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To be free from samsara is simply to be free from delusion and attachment to illusion — illusions include: solidity, permanence, controllability, non-spontaneity, inherent existence.

Instead of focusing on an object, just become interested in the object and hold the simple intention to emit joy upon recognizing your attention isn’t on the object. This associates ‘joy’ with ‘recognizing attention isn’t on the object,’ making it happen sooner and sooner after attention has been lost — closing the gap until no gap remains; attention never leaves the object unless you want it to. Then, further relax whatever can be relaxed, and further alert whatever can be alert. Relax relax. Alert alert. Don’t concentrate. Rather, collect; harmonize; enjoy. Devise ways to enjoy the practice as much as possible. Curiously see just how enjoyable you can make it, to the point where it’s just ridiculous, and then keep going.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110913021232/http://kennethfolkdharma.wetpaint.com/page/Q+%26+A+on+Vipassana Was just reflecting on whether there was anything else I hadn’t shared that I consider required reading if your goal is to know what you’re doing in meditation. Many of the links at the bottom of that page are also extremely worthwhile reading. Pro-tip: copy and paste portions of the walls of text to this text-to-speech generator, if you don’t want to read. https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/

In a sense, the contracted energy is doing one thing: attempting to take nirvana as object; but nirvana is not an object — that’s the whole predicament. The end of this doesn’t (only) come in a flash, it takes relentless inquiry into what is not true, until only what is true remains. Timeless nirvana-Now is perfect and it’s not happening to anyone. You’ll subtly assume you’ll inquire yourself all the way to enlightenment. But of course you can’t do the last part, because you won’t be around as the doer on the other side — the end of heading toward anywhere as a separate being experiencing movement through time.

? my man Todd Grande made a vid on this 2 hours ago:

Clearly. A belief is a belief. By “spiritual beliefs aside” I was referring to the belief that “doing a metal chelation is going to desynchronize you with the Dhyanalinga.” Not saying anything about it, literally leaving it aside.

Love is fundamental if by Love one means non-resistance or allowance, not relational love.

“Reality is made out of Love” can be misunderstood. Absolutely everything is empty of existing inherently as a separate thing — that includes emptiness, reality, and Love itself. But resistance lacks inherent existence as well, and we could say everything is made out of non-resistance, which is what Love essentially is. “What you resist, persists” is deeper than it may appear. Persistence is illusory — nothing ever persists. If any sensation or emotion or energy formation is not moving or in flux, then you know it’s being resisted.

All spiritual beliefs aside, chelating mercury isn’t going to literally get every single particle out of your body. There very well could be a function for a tiny amount of mercury in the body — which is impossible to avoid anyway. One of the worst things you can do for your body-mind is consume any significant amount of mercury intentionally.

I know you're asking them something different, but just as an aside, you should be triumphant that you've been able to identify such a thing, because that's where the rubber meets the road in spiritual development. Any recurring intense fear, if it's of something you can't control anyway, is something you're repressing the underlying sensations of, which is concurrent with hiding something from yourself: the fact that you can't control whether it happens or not, and you're not even going to ultimately be harmed if it were to actually happen anyway.

I would not do it for very long. Those out-of-context time-lapse video compilations of vegans who look like walking death, with the ominous music in the background, are probably mostly of fruitarians.

I don't follow Teal Swan in any fashion whatsoever or even know what she's about. Before watching one of her responses to the documentary, the only thing I'd ever in my life seen of her was about the first 1-2 minutes of a video she did on spiritual bypassing, before I lost interest and exited the video because it was stuff I'd heard before -- and that was at least a year ago. But from watching both 1. the documentary's trailer and 2. Teal Swan's first video response to it, it does seem like the creators of the documentary could have been unfair. Maybe they know something I don't about Swan, and they figure their main concern is just getting the word out that she's bad news... but the trailer definitely seems to take her out of context and dramatize and problematize her in a hit-job sort of fashion.

That sounds like a very reasonable approach. That's probably all vegans need to do if they're having issues staying healthy, rather than insisting on consuming no animal products of any kind ever.

Look around at the whole world or universe you see around you, that appears in consciousness. Notice you feel you're inside the head. Just take in whatever view presents itself -- in your case it'll probably be that of being a human-being living in a universe. Notice all the information transfer happening in the universe. Besides the fact that you have eyes situated in front of where you know your brain to be, notice the only other reason you think you're the brain: you know it to involve a very high density of information transfer associated with your experience. But of course, there's energy transfer going on everywhere that also affects (and is actually completely interdependent with) your experience. So why would information-transfer-density imply that what you are is the thing with that high density, as opposed to everything else? And where is the boundary between the information transfer happening in the brain and the transfer happening at any location or any time? Can you at least see that a definite boundary is unfindable?

They are definitely different in effects. I've had both, but not with enough frequency to give a detailed rundown of the differences. What I do remember though is that my preference is both combined. And if I remember correctly, S-ketamine was quite a bit more potent.

Anyone who does self-investigation with authenticity can be far happier and less problematic to others. Research says that generally, when someone with cluster B PD (NPD, APD, HPD, or BPD) self-reflects successfully, if they are to eventually become PD-free, they make a stop on the way at avoidant personality disorder for a while. Makes sense. They're probably disgusted and ashamed by their behavior.

My ex almost certainly had BPD, and boy does reading that take me back -- I'd see her glaring at me and would immediately know: we must have just walked past an attractive other-woman... Without even having seen the other-woman, just seeing my girl's face! It wasn't necessarily just the PD, it could have also been the fact that she sucked and you stayed with her. My ex who almost certainly had BPD was wonderful for the most part, aside from some really, really bad jealousy. But she was on a spiritual path too. We managed to stay on good terms after I broke it off, but eventually stopped talking because we kept hooking up. Anyone with PD who has been on a self-reflective spiritual program/path for some time is probably going to be a bit easier to get along with than someone with PD who hasn't. According to some psychological research, eventually some PD's can actually go away -- for instance, if someone suffering from Cluster B PD (Antisocial PD, BPD, HPD, or NPD) hits the point of no return in self-reflection, they can naturally transition into having Avoidant Personality Disorder (makes sense if you think about it), at which point they can just deal with the Avoidant PD, heal further and eventually be PD-free. I saw her recently after years apart and she has totally different energy. Most people with PD who don't do any self-investigation are probably not worth talking to even for a second. At least that's what I've found in my life.

You’re welcome ?

Definitely. One can definitely go that route with Jim Newman, etc, but generally compromise (i.e. actual teaching ) is extremely helpful. Someone with a good balance in this regard is Nargis. I'll link her playlist of one-on-one's for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ybOLXOL8gw&list=PLCWf43MvphNlSRHFEFebwDR3KhAIJZp2G

A saint sees all as pure and benevolent. Bentinho is highly consciousness. But one of the ones I listed was not only simply awake, but very advanced with powers and such -- Rob Burbea. Go to dharmaseed and listen to his talks on soulmaking and jhanas. You might be surprised.

I would consider it radical nonduality, not neo advaita. With that said, yeah it is just like watching Netflix. Unless of course one is actually serious and is really grappling with the message to the point where fear is felt -- if they stay in the body with those sensations right in the center of where it's most painful, then that's as good awakening practice as any. Again though it's just like watching Netflix if they aren't actually serious about their practice, in which case they don't need radical nonduality.

Rob Burbea Bernadette Roberts Alive: Adyashanti Angelo Dilullo MD

From what I've seen from him... Yeah, he's a scientist, but he's implied many times that science might not have the ability to arrive at truth. I would agree though that he hasn't been a serious truth-seeker, considering he's meditated and "sought truth" for 20 years and apparently isn't awake. He could be now though (a serious truth-seeker). From the moment one becomes a serious truth-seeker, it's only a matter of time -- a couple years at most -- to awaken.

Veganism + physiology knowledge > standard American diet + lots of soybean and canola oil I'll concede that.

^^^ Seems obvious, but it occurs to me this isn't talked about a lot. First received this intuition from Culadasa years ago. This is extremely powerful -- for its purposes, anyway. In other words: Intentionally attend to what is just about to capture your attention anyway. This is a mind hack that trains it to be wieldy. And it cultivates presence, consciousness/mindfulness, and even gratitude. Or even: Don’t wait.