Jack River

Check it out @Faceless @robdl This seems similar to what you guys were taking about above. Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts. D.T. Suzuki

He doesn’t seem to go to deep though. I think it’s good for one who may be new to this whole thing.

My too..he really seems to see the inner ongoings of thinking. It may seem conceptual because he tries to explain to people who demand concepts. Seems ultra aware. His crowd man. He gets a lot of impossible questions

Priceless convo for sure!!!!

@Jack River@robdl@Faceless Wow!! I am seeing t dudes

awesome!!!!

I feel ya. I see what is said here in myself. Your posts are great brah. You are one of my top three favorite posters. Looking forward to reading more

I agree totally! High quality post

Bitchin post brah.

You seem pretty awake to me brah

I am starting to see that effort is the prob. I don’t even mean seeking enlightenment, but simply seeking anything to feel better.

I have played the psychedelic game myself. What I got was some crazy experiences with minimal freeing effects to follow. None of those experiences matched a moment of complete silence while sitting on my board out in the pacific. Its like everything I knew including myself had totally vanished. Felt as if I was a new being looking at a new world for the first time. This didn’t seem like an experience like the billion before. It seemed quite different. This happened a month ago, and ever since there has been this extreme sense of grooving every moment. I am much more conscious around people and surfing has greatly improved as well. Personally I don’t see my psychedelic use as beneficial, when it comes to this “silence”. I kinda feel a little dumber actually. But that may be just the way I am ..But that is just the way I see it. I am not against them at all, just don’t think they come close to what I went through in the water that day, and the way I am now. I wouldn’t say they are needed at all. I think this silence comes about in a totally difference way. So what I would say is we don’t need psychedelics, but if we want to take them don’t let anyone else’s opinion stop you. I never asked anyone anything. You shouldn’t have to ask permission either.

@cetus56 Thanks dude!!

Hammocks rock!! i also like to lay on my board off the coast line and watch the stars.

I think I’m getting ya dude. My own personal collection of past moments determines they way I think. Who I am.

Thats sad brah..Thinking to much will do that.

Thanks dude

Cool yeah I have heard of it. I live on the other side, California in Santa Cruz

@Feel GoodI address my surfer girl friends as brah. They wouldn’t have it any other way. Natasha seems like a cool cat.

Yeah I have watched them both. Thanks brah I like tolle. I use to get on the forum as a guest and get video ideas from the users here. I have watched a lot of teachers over the last few years, but lately Krishnamurti has really opened my eyes. I think maybe tolle gets most of his teachings form him.

Sounds like a party man.

Fosho

My first time on shrooms was spent on my surf board out in the ocean. It was extreme. I paddled in after a while. I remember being scared to put my any parts of my body in the water