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How can you disagree with this? The only way I can think of is if you have never experienced a Satori or having never transcended women/sex. You gotta burn that desire someday or it will forever control you and limit your potential.

A thing/object doesn’t exist because an object implies a static thing. Everything is in a flux. Everything is an experience. An object is an accumulation of your senses/perceptions. Matter is an illusion.

Existence is not an object. It is not a "thing." "Things" do not exist. Objects are illusions. It is all no-thing. It is pure Subjectivity. Pure Awareness.

I agree with the hierarchy of needs. My concern is that hardly anybody transcends the need for sex and relationships. They just stay stuck at the stage and never reach the stage of having sex and a relationship with the Universe itself. Maybe you need to chase women and sex for a while to realize that it isn’t everything. That is what I have done. I am here to say that having a connection with the Universe is better than any relationship you can ever have with one woman. But one woman can be very special and can supercharge you for sure, but nothing compares to a Satori. I think Peter Ralston even said that a Satori beats an orgasm every time.

It is no-thing.

Weird. Because your username indicates otherwise.

I made a post and answered it in a video on this topic already.

Thought isn’t ego. Ego is identity. You can use thoughts to deconstruct identities. Think of your thoughts as mental hands that can create and deconstruct things. Thoughts can be tools.

Incels are just victims. They want to blame women instead of taking responsibility. Their minds cannot handle admitting fault or wrongness on their part. If they did, then their victim identity wouldn’t hold.

I figured this would fall on some deaf ears. My point is that I have noticed a trap that I have fallen into and many others have fallen pray to. The trap is chasing women rather than seeking a deep connection with reality first. The issue is that chasing women and sex won’t even fulfill your bodily needs because after you ejaculate, you are left empty and wanting more. The main way to fulfillment is developing a strong direct connection to the Source of existence itself. Until you have built that connection with Source, women and sex are just temporary distractions. Choose your investments wisely. Chasing women can only end in heartbreak one way or another. A connection to Source is your way of transcending Death itself. Romantic relationships are great. But nothing will beat your relationship to Source/God.

I have been thinking about ambition. Ever since I played the video game Uncharted 4, the scene with Hector Alcazar and Sam Drake always sticks to me where Alcazar says that what separates them from the prison guards is their ambition. I define ambition as a strong desire for achieving excellence/success through hard work. Of course, ambition is such an amazing concept in and of itself because ambition is relates to our unique vision and source of life purpose. There is no life purpose without ambition. However, ambition is a tricky because if it is not balanced with satisfaction, then you will end up working yourself to death. Essentially, you will become a workaholic and will become like Christopher Robin. The thing is that Pooh helps Christopher Robin realize in the film the importance of playfulness. It is important to not go to either extreme of Robinworld or Poohworld but to find a balance of playfulness and ambition. That is the key to a fulfilling life. Here is a test for ambition that I found. If anyone can find a better assessment, that would be great. https://mind.help/assessments/ambition-test/ There are certain personality qualities that go into ambition that are interesting to contemplate. I am curious to know your all's thoughts on ambition.

I guess he has no choice? Lol. Determinism is foolish worldview.

It is to let the Universe come inside you and give you orgasms of mind, body, and spirit. The thing is you’re so focused on the body that you are missing 2/3s of yourself; hence, 2/3s of your purpose. It’s funny to think about how many guys are just chasing genitals and sex rather than chasing the source of them.

Not necessarily. If I am God but am depressed, then by definition I am disconnected from Infinite Perfection and Love. Love and perfection are all around me, but I don’t perceive it. Even though the human form is made out of Intelligence and Love, I can be disconnected from that since part of Perfection is allowing myself to be imperfect. Part of Intelligence is allowing myself to be ignorant. Part of Love is allowing me to hate. The way most rats live is having sex with other rats rather than having sex with the Maze. The Maze is already made of love, but the rats love does not match the level of the maze until it surrenders and lets the maze penetrate it with insight.

Read my post.

God doesn’t have any pronouns.

My point still remains valid that if you are just trying to silence your mind, you will never learn how to use the full potential of it. Everything is yourself. You are the entire field of experience.

Have you ever heard of hyperphantasia? Hyperphantasia refers to one’s ability to conjur up life-like, realistic mental images, sounds, and other senses with the minds eye or imagination. I want you to contemplate this: The greatest inventors, philosophers, and visionaries have the same quality of powerful imagination or hyperphantasia. Notice that imagination and success and creativity go together. There is no such thing as a visionary with no imagination. This does not mean that someone with aphantasia, someone who has an inability to form mental images in the mind, cannot be a visionary. It is just much harder. They might have to process their “vision” through other means such as journaling. How does this tie into my argument against meditation? Well, meditation encourages you to essentially turn off your imagination. But not just that, but you are also turning off your creativity. Some people will argue by suggesting that meditation can actually give rise to even more creativity. This is true. But this is a straw man of what I am trying to communicate. Yes, it is true that if you incubate, you will gain insight. But I am suggesting that long-term meditation has its consequences. Too much meditation can actually limit your imagination. If you sit for a long time in a single-pointed focus on your breath, you will not engage in the exercising of your imagination. Brief periods of meditation of say no more than 1 hour a day can be beneficial to your mind, as long as you are also engaging in imagination and contemplation. If all you are doing with your mind is silencing it (or even worse, distracting with social media), then your imagination, ability to contemplate will become dull and almost at an aphantasic state. So, just think about this. The goal of meditation isn’t to suppress your thoughts and have a quiet mind. It is really to be more present with everything in reality, which includes your mind. People say “you are already present all the time.” That is not true. You are dissociating. That is not the same. Just like how you can increase the vividity of your imagination. So you can with your consciousness. Meditation isn’t about silencing your mind. It is about increasing your awareness of the internal and external world. In other words, it is about raising your awareness to explore your own mind/imagination. I just had this insight and had to post it here. Hope it helps. Read this article to learn more about hyperphantasia. https://memoryos.com/article/hyperphantasia-revealing-the-truth-about-photorealistic-imagination

What’s the difference between having another awakening vs having another insight?

A meteor destroying the Earth.

Any time is good time. 4 hours is just a number. You can date and work on your business. There is no either or. You need balance. You are overthinking this. 4 hours is a made up number. To think you can’t do both is a fiction.

I just think it is dangerous to sit in long periods with a silent mind. I’ve heard that people with decent imagination can actual develop aphantasia, the inability to imagine. I formally meditate no more than 20 minutes a day. It is important to contemplate and visualize more than meditating. What I have found is that if you contemplate deeply, then sit in 20 minutes of mental quietude, insights incubate there. But if I meditate for a long time before I contemplate, it messes up my contemplation. It is essential to allow the mind to wander and not just have it focused on your breath. This numbs your mind’s potential. A better way to meditate is to visualize a goal in your life, an existential question, or a personal problem and just have the mind focus on that. Everytime it wanders, let a wander around that topic then gently bring it back. Mind wandering is essential for creativity. Focus is also important too. But I think if you just focus on the breath for a long time and ignore your curiosity and imagination, you will stunt your gifts.

Well, then I am screwed. I cannot shut off my philosophical mind and nor do I want to. I love questioning reality and engaging in philosophical discussions. I talk about the most controversial things because that is what intrigues me. I really don’t care so much about sex as I do an intimate relationship.

The ego is the ultimate conspiracy theory.

When I die, the world dies with me.