Tim R

It's too easy on a forum such as this one to ask a question and "get an answer". But if you're being honest, what answer have you ever really gotten here? Be honest. To some questions, you will never, ever get an answer - except from yourself. "Meditation, Consicousness, Enlightenment, Spirituality" As of today, there are 391,653 posts in that sub forum, more than in all other Main Discussions combined!!! Makes you wonder, how justified are those close to 392K posts really? How many questions were truly answered? Because hey, unless it's a trip report or some awakening story, this sub forum consists almost entirely of questions and resulting discussions (which ofc is not necessarily a problem, given that this a forum). ...and you all know which type of questions are most popular around here. And how incessantly people love to discuss Solipsism or some other bugbear that isn't grounded in direct experience. This post was inspired by my desire to change my relationship to asking questions & giving answers, and I hope this could inspire something similar in yourself. Love, Tim?

How to do grounding work, with examples

"All is one" can be a belief. But it is possible to become directly aware of the oneness of existence, at which point it is no longer a belief, but recognized to be reality. Being is one, which is to say that there is one existence, which is everything. It's really not as woo-woo as people think. Within existence, things appear to be different from each other and not one, but this illusory and can be recognized as that. Saying that everything is one doesn't mean that everything will blur into everything else, into some kind of homogenous goo in which all boundaries and distinctions melt into each other, that is not at all what is meant by "oneness", even though people tend to have this sort of image in their head when hearing that all is supposedly one.

Seems kinda obvious to me that if one thinks about sex all the time, one won't be able to properly focus on... anything? How so? Well, the sex drive is pretty damn powerful and will easily overpower your rational decision making, once it is strong enough. Hornyness should be a temporary thing though.

By meditation, I don't just mean sitting meditation, it can be any other form, walking, lying, eating, whatever. The poll is anonymously.

Nice

Wait I thought it was like this: ? Not even the colors changed? Like more warm and vibrant?

Honestly!! You've hidden your intentions from her, which is what got you into this mess in the first place (I'm not saying it was wrong of you to be professional in the beginning) Don't expect her to know what you're up to. If she likes you, she might. give you another chance, but you must understand that she is giving you another chance, so it's up to you to make the best of it.

You can copy your post and repost it in the mega thread, and afterwards use the "hide" function at the bottom of your post (click on "options") to make this post invisible. But you can keep it here too if you want, that's fine too

@Beneficarus Welcome to the forum!?? Thank you for your trip report, that was interesting to read. Pretty solid for a first trip, gotta say. Didn't think 1g liberty caps would produce a trip with an entity, I mean I know they are slightly more potent than cubensis, but I didn't think they were that potent?.. Maybe you're also a bit more sensitive to mushrooms, who knows. If the entity was made of Love and fecundated you with Love, then it would make perfect sense that you will one day become a giver of Love. For to become a giver of Love, we have to receive Love first, if that's what we need. Because one who is in need of Love can't radiate much Love.

Sounds like she was confused (which is why she didn't immediately stop making outand) a bit overwhelmed (which is why she eventually stopped making out). She didn't know you were into her that much, because you didn't show her that you were attracted to her decisively enough. Is there some past experience with women where you got rejected because you were insecure about showing your feelings towards her?

@Opo I hope your being sarcastic and tasteless, at best... Better think again what you've just written.

Where else would it come from?

Hahaha that's my new word for Solipsism thank you??

I would say both statements are true. The "7 billion leaves" are the one tree. There are no "7 billion leaves". The leaves and the tree aren't any different from each other, is what I'm trying to say. Solipsism, as well as the belief that there are 7 billion individual bubbles of consciousness (including "your" bubble), are both only aware of the leaf, not the tree. But, once there is realization / recognition of the tree, and yourself as the tree instead of the "the leaf", the leaves are gone. Only the tree remains. And nothing has changed.

Wether it's money for personal expenditure or not makes no difference whatsoever, lol. And yes, Jeff Bezos has recently demonstrated very well how it can be used for personal expenditure and building penis shaped rockets to fly into space for absolutely no good f*cking reason. Not to mention that poor people and the middle class get the shit taxed out of them, and that is also "capital allocation". His argument that the government wastes money doesn't only apply to billionaires, it also applies to the lower and middle class, but of course he skews it into making it look like it's worse to waste a billionaire's money than the money from the lower and middle class... Actually it's even worse to waste Joe Schmoe's money because it is so much less but in relative terms, so much more for Joe Schmoe. It's so pathetic how billionaires whine about getting taxed, it's the most insane thing.

@SQAAD Is there one tree or 7 billion leaves?

You're asking for something that doesn't exist.. You're also assuming a whole lot here... "5 seconds ago", "an event", "how", "changing contrasts".

@Someone here It's the desire for stimulation and once again, a discontentment with and non-acceptance of what is. Interestingly though, during the practice of meditation (if that's the way we want to look at meditation) boredom isn't (necessarily) a problem, despite the "lack of stimulation". So it's not primarily about the stimulation or lack thereof, but about the dissatisfaction with what is - in a context of a perceived "lack of stimulation".

Basically, yes. But I think there is a good reason why the Buddha devised D.O. the way he did. Just saying "anything = everything" might be true, but not necessarily a very good pointer, don't you think?

Preach!? There's a beautiful, beautiful symbol in Buddhism to describe this kind of interconnectedness, "Indra's Net" Everything exists by virtue of the existence of everything "else".

Are you sure about that? Because the Truth is, your nature is Happiness.

@Terell Kirby Guess the confusion was about this "happy".

The root of Dukkha is a house of cards.