Fearless_Bum

@Nahm *stares at post with a confused face.

No teacher or teaching will ever help you. Only your own effort and open mindedness to explore the different techniques/teachings will work. If it doesn't work, or makes you feel bad, throw it away. Be careful of the trap of becoming too attached to a teacher, and blindly following them for them and not for the Truth itself. Question everyone, the first person you should be questioning is Leo himself, not implying anything, but if you're serious about this then doubt and inspect every teacher especially those you admire the most. If someone mentions a spiritual teacher or teaching and you become triggered, be honest with yourself and open your mind to the teacher and try it out, then throw it away if it isn't working.

Becoming a fool who loves for no reason .

@Terell Kirby Wisdom has nothing to do with what you know. If the credibility of a spiritual teacher depends on them telling you whatever they think God is, then you'll fall for every trickster out there. You do realize anyone can figure out the nonduality language and just tell you what you want to hear right?

@sir meowski complexity is delicious for the one who suffers ?.

@Wijuu the emotional scale allows one to recognize how you go from Love to Fear/Insecurity. I'd google it, or check out @Nahm 's site as there's a section talking about the scale.

@Wijuu Question the beliefs you hold and keep meditating. Questioning the beliefs you hold is not the same thing as asking questions about how to be free or trying to get it if that makes sense. The emotional scale works, I've confirmed it's no hocus pocus, it's real. Ever heard of it?

@mandyjw it's not a bag, it's the Buddha ?.

@Wijuu trying to get it, is to value "knowing" over Love. Love is foolish and senseless, infinite Love does not, and will never make sense. The trick here is to be in touch with feeling sensation and have the humility to stop trying to know.

Big confession here ?. I find it hard to take interest in people or to continue conversation with others. This is something I want to develop for this machine so I can play with other creators. When I speak to people I mostly listen, the moment they stop feeding me the words I shut off and just stand there lol. I'm only really interested in people vastly wiser than me, not out of arrogance, only that the vast difference in experience/knowledge just gives me that dopamine to be like "I need to know more about you!". This makes it difficult for me to hangout with people my age (twenties), I actually freak out around young people lol, because I think I'm not cool enough to be like them ?. Any ideas to help this bum over here? I'm thinking it's all about building the muscle of being interested in people in general and just asking questions.

@Spiral yea let's have fun! ?

Just keep meditating and letting go of beliefs. This solipsism shit disappears eventually, not a single thought about solipsism arises here anymore. Solipsism always implies that there is only one, which implies a belief in separation. Notice you can only hold the belief you're the only one if you still think you're separate from reality. In raw direct experience, there isn't even one being, there's just reality/infinity and that's it, any concerns about how other people are you or about you being the only one are just more thoughts to let go of.

Ego isn't a person really, rather it's a misunderstanding that leads to a feeling of dense-ness. The thing is that everyone's big bag of misunderstandings is different, so you have to see for yourself what your misunderstandings are. When you investigate the Actual real thing that the word ego points to, you'll inevitably find its a contractive dense feeling in the center of reality, perpetuated by the belief that there is a center to reality.

@somegirl who knows why, let's just be fucked up human beings together ??. @Byun Sean I'll start talking about myself, let's do it!

@SamC true, I guess I'm fine then ?.

@SamC hey buddy ?, let's not fall into any deeper thought stories of somehow being given the short end of the stick, we got this! ? I would rather propose the question: is there any way, a "higher" way to love every single being in your presence without the conventional methods of hugs and kisses? Why does one have to talk exchange knowledge with others? Can one be like a dying dried up leaf full of love? I'm contemplating this rn ?.

@SamC @ZenRising thanks for the responses guys ?. So the muscles where it's at huh. Yep, even when I respond to people I come off as sarcastic or that I don't care, it's just that lack of dopamine, I swear I'm not a sociopath ?.

We could've continued making spaghetti jokes, but you guys want war instead ?.

@BenG parmasean cheese works wonders.

@Someone here yes, no one knows actually, don't let anyone fool you. As any near death experience is well...near death...and not actually death. But once the psychological death occurs, there's not much interest in asking about physical decay.

@Someone here when it comes to the physical process, I really don't know. Maybe contemplating whether your body is actually alive or dead right this moment can help bring clarity. When it comes to the psychological you, relaxation and constant humbling by infinity and the world (Spoiler alert: they're the same ?).

@Someone here I actually went to a funeral recently and saw the dead body of a family member, she didn't look very afraid or tense ?. The "how do you know" is asked by the one who is afraid, it wants to make sure it'll be safe, you just gotta jump in. The more you jump into the fundamental fear the more infinity will melt "you" away. For some this has happened instantly and for others (this one right here ?) it's gradual.

@Someone here just to add a little Insight along with what @Raptorsin7 said: Consider that death is the ultimate relaxation and that fear is a response to keep "you" here, hence why you tense up.

@blankisomeone Id say that every ideology whether a the material or spiritual one, is attempting to do the same thing. So if you can investigate for yourself and see that its all the same game, then the whole thing becomes laughable.

If you hate materialists, then what position are you holding which causes this reactiveness? Im assuming youre a spiritualist?