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No, since you are demanding thing to god, so it is a selfish activity; "God please cure mi illness" "God please make me happy" "God please make I get a job" I don´t see much spirituallity there but ego.

Man this is great, thank you ver much for your post. I will start to practice this night! Regarding the chest, I think the tension is not in the solar plexus but higher in the heart chakra . As I am reobserving now, maybe the emotion is not so much fear as sadnesses and pessimism, but I am not 100% sure probably a combination of the two areas. Anyways I will start with the throat and let you know what happen, thank you! By the way I tried to focus on the tension many times but the tricky part is that when I try to focus on the throat I start to feel tension on my chest and it distract my attention and when I focus on the chest I start to feel tension on the throat. It's like I am trying to trick myself to avoid I cure myself.

We are humans, not animals. And if you worry about animal´s life conditions you just have to buy free range food (I do), they live like this: https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/cerdo-iberico-esquire-1615380818.jpg

I studied the topic and there is not conclusive scientific evidence that climate change is produced by human action, climate changes pretty fast trought history, it is something natural. It is proved that polution produce heatlh problems in human and animal but not climate change. An I also think there is nothing wrong with killings animals, it is something natural. We all die. I think animalists probably watched too much Disney.

ardacigin flexing about his meditation gains again haha, your posts motivate me to meditate harder, thank you lool stop watching cnn bro

"Outside world doesn´t exist in our finite minds but it does exist in consciousness" How can something exists in consciusness if nobody is consciuss of it? For example lets talk about Mars, Mars is just a thought in my mind, I am just consicous of a tought, I am not consicous of Mars, so how can Mars exist in consciousness then? Isn´t "Mars existing in consciousness" just a thought? I remember Ruber Spira defending this point I have mad in the last paragrah, in a conversation with Sam Harris, it looks like he is contradicting himself here Isn´t just a thought? What actually exists is the thought "the world exists outside of our minds", not the world itself.

For my it is a shitty drug and the opposite of spirituallity. It leads me to overthinking, specifically the last 10 or 15 times I smoked weed I was trap in solipsitic ideas. The opposite of the calm and silence of the present moment. But as I am saying, just my experience (INTP guy). I think it works very different with different personalities.

Repressed emotions from my childhood. I experienced bad situations and I push hard to repress my emotions (cry, agreesion, yelling, etc); and then it becomes pain on my body. The pain in the back of the head feels like is linked with anger emotions. The pain of the chess is linked with fear ( I would say desire to cry and scream) and also anger. The pain of the throat feels like somebody is grabing it with the hands so I can´t breath properly. The three of them feel like tension. I think it is possible to just stop making that tension, stop controlling my body, but then something terrible would happen like I stop breathing, scream too hard and destroy everything, my house, I attack people, etc. I don't dare to let go completely because I think something terrible would happen but low-key release like bioenergetic or holotropic doesn´t work.

You stop the rape based on you moral instint. Don put the reason in the equation here, nothing to do. There is more wisdom in instinct/insight than in reason.

Love with capital L means it is ultimate truth. Love = Nothing = God = Ultimate Truth, that is what we are discussing here; Shinzen says he is not sure about this.

No, He is not convinced, check this out:

Yep, you forget about the whole story for a moment, it happens when you sleep only a few hours

Michael Taft for example took 700 trips of LSD and he is also an arahat and as long as I know he is a God denial. Maybe you and him are expressing the same with verty different language, I don't know, it is very confused.

I don't know man, the thing is what you say and other masters says are very different and I don't know what should I believe you experience is ontologically superior (no ofense). The other guys looks like went deeper than you. And the OP and me are not the only ones who are confused whit this topic. Honestly I want to believe you because the idea that essence of reality is not Love but Nothing and after dead there is nothing broke my heart.

Are you experiencing God right now while reading this or is it a memory of a insight you got in a pschycodelic trip?

@CBDinfused as you have said it looks like God=Love is not ultimate really since it is and object and meditator can go deeper and get to Nothing. For me, for the moment I think buddhist atheist are right and God/Love enthusiastic people like Leo didn't get the higher stage of consciousness. Maybe I wrong. I can't see by myself at the moment since I am not and advanced mystic yet.

Christianity triumphed because of its symbolic and moral power and other sociological reasons, not because the story of Jesus was historically accurate...

The resurrection after 3 days was a recurrent myth in previous tradions. It didn't happen, it is just a myth, methapor or whatever you want to call it. All the myths about gods, miracles, resurrection, etc were not real but Jesus story is? why? wishful thinking.

"Nothing exists outside your imagination of it." is a thought, so it is as false as "things exists independly of me" Solipsism is mental noise, it doesn't lead to anything. Stop that solipsism game, it is not enlightenment work, it is just mental masturbation.

Why would someone be happy by having money? I don't understand. Money reduce your problems, just that, but it is not a big deal.

That is pain, not suffering.

Over the last year or so these idea/insight comes to my mind a lot of times over the day when I am thinking about something. For example, I am thinking about a friend but then what happens is I realize that my friend doesn't exist and what is actually happening is that I am having a thought about my friend rn. Recently I been thinking that that "insight" is also a thought and therefore as false as thinking with my non-solipisitic previous mode; so probably all this time I have just been being a moron and hurting my mental health. Is it something good for my spiritual path or is it hurting me and I would have to try to stop it? It is actually very similar to vipassana noting technique so I am not sure if it is legit self-awareness or mental masturbation.

Because suffering is a narrative that mind builds.

How do you meditate with it? Just sit and listen?