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Yeah, I see what you mean, as in the above convo with Mr James there. I see what you mean. When I speak, I don't claim anything to be true, it's a perspective, belief, stance, idea, conceptual. Direct experience cannot be expressed in words as it's now become a story.

You apparently are unaware of what an idea is, true or not, still an idea. Is it being expressed in words - idea.

Besides the point i was making. You just tainted it by saying you're pointing out what the truth is. Now that's authoritative even though still just your idea of truth. I should have known better than to use your comment as an example.

We'd be better off leaving most beliefs behind and just look at life as it comes and in the moment. Life has a way of showing who is the boss and reminding us that it's alive and not some dead weight meat that we can just concept and ideas away with stories and belief systems. Who is the boss, as in "I appear however the fuck i appear". That's life/this.

I will share this post as an example as it was the first one i ran into. This is not a comment giving advice or showing authority over anything; it's simply @James123giving his take on his spiritual beliefs and expressing that through a comment and a response on a thread someone started. This is how a forum operates. This is what I see a lot of, not people giving advice and being authority figures. Those are different expressions.

Trying to order people around, I see. Nothing wrong with fussing on a forum respectfully about whose giving advice or not.

Are you sure they are advices, or commands and call to action. Advice comes after a certain concern or question is born not just saying what one thinks is the case. I don't see too many asking about spiritual concerns that people are advising on and showing authority over the advice over. I can guarantee I can go through this spirituality section right now and don't come across too many spiritual advices but ill see many claims and people stating their opinions on things. Advice usually follows a question asking for help with some concern or issue.

❤️I knew you wouldn't fight with me, my love (is in the air).

Gosh. Why do people insist on perfection in their own way. So what if that's the case. Look at how the professionals who study their field operate. Look at society, political heroes who people vote for and look at how the experts sometimes get it wrong but you're expecting ordinary folks to be perfect forum users with no flaws whatsoever. This is what you see and perceive, doesn't mean it's the case.

I don't see people giving much advice on spiritual matters here only on matters of general interests like where to go for retreats or how much dosage on a particular drug and things like that. Lots of talk on spiritual topics and personal takes and what they feel is the case with reality and existence; but just talking about it and expressing how one feels about it, doesn't mean the person thinks they have authority on the subject and even think or know they're right in what they're saying. It's a forum for discussion and we should automatically know that no one's word is gospel and even the professionals at anything can get their expertise wrong and the officials argue amongst themselves. So, the topic of this thread is null and void as no one here has to have authority on any particular subject to speak on it. There are forum guidelines and disclaimers that automatically protects users with warnings that this is not a substitute for professional advice on delicate matters and that users should consult professionals on delicate matters as in mental illnesses and or physical illnesses and disease. I'm not sure what people expect from public forums; but to me, it's not a place to express authority or to showcase that one knows everything that they speak on to be the absolute case nor does anyone have to be certain that what they're saying is totally and absolutely void of any falsehood and doesn't need to be fact-checked since we're all expected to have authority and any advice given needs to come from you if it's reputable and known to be true. That's a lot of responsibility expected for a casual place like a public forum. No one claims authority and advice given should be used with discretion.

You go away and come back with a vengeance while the rest of us are here keep on keeping on with no worries. Why even bother come back to stir up shit and you say my post count is egoic. I forgot I even had a post count because my attention isn't on post counts here but content. What's being said and being posted, not some dead figure that started from 2020. You're just mad because there's but so much Sadhguru content you can post here before seeming like some neurotic, psychopathic, delusional idol worshipper and Sad isn't producing enough new content for you to brag about and share. Maybe share him and start idolizing Osho too to break it up a bit, maybe some moojii while you're at it. Maybe they'll enlighten you since Sad didn't do a good job at it but only raking in the doe from his worshippers.

I could have bet a million dollars you were going to comment on my post count and told me I was one of the worst. Lol. So predictable. No one here and blah blah. I could have responded on my own comment for you and saved you the time and energy. Same shit, different day. You'd also make a bad lawyer if ego gratification was an offense if you based it off of post count. You probably use that to count comments and responses but can't see beyond your limited self that post counts count for more than that. "No point in doing that", you say, but you seek enlightenment. There's no point to anything. This is a pointless, timeless, boundless, meaningless, whatever else less infinite unlimited existence/reality or whatever the hell it is. Maybe start from there and now you can relax and play because there is no point and that's freedom. You seek enlightenment - maybe first free yourself from the bondage of trying to see a point to this, expecting this to be a certain way, seeing conditions to enlightenment and stop taking this forum and it's members so seriously and lighten up a bit. You say there's no point in me saying there's no one, what's the point of your post and where is the benefit and value. None. Show me the point in this. There's none. There doesn't have to be a point for this to appear. Your ego needs for there to be a point because it seeks. It's so delicate and just about ready for annihilation but it hangs on looking for points, reasons and purposes. There's none. So go make your own points and go look for enlightenment elsewhere because this forum won't and can't give it to you because there are no points to this. Points are limitations and this isn't limited to be needing a point, only your neurotic ego and self-serving agendas.

Another "it is your fault why I've gotten nowhere" post. I'm not sure what's expected for a forum. One has to write, comment, talk, respond, post here in order to interact. That's what a forum is. You go away for a while and come back nickpicking this place; it's a habit. Couldn't find what you were looking for and now, let's try the forum again but they're going to have to buckle up and get serious so I can perhaps see some results of my own. Maybe if some of you get off and not post so much and do the work, you'll be able to start posting stuff that I may use to help enlighten me. As of now, I don't see anyone for the job. Sadghuru didn't do the job but I'm hoping some of the brighter folks here may be able to. Let's put Leo in the mix. Let's rate....he's 99.999999% more enlightened than us guys but he's feeding off of us too and using words like "our own enlightenment" - delusion. delusion. The arrogance of wanting to own everything including some fictitious endeavor called enlightenment has got to be at the top of neurosis list. Saying enlightened people laugh more, watch and listen more is ego trying to label and categorize reality into it's little box of blissful thinking. Denying their opposites as also what this is and framing it how it sees the ideal reality and not what actually is the case. Being talkative and restless are just as much what this is as being silent and peaceful. It's all encompassing and you speak of enlightenment. You have no clue what enlightenment is and that's why you seek it and are like fish in water and cannot recognize that it's all done and enlightenment isn't a thing that someone owns.

Street food is very popular amongst a lot of cultures. This thread will showcase a variety of street foods from all over the world and show the different variety of foods these cultures prepare right on the streets in their hometown. Feel free to share your favorites.

It's not so much that men get along with women more when they treat them like kids or speak to them like a third-grader, it's that men get intimidated by smart women so having this kind of rapport puts them, the men, in a safe place where she responds back playfully and not show her intellectual side if she's a smart woman. That's what makes him feel bonded and not bring up feelings of insecurity. Meet her at a level I'm comfortable challenging and doesn't have to compete with. Women are responders; so she's responding to the playfulness, and the playfulness in the situation speaks for itself and does the work all on it's own.

This shit is getting worse, lol.

Lol, it kinda made it more complicated, but I do understand what you're saying.

Yes, I understand that. It's a belief regardless if true or not. All -isms are.

New insight for me. Never view solipsism in this way. I pretty much understood all you were saying in your statements. Most, if not all. This quote right here, though, made me view solipsism in a different light. As I speak about in my journal how everything is complete in and in of itself, even incompleteness, I just realized how solipsism has to be the case. The problem lies in it's interpretation. Sone see it as one person being alone, others are non-existent or NPC's or whatever. No, the person is total, whether or not they believe they're a real person/individual/separate or not. Is this what you're saying about solipsism in your view, or am I interpreting your meaning differently from how you intended it?

Every man needs to hear this? Some men are out there searching for women to abuse them. They even go as far as to pay women to do so. They get a kick out of it. It turns them on. On the flip side, there are men out there who discard women who aren't mean enough. Don't treat them like shit enough. Don't think these men aren't your next door neighbors and blend right into society. Some are even CEO's, doctors and lawyers and everywhere in between. Personally, I had a male client who was a lawyer. He was a very aggressive, confident man who knew his job and was well respected in his field. He even appeared on TV representing murderers and high-profile cases in the community (not nationwide). He would want me to, as soon as he entered the door, to start treating him like a piece of shit. Put him on all fours and have him bark like a dog. Not just that, as that's kind of a role-play but when I first was introduced to him I neglected him and told him I wasn't interested and spoke to him in a condescending manner because he was going against my standards and what I used to decide if I wanted to have you as a client or not. He would keep calling and wouldn't provide the necessary things I used as verification and so on. I didn't know who he was at the time, but the meaner I got was the more he persisted. I finally gave in and gave him a chance, and I was just wrong in my assessment about him. Meaning, he was legit and serious. I thought he was a prank call. It seemed, though, that the meaner I got was the more he wanted to see me. Anyway, he got off on me role playing to treat him like a little bitch and a slave and like an animal. I didn't do it as harsh as he wanted as I'm not a mistress and I remember him telling me next time to be a bit more aggressive and to make sure it happened as soon as we saw each other. No one knew he was like that outside. It was discretion assured. He wasn't the only one. I also had a guy who I never really got to meet because, according to him, in the pretalk interview, i wasn't mean enough. Another wanted to be my "slave" and wanted to give me his whole paycheck to treat him as such. These were men who had regular jobs, children, friends and lived a normal life. Girls like us would see the other side of society. Other side of "normal" men's fantasies. They saught me out. It wasn't my thing, but as I am in the field, I know how to be what they wanted, somewhat. My interactions were very mild, as there are real dominatrixes out there and even just regular women who live this way. I know you'll say, this is work stuff and paid clients, but it makes no difference, a lot aren't, and are regular relationships. They found the perfect gf for this so they don't have to go out and pay for it. That man in the video with the girl screaming about her chair reminded me of some of these guys. He was loving her screaming at him like that and she knew it. She didn't care because that's how she's always been with him and held still with her. Some guys even will get bored with a loving, kind woman and leave her for an abusive "bitch". All that said, yes, women can be abusive and those men I spoke of probably have trauma or are dysfunctional in some way. Besides the point. Vice versa, some women love that a man abuses them; they'll say it's because he loves me. Not saying it's right and I'm excusing any of these cases, but think about that when showing examples.

The body seems to still go through transformations in deep sleep. Night sweats, Rapid eye movement, trembling, wet dreams, etc. No one need be present for the body to do it's thing whether deep sleep or awake.

The sense of self doesn't realize it isn't real. No amount of do this or do that in spirituality is of any use or any good. It appears to happen. Teachers, mystics, sages, gurus, etc, all there. Students, all there. All empty and void of any meaning. No value but only to the non-existent separate self. Nothing wrong with any of it, but there's no being more fortunate or less fortunate because there's not a separate entity there for that to be happening to. Oprah is no more richer than I am. There is no Oprah and there is no I. That's all illusory and the dream. Now, do I perceive it differently, of course. I wish I had Oprah's money, but that's life wishing that and life saying that. The sense of separation will feel differently and perceive differently, it can't help it even if we change tge context and put another story in it's place. I'm not over here saying all is well and nothing needs to be different and how I'm the same as Oprah and blah blah, of course not. That's meaning and purpose involved and arises in the self. No one can stop that. No one can apply nonduality and no one can see or experience the Absolute perfection that is already. How can that be. Impossible. Why? Because that's also Absolute perfection. Sadness is absolute perfection, trying to apply nonduality is absolute, it's all absolute. There is no escaping this. Your suffering is absolute. Your wanting to escape suffering is absolute. It's all encompassing. Anyone telling you about God is Absolute. Whatever they're saying is Absolute. Agreeing or disagreeing is absolute. Saying there's nothing to do then, is Absolute, not saying that isn't absolute because not doesn't exist. Show me something that's not. Absence is all there is. Once it's shown, it's no longer. How? Why? Nothing known exists because absence is Absolute being present. How? Knowing isn't a collapse, it's subject/object related and both are dual and suggests separation. This is why nothing is really happening and NOTHING is all there is. That's the freedom and liberation that's being saught, but not really, as that's also not really happening. It's a fucking paradox and a mindfuck but not really because there's really no mind. Nothing is being mind which cancels itself out as in collapses into nothing.

Everything is flowing smoothly. Suffering is going smoothly, murder is going smoothly, disagreements is going smoothly, fights going smoothly, hurricanes going smoothly, doubts, malice, hatred, kindness, discrepancies, joy, happiness, somewhat happy is going smoothly, somewhat sad is going smoothly, that cut on the hand is nicely placed there, do you see a cut on the hand trying to be a cut on the foot. That bleeding body is flowing smoothly. Never seen a bleeding body not be a bleeding body. It's all perfect and complete and whole. Being poor is going nicely, rich, not so poor, not so rich all in itself complete. Whatever it is completeness. In between is being in between with no effort. Trying to fix oneself is going nicely. Are you struggling to try and fix yourself, no it's glowing smoothly and perfectly. No results is perfectly being implemented. Results is flowing smoothly. Corruption has no problems being corruption. I don't see corruption trying to be something else. Perceptions are nicely being implemented, whatever they are. Everything is whole and complete in and in of itself. That car accident went smoothly. I am yet to see a car accident that's not a car accident. Point is, everything is perfect, there's nothing that can be fixed and it's all Absolute. Duality is an illusion and it's not really happening. It's being perceived as happening and is also Absolutely non dually happening and also Absolutely everything. All perceived separation is illusory and even that is Absolutely perfect. The problem arises when that sense arises and says there's a problem. That's also Absolute perfection. There's nothing but freedom, liberation and Absolute perfection. Even the notion that it isn't so is Absolute perfection. BUT FOR NO ONE. That's the tragedy and that's all perfection. Ever seen a tragedy not be a tragedy. Life is not for anyone. If it were it wouldn't be unconditional, perfect, liberation and freedom.