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Great mind and body of work, but He just leaves you wishing because you can clearly see that he was still anchored to a materialistic frame ("what?! Jung?" Yes). Nontheless, his model is very insightful: Concepts like the Persona, the Shadow, the Anima, The Archetipes, The personal/collective Uncouscious are very useful in personal developement as well as in spiritual work.

I don't know if this was posted before, but nevertheless: Intresting interpretation of Putin's motives, touching Hegelian Filosophy, consumerism, war economy and more. This guy is blowing up recently due to his analysis of the Iran - USA/Israel conflict.

I Checked in this afternoon and read the whole thread: as always, you are a pleasure to read, your chronicles are profound and fun at the same time. My personal arc of action and struggle will start soon again and your attitude is an example. Positivity, resilience, boldness, sincerity and wit. (plus, your music taste is immaculate). Now i disappear, don't want to mess with the flow of the narration...

@saif2 Being more developed doesn't mean you are completely exempted from doing nasty shit. The West is less currupted then Russia or Iran, but still currupted. Good indicators of developement are: Social and civil rights of Citizens, Freedom of the Press, Level of Corruption, Form of Governement (democracy/dictatorship/monarchy etc.). If you compere, let's say, Norway with Saudi Arabia, by looking at this statistics you can clearly see which country is more developed in the therms of SD.

@Santiago Ram - just wrong, he has never been this black and white. He has often stressed the importance of balance. - it's more complex than this, but you are probably not willing to get it. An if You truly were Awakened You'd know that there is only one experience process and inevitably every Diety you encounter is part of the same process. No object can stand outside of it, otherwhise it would be unknown to You. - not true, he has remarked many times how religious thext contain valuable information. The problem with them is that they are sometimes difficult to decode as they are aften written through metaphors or covered in esoteric language. Add the cultural differences and the damage is done. - Enlightenment is a multifaceted word. What you mean by it is probably not what Leo means. So your "evidence" is basically a castle in the air. Bye.

@Aaron p It's normal, and it happens whenever you are trying togenerate some change in general. Sometimes It's gonna be internal causes like low energy or rationalization, sometimes external factors like a person needing your help etc. We are not unitary beings and the part of you that is lazy/at peace/ complacent/ in the comfort zone/ will sometimes throw at you shot to try to derail You. Just enough to distract You.

@Snt_lk This is a classic legitimate question that arise from a classic misunderstand. When You hear some teacher say "reality is not real" they are making an observation about the nature of reality, not its content or effects. If you get hammered on the head You're gonna hurt , bleed and die, and that's all very real. This doesn't change the fact that the Hammer, the blood and death, your body, your whole life are part of an imagination process that makes up every perception including the perception of "realness" or "matter". Every perception has very real consequences. The attention must be on the source or nature of those preception. "real" is a very misleading concept expecially for newbies, so I get the doubts. Even though relity is always mutating, there is a coherence, an Intelligence, a Logos, linking every perception through logic and by laws. No object or living being as an indipendent experience. They ultimately exist solely through your point of view. But even if the stage is one, the actors in the play can be multiple.

It's not a mistake that there exist something called Fascist Mysticism. Why? - The psyche need some sort of obscure spiritual ideal to make it the source of its values, otherwire nasty actions wuold be to revolting to bear. -also, low cognitive developement. Stage Red/Blue are of course going to distort every piece of information they get in contact with, let alone spiritual material.

@Leo Gura Just looked at the blog post and i came here to say I would LOVE to witness a conversation between you and Ingram A comparison between your perspectives would be fruitful in my opinion, expecially around the topic of God. Is Infinity an experience or Experience itself?. I Think He is the right buddhist to test where that dividing line actually is. Make that happen Leo!

You're not going back, you are simply integrating the positive aspects of stage Orange. That's good

@Asia P If i understand correcly You feel like your attachement to poeple distract you from spiritual practice. So, consider these points: - To dissolve an attachment, You don't necassarely need to separate yourself physically from the object of a attachment. You can enjoy the company of other poeple and cherish their presence without being too dependent on their existence. There is nothing wrong in havong a good time with poeple. You can cut of the attachment without cutting of the object of attachment. - A Monk stilll has to deal with other poeple. Still has survival survival needs. Still needs to contribute with manual labour and study. You won't spend all day on the cushion meditating anyway. Being a Ascetic is even harder mundane work because you are supposedly alone. - Only remove your self from a situation when it is superfluous or is damaging you in a serious way. Not when it brings Joy. So the answer is ultimately yes. Spend time with your loved ones, work/study, and then practice. Actively on your free time, and passively through the day. Then here and there throughout the year, if you can, take a break from everything, rent a room and do mini-retreats.

God, that Lex Freedman post is so shameless. I'm noticing that every pro Trump/Putin/anti-nato are discrediting Zelensky for not paying "respect", while He did pay respect and showed gratitude and all He dered to say is: - that Putin won't be easely talked out of the conflict. - and USA won't reamain uneffected by whatever new developement comes about. 2 absolutely reasonable point to make.

If you guys really think that killing an important CEO is somewhat justified, then You should be glad Mangione is getting the DP, as this would be the best epilogue for his shock philosophy - I think that in his mind, he would want to die like a martyr to see his point proved.

@Ishanga Unfortunately i see misunderstandings of terms are a constant when discussing these topics, i'm glad you got my point.

@Ishanga Let's say You have a dream where someone drop a heavy brick on your foot and You felt pain, then You wake up... The You, the foot, the brick and the pain are imagined, Yet real. How can someone deny the sensation of pain? What we're pointing to is the nature of that sensation. Now, it's the same with the waking state. Easy. Imagined doesn't mean not real - this is a great misunderstanding. Imagined means produced, created though the imagination process. So everything is dependent on nothing and interlinked with everything else. objects don't have indipendent existence, as mush as characters in a movie or in a dream don't. You can imagine that they do, but see, that's the imagination process at work!