Breakingthewall

But thinking about it carefully, I agree in some way. all are states of consciousness. Desirelessness is a state of consciousness, it is when you perceive that reality is exactly as it should be. this does not mean that you are enlightened in the sense that it will be something permanent. there are people, the monks, who pursue that state of consciousness by working hard on it. I guess they can get it but always circumstantially. if their determination wavers they will return to desire. so enlightenment is one more state. But that state is when the natural awakening can happen.

True, i invented because i never became enlightened. then it is a mental construction based on guesswork. that doesn't mean it's not accurate

Awakening when you realize that everything is an illusion and the reality is infinite and you are the reality. Enlightenment is when you are perfect tuned with this apparent reality. So no ego, no desire. Someone who's enlightened could be sit in a room the rest of his life in perfect happiness. Someone who's enlightened use to have awakenings. If you are not enlightened, you are not going to have awakenings unless you provoke them with psychedelics

Well, as far as i know...for example?

Leo said that because he has very insolent and cretinous moments, but as far as I know he has never kicked anyone out of here because of his way of thinking, he kicks out people who are trolls, insufferable, and with a lot of patience. here he has only said a nonsense and that's it, and he apologize in his subtle way

How many democratically elected presidents in the world have been bald? Very few

the collective ego is an entity in constant evolution, and the engine that drives it is suffering. without it we would always be at the same point, like monkeys for example, who have a very basic ego and hardly suffer mentally, but who do exactly the same thing for hundreds of thousands of years. they are in the garden of eden, we ate the apple and now we have to fuck ourselves or reach enlightenment

Yes, more or less it's what I'm doing. Well, I'm not using the psychedelic to have an insight and understand, since i already know what I'm going to find: infinity. What i do is use it to soften the barrier of the ego again and again, It is an invaluable help since the barrier is erected again and again and only with meditation I do not reach more than a point. that there is a real surrender of the ego is very difficult. It's not just practice, it's above all being willing to do it and understand and obey the signals that occur every moment. the ego is extremely tenacious and will return

I have done little lsd. I meditate daily and try to make my daily reality meditative, and I have done quite a lot of 5 meo. maybe every week. I am not so interested in punctual realizations as in getting to flow in the most perfect way possible. I use the psychedelic as a tool, not as an end, although I consider that having had complete realizations of infinity is essential, I do not think it is necessary to go deeper, although it can be beautiful. what I seek is death of the ego, surrender to what is so that I can truly love existence. I resonate with your post about the death of the ego

What do you mean with "awakening"?

@ardacigin the difficult thing up to art level is to balance survival with surrender. I am in a really challenging business, in which the natural tendency would be technical obsessiveness, and the challenge is to carry it out in a completely detached but effective way. My first goal is surrender, ego death, my other goal is success. Both must be simultaneous .

the purpose of this dream is to tune a sophisticated instrument to perfect harmony. it is not god-realization. realizing god is a means, not an end. taking realizing god as an end is pride and ego, and we'll see where it leads. the goal is to forge a perfect instrument that plays perfect music. the instrument must know its place and fold, humble itself

nothing. the rat should just surrender completely. then she will see that there was no labyrinth. the labyrinth was her

@ardacigin i remembered you when reading the op's experience. When you say that you have reached a baseline of no ego, that is what you mean, right? that's the goal for me. It is not something simple because the ego has many faces. meditation is a practice that helps, but there has to be a real surrender to life. you have to stop resisting completely. hard! how to balance non-resistance with survival? It happens that the less you resist, the more you are guided. we'll see where it leads

I would say that human existence is a kind of laboratory, a labyrinth of rats. they put the rat in a difficult situation with hundreds of possibilities to be wrong, and the rat must find a way out. the way out is to reach total openness, total love, total transcendece. The chances of ending up in a dead end are enormous, but when the rat reaches the end of the maze, it is seen that there was no other option than this

if you break a tooth and it shows, you put a false one, right? Well, you can do the hair implants if you want and have the necessary money. but I would not wear a wig, it has a more fake connotation, like it would be extremely embarrassing if a wind carried it away

@at_anchor What happens if you collect all the money you can, go to a city that is attractive to you, look for a cheap room and try to make a living for a few months? you will see in a week or two your mind begins to be cleaner

The problem is that the software that analyzes, interprets, etc., is our survival system. It is genetic and also feeds from birth. something tells us that without it we are dead, the tribe can expel us from the cave and outside we will not survive a day. so we have a need to constantly overlay that layer of zeros and ones on everything. everything is past that leads to a future in which the optimal options are calculated. this makes us last generation survival machines, but it locks us in the mind. The truth is in the silence, but the survival machine is the opposite of silence , hates the silence. The art that we must achieve is to connect and disconnect the software at will

I'd say that's a while without ego. what we meditate try to make happen more or less permanently. that is to say, you have stopped interpreting reality for a while, the energy that analyzes, evaluates, classifies, compares, has been silent for a few fucking minutes and it seemed to you that you were floating in the abyss since there was no handhold to hold on to, only reality.

there is something instead of nothing for a very simple reason: because there is always you. If you were not there, there would be nothing, no existence. but non-existence does not exist, it is obvious, since you exist. your existence is not the opposite of non-existence, it is something absolute, without an opposite. your existence has no beginning or end, since these limits would be non-existence, which does not exist. then, you can be absolutely empty of content, but you are aware of your emptiness. you exist as emptiness. and you, in the void, realize that you are all possible content. you are absolutely free to be everything. and since you can be, you are. so the answer is: because you can

a question for Leo. let's see, sometimes members, like amanem for example, publish a trip report where they have gone as deep as possible, etc, and you say: good! you got to the bottom! that is awakening. etc. and then in the forum you repeat: nobody here is awake, only me. Let's see, what is this? a joke? trolling? because those of us who are in the spirituality forum are serious, we don't play. We take your integrity for granted and we try to be the best of integrity.

@at_anchor being suicidal is a good start. As long as you don't kill yourself, of course. it means that you have hit rock bottom, you know that nothing in this world is going to satisfy you, you have realized the trap with no way out that is the ego. a real scam. now you must go through a process of mental openness, of deconstruction of each one of your ideas that form the wall that isolates you, that creates the duality between you and what is not you. In this forum you will find the way. if you apply yourself seriously, in one or two years you will be another being. you will be free. determination, courage and vision.

No one is really applying red irons to you while you're hanging by your thumbs, but if it seems like it's happening, it's probably no comfort to you. I mean...what, according to you, is the difference between something appearing to be happening, or actually happening? if you are being tortured, your self will be strengthened. because the self is the energy that wants, and at that moment you will very much want to stop being tortured. then, that energy is unreal? why? there really is an energy that wants. that energy is what forms the self in all its nuances, the one that makes you think about everything you think. what you think is unreal, but the energy is very real.

he is a guy 100% dedicated to spirituality, he knows what is 5 meo, but he has never tried it nor does he want to try it. why? I suppose for some reason he prefers the path to the goal. but his posts are very interesting, elaborate and of high quality. spirituality is not only to realize god. It's also a way of being integral, embodying integrity, and the guy seems to be into that. And why do you know he's not awaken? He's in some way. And for you no one is awake, so?

Completely wrong. Most of people here are very conservative about psychedelic (with some exceptions, including those of the beloved leader). Few people want real transcendence. most prefer to focus on material success and that is normal and how it has to be