Breakingthewall

@Thought Art @Thought Art It may seem to you that this mountain of shit is very real, I have been under the weight of the mountain of shit until very recently, until one day it was deactivated. on a mushroom trip by the way. I realized the emptiness of reality, and in a moment the whirlwind spinning in my mind became completely harmless. it completely lost its venom, and strangely enough it was permanent. continue with the work, go deeper, in the end the ego is deactivated, they are not stories. the gain in quality of life is priceless

@Thought Art You are depressed now man, it's a shit, but I would say that by now you know very well that all those thoughts that overwhelm you are absolutely nothing. it's just what you are choosing right now to tell yourself. With half an hour of meditation you can make the bubble burst and see the unreality of all those ideas. It does not matter if you are 25 or 83 and 20 illnesses, it is at this exact moment when you choose to bombard yourself with shit or enjoy the moment empty of content

If you've had two beers the day before, you probably won't notice it, but the ideal is not to have drunk anything before or afterwards for a day or two. why? because when you do 5meo a great amount of energy is released, like kundalini, your arms and legs can vibrate like epilepsy, and alcohol blocks that energy. I have personally checked it in both ways. Drinking before is stupid but at the beginning of experimenting with this I did, one leg fell sleep and the fingers of one hand were sore and stiff. something very real, with a two-day spasm. Doing it later is tempting, a beer to calm the situation. Mistake. the energy continues to flow for hours, you can notice that if you meditate , if you drink it will be blocked. it is a feeling of something negative, not healthy

well, imagine the following: they give you an intervention and they cut a wire from your brain and suddenly you stop having sensory information. no sight, no hearing, no touch, nothing. oh my god am i here trapped forever ... here? where? who is trapped? how long? What are you? You keep thinking and thinking, but there is no place to go, nothing happens. That little ego that you are stays well screwed there, you just need to cut another cable and your memory disappears. like a fetus, to zero. where are you then? do you exist? What are you?

Keep in mind that all you see is a creation from the back of your brain based on the electrical impulses it receives from the optic nerve. a great job without a doubt, quite beautiful. but it is still a special effect. if you close your eyes it disappears

if they give you anesthesia, you disappear. the same as if you die. your ego disappears, it disconnects, there is no more memory or perception. for you that is total death since you are identified with the ego. but at another level you are me, and the ego with its memory is an illusion that is happening apparently, like mine. if the identification with the ego stop, or get weaker, and begin to identify with what perceive the ego, you find immortality. You, as a ego ,don't care so much what happens to the ego because you see that you aren't real, something empty. You understand, for example, that someone is completely calm before their execution. He has let it go, he doesn't care what happened to the ego, he sees it for what it is. But if you are totally identified with the ego the idea is horrible, even unthinkable. So the answer would be: when you die, nothing happens except the disappearance of this illusion, as if it had never existed. so somehow it doesn't exist now either. Detachment is the answer

Sounds good, but the problem is that once you are at that point things get strange. the dream no longer makes sense, it is true that suffering decreases a lot, but living in a state of unreality is not satisfactory. This is when you change from escaping from suffering to seeking the truth ... whatever it is

@Terell Kirby thanks! Yes, the first impulse is to escape of a bad dream...after that maybe more to realize the truth=present moment. If the movie were good, probably you are ok with that, like most of people, and you never realized that was a movie

In the absolute sense i don't know, but in the relative yes: erase, or dissolve, the delusion of the mind, the constant interference, the background noise, to plunge into the present moment. for the simple reason that it is more pleasant, more honest. and beyond that pure bright glory is intuited. reason to spare, more when the other option, to continue in the movie, is quite stupid and even insane

@KaRzual It is not easy at all. sit down to meditate, you will see that the thoughts arise. every thought is a manifestation of the need for control. to let go of control is to be in the void, with nothing to hold onto. "you", so your ego, has as its main function to be in control, for that it carries out a constant activity of thinking. It conceptualizes non-stop to get the feeling that dissecting reality and controls it. the way to stop doing this (I think, I'm on it) is to see that control is an illusion, to understand that the entire ego is an illusion. the dissecting activity of the mind provides false security. everything it says is empty. you are floating in the void and clutching imaginary handholds for fear of having nothing to grasp. you have to see that these handles are nothing, illusion, and have the courage of be without nothing to grasp I say that it is not easy because our mind is the heir to thousands of generations of minds that have been conditioning themselves to completely need to hold on to firm imaginary handholds. no control is the last thing your mind is willing to accept. is going to change one handle for another. conscience, god ... whatever. the point is that this mind is penetrating enough to know that what it is doing is false. it is the mind itself that knows that it must leave control, since with it it is locked in a jail that only serves to suffer. the mind has to see it and surrender, I can think of no other way except psychedelics

@blankisomeone i think that if you were in contact with real human suffering you would see it differently. for example a war or a hospital. You may think that enlightenment is the cure for all suffering, but it is not for everyone. Most people will not know what you are talking about, it is not their way, nor their time. still they are brothers, they are you, and compassion arises spontaneously

@SOUL great analysis. Seems that the smart guy is not smart enough to free himself of the ego

Yes everything is happening now, but something is happening, then there is time. It is obvious that only now is real, but it is not about that. if there is change there is time. time is the measure of change. The issue is not the obvious that only now is real and what happened is a mental construction, it is that from the absolute point of view absolutely nothing happened. it just seems like it. that's why there is no time. but ... if it looks like it, something happened, right? well, it seems that no. There is only the right now when you have a hallucination that something happened. but ... the hallucination is changing, therefore it is happening. no ... it just seems that way to you. It's a trick. it's the same all the time. crazy. I am not saying that this is true, but sometimes this reality appears and it is very clear. Is the same that the realization that only you exist. A kind of loop. Sure Leo explained really good is his videos, pity i only write and read English, listen is a big work . Looking forward for that book

you feel good because you realize that you, in the relative sense, are a cog of a whole, and that the most stupid and against yourself that you can do is to behave in a selfish and mean way.

If you are in a high state of consciousness, you see something very strange: nothing is real, nor did it happen, there was no holocaust, no big bang, no others. there is no course from before to now. reality is not created in steps, there is no evolution. It is something too strange to be true, as if you had put all this decoration with the sole purpose of deceiving yourself. It seems somewhat sinister and crazy, but it is clearly seen. is that really so?

agree in my ignorance about Buddhism. rather superficial knowledge, but this orientation towards the cessation of the cycle seems evident to me. And about the suffering...well, as @Tim R said , let's study a bit

Agree. And a very negative vision of life, like a penance to be avoided. it is a religion that has the ultimate goal of ceasing to be reborn, that says it all

well I agree but only in part. there is no one in the sense that the person with his history, qualities, projection, was unreal, but there is existence. the pure present moment, call it what you want. many said that this is only the first step in awakening. the i, that ramana maharshi used to say, god, as many others says. The thing is that something is

I think I know what you mean. When you wake up from a dream, the you inside the dream is essentially the same as outside the dream. When you wake up from the dream of the ego there is still something, although without the illusory characteristics that the ego gave it. it is empty consciousness. What I don't know is what else this empty conscience can awaken to.

Yeah, this is the key of the trascendence , realize that. But how? Trascending the ego hehe. for one thing to happen, the other has to happen first. like without psychedelics? very rarely. I would not say that if you transcend the ego it is seen that if you die you will continue. rather that there is no one who can die

It's an objective appreciation.i have understood what the ego is many years ago, but it was impossible for me to transcend it until I discovered psychedelics and 5meo, a short time ago, and even now it takes hours of meditation every day so that it does not become too heavy. I know people who are very interested in spirituality, who do vipasana retreats, go to meditate in India and things like that and have not even remotely floated above the ego for a minute. most of humanity lives in the ego, and the possibility that separation is an illusion does not occur to them. So I can say that the ego is real, that the mind is innately programmed to carry out this construction, and that for that reason it is difficult to transcend it.

If you deconstruct the ego, after all the thought and concepts you have acquired, you find a basis: the need to survive. this is something real, genetic. as the human survives thanks to social support, this need to survive translates into a need for acceptance. It is not easy to get out of this, it is a labyrinth with no way out, no matter how much you go through it, you get nowhere, you have to rise above it. understand that you are not only a survival machine

Being able to dissolve the ego on a daily basis is in my opinion the key to happiness. It is not easy because if you analyze what I just said, it is: I am the ego, I want to be happier, therefore I am going to dissolve the ego, so myself. the ego cannot do it. he can only understand himself in the deepest way possible, and then give up the compulsive need to be in control. The usual thing is that to get to this, some experience with psychedelics is necessary that dissolves the ego in a violent way. Once the ego has seen that not being in control doesn't mean death, it will be easier to relax and dissolve with meditation. the point is that when the ego dissolves it is not replaced by another better ego but by emptiness, the present moment without more, without content. nothing to hold onto or control. it is very challenging for the ego, but that is freedom. you have to get used to it like a climber gets used to being on a wall. based on practice

the separate self is inherent in the human being. It is not a false identification or an error, it is a genetic characteristic. just as in a seed it is inscribed that a tree will develop branches, a human will develop a self, interrelated with other selves. In this society there is a lot of dysfunctionality of the I, legions of people who live in a gray area. In x, or xvii century the i was much more solid than a xxi century i. many people had a huge, solid self, and a good self-image that was passed down from parent to child. Today we are raised in the indefiniteness, and that generates suffering, misplacement, madness, but it also gives the possibility of awakening. There is no room for solid i nowadays. they are an anachronism, something out of place, antiques. how to educate a child today? very difficult. in non-duality? would that be good for a child?

This is hard, but nothing compared to a nursing home. If you want to experience the existential terror of being human, go see where they keep the old ones when they are no longer good for anything. Decapitation is 1 minute and done, this shit least for years