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Use plain html, css and javascript. if you need some server side logic just Use this: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=meteor+javascript+framework&oq=meteor+javascript+framework&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4610j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 The good thing about meteor, is that it uses javascript, which is the same thing as your front end language. That way your learning curve gets cut in half. Meteor has so many templates that setting up a blog is going to be easy for you to do. If you want a cool editor to do designs in, try this: http://brackets.io/ Really good editor. Don't use what you see is what you get editors like dreamweaver and adobe edge reflow, you want to embody the coding process so that if you want to do more advanced things in the future, you can.

Don't do what's right and see what happens. I guarantee you that if you don't do the selfless act (moral thing) you will suffer. Because selfishness is myopic, it feels good immediately, and feels horrible in the long run. But there's a difference between you believing me, and you realizing it, so go and do it. Go and be immoral and unethical for 3 months, go to jail, experience it all, and you will come out of it with less suffering in the end. Maya is a snake eating it's tail.

@Shin Btw Shin, your 'feel your body' technique you posted ages ago has really helped boost my jnana practices. The emphasis of feeling reality, while not saying or projecting anything really helped. Thanks for that +++++1 EDIT: A good technique that has given results is a slight modification to Shin's technique. Whatever strong beliefs you have about reality, try and compare it to the present moment, and see if it is as 'strong' or as 'truthul' as it. So when someone insults you, ask 'who is insulting you' then compare that belief to awareness, empirical evidence (in front of you), reality, what you're seeing ONLY, etc. Then see how different those 2 things are, and how hologramish that belief really is. It kind of feels like god is shining his light onto satan and destroying him.

Everything said in that reddit post isn't wrong, its just that he's arguing about a completely different thing. Inside the realm of classical mechanics, everything he says is correct. But if you want to know the 'truth' then of course he is missing the point. Its like this guy is saying "what Leo is insane, of course harry potter has black hair! Harry potter's hair isn't false, the tv screen doesn't disprove his hair being false" If you really want to get to the bottom of whose right and whose wrong in these 2 dialogs, don't try and figure out which beliefs are better, but question the reactions from both Leo and the redditor. Why is the redditor saying the stuff he is saying? Is he saying it because he's correct? Or do you smell fear like i do?

I've had 2 - 3 occasions where during sleep I felt extreme existential terror, and it felt like the whole world was slowly fading away. I felt like I was going into just nothingness, it felt like drowning in idk nothing. The ofcourse I would wake up and just remember the experience as a weird dream. I actually posted about one of them on here, but I think the description I wrote was too weird for anyone to comment on, so it was just a post rather than a discussion. EDIT: here is the post

no agent smith is a johovas witness, pretends that he's on the truth's side when he's not. Very deceptive and manipulative. Uses statements that look and feel true but actually arent

totally depends upon what you think noble is. I think noble is creating innovative, creative ideas that others can use to reach their potential in life. But your idea of noble is different to mine, so what we suggest to you wont be noble. Here's a tip: Go to an art museum, look up inspiring biographies, go to meditation centres and experience the people there, and pick out what touches you most and make a purpose around it.

@TheEnlightenedWon When I practice this, I feel like I run out of awareness juice. For example, my daily practice is, throughout the day, I ask questions (as the day unfolds) who is driving? Then feel reality for an answer, who is drinking this water? etc. But after 2 hours I feel like I run out of juice. For the first 2 hours its great, there's no one driving the car, its just happening, there's no one drinking the water, its just happening, but then 2 hours later my mind says its me! I'm doing it! Is this a problem you experience and if so how do you solve it?

@TheEnlightenedWon 1. Do you feel like you can understand 'the seeing', god, nothingness, etc further? Or do you feel like you can't go any further. 2. Is enlightenment beyond 'the dream'? Or is it the dream? 3. relating to ^^ Why does a technique in a 'dream' like meditation or yoga effect awareness so that it goes beyond the dream? 4. Is it possible for the current perspective/state of consciousness to ever loose its understand of itself? And go back into a self, ignorant of what has been realized? Can you feel that this can happen?

If the world is not materialistic, then why is the world so consistent with the material paradigm? notice that when you look away from the device you're using to look at this message, and then look back at it again, it collapses in the exact same way as you remember it. To me, the materialistic paradigm, and the quantum/enlightenment paradigm is a valid paradox. Both are true. I dont see how the materialistic paradigm is incorrect. See both paradigms both are legitimate and exist in the exact same way...

As part of my spiritual routine, 2 months ago I set out to understand and contemplate what the 5 senses are. I spent 20 minutes a day on average contemplating about what the 5 senses are, and where they come from. The main gist or insight I got out of those 2 months was, the materialistic paradigm is distinctly different to just mere thought, and calling it all unreal is just unfair. Idealism states that: "reality, or reality as humans can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial." While I agree that the world is immaterial, I disagree that the world is mentally constructed. My main question to people who adhere to idealism is this: If the world is mentally constructed, it should adhere to the properties of thought. Thoughts can be shaped off our own volition. We can visualise whatever we want, when we want. If the world as we know it is just a mental construct, then why can't we change the world off our own volition? Why can't we just dream up an ice cream in front of us right now? Yes you might say the world has the potential to be infinitely anything, as the world is nothingness, which is of course correct, but there is still something collapsing it to a particular state for right now! And that thing isn't just us dreaming stuff up, if it were, we would be able to control the world through imagination. And who or what even is doing the doing of mentally constructing stuff? If the world is mentally constructed, what is doing the mental construction? Or a better way to say it is, what tool or way are you using to figure out that the world is mentally constructed? The 5 senses aren't mentally constructed. The exist as real things or real phenomena. If they were mentally constructed, or if they were not real, they wouldn't exist directly in consciousness.

@dorg Belief upon belief does create consistency.

For the material paradigm to make sense, the world has to be made in a certain way. If the entire world was just blue qualia, the material paradigm wouldn't make sense. Another paradigm, maybe, but not the material. I'm not saying materialism is correct, what I'm confused/disagree with, is that the entire world is maya/illusion. If the entire world was maya, the difference between blue and green would be just a belief.

I don't see that the difference between blue and green is a belief. Why is there a difference between blue and green, and not red and red? Is that mental construct too? How in any way does it make sense to say that the difference between blue and green is a made up belief? On the same level as a unicorn and a horse.

I can't specifically figure out what the difference between the colour blue and green is, but I know there's a difference. How can this be a false distinction? Are you saying all colours are the same thing?

Yes the dimensions of a wall is made up, along with the idea that collisions cannot happen. But the universe has to be of a certain way in order for the material paradigm to make sense(notice here I'm not saying 'for it to be real', I'm saying for it to make sense). In order for super mario world to exist, someone has to program it that way. I don't see in my spiritual practices that this shape that allows the material world to make sense, is a mental construct. If it were, everything would be possible right now! I mean every single belief would make sense. It would make sense that an ipad is a triangle, and a square, and a circle, and everything else. It would make sense that the sky is blue, green, purple, red, etc. But it would be silly to say the sky is purple. Its not true to say that. Like an ipad is square. Forget word games for a second, there is a physical difference between a circle and a square, and that's because reality has collapsed in a certain way right now. But what makes it collapse in that specific way? Why isn't an ipad a circle right now.

Where the point is being missed here is the nuanced difference between the essence of thought, and the essence of ideals in consciousness. A visualisation about Super Mario World is different to actually seeing super mario world in the 5 senses (seeing and hearing). The visualisation is something that can be controlled off your own volition, the actual experience of Super Mario World can't. Its clear here that the essence of super mario world is real, while the thoughts about it aren't. Same goes with santa clause. Santa Clause is a thought off your own volition, the materialistic paradigm isn't, its like mario world, its essence is real. You can actually experience it with the 5 senses, you can't experience santa clause with the 5 senses. Its very different.

The essence of Super Mario World exists. Super Mario World still exists. Of course what it represents doesn't, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just means the stuff that it represent's doesn't exist. Same for the materialist's paradigm. Look around, the paradigm exists, its real! Of course, what it represents doesn't exist. The entire world is made up of symbols. But these symbols aren't just our imagination, they are real, the symbols exist as real things. They aren't at the same level as a unicorn, or some thought we just make up. Super Mario World is a symbol that exists, its not at the same level as mental construction or mere thought, its much more tangible

Because youtube videos are stupid

another way to feel your spine is to lift incorrectly at the gym for years

In kriya yoga practices, do gurus expect you to be able to actually feel and be aware of prana? Or is it assumed to just be a mental tool for doing the practice. I cannot feel any energy go up and down my spine during practice, only can visualise some made up idea going up and down the spine. Is this correct, or are you actually expected to feel energy go up and down the spine?

Tennis coaches observe your posture, your form and where the ball goes to figure out if youre doing a technique correctly. Maths teachers observe your working out to see if you understand a certain math technique or not. But how do yogis figure out if you're meditating properly? There's nothing materialistic to see? Or do they use other dimensions to sense if you're doing something correctly?

if you guys reach mahasamadhi, you guys will happily leave your body.

Sounds like the educational system and western universities as well.

@Leo Gura where do you get your sources from that it has to be totally pitch black?