Davino

Oh I love it As a hispanic proverb says: If Mom had wheels, she would be a bicycle. I did not say that. I said they were not my priority. We do not pick what we like and what we dislike. It just happened that I did love truth from a very young age just for its own sake and above all my other preferences. It does not make sense in the way you have strawmanned me Yes I sometimes love feeling special. I used to love feeling special when I was a kid. I thought I was so intelligent. Yet when I saw the real intelligent people I was crushed. Discovering I was not in the elite of intelligence destroyed all my self image. It was hard for some years. However, in my pursuit of Truth I have been feeling quite special and I continue to feel so. Let's close this with your quote: I really like it. I never saw it from that perspective

Just two months ago, Gemini Ultra was launched, surpassing ChatGPT in nearly every aspect. Now, with the introduction of Claude 3, we have a model that outperforms Gemini Ultra in every aspect. Maybe the new ChatGTP version is better but Claude has surely risen the level while also making Google look pretty bad. It is funny to think how Google has been leading AI research for almost a decade with Deep Mind. However, lately they have been beaten by Microsoft and now punched in the face by Claude just months after their new release. Now ChatGPT has more pressure to make the new version even better, as Claude 3 has shaken the market out of nowhere. It is exciting to see new competitors out of nowhere instead of the classic giants brawling.

I am against investing in crypto. Have you ever invested in the euro €? or in the dollar $ ? Or do you use them as money because it is easier than bartering? Cryptocoins are inevitably the money of the future and it can't be otherwise. This is obvious to anyone with a tech background and a bit of economic vision. Is it still cooking? Surely... give it some decades or centuries but it will be the case, no doubt about it.

I desire truth because I am truth. The same way life wants to reproduce because it is alive- That there is suffering in "everything" doesn't mean that suffering is the source of my love for truth. You made a connection that maybe could be generalized but is not always the case, certainly. Since I had my first awakening, when I was 12 years old: I was self aware for the first time and just one thing came to my mind: What is Truth? This question dropped like a Nuclear Bomb Since that moment, I have been immersing myself deeper and deeper into Truth. Well yes, once you are having sex you are not searching to have sex because you are having it. Here you united again suffering with truth seeking. I want infinite happiness, of course. But so do I want infinite truth. And if I had to pick one, guess which one I would pick? This is not only a philosophy, in my everyday life I pick truth even though it may make me feel shity and goes against my agenda. Just today I made a difficult decision that could seriously impact my future job opportunities but decided not to cut corners and be truthful. Why? Because I love truth more than I love love. Till I awaken to the fact that they are identical, this will keep being the case. I can't talk for others but I can talk for myself and I'm telling you that as a fish was born to swim I was born for Truth and this has nothing to do with suffering, despite wanting of course to be free from suffering and live in paradise.

Everything is His, entirely His. What did you bring with you at birth? Were you not empty-handed? And all you have acquired — is it yours, really? All is His and whatever happens is His Will. Endeavour to maintain this attitude. Saying: ‘It is mine’ you grasp at everything— this is the way to court sorrow. Call out to Him because all is His. To yearn thus for Him is real prayer. All that the world can yield — what is its worth? Have you not discerned down the years the inevitable course of events? In His store-house, where there are riches, relations, the vigour of youth, there are also old age, death, disease and poverty. You will have to experience them all. In this world there is no room for undisturbed ease; don’t you see that there is distress at every step? Does it not dawn on you even now to whom you belong? This serious illness of yours, is anyone suffering it for you? Can anyone even share it? Why all these worries? All is His; all is He ; to leave everything to Him must be your sole endeavour. Invoke His Name, meditate on Him; ever abide in the remembrance of Him. Not praying for anything that is of this world, strive to abandon yourself without reserve to Him. In Him no want of any kind exists, no pain, no agony — in Him is all attainment, the summit of fulfillment, rest, repose, tranquility. - Ma Anandamayi. Matri Vani 0078.

Warning, don't misunderstand what I will say. You should have a life purpose and create a profound meaning and vision for yourself. You should control your life and make it go where you want it to go, to the best of your abilities. However, as a matter of fact you have no control over what happens in the Universe. Or said in other words, your egoic control over reality is very limited. See all the ways you try to manipulate reality, all the planing and organising you do in your own mind yet Reality is a wild beast and it is hard to tame. In a way reality is Sovereign and it will not bend its head to you unless it wants. The individual is very limited, one has to recognize this. One should definitely exert oneself to the limit of its own capacities and volition. However, one's ability to consciously manipulate the space of individual possibilities in order to align reality with personal biases is indeed very limited. I realized this while travelling with my girl and some friends. You can be planning for months a trip yet the trip NEVER goes according to plan. This doesn't mean you shouldn't plan, this means that one needs to accept the fact that life won't happen according to plan and that the control one has is limited. Reality always surprises you and flows in whatever direction it wants despite your best efforts. It is not only that you wanted A but happened B, it is that finally Φ ends happening. Something you would never had thought of in hundreds of years, the permutations are mind blowing. We like to think greatly of ourselves but everything is in a very fine equilibrum. These unexpected things end up adding one to each other, as Φ happened now I must do Ψ and so on. When I reflect back, there where times that my whole week changed because of this. Something happened then I couldn't make the landry which then meant a reschedule of a future task and I end up at the end of the week reflecting at all the unpredictable phenomena that came to be. Has this ever happened to you? This awakening surprisingly gives a lot of peace and not powerlessness, as an individual you do your best and leave the rest to the universe. You cannot do more honestly and therefore you learn to be flexible. With will persistence you know you will end up succeeding but you are aware that your power is finite and limited. You stop holding rigid believes about how reality may or may not unfold and in a way start trusting how the wave is flowing while surfing in it. Having said this, I know many people will post their predefined answer and won't bother to read what I just said. It's fine I sometimes do the same. Exercise: Next time you plan and reality surprises you, become aware of it, notice it deeply and reflect how it came to be. It is a juicy insight. The understanding of control is the last barrier to effortless beingness.

That is a gross assumption. I did actually get in this work out of a pure desire for Truth, a burning love for Truth. And I'm sure many others did as well.

Agree 100% Personal development and shadow work must go hand with hand in the Awakening process. Otherwise you will struggle needlessly. In my opinion, yellow stage Spiral Dynamics is a minimum requirement for spiritual work. SD green spirituality is very cringe, from yellow up things start making more sense. If you don't have tools to deal with all your inner demons that will be brought to light by consciousness expanding, you will suffer intensely without knowing why. You need tools for katharsis and spiritual purging, given that you are western, the works of Carl Jung and many others on the area of shadow work will be most suitable. This for me are the compulsary pre requisits for real spiritual work. Maybe also, but more biased, a vegetarian diet and sitting in lotus or half lotus. As well as martial arts or extreme sports, are in my experience, very synergic with the awakening unfoldment. If you want to awaken to a serious degree I would take into consideration what I have said. This is what I would have loved to hear in the beginning of my journey.

Each one of you in accordance with your own particular line of approach, must seize the time, the moment that will reveal to you the eternal relationship by which you are united to the Infinite: this is the revelation of Supreme Union. Supreme Union means the whole universe is within you and you are in it, and moreover there will be no more occasion to speak of a universe, for it will then no longer exist. Whether you say it exists or does not exist, or that it is beyond both existence and non-existence, or even beyond that - as you please: the important thing is that it should become revealed, be it in whatever form. Having found that "Moment", at that point of time - when it is found - you will know your Self. To know your Self would imply the revelation at that very same instant of what your father and mother - and the entire universe - in reality are. It is that Moment, which links up the whole of creation. For to know yourself does not mean to know your body only, it Signifies the full revelation of That which eternally Is - the Supreme Father, Mother, Beloved, Lord and Master - the Self. - Ma Anandamayi. Excerpt from the Dailogue and Discourse with Ma Anandamayi. Richard Lannoy.

Nothing is in control in the ultimate sense. Hence the paradoxes. In the relative sense you do have control and will, but is very limited that is all. One has to recognise this. What can be done, let it be done, what can't be done, let it be.

Where there is the continuum of pure thought, there definitely is a path to the diminution of karmas. As long as the goal is not attained, the fruit of action, non-action and wrong action has to be experienced - MA.

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@KoryKat I think this could be great, Leo would have to think it carefully but it would certainly be more interactive and human

Yes, still in it a lot. It's something I got from my mother which she is extremely perfectionist. Understanding first of all that in reality you beat yourself because you love yourself. You appreciate your life and want to make a good use of it. The point is that maybe there are betters ways of doing it. Healthy motivation and doing them out of discipline and love. In the end it has become a habit for you, hence the difficulty to break the habit It is important to note that if you don't do something is because you really didn't wanna do it. Your priorities are different than the ideals you have for yourself, this disonance and lack of integrity causes suffering in you, as it must be so. This self-hatred usually comes in pack with self-doubt & self-denial

Probably you have already watched them but in case not: I really recommend you the Motivational Speech video if you are just gonna watch one. Watch them in this order if you feel like it

I wouldn't say existence needs an I to exist. Consciousness is conscious of the "I" and in this way, I AM is the first word or self reflection of cosnciousness Consciousness in itself just is because is isness itself

@Princess Arabia Suffering is an inherent property of imagining that you are the body and mind That cognition you have, I am this human being, living creature on planet earth, this finite limited aspect of reality, inherently and in its root is fear There is no freedom from suffering till you stop identifying with your body more than you do with this screen or the room you think you are in. Look arround your room, you are actually seeing your brain not a room Since you find yourself in this cage called your body, the self-knot of fear is inherently present and that's why distraction is such a thing for conditioned existence. Distraction through spirituality and philosophy to avoid facing the raw fact that by believing you are a human you are unavoidably fearful and there's no way out of this point of view as you are locked in such paradigm. You are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not your thoughts, you are not the world, you are not others, you are not any sensation, nor suffering nor pain, nor pleasure nor bliss, nor up nor down, nothing percieved nor in the container of experience you can find an "I" or yourself. This is kindergarden advaita and buddhism that has to be realized. I am obviously not my car but I take great care of it. I feed it oil and take it to the mechanic if necessary and so on so forth. You can only transcend the body mind, THROUGH the body mind, in profound honesty and authenticity, in deep introspection, immense self love and diamond cut self awareness. You won't find any "I" in there you will just find awareness everywhere, being aware of an "I", of the thought of being a body and mind, of the thought of others, of how you have a literal tapestry in your mind that connect thoughts with thoughts and sensations with sensations that give rise to the ilusion of material earthly experience. In the same way a word in the dictionary is defined by other words in the dictionary and you can jump from one to the other in this perfectly arranged book where even dictionary and book is defined. In this same way, you create all sense of reality and meaning and jump from thought to thought and from believe to believe, from inner bodily sensations to exterior sensation and profs. It is in this complex web of self deception that is tight together by the self-knot of fear, inherently so, by the unconscious definition that you are finite and a human, it is the knot itself. There is no way out till this is seen through and of course forget any babies and whatever distraction you want to fall in and go to the root. The knot of the self has to be undone in order to be free from suffering, because the self by its nature is fear and creates conflicts with other figments of reality. Fear is the source of suffering. You fear because you are God imagining you are human and there is no way you can awaken to this because you believe that you are a human awakening to God. It's hilarious when you think about it ahhahahha. To sum up, imagining you are a finite figment of Reality is the reason why you fear and try to defend your borders, otherwise all that you think you are would cease to exist. So in this situation you find yourself in it is more than normal and healthy to have fear and survive from this self contracted knot, the real question here is: Is there is a way out of this? There is They call it Awakening... They call it God...

@Ishanga you desperately need to grow up from green stage Spyral Dynamics personal development to Stage Yellow. Everything can be added to stage yellow don't worry, nothing has to be relinquished. Till stage yellow doesn't come and you enter into Tier 2 you will keep getting into trouble with yourself and the world. Really study what I'm saying, this is the most transformative personal advice you will receive here. It's a maturity of the ego and mind that is missing for you, particularly this stage change (not state) in the way you cognise and handle yourself. Leo has plenty of material about this.

@Javfly33 keep pushing, you are close. You are gonna breakthrough soon. I've been there, that's why you feel like breaking something. You are gonna breakthrough soon, keep pushing, last round of the fight. This is the dragon that guards the treasure

Perform action with good intent. Try to rise up stepwise through actions. Hold on to Him in all work, then nothing has to be left aside. The quest for the Lord of the goal will also be easy. Your work will also be completed perfectly. Whenever you do any work, do it with your mind, body and speech, simply and with contentment. Then perfection in action will be there. In due time the dry leaves will fall off automatically and new leaves will appear - MA.

Also individual animals and plants can be more conscious than their peers. The same as some humans are more conscious than others but are more conscious than a pig. In the pictures above, I have specifically selected the most conscious individuals of that species, that I could find, to give you a taste of their maximum possibilities. Although the most aware tree will not surpass the most aware dolphin, nor will it surpass the most aware human, nor the most aware alien, and so forth. You must understand that there are not only human geniuses in certain domains, but also that animals within their respective realms can exhibit genius in some aspects of their world, including consciousness. The same applies to plants even inanimate objects, spanning this understanding to all levels of the holarchy. This sensitivity, I have to recognise, has only opened to me after many awakenings and also after a vegetarian diet. I do feel this precision is harder to get with other types of diets, this has also been confirmed and shared with other people interested in this domain of research, which I would call as Conscious Analysis of aware/self-aware figments of Reality.

Trees also have different levels of consciousness: The Bodhi tree: The Banyan tree: Cypress: Jerusalem pine: Pinecone: And my personal favourite, The Field Elm:

Why would you keep using if you are having bad side effects?

That's why it is so addictive, because it is not at all in the begining.

Here is some of the scientific results you will find on the book. It is a very serious book that won the Transmission Prize for the Communication of Ideas 2014 on Popular Medicine, British Medical Association awards. Making it both scientifically accurate and easy to read. When I read this I couldn't believe my eyes. Check the whole book to get the big picture.