Nak Khid

Come on, Watts didn't meditate and Osho was cult leader. get me somebody official Watts was a know nothing --trying to out video me ??

I don't know what this means, sounds like abstractions. Excuses not to improve yourself. You are young you can make a lot of mistakes and there will still be many chances to learn from them and improve, make more mistakes, learn and progress beyond these mistake each time further then they set you back

Come on Ralston , doesn't know anything.

don't be silly

You are having problems due to two things instead of one at a time. You need to focus on the mediation only for a month or more with a set endpoint This is best done in a monastery with experienced Thereveda or Zen monks in retreat not the SN Goeneka Creativity is a distraction to that. You should not do it unless you have the fiance logistics to do it resolved and might have to wait until funds are saved. You could attempt it by yourself but it will be a lot harder and a lot more distractions possible After you do this then you will be able to assess the situation. You may decide this is your path. You can always return to the digital art. On the other hand by the end of this you may decide digital art is the path and mediation on secondary. If that is the case you can still mediate but keep it shorter with occasional longer sessions, spending more time on the art You know what the solution is, one thing at at time. For a while give up one, then for a while give up the other Then you will know what the balance should be

having an idea is not enlightenment

what is preventing you from improving your life now?

what stuff?

Nothingness doesn't exist though, it's a dualist concept

The idea of Spiral Dynamics was originally created as a way to describe psychological and awareness development on both an individual and collective level. Back in the 1950s, while Abraham Maslow was formulating his Hierarchy of Human Needs, a psychologist named Clare W. Graves began doing research on what makes people different in terms of behaviors, values and worldviews. He didn’t “type” personalities, instead he called his work, “”The Emergent, Cyclical, Levels of Existence Theory.” Graves passed away before publishing his conclusions, so he is less known than his contemporary, Maslow. Then in the 1980s and beyond, two of his students, Don Beck and Chris Cowan, went on to publish a book in 1996 titled, Spiral Dynamics based upon Grave’s work. Beyond their collective efforts, the well-known author Ken Wilber expanded the theory in his book a Theory of Everything and other books that followed. The book was based on the theory of psychology professor Clare W. Graves, and originally targeted at a business management audience. ______________________________________ So why are you a hooting and a hollerin it's psychology, not a hard science and was originally for a business management audience. Add to this Leo's spiritual ideas. You would have to tear down the whole of spirituality for not being scientific. Also where's the fluffiness? you seem to have the quills out

why?

That's a good meaning but what I'm saying is Leo is constantly creating himself. Mahasamadhi was back in April. Similarly you have people are making ten page threads trying to figure out what some drug he talked about months go was. Leo is vibrating at such a fast rate and constantly recreating himself that the rest of you are left in the dust. you're eating crumbs he left behind three months ago but three months ago no longer exists.

Leo somebody else I have listened to recently also says "you are God" and we know that goes back to Swami Vivekananda and maybe a lot farther back The statement sounds kind of Solipsistic but regardless, the way he teaches it he says "I am God" and he encourages other people to say "I am God" and only says "you are God" once in a while His reason he does that is he wants people to proclaim they are God not just to pass along "you are God" endlessly to other people where nobody really fully embodies it And if you say "you are God" all the time and rarely say "I am God" people might think that maybe you don't really believe it that much you just want other people do say it , not leading by example. . Also just seeing the words written "I am God", psychologically you just said it, just reading it. "You are God" doesn't have that effect If "I am God" is merely written on a screen, wall or text and somebody sees it , mentally they are instantly saying "I am God" and that starts to spark it within them. Compare that to reading "you are God" which if you say it, it is in the from of telling somebody else than not really proclaiming it. I think there is some logic here. But as far as God goes I prefer "we are God" but that's we You also have to consider what would happen if at some future time, say you go to a party or a gathering of people and then a person comes up and introduces themselves "hi hello, where are you from? I'm God" and the whole room, like 50 people there all saying they are God. Would that be wonderful or more like a Twilight Zone scene? Just try to imagine it. You walk into a room of 50 people you've never met before and they are all saying they are God. Cool or scary? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We Are God

Mahasamadhi is sooo April summer is here

Yes we didn't design each hair on my body, it was me that did it So apart from everything, what have you designed?

So I created my parents but you didn't ?

yes but look at the question

Yes, that's me but what about you?

"truth" is a mental construct

I covered this in may comment on the same page 3 as yours, Paramahansa Yogananda's view Leo is more of a Hindu than a Buddhist

Leo is saying that imagining a space shuttle or a dragon or every hair on every being in the universe or the sun is to create it or synonymously, " design it ", your mind is everything So now just take that an apply it to everyday life

Suppose there was a belligerent homeless person who slept in your yard. You kick them out but they keep returning night after night, They smell and the go to the bathroom on your lawn and leave garbage there And the police are not doing anything about it, or maybe there are just no police around at all. The homeless person has told you they have no relatives that care about them. So she saying murdering them would be justified and philanthropic

You touch a notebook and flip the pages you get sensory signals which then gives you the impression that the object is a notebook because your eyes sees it, your hands feel it and your ears hear an expected sound as the pages are being flipped So what is considered to be real is things you have become familiar with affecting your senses in a consistent way Suppose you are looking at video or film for the first time in your life. You see what looks like a notebook but you touch the screen and the sensory response to anything you see there is a hard piece of glass. But there is an idea being proposed that the whole thing is an illusion, the sense experiences are also all in your mind and no more real than the video of the notebook, the look of the notebook sitting in your lap, the feel of the paper in your hands is an illusion And then a video of the notebook is just another illusion of a different type. However this is not how we live in the world. We use a word "real" to mean something that gives us a predictable feeling.

would you rather be highly creative and only slightly wise or be very wise but not not particularly creative?