RedLine

Avoid neurosis and overthinking, stay calm and keep doing the work bro, it is the best advice I can give you.

This guy is goat. Got arahatness, master of the jhanas, able to enter in cessation for days at will, able to see past lifes and find who his previous life was. Very inspiring.

I have been unemployed for 2 years since I finished my studies, living in my mother´s basement, but even when I am suffering because of this situation, the idea of getting a job make me sad too. Why? Because most of the jobs I have been applying in my country have a 9-6:30 schedule (since they give you 1.5 hours to lunch in the middle of the journey, which are not included in the 8 hours of work), then I would go to the gym from 7-8:30, get home at 9, dinner bed and start again. So basically my life would be all about work -which by the way I am not interested in, it is ony for the money-. So literally 0 time to meditation, LP and building alternative business during week. If I continue being unemployment living with my mom (28 years old) - sadness and dression If I am finally able to get a job in my field - slavery I don´t see hope in my life. Any advice?

Turquoise are those that don´t have preference because they think the concept of preference itself does not make sense, so no perspective is truer than any other. Basically you deeply feel that anything in the relative level is true, even suffer. In the forum all people that you that but in practice they believe in stuff.

Nihilism is literally the definition of Turquoise.

I only watched that interview, did not read the paper, but I suspect his theory are just language games

do you know what unconscious is? It is not something I choose. These problems are present even in dreams. Am I responsable for what I dream too?

yes, it is an illusion you can look for what is behind the sensation of your back/column, it is a good self inquiry exercise

Most people like to spend their time doing stupid stuff like that you mention. It is not my case. I want to contemplate to understand the Truth, I want to change myself troguth self-development to know how it feels like and I want to express my creativity. I am not interested in entering data into accounting software, watching tv or dumb stuff on youtube, it hurst to me since I feel I am wasting life doing that insubstantial tasks, but on the other hand I feel like a failure, unemployed and living with my mom. Last 2 years my self esteem went to the shit because I live like a teenager when I am 28.

I know that. But, If am not even able to get a regular job (in a specific are which I build my career because I thought there were most market demand) (finance and accounting), how the hell am I gonna build a income source from my interest (spirituallity, postmodern philosophy, metaphysics, aesthetics, theology) if only 4 freaks like me are interested. I thought deeply about this 10 years ago before entering uni and I got to the conclusion that it is not possible to get money from my talents and I have build a career in some practical stuff and let my passions to the free time so I can´t do it even when it does not product money. What I miscalculated is that work was going to rob me all day.

that hour in the middle of the day is to lunch with the collegues or go to your apartment and lunch and come back and in the morning I would go straight to job. The oly free time I would have would be 22:00-24:00, where I am exausted from the activies of the day. Maybe I could practice do-nothing meditation there, but not intellectual stuff.

can you briefely explain the technique? What I do nowadays is do noting of I am not doing a high concentartion required actividy or talking, I don´t know any other way

What part is related to work?

past = desire -to escape from present- future = desire -to escape from present- Reality is define by that which IS independently of your desire. So if you are manipulating (imagining/thinking about present and past), it is not real.

If you start learning about spirituallity they will tell you that God/Good is not only a believe that religious people have but something that one can experience for oneself through mysticism (pscychodelics, meditation and so on), been enlightenment the ultimate understading that reality is Good/Peace/Perfect/Beauty. Then you research a little bit more and find that all individuals go trought similar stages in their spiritual journey towards enlightment, despite their culture of time. So you have this cross-cultural transpersonal map now. Then you look for the people who "fullfull" the map, the most prestigious secular teachers who are enlightened nowayday -and therefore should have a higher understading of realtiy than the masters that are in the previous stages-: Shinzen Young, Culadasa, Daniel Ingram, Michael Taft and Kenneth Folk among others. Then you find that this people don´t dare to say clearly that the essence of reality is Good, they are not sure, and their metaphysical ideas in many cases are not much different that those from a normie athetist. Even the buddha, who is the referent of enlightenment, strongly oppose these Absolute notions of reality agains the previous traditions who were like Leo Gura and talked about Absolute, Perfection, Good, Love, etc. So what place has God now in our intellectual understanding of reality? Should we rely on people that takes 5-Meo-DMT and assume that it gives them a higher understading of reality than those who are enlightenment? Please no "go and find by yourself", "God is just an idea in your mind that is happpening in the present", "you are imagining everything" and similar advaita parroting. We all know that. It does not help at all to go deep in this subject.

@Flyboy

It is not about hours. I can have an excelent business idea, build the project this afternoon and start making money next week. Why not? And also I can spend 8h/day "working" doing non producting sutff for years as most people do. For health reasons the best I think is weak up early, work the first 6-8 hours of the day, then lunch and forget about job until the next day.

Yes Beatles for example are horrific.

What vipassana? I have been doing vipassana noting (seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking, smelling) for a while and 0 kudalini

You are "speaking" in your head anyway so no, it is not useful, it could even be negative since you are more "in your head" and less present.

Ask him about the relationship between the Absolute and ethics in relative world: ¿Is there good and bad in relative world? ¿why? ¿why should we do good and not bad actions? ¿is suffer good and not suffer bad? ¿why? from the pov of Absolute everything looks perfect so.. ¿good and bad are just illusions? It is actually one single question but I express it in several for you to understand my point. Thank you.

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make sense, thank you! I am also very inclined to awareness but I feel guilty to don´t put laser attention on the object and doubts about if I am doing the meditaiton correctly arise; but you says it is no problem so you give me relief

too little information to help

With TMI I always have the doubt if I should focus hard on the object (stomach in my case) or be more relaxed into peripheral awareness and have the meditation object as a "second priority"; I experiencie the second one as more "mindufull" and the first one as most narrow and concentrate. The problem I find whit this system is that it does not specify the degree of attention you should put in the object so my meditation is mostly disturbed by my doubs about this trade-off between laser attention vs awareness. It spoils my meditation so I just prefere to practicse only concentration meditation or only mindulness meditation, but both togheter are a mess for me.