Toby

You could have a look at developmental lines in Ken Wilber's model. There might be people that are highly developed intellectually but very "low" spiritually or even morally, e.g. politicians, leaders of certain companies and so on. It is also possible to be very "high" spiritually but very "low" on an emotional or relational level. Happens also frequently because a lot of people start their journey as an escape in certain domains.

Enlightenment = meditation 24/7

Imagine either one of these two scenarios: 1) You are terminally ill of cancer and are about to die in weeks to months. 2) Someone or some group has caught you and is going to kill you in the next hours or days. What would you do if you find yourself in both or one of these scenarios?

The only women I am not open to date are muslim women that have a fundamentalistic family and would threaten to kill me or her. And I also would not date a woman that has criminal friends which is also a "culture". Other than that I am ok with different "races" or "cultures". I only dated one girl so far that was of a different "race" (black), it didn't work out well, but it had nothing to do with "race".

I would see that "spiritual" states or experiences as just a natural coming and going of "highs" and "lows". The buddhist have this image of the wheel of samsara. Sometimes you are up, sometimes down, I would investigate more on what does not change or investigate who or what had the experience, because that is not defined by states or experiences.

That he wants to destroy the world (made up by the mind) that people live in and deliver them into the truth?

Some use it interchangeable, some (e.g. Nisargadatta Maharaj, Adyashanti) don't. Those who don't say that Awareness is the absolute in which consciousness arises in.

? Doesn't make sense. You pick something, anything. This evokes a certain quality that is inherent in you already and you "meditate" on it. Why wouldn't that be contemplation? Doesn't matter if it is just one sentence or one page or a picture of a master or anything.

This is contemplation. You pick a phrase or "passage" that resonates and you contemplate it. Can be very helpful. A book where different approaches (meditation, contemplation, inquiry) are described is The Way of Liberation by Adyashanti.

Get a teacher and ask him/her your questions. It's better that someone competent can mirror to you what you are and also point out misconceptions than people that are also just on the path.

That is not something that most men think about I'd guess. It's like a non-issue and doesn't matter. You like some people and don't like others, some men have a certain skill or "success" in a certain area of life, some may not. Basically this does not matter, because everyone is as they are. And the words "power" or "likeability" don't even make sense to most men imo. They just do what they want to do, and that's it.

@cetus56 seems fake and acted. Idk...

too funny not to post:

? Isn't it like "common knowledge" to meditate right before and right after sleep?

Anthony de Mello: I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be "I'm an Ass, You're an Ass". That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, "You're wrong" I say, "What can you expect of an ass?"

Yes, of course it's fine if a woman has no interest. And it's also fine if the man then breaks off the contact because he has better things to do.

? If she isn't someone who just wants sex then it was pretty obviously a rejection. And why would he meet with her, when she only wants a friendship or sex? Doesn't make any sense, so wasting any more time, energy and attention on someone that unreceptive is just not very wise.

Don't waste your time on this woman. There are enough other girls out there, maybe even in the exact same course.

"Osho - LSD: Shortcut To False Samadhi" was released as a small book that is out of print but you can legally find an excerpt in the book "The Great Challenge" in Chapter 4. He seems not a big fan of LSD or any psychedelics. If you've read it, what are your comments on it?

You could get this book (https://www.amazon.com/dp/189058004X/) and do the anger meditation that is in it.

Another good video

Get "The End of Your World" by Adyashanti as Audiobook or Book and get to the traps-chapter. It could be some aspect of the "meaningless"-trap.