Anton Rogachevski

“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God; It was never between you and them anyway." Mother Teresa

You can bend reality anytime you want. You are doing it all the time without knowing. By existing, and making reality exist, you created reality, and so you can make it anything you want. (But not the false you)

You should go deeper on your understanding of SD, I would say 50 years might be too little. Try a couple of lifetimes. (generations) One's capacity of going up stages is physically and biologically limited by the stage of actual evolution. Are all people equally evolved? I don't know.

I sure hope so, good luck on your journey!

@Arhattobe Deep spiritual cleansing, which is what I'm talking about is way more important than enlightenment. Also growing yourself up stages. I see by your words that you have much work to do on humility, acceptance, being loving, and openmindedness. The very saying: "I'm not here to learn." Is extremely alarming, full of arrogance and ignorance. Again please tell me if I'm being too frank. Because I see you are sincere and really want to look at things.

The master is doing many things, while not doing anything. No-control doesn't mean there's nothing to do. The ability to do magnifies incredibly upon realization of no-control. You gotta get there to get it.

Practice spirituality very deeply to resolve. Also watch leo's latest video on self inquiry to understand the relationship between matter(self-actualization) and spirit.

Amazing, sir! Thank you for sharing.

@Arhattobe Based on what I see, there's resentment in you towards ignorance. Any resentment, even if based on reality, is a hindrance of the love within you. Learn to love ignorance to death. Also forgive me for being frank : ) Surprisingly enough that's just what jesus tried to express in his famous words. All is love, all is god's will, it's all ok, forgive the ignorant for they are the left hand of god.

Yuval is an enlightened man (stage yellow I presume), he's writing this book from a perspective of non-duality, which is the essential core of "spirituality". He had practiced vipassana for 14 or more years before writing this book. The only method known to man to be free of these entities is true spiritual practice.

Although I agree and totally empathize with what you said (I actually wanted to say something like that, but didn't think it would yield actual results), I would say: Don't judge the whole by the majority, it's often said that, truly good people are scarce. Models such as spiral dynamics tell us that the highest levels such as yellow and turquoise are less than 1-3% of the whole population. In my personal experience in real life, it's amazingly rare (and very pleasant) to meet someone you can really talk to. I know of 1 maybe 2 such people from everyone I know. I could also say that feeling are not facts, if one doesn't feel loved or accepted it might be projection, and not a fact. Getting hurt by people's insensitivity means a weak ego or low self esteem, one needs to outgrow it entirely, to the point where he's not hurt by people's ignorance. Having general principles in a group also helps very much, I can also tell you from experience with 12 steps groups, which have something that's called the "12 traditions", which is a set of principles everyone talk about and try their best to follow to have a healthy group relationship. Here's my absolutely ignored thread about 12 steps:

"Sri Ramana occasionally indicated that there were three classes of spiritual aspirants. The most advanced realise the Self as soon as they are told about its real nature. Those in the second class need to reflect on it for some time before Self-awareness becomes firmly established. Those in the third category are less fortunate since they usually need many years of intensive spiritual practice to achieve the goal of Self-realisation." What do you think? Is it possible that some people hear it once and get the big E? Seems unreasonable.

@TheAvatarState Do you blame a child for drinking bleach? Or the irresponsible parent?

@TheAvatarState She said that she read many books, so she heard what he said a million times over, but it just didn't register. If the person is not ready it's just not going to happen. She had to grow and develop to reach that point. So I guess in a sense the spiritual path might have helped. Still we don't know that she got it there while talking to Rupert, or will ever get it. Some people simply aren't meant to wake up in this or the next couple of life times, that's just evoulution.

I'm happy to hear man. Thanks for sharing and inspiring. The video though, made me quite sad, to see this woman who was looking for 40 years for something she just can't find. And then the man who keeps telling her the same thing one tells a beginner seeker. This made me realise that there might be a need to recognise when people are not ready, and to keep this trap away from them. She literally burned her precious time doing this to no avail at all. Is there really no other way to help her be conscious and meditate? If we only had a way to recognize and give people the material they currently need to develop, and keeping the too advanced material for when they are ready. I realise how crazy that thought is, but what else can we do?

@Shin Bingo!

@purerogue Some good points. I think he might have referred to which stage on the spiral the seeker is.

@Hellspeed Please pay attention, no one told you to accept any authority, it was your own projection. We can hear and contemplate ideas without automatically believing them. But if you judge and disqualify them prematurely you will lose precious contemplation time, and miss potentially deep insights.

@EternalForest Please be mindful of projection and judgment about zen. Even if it was true, there are still invaluable lessons to be taken from such a rich, rational and highly spiritual tradition. The zen teachings of Bodhidharma, one of the best books on enlightenment, if not the best. Also try not to assume things about psychedelics without trying first. It's an amazing tool, very practical and deeply therapeutic.

Acceptance is an aspect of love, it's a subtle form of it. It's hinted in the fact that applying acceptance brings peace and removes suffering. From simple observation one could easily conclude that love and consciousness are somehow related, since conscious beings act in general more lovingly and compassionately. In many traditions god was referred to as loving, and love appears to have a healing power on us. Our intuition senses that love is important, and therefore we talk about it a lot, write books, songs and films about it. Obviously this is not romantic love (although it is a partial manifestation of it), or the idea of perfect love, but a natural force that has an important role in reality. It is the light that shines from god upon himself, the tool he uses to battle his dark side, the devil in him. It is the energy of life that gives balance to things and keeps equilibrium. Without it god wouldn't be able to do much. If we lack love, we get sick, depressed and die soon. We are blessed with love all around us, and thus saved by god. He's giving it to us constantly in hope that we might learn to recieve it one day. So if love is godly it means, it has the same elusive nature, so everything I say is love, is not love. Love is the lover. It's you.

Then, by trying to explain the unexplainable, the master realises what a foolish task he took upon himself, how insignificant he is to this process, and that he can't teach anything to anyone, since god took care of everything long ago, it's all good as it is, it's all going in the right direction, that experience brings further humility. It must be so, because that's the persistent nature of the ego.

Could it be that the student is actually the master, and the master a student? I came across such a thought today after a meeting with a trainee. I've been coaching him for a couple of months now, and now I'm starting to see that he's a greater man than me. I have actually ended up learning by trying to "teach" him, but the only difference is, that I'm experienced with some so called 'spiritual knowledge', and he's not at all, still he shows amazing personality traits such as humility, good-heartedness, care for humanity, compassion, he knows how to enjoy life and has great hobbies, good at being a friend. From the start I was very cautious with the nature of our work, stating that I'm not a teacher, and that we are working equally towards the same goal. But now I actually see that. Amazing! Who teaches who?

"When we achieve that, there will be no desire or thought of any sort. So long as one desires liberation, so long, you may take it, one is in bondage." "Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh; it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought ‘I have not realised’. Stillness or peace is realisation. There is no moment when the Self is not. So long as there is doubt or the feeling of non-realisation, the attempt should be made to rid oneself of these thoughts. They are due to the identification of the Self with the not-Self. When the not-Self disappears, the Self alone remains. To make room, it is enough that objects be removed. Room is not brought in from elsewhere." Ramana Maharshi

So it was the master's trick all along - to get you to believe you were the master, and to come to you as "student", asking for advice, if you are willing to believe that you are in fact the Master, you have unknowingly become a student.

While in the dream of "reality" we appear to be living in the same "objective reality". (That is due to low consciousness.) But in truth we don't live in any reality, we don't live at all nor die. The only 'thing' that exists is an infinite unity that's outside of our perception (The perceiver), it's dividing itself into seemingly separate cells, and forgets that it did it, and so we come into being, believing we are individual finite creatures, until we wake up one day and remember our primordial unity, we then dissolve back into infinite being, and so the cycle goes on. Obviously this story is not the truth, but it attempts at best to point to it. The truth is not hidden, it's right in front of you. Wake Up!