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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??

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.