JosephKnecht

It is not about the amount of money. You have to earn more than you spend. If you earn a million but spend two million, you are still relying on daddy to pay the bills.

Which one is more important? Hate speech or Free speech? Hatred or Freedom? You can not shut down a community like that. The community can create their own forum where they can continue perpetuating hatred. In fact, when they recreate their communities, their hatred will increase because others were trying to silence them. I am not defending their hatred. Only their freedom to hate.

Yes. I think that was the person that initially "pushed me" onto the spiritual path. The person is not in the "public eye". You would never guess that he is Awakened. From the outside, he appears as a normal, average, family man in his 50's.

Everybody is going through the same thing. I am also going through a similar situation. There are already too many gurus and philosophers. The highest teaching you give to the world is not what you say or write, but what you do. You must embody what you have learned and become that. Conceptual intelligence is only useful only when the intelligence stops drowning in concepts. You can conceptualize the most beautiful universe inside your mind or you can also choose to experience the universe without concepts. In the end, it is not what you know that matters, but what you achieved with what you knew. It would be great if everybody became enlightened and everything becomes perfect, but perfection is fucking boring. Just imagine everyone singing Kumbaya my Lord, and dancing in a circle for all eternity. Imagine how that would feel. That doesn't sound like heaven to me. Sounds more like Hell. It is more dynamic to have everyone on the spiral rise and fall. That is the purpose of spiral dynamics. You must find the heaviest cross you can carry, and try to carry it with the best of your abilities. If the cross is too heavy, find a lighter one. If the cross is too light, find a heavier one. In the end, we all must carry our own cross to the other side of Hell to get to Heaven.

When you are still afraid, but God gives you a small push. ---------------------------- When you get so high that you start looking for the ground. ----------------------------------------------------- When you start losing your grasp on reality. ------------------------------------------------------- When you start to gain back your grasp on reality. ------------------------------------------------------- When the dream is trying to seduce you. ----------------------------------------------------- Just for the LOLs!

When you believe that you are the prince that has to rescue the sleeping beauty. But then you realize that you were the beauty that has been asleep this whole time. To awaken, you must kiss yourself.

Does it help the self? If it helps you in practice, it is the right amount of theory. If it doesn't help in practice, it is the wrong amount of theory.

I was pondering the difference between knowledge and experience. Which one do you think is the more valuable one? Is it knowledge? Are you willing to surrender all experience to become a monk, secluded from society so that you can obtain the knowledge of the Gods? Is it experience? All you willing to surrender all knowledge and throw yourself into reality in hopes that reality will teach you what the Gods wished to experience? Is there value to knowledge never applied? Is there value in an experience never acknowledged? I used to believe that only knowledge could save the world. I believed that if I have read enough books, learned about the self, I would understand the true nature of reality. But now that I have the knowledge, I understand how hollow it is without the magic of experience. You never truly know everything until you experience it. And experience doesn't come from books or lectures. Experience only comes from experiences. Your Move Chief!

He is the Creator. The creator creates creatively.

An enlightened master understands that he is both the psychopath and the baby. It matters not what he chooses.

The enlightened master has already killed himself. Why would he care if he got killed again?

@Knowledge I think knowledge is one of the biggest distractions. @mrslick Welcome. Are you Mr. Slick or Mrs. Lick? I don't want to use the wrong pronouns.

When you were a kid and your mom told you that your imaginary friends are not real. ----------------- When you grew up and realized that your real friends are imaginary.

You guys are hilarious. Maybe we all have weak minds. Maybe we all need meditation. Maybe when our minds get strong we would no longer need to ask questions about what someone said or didn't say.

Leo bought a new shirt. It is a green one.

Nobody is perfect. If we were perfect, we wouldn't be here. I prefer to perfect my imagination. No weak/strong minds. Only perfect minds.

I am Ra. I greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We communicate now. That is how he "talked" in the book. He tells you who he is. But how do you know that you are just not imagining his voice in his head you may ask? I can't answer that question for you. Only you can.

@Leo Gura You are good! You got me. lol @PukkaDanks Yes, I understand. You are welcome.

There is a description of very elaborate setup that you must create in order to invoke the spirit of Ra. It is well described in the first book. It involved the Bible opened on a specific page, candles, and other props. If you want to call Ra, you must create the right phone. LOL I don't think LSD will do the trick, but maybe you can find new ways to connect to him. If so, I am curious to hear what he would say now. So please share.

So you still have a weak mind? I never tried ice-skating uphill. I am pretty bad at ice skating on a flat surface. Need more improvement.

It was well edited. I liked the "Table of Content" you provided in the beginning so we know what content was coming later in the video. The voice was appropriate, and I guess the energy level also since you are talking about meditation. I would have liked to know more about which books, literature, learning methods you used to start your meditation journey. Sometimes it is nice to do a good "literature study" before you embark on a long journey that would last for years. Also, you briefly mentioned the non-dual state you have achieved through meditation. I would be curious to understand more about that. Just my two cents.

So a few years back, when you meditated, did you have a weak mind?

The wisdom of Socrates returns. @Socrates People thought you are dead. lol

There are two ways to relinquish desires. The first one is that you fulfill the desire. So if you wish to have sex with someone, the desire gets fulfilled once you had sex with them. Eventually, the desire comes back. If the sex was amazing, the desire gets stronger and stronger. So the more you fulfill your desire, the more desires you have. The more amazing sex you have, the more of it you want to have in the future. The second one is to acknowledge your desire without fulfilling it. Became aware of it. Notice that desire always comes from a lack of something. If you had that something, you wouldn't desire it. To desire something is to acknowledge that you lack it. Women love to have sex with men because men have dicks and women don't. God was a genius in his design. If you choose the second approach, the most important aspect is to surrender the payoff of the desire. Became aware of the short-term gain of the payoff of your desire, and let it go. Let go of the reward you expect to gain from your desire. The best approach, in the beginning, is to use a mix of both approaches. Try to fulfill your desires, but become more aware of them. My two cents. If you feel the desire to reply to this message, don't do it. Let it go!

I think you are getting somewhere... What is the difference between a thought and desire? Is desire without a thought a genuine desire, and thought without desire a genuine thought? How do you know what is genuine and what isn't? You are making progress... Keep meditating.