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Interesting .so should I get Rid of all my attachments? Is it realistic ,possible or doable to love everyone and everything equally? For example I cannot love pain and suffering. And I must do that in order to survive.

Not at all. Enlightenment does not hinder one from talking or having friends. However, depending on the kinds of conversation and/or friends…you may find you don’t have much interest in them anymore. You may find yourself more inclined to speak about spiritual topics and hang out with more spiritual people. Or nothing may change. Enlightenment doesn’t cause any difficulties at all. Enlightenment includes becoming compassionate. People like those who are compassionate, but an enlightened person is not more attached to one person than another.

According to tradition, the Buddha offered the answer on one of his many journeys: “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. ... Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.” If you follow Buddha’s teachings then you don’t need trust. You hear what the teacher teaches and you go back to your practice. You verify everything the teacher teaches in your own practice. You don’t need to trust the teacher - you do need to trust yourself. And you need to trust the teachings. The teaching are not the same as the teacher. Many spiritual traditions, especially those derived from hinduism, proscribe to the belief that one must completely submit to a Guru in order to achieve any spiritual anything. The Guru is the gate keeper - he will either let you in or he won't. The Guru is the supreme authority and the disciple submits to the Guru fully, completely, unquestioningly. That is supposed to be the only way to enlightenment. I personally disagree with that, so did Buddha.

I really don't know anything about anything. I only concern myself with the present moment. The quality of the present moment is all that matters. Because the present moment is all that exists . I might go to sleep tonight and never wake up again. Therefore I don't think or plan the next week ahead .or even the next day . I live completely spontaneously in the now . Osho agrees with me on this :

@KGrimes habits/activities which you were trying to change/avoid returning... and returning with a vengeance .. that's what I believe it is. Now, the important thing to note is that if/when it happens... know that there is nothing wrong with it. Just be aware that it is occurring... what else can YOU do anyways. YOU do not control your actions/thoughts... only watch them. So, watch this play which is just another step on the path. It's all part of the natural spontaneous unfolding of life ..out of anyone's control. Find peace in that.

I'm a University student. I don't have a job yet .my big brother is a graduate. He has two jobs .he pays all our bills . So yeah..I'm blessed . I don't have to worry about money. And you don't have to.

You only be In the present moment. Have you ever caught your body mechanism in the last moment or the next? Thoughts can however go back even before the big bang or it can go forward to the millionth big bang or more! Thought is time and time is thought. LIFE is always HERE and NOW. In order to get inspired you could read some books about it. A popular one is "The power of now" by the spiritual author Eckhart Tolle. Tolle was voted as the "most spiritually influential person in the world" in 2011. As far as making money ..you can still go to your job and do all your obligations..it's just that you are no longer the doer .you become the witness to your thoughts and deeds .a passive impartial observer. Rather than an active doer.

I manifest it using my superpowers. I deal with the issues of the moment .I never plan beforehand .if something in the moment needs organising then I will do it . If not .then not. Quite simple ,Eh?

Reality is subjective. From our subjective inputs we deduce the existence of an objective world. The goal of science is to understand (explain, predict) the latter. There’s no particular limit on how well we can do that but there are practical limits. The universe is just too big to hope to figure out everything. So although science will never explain everything about objective reality, there’s no ‘mystery’, unexplainable in principle. It is not the goal of science to "explain everything." It is the goal of science to create models that allow us to understand processes in and make predictions about the natural world. That's it. The complexity of reality could be infinite with each layer being explained only to reveal yet a deeper unexplained underlying layer. We also may have fundamental limits as to what we can observe directly and indirectly that would preclude full and complete knowledge of existence.

I do not care if 1, 10, or 100 scientists are or were atheists or theists. I simply do not need their approval or permission to determine what is rational or not. Newton was a very strange guy. I think he would be most accurately described as a mystic. He didn't really go in for organised religion. I'm not sure what his views were on deities specifically ..he was more into mystical universal energies than a personal god. While undoubtedly a genius, he was certainly not a rational individual. And Descartes was believer in the Christian god. Like I said given that his entire argument for why he trusts his senses relies on the benevolence of god.

I glossed over it but I didn't understand most of it. So if you can give a brief explanation to it again would be appreciated. However I understand that nonduality means Not two. The moment you know you exist duality has begun to impress perception. You begin to count ‘I am’. ‘I am’ spontaneously creates the illusory world with the concept of separation being impressed through the ‘I am a body’ idea. Prior to knowing you are, you are. The sensation ‘I am’ or ‘I exist’ has appeared to you. Without knowing you are, you of course are. This is the essence of non-duality. Once you realize your total aloneness, there is no mind .the mind is your past, the mind is the other. Ordinarily, when you are alone your mind continues talking, it becomes the other; there is dialogue between your mind and yourself. But when you are totally alone, you are alone. Now there is no mind and there is no God; yoe divine. So I cannot say you become one with God because to say so presupposes duality: it presupposes that God is one and you are the other. Even to say that existence is divine is to divide it; there can be no nondivine existence. It is divineness or it is existence; there is no need to use two terms. To say it is existence is enough; to say it is divineness is enough. The moment we say divine existence we create a division; then existence is divine and something else is not divine. But that is not the case: there is nothing that is not part of existence, nothing that is not divine.

The last decade I could get away with being a loner and keep moving with my life. Now that I'm not young anymore I'm forced to interact more with society. I hate humanity and existence like never before. I hated humanity and society before, but I was on my own, I wasn't forced to interact with it like I'm being forced right now. The more I contemplate, the more I hate. I'm not even bitter about it, it's a feeling of disgust I can't describe. At least I still enjoy the small things. Reading, writing, painting, playing instruments, a nice meal, exercising, playing with animals, nature. But I'm feeling extremely angry, I don't want to be part of society, I don't know how to go back to being completely alone. My human nature is making me desire love, relationships, material things the older I get, and I can't understand why, I was more at peace when I was younger. Interacting with others has been corrupting my mind. Just wanted to spit this before going to the college. I'm in no path for improvement, I don't want to "improve", I just want to be by myself and I can't even have that. I can't see myself not having that for the next X years.

@r0ckyreed so your position is that there is no cause for the present moment?..but that's only true if we assume that the present moment all that exists . But even then ..how Do you explain the existence of the present moment if its uncaused as you claim ? I am surprised as, to why, the problem persists. If one asks, what is the cause of the universe? And then...What is the cause of the cause which caused the universe? And then What is the cause of the cause of the cause which caused the universe ad infinitum You encounter a strange problem That cannot be solved unless you posit a first cause /aka God.

What about the flaws of atheism? My main issue with atheism is that it's a statement of unbelief, not one of belief, which leads theists astray, they've only ever had to invent better stories than rival religions, or exterminate them, so they don't know how to dispell unbelief, except with the tactics that lead to unbelief in the first place. The other issue, is that because atheism isn't a belief, it only deals with a single aspect of a person's personality, which again, confuses theists, who assume that because theism dominates their lives, that by analogy atheism dominates the lives of atheists Most atheists are buying into the materialist paradigm. Which was oroen to be completely false by quantum mechanics in the last century. But scientists nowadays are afraid of discussing the radical ramifications of quantum mechanics which completely debunk the materialist paradigm and therefore atheism.

I think you are not grasping the infinite regress problem. You cannot say that this present moment is caused by an infinite chain of previous causes. Because it would take infinite time to reach this moment. Therefore never really reach it . Example: Q: If something can’t come from nothingness, who created God? A: An earlier divine being. Q: Who created the earlier divine being? A: An even earlier divine being. Q: And who created that divine being? A: An even earlier divine being. Q: And who created that divine being? A: An even earlier divine being. Q: And who created that divine being? …and so on forever..

Well said ?. Thanks. Will check out. Is it available for free online as a PDF?

There is nowhere else to live other than this moment. Purify your ego of Time’s undue influence, and you will come to realise the same. Past and Future don’t exist other than in the human mind. Time is our creation, not a universal truth. Beyond Time, there is Eternity. Eternity is what remains when Time is restored to its rightful place. The problem is, we lost control of Time and now Time controls us instead of the other way around. We have travelled so far outside of ourselves, we no longer remember our way home. Without Time hijacking ego, Past and Future are denied airtime and the return journey is an effortless arising. This moment is home. No matter how far we think we’ve travelled, the truth is, we never actually left. Personally speaking, I live in Eternity, but I occasionally visit Past and Future when its useful for me to do so.

I most theists insist that belief in God must be based on faith, defined as “ belief not requiring evidence”. This is the direct opposite of science, which insists on evidence to test hypotheses. But there are scientific proof of God :: The Big Bang, the formation of stars, galaxies and planets, the origins of life, the evolution of species ..including humans. This whole miracle that we call existence..isn't enough proof of God? In fact it is God appearing as existence.

@OnePointTwo @r0ckyreed i will try to simplify the issue for you... We exist and we are contingent beings. We are part of a series of contingent beings. Then we come to the first being. Is that being contingent or necessary? If someone or something created the first being, then it is not the first being. By simple analysis, the first being must be a necessary and non-contingent being. And in order to have an answer to the infinite regress question, there has to be a bottom line, “the buck stops here” answer . that God exists necessarily and was never created.

I say it cannot be explained because the Universe is infinite .so it had no beginning point. And of course no ending point. Agreed. They struggle with what is purely imaginary physics to claim the birth of the Universe via the physically impossible occurrence of the Big Bang. The Universe did not..could not .. come from anywhere or anything. It is reality. It has always existed as it is and cannot be altered in any way whatever. So, no-one can explain its origin because it doesn’t have one.

I know what entropy is . Its the principle that in any closed system..the particles trend to move to the most chaotic state . How is that connected to my question?

Not sure I follow..what exactly that can not be explained? So it's the best explanation that materialists can come up with ...but you disagree with it as it doesn't actually explain anything, right ?

And I already addressed this point . The Big Bang itself demands explanation. If you say the explanation for the existence of the universe is the big bang ..then what explains the big bang itself? And whatever that might be demands explanation and so on to infinity. Who or what created the big bang? The Big Bang is a result of the Universe coming into existence. That Theory doesn't describe how the Universe came into existence. It describes the process of inflation (expansion) after the Universe came into being. The Big Bang starts a fraction of a second after Time 0. So the question again ...what caused the big bang ?and really what is the ultimate cause of all of reality?

@Nilsi you are not making your point clear. your replies are "incomplete"in a sense.

Yeah I can relate. I remember lying awake in bed as a child, eyes wide open, while the darkness seeped into my room. From my window I saw stars dancing, and I wondered, “Is there a God?” That thought opened the door to a number of other questions. If he is there, how long has he been there? Who made him? And what is he thinking? If he existed forever, does this mean I will exist forever? Now that was a very uncomfortable idea for my young mind to ponder. Life without end was too big a thought for me to handle. So I turned my attention to less stressful matters.like how to impress girls in high school and other such nonsense ? My parents were open but cautious about God’s existence. They certainly weren’t atheists, but neither did they accept the notion of a personal God. Mine was a home that embraced the supernatural in general, but had no patience for a God who meddled in the morality of mere men.