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Would you agree that knowledge is an appearance within consciousness? And that because it is an appearance it can't adequately describe the consciousness it appears within?

As someone who vapes , I completely agree with Leo vaping is stupid, pointless. It doesn't even get me buzzed anymore I vape because if I don't I get withdrawls. And I started because I wanted to maintain my oral fixation after quitting weed.

Ultimate truth is whatever is arising in the present that being said, there's a whole other aspect to truth which is discovering more of what is arising in the present so untruth, which is actually still truth, is not understanding what is arising, and you already experience that (at the same time that you experience absolute truth of course) Im pretty sure if materialism were true there would be no possibility of consciousness, so there would be no experience. Reality would be physical, not mental

It's very easy to test psychic phenomena with programming

Obviously you can never escape all suffering , but so much of it is pointless mind chatter I'd rather fall into one of these traps than the other . And they are both traps.

Not checking the forum for a month was very nice Ive done more socializing Learning how to dj Got a fulltime job as a software engineer Now I understand why people start their own business

Buddhism is good at what it was designed for deconstructing suffering

impermanence is Your, God’s, infinite love of novelty death is the ultimate expression of Love

ahh shit is it just semantics, or do you think there is something different between solipsism and nonduality? when I think of solipsism, I guess what I’m thinking of is my own ego being everything. so that’s what, I believe, alien consciousness would disprove.

technically, to debunk solipsism you'd have to experience becoming a different consciousness.... alien consciousness?

Brad warner talked about this. “nonduality” wasn’t really a thing 2500 years ago. the thing the Buddha was saying doesn’t exist is what we would call ego. Zen and Advaita began the true self doctrine about a thousand years after the Buddha died

Buddhism has lots of different schools with lots of different teachings, and even within the schools there is a variety of belief. Huang Po understands. The text you've shared is from the beginning of "The Chün Chou Record of the Zen Master Huang Po (Tuan Chi)," which is part of John Blofeld’s translation of Huang Po's teachings. The excerpt reads as follows:⸻ PART ONE The Master said to me: All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn1 and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance. It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you see before you—begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. The One Mind alone is the Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient things, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using the Buddha to seek for the Buddha and using mind to grasp Mind. Even though they do their utmost for a full aeon, they will not be able to attain to it. They do not know that, if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them, for this Mind is the Buddha and the Buddha is all living beings. It is not the less for being manifested in ordinary beings, nor is it greater for being manifested in the Buddhas.

it's beneficial for the west to keep russia tied up in that war indefinitely. aid is flowing, but not enough, just enough to keep them in the fight, presumably forever we live in the dark ages.

the better question would be ”Why is God suffering in hell?”

but honestly, the spiritual benefit of fasting is questionable. it doesn’t lead to awakening.

believing psychic abilities are a sign of awakening believing awakening is one - dimensional belieiving awakening is the same for everyone

prison planet, that’s one of the most dangerous false teachings I’m aware of. law of attraction / manifestation isnt necessarily wrong, but it would be way more effective to work on yourself and especially your self esteem than try to manifest by doing some techniques. guru’s grace, transmissions, anything that makes you believe you can awaken without work. wow this thread is reminding me of the two cults I was involved in.

if you do no water don’t do it without water fasting for a couple days before. and I wouldnt go more than 16 hours without water.

Hello Does the teaching of infinite imagination contradict the advaita view that reality is fundamentally awareness? Is there a part of consciousness which is not awareness? is imagination and infinite intelligence other than awareness? thank you.

All for one, one for all. I’m starting to think alien consciousness means actually becoming another awareness. the end of solipsism. That would be the most profound fucking thing .

true. believing I was God was a big ego trip. smoking weed fed into that. Getting sober while doing spiritual work has been the best thing in my life.

I have a casual interest in the subject but I can get a glean of the immense complexity of what this is by looking at the complexity of math Physics reminds me that there is more to awakening than just an empty void of nothingness that buddhists talk about. if that was the end all, well, I don’t see why we would be able to talk about it!

that’s a very poetic way of saying it

that’s one level of awakening, but there seems to be an immense degree of intelligence, structure and intent behind this nothingness. after all, the heart beats , the mind thinks and the body speaks.

I’m not sure. I’ve been obsessed with God as far back as I can remember, watching the pirates of the caribbean movies and learning about voodoo. did you know voodoo means “spirit of God”?