Shadowraix

Thats because it transcends the duality of random-pattern Random just means we aren't capable of detecting a pattern. Patterns are in concept though. Random and beautiful design are one in the same.

You very well may be correct for this particular universe. Infinity would have to include such a scenario or else it wouldn't be infinite. But infinity must also include the exact opposite of that! 1 + -1 = 0

I don't know if that is the case. The absolute has no preference over devils and non-devils, truth and bullshit, ego or no ego, good or bad. Infinity would be a better answer to this. Somewhere in infinity you DO have such power, just not in this part of it.

What is a dream anyway? And what is real anyway?

The biggest mindfuck is its not doing anything at all. For comprehension sake dreams are just the best analogy. The 'dream machine' is not bound to only do one particular thing. It is not mechanical and has no limitations.

Free-will and predetermined are the same thing. Collapse the duality. It is both at once. A good use of the duality would be to see free-will as the state of not knowing and predetermination as the state of knowing.

The only thing that can feel hurt is the ego. An imaginary thing.

The map is not the territory Our entire model of reality is imagination as a means of navigating and understanding the world. Funny how that works

He seems too involved in concepts. He clings to them and so his perspective has a rigid filter he can't quite change very well.

Just another path to enlightenment. Leo mentioned in his yoga video pure devotion and worship is one route to it. And I think Christianity was very much about this route. But it doesn't seem to be effective because we'll you need an insane amount of devotion and that can lead to ideology.

Absolutely nothing different.

There's no single correct way for life to be. If it is that way then its suppose to. To fight it is fighting the very thing that created the body. What is bad? Why would anything be bad? Why would God think of a part of itself as an abomination?

Sounds like you are just feeling stimulated. Psychedelics are very stimulating drugs. Just flow with it. No need to avoid it.

Good reminder. I applaud the exploration. Especially makes for some great stories haha

I can't speak for enlightenment but I can say my journey has allowed me to be content and happy way more. To the point where it takes some major event to bring my emotional state down and even then I handle it incredibly well compared to how I used to. And I know it only gets better from here

@Leo Gura Holy shit man. Its wild to see the profound stuff you say and then this stuff come from the same person. You've really done a lot of exploration and growing in life. Funny that you mention Dallas when I just moved in between Dallas and Fort Worth. Maybe I should go into the city sometime.

Its all relative. Thats why any justification for anything only matters to the degree that you care about it. We don't do things because we have to. We do it because we want to or don't want something.

'Best criticisms' By whos standards?

Just a wild idea I am throwing out on the notion of souls: If everything that occurs is remembered. Kind of like an atom remembering every interaction which is ingrained in its being. - you could call it a building of experience. And a 'soul' is a composition of this experience. So the building off of previous lives comes from what makes up the body gaining experience and then ending up as experience to the next body. This would effectively make the universe a huge ever changing brain. But it would explain the building upon of past lives. Your 'soul' could be made up of tons of past humans or none at all!

Funny how we worry about self aware AI when the mind is essentially that.

@Salvijus They basically serve the purpose of assisted self inquiry. Effective tool and you don't need to be highly conscious to start doing this or helping people do it.

This thread made me appreciate my gf a lot more.

What is a good life to you?

To improve your life if you see the changes caused by mindfulness as a benefit. You can argue anything is a waste of time. But wait what time is there to waste??

You assumed I was making assumptions about you It was was just advice since you brought up anxiety as some reason. That if you decide to run away from it it'll hurt you in the long run.