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Even Leo says that there's risks with psychedelics. So it's not just stories to remain asleep.

Quote from Adyashanti, from the book "The end of your world": "Most of what we are told about awakening sounds like a sales pitch for enlightenment. In a sales pitch, we are told only the most positive aspects; we may even be told things that are actually not true. In the sales pitch for awakening, we are told that enlightenment is all about love and ecstacy, compassion and union, and a host of other positive experiences. It is often shrouded in fantastic stories, so we come to believe that awakening has to do with miracles and mystical powers. One of the most common sales pitch includes describing enlightenment as an experience of bliss. As a result, people think, "When I spiritually awaken, when I have union with God, I will enter into a state of constant ecstacy". This is, of course, a deep misunderstanding of what awakening is. There may be bliss with awakening, because it is actually a by-product of awakening, but it is not awakening itself. As long as we are chasing the by-products of awakening, we will miss the real thing. This is a problem, because many spiritual practices attempt to reproduce the by-products of awakening without giving rise to the awakening itself. We can learn certain meditative techniques - chanting mantras or sing bhajans, for example - and certain positive experiences will be produced. The human consciousness is tremendously pliable, and by taking part in certain spiritual practices, techniques, and disciplines, you can indeed produce many of the by-products of awakening- states of bliss, openness, and so on. But what often happens is that you end up with only the by-products of awakening, without awakening itself. It is important that we know what awakening is not, so that we no longer chase the by-products of awakening. We must give up the pursuit of positive emotional states through spiritual practice. The path of awakening is not about positive emotions. On the contrary, enlightenment may not be easy or positive at all. It is not easy to have our illusions crushed. It is not easy to let go of long-held perceptions. We may experience great resistance to seeing through even those illusions that cause us a great amount of pain. This is something many people don't know they're signing up for when they start on a quest for spiritual awakening. As a teacher, one of the things that I find out about students relatively early on is whether they are interested in the real thing - do they really want the truth, or do they actually just want to feel better? The process of finding the truth may not be a process in which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process during which we need to look at things honestly, sincerely, and truthfully - and that may or may not be an easy thing to do. The sincere call from reality to reality, the sincere call to awaken, comes from a very deep place within us. It comes from a place that wants the truth more than it wants to feel good. If our orientation is simply to feel better in each moment, then we'll continue to delude ourselves, because trying to feel better in the moment is exactly how we delude ourselves. We think our delusions are making us feel better. In order to awaken, we must break out of the paradigm of always seeking to feel better. Of course, we want to feel better; it's part of the human experience. Everybody wants to feel good. We are hardwired to seek more pleasure and less pain. But there is an even deeper impulse within us, and that is what I describe as the impulse to awaken. It's this impulse to awaken that gives us the courage to look at all the ways in which we deceive ourselves."

What about this one: No psychedelics either.

"No teaching, no teacher, no student." — H. W. L. Poonja. Also known as Papaji

@justfortoday I doubt it, but ok, maybe.

Misidentification with the body/mind. He didn't understand that he's the witnessing Consciousness. Narrow-minded. Someone should have zen-slapped him and told him: "Think bigger. Reality is more than your little mind and body. If the clock breaks, the clockmaker keeps living. The clock is dependent on the clockmaker, but the clockmaker isn't dependent on the clock. So guess what you ultimately are."

@something_else I don't give a fuck about this world, I hate everything here, I don't want to live, which part of did you not understand? "Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?" — Emil M. Cioran

Yes. Maybe try to understand that not everyone are succesful with women.

@something_else Please leave me alone, spare me your pathetic smartass comments.

This isn't going anywhere since you don't respect my likes and dislikes, and you think that everyone are like you. You would only get happy if I'm a copy of you.

How do you know there isn't a poop sausage somewhere in the world which is really beautiful and you want to shoot a 4K video of? Have you really seen all poop sausages in the world? If not, you can't be sure whether such a poop sausage exists or not. You must now go and see every poop sausage in the world.

Good for you that you like all those things, but I don't. I'm not going to waste all my time and energy on exploring everything in the world just to prove you that I don't like what you like.

The world is the most boring place ever. God is stupid, anyone could have created something better. I'm not at all interested in traveling to other countries, I don't give a fuck about food, there's no interesting activities, etc.

@something_else Only women excite me. It's aaalll about women. But can't have that. So..

But.. I got it because I have a diagnosis.. I also get free dental care thanks to my diagnosis. So getting a diagnosis can help too.

She was about average attractive. During how long? The rest of my life if I wanted to. But I canceled it because I didn't really like it.. but other people can like it. I live in Sweden.

@Hello world So have you even tried professional help? The society really doesn't want you to committ suicide. You can try to take advantage of that. Interesting things happen as soon as you tell them that you're suicidal. If you just call 911 they'll break your door and take you to hospital. For example they gave me a woman who I could meet once a week. I could choose that they would give me a woman who I would meet once a week. She was working voluntarily. Of course it wasn't sexual and it didn't lead to anything with her but still, I could be social and do things with a woman. Normal stuff like go out on walks, cinema, go to coffeehouse, hang out at my place, etc.

I'm venting because I'm completely alone. Yawn.

No idea from where you got the idea that maybe it doesn't hurt to die. I'm sure you can find videos for example here https://theync.com/ where they scream out their pain the moment before they die.

Mic drop.

You don't know about his life situation, emotional state, etc. Mind your own business, not every life is the same.

But yes girls are brutal. Beyond brutal. They have made me cry more than anything else in life. I've done that clubbing alone thing a billion times with zero success. But you might have better luck.

Whatever happens, it will be just another passing experience on the screen of consciousness.

Genetics+childhood. Maybe better luck in next life.