vladorion

All the things that you've listed (except carnivore diet) will do the opposite of grounding. From what you've been posting it seems like you need to work on loving and accepting yourself so that you're not dependent on attention, love and acceptance from others.

The question of meaning only arises when you're living in your mind. If your life is a mess and you have a lot of issues, you're not enlightened.

There are already several variants. By the time they develop vaccines for the new variants and everybody takes them, there will be dozens of new variants.

What practices did you use to get where you are now?

You don't enjoy suffering. You think you enjoy it because you're attached to it. And you're attached to it because you believe you'll get god's good grace by suffering enough.

God is not imagining anything. The one imagining is part of the imagination. God also doesn't fall asleep, as Leo claims. It is consciousness that fools itself (which begins by consciousness believing it is God), but in truth even consciousness doesn't exist.

Simply forcing your attention to be in the present moment rarely works. It's important to investigate what causes monkey mind. When you find yourself lost in thinking, ask yourself, "what do I want to get by thinking this?". You'll find that you can narrow it down to just a few things: acceptance, approval, love and peace. Realize that others won't be able to give those things to you, it will never be enough. Feel that acceptance, approval, love or peace that you wanted to get from others. You can give it to yourself. With enough practice, your mind will become less needy and you'll have an easier time living in the present.

If evil is caused by ignorance, which I agree with, then fighting evil doesn't help because you're not removing the ignorance that is causing it. And removing ignorance is up to each individual. You can't do it for others. You're basically fighting with symptoms. Which isn't to say that criminals shouldn't be put in jail etc. which is a practical thing. But if you see them as evil that needs to be fought, it's just a reflection of your state of consciousness.

Don't forget: Trump is God. All his actions are pure love.

God didn't create anything.

There is a difference between identifying with the Absolute and realizing that there is only the Absolute. In the first case, there is still someone there who is identifying with it, and identification is only possible with something relative. In the Absolute there's only the Absolute. No place for something else because there is nothing else. By imaginary I mean an image of it in the mind which is confused for the real thing. And this distinction is important because people often have an awakening, lose it and then try to recreate it in their mind. Saying that there are no distinctions... well, you might as well identify with a shoe since it's also it.

It's not possible to identify with the essence of the Absolute because it's not an experience that can be identified with. If there is such an identification, it means a relative experience (usually an imaginary Absolute) has been appointed to be the Absolute.

I go to this mahasamadhi every night.

Multiple experiences don't require duality if it is known that it is the same essence unfolding as multiplicity. The experience of duality happens when experiences are believed to have their own existence.

In case he didn't mahasamadhi, he'll mahasamadhi then.

The 'small you' is the ego identified with individuality and the 'big you' is the ego identified with universal aspects. Same entity, different clothing.

Why do you want to do that?

Something that is infinite cannot be the ultimate. Infinity still implies some sort of space. Without space, the concept of infinity collapses. The ultimate realization is not infinity. It is the essence of both infinity, finity and absolutely everything that can be experienced.

The mind won't be beautiful as long as it's serving a false entity.

The witness, consciousness and awareness are all different things. The witness is actually an egoic stance. When you start dissolving identifications, at some point the ego will jump to "I'm a witness unaffected by anything", but it's just the opposite side of "I'm a victim and everything is affecting me". I agree that thinking about consciousness is pointless. It's not about studying anything. Studying is only important in order to understand how to practice.

There's actually a teacher named Anadi that teaches that.

It's guilt and self-punishment, basically. But not as a person. A person is already the result of it.

Perfectly said.

No. Awareness is one of its primary aspects. Absolutizing one of the primary aspects is how individual consciousness avoids realizing God, because it still keeps its identity as "the one who is deciding what the Absolute reality is", which places it even above the Absolute.

There are 2 types of non-duality. 1 - Consciousness and its appearances are not two (there is no ego at this point). This consciousness is still separate from its Essence/God, by believing that it IS God/Absolute/Has its own existence. 2 - Consciousness is let go of and only God remains. Usually, when people use the term non-duality, they talk about the first type. True non-duality IS God realization.