Gesundheit

@electroBeam Dude you're highly delusional. Try staying away from drugs for a few months. This should make you wonder if love is truly the deepest awakening, or if there's something else deeper than love. You can already see that love doesn't hold water. Are you brave enough to let it go and move past it?

Is enlightment really that important? I am more enlightened than you and Frank and Leo could ever be. Happy?

Sorry I wasn't helpful. Good luck.

@Vision It depends on how we define enlightenment and how we define its relationship with survival and society. A Zen-devil is technically someone who does not understand Zen properly but nevertheless does things on the basis that he understands Zen fully. He does "evil" things in the name of Zen, and so the term is coined because of that. If he does "good" good things in the name of Zen, nobody will see his misunderstandings or call him a devil, but they will praise him and Zen altogether. Dogmatism, sexism, racism, homophobia, stage Blue, Spiral Dynamics, etc... are all survival-related things. Depending on the environment and the person, these things can change. They have nothing to do with enlightenment per se, even though they somehow get affected by it, both directly and indirectly, whether positively or negatively. Although, it also all depends on how we define enlightenment. Some definitions leave no room for such things to exist, but they also leave no room for enlightened people to exist. Some more human-friendly definitions suggest that we can integrate enlightenment into our lives.

@Forestluv I was trying to be playful but oh well. Anyway, I don't wish you anything.

What are the main objectives? Like the list of goals in specific. Maybe you need to lure in people who share similar goals. Because winning and success sound very generic.

What do you mean by higher self? Is it a feeling? A state of being? What is it?

There's no difference. It's inevitable.

@Kimasxi Stop hanging around that person. He's toxic to you, even if it's unintentional, but it's still the case for you. The easy solution is to let go and cut him out of your life for good until you forget about him and find someone else who is more into you. It's not that you fear loving him. It's that you're attached to his approval of you, which shows the lack of self-worth that you suffer from. So you can work on loving yourself as you are and have a healthy relationship with your self-image, but most people find it difficult. If you can do it, then great because it's the best solution.

Tru dat lol ?

-minded? Yes, it seems so ?? I am not talking about being locked inside constructs on an intellectual level. I can't lecture you on that. I take lectures from you. But that's not what I'm talking about. I am talking about a different level of viewing constructs, actuality/awareness level maybe. And it seems like you're missing some components. I am trying to point out these missing components, and you're dismissing them as sand. Of course they're sand, but you aren't seeing the difference. Silly game? Hell no. Consider the duality of expansion vs. contraction, that's one dynamic. There's another opposing dynamic (so to speak) that you seem to be missing. You seem to value expansion, and that's cool. Yet, is limiting in certain ways. Contemplate how exactly is seeking expansion limiting? What am I missing out on when I am seeking to expand? What is the relationship between expansion and truth? What does expansion refer to exactly? Is it purely intellectual? Or does it have other components? Etc...

Nope. If you had to choose one word for "everything outside the sand castle of course!!", what would it be? One word. Just one. I am not referring to the part vs. whole duality here. I'm referring to something else. The duality of (expansion vs. contraction) vs. (something else). What is that something else?

It doesn't seem like that. It seems like you're identified with that one construct. Tell me; what lies outside the expansion vs. contraction construct?

I am creating? I was talking about truth. You brought up profundity. Notice also, within the construct you are creating of “expansion” and “limitation” - yes, that is true. Yet the construct would be a limitation.

I don't understand. What does that mean?

Profundity is the delusion because it comes from the ego.

In this context, “sober” correlates with stage Orange thinking, and “psychedelic” more with Green, I think. From an ego-mind's pov, it makes perfect sense to create that distinction cuz it's not looking for truth but rather to re-enforce itself, and blurring that distinction would be very threatening. When it comes to truth, the distinction itself is not important but the insights are important. Are the insights true or delusional? It does not matter if you're sober and delusional or psychedelic and not delusional. Your insights are what matters. But generally, and more often than not, psychedelic users are delusional to high degrees. Or aren't they?

It's turtles all the way down...

The proof is God.

I found out yesterday that my last girlfriend; the one, the only one whom I truly loved, is now back to her sober mind after experiencing a psychotic episode a few months ago. And now she's starting university and everything seems okay. I wonder what happened. She didn't contact me. I opened her Facebook profile and saw the news. I know that I am being a little bit of a stalker, but hey, that's the love of my life we're talking about. The moment I found out; I was shocked and my body started shivering not sure why. I somehow felt betrayed, but at the same time was glad to know she's fine. The only thing that made me feel better is that she wrote in her bio: "I'm just a story", which had been in my Facebook bio during our relationship, and which was kinda my motto. Now my Facebook bio is: "Done", which means I'm done with everything, including her. I don't know what she is thinking, but why didn't she contact me? During my retreat, I meditated, and some emotions started bubbling up, so I picked up my phone and called her number. She picked up and said hello, and I did not reply. She said hello for a minute or so and then asked who's there? I still did not reply. Then she hung up. At that moment, I decided to delete her number and move on. But somehow something is still there. When she was psychotic, she called me and did not recognize who I was. It broke my heart. I felt the weirdest nihilistic loneliness in my life. Just the thought that your loved one is here with you but at the same time is not. So sad. Another thing happened to me when I knew she was back is that my perception of life and how to go about it did change for a few hours. Suddenly I knew what I should be doing and it all made sense, then I took a walk at night, meditated, listened to some sad music, cried a little (strange, I used to cry a lot more), and then returned back to normal perception. Right now I'm not sure about my emotions towards her, and I'm not sure what she wants by choosing to type that bio. If she's thinking that I'm gonna talk to her, then she's dreaming. Not because I don't want her. But because I don't want anyone anymore. I am really done. I can't afford getting hurt like that again. I put all my trust in God and her, and both betrayed me and left me alone, even though nothing was personal or even in her control. Besides, my financial situation is shit and it's not gonna get any better regardless of what I work. The main problem we broke up was her parents. She comes from a Christian family, and I come from a Muslim family. This one difference was their biggest "concern", or so they claimed. I told them that I don't care about religion and that I would gladly change it if they were to accept our relationship. They said that there will be remnants of Islam within me and that both families won't get along. But that's not how it actually works. It's all just about money. I know several cases where Christians give their daughters to Muslim families. They all agree if, and only if, the Muslim family is rich. All of their values and principles and beliefs suddenly vanish when money knocks on their door. Money does not even need to knock, it doesn't ask for agreement, it breaks the door and takes whatever it wants. It's a well-known, the most well-known fact. I used to have a Christian female friend who used to be married to a rich Muslim family but is now divorced. She told me everything. Her husband used to beat her up until she's bleeding, but she had to suck it up for 9 years until she could not take it anymore. She has three little children and all are girls. Now she rarely gets to see them. And her parents hate her because she got a divorce. It's just so sad. So, anyway, as I was saying, the key to her parents heart is money, which I don't have. So it's a dead end. I don't want to have high hopes and be wishful or make any unrealistic promises that I can't fulfil. The reality is that we can't be together. And unless things change, I will not make a move. Even if she does contact me, I will reject. It won't work. In the meantime, I will work on overcoming my attachment to her. And I'll try to not care whether she's still attached to me or not. Because that's her problem, not mine. I will not allow myself to hurt myself again, ever.

Seriously consider that they're the ones that got it right and that you were deluded all along, i.e. let go of your perspective.

In Arabic; God translates as "Ilah". Ilah means the objective/absolute that all things revolve around, and it is derived from the source verb (origin) "aliha". Aliha means got high/lost/confused in the wondrous presence of the absolute. (It's hard to find the most accurate translation).

He created 5-MeO-DMT and then plugged it up his ass?

Life is inherently meaningless, and so it can take whatever meanings we project on and assign to it. Dissatisfaction is simply an antonym of acceptance, and a synonym for rejection.

@r0ckyreed Just a little reminder; love is an illusion and a sign of delusion. Regardless of how you arrive at it, you're still not enlightened yet.