Breakingthewall

Al-Hallaj represents the non-separation between the totality and the human. He is more direct than Christ or Buddha. He is not like other Sufis; he doesn't use metaphors or proverbs, he is absolutely simple. Ana al haqq, I am the truth. That's everything that you need to know about him. He's not a person, is an openess. In him, the absolute is perceived with a minimal structure for operation. Al-Hallaj lives as a necessary obligation; he is not in life, he is in that which is beyond life, what is impossible to say, the Tao, the totality. He is not brave when he is tortured because he doesn't need to be brave; for him, death is nothing, he is death, disguised as life, which is merely a structure that traps him within an individual. When that structure falls, the totality is free, unlimited.

Reading what he said , also interpreting his actions

Al-Hallaj, "I am the truth," is the most direct mystic. His vision is absolutely open; he lives in total openness. He is absolute purity, unblemished clarity, the totality expressing itself as human.

God, the reality, the unlimited being can't be alone, it's impossible, because it's unlimited. Being alone implies limits. This is the key to understand what reality is, and this understanding is necessary to open yourself to your unlimited nature.

That's true. Anyway, there are 2 persons living in Israel participating in this thread , they could explain how's going there

There's internet in Israel. If that were the destruction Wilkerson is talking about, there would be thousands of videos of it. There's an uncomfortable situation where one person dies every four days, not an apocalyptic scenario that requires Armageddon

It seems you haven't grasped how the game works, and it's quite simple. As a human, you operate by default in a dense mode, since your genetic programming, created before rats, compels you to absolutely desire survival and to sleep with women more beautiful than the son of a bitch of your cousin. yes, that cousin you've been competing with since you were four, the one you feign friendship with but secretly wish you could kill. So you brood over rage, frustration, desire, revenge, and murder. And guess what? This isn't enlightenment! Then you read a book that tells you that if you free your mind from all that, you'll you'll find yourself and all that madness will finish. And you think: this resonates, there's truth here. Let's do it: but, surprise, you can't. Because you still want to kill your cousin, even though you hug him saying "namaste." Really, more than saying "namaste," you'd like to crush enemies and listen to the wailing of their women while having an orgy with models. No, no, no, wrong, not like that, James, no. So you pretend to be a saint when you're full of shit, like you do, and you think you've made it. Spiritual ego on full display. Bad. So, you think: if Buddha spent seven years doing incredibly tough tests, obviously that stupid idea of "you're enlightened now" is stupid. You have to polish the metal, and to polish it you have to look directly at the stains, something you, James the fake, don't do because your enormous ego forbids it. Wax on, wax off, young Padawan. Don't act like a teacher when you're not even a student. Keep doing this until the unlimited light of what is begins to shine through, even just a little, which in your case is far from happening. Break the fear, the attachment, the desire, the need to be yourself, to remain. Little by little, day by day, minute by minute. But you have to start before to say that you already did it, and you haven't, because your heavy ego hates humility, that's why you are sad. Bad business right? Nothing to gain, everything to lose.

Excuse me for being such a smartass, but let's see, why is this venerable man talking about atomic bombs when, for now, they're only destroying specific targets? What would be achieved with that? Absolutely nothing. Iran's offensive capacity would remain the same, only worse, in kamikaze mode, then they would destroy all the oil infrastructure in the Gulf. Before, cities would be attacked with conventional bombs, don't he thinks? Besides, Pakistan is Iran's rival; it doesn't care if the Iranian regime is weakened, in fact, it applauds it. And as for Israel being destroyed, I have a friend in Jerusalem, and he says it's a tiring situation, but people go to work and live normal lives. It's not the siege of Stalingrad. The only way for both parts is negotiation. Now they are settling the basis for it, Iran can destroy the economy of the gulf. Why it's not doing it yet? Because they are threatening with it to negotiate.

They were given de facto self-determination in Gaza, and they voted for Hamas and were taught martyrdom in schools as the ultimate human goal. What's the idea? To extend that situation to 9 million? For what purpose? Sure and in Israel 2 million of Arabs are living in the best situation in all the middle east, working as doctors, policeman, soldiers, lawyers and anything else

@zazen The vast majority of Palestinians would only accept the expulsion of the Jews; any other alternative seems unacceptable to them. That's their narrative, and I think you know it. I'm not saying Israel is fair; for example, they just approved selective death penalties, only for Arabs. Extremist are in power, but they are there thanks to the pressure Israel has been under for decades. Israelis have been transforming out of adaptive necessity, and now they are what we see. Then , what's the solution? More 8 October? That's what ben gvir would like, almost sure they allowed it, same than they allowed Qatari money to arrive to Hamas, because they have the same goal: war. But don't forget that 80% of Palestinian supported the 8 oct. Now you will say: they do because they are exhausted of the injustice etc etc. Well, Israelites are also exhausted. No, it's only for those who haven't as main principle the destruction of their neighbor.

Good questions. In my opinion, consciousness arises when reality operates in a dualistic mode, a self-preserving organism that separates itself from the primary universe. Consciousness is not essential; it is contingent, relational. What happens when you die? The same thing that happens when you live: reality simply is. How it's going to be? That doesn't matter. Openness to this occurs when attachment to the preceptor self loosens. What will happen to me? It doesn't matter; I am what is

That's inherent to the expansion of any civilization, not just Western civilization. Islam was aggressively expansionist and colonized a huge part of the world, which is now Islamic. The Romans, the Mongols, they all did the same thing. The idea is that you either submit or you die. Many prominent people have criticized the invasion of Iraq, same than the Iranian war . The real motives for that invasion are impossible to openly admit: a show of force, protection of the petrodollar, elimination of adversaries,. maintenance of the status quo of world boss. The US can't say this; it has to say it was done for democracy, freedom, weapons of mass destruction, and the values of goodness and human rights, but obviously nobody believes that.

If your heart is closed and there is a barrier between you and the world, nothing is satisfying. Relationships are false, understanding is superficial, work is a curse, and spirituality a sham. If your heart is open and there is no separation between you and the world, life flows and beauty manifests.

That sole sentence alone illustrates what that guy is: a clown. He speaks to make impact, pure demagoguery. So, what about the DNA of the Ottomans, or the Japanese, perhaps the Mongols? And the Russians? What about the Chinese? And the Rwandans? What about Tamerlane? and the DNA of Cambodians? But anyway, it's what people want to listen. One side absolutely, without nuances and without any knowledge about history

@Natasha Tori Maru then you can tell me things like this And I can't answer. Ok. Anyway, next time you can try to make an argument to show your point.

Ok, if you need that stance to maintain your narrative, then don't change it. When you are attached to an identity, it's very unbalancing being without those structures. Im sorry if it seems that I tried to put them in doubt.

Yes, many people don't get angry when someone cuts one in traffic, but it has no relationship with enlightenment o spirituality. They are practical and realize that it's a nonsense

Children throw hysterical tantrums if you take away a toy, and animals have murderous rages if you take away their food or if another male enter in its territory. That spiritual story about the ego being a silly human illusion and life really being a magic garden is a scam.

Tons of experiments have been done to try to find some kind of paranormal power, and the result has been zero.

There are many levels of understanding. For example, you might understand that if you're handsome you'll have more opportunities to get sex than if you're not. This is an understanding. but you could also understand that most of the time this will happen because of a validation dynamic rather than genuine attraction, and that the person will choose you because you're desirable to others, therefore their identity status will be elevated, and none of this has anything to do with a good fucking session.

It doesn't expand into something; space-time is being created, which at some point will disappear, like everything that appears. The universe is a mathematical equation unfolding, that is, a possibility taking place, or in other words, possible relative relationships unfolding within a coherent framework, because the not coherent doesn't appear, because what appears is relative, that is, relationship, and not coherent relationship are not relationship, are nothing.

Because there are not absolute limits and they can't be. Then, reality is. It's something very obvious and you can understand it directly if you open your energetic system and you perceive yourself as unlimited

What would have happened to Iran if 20 years ago it had stopped funding proxy guerrillas and had completely abandoned its rhetoric of hatred towards Israel and the USA? The Palestinians have been offered the opportunity to form a state six times, and each time they have refused, deeming the conditions unjust. For them, the only possibility has always been the total expulsion of the Jews. You see them as victims, but they have been the aggressors. Israel has been attacked by coalitions of countries with hundreds of millions of inhabitants, directly, in a coordinated way, and with the purpose of exterminating them as a nation. Not once, but three times, not counting intifadas and constant terrorism. Saddam, Iran, and Turkey have consistently expressed the need for Israel to disappear, same than Gaddafi, Assad father , saudies and qatar until some years ago. So, what should Israel do with the Palestinians who vote for Hamas and support massacres committed by them? Reward them? No, they vote ben gvir and smotrich, that how life works. Sorry if Palestinian are not strong enough to exterminate Israel, it's very bad for them but it's a fact. Then change those ideas of expulsion for coexistence and development is the best option possible.

I like reading about history, and lately, with the chatgpt, it's even more interesting because you connect social dynamics and human movements to create a mental map of different human periods. These past few days, I've been reading about the Mongols; it's an incredible story. They lived in complete contact with nature, without cities or civilization. They were, like all humans in a free state, incredibly violent and cruel. Of course, they practiced slavery and the abduction of women, and obviously, torture, just like any other human tribal group. At a certain point, Genghis Khan appeared, a man who had been enslaved by another tribe and escaped, and in a flash of absolute genius and cruelty, he conquered the world with his people. They arrived to Russia in one side and Bagdad in other, in just two generations. He wasn't just cruel; he was absolutely cruel, like life itself, and his dominant impulse was expansion and the annihilation of anything that stood in his way, exactly like life. Be careful not to idealize the primitive without acknowledging its destructive side. Genghis Khan had a very practical strategy: if a city resisted him, he destroyed it. There are reports of how they organized work groups to kill the entire population. Not a single living being was to remain, not even dogs, cats, or birds. In Baghdad, they destroyed a centuries-old library and utterly devastated the city. On the other hand, if cities surrendered, they allowed them to continue their customs, and they themselves adopted them. Among them, it was extremely rare to reach the age of 60; anything that was an obstacle was eliminated, left behind. The average life expectancy were 30/35 , some arrived to 70, very rare, and extremely rare 90. Nowadays the life expectancy is like 83, then we could say that even with all the chemicals , the human body is in better condition than ever. The mind I don't know.

Then that guy could be generous and agree to be studied in a lab for a few months, thus revolutionizing human knowledge by opening the doors to another dimension of understanding reality. Or maybe he's a con artist; that's the other possibility.