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We can lock this thread up Mods. Low quality. The real matrix is about self-deception. Andrew Tate is the postcard for self-deception. He is your real matrix lol.

You are assuming that you know what is true and are awake. Believing in spiritual ideas has nothing to do with truth or awakening. Truth is NOT Buddhism. It has nothing to do with a spiritual idea. Ideas are not truth. You must question and deconstruct all ideas period.

Realizing all spiritual ideas are human fantasies is part of the awakening. All ideas must be questioned and deconstructed.

I’ve noticed something I have seen on the forum and a lot in myself lately and that is that everyone here (myself included) is becoming less curious or aka a know-it-all. I see all of these posts on “I have Awakened to this this ask me anything.” Or “I have awakened to this or that.” I don’t know why. I just notice less openmindedness and less people asking genuine questions in their original posts. Self-deception is contagious. To engage with the self-deception of others is to become self-deceived myself. I just wanted to point this out because nobody really seems to question anything on here. People are just coming to share their self-deceptions thinking they are sharing an awakening. I am really writing this post to remind myself here of what I need to do. I think the best way to counteract self-deception is to always remain curious and don’t get caught up in needing to share anything with others. That very desire to share an awakening with others is part of the self-deception. If I know the truth, why do I need to share it with others? I know it’s because I am not confident in it and want some validation. But nobody can ever validate such things because it assumes they are not self-deceived. I guess the key here is to propose genuine questions and keep being curious. I need to remind myself that awakening is a dream and part of the self-deception. Awakening isn’t the end of curiosity but part of it. A know it all stops learning. I have become that in many parts of my life. In what areas are you a know-it-all? How have you been able to stay curious and learn? How can we foster a culture of learning here? I need to think about this more. I just needed to get that out of my brain for now. I am now starting to think that Awakening is a Self-deception and true awakening is realizing that and becoming free from self-deception. But I also question that too because how can I become free from self-deception of reality itself is a self-deception? Nirvana and Enlightenment seem to be Buddhist fictions. All I see in spiritual communities is everyone parroting the same ideas with no original thought. Spirituality is just another human game. I don’t even know who is awake anymore. All the spiritual gurus I thought were awake, I am realizing that they are all full of crap just by hearing their self-deceptions in their own work. Osho is not awake. Mooji is not awake. Jim Carey is not awake. Tolle is not awake. Jed McKenna is not awake. Peter Ralston is not awake. The Buddha is not awake. Leo Gura is not awake. Jesus is not awake. Maharishi is not awake. Bashar is not awake. David Lion is not awake. Nahm is not awake. I am not awake. What are some of the best ways to stay curious? Some people are more curious than others. Genetics and environment play a part in that. It is a self-deception to focus on the awakenings of others. Sorry if this is a ramble. I have experienced jhanas and cessations and had mystical experiences into the nature of Absolute Beauty and Intelligence. But it seems like there are infinitely more places to go in my consciousness. I can never reach the end because there is none. It seems like the final awakening will be in my death and everything else until that point will always be subpar. Death seems the only way to reach “the end” or “beginning” however you want to look at it. How do you stay curious and become even more curious? The more insights I have, the less curious I notice myself becoming.

The more I listen to others, the less original insights I have. I must take more time to listen to my own intuition and thoughts. The way I am using Books, YouTube, podcasts, and Actualized.org is a distraction from my own inner voice. I am gonna take a break from all media consumption to grow the curiosity within me towards developing original thinking.

I did both.

Great post!

Yeah. I’ve noticed myself becoming a know-it-all. Always trying to teach others and my friends spirituality. I need to go back to a Beginners Mind and start everything fresh. And question all the “insights” I’ve had to determine which insights are true vs. false. False insights are very tricky. They are so tricky that I initially thought that they did not exist. Edit: How do we notice false insights easier? I think it is the same with how do we recognize falsehood at all? Awareness/observation.

The human body changes and will die. But existence of the present moment is eternal. The Present Moment or Consciousness is what is immortal not the human identity. How do I know that the Now/Force/Consciousness is immortal? Well, nonexistence does not exist. So whatever exists exists in this eternal Now. Sleep and death occurs in this Now and so does all past and future. In a way, death is the womb of life and all life comes from death and returns to it just like all rivers must lead back into the Ocean. That is one way to look at it. The only thing that I truly know is that consciousness exists. Even the idea of death is something inside of consciousness.

It is important to not let the invented social norms run our lives and make us inauthentic. Keep trying to be your most genuine authentic self. Your best is enough. Awkwardness is part of life, but it does not exist in the world but in the collective mind.

I have actually changed my mind on Trump's Wall. At first, I thought it was very Xenophobic and would hurt our relations with Mexico (A wall is never a way to solve a problem is how I thought). In addition, many Migrant workers and families who suffered from poor economic crises in Mexico needed to flea to USA for hopes of better paying jobs to support their families, which were screwed over by the Wall. But in light of the drug cartels and the spread of Fentanyl, Trump has a point now, and I can appreciate the conservative perspective a lot more now. If a Wall prevents fewer people from being trafficked and decreases the spreading of drugs, then I am all for it now for the short-term. But in the long-run, both of our countries need to fix our crap and come together some day. I have noticed a lot more now that Liberals tend to dismiss Conservatives legitimate concerns as being "racist" or "xenophobic," which may be the case, but still dismisses the concern/danger.

It comes at a cost. The AI gives you quick answers and little time to contemplate. Back before I was before, if you wanted to know an answer to a question, you had to read through a ton of books and you would find fascinations and information you never thought would sparkle your interest. AI and technology spoonfeeds you information, which is partly why todays society is so lazy and lacks self-discipline. Imagine doing your entire research studies in college without technology. That is difficult for me to imagine. I got this info from the book Curious by Ian Leslie. You could also argue ofc that AI shortcuts that entire process and weeds out unnecessary info. So there are trade offs. But overall, I feel like these AI bots are more of a hindrance than they are a success.

I think technology in many ways has made us less curious. It’s hard to be curious when you are distracted by work or entertainment. What has helped me is to admit that I don’t know and question everything I take for granted in solitude.

Can you confirm???

But… all distinctions are imaginary. All dualities must collapse. God is The Devil. God is Love.

I thought Leo banned this stuff. AI is not awake lol. AI is part of matrix lol.

I don’t think understanding yourself is a self-deception. I think the colloquial conceptions of what awakening is are a self-deception. Buddhists like to define it as the end of suffering which is a self-deception. There is no end of suffering. Vulnerability is ingrained in life. Even Leo appeared to be self-deceived of his conceptions of enlightenment. I hear people claiming to have awakened but all I am seeing is them still inside their own matrix. So yes, awakening is not excluded from self-deception. It is possible to have false awakenings and insights, which goes against my initial intuitions.

Yeah. I apologize. I’m mentally exhausted and was not in my best state of mind when posting all of that. But it was something on my mind that I wanted just to get out of my brain and get an outsiders perspective.

Tell that to Native Americans and Black people. God is biased in a sense. What do you think the Devil is? That is God. But that is a good question to contemplate: Why did The Force create the Devil or Darkside. Well, it didn’t. The Darkside is part of The Force. So The Devil with God.

Draw your visual field. That’s the closest to God you will get.

This is one of the best questions asked on the forum I have noticed in a long time. Courage vs. Bravery Courage is action in spite of fear. Bravery is action without fear. Bravery takes time to develop. It really comes down to learning how to be more decisive. Question your fears to death and just take action towards your goals. Get excited for no reason at all. Be silly and just do it.

Sounds like you are trying to redefine solipsism as something not solipsism to avoid facing the truth that reality is solipsism. If you want to form a belief system, why not just use a different term? Why the obsession with using the term solipsism?

That’s correct. All questions and answers are about God and will be God. What is the alternative?

I wish such a book existed. Unfortunately, no book or teaching will get you there. The Book of Not Knowing and Jed McKenna are the closest books I think.

Reread what was written. It wasn’t a word game. You call it a “waiting room” but that isn’t really what is going on. You are using human bullshit to talk about the Absolute. That is your ultimate problem here in your attempts to “define the present moment.” You cannot define the present moment AT ALL! To think you can is preposterous. You have to go beyond human words. I am surprised nobody here seems to seriously contemplate what it means to define something. You must go Meta and define what define really is. Reality/Present Moment/Absolute/Consciousness/God is undefinable. It cannot be further reduced. The “best definition” is to say The Absolute is ________________________________________________________________________________________________ (Ad Infinitum). But if you are conscious of the Absolute, then trying to be all scientific and define it is a human game and is ultimately a distraction. Your consciousness of The Absolute is enough. At some point you must realize this. Defining things can make certain ideas more clearer in your mind. But it comes at a cost. Our very language that we think from affects the way we think and understand reality. Definitions are very deceptive. For every one word you try to define, it takes more words to define that word which themselves are undefined and takes more words to define that, Ad Infinitum. You must go beyond definitions and language and human games. My main goal isn’t to define Reality to write/talk about in some book. My main goal is to become conscious of Reality and understand it as deeply as I possibly can. What is your goal??