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Correct. You cannot reach Ultimate Truth without answering that question. That is correct. That is the ultimate question.

You forgot one of the most important questions to assess awakening. I’ll simplify this whole awakening test down to the only question you really need to assess. If you cannot answer What is Awakening? then you are not awake. What is Awakening? How do you know your awakening isn’t false? Can there be such thing as a false awakening and how does that differ from true awakening? If you cannot answer what is Awakening after you have “awakened” then you haven’t really gone meta and awakened. You can get every question on that list “correct” and still not be Awake.

What word game? All of this sounds like you are still in the ego-state. I know I am not awake. I prefer admitting that truth than pretending I am.

Mods. You can lock this thread. This person is trolling and has not awakened. They are not here to learn but to preach. They are Nahm 2.0

Ok. Do you care more about truth or about being right?

Call it God’s eternal meditation room or eternal paradise. Waiting has all to do with ego and not God. You cannot define the present moment. All definitions occur within it and are finite. It’s like asking us to define God but to do so will not define God. To define God is to limit God because God and the Now are beyond language. The only language that gets you closest to God is silence.

Lol. By those standards, I am awake too. But no, to think you can awaken from watching a video and posting it on here is part of your self-deception. Don’t you get it. This is the same trap that Someone Here fell into. What is ironic is that me pointing this out to you is my own self-deception because when I point out to others, 3 fingers are pointing back to me. You are underestimating what awakening really is. No such video can ever get you to do the work for you.

It is ironic that you think that considering that Plato, the person who wrote about your life, did psychedelics and came up with the Allegory of the Cave. You owe Plato your thanks for his psychedelic use and his writings, which you were against, but without which, nobody would have known nor cared about you.

Everything you say exists outside of your experience is something you are experiencing in your experience. Also the idea of other people is just an idea with experience. You have never proven that other people exist. You don’t even know if Inliytened has a separate experience viewing your post. Even that idea is an idea you are having in your consciousness. The idea that the earth is round is an idea in your experience.

Post-Modernism is wrong because they deny the Objective/Absolute domain. They forget that Reality is Objective and not merely subjective. The Earth is a particular shape right now regardless of our feelings and beliefs about it. There are true and false answers relative to our state of consciousness. That is what the Post-Modernists and subjectivists get wrong.

Do you care more about Truth or being happy? What are you going to do if the Truth is gonna hurt you? Spirituality is not strictly about happiness. But rather happiness is a side effect or outcome of doing proper spirituality. Spirituality is all about Truth-Realization and your existential connection to reality. Spirituality should challenge you deeply if you are doing it right. Don’t expect the same kind of happiness as playing a video game. The happiness for spirituality is much more mature. Spirituality is about truth not strictly happiness. I am familiar with the paradigm you are describing. I am trying to show the flaws and ways you can bust through the Buddhist dogma. The only way you are really gonna be truly happy is by having independence of mind and leading your own path. But I guess I can only speak for myself here.

Yes. That’s what I do for my Life Purpose right now. Find a good existential therapist. Keep yourself safe and healthy. You might enjoy existential therapy.

Please call 988 if you are in the United States. Speak to an Existential Therapist for professional support. Suicide isn’t going to solve any problems for you. You need to focus on solving the Matrix. It can be done. There is hope. Focus on your awakening and your basic needs.

Contemplate what the problems of hedonism are. The purpose of life isn't maximizing pleasure. There are things more deeper to reality and much more meaningful than pleasure/pain. Spirituality is the pursuit of those things deeper than pleasure/happiness. The future is not something you see but something you imagine. Your taxes are also a fiction in your mind too, but you still gotta pay them. Your happiness hinges on certain things like that. Don't lie! It depends on the texture of your belief in the future. If you are depressed now but have a hopeful and positive future to work towards, you will be much happier with the idea of the future than being stuck in the now. What do you think dreams and passions are? If you are always in the present moment, you are going to limit your potential in life. Happiness is found in the present moment (because that is all there is) but a trap is thinking that we should never have dreams and plan for the future. Consciousness is capable of dreaming the future, so you might as well explore that since it is part of reality. Everything happens in the Now. Even trauma happens in the Now. You should concern yourself with it if you have it because if you don't process your traumas, they will prevent you from being happy. Depends on what your story is and what story you want to create. As long as you are alive, you will have a personal identity and ego of some kind, which means you will have a life narrative in background awareness. It is about creating your life in alignment with what kind of person you want to be. Some people will never be happy meditating in a cave for 20 years and some people do. It is important to challenge the religious/philosophical ideologies on happiness because they are all biased to various degrees. A Buddhist will tell you to stop thinking, but you need to seriously contemplate whether that is just another form of spiritual bypassing and sweeping the problems under the rug. True happiness to me comes from using my mind in creative and insightful ways that expand my curiosity, wonder, creativity, insight, play, contemplation, etc. The idea of shutting down the mind and stopping all thoughts seems very toxic because most people have not even begun to develop their minds.

Yeah but don’t confuse that realization with justification for hedonism. Ambition is more important to happiness than these fake spiritual Buddhist gurus realize. If your future looks bleak, you will lose hope and happiness in the present moment. The same thing with trauma. Simply saying that peace is only now is the height of Buddhist stupidity. Telling a trauma survivor that their trauma and past is imaginary is not helpful. Happiness and peace hinges on your life story and narrative not just the present moment. It is all the stories on this moment that make you happy or not. You also need ambition, drive, hope, etc. and all that requires imagining something beyond just this present moment.

This is exactly why hardly any spiritual guru talks about solipsism as being true. The students lose their shit and will haunt their guru forever with their stupidity. The only thing that can ever be known to be certain to exist is the Self. Everything in existence is the Self.

This is the Buddhist fiction I speak of. Don't let Dogmatic Buddhist Trolls fool you. Enlightenment is a Dream.

Amen. “No man can see My face and live.” - Holy Bible

Awakening is a Buddhist fantasy. True Awakening is something hardly anyone has ever achieved if anybody. But that doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter who has woke up, all that matters is whether Consciousness has.

It is important to not have all or nothing thinking. It is important to have a silent mind and also an active mind. An active mind for asking questions and deep contemplation and a silent mind to incubate all of the answers from your questions. The way most people meditate is wrong. Counting your breaths or repeating a mantra is going to waste your time. What you need is to deeply contemplate reality. You need to be deeply curious. Forcing yourself to have a silent mind is going to stunt curiosity. Let your mind wander on a specific topic of inquiry, then quiet the mind with the intention of gaining insight. What you are really after is insight, not no-mind. Place your intention on the former and not the latter.

This thread can be locked. This guy never left.

What was your question? I don’t see a question here.

You are the ultimate guidance.

Find out. Speculation is a fools game. Find out for yourself. How do you know anybody is awake? Don’t treat Leo like another Buddha. Think for yourself.

No human can know God because God is too profound to be understood through human intellect. To know God is to become God, which means you stop being a human. As long as you are human, your understanding will always be limited. To say otherwise is to insult and go against what God is. I am God but I have no knowledge at all about anything but that I exist. All knowledge is a dream. Awakening is also a dream because you there are always infinite stages of awakening. It never ends.