Gesundheit

Step 1: You sit down with the thought. Step 2: You endure the pain until it's gone. Step 3: You don't go back to the old habits ever again.

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LMFAO! Is this even real?! ????? Credit to this video for featuring the song: Modern Egyptian Muslims reacting to homosexuality.

I am devoid of all humanness, and I don't even care. New features: Acute awareness of paradigms. All new information are now filtered and put in a category on the fly. Acute awareness of the deceptive and evil nature of humans. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

If the mind is a maze; psychedelics, then, must be trampolines inside the maze. You can jump and take a brief look at the maze from above, but you're still inside of it. The only way out is by hacking your way through the hedgerows or breaking down the walls with a hammer. Contemplation.

Could be a self-esteem problem.

Let's just accept the fact that there are good people and bad people in this world.

Nice circular logic and infinite regress.

Mind and soul are one. You are creating an imaginary distinction for certain thoughts and label all the thoughts within that distinction "mind/ego/I". And then you contrast that thought complex with another thought complex, which you label "soul/God/whatever".

Actually, it is a lie. The reason why someone would even try to communicate truth is because they're lying to themselves about the fact that it doesn't really matter. It matters to them for whatever reasons, so they talk about it. Plus, truth cannot be recognized through logic. It is realized through intuition, such as metaphor and analogy. So the content is almost always a red herring. The context carries the message. And people always focus on the content. This makes language an extremely poor medium for transferring truth. And so here we are.

Cause and effect = materialism Grace = the opposite of materialism (and not even idealism)

This may seem like a strong point at first, but look at it closely. Most of what we have is literally bla bla bla without THIS. Take mathematics for example, it's all bla bla bla without any THIS to it. Completely abstract. How do you explain that through your paradigm? Now you will say that the THIS you're referring to is consciousness/direct experience/being/God or whatever, not the silly things I'm talking about. But what do you know before your birth and after your death? Was consciousness there and will it still be there? And how do you know? I thought I didn't exist and choice was illusory.

@Keyhole Yup, that would be better

Since the map is not the territory, anything said about the territory is technically practically a lie. So the moment anyone opens their mouths, they're already committing falsehood, because the mind confuses the map and the territory all the time. From that, I have concluded for myself that silence is the only way to be truly truthful, and that thinking is the only way to be deluded. If you stop talking and thinking, all dualities will vanish. And by definition, lies are nothing but a duality. Truth is one, a lie is two. Also, keep in mind that making judgements about lies is also a lie because judgement is duality. So demonizing lies won't work.

@Leo Gura I mean you make it sound like awakening is somehow a materialistic possession that we can acquire through certain methods. But I've heard it a couple of times from different teachers that there are no real methods for awakening. You either get it by grace, or you don't. What do you think about that? Doesn't creation require a certain amount of talent?

That was an unusual response from you, so, ummm, I guess, LMAO?

The problem with abstract concepts is that they can be argued upon for eternity even by the same one person. The mind is a maze, and language are its walls. If you want to break out of the maze, break down the walls

It's much simpler than you think. Whatever you think about reality, is already false. Your thoughts are the only limitation you can impose upon reality. If reality can be this way, what could prevent it from being any other way?

@Leo Gura Your views on awakening here sound very materialistic.

I, sure, will. It was nice to not be expected to be a grown-up just for once, and at the same time you did not take away from my dignity when you offered help. That's a rare skill that I keep trying to develop myself. It's by all means nurturing. I already feel reconciliation with myself and others. Thanks ????

The awake can pretend to be sleeping, but it does not work the other way around.

Well, you are telling the truth, so you already have it. And the truth is that you want happiness. How could that be wrong?

I personally hate it when someone tries to paint himself as superior and others as inferior without actually having any substance. In this case, the guy came in here and started making noise and drawing attention to himself. When I came close, I did not see someone trying to offer anything to anyone. All he was doing is just telling everyone here that they are donkeys and that he's a human, and that humans are superior to donkeys. This is problematic for me because it's condescending. If you want to be treated well, treat others well. I did not come here expecting people to be my teachers, although I like to be a student of a peer student, a friend who does not give me arrogant and condescending vibes. In the main site, it says that this is a place for like-minded people. To me, that means I should be expecting peers who are willing to be talking to me at my level, regardless of their or my actual level. Otherwise, it's just condescending and won't be fruitful. So this place becomes useless or just a playground for egomaniacs, which beats its original purpose.

What if the ultimate reality is something else entirely than this "thingness" they told you about? Why are you so sure that realizing existence is the end? It's just the beginning. Do you think that God is not capable of creating such a perfect illusion? An illusion where you think: "That must be it!", but somehow turns out not to be it. You think you beat the game, but the reality is that the game got you beat. Why am I saying this? Because there are questions that are yet to be answered. Once all the questions are answered, I will come up with more skepticism. If I fail to do that, I will doubt my skepticism, not give it up. Either way, I will not let the mind think that it got it figured out. Kinda, but not really. I like to play around with different perspectives to poke around at those who are attached to one particular perspective. And it always pays off.

So, is it one infinity? Or infinite infinities?