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Just read the diary of Anne Frank. Know that the God that is so close to you right now, the consciousness and presence that is next to us right now, has permitted the holocaust to happen. That consciousness and presence just allowed Nazis to treat prisoners in "such" a way. Know some of the soldiers who are forced to serve in the military and even get killed or be forced out of their normal daily lives. Read how Nietzsche was treated by his contemporaries for just being the only smart guy there. Yeah. Im not saying God doesnt exist. Im not saying presence isnt there. Im not saying consciousness is absent on Earth. They may as well exist more than any other thing. But to realize all what happened on this earth to innocent people by vile creatures, its hard to smile or even sympathize with consciousness, presence, or God, without feeling a bit of disgust.

@Leo Gura Yeah. I read from OSHO where he says that maybe God respects those who are willing to defy him. This ain't no sneaky gesture from me to get acceptance from God. I actually felt a little anger towards him. Thinking of adults abusing children, like I read from Anne Frank, did not make me so happy about the universe.

@cookiemonster haha. I remember reading from Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground. The protagonist suggests people will not be satisfied with eating, sleeping, eating cakes all day, and going on continuing his own species but man will try to discard these comfortable pleasures just for the sake of it, to satisfy their folly. People want variety and we are willing to give up the most pleasurable experiences to seek it. That's what I relate to what you are saying. And I agree very much to it. I may have to see also the greatest pleasures that Presence might give to man. I guess I didn't do a good job documenting those blisses of life to myself.

This changed how i thought of true "competency"

@Knowledge Hoarder I've been competent in many areas. And in some of those areas, I've became worse than a novice just because I had low confidence. @hyruga it's the same thing

I don't get it. Is it because I used a VPN for a short while using this Can I get an unblock

@Nightwise Infp or enfp?

"Can I come with you?" The missing piece to my game

Im curious. I dont necessarily think the body will feel pain when it does unloving selfish angry things. I remember in the bible before jesus was crucified, he was aching in pain all around his body because he realized that god wanted him to sacrifice himself. And sacrfice is no easy task. Yes, its a loving thing. We often attribute physical illness to egoism and peoples incessant attachment to things causing mental strain, thus physical disorder. But maybe, as jesus had done, sacrifice and love, because its so stressing to the ego, the ego may backlash and react against it with physical pain. I think it totally exists. One may see it as growth pains. Maybe its just plain devilry from the part of the ego. Nonetheless, i dont think physical pain is caused solely by egoism. I think when one tries to do loving things, that loving thing can cause mental strain from the ego, and create physical illness too. I can also summarize it as one having too much courage that the ego cannot bear, so it backlashes against the body because it has no way out. Just imagine a life time gangster whose set in his ways, and only knows how to be vile against others. Lets say for the first time in 50 years he decides to sacrifice a part of himself for someone. You dont think there will be a huge mental physical strain on his part? I wont doubt the next day, he will have an illness! A person who ate junk food 50 years of his life. For the first time he eats a salad, i can pretty much assure you his body will react negatively and backlash against him immensely! This is just a theory, a possibility. Not sth that i can prove

@Vrubel I would also add, even for me I wouldn't exactly say the 'failure' was the cause of my illness. 'failure' had only accentuated and brung open the fact of how attached to the dream I was. Any attachment too tight will eventually bring failure in the end. The conclusion here is the real cause lies in the attachment to the dream, not the failure to the dream. Well, how can we let go of attachment? That is a whole story for another day. There are various schools for getting this technique down (and very few that successfully does this) but I've found my own meditation style, and it worked well for me to let go of thoughts, emotions, and attachments. I guess for you, the popular ones that teach letting go would be from David R. Hawkins, or learn from Julien Blanc about letting go, IDK. It's hard to find out. All in all, we cannot rely on a technique for us to let go of an attachment. It's not something that can be solved through techniques or the mind. Any effort or cunning that is exerted into letting go is in itself an attempt to delude oneself to not let go even further. Letting go has to come from the heart. Truly, with genuine care to discard whatever dream, attachment we have. You need not confuse "what is letting go from the heart?" It's as simple as our hearts wanting to take out the trash into the recycle bin outside our apartments. We don't need to think about it. Our body automatically, takes out the trash, goes outside, and puts it in the bin. Same, take out our attachments, go outside, and put it outside our system. Then, I feel the real physical cure begins.

@Vrubel I had CPPS. Chronic Pelvic Pain. This syndrome is so bad people who have this want to all kill themselves, search it up. Anyways. This is similar to what you have written about with your syndrome. What cured me from this "chronic" syndrome was indeed curing it from the inside. Basically, it was attachment. An attachment to win, succeed, or not fail. To realize a dream or an idea which struggles to currently be realized in the real world right now. This dreadful struggle was what caused the pain. Once I let go for the need for success, or to realize what I had in mind, I gradually cured my physical pain because it was basically muscle twitching and straining that was the cause of my pain. Same with your stomach pain, i feel like. We have no idea, western medicine really underestimates how psycho somatic human beings are. They talk as if the mind originates 20% of physical illnesses. The reality is like 85% of illnesses are caused by the mind. They won't tell us this, because they're ignorant. If we are aware of this, the cure will begin.

Krishnamurti defined justice in a very simple way. Love, compassion, and mercy. Is justice a core value for people who are envious for others who have more? Or is there something inherently spiritual about justice. I see two sides of the argument here. I see in me where I hold justice and fairness as a core value of mine. One of my top 4 values is justice. But I see where people come from when they see this ideal for justice is motivated mainly by selfish envy or some ego-centric ideal for a paradise. Stoics, Judaism, and the Christian Bible frequently discuss the topic of justice. Eastern mysticism like to kid of the concept of justice, but also hint at the fact that being playful, peaceful, and collaborative with nature is essentially justice. Basically, it summarizes the same point with western mysticism. How do you see the concept of justice? Obviously, we all know any attachment or obsession with any concept, idea, or ideal is essentially "devilry". I guess my question is here, then, does the word justice have the right to sit with these words such as love, freedom, happiness, peace, courage, God?

@EntheogenTruthSeeker just go out and game girls. I feel like your question is equivalent to asking "what is strength?" when practicing MMA.

@lmfao MBTI nerd lol. Yes. Fi? Like I don't get how Fi can ever be labeled as Demon whatever. I get how cognitive functions work. INTPs are for Ti, Ne Si Fe So under stress, to be exact really horrible ones, your Fe, will turn into Fi... I think that's what you mean. So when you are moderately stressed, you use your Fe to vent to others in a healthy way. But when you are pissed and about to destroy the world, you hold in your emotions that you don't even vent or emote to anyone and start to plot how you can ruin other's lives... hahahhahah For me, an ENTJ, Fi, is major feeling function. So when an ENTJ uses Fe, you know the ENTJ is really fucking up.

Question – So many dishes in the ashram kitchen contain onions. Remembering that Raman Maharshi said to avoid chillies, excess of salt, onions, etc, I am struck with the question: Is the kitchen sabotaging our possibilities of enlightenment? Osho – That’s my whole work here. To sabotage all your possibilities of enlightenment. If your desire for enlightenment is not sabotaged you will never become enlightened. But don’t be angry at poor onions, they are innocent people. And they are as spiritual as you are, and far deeper in meditation than you can ever be. And I don’t believe that a man of the understanding of Raman Maharshi would have said it. But if he has said it then he must be joking. But the so-called spiritual people have been obsessed with such things. The so-called spiritual people are obsessed with absolute nonsense. Now how can the onion or the chillies or the salt prevent you from becoming enlightened? Stupid ideas. Rather than looking deeply into your being, and rather than facing real problems, you create false problems. These are false problems. This is a strategy of the mind, so that the real problems can be bypassed. The real problem is not onions, it is greed. The real problem is not chillies, it is anger. The real problem is not salt, it is possessiveness. The real problem is not what you should eat and what you should not eat. The real problem is what you should be. To avoid real problems we create false problems. And there is something beautiful about false problems: they can be solved, easily solved. What is the problem? You stop eating onions. And you become spiritual and you are enlightened because you don’t eat onions. So simple. But not to be greedy will be difficult, arduous. Not to be an egoist is going to be an uphill task. You will need immense understanding. you will need great awareness. Only in the fire of awareness real problems will be burned. You know you cannot solve those real problems. So the best way is, create false bogus problems and start solving them. This is one of the most basic tricks of the human mind. For example, India is suffering for centuries because of poverty. And Morarji Desai thinks prohibition will solve the problems. Now this is a false problem. Prohibition has no thing to do with it. Prohibition or no prohibition, the poverty will remain. The poor will become even more miserable, that’s all. Because through alcohol sometimes he can forget his suffering, sometimes he can drown himself. Once prohibition is there he will not have even that possibility to drown himself. Then his suffering will be utter. Or, Morarji Desai thinks if cows are not murdered, if cows are not butchered, then all problems will be solved. These are tricks of the mind. And this is how one can go on befooling oneself, for centuries. India suffers because of these false prophets. And false prophets are those who tackle false problems. First they create a problem, then they start solving it. And they make much fuss about it and they seem to be much too active. If they fail, certainly nothing is achieved. If they succeed, then too nothing is achieved. But one thing, they can camouflage the real problem. They can focus your attention on something false, like a toy. It looks a real problem, it is not. Now see into it. How can onions prevent you becoming meditative? How can onions prevent you from becoming silent? There is not a problem there. But you want to be spiritual and you want to be known as spiritual, you start doing foolish things. In my new commune I am going to have a bar also. And a smoking room. If tea can become a ceremony then why not smoking? If people can drink tea and make it a meditative process, so can be smoking. I am not saying you should smoke, I am not saying you should drink, but I am saying that these are not the things that prevent you from becoming spiritual. Jesus used to drink, Gurdjieff used to drink. That has not prevented them from becoming enlightened. Remember, anything that prevents you from becoming enlightened is your knowing, your thought-process, nothing else. And there is the real task — how to drop the thought-process. And because you feel impotent there, you create small problems: how to eat only once a day, how to eat without salt, how to eat without ghee, how to eat this way or that way. Jaina monks eat standing. If you eat sitting, enlightenment is sabotaged. Jaina monks eat only once a day. If you eat twice, enlightenment is sabotaged. One Jaina monk come to see me and he said ‘Eating twice is not good.’ I said ‘Eating once?’ He said ‘Eating once is okay.’ I told him ‘Half the enlightenment is sabotaged.’ And enlightenment does not come in parts. Either it comes whole or it doesn’t come. If twice a day is dangerous then once a day is fifty percent dangerous. You can eat thrice a day, it makes no difference. I am not saying eat thrice a day, because it is not going to help you to become enlightened either. It does not affect you, this way or that; it is irrelevant. Don’t bring irrelevancies into your spirituality. Otherwise you will become obsessed with fads. And those fads are a kind of insanity, psychosis. But these people become mahatmas — Morarji Desai is a mahatma. He does not drink wine but he drinks his own urine. And that’s perfectly good, that helps enlightenment. He would like everybody to drink his urine, that seems to be the cure for all the illnesses of this country. I think it is time he should graduate and go to the ultimate mahatmahood, he should start eating his…And that will solve the food problem. People just become faddists. And it simply shows some neurosis, some psychopathology is in it. Sixty years ago, he came to know that a young man, completely drunk, had tried to rape his own sister. That has been his antagonism against alcohol. Now this has to be understood. Even in his antagonism against alcohol there is somehow sex involved. And drinking one’s own urine…he needs Freudian psychoanalysis. There must be some sexual repression in it, it is somehow an obsession with sexuality. And for almost fifty years he has been trying to remain a celibate. Now this too much concern creates all kinds of problems. Nothing is solved, more problems are created. But people will think he is a mahatma. I would not like you to become a mahatma. If you can become simple innocent human beings, that is more than is required. Eat whatsoever feels good to you. Take care of the body, be respectful of the body. Be respectful how much you eat, don’t overburden the body, because that is a kind of anger, violence. And violence is so subtle that you have to watch it. When a person goes on stuffing himself he is being violent with his own body, he is destructive. Or he can go on a fast, then again he is violent. Just see the point of it. You can eat too much and you can be violent, and you can fast and you can be violent. Eating or fasting is not the question: Don’t be violent. Love your body, respect your body, it is God’s shrine. But it is very easy to move from too much stuffing to fasting, because the mind always easily moves from one extreme to another, from one obsession to another obsession. First you go on stuffing your body and hurting it, loading it unnecessarily. Then one day you turn against it, you become the enemy of the body. As if it has been the body’s fault. Then you start fasting, and again you start torturing your body. But it is violence. And violence is so deep in man that you have to watch it continuously, otherwise it will come from some other way. Morarji Desai goes to other countries — he is against innoculation, any kind of innoculation. Now this is violent. He can carry diseases from this country to another country and he can bring diseases from another country to this country. But he insists. And he is a non-violent man, a great follower of Mahatma Gandhi. But this is being very violent, disrespectful to people. Now this single man can create problems for a whole country. In fact he should not be welcome in any country of the world. One can be in a very subtle way violent. Watch it. If you don’t like onions it is perfectly good, don’t eat them. But you need not condemn them. And if others like them, you need not think they are unspiritual or something. Don’t become spiritual so easily, don’t depend on such bogus things. Spirituality has only one taste and that is of awareness. Onion or no onion, chillies or no chillies, salt or no salt. Spirituality has only one taste, the taste of awareness. Stick to it! And don’t get distracted by small things. Source – Osho Book “This Very Body the Buddha”

I guess feeding in and seeding into loving, sharing environments are crucial either there is one for us or not. whatever we do consciously or unconsciously, we might have to persist in feeding into consciousness rather than darkness, so conscious people who are emotionally intelligent will be more attracted to us. Sounds fucking woo woo, but I don't see a problem with my logic here. Rather, sometimes, the most conscious people were put to death by black holes of a son, such as jesus and socrates. Other than that, I think my logic is right. I guess I can sum that upto meditation/mindfulness/awareness of hidden emotions.

@BlackMaze really? Just through journalling, the emotional needs are met? I get where you are coming from. But I do miss the component of sharing my emotions with another human being.

@kamwalker yep, it's not healthy to make my friends my therapists, unless they want to be my therapists.

@Raphael I heard Steve Jobs did some of that therapy in his early twenties. Releasing and screaming out internal psychological turmoil. Especially because he had complexities about him being adopted. Kicking and screaming. - I guess I'll be doing that with boxing and jiujitsu I'm doing now. Screaming - I'll probably do this with singing and composing music expressing my psychological crevices - through musical lyrics? poems? Idk I can compose, that's why there are many music references up there haha

@Knowledge Hoarder some troll

@ivankiss wow

@Leo Gura Do you do direct game or indirect. What was easier for you in the beginning?

@Vrubel quite a title there. Respect

@Rilles thats the definition of thinking black and white

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