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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??

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.