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@LastThursday idk. Fetishes are developed later on. But your basic sexual orientation (whether you're gay or straight for example) is highly determined by your genes.

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Osho said that to transcend sex you have to go fully into it. At the the age of 14.. Sex suddenly becomes so important. Until about the age of 42.. Only then it begins to lose its importance.. In both cases due to hormonal changes. I've begin to realize how much of my ego-self was bound up with sexuality and sexual desire. And the effect on spiritual practice has been most profound. I’m not sure I can put it into words. But the practice of sexual abstinence for spiritual development is called "Bramacharya". Let’s just say there’s definitely a good reason why all spiritual traditions recommend celibacy. Sex is great.. but no sexual experience-and I’ve had a lot of them-could even come close to this.” Other yogic texts name abstinence as the surest and speediest way to boost our deepest reserves of vitality and power. many other spiritual traditions-including Buddhism and Christianity-incorporate chastity into their codes of conduct. Spiritual luminaries ranging from Mother Teresa to Ramakrishna to Mahatma Gandhi all practiced celibacy for at least some period of their lives. Gandhi went so far as to call life without celibacy “insipid and animal-like. But the thought that yogis shouldn’t have sex-or at the very least should rein in their sexual energy-challenges our modern notions about both yoga and sex. We live in a radically different world from that of the ancient yogis who spelled out the discipline’s original precepts. Those yogis lived lives of total renunciation. today.. we toss in a Friday yoga class as a prelude to a gourmet meal.. a fine wine.. and-if we’re lucky-sex for the grand finale. Even though much of yoga is based on ascetic precepts that counsel denial. today the practice is often touted for its ability to improve one’s sex life.. not eradicate it-and some people even seem to view yoga classes as prime pick-up spots. Is it served your spirit to abstain from sex?is it possible to abstain from sex completely as a mean to spiritual development?

It's more fucked up than that. Even you don't exist. Self vs other is a duality in thoughts. There is neither you nor others in direct experience.

Yes it's a bias. But did 'you' create it? Sexual attraction is programed Into your genetics. You are just born with it. It's mostly out of your control.

Tell her the truth. Which is that you have no clue.

The underlying reason is that the self is an illusion. If there is no self to whom we can say there is free will.. How can there be free will? To whom?

We don't need speculation. You just have to look at what happens when someone dies. Literally is that their body goes recycling in nature and then eventually a sperm and an egg will meet and BOOM and a new human will be born.

@The0Self forgot to add that the individual is imaginary.

You sound like a troll mofo.

@AverageMonkey The truth is, no one knows anything. Even Leo and the most hard-core psychedelics users say themselves: "there are infinite levels of awakening left, no matter how deep you have already awakened". AKA I know nothing.

@AverageMonkey Im not asking. There was no question Mark. Enlightenment is the realization there is no enlightenment nor enlightened people. Nor people. Only infinity appearing as such

How do you function anyways

@Adamq8 I've had an insight about this, but it's extremely difficult to provide a comprehensible explaination. From my POV, yours doesn't exist and visceversa. Who's right? Both. To God there's no contradiction. From your POV, I don't exist exist as some other bubble of perception like yours that's happening out there beyond your perception "at the same moment", but as an ummanifested (fomeless potential) figment of your imaginatiom. And from my POV, the same with you. The ilusion of time is what tricks you to think these two are incompatible. From the human linear POV, what's most close to it, is to think of others as future/past incarnations. From God's POV, it's all beyond time. The Now is both one and infinite, the "particular moment" that you are experiencing, is simultaneously the only one that exists, and at the same time one of infinites possibilities that exits, and at the same time non of them exist at all.

Its so simple its almost stupid, forget what nonduality, god, consciousness means, thats not what she is talking about. She basically saying, I don't know what anything is, but "something" is going on and what ever it is, is going on, like duh. Then if you get the stupid simplicity of that, and are not longer trying to figure out what exactly that may be, simply ask and maybe recognize, could what ever the mystery of whats going on, not be going during the infinitely different "states of consciousness".. and if no, then whats going on now..... the mystery of what is? Pretty stupidly simple and may seem unimportant, almost like saying salty tastes salty right,...... right.....AMAZING.

Of course it seems that way.. How else do you expect? It's the same thing in a dream.. It appears as if you are the dream character inside the dream world.. But you were actually appearing as the entire bubble of perception. Try to actually draw a line between what you think is the perceiver and the perceived. And notice that you can't.

. Everything that exists is your insightful way of making sense of existence. Infinity doesn't follow a certain pattern, only your life story does. There is not some separate truth that you need to find out because everything that happens is dependent on your POV. So you either acknowledge that YOU are the shaper of your own reality, or let reality shape you ad infinitum. Also, shape or form (or whatever expression existence takes) isn't permanent, so your human form isn't reality. Form isn't absolute truth and it doesn't fit any paradigm because it is always changing... yet IT IS NOT separate from the Truth. Obviously, a mortal will not appreciate the depth of this infinity.

@Javfly33 there is no me.. I'm just your own mind talking to you.. You are hallucinating me right now to distract yourself from the fact that you are God and all alone.

@Javfly33 and you are just parroting some nonsense you heard from Leo. I tried multiple times with you in this thread but you are not listening. Have a nice one <3

@Javfly33 Reality is relative, and because of that, never will 1 technique or approach or perspective will do everything for you, and because reality is relative, open mindedness, questioning reality, not knowing what's true or not and going to the loony bin is essential in this work. That's because the mind wants to default for the answer. You want a mathematical formula or a scientific theory. The truth is that science is contained within reality and thus can study the content or that which is held within reality. And in fact it has studied the content. Look no further than quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics studied the content and discovered it was nothing more than wave functions - which are ultimately nothing...so, they found that mere possibilities comprise the root level of reality. Enlightenment is transcending the ego. The physical world “exists” to some degree but what it is mysterious inherently. Why would reality be simple to explain? Especially when measuring the smallest particles biases the experiment. Ultimately enlightenment is a trick of the mind but it’s ok because transcending the ego is healthy. But existence is not truly non-dual. Physics is good at describing reality’s behavior but bad at explaining what reality is. For all we know, reality is made of nothing and the laws of nature are accidents that force reality to behave consistently. But nonetheless, reality is not non-dual. Because I am not you. And I cannot become you. But nonetheless imagining consciousness as an ever-present thing aligns with what it really is. After all, all our experience lies in consciousness. Perhaps consciousness is an inherent trait of existence. Perhaps it arises from matter with intelligence. I think it is. After all human intelligence is just the ability to hold complex narratives in mind. If mind arises from matter, it is only natural that intelligence arises with it. And likewise natural that awareness is all we have to prove or disprove the world.

@Javfly33 For the material paradigm to make sense, the world has to be made in a certain way.and it is. Since you cannot change the content of experience through your thoughts. If the entire world was just pure qualia, the material paradigm wouldn't make sense. Another paradigm, maybe, but not the material You always have one thought at a time and each thought is a continuation of the former thought with relation to the rest of the senses. You think thoughts in response to what happens around you, specifically as you are reading this text right now. You are now being primed to show me that you can randomly think things unrelated to what is happening. What I do right now is not argue that there is no free will, but I am showing you a perspective that can be acquired which can coherently explain what is happening. This is important. I've been stuck in your paradigm quite a bit of time. I never broke out until I realised that 'wait a minute, why am I concerning myself with things out of my perceptions field?' There's no proof of existence for anything outside of your perception in the moment. It's just mere memories and beliefs. The Truth is right here, it's right now. Here is the clue: you need to make a distinction between your thoughts and what's there, and after you do that, all distinctions collapse. Thoughts and beliefs become reality when you lock within and limit yourself to them. You just don't realize that, this is how it works, you imagine stuff and dream them up and therefore they become reality in your consciousness. There's nothing outside of your perception. But this does Not mean there's no others. There is others.. They are just not outside of your perceptions. Obviously they are inside your perceptions. So others exist. Just not outside of your perceptions or at least that's where it's impossible for you to figure out because it requires you to jump outside of your own faculty

@Javfly33 Forget word games for a second, there is a physical difference between a circle and a square, and that's because reality has collapsed in a certain way right now. But what makes it collapse in that specific way? Why isn't an ipad a circle right now.

@OneHandClap what is "the absolute"?

Solipsism holds that reality, or reality as humans can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial." While I agree that the world is immaterial, I disagree that the world is mentally constructed. My main question to people who adhere to idealism is this: If the world is mentally constructed, it should adhere to the properties of thought. Thoughts can be shaped off our own volition. We can visualise whatever we want, when we want. If the world as we know it is just a mental construct, then why can't we change the world off our own volition? Why can't we just dream up an ice cream in front of us right now? Yes you might say the world has the potential to be infinitely anything, as the world is nothingness, which is of course correct, but there is still something collapsing it to a particular state for right now! And that thing isn't just us dreaming stuff up, if it were, we would be able to control the world through imagination. And who or what even is doing the doing of mentally constructing stuff? If the world is mentally constructed, what is doing the mental construction? Or a better way to say it is, what tool or way are you using to figure out that the world is mentally constructed

You can still do it if the body needs it.. You are just not attached to it any more