Princess Arabia

BRAVO!!

While we're on the subject of traps.......huge trap.

Unrelated; but I had to say that dog/puppy (Avatar) is adorable. That's my trap - cute animals. Come here cutie......grrrrr....ouch.

I want my Royalties. "Falling For The Trick Of The Rise" by Razabia. Lol

This is what Spirituality does to the mind. Leaving it with more questions than answers. Life has no questions; it's only the mind that does, just to keep it's momentum going. Any answers will just be more thoughts that will require more thoughts that will require more thoughts that will require more thoughts. It never ends. This is how the world was created. Without thoughts there is no world. Enlightenment is just another thought. Noself is just another thought. Ideas in the mind. You'll be spinning your head for eternity trying to know more and more and more within an existence that is nothing more than appearances of which thought is just another. Trying to figure out what something would be like that doesn't exist is just the neurotic mind trying to find a home to reside and plant itself to find stability and ground itself in the groundless ground. It's an attempt to deconstruct it's existing line of thinking just to construct a new one because it doesn't recognize it's impermanence. It wants to know more and more just to stay alive and all it's doing is entrapping itself into it's own web until it gets confused and tries to get out using itself entrapping it even more and becomes more neurotic. All this enlightenment and no self talk was just the beginning and it will never stop until it realizes there's no end to the mystery. That's enlightenment if there's even such a thing. It's the end of seeking enlightenment.

Exactly what OP has demonstrated here. The proof is in the pudding.

Yeah, that's why humans suffer. Thinking their shit doesn't stink and they should be proud of being an organism that life is just using to build upon itself. Humans are just a product of their environment and a bunch of memory, thoughts, ideas and beliefs. Your body will rot and go back to the earth from whence it came for recycling. The Great Story of Life is just that - a story. Life doesn't care about your stories, only the mind does; and the mind is just searching for more ways to keep the status quo alive. It is destructive and breeds narcissism and neurosis. Nothing to be proud of. I just love life as it is without the human bullshit that thinks we're any more special than any other form of life and thinks we're creating anything new. It's all recycling shit that has been passed down from generations and generations - only in a different form. Saying we should be proud to be individuals that called ourselves human that are all depressed, anxious, neurotic sociopathic psychopaths that only thinks of themselves is the ultimate delusion and will just create more suffering for that individual who believes it is separate from life and will be filled with pain and misery trying to defend it's individualistic mind that only breeds destructive thoughts that are dead and trying to live and fit into a world that was created by those same destructive thoughts that are just floating around in the ether. Thought is matter, and matter is not permanent and there is no permanency in appearances which are all illusory. So be proud of your illusory nature that will be destroyed in a matter of time and get passed down to the poor generations to come who will also believe their shit doesn't stink. All that said; this is the most beautiful thing. This mirage of a thing called life that will go on forever and ever and ever reinventing itself over and over and over again to Infinity.

Yes, indeed. Falling in love, though, means a falling out of love is imminent. I'd rather leave out the "fall in..." part and just say love.

@HardkillSuffering is suffering. It doesn't discriminate. You can go ahead and categorize suffering all you want and package it up into little boxes of race and color. What you're failing to realize is that people are suffering from all walks of life, all races, colors, nationalities, etc. Just because you've categorized the one's you know about doesn't eliminate the rest. There's probably a white suffering from the karma that he induced upon a black person but is experienced in a different form. A form that isn't visible to others and cannot be put into a box and labelled. No one gets a free pass and there's isn't pain that can be inflicted upon a person or group that's caused by another person or group that doesn't have a negative impact upon that person or group that inflicted the pain. It's called balance. The Universe is balanced in it's nature and no one or group is fairing better than any other person or group when it comes to the bigger picture of which there is really none because of the nature of oneness. When one can start to see life from this perspective that is when they have become one with it. Not from separation, which only breeds the type of narrative that you are suggesting because you believe you are separate from society and have free will and choice.

Lol

Lol. You're such a dork. I was going to use another word jokingly but I would have really been silenced then. What do you mean if I've listened to any of his videos. I don't understand the question. Of course I've seen plenty of his videos that's why I'm here.

You said white people are doing better than black people. If that's not mis-guidance I don't know what is.

You are treating me as I'm a child and trying to tell me what I need to learn and trying to silence my opinions. This doesn't feel like freedom of speech and I will leave this thread because I don't need to be told how to express myself as long as ilm not being disrespectful or violating forum guidelines. This is utter controlling, but I will not be confrontational because I have a difference of opinion but I felt the need to say what I just said. I will exit this thread and leave it be since it's not really worth the effort and time since I cannot express myself without attempts at trying to silence my opinions and obvious bullying.

You don't have to drop anything. Either way it is what is the case. You don't control what happens; so it won't be your personal decision to or not to. It will just be whatever it is. Now that's enlightenment if there's such a thing, you don't have to go anywhere; it is already the case. Either way.

If you can't take a little criticism maybe you do need some conscious leadership. Threatening to mute me doesn't solve the problem of thin-skin. Understanding why you're so triggered by my responses is a better approach. I will leave you be now so you won't allow me to spoil your night. I don't need that kind of power.

What I mean is the idea of someone achieving enlightenment. It already is the case without anyone being enlightened. Either everyone is enlightened or no one is enlightened. Pick one or drop the notion entirely.

See what I mean. You have fell into the trap of all traps; trying to avoid traps. Sure way to entrap yourself some more. Allow life to flow how it wants through you. When the time comes it will take care of itself. Leo putting out a video about traps is life taking care of itself. You asking what you're asking is life taking care of itself. The problem comes when you're expecting for an answer to satisfy the mind. It won't. That's what created the trap to begin with. Just allow for the answers to come without the questions.

No such thing in the Absolute sense. It's a human invention. Thought created. It only exist in the relative domain which is illusory. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but only in the realm of separation which isn't real. Separation is an illusion.

I know nothing about any right-wing anything. I speak from my own authority.

What kind of a statement is this. You think white people are doing better than blacks. It's not a color thing. Get off your high horse thinking blacks aren't doing better than white people. Why generalize people based on color. This is just utter ignorance and stems from stereotyping. You seem white to me but still having the same problems black people face so does Chinese and Indians. Same problems.

You're right. The reason it wasn't a good answer is because there weren't any questions. I agree with the rest you said and think it's more productive.

It's all a trap. There is nothing but traps in the individual human existence. The very notion of being a somebody is a trap. Having consciousness is a trap, being enlightened is a trap, thoughts are traps, the mind is a trap. There's no escaping traps. Realizing this is where the traps end and life flows; traps and all.

Telling someone they should have made an announcement sooner just to suit you is not constructive feedback it's a tantrum; a very slick and silent one at that; you won't even recognize it as such, but it is. I'm speaking directly about the circumstance on hand and how it was only a few days difference not in general.

Reality doesn't care about your communication skills. It goes on without it. Human life is where communication is needed in order to make sense of Reality; which has also been the bases of a lot of human's problems. Maybe if we start to try and relate to life more and the way it communicates which is more silent we would be better off instead of trying to dictate how life should be.

Well said. This is how problems arise out of thin air; from thoughts. It never ends.