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What in the actual fuck are you doing smoking? 🤦‍♂️ Seriously. What the actual fuck? Health is the foundation of life. It’s the anchor of my entire physical existence. My body is the one place I’m guaranteed to live in for as long as I’m alive, and somehow, I’ve been voluntarily introducing poison into it . If I fuck up my health, my whole life is damaged from its roots. Every ambition, every dream, every plan for the future depends on this physical body functioning well enough to let me experience them. Let’s be brutally honest: what exactly am I getting out of this? What is the grand prize? Yeah it smells really good and makes me kinda high but in exchange of destroying my entire life ?! And yet, the mind can somehow make this look reasonable. That’s the fascinating part. I can know that health is fundamental to my existence, understand the consequences of smoking, and still entertain the idea of lighting another cigarette. The intelligence is there. The information is there. The consciousness is there. So what the fuck is the negotiation about? I’m implementing a new approach for quitting cigarettes: using consciousness to stop smoking. It’s kinda similar to Leo’s idea of “Awareness alone is curative “. Consciousness means seeing things as they are, not as my cravings would like me to see them. A cigarette is not a necessity even if the physical brain is constantly begging for it . There is nothing much to say or do here really. All it takes is mindfulness ffs. I have the ability to observe my own thoughts, question my own behavior, understand cause and effect, and recognize the value of my health. I can see the absurdity of a habit even while feeling the urge to repeat it. My health is the foundation of my life. i want to live consciously. That means my actions have to reflect what I already know. Consciousness means don’t ever touch a morherfucking cigarette again. I know what matters.Now, I act like I know.

I became directly conscious of one aspect of God. I had the realization before that God is peace, which I have talked about earlier, but yesterday I experienced directly another facet of God. It is something that can be described by many names: absolute existence, ultimate power, ultimate magnificence, ultimate glory, and might. All of these aspects became directly clear in my mind recently, not merely as philosophical concepts or ideas that I had intellectually understood, but as something I had directly experienced and glimpsed for myself. Previously, I had glimpsed the peace of God through meditation. it was a glimpse of a profound peace that seemed to transcend the usual fluctuations of the mind and the changing circumstances of life. Through meditation I recognized that peace is not merely something the mind experiences under favorable conditions like chilling on the beach drinking grape juice…but rather it is something much more fundamental to reality itself. It is literally inside my being . Like literally inside my physical body .I had come to understand God as peace through this experience, although I knew that my understanding was still incomplete. Yesterday, however, I experienced something different through a “religious experience “I glimpsed another dimension of the divine. I experienced ecstasy, glory, absoluteness, magnificence, and overwhelming power. It was as though another aspect of God had become directly apparent to my consciousness. Whereas my previous glimpse had been primarily associated with peace, this experience revealed something that could be described as the absolute greatness and majesty of existence itself. And this has a terrifying flavor to it rather than peaceful or quiet. It is also GOOD. It is so good that it is terrifying. It is so good You want to run away from it because of how good it is lol . These two experiences have made me realize that God cannot be reduced to a single attribute or description. We may call God peace, but peace might be only one aspect of the divine reality. We may also speak of God as absolute existence, infinite power, ultimate glory, magnificence, or the very ground of being. And actually god is all names . But some of them hit closer . The important distinction for me is that I am no longer considering these ideas exclusively at the level of intellectual understanding. I have had glimpses of what I interpret as different aspects of God through direct experience. Although these glimpses were brief and my understanding remains incomplete, they have had a profound effect on my conviction regarding the existence of God. I am beginning to understand that there is a significant difference between believing in God because of philosophical reasoning and knowing God through direct experience. This brings me to the question of atheism and the limits of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. I do not think that atheists can be convinced of the existence of God by philosophical arguments alone, such as the intelligent design argument, the fine tuning argument, or the ontological argument. These arguments do provide rational grounds for believing in God, and I believe they point toward the existence of a divine reality. However, philosophical arguments and direct experience operate at different levels. An argument can lead someone to consider the possibility that God exists, but it cannot necessarily produce the direct realization of God in that person’s consciousness. Someone can study arguments for God’s existence, understand their logical structure, and even acknowledge that they have considerable philosophical force without undergoing any corresponding spiritual transformation. A person may understand the concept of peace without ever experiencing profound inner peace. Similarly, someone may understand the arguments for the existence of God without ever having a direct experience of what they interpret as the divine. When you have glimpsed God directly, however, the question takes on a completely different significance. God is no longer a philosophical proposition to be debated. The question becomes grounded in something that you have personally experienced. I say that I know with 100% certainty that God exists, I am referring to the conviction that arose from these experiences. Before these glimpses, I could think about God, contemplate philosophical arguments, and explore different religious and spiritual traditions. But after experiencing what I interpret as the peace, ecstasy, glory, absoluteness, and magnificence of God, my conviction became much more immediate and personal. I am not claiming that I have completely understood God or that I have attained the highest possible spiritual realization. In fact, I would say the opposite: what I have experienced so far has been only a glimpse. I have touched something that seems profoundly significant, but I have not yet fully understood its nature, its implications . But the threshold I passed is I am no longer approaching the question of God solely through speculation or philosophical argument. I now have personal experiences that I can contemplate, investigate, and attempt to understand more deeply. My task is to refine my understanding, and discover more . The next major challenge for me is to reconcile these experiences of God with Advaita Vedanta. Advaita Vedanta teaches that ultimate reality is Brahman, the nondual absolute, and that the deepest truth of the individual self, the Atman, is not separate from Brahman. The apparent separation between the individual self and ultimate reality or the self of all of existence is ultimately overcomed through The realization of nonduality . It reveals that reality is not fundamentally divided into two independent existences: a separate individual self on one side and an ultimate reality on the other…Yet my experiences have also presented God to me as peace, glory, absolute existence, ultimate power, and magnificence. I want to understand Does the divine appear to consciousness through different aspects, while its ultimate nature remains beyond all descriptions? Can the personal God and the impersonal absolute be understood as different ways of approaching the same ultimate reality? And if so, how precisely does Advaita Vedanta explain this relationship? Above all, I want to understand how these glimpses of God fit into the larger question of existence and consciousness. Is the peace of God inseparable from the glory of God? Is the personal experience of divine magnificence ultimately reconciled with the nondual realization of Brahman? And can the direct experience of God lead to a deeper understanding of the truth that Advaita Vedanta attempts to express? These are the questions I want to pursue from this point onward.

“Look at your hands . Look at that hand !” 😂

that’s debatable. It can be a destructive habit if you’re addicted and doing it compulsively. That’s a separate issue. The point is that semen retention in and of itself has no spiritual value.

There are no spiritual powers to semen retention. I understand that it could make you more motivated because you are supercharged with hormones but that’s as far as it goes . For me personally, if I don’t masturbate twice a month I become very moody and aggressive and low tempered .

What’s the point of doing semen retention for a whole year? Like, what exactly are you trying to achieve here? If you have a girlfriend with whom you have sex, you obviously want to enjoy the experience and reach ejaculation sometimes, rather than always practising tantric sex or full-body orgasms without actually ejaculating. If you want to have kids, that’s another thing. But what’s the point of retaining your semen for years on end? Sexual health and wellbeing are important too. prolonged abstinence can lead to sexual frustration or obsessive sexual thoughts, making it harder to concentrate. So, what exactly are you hoping to achieve through long-term semen retention?

Yes .“Awareness of itself “ is what’s being investigated. And I say we should define , or know what exactly is awareness of our self and environment. awareness can be defined as perception.Where there is a subject and object and a process of perception going on . Or it can be defined as being itself without a duality between perceived and perceiver. Nondual teaching sides with the second definition. Materialism sides with the first one .

When discussing this topic , I don’t understand how could the body-mind problem or understanding the nature of consciousness existentially be put on hold . It’s essential to this question. It’s the whole key to this question.

“Brahma-Charya” literally translates as “the road towards Brahma (God). It also means celibacy or sexual abstinence as a life style choice because Ancient Hindu monks believed there is a spiritual benefit in retaining your semen . And that is true in a sense . But If you are not determined to be celibate for the rest of your life then don’t do it . It’s completely unrealistic . If you don’t have sex with an actual person for a long time , then there is no escaping either self-pleasure or nocturnal emissions.

To answer this question,You first have to know exactly what is a subjective experience.

A woman is literally created to be worshipped by a man .

So what’s your situation now? How serious it is ? Are you going to get chemotherapy? Etc

Where did I say any of that ? I distinctively said it’s emotionally difficult. Religion targets the emotional part of your brain, not just the rational. You get brainwashed with religious beliefs as soon as you start to have some basic intelligence to understand, very early in childhood while your brain is still fresh like a sponge and very prone to absorb brainwashing. because as you’ve suggested, you can show a religious person proofs of the Big Bang and how there is no scientific evidence for the existence of any gods or supernatural entities,and how Darwinian Evolution debunked the biblical story of creationism etc ..yet there are still billions of Christians and Muslims in the world today who are diehard believers. And a huge chunk of them are actually aware of the problems with their religion because this is the age of easy and available information.Yet they can’t let it go just like that . It has become part of their identity.

My nephew is 6 years old . He asked us where is god and they told him in the sky and he believed it . Do children at this age even have critical thinking? They can barely say a sentence.

It’s not because they are stupid. It’s because it’s emotionally difficult to exit a religion after believing it for decades.

It’s really simple . Religion is a form of spirituality, but outdated because most religions are thousands of years old . And today they are brainwashed into people’s minds since childhood and they just accept them because they don’t know better .

You have to put an end to this victim mentality and self pity if you wish for your life to change. Because otherwise you will never change.

Is the question “what’s the meaning of life ?” Or “ what are your top values “ ?

1- Peace . 2-Love. 3- Health . 4- Serenity. 5- Well being .

How did you know my kink ?

Take the gold pill and 2 cups of sugar and you will be just fine .

Thank you for sharing this information.

No, they aren’t needed . You study psychology. It’s well known that “depression “ as a clinical diagnosis has to do with with imbalances of things like Serotonin and dopamine in the brain .

Depression could be physical due to chemical imbalances in the brain , which is the most common form. or it can be caused by tragedies in one’s life , like losing a loved one. The second common one . or it can be seasonal. Like depression during winter . Which is the least common one. idk what is meant by depression “metaphysically “. But it’s an interesting concept to contemplate. I would guess something like existential crisis?