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You are Ok @Aakash hehehe... no problem, you are not racist. I think that a preference for women of certain race is not a big deal. IMO the worst part of racism is when it becomes violent. Like those neo-nazis guys that go to churches of black people to shot everyone, or like attacks like the jewish have been enduring due to their race and beliefs. Or like what it happened in my country, that they killed almost all local natives after the spanish invasion. That's a dark part in the history of my country. And I know it happened in other south american countries, like in Peru, Mexico... etc...

But if there were not different races it would be segregation anyway. It happens between white europeans, like if you are saxon or anglosaxon you consider latin whites like inferior, for example white europeans from Spain, Italy, Greece, etc. It will happen anyway and if there's nothing different genetically they will find some problem so they can "differentiate" from others and keep the divide going on. The thing it to keep opposite groups so they can fight and do stupid things, instead of working all together towards a better society.

Hahahaha... nice. That cat is me hehehe...

@Aakash Thank you Aakash!

Well, what I am saying is that spirit = consciousness. @Aakash The "split" is an illusion and is not an split of consciousness. It is an split of "souls" that is not real. Thought creates that "split". I know is a deep matter and probably words are difficult to make them achieve the exact meanings we wanted to give to them. Consciousness is always unified and infinite. The idea of a soul or a separation is what is not real. In my understanding soul is different than spirit. If I do a gross comparison I would say that soul is similar to ego and spirit is similar to God or what IS, being. But soul, in reality doesn't exists and the "split" , "creation" or "multiplicity" is just an illusion, or maya.

I never understood the difference between soul and spirit. Now I think I got it. IMO spirit is God and is the true higher self, only one. And soul is what consciousness we create, like our identity, the thoughts, ideas about "me" or the "I", and that is not true, it's the lower self, the not true self and it doesn't exist. Only God is living all lives and reincarnating on absolutely every creature living. He is all and the only one.

Thoughts are like a program...

Is the intellect that doesn't understand non duality, it says "I can understand it... but... (fill in the blanks)" The intellect is doing the work to create maya. IMO.

@Jkris I think it has more to do with empathy. The enlightened master knows that people who is not still awake suffer and feel suffering as real. I always remember a text from Rumi "God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !” — Rumi

@Jkris On Matthew 26:39, on the night before His crucifixion, Jesus prayed, O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will but as you will. Jesus wept when Lazarus died....

In the Bible Jesus taught he was God and how you are it too. No one understood his message and devil's took the church to their own purposes. He said we are all God. Right?

I thought you were an avatar Leo, I'm disappointed. ?

What I was saying

Everything is true... because delusion is a true delusion. It's so well made that is really truly delusional... Think about that...

Why that doesn't happen to me???!!! You are a lucky guy!!!! I wanna be gone now!

Ok, good one @zeroISinfinity this is the second part more enlightenment

@Strangeloop I had a psychotic episode like 3 or 4 years ago where I listened to voices and I did what they told me. They didn't tell me to do nothing wrong but yes some crazy things. Because I was searching something (I didn't know what at that moment) I began to read the bible, I was thinking that it was the devil, etc... The thing is that from what I understand now, I think we have several "voices" in our head. But somehow we assimilate those voices as if it came from us. So, in fact we think it is us conversing with ourselves. When you go to the grocery and you are alone and you ask to yourself... "should I buy meat or vegan food? or Should I buy mayo or not?" You are asking some question to yourself, but who is asking and why? Why we are not sure what to do all the time? Why do we doubt about everything?. I think it is because we are "endless possibilities" we "listen" to all those possibilities, in my case I always think repeating the thought in words in my head, but because I associate that voice with "me", it's not a problem. Some people say they don't "talk" to themselves, but probably they do differently. They feel an impulse, IDK. The best thing IMO is mindfulness, try to focus on awareness and treat those voices as if they were just "thoughts" that are wandering and that you need to focus your attention on being mindful. Focus on seeing what is in front of you right now, not the thoughts or the voices and I think that can help the voices go away. If that's what you are looking for. In my case I understood that those voices where created by me, and if I thought that those voices were out of my control or not part of me it could get worst. Because if you think that those voices are not in your control, that's what it will happen. And IMO that's how people end "schizophrenic". They lose control of their own thoughts. If you need any help LMK... or you want to watch some videos about that, I know in TED there was a woman who heard voices and she said it helped her to heal some past wounds. I found the video, here it is:

Any recommendations?

I know, they say it taste too bitter for chewing.

https://padmasambhavagururinpoche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/padmasambhava_tibetan-book-of-the-dead_4.pdf

Interesting article I found searching for a response, I think it explains it better than myself, the article is called: "Schizophrenia, Enlightenment" https://greengaze.blogspot.com/2009/07/g-everything-is-connected-but-some.html

The thing is that you cannot know that "world" by itself. You are not perceiving a world. There's only "perception". Let's say your hand touches a table made of wood. When that happens there's electrical impulses that are read by the nervous systems and those signals are sent to the brain, and the brain interprets it and says that "this is wood, it is hard or soft, cold or warm".. etc... All those elements (the arm, the brain, the electric impulses, body, the world) are made of the same material (if you want to think in scientific terms) of atoms/particles/whatever. So, you have a bunch of particles around there that in reality due to quantum mechanics we know they have no location, it is impossible to know their location or state and those particles create a body with a brain who is saying "Ey! I am touching a table made of wood"... But what there's there? an object? particles? Light? photons? who is touching what? Photons are touching other photons? This is not a belief, I know my knowledge in science is not so deep and I wrote everything very simple but all scientists know and accept more and more that consciousness has a big part in what we call "matter"... https://www.sciencealert.com/this-physicist-is-arguing-that-consciousness-is-a-new-state-of-matter The big problem here is that we cannot talk about what is consciousness or truth because words and ideas, thoughts etc are all created to hide truth. The only way to understand is to quiet the mind, stop the chatter and the calculations and logic and do the work and it will be revealed in an insight or an epiphany. It will transcend everything and we will grasp it in an instant, like a flash. But it will be hard to explain with words, because we need to know some "object" to separate it, and divide it and consciousness is a whole, with all properties together, good and bad, rich and poor, sad and happy altogether at the same time and our limited consciousness (our little ego) cant' grasp it. Very hard to explain unless you meditate and experience it by yourself.

hahaha... yeah, I read about very weird experiences with it. I am reconsidering taking it. Maybe I will go with mushrooms first. Thanks!

@here-now Solipsism is a belief and what Rupert says is direct experience. Thanks for sharing! I always watch Rupert videos, but I missed that one somehow. Great insight.