SageModeAustin

@CreamCat Just typed it out.

It is quite possible to overcome infantile suggestions of the unconscious, and even to change the contents of the unconscious, by employing the right kind of technique. Whenever you begin to feel remorse for an act which your reason tells you is not wicked, examine the causes of your feelings of remorse, and convince yourself in detail of their absurdity. Let your conscious belief be so vivid and emphatic that they make an impression upon your unconscious strong enough to cope with the impressions made by your nurse or your mother when you were an infant. Do not be content with an alternation between moments of rationality and moments of irrationality. Look into the irrationality closely with a determination not to respect it and not to let it dominate you. Whenever it thrusts foolish thoughts or feelings into your consciousness, pull them up by the roots, examine them, and reject them. Do not allow yourself to remain a vacillating creature, swayed half by reason and half by infantile folly.... But if the rebellion is to be successful in bringing individual happiness and in enabling a man to live consistently by one standard, not to vacillate between two, it is necessary that he should think and feel deeply about what his reason tells him. Most men, when they have thrown off superficially the superstitions of their childhood, think that there is no more to be done. They do not realize that these superstitions are still lurking underground. When a rational conviction has been arrived at, it is necessary to dwell upon it, to follow out its consequences, to search out in oneself whatever beliefs inconsistent with the new conviction might otherwise survive..What I suggest is that a man should make up his mind with emphasis as to what he rationally believes, and should never allow contrary irrational beliefs to pass unchallenged or obtain a hold over him, however brief. This is a question of reasoning with himself in those moments in which he is tempted to become infantile, but the reasoning, if it is sufficiently emphatic, may be very brief.

When you don’t eat healthy do you feel neurotic? Let’s say you’ve been eating healthy everyday then decide to have a cheat meal . Will you feel neurotic for doing it?

@Leo Gura do you see a problem with this? Like what’s the point of all this self-development if we can’t even enjoy bad food once in a while? Imagine you are with all your friends and they buy your meal to be friendly, but you decline because you have this ‘path that you must follow’ whilst they enjoy the meal, being completely happy I’m not encouraging eating unhealthy by any means, but I do see a problem here Otherwords it’s a form of perfectionism (a good type of perfectionism, but still neurotic)

I usually do 25 minutes in the morning and 25 minutes before bed. At the end of my 25 minute night session tonight, I thought of doing an hour and 40 minutes on top of it. I didn't do it perfectly because my legs got sore, so I moved around a few times, but I pulled through somehow. At one point I felt super present and it felt so good. How about you guys?

@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.