The0Self

I dated a 33 year old when I was 24-25 and it was extremely intimate and passionate, but she was fairly SD green (max) and I was yellow, so it really didn’t work out. Maybe try to find someone in spiritual, service, or activism circles and disregard the age, though older is likely to be more developed.

Maybe try meditating on the breath (gently and joyfully return every time you notice attention has drifted to something else), or noting once per second without fail for the duration of the sit. Open awareness practices don’t work too well unless you can keep your attention on something in an open and relaxed way for an indefinite period of time without strain (which requires diligent training).

Awareness is merely inferred. It has no qualities. If it had discernible qualities it would be IN Awareness. Anything you experience, even if it seems like “awareness,” is not this supposed Awareness.

Time going by quicker = smoking gun for spacing out a bit; conscious power decreasing, so less sensory information is perceived per unit of time (which is perceived at pleasantness) and so less perceived time seems to pass in a given period of clock time. Antidote = tighten focus but more importantly, be ready to tighten or loosen focus at any moment and maintain that meta-awareness of constant ever-changing response to the moment. Active meditation. This doesn’t need to be done forever but while you’re experiencing feelings of pleasurable, deep relaxation without intense joy you might want to tighten up and tune in more / push yourself just barely to perceive more sensations. Also open up full body awareness like you’re filling the body with awareness as if it were a giant balloon. And perhaps tune into the IN breath slightly more than the out breath and visualize it energizing your being. Imagine it with some vigor and passion. Smile. Enjoy.

There may be free will, but there is certainly no one that has free will.

Until you find another partner. Your stage maybe +/-1 seems best ime. It became very clear intuitively.

You know how AI and ads interface so well that you randomly get ads for what you were just about to decide to go out and buy? It gets feedback from crowd activity and their interactions with the system constantly and it’s always learning... How funny would it be if it was actually so much more advanced than we realized... such that the minute you became awakened doing some self inquiry, the next minute a significant portion of your (for instance) suggested YouTube vids were vids like “how to deal with aimlessness after seeing through the me” or “after awakening, what do” etc. That would certainly indicate that “Great Awakening” theory ?

The collective ego could be having awakenings or something of the sort.

This is something I’ve suspected may actually be a tier 1 pitfall: viewing your partners as “not your friend.” While that is something I’ve always intuited, as many men who are successful with women have, recently, I am more of the opinion that our partners should actually be our BEST friends — it’s only when your partner is tier 1 that they will be repelled by you if you treat them as “only” a friend. Just a theory/intuition. Could be totally wrong.

I would like to know this too. For me though, I felt a big difference literally after a few hours of chelating, but I kept experiencing more benefits and did basically a 6 month cycle with maybe 2-3 6-8 day breaks. Maybe even 3-5 day breaks — can’t remember. It actually seemed to cure what I thought was narcolepsy. It’s impossible to overstate just how dangerous chelation can be if you do it even slightly wrong though.

Man I thought I was the only one. Weed makes ego death so much more likely for me when I add it to psychedelic experiences. My theory is its short term memory suppression and the way it makes you feel rather than think makes you situate yourself in the NOW even more until even the now dissolves (because now means the time between the past and future; and past and future no longer exist) and then you get that profound “remembrance” of God-consciousness and you’re like OH YEAH... DUH. I AM!

Occasionally using weed (sometimes even with 5ht2a psychedelics), for some people, can be very consciousness-raising. Especially if you get anxiety from it, it might be showing you something. It’s a psychedelic in its own right. It can reveal perceptions as fabrications, as can any psychedelic. Key word: occasionally.

23pm? I assume you meant 11pm? Aspirin Pregnenolone Rhodiola Fruit/sugar Refined coconut oil Collagen/gelatin / bone broth or oxtail soup Calcium carbonate antacids or ground eggshells L-phenylalanine and/or L-tyrosine or L-DOPA (sparingly) on a completely empty stomach Creatine Microdosing LSD-25 occasionally Meditation (best) (maximize enjoyment) (meditate with a flashing sign that says enjoy! enjoy! enjoy!)

Consciousness is nothing. If it were something, it would be in consciousness, thus, from a certain perspective, not consciousness itself. All this talk is just precipitating out of the solution of nonduality.

It isn’t about becoming aware of any nature, it’s about dropping a false idea.

Enlightenment = the permanent destruction of the illusory sense of personal doership. That’s it. One could say there’s much more to this work than enlightenment though.

Yep. I can add a bit: Samatha is about harmonization and treating experience like a warm bubble bath that you really get “in to” by taking all the stops out and just going all-in on enjoying the moment as much as you *possibly* can, like it’s your job and your life depends on it. Vipassana is about playing with perception and penetrating sensations down to their true nature. 4 common ways to do this are by seeing all experience through one of 4 lenses that change what you seem to view: impermanence, dukkha, not-self, and emptiness. The beauty of these is that when you’re advanced enough, you can mix & match, doing Samatha and Vipassana at the same time. This can lead to jhanas beyond the first 8, called the pure land jhanas, of which 5 have been discovered as of yet. Also insight and Samatha are needed together to have a cessation/nirvana event — concentration or insight alone will never do it.

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This.

Sorry, this was just super funny to read. I agree completely, but it just made me laugh ?

But we stay in this unreality (experience) because of compassion, which is God, which is death.

@louhad Yeah. Studies have shown that personality traits don’t really change much — maybe that’s why. A very introverted person who undergoes a big transformation in consciousness may become way more compassionate and less selfish, but they won’t necessarily be more outgoing unless the lack of extraversion was a pathological hindrance in the first place... but of course maybe it was.

That there is no self is the self. That there is no truth is the truth.

@Darodos You’re probably right to some degree — I would agree even more if it was something that happens a lot but really I am usually single. But I will certainly try to maintain consciousness in situations where the ego wants to look away from the truth.

I sympathize with this. I often have felt “if only I knew HOW to surrender fully, I would,“ and then... I get into a highly conscious state and I’m like OH no I would NOT because right now I know what must be done and I’m still not doing it... I’m holding on to the me even when I have reason to believe it’s not real.