SageModeAustin

@Artaemis Holy shit 10 hours Are you levitating? Seriously though, how did you do that o.0

@Genghis Khan Nice!

Miyato Musashi was an epic samurai who slayed over 60 men in fights and duels during the Edo period. In his later years he looked back upon his life tearing his soul apart trying to figure out what made his strategy so distinct. His book is called the Book of Five Rings (Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, No-Thing) Here's some quotes by him. The Way of the Warrior is based on no-thing-ness. No-thing-ness is not to be understood as a "thing" because it then would be based on a conception of something, which would not be no-thing. The Zen term for "no-thing" which is the closest we can come to defining "no-thing" is called Mu. If you understand what exists then you can understand that which does not exist. This means that although it is impossible to know that which does not exist, it is possible to know that if anything is anything, then everything is everything. The spirit is no-thing-ness means that there is no such thing as relying upon anything at all outside of your individual mind. When students come to understand no-thingness they will also come to understand the koans. In the Way of the Warrior there is no such thing as thought. You can come close to understanding no-thing by realizing that there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. Things will never appear to be what they truly are. But if you look at things with no attachment to them you will come to understand your place. There is virtue in the universe, but it should not be confused with good and evil. Wisdom exists, principles exist, and the Way of the warrior exists, but spirit is no-thing-ness. YOU are the Spirit of the Thing Itself! I believe he was enlightened. Clear signs of Non-Duality, humbled ego and a clear awareness of what he actually is.

@Faceless You kinda remind me of me a day ago, until one of the members on this forum called me out on it. Stop trying to sound woke. Talk about the conversation at hand. It's fine to express your ideas, but don't be imposing about it because then you can't learn what other people are trying to say.

Interesting.

@SoonHei Yes, Bruce Lee is a legend as well. I have one of his books, but never ended up finishing it yet. Can you elaborate?

@NoSelfSelf Yeah.

@StephenK DMN?

@Rilles lol nice @Outer When you say self-inquiry are you just referring to asking questions to yourself like who this self is throughout the day, every time you have a self thought? Or do you have a sit down daily timed practice like with meditation, but just focused on self-inquiry?

@Outer I just read your and @Serotoninluv comments on “should I love my ego” I get it now It’s a role I’m playing out like in a theatre It’s me doing it o.0

@NoSelfSelf have you read his book?

Meditation is self-inquiry. Case closed.

@Outer Not trying to sound woke. I can see how you might see it that way though. There's a dramatic difference between intellectually knowing something vs. actually knowing something (experiencing the knowledge directly for yourself) I am more on the intellectually knowing something side right now, although meditation has given me glimpses of the truth every now and then.

@Emanyalpsid I don't get this. What do you mean does the egg exist on itself? Is the egg there to be perceived?

@Serotoninluv If you haven't meditated for at least an hour and 40 minutes in one session then your weakkk Lol

@Outer this I is a fiction I created (human body) Who I actually am is everything, I am the universe, I am you. I am pure awareness, consciousness itself. The question is Why are you mad?

@Outer just because you don't say I, doesn't mean you are not saying it.

I'm studying Astronomy right now for one of my classes and ran across this quote from Newton on his Wikipedia page. I thought some of you might like it. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

@Outer Well yeah ego will always exist in everything you do. You commenting on this post is an ego exercise. It's almost impossible to get rid of it. Even 'enlightened' people have ego's. The only difference is that they are hyper aware of its existence, to the point that it causes them little-to-no suffering.

You literally are the universe, whatever you can feel the universe can too The purpose of life is to love, and to become as loving as possible The true test of your love is based upon your ability to love everything Think of something you love and expand that feeling onto all of reality. Love is something you need to create. Creating love is done proactively, consciously and deliberately. Be persistent with developing the ability to trigger love internally vs externally. What prevents love? The ego's fear of disillusion. The ego doesn't want to 'die' Who we really are is too big to conceptualize, that it's scary for us to accept. Truth is love A person who hates is incapable of loving himself. He loves only those parts of himself which are easy to love (this is where the concept of being able to love everything comes into play) so he denies, suppresses other parts of himself and then projects them out onto the world. Every evil person acts out of love (Hitler) Types of love: 1) Liquid form of love is loving your parents, what you are conditioned to love. (You don't actually unconditionally love your parents) ?Questionable because if this is true than that means you can't actually love your spouse. 2) Gaseous form of love is taking 5MeO-dmt or any strong psychedelics I'm assuming, unless you are at the point where you can naturally use your internal love to project onto reality? (unconditional love) 3) solid form of love is hating

@ULFBERHT You're contradicting yourself. You say you want to be the best version of yourself right fucking now. Well that's impossible because the self doesn't exist. You're always working towards your higher self, it's a never ending process of mastery. Your mind is focused too much on the end results. Enjoy the process more, enjoy who you are now like you said, while working towards being your best self. Also you should read the book Mastery by George Leonard, it would really help you get out of this 'right now shit.'

@Pernani No, meditation made me more calm overall, thus making my speaking skills more calm and controlled as well. It sounds like you're not meditating right.

@Ingit These thoughts are originating from the lower self. The lower self is trying to survive by reinforcing it's own reality. Try telling it, "is that all you've got?" It will come at full force and you keep saying the same thing until it fades away into dust.

@Hellspeed Wasn't my words, just summarizing Leo's new vid. Although, I still don't get his idea of liquid form not being unconditional love