Kuba Powiertowski

Fortunately, stress tests are built into human reality. They will always tell us the truth about ourselves. The question of whether we are ready for it is a completely different but equally fundamental issue. Nothing worthwhile in life comes easy or pleasant. It's the same with wisdom. It usually comes to us after a series of disasters, often with a common cause. The spiritual path includes, among other things, the gradual dismantling of impermanent illusions pretending to be marble monuments.

@ivankiss Agony and ecstasy are built into the flywheel of the experience of being human. No spells can change that. You can only gradually accept it more and more and find in this acceptance the path to inner peace, or you can rebel and curse reality. It won't help, but it is your sacred choice.

I would add that both are extremely challenging because whether you extinguish or integrate experiences, you do it with all experiences - from very good to very bad. No so easy..

@Bazooka Jesus I have recently got to the point where I see indeed at least to ways of transcendence. One through extinguishing the experience, second through full integration of experience. Both are equally valid, although to quote Wolfgang Smith: "they are polar opposite". If you mix them you will find yourself in total mess.

The case is (not so) serious. Let's assume for a moment that one of us actually managed to break through to the other side of the curtain. All dualities and oppositions disappear. Everything that makes you human disappears. There are no more genders, no man, no woman. You don't have to eat more to satisfy your hunger, sleep to rest, defecate to excrete what you haven't digested. All needs that have their roots in duality and exist only thanks to it disappear. You are able to achieve such a state during your earthly life. This is Nirvana or Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The highest eschaton in Vedic culture. Human self-immolation. Several entities in the world are ready to rise permanently above human limitations and desires. The rest can only speculate how many devils dance on the head of a pin. And nothing comes of these speculations because the difference is the same as between a story about a flight into space and an actual flight into space.

@ivankiss Every post here, no matter how conceptually advanced is in fact spiritual fairy tale. Yours too Dear Friend, as well as all mine😉😘.

@Thought Art Ideology maybe not, identity - certainly.

Can't turn a thing into something which it by definition already is. Duh. I like that🎯 When you see and feel The Divine everywhere, around you and in you then your gratitude becomes the most natural, effortless, everyday prayer😊🙏.

@StarStruck true.

The true power of the Om Namah Shivaya mantra is revealed in the full realization of the impermanence and transience of all bodily, material, thought, and emotional forms. It does not mean that form has no existence. On the contrary, Na-mah means not only obeisance but also - not mine. I'm giving away what's not mine. That's everything - pleasant and unpleasant, good and bad. Nothing here is mine, for there is no one who possesses. Working with this mantra means facing your strongest fears. All fear is the opposite of Love. It is a blockage made of layers of illusions that we have overgrown, which we overlook daily. So realize every day - nothing here is yours, you have never had anything, there is no you. Behind the black, billowing clouds of panic and fear shines the never-quenching Sun of Freedom, hidden deep in the very essence of your existence. Once you feel its rays again, you will never stop looking for it.

We as humans undoubtedly live in times of total chaos and confusion. Since, as it seems to us, we permanently removed Transcendence from reality during the French Enlightenment (science, by force, left the Logos as the indelible Source of Laws - although completely secularized), we have been left to explain the mystery of existence surrounding us only in the horizontal dimension. This gave rise to new forms of belief: in evolution, mental models that have superior causality over what Is, in universal relativism. You can no longer become more dazed by the fumes of your own phantasmagorias. You either see it or you don't. There is no intermediate state between what is real, what exists, and what is unreal. For example, Unconditional Love, which is everything, does not mean acceptance of evil acts against the Truth and Life, but unconditional acceptance, forgiveness, and compassion for the one who commits such acts in ignorance OR WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE. Compassion, because one will face a shorter or longer period of self-condemnation that is not measured by earthly clocks. There are no intermediate states between Truth and Lie, Life and Anti-Life. There is no slight good or any lesser evil. The shadow exists so that you know where the light source is. We are slowly approaching the end of another metaphysical epicycle. Everything indicates that our illusion will once again defeat us. Nevertheless, hope never dies.

All your earthly suffering will turn out to be a little pimple on your ass when you finally realize that you have turned your heart to stone. Wake up.

@Princess Arabia when these awakenings, God-realizations, yogic bursts of energy do not transform you, do not open your Heart wide open - you have wasted time that is given to you and your awakenings might be your wishful imaginary. When Heart is open then Love conquers any divide. All mental constructs simply disappear beacuse they are not needed any more.

@Inliytened1 and yet nothing changes. Fucking remains fucking.

@Theplay This is the way!😊🙏

Great Freedom Fighter🙏 God bless Him, His Family and Friends🙏 My highest respect to Him🙏

Yeah, I'm neither a yogi nor an enlightened one. Rather, I am immersed up to the top of my head in the cesspit of my own egoism, which sparkles with various colors and takes on clothes intended to hide my own moral relativism. It's not a pleasant truth, but it's finally something really true. I feel shame, embarrassment, exhaustion, but also relief. It's time to set off on the long journey home, which, even though it's here now, is also, and paradoxically, so far away.

@Creatorbeing @Breakingthewall The problem is that most people do not want, do not have the time, or strength to get to the bottom of ancient teachings, they only accept, often short, erroneous interpretations of these messages, taken out of a broad context. The shortcuts are the current signum temporis. Everything has to be done immediately, right now because impatient modern man is spinning around his own tail like shit in an ice hole. The axis of Vedic teaching is the same as that of Plato and Christianity. Reality is tripartite with vertical causality. Vedic cosmology: Sat - Being, Chit - Consciousness, Ananda - Bliss. Plato's cosmology: Corpus - Body / Material World, Anima - Mental World / Consciousness, Spiritus - Spirit / Superconsciousness. Christian cosmology: Man of God, Holy Spirit, God the Father. Let's leave the nomenclature aside. The concepts are almost identical and represent aspects of reality contained in Bliss/Super Consciousness/God in the manner of a Russian matryoshka. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Moreover, it is enough to operate more from the level of the heart than from the mind and the view immediately becomes clearer.

@Breakingthewall These are dangers when immature minds pretend to be God. Well.., won't You help to sing?🫡😘

Measuring the development of civilization by the level of technology is more than a misunderstanding. It is a death trap. I assure you that those who built the pyramids and other brilliant and extremely technologically advanced structures all over the Earth had technology that we do not have today. Dot. Maybe they even traveled much further than we do now in the terrestrial and cosmic sense. Maybe we were them? Not very important. And what? They disappeared and if it weren't for these stone buildings, which we are unable to copy today, you wouldn't even know that they once existed. I'm sorry, but nothing will stand the test of time except stone. Maybe one day you'll get a granite iPhone? Who knows?

Really? Hold my beer, wait a moment and watch. Then run as fast as you can back to where you came from. Maybe you'll still have a place to hide. For a while. The same goes for me. Everyone will undergo a proper stress test and it will tell you the truth about you, me, each of us. In a sense it is necessary. This absurd dreamland in which we operate is unsustainable.

@Breakingthewall You won't deny that wisdom has been passed down to us for millennia by great sages and mystics in all corners of the world. From the great Vedic, Taoist, Greek, Middle Eastern (Judaism, Islam), Christian cultures to the wisdom of indigenous peoples on all continents. You talk about Catholicism, but it has as much in common with the teachings of Jesus as the vast majority of high street yoga schools in the West (and probably the same in the East at the moment) have in common with the teachings of the great masters of this path. The truth is everything that every ego is terrified of and does everything to prevent it from being implemented. This means the end of ego. The slow and very painful death of an illusion. A lot of suffering and sacrifices before true liberation. No ego wants this because it is against its nature. No mental constructs change this simple fact, my friend.

@tuku747 Earning and sharing are two different activities with completely different roots. Earning is earning and sharing is sharing. Coming back to the titular enlightenment, this is a saying: "climb mountains so you can see the world, not so the world can see you".

@Breakingthewall crisis is already here and it's only matter of its size, rate of its developement and cruelty for those majorities less fortunate than you or me. Funny... We have had wisdom for thousands of years, and I don't remember when we were so far from it. Everything points out that we fucked up on this piece of rock not once. Perhaps one day it will be possible to break the cyclical nature of this dimension, or maybe it is its inherent feature. I don't know. However, this possible breaking of cyclicality has nothing to do with evolution but with transcendence. That means taking this fucking simple wisdom straight to our hearts for what it is and living here and now according to it. No fairy tales will replace it.

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times."