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Wonderful trying to describe what cannot be described. Every religion has the opportunity to become the best in the world, but most people forget the spiritual part within each, and choose to take pleasure in the egoic parts of it.

And of course, there's the mother of all ignorance, that pleasure is good for everyone since it makes people look happy.

Here's an example for a good thought and a bad thought for the example given: 1. A director directs a horror movie with the intention to entertain the audience by giving them doses of fear and good creativity. It might be a good intention. 2. A director directs a horror movie with zero creativity and full of violence, simply because it is cheap and easy and generates good amount of 🤑. Both these cases are just examples, and yes there are shades of grey and not white and black. Ignorance too plays a role, a director may very well know extreme violence will affect the mentality, but his desire to entertain may overcome his rationality.

No, even if you sit and think for hundred years with great detail, you won't be able to match the intelligence with which the universe imagines the world, and hence you won't create the suffering simply by imagining. That doesn't mean your thoughts, especially with a strong intention or desire won't affect your world. They function within certain karmic rules which I have no idea about, and can make things happen within those rules. They can't create something new, they can only modify the existing universe, well within the physical laws that we observe. For eg, your thoughts can't create an entity that defies gravity. And of course, if your intention is selfless and goodhearted, the universe will support you, otherwise you may be in for a good lesson at the end, despite your thoughts becoming reality.

Don't believe that you are creating this. A better belief would be that the universe is creating this for you. Feeling responsible is a good thing, but you don't have to feel responsible for affecting others randomly on things you don't understand, because everybody's karma can be intricately balanced at the same time.

Synchronicities exist, but they can exist in two forms: 1. Real 2. Delusional Both of them are common

Right, I believe the imbalance in reality produces diverse experiences, and the balance keeps the horror part of it justifiable for the ego.

No need to fear this world, for nothing is permanent and everything is balanced. The entities are there to create the balance, and is a manifestation of the universe and not separate. In Hindu philosophy, the entity is worshipped as Shani, the god of karma. If that entity is disturbing you and causing you immense suffering, it's time to rejoice, as it's destroying your karma very fast, which in turn means good days are coming.

The same what we call here as higher and lower conscious states.

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Thanks for sharing your answer. Yeah, red apple sounds artificial indeed. I think it can simultaneously be a spiritual and an off topic question. Spiritual if you like to think too much because of your curiosity,and off topic maybe if you just love to live in the moment.

Great, thank you for sharing!

You don't have to be terrified, but every activity of yours will get balanced. I don't know if you should be terrified of that. Fear can be useful, you should be terrified if you commit a selfish crime, as it will prevent you further from committing the crime, and hence prevent the balancing act which many popularly call as suffering.

The awakening experience of course, the one where you feel in union, is devoid of all experiences. I don't know if it can be termed materialistic, since it means shutting down most of your brain activity.

Synchronicities can be a part of the materialistic world. The interconnectedness might be observed by science if they dig deeper and deeper. The universe seems to follow certain laws, and spiritual phenomenon also follows certain patterns. We shouldn't assume materialism is something we already know of, even science knows very less about the intricate connections within the universe. But I agree that most of the scientific people are still closed minded compared to the spiritual ones.

Can you explain more in detail about the telepathy experiences? I haven't heard much about them, although I'm familiar with synchronicities.

Yes, looks like many here has expanded/ dissolved their ego and awakened to infinity and bliss closing their senses, but is it possible to maintain that same state in our day to day life, while doing everyday activities? What about when you interact with others or where you have to make choices? Can you maintain that blissful state while doing so?

The most hidden of all egoes for someone on the Spiritual path, the spiritual ego. The ego that believes being spiritual makes me special and intelligent, makes me a powerful god, makes me a good teacher etc. cannot become spiritual. One of the most important aspect of being spiritual is to remove the ego 'e' from believe and just be and live.

Thank you! Many of your posts made me think a lot from multiple perspectives. It feels wonderful to decode what many people try to say here using complex ideas and words, and yours is one of the toughest to crack! I feel grateful as well to all forum members and the forum itself, for giving the opportunity to share our knowledge, learn new stuff, and of course, having fun !

Shortcuts do lead to the blissful part, but it can have repercussions since it needs to get balanced.

When you are in such high states of bliss, would you even get tired of life? True, I believe that's called acceptance and some call it enlightenment as well. But, for such a state to be called as enlightenment, you should be fluid in going back to higher states if you've gone deep into a lower state of consciousness once again. Free will, maybe?

It's a perpetual cycle, if you desire to be free from suffering, you'll have suffering resulting from such a desire. But yes, you can desire to be free from suffering, a desire strong enough as such can stop your worries about suffering, and come into acceptance with that. You'll not volunteering chase suffering, but you wouldn't care much even if it occurs.

You have touched the point that popped up in my mind. I assume what you are saying is to let the action be performed subconsciously and show no reaction or resistance to it. What could being such a passive observer lead to? Will the driver be an intuitive universe or a simple habitual subconscious mind performing same actions repeatedly, like the heart beat?

I agree that there's the possibility for neutrality be the natural state. But while being mindful, I am focusing on the present, making my mind free of thoughts, which itself is a tremendous activity. Can such an activity be brought to such extremes that it results in extreme bliss? Or in other words, can mindfulness with senses active and actions present be a substitute for meditation where senses are closed and actions inactive, which results in a state of absolute bliss ( or atleast whatever the state of absolute is perceived to be) during meditation? Not interested myself in being that blissful all the times though, just curious whether it's a possibility.

Yes, let's assume it's the default state of being. Then, it shouldn't be relative, it has to be absolute, which is extreme bliss. Can you maintain that in your everyday life, maybe after finding out what I'm doing wrong in my everyday life? Or could it be achieved only after closing all your thoughts and sensations? I agree that there are degrees, but can you maintain all the time something closer to the highest degree, even after getting out of meditation or awakening states? Im happy to be at scale 0 most of the time, but can the intensity of experience at the present get so high that a state close to ecstacy is always maintained in everyday life? And.also , can meditators stay in the state of bliss/ ecstasy closing their eyes all the time? Glad that you're able to overcome your difficult times!