Tim R

You say it as though "not letting yourself get exploited" is somehow the opposite of loving yourself... Loving yourself is not letting others exploit you. Being selfless is saying "no" to yourself or others when it is necessary to do so..

Why would you even want to eliminate your sexual desires?? No Fap doesn't do very much, at least after a certain time. All it does is raising your testosterone levels within the first few days and after around 1 week they return back to normal No Fap is about masturbation, not sex

Lol he doesn't even have children

But why does a dream need anchors? When I dream in sleep and something seriously weird happens, most of the time I don't even question the logical or metaphysical validity of what happened. Why then should this dream have to be convincing? Why set up "explanations" like brains and earths and whatnot?

I think the brain functions as some sort of mechanism/method for (re-)arranging the contents within consciousness. If we think of consciousness as something like a mirror which has no qualities on its own and is therefore able to contain/create every possible quality, the brain would be something like a grid / lens / prism which "overlays" itself on the mirror without changing anything about the mirror itself, but enables consciousness / the mirror to look at all the content in different ways. Which is of course how psychedelics / neurotransmitters work, they "unlock" different functions / structures of the brain, i. e. rearrange/change the grid / lens / prism and thereby change they content of consciousness. Taking psychedelics doesn't change consciousness itself, it only changes the contents. Consciousness is absolutely and completely untouchable. Imagine this mirror would exude white light to create a visual domain of being. The brain would be like a very, very complicated prism, which doesn't fundamentally change anything about the white light itself, but simply rearranges it in an extremely complicated way. And yet, all of it, including the brain, is an illusion. You could say the brain is that which creates the illusion in the first place. And since the nature of illusions is illusory in and of itself, the brain creates itself. Therefore of course, it was never even real. The prism is the mirror. The white light, pretending to be a prism. Maya is Brahman, but Brahman is not Maya.

I am much, much more than only that. The question of "are you a biological machine" assumes that "I" = body. And yes, I am the body, but I'm a lot more.

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence. The bliss of growth, The glory of action, The splendour of achievement Are but experiences of time. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision. And today well-lived, makes Yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well then to this day Such is the salutation to the dawn! Kalidasa

It's not really only a materialist approach to Tolle, but a stage Orange approach in general. He doesn't understand the first thing about what Tolle teaches. Especially as a "mental health counselor" he should know better how valuable Tolle's teachings can be to some people. I gotta say, I don't like this Todd Grande. The whole concept of his channel is based on nothing but judging people and project his own views on them, which is just shallow. He derives his authority from pop psychology (mind you; he's not a psychologist) and a PhD in his title, which gives the impression that he's a clinical psychologist or something like that. Oh god just wait until he finds out about Leo??

Nihilism is what I would call a "pseudo-philosophy". Because if you draw the final nihilistic conclusion you'll find that nihilism itself doesn't matter. This is what Leo calls "going full circle". So one must be very careful when flirting with Nihilism, because if you're going to be a nihilist, you must push through all the way, otherwise you're going to be stuck in a dreadful, meaningless, dead universe devoid of any meaning - which isn't a problem per se, the real problem here is the mind, because the mind craves for meaning like mad. The mind is a meaning-generating machine which after having constructed meaning, denies having done so. So what happens when you have pushed through nihilism? Where are you after having gone full circle with this philosophy? In Daoism, the universe / nature / the Dao is regarded to be "purposeless". One of the great Daoist sages was a man by the name of "Zhuangzi". And Zhuangzi was exemplary in embodying the idea of "purposelessness". I've just finished reading a book, "Sayings and parables of Zhuangzi", which contains a story about a crooked tree. Huizi said to Zhuangzi: “This old tree is so crooked and rough that it is useless for lumber. In the same way, your teachings have no practical use.” Zhuangzi replied: “This tree may be useless as lumber, but you could rest in the gentle shade of its big branches or admire its rustic character. It only seems useless to you because you want to turn it into something else and don't know how to appreciate it for what it is. My teachings are like this.” Nihilism is only a problem when you looking for meaning and purpose in the world. You've created the problem. Become like Zhuangzi and see the universe for how it is: purposeless. And then enjoy it

Those lyrics are so good. Paired with a dope beat... damn I like this song

Wow, I've never thought about it in that way... good stuff

If you're bored, don't run away from it. Let it function as the void from which ideas can spring.

@isabel My first instinct would be to tell you that the ego is a thought, attachment, i.e. identification. But I feel that this is already saying too much. The ego is not even a thought

@Fadl Lol you're going to absolutely crush me, I'm at around 1000 I have never learned any tactics or openings or whatever, so...

@Fadl For real? Damn.

@TheAlchemist Oh god I have that too... I hate it, especially when I'm trying to sleep. But I think it's correlated to how much stress you have.

It seems that interest in certain topics comes and goes in waves on this forum Before it was solipsism, now it's physical reality and why everything is the way it is - what comes next? I hope it's gonna be about how to get a hot witch girlfriend

I love chess. Sometimes when I've played a lot of chess in one day, this very weird thing happens: everything somehow becomes chess. Everything that happens is viewed through a strategic lens. It's a very odd feeling. Objects are viewed as pieces and everything you do is a move.

@Elshaddai You're asking something very, very specific. One psychedelic alone can manifest vastly different effects from person to person, god only knows what effects a combination might have. So I highly, highly doubt that there's any combination which could produce effects that are explicitly helpful for personal growth.

@Enlightenment He said that those people who haven't faced their mortality will suffer because of it.

@Holygrail Look for the boundary. Where the universe "ends". There can't be such a boundary, because all boundaries have two sides. The universe therefor never ends. The 3D space-time-continuum might be finite, yes. But even so, it simply constitutes a "larger" 4D "space", since an infinite number of dimensions always constitutes the next higher dimension. Like 3D is "made out of" infinitely many 2D plains, which in turn are "made out of" infinitely many 1D strings. But the key thing to understand is Non-Duality. Every boundary has two sides. Non-Duality = Infinity

@Preety_India Unpleasant and painful in what way?

Have you ever wondered what it means to ask "why"? What is it that we want to hear when we ask "why is this"? Do we want to know the "reason" for something, whatever that means? Or is it something else? What is going on in the mind when we ask "why"? Where does it come from? What do we expect? It's a form of question... a form of not knowing... and being dissatisfied with not knowing. To ask is to cling. But to what? Why do we create problems where there aren't any? Don't we have anything better to do??

Same reason as you