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Yeah pretty much that sums it up. It's basically being unable to be satisfied with the current moment, regardless of what you're doing . Its this habit of projecting yourself into the future in hopes that a different moment in time will provide you more than what the current moment has to offer... and it never stops. It occurred to me this weekend while enjoying the National Park (one of my absolute passions) that i was still not pleased or at peace while doing something i have come to thoroughly enjoy... Even on the side of the park I was projecting myself someplace else because i felt "this wasn't good enough"... These emotions cause me to carry out an array of random acts in hopes of satisfying my craving for a new form of stimulation... anything from checking my phone every 5 minutes for social media updates, to engaging in smoking cigarettes , channel surfing for hours without deciding on a program. My brain always finds away to become distracted from the current moment and seek a way out of it. The fact that im aware of this behavior does motivate me to continue to open this new level of consciousness

@Kksd74628 The feeling of a me, the sense of a me in the body dissappeared…now there is sensation as life or awareness as this. The body is sensation but not my sensation. With the sense of an individual me not here, any division or separation as life is not here either as the separation was the sense of me but when I was that me (again “I” is used but not felt) that me had no idea it was in the way, that me was the looker, the seeker and it was the dream veiling life that's not two. The sense of self did not destroy itself, it can not because its not real in the first place. Like dreaming yourself awake, it can not be done. It's Grace.. Amazing Grace… It has nothing to do with selves or personal will. Its also exceptionally ordinary and unseen, unnoticeable to another. In a funny ironic way even though it has no person to it, its deeply personal. Lol. Just like all duality meets here and is neither and both at the same time. Everything is here while nothing is here and none of it makes any sense. That's what's so wonderful about it, the mind can not grasp… Mind is absolutely impotent here.. Love.

I like to distinguish between the false ego self and the true Self. The ego self is a construction of mind. Even the tree you see is a construction of mind so it is not so far fetched that this elaborate mind construction of a self is nothing more than delusion. It is however very necessary and useful . Without a sense of self you wouldn't know who's shoes to put on in the morning, as Alan Watts puts it lol.

in my experience there is a difference between the ego self (the false self which is illusory) and the true Self (we might call it God or Love or Infinity or whatever ). Enlightenment is both a gaining and a losing process. You lose your false self and gain the true infinite Self . The ego doesn't go away with enlightenment. Ego is a deep and fundamental aspect of mental operation. Its Rather a projected self image, which you had taken to be real, is seen as an illusion. There is no doer. You see how the ego program works. A feeling like pride arises from it, and you realize that emotion makes no sense. It is not the ego that needs to die, but its illusory beliefs. Both enlightenment and death are creations of the egoic mind. The truth is, neither really exist, you only think they do! Your task in awakening to the truth of your existence is not to rid yourself of ego, but to purify it and to live in harmony with it.

So to summarise.. Why so much suffering in the world, so much suffering on your path? 1 self-awareness. Do you think a rock will suffer if you torture it? 2 survival. The movement of survival and the struggle to keep the body in homeostasis. Ever renewed needs. Etc. Pain and pleasure are like guiding signals to push you away from what threats your survival and towards what keeps it. 3 judgment. Attachment. Likes and dislikes. See when you were a little kid you were peaceful most of the time. Because you were pure. As you grow up you get attached to all kinds of shit. You form a whole identity out of your attachments. And shit will not always go your way. And when your attachments get threatened you will suffer.

I also talked about this technique in my simple enlightenment guide here ..so you might want to check it out

No at least that's how it is for me . I don't watch porn without masturbating. And I don't masturbate without watching porn . Maybe it's different for other guys .I dunno really.

There is no easy way out of samsara, if there were, everyone would do it, but there is a simple way. To just sit, free of thoughts, bringing the awareness to the heart, and remain there until eventually we will see who we are, beyond the mind and body mechanisms. To meditate on the heart is to expand the awareness of our beingness, that is the self, the I am of God within. Everything else is illusory, just a dance of love and light experience.

Well..according to my research The Buddha identified three types of craving, which in turn are related to what are called the three poisons : ignorance , attachment and aversion The types of craving are: Craving for pleasure: the desire for sense-pleasures, wealth and enjoyment. The basis is ignorance as to the Four Noble Truths and impermanence. Craving for existence :an ego driven desire for becoming, continued survival, identity, importance, and so on. The basis is attachment. Craving for non-existence :the desire not to experience unpleasant conditions, situations or people. The basis is aversion. The path to liberation from Samsara (the endless cycle of life, death and rebirth) and its suffering involves extinguishing deluded craving and the “fires” of attachment and aversion. Cultivating equanimity can pave the way, whereby we accept pleasant and painful experiences equally, and abandon striving to gratify and reaffirm our ego.

Just to get out of the boredom I'm experiencing. Just shower me with your questions . It could be about anything. Philosophy. Science. Spirituality. Psychology. Sexuality. Society etc. And I will try my best to compose a perfect answer. Only personal questions are not allowed . Lemme hear ? ?

We can fly as well.we use airplanes to fly .

@BlurryBoi sorry I don't quite understand your question properly. Could you try to rephrase it in a different way ?

Actually ..if reality was just pure formlessness..that would be the literal Definition of heaven . But since there is form, there is duality, and therefore there is suffering.

Masturbation and porn are inseparable . Who on earth watches porn but doesn't masturbate or vice versa ?

You move your arms and legs with your mind all the time. Moving things is one of the things our mind does.

Is it really that big of a difference to fap with or without porn ? For me they trigger each other and lead to each other . I can't even masturbate without watching porn.so I would say cut them both from your lifestyle and reward yourself with anything else .like you can come up with a list of a hundred things to replace porn and masturbation. From food to video games to music to going outside etc

Lol wtf ?

@Arcangelo do what you want and whatever you find healthy for you. This thread as I said for those who struggle with porn and masturbation addiction.

Both lead to each other anyways.

Yes exactly. I did some research and found some of the potential paths I can go through philosophy. I think There's a lot of work going on today in contemporary philosophy, somewhat related to previous philosophers, but it's mostly growing and there are more interesting things to study as well. I can go at least two paths as a philosopher, i can become an academic and write on whatever issues ranging from traditional metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, to more contemporary stuff like philosophy of physics and biology. I can also do historical philosophy if i find philosophers from the past to be particularly relevant. There's also the public intellectual path where i can use my philosophical knowledge as a way to reach more broad audiences. But the only question is how am I gonna do it ? I study business in university and haven't taken any courses on philosophy. So I definitely need to take courses .

One doesn’t see “evil” or “good” more clearly after awakening , one sees “mind” and it’s “projections” of evil and good more clearly. Meaning, “good” and “evil” (and all other judgments) exist within the perceiver, not the perceived.

Why is time an illusion? What do you mean by time? And what do you mean by it being an illusion? Time exists. Sure. We even have a word for it. We are even talking about it right now. It's just like everything else.. What you think it is.... Isn't actually what it is. our naive perception of its flow doesn’t correspond to physical reality. including Isaac Newton’s picture of a universally ticking clock. Even Albert Einstein’s relativistic space-time.. Which is supposed to be an elastic manifold that contorts so that local times differ depending on one’s relative speed or proximity to a mass is just a simplification. In other words the universe is like a movie.. All past presents and future are contained in the same place (for lack of better words). But that's none of your business as you are completely bought into the linearity of life. Better question be What is time? And good luck answering. won't ask you how you came up with it or why you're so sure the present moment is Al there is for my pov . The problem is that if, as you say, "there is no future or past" and the present is all that really exists, existence is so incredibly fleeting it makes things seem pretty insignificant don't you think? If that doesn't bother you, this will: We live (quite consciously) in the present moment right? And to live consciously in the present moment one would have to be aware of one's doing so. But, of course, if the present moment lasts merely 10^-43/sec then how can one be aware of the fact that one is in it? One cannot even be aware of it! There's no time! (And yet you claim that the present moment "is your perceptions") You cannot use the word "Now!" meaningfully because it takes longer for you to say "now" than it takes for the present moment to pass. If a one-syllable word cannot even denote the moment you intend it to denote, how can talk of the present carry any meaning? How are we to live presently in a mathematical point?

Hey man Art. To me is something undefinable .what you should want your art to show is a piece of yourself Something we can all relate to; a memory, a song, a poem, art should make you feel something. Art is a gift, a tool we can use to hide beauty in ordinary places and things. If you want to broaden your understanding of design and the world that art is beyond your knowledge and experiences..start taking courses and classes. If your love for creating burns so bright and deep within you then you should be determined to find a career path that will allow you to explore the world of design and art every day.

I am definitely a night owl ….I have always been someone who likes being awake in night….I know I am nocturnal . I donno….may be it's the calmness at night which makes me feel peaceful and happy or the air of mysteriousness which revolves around it. It's not that I can't wake up early morning ….I can ….and I have tried for a few months too….but it didn't go too well with me though. Plus ….I love gazing at stars and moons and the sky….and thinking about life in general. What about you?