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You say that you have realized that everything is completely meaningless and subjective. Yet at the same time you interpret the words in your head as incredibly full of meaning and totally objective. Also, if you know that everything is meaningless then whether you feel good or bad is also meaningless, yet you seem to desire to feel good in stead of bad.

You are already enlightened bro. Trying to create the perfect circumstances for you to become enlightened only prevents you from realizing your own enlightenment because in reality there is nothing to control.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. An answer only exists when the question is asked. The lamp is both on and off, and it's neither on nor off etc. Questioning duality is fun, you can do it forever and ever. There is always a new slice of cake to cut.

If you have big insecurities you are always going to attract people and situations that will try to poke at those insecurities. In stead of trying to avoid those situations and resist them by lashing out, it's more effective if you deal with your demons. If you are insecure about being unemployed that is your own projection about your current situation, objectively it doesn't make you any less valuable than any other human being. There of plenty of people who don't give a fuck if they are out of a job for a while, they would just laugh if someone tried to bust their balls about unemployment. Don't just lazily accept that your insecurities are part of your personality or something, that is what victims do. You are only a victim if you want to be one. Your insecurities is life's way of telling you, hey your perspective on reality is off here.

I recommend this guy watches some Star Trek on Netflix and realize that Spock wasn't always right. Logic has merit but it's extremely limited.

If that is the question then I would have to answer no. Reading peoples insights only inspires me to further my own search but the words themselves rarely, if ever, bring me some kind of insight which really helps me deepen my understanding of my experiential reality. For that, only my own words and analysis of reality seem to be of benefit.

Pretty good. But the ultimate question is, are you really experiencing this insight or is it a logical conclusion of the mind?

I don't have a family of my own but I think having Family as a value is great. And it can definitely be part of your Life Purpose. Imagine a child that grows up in a household with two parents who are always working full time, and where the parents are more concerned with their jobs than the cohesion of the family. Versus someone who have loving parents and do everything they can to raise their children so that they can grow up to be loving and good human beings. I'd argue that in the second case the children are more likely to be a positive factor in this world, all due to the love of the parents. I'm not saying it has to be that way though. But family is underrated in my opinion. It's too easy to take it for granted and if you feel you are inclined to put high value on family you should do it. Do not let some self help guru shame you into putting less effort into family and instead put it in some stupid career. You should do the things you feel you can put the most love into. If that is a career, fine, if that is family, also fine.

Isn't showmanship something that has always been the norm? I mean Hitler was a very charismatic man who was very convincing in conveying his convictions and ideas. And he was able to convince a whole nation to commit genocide and wage war with the world. Not only politics. Also look at sports, I don't know if any of you guys watch Boxing and MMA where they work with a Pay-per-view broadcast. But not necessarily the best athletes garner the most views or make the most money, it is the most charismatic and enticing personalities that attract the most attention and convince the fans to spend money to watch them perform. Same goes for acting, the best Shakespearian actors of the world are not the highest paid nor most popular actors. It's the one with the pretty face and the most charismatic personality(Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, etc.). You can go on and on.

Some people are genetically prone to store body between the organs in stead of the belly/thigh/ass area where most adipose tissue is normally stored. Especially liver fat is dangerous for your health. And if you eat a diet with a lot of sugar you are more likely to store fat around the liver since the liver converts glucose to fat, and that fat can get stored around the liver. Whereas fatty acids that come directly from the diet are more likely the be stored in the conventional places of belly and thigh area. The dangerous thing is that the symptoms of organ fat will most likely manifest at a later age (40+). And so it can easily be overlooked if you are younger.

Ever suggested that it might be helpful for her if she visited a therapist to talk about her past traumas? If you really feels victimized by the past it doesn't really matter how the people around her act, she will always find a way to put herself in the role of the victim. It doesn't help her at all if you avoid the issue and ignore her behavior, it will only damage your relationship in the long run.

@Peace and Love Yes, I read those books. I don't think Douglas Graham is a real scientist(or doctor for that matter, I may be wrong). I like the T. Colin Campbell book even though he does cherrypick some favorable data to support his claims. But then again, every scientist writing a book does this.

Cowardice gets a really bad rap in this world, and unfairly so. Everywhere; in the movies, novels, politics, religion, self help, even in spirituality, the coward is painted as the bad guy. But, changing the world when you have seen a glimpse of true reality is easy. The cowards are the true bad asses of this world. The coward is so invested in his conceptual self that every moment of the day he can be destroyed. A simple social conversation might annihilate him, a simple rejection can feel as he is solely responsible for the total destruction of the fabric of infinity itself. Because that is what we really are; the fabric of infinity. And out of its kind heart, infinity hides itself in all these conceptual objects for amusement. In stead of ridiculing people who are stifled by fear in midst of a clash between concept and truth, they should be commended for their perseverance as the defenders of concept. Concepts which are expressions of the universe. Walking around all day with the weight of these concepts is no joke. Its like walking around in weighted clothes all day, every day, and around every corner there can be a zombie who wants to eat your brains. And these are the running zombies, not those weak shuffling ones. Try running away from a running zombie with weighted clothes on, every day, that shit will wear on you. And what does our so called “brave” society do? We condemn these souls, we call them weak, we spit on them. We design our society in such a way we subtly eliminate cowardice. Looking away from reality is something to admire, because we are all condemned to return to Truth eventually. And what would have happened if there had never been any people clutching to their false concepts? This world would never even have existed. By shitting on cowards, you shit on this world, you shit on yourself. Look at Gandhi, he acts like he’s all that when he’s got the truth of reality backing him up. A man who knows infinity has got nothing to fear anymore, there is nothing admirable about that. A man who knows infinity can not be destroyed, he is not a man anymore, he is infinity itself. All the people out there who think they are hot shit, who think they are brave and cool. Guess what, you ain’t shit without the true warriors of this reality: The cowards.

The only reason we crave objects like sex, status, money, relationships etc. is because you hope it reduces some kind of suffering in your current situation. You maybe pursue money because of: -You're broke so you need money to pay the bills -You grew up poor so that imprinted the belief in you that money is very important -You think it will get you love and respect from men and women -You think it will grant you freedom -Or whatever else you can think of In all cases you chase money because you have this mental itch, an itch that you want to be scratched by obtaining the object "money". You think you will gain freedom when you get money, you think you can avoid the suffering from your childhood when you were poor etc. So what the ego then says, it says that it wants money. It makes you think that when you get the money you become happy, or that you than acquire happiness. But it won't really make you happy, it may relieve a little bit of suffering you experience in your life but suffering is a bottomless pit. As long as you are clinging now to concepts you will do it forever. The ways this life can make you suffer is literally infinite. Something goes, something new comes. Sure, it can be relatively fun for a while chasing these objects like money, but will it grant lasting happiness? That is where Truth comes in. Truth will make you look at the root of these mental itches. Truth will give you an answer how important money really is, how happy it really makes you. Truth can grant you the happiness you are truly seeking without trying to take it away from external objects. But realize that inaction is not necessarily acceptance of reality. To let a mosquito bite you is not true acceptance, that is simply the ego trying to prove something: "Look at how accepting I am". It is not the ego that accepts reality, it is consciousness that accepts everything including the actions of the character("you"). Keep looking for the ultimate truth, it will set you free. But until you do try to make your life as pleasant as possible, not only for you but also for your environment. Your life experiences will also aid you in finding the truth.

@NTOgen Yes it's true. Even though my topic was intended as slightly ironic. In the way of that people are very quick to judge people who do not seem 'brave' in the eyes of society but having an ego is in itself is a very brave thing to do. We look down on people who struggle with anxieties and fears and we give them no sympathy. And people who struggle with these problems simply don't know how to get rid of the fears, because the fear is rooted within ignorance, within ego. The best thing our society can come up with is useless psychotherapy and drugs, always drugs. Society is not willing to look at the core of all personal problems carefully, because of ego. The collective ego has too much invested in this game to give itself up.

What I am getting at is that it is virtually impossible to get an inadequate protein intake provided that the person consumes sufficient calories. Even die hard raw fruitarians, whether they seem to have certain deficiencies or not, do not show any signs of protein deficiency diseases. Again, if they consume the needed total calories the body requires to sustain a healthy body weight. Of course the body needs amino acids to thrive, it just does not need animal protein for it to do so. And the amount of protein people think they need is vastly overestimated.

There has never been a protein deficiency disease detected at a person with adequate caloric consumption. Protein deficiency symptoms occur at people who are starving.

Inner and outer are the same thing, that is the true realization. Putting this emphasis on "inner evolution" just aggrandizes the ego, it loves terms like this. The ego loves to "grow" itself.

You are trying to get rid of the ego, or as you slyly say, "see through the ego". Well, that is just ego, it's the ego that wants to see through the ego. But obviously, it really doesn't want to do that because that would mean the end to him. The ego isn't like a cancer you can just cut out and be done with it. It has to be placed in the correct perspective, a perspective which is beyond concepts. You say you have gained awareness, but what does that mean really apart from being able to label some of your experiences? Gaining awareness is not adding more concepts to your reality, it's also not about getting rid of any concepts as well, It's about realizing the underlying truth that pervades all of existence. If you want to transcend the ego you have to go beyond all concepts and labels, yet without negating anything in your experience. There is no easy answer here. No person can give you a truly satisfactory answer because you already possess the truth, there's nothing here for you to know. And a substance is definitely not going to give you the answers you desire.

Notice, every single moment a thought arises, a thought dies. A sensation arises, a sensation dies. A sound arises, a sound dies, an image arises, an image dies. You don't think twice about it when it happens, because you are still there. When the body dies, you don't think twice about it, you are still there.

A common trap is people are trying to objectify awareness, they are looking for a state or an object as awareness. But you will never find it. Try to look past all the sensations, concepts, thoughts. Try to look at your direct experience as critically as you can, without thinking about enlightenment, perceiver, consciousness etc. The truth of reality is right here presently.

If you really want to get real and not buy into the Hollywood version of love then you first have to accept that you can never love a "person". Love between separate entities does not exist. True love is always a love for the self, the self meaning consciousness or awareness, not the ego. The reason separate ego's can experience love is because a romance can relieve their feelings of being a separate self. But it's not the other person that is responsible for this relieve, it is always consciousness itself that is relieving itself from the illusion of separation. If you believe that you can only feel this love when you are in a relationship with a partner, you will always feel anxious about losing that love. You will always project that love in that person, you have put a condition on love. If you want "real love", you have to recognize first that the love is in you. Love is not between people. When you recognize true love within you, then you will attract the right person to compliment your life. The relationship will be an expression of true love, yet not dependent on the two people who are involved in it(if that makes sense).

It's not the ego, or the body, that has awareness. The ego and the body appear in awareness. You also can not become more or less aware, you can only realize that there is only awareness. If it is possible to become more or less aware it implies that there is a separate awareness within the body hidden somewhere, which there is not. A sensation appears, just as a thought appears, an image appears etc. All within one consciousness. And this one consciousness can not be objectively found within manifestation because awareness is the totality of the manifestation. Just like a mirror, you can only see the reflections that appear within the mirror, you can never see or imagine the mirror without the reflection.

When any product/teacher promises you permanent succes with women/money/health/enlightenment it's a scam. Not saying it can't help, or it's totally useless, but it's impossible to guarantee success in anything in life. Especially a topic like enlightenment is very nuanced and individual dependent.

Why then has there never been a recorded case of a person dying - or even being sick - from protein deficiency? Regardless of being vegan or not. The only thing people die of, pr get sick, is calorie deficiency, aka starvation. You gave yourself way of not knowing much about nutrition when you mentioned bone broth as a good protein source. The protein in bone broth is gelatin which is not a complete protein and can't be used in the human body.