??? Many find dogs to be their best friend, they're more loving than humans, they love affection. Should dog lovers ditch dogs because they are somehow 'above them? If you think you are above someone, without even going into the egotistical issues that raises, the solution isn't to run away from them but to help them be happier. Jesus didn't run away from people. So didn't the Buddha and Shiva. -
I would enforce everyone to get a 'I learnt politics certificate before voting
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If when you die physically, you will be God, why is suicide discouraged? Wouldn't it be the best if everyone just died now?
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electroBeam replied to electroBeam's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I 100% agree with that. Holidays are toxic - they are an escape from your ordinary reality. I agree with sadhguru, make everyday life and work your holiday, you have no excuse not to -
I have a problem with opening up my feminine side. I want to love and be loved and show empathy to people, but I can't because it makes me feel too vulnerable and I feel like people will think I'm weak.
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electroBeam replied to Geromekevin's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Machine learning/AI models can predict waaaaay better than you can. Are they good models too? -
What function does suffering have? Leo wrote in a post that suffering was created by the devil to stop you merging into God, and that if you mindfully observe suffering you will be God. So does this imply that avoiding suffering should not be done if your goal is to be God? Where I'm confused is, this goes against the functioning of eastern karma; what comes around goes around. For example lets say you saw someone drop 1000 dollars on the ground. You have 2 decisions, 1) pick it up unoticed or 2) tell the person they dropped it. If you choose 1) you will develop karmic patterns that cause you to suffer more. This can manifest in many ways including developing your ego to be more selfish, or having a fear of being caught. If you choose 2) you will suffer less. Originally I would choose 2) but if avoiding suffering is a development of the ego to stop you from being God, then 1) may be the better option. Shadow work and psychopherapy are methods wholly designed to relieve suffering. Are these methods therefore keeping you from realizing God?
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its either trying to tell me to do a job that is much much more bigger picture and holistic, or its leading me down the wrong rabbit hole and what I actually need to do is not listen to it and just meditate and forget about LP
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Its very hard to summarize, but it can be pointed to with a few specific points. In general, society is currently driven by accumulation of wealth, social status, jobs with power and dominance(like a CEO) at the expense of mental wellbeing, authenticity, sharing and caring for others. This causes many unpleasant issues, but the one which affects me the most is the toxic atmosphere/energy. When an entire society's mission is to individualistically accumulate the stuff above, it spreads a subconscious mindset throughout society that you must suffer, and go against your natural instincts of empathy if you are to avoid suffering. It causes people to fear each other instead of trust each other. An alternative drive for society may be instead of accumulation of stuff, we focus on collectively supporting each other individual in a common higher goal which doesn't necessarily make you wealthy, but makes the environment of the entire society much more about caring for others and your environment, which would in turn make the lives of each of those individuals much more happier than it would if each one strive for wealth and status(even if they get it). Specifically: - awareness programs/ units in school of the beauty and importance of how the human race unconsciously collaborates with plants to survive(oxygen carbon dioxide), and then action steps of applying policies which advocate this awareness, like reducing one's taxes if they buy more plants and spread the word by making drawings which represents their connection with plants then spreading that through facebook. - Reduction of closed mindedness when it comes to exploring unusual states of consciousness. Instead an encouragement to do so. Celebrating the awesomeness of exploring different states of consciousness and how it helps you live a more fulfilling life. Specifically practising meditation and then discussing what they experienced. - Reforming the educational system to focus more on getting students to make an impact that affects more than their paycheck. For example getting them to critically think about society and focus on solving problems that society have rather than focusing on how to climb the corporate ladder and make your family proud. - Showing the world that happiness is found in collectively helping overs overcome suffering, rather than getting heaps of money. Showing them how their entire life, from the moment they wake up, to the moment they fall asleep, becomes joyful when their goal is to help someone overcome a psychological disorder, help a country overcome poverty, get rid of policies that were made for the betterment of a small portion of a political group, etc etc etc
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unless finding a satisfactory life purpose is like finding a pot at the end of a rainbow, in which case you will never find it because it doesn't exist. You will need to try something different to be happy. Like meditation, retiring early, mindfully accepting suffering/depression from doing a job you hate until you retire.
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@Aeris I listen to music like mirabai ceiba and try to figure out how it applies to my life to open new perspectives within me, thats as far as I go when music is concerned. Yes sounds like a tough situation you're in. The next thing I'm trying now is to abandon the whole life purpose thing all together. Whatever career path I'm on, I'm going to let it unfold without investing in it. Screw desire, this experience of trying to find my purpose has really shown me the true meaning of the Buddha's quote "the root of all suffering is desire". Rather I will do what is needed to be happy, and try my hardest to avoid all of the egoic problems that come with it. No more trying to be something great, trying to emphatically impact the world and make it better. Just simply meditate; not because I have a desire to enlighten, but as an immediate reaction to the realisation that what I've tried in the past has massively failed in achieving what I wanted.
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electroBeam replied to electroBeam's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Gili Trawangan No I meant if you are not awake, instead of spending 10000 hours meditating a quicker route is suicide -
hahahahahaha I've tried that aswell and it failed. My desire for change was too strong and restless to just be happy with whatever floats your boat at a particular moment.
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electroBeam replied to Dylan Page's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
How do you even know some people are winning the birth lottery? It's all your imagination. Those different angles you're talking about may not even exist. You may not experience every angle, because the angle you think exists doesn't actually exist. All of those angles assume that duality is real. What if it's not? If you think one day you're going to reincarnate into Trump, you're already assuming that imaginary story in your head exists. Maybe you won't reincarnate as trumm, because trump doesn't exist. You only think trump exists because you believe in duality. Heck youve never met Trump before. Maybr trump's real life is totally different to that story of trump's life in yoyr head. If it even exists at all. Maybe there is no such thing as experiencing starvation in Africa, because it's a story in your head. These angles you're talking about, you aren't even sure they exist. So you don't know if you will reincarnate into them. The angles you actually reincarnate into may be angles you didn't even know exist, like machine elves. How do you know you will experience yourself as all people? What if people don't exist?(which if you look carefully they dont; or more humbly they may exist differently to what you think) -
Los Vegas is astonishingly liberal when it comes to having sex and who with. The shit that happens there would send a respectful Chinese man, Christian pope or jewish rabi into a coma. And yet Los Vegas is in the US. The majority of the center of the US is quite non liberal when it comes to sex, but this is only part of the US, and even then its no where near as non liberal as the majority of the planet(Saudi Arabia, India, pakistan, Poland, etc).
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electroBeam replied to peqkno's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yes whenever I stare at the ground sober it waves, when i look at an object it looks like its made of light or pixie dust, sometimes i see insects crawling on the ground when others dont see it, and it's been like that for decades. In the past I just passed it off as irrelevant or my eyes are playing up. I've never contemplated the possibility that it's real. -
@Leo Gura you said that God still needs to look to experts to ensure he doesn't fall into a blind spot. But at the same time you say that God is a black hole, there is no one outside of him, and all experts are imaginary. You say this needs to be done because God can still have blind spots. But that doesn't make sense at all. How can God create something, and be deluded about what its created? So deluded that it needs its on creation to expose itself to its deludedness. I'm imaginging I made a game like minecraft. I'm so deluded that while making minecraft I forget what a sand block is. I then need to ask a non playable character what a sand block is because I forgot it. Isn't this just stupid? If I created the sand block, I know about the sand block more than any non playable character. This goes for everything in minecraft.
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Which books/workshops and courses do you find most valuable for channelling to deities? I have recently researched a bunch of books, but its hard to really figure out their validity from the comments. There are a lot of rationalists who project their views onto the reviews, rather than sincerely comment about the books. At the same time, there are a lot of channellers that get carried away with themselves and end up believing in a lot of things that are nonsense. Psychedelics is of course the easiest way, but I'm not in a position to look for them at this time in my life. And I can't rely on something that gets used up and you have to constantly buy it. Are there any non psychedelic courses/books instead?
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isn't the absolute Nothingness, while creation is the dualistic stuff which nothingness creates? For example part of creation is the sun and stars. As a human you can access nothingness but that doesn't mean you can change the colour of our sun to blue