Terell Kirby

The Buddha saw through the illusion of death, Life is eternal.

Suffering comes from taking life as anything other than God’s dream. The Buddha realized his entire existence was something God was dreaming. Even further, he realized that his true nature was that of the dreamer .. God itself. This brought with it the end of suffering. Every Being in the Universe, including yourself, can realize the same through awakening. The Buddha did it, as well as other mystics throughout history (Jesus, Mohammed, etc.)

Yes, feeling into Existence is an important step, but only a prelude to becoming Existence itself. All should keep this in mind while on the path.

Actually, the illusion itself is you forgetting that you are God .. thus mistaking yourself to be human. If you awaken properly, you'll be able to break out of it.

So many hot people in Vegas lol .. What's funny is God literally created the city of SIN .. talk about paradox

Sending my compassion and empathy towards your situation. The first, and most important, step in recovery is simply having the desire to get on the right track. I think the forum can be useful to you for emotional support, on top of other channels (AA, church groups, counseling, etc). I'd spend the next 1-2 years really diving into Actualized.org content on YT (specifically on subjects like spirituality and psychedelics). It really pulled me out of a dark place .. assuming you watch it with intention and do the practices. The book list has some material on emotional mastery, and the life purpose course can help you find a path towards living a life in service to others .. that could do well in lifting some of your depression. Best of luck.

@Fearless_Bum Are you the new guru of the forum? lol.

Mental masturbation.

That’s wild lol. I like how she fully embraced it. Takes confidence.

Disorganized- thanks for sharing the survey and reading material. Very insightful for those of us on the spiritual path.

Trying to fix others is usually a recipe for codependency in a relationship. You may want to investigate where this urge that you have comes from. Loving someone authentically also means accepting their flaws. Accepting doesn’t mean tolerating though .. you can choose to stay or go, but never try to change people.

For me, open minded/spiritual correlates with progressive cities .. most being Cali and the Pacific Northwest. The Bay Area (San Fransico/Oakland) has been the most liberal/progressive place that I’ve ever been.

Right. In any case 800k could be good depending on the city dynamics itself. I’d check for things like travel destination popularity, and the amount of influences/ presence of millennials. Night life vibes are also essential.

I hear you .. but 100k sounds limited in opportunities to find a good quantity of attractive women to possibly date. Weigh the cost, but don’t let that be the sole reason not to move to a bigger city. You can furnish a small studio apartment into a pretty cool bachelors pad .. it’s really just the mattress that counts if you know what I mean

We are pointing out nuance from Leo’s claim that 800k is too small. Population size might not be the only measuring stick for opportunities in pickup for a particular city .. Las Vegas as an example. Hence me pointing out other factors like culture/vibe. And I’ve been the Las Vegas (Aria Resort & Casino on Blvd.) so I know who’s in the hotel rooms there…I hope have gone there yourself with this amount of sarcasm lol.

@Leo Gura what would you say is a minimum decent population size for pickup/singles looking to mingle? Vegas population size is around 600k .. so not sure if it’s population size, but maybe more so culture / vibe.

All language is mental masturbation, can't really get away from it.

Fair enough, i stand corrected. My initial thought of the notion of “healthy” stage orange is having all the material possessions it desires, but that view seems limited. Healthy would be material possessions of money, fame, power and sex being obtained in non fraudulent and illegal means. His Instagram page/lifestyle looks pretty awesome regardless . But then again it’s all surface level. I can see this.

Why are you guys so anti Dan Bilzerian? Lol Maybe I'm missing something, to me he's like the epitome of what a basic stage orange male wants in life (but guessing that doesn't always qualify as healthy?)

Lol welcome, it was a spontaneous phrase that come out of nowhere ?

More bubble talk lol. Save yourselves the stress by simply recognizing that we are all inhabiting a dream that we can’t wake up from. God is the dreamer. You can also make a choice to be God, not only of “your” universe, but also the universes of “others”.

Who is this “I” that you are referring to?

If you begin to understand that Consciousness is ALL points of view, and that you ARE Consciousness..then you are onto something .

Dan Bilzerian

Haha, using this one tonight