Breakingthewall

The point is to be able to open yourself to your unlimited nature from within the form, whereby the form loses its character of "essential " and your emotional system changes completely; you cease to be totally attached to the form, you cease to be trapped and you are freed, so that your existence ceases to be a nightmare and becomes a pleasure

There is no creator; it's quite simple and obvious. You are a part, as a form, and the whole, as let's say substance. The whole is limitless, therefore it cannot be limited to being stable, empty, undifferentiated. Fluctuations arise, contrast, change relative to other change. Given the limitlessness of what is, limitless changes arise, overlapping in stable, coherent patterns related to each other, creating realities that endure because they are coherent with everything that appears. Everything is created and destroyed, like the avatar dance I have in my profile, without limit. You, as a part conscious of yourself, can become conscious of yourself as the totality. To do this, you must do something difficult: break the centrality, the self, like a soap bubble that bursts and is no longer the bubble, it is everything. Without form or definition, without edges or ground, but you are still you. You are that. This movement is very difficult, and it's easy to fall in traps. I'm consciousness, I'm god, I'm anything. You are unlimited, period. And to be conscious of that you have to become unlimited, really, not in your mind. It's an action, not a realization. An energetic shift.

It's not that you desire things, but when you realize you created them, you stop desiring them. The movement is different: you must disappear. You as the center. Then the whole opens up. It's extremely difficult because the "you"/center is genetically encoded. But it's important to understand this and not fall into basic errors like you= creator

I see no mystery; reality has to manifest itself in some way, and this is one of them. It's inevitable that coherent relational patterns form; they emerge and disappear. Something as complex as a brain is a set of stable relational patterns superimposed in a perfectly coherent way. Its substance is relationship, and relationship is based on the absence of limits. Without limits, a fluctuation occurs at any given moment. "A given moment" is always, and the number of fluctuations is infinite; therefore, a sinusoidal wave occurs.

What is called enlightenment could be defined as total clarity. Total clarity is the absence of opacity. It is extremely difficult to achieve this absence of opacity; when it occurs, reality loses its boundaries and perceives itself as open, totally unlimited, and this implies everything, you realize what you are, and it means the end of the lack. The lack is in our experience all time, but we don't perceive it because precisely, it's is all time. But perceiving is not the correct term because you realize it being it. You have to release the barriers and be unlimited, not contained, it's a total change, and energetic shift. Achieving a moment of total openness requires the relaxation, for a moment, of all your barriers. When I spoke earlier of not transcending the psyche but aligning it, it's because I believe that transcending the psyche is impossible, at least for me, but you can align it in such a way that it allows for moments of total openness.

I don't do any semantic game, if you didn't get it I could explain what I mean

Sure, working hard and overcome obstacles is great, but that satisfaction is always egoic. It's fine to do if you need it, but doing it like ," it's my way to feel good", means that you are closed, isolated into your barriers, then your only satisfaction is achievement. Your are always testing yourself and comparing. As you said it's natural, it's a survival mechanisms. But this is what closes us in the jail of the ego. It's important to see it I also appreciate you old friend

Enlightenment isn't that; it's the dissolution of the barriers that make you perceive yourself limited, so you can perceive yourself as the totality. But not as "the whole" in the sense of: "Ah, I am the whole, not an individual" , but as the opening of your mind and heart to what the total is, to its unfathomable depth and boundless vitality, to what you are, not as an idea or concept, but truly. It doesn't means that you have to transcend your psyche, you have to make your psyche aligned enough to stop being a barrier. It's very different

Yes but like 1,5 years ago that tendency, or whatever it was, disappeared. If I see a boxing match, or someone free soloing, sailing in Antarctica, or anything dangerous/painful, I think: what a stupidity, man. Whereas before I used to think: give me more poison, please. Sex is fine, but compared to a fight, what a joke. Then at some point, all of that completely vanished. I haven't read a novel, watched a movie, or sought out anything outside of what it is now. And risking breaking bones and becoming paralyzed seems like the stupidest thing a human being could do. It's much better flow with the flow, open your heart, enjoy the breeze and the beauty. But when you have, let's say a barrier of fear in your psyche that is vibrating full time creating a separation, the only thing that you want is breaking that barrier, because it's keeping you far of yourself, exiled in the desert, in the dry dead and lonely prison.

I have not that tendency anymore. It wasn't something like: I want to prove I'm capable and feel valuable. It was more like: I'm afraid of many things, and that fear traps me. I feel trapped, and if I don't face my fear, it will become impossible to confront, an eternal prison that will trap me in hell 😅. My parents were very neurotic, and since I was about seven years old, I had that idea absolutely clear. If I watched movies where someone was being tortured, I would get an erotic feeling. But now that's not the challenge anymore. I'm not attracted to danger, pain, or anything like that at all. Zero. Now I'm attracted to connection, to what lives and what flows.

Three years ago, I had surgery where they had to remove screws that had been put in my tibia and fibula, drill a small hole in both bones, pass a special thread through, fix two small plates to each side of the bone with screws, and secure the thread there. I already knew the surgeon from the previous operation; he was a young guy, we talked about some topics in the previous visits and have good feeling Right at the moment of the operation, I thought of asking him to do it without anesthesia. The anesthesiologist said that was impossible. I told him to try it and that if I moved even a millimeter, he should anesthetize me. The guy accepted the challenge. When he started, I thought: let's see, if they anesthetize me, they're going to do exactly the same thing, so there's no threat or anything to avoid, just the sensation, and a sensation is just a sensation. The whole thing lasted about 40 minutes, with the sounds of a drill, screws grinding, the guy with blood on his hands and forearms, but I didn't move a millimeter , as my leg was dead, and it didn't hurt that much anyway, because 90% of pain is the feeling that you should run away, that this shouldn't be happening, but if you absolutely convince yourself that it should be happening, the pain becomes just a feeling. At some point, its negative component fades; it's just a feeling, period. Of course I'm not comparing with being burned alive, but it's the same mechanism. If that monk is absolutely convinced that the fact of being burned is exactly what should happen, then the pain changes of frequency. It doesn't have relationship with being enlightened, zero relationship. It's deactivation of the psychological mechanism of pain from the physical sensation. The psychological is stronger, the physical is just a sensation

When we talk about absolute truth, the point is the total absence of structure. If there is any structure, it's relative perception. Absolute truth is total openness to what is. Structures, whether psychotic or not, occur within what is. So, the idea is to empty yourself completely of all structure and all limits and be without limits. If you think, for example, that absolute truth is that you are God, or that reality is a dream, or is love, or consciousness, you are in the realm of relative structure. The total cannot be thought or spoken; you must erase all limits until the total manifests.

I've met some Russians, both men and women, and they were all depressive. There's something bitter about them, but I suppose it's not universal for all Russians Perhaps being Russian is harder than being from other places; their history is extremely difficult.

Means the friction between what you are and what you should be according to the model instilled in your psyche by society. Your system is genetically programmed to absorb these models and give them a great emotional charge. Not being acceptable would be extremely traumatic for you, so much so that, at a certain point, in case of shaming your ancestors, you might seek out a cherry blossom tree under which to sit, write one last poem, and disembowel yourself with a katana.

I don't think so; reality is understandable. In fact, it's quite simple. Reality simply is, since nothing limits it, and the fact of being manifests itself in dynamic and synchronous relationships that are coherent with each other. For example, sinusoidal waves. Where's the mystery?

Conservative people have this idea that in Russia, men are still men, and women are still women. Arguments are settled in an MMA fight, as they should be, and women know their place: to be extremely sexy and pursue rich men. All of this is washed down with copious amounts of vodka to combat depression. It sounds like a fascinating plan.

Where is the mistake?

The key is not meditation, but the absence of inner friction. It's about teaching from childhood that operating from comparison, from external factors, is a mistake, a low level, cowardly, a puppet, easily manipulated. We must teach the courage to follow one's inner compass, to be absolutely sovereign over oneself. Then you can meditate if you want.

Putin is an intelligent, balanced, and patriotic guy. I agree with that. But the small problem is that he's a dictator. So, if a country's system depends on chance making the current dictator good, it's a disaster, because when Tsar Putin I dies, who's going to govern? There are a lot of radical lunatics in the Russian leadership; rolling the dice to see who comes out on top seems a bit risky as an ideal system. The Chinese system is much better designed. In fact, it's masterfully designed.

Iran is a problem for the US, a source of instability, a declared enemy, and for Israel it's something more: a feared enemy. Initially, this war had the approval of 90% of Israelis. They fear Iran. At one point, it seemed the regime was weak; perhaps a push would bring it down. And failing that, its offensive capabilities are neutralized as much as possible. Every year that passes, Iran grows militarily stronger. It manufactures high-quality missiles, and it manufactures many. It is disrupting the military balance of the region. Saudi Arabia and the Emirates fear it. And the nuclear issue. Now everyone says that's a bluff but the fact is that Iran has been trying it and it would be disastrous for the balance in middle west if in some point they get it So, the decision is made to intervene militarily, a decision suggested to Trump, already planned for some time, and action is taken. The result is uncertain, perhaps disastrous, perhaps positive in the long term for the economy and stability of the region. Oversimplification is a mistake; things are more nuanced than they seem. In my opinion it's a big mistake because the regime would fall in some years naturally, and this action is going to legitimate it.

The fact that he was tortured without flinching isn't so important. Many mystics and non-mystics have done it. In the photos Cetus posted, you can see a Buddhist monk burning without moving a muscle. This isn't unique; it's happened hundreds or thousand of times What I find interesting about al-Hallaj is what he conveys. No other mystic gives me the impression of total openness. There's something different about him; there's no bridge between him and the absolute, it's the absolute expressing itself as a human. But of course, this is a subjective impression.

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.