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Decent video on Buddhism. Would be better if the content creator could meditate skillfully ?

You’re already dreaming the only possible perspective.

Don’t come at me with this. We all know that Alexander is an architect who drinks red wine, faps, and goes to art galleries to appear sophisticated. He’s also not going to awaken ?

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I’d rather have Trump as president with this event going on than Biden. I’ll just leave it at that. Outside of war, Biden is probably somewhat better. They’re both not very good options.

Joe the factory worker is not going to awaken. He’s going to drink beer, fuck, and watch sports. There are way more people like that than the amount of people even slightly interested in awakening.

Getting diagnosed has been beneficial for me in every instance. The main takeaways are that getting clinically diagnosed gives you more certainty about a “cause” to certain things which may be problematic and allows you to better pursue treatment for alleviating any problems associated with the illness.

I will be another one to point out that, if the realization leaves one feeling worse, it’s likely missing some rather key elements to it.

Whether a conspiracy theory is true or not, we can be certain that it is of interest of those in power to support the idea that only stupid people believe in conspiracy theories. If you look only at official declassified documents released by the U.S. Government, you can see that multiple things which were conspiracy theories at one point were true and many rather scary and atrocious things people might not have even theorized about being the case took place. It’s generally not a wise use of time to go down the various conspiracy rabbit holes though as the majority are mostly BS.

Good job. As I mentioned to you before, I actually came across your content on TikTok before I saw you on the forum.

I encourage you to try to meet some guys. I see that this will be more difficult in India, but I’m sure there is some sort of scene for that. Some sort of online dating platform might be worth a shot. Relationships among men can be rather special from my experience, although I do have a preference for females. I wish you luck in finding someone.

Keep reinvesting 90% of the income from my rental properties to buy more rental properties. At a certain scale, you can afford to pay someone else to manage the properties and just watch the money come in on its own.

You said “This shit is like crack.” I was assuming by this you’re saying your addiction is similar to crack in how addictive it is. I was saying that there are plenty of people who do not know hardly anything about personal development who were able to quit crack. It seems to me that you likely have more knowledge and skills that might help one move past addiction than many others who were able to successfully overcome addiction.

An impermanent and constantly fluxing reality is quite great. Just think of how boring it would be if things were fixed.

The better translation, according to Bhikkhu Candana, of no self in Buddhism is no substantiality of self. It is to say that there is no continuous form that persists. Any self structure is impermanent and in constant flux.

@Javfly33 how many people have quit crack with less understanding and development than you?

The way to fix this with meditation, in my opinion, would be to develop the ability to be satisfied. Sukha or satisfaction is the opposite of dukkha which is sometimes called dukkha nirodha or the cessation of dissatisfaction. In the Ānāpānasati Sutta, which is the only formal mediation we have record of the Buddha ever teaching in any depth, it has a key element of introducing wholesome thoughts into the equation. In a circumstance where you’re at a national park doing something you enjoy, your dissatisfaction is likely caused by a chain of thoughts that this is somehow not the best or that experience over there at another time is better. In such an instance, you can discard those thoughts born of hindrances to think thoughts which are in accord with satisfaction such as “wow, that’s a beautiful tree”, “the weather is great today”, and “that’s a pretty bird”. Dhammarato has many hours of discussing this type of practice on his YouTube channel. The way to stop desire is to be satisfied. If you really look into your experience, you’ll see that the only times desire has not been there even slightly is when you are in deep satisfaction. Thoughts of satisfaction support further satisfaction. Thoughts of dissatisfaction support more dissatisfaction. You can literally think your way to satisfaction, and this is a key part of Buddhism which gets overlooked rather commonly. The main part of practicing Ānāpānasati is to keep attention on the breath as it is a wholesome object. The breath does not cause suffering unless you have some lung condition. Focusing your mind on things which are good will result in overall feelings of deep satisfaction when practiced consistently and properly.

I agree with this. No self and Self done right are just pointing to the same thing. Done wrong, they are seem to be in some sort of competition.

Psychedelics have impacted chakra activity for me many times, and increasing chakra activity while sober has increased the effects of psychedelics for me in a rather permanent way.

Well, tripping was not as important as many of the Buddhist style realizations, practices, and experiences I had for “mastering” my psyche, yet I doubt that I would have made progress like that within the next 10-20 years without using psychedelics. Most of my spurts of progress on the Buddhist path occurred from meditating on psychedelics, but the first and most pivotal ones happened while just being on psychedelics while doing a lot of chakra work around those times. I do not see myself reaching this point without psychedelics honestly, nor do I see myself getting here without doing many sober practices as well.

Yes, you can certainly say that attachment plays a role in how time is interpreted. I encourage you to keep meditating on psychedelics. It has worked quite well for me.

@Preety_India I hope you take the time to watch this.

@softlyblossoming This does a much better job of explaining it than I can currently. To put it simply, one’s state is much more holistic and impactful than one’s mood. The first image should be the second in the order, but I don’t know how to fix this.

You could try to find a healthy “addiction” that’s more rewarding than your current addiction. You go to behavior that you know is in ways detrimental because you are lacking something in some area. Having a healthy way to relieve this lack could be a more likely solution than trying to reverse your psychology drastically. Another thing could be to systematically work to reduce anything which might create this sort of lack feeling that leads you to use your addictive substance/behavior. You can apply a concept Leo uses at times which he calls requisite variety to this situation. There is a solution to your addiction. You simply have not tried the right thing, or more likely the right combination of a number of things, to overcome this yet. If you try enough solutions in an intelligent way, the likelihood that you come out on top of this is pretty high.

I don’t think anything about this. There’s not enough information for me, so it’s foolish to come up with stories. But the question I asked is meant to point you back toward the point you had where you were seemingly a “fresh incarnation”. If you didn’t retain knowledge at that point, why would you expect to retain it in a future incarnation if this is the only “solid” information you have in a certain sense? The past is just as imagined as the future, yet it does seem to feel more certain for most people. I will say that I had the thought that there was no possibility that any others had experience as I did around age 5-7. This is one of my first vivid memories that I still have access to. It was certainly at least a mystical experience to a degree, obviously completely sober. I find it quite improbable that I was around anyone talking about solipsism at that age judging off of how my family was/is. This makes me wonder where this intuitive realization came from. I wouldn’t say it’s impossible that it was from a “previous life”, but this would of course take a good amount of speculation to arrive at that conclusion. Really, I just see the past and future as a mystery. It’s not here. It’s not “real” in a sense. I prefer to just focus on things now rather than spend time on imponderables, even though I used to love theorizing in the past. Once you really start to sense what this is, it has a way of making you not care too much about these imagined possibilities, at least that’s how it worked for me.