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nurturing plants is underrated as fuck

These insights derive from 3 years of intense spiritual practice (meditation, mindfulness 24/7 and psychedelics). 1. Everything is one. there is a universal consciousness which connects everything, which i've been able to empirically verify for myself. 2. Theres absolutley no free will (at least in the psychophysical sense). You are just as much in control of your own body as you are of everyone elses body - this for me also was a component in the realization of the oneness of existence. 3. theres no self. you are empty inside. no entity stirring the wheel. 4. Non-conceptual reality is truth. this is a liberating insight. You realize that you can never ever have an idea that is completely alligned with the truth of reality. So when you're worrying what others might think of you, what might happen tomorrow, know that your thoughts can not ever be the actual truth. Truth is whatever arises and nothing else. Even if your thoughts were to come to fruition, the situation itself WILL NOT BE THE THOUGHT. A thought is true in virtue of it existing as a thought, and nothing else. All objects that point to other objects will never be anything more than pointers. This also means that vocabulary is completely inadequate in terms of describing reality. You cannot use a guitar to describe a bed. 5. NOTHING in existence is inherently good or bad. everything just is excactly what it is. even if my mother were to die tomorrow, it would not be ontologically / existentially / objectively bad. it would only be bad in power of the concepts and meanings my mind would apply the scenario. Even physical pain first becomes bad when it is labelled. Notice that the body itself actually does not give a fuck if pain is inflicted upon it, it is the mind that tells the body what it likes and what it doesnt. (even through some sensations obviously are more comfortable than others) 6. Existence is extremely likely eternal, even from a materialistic POV, since eternity is the case no matter how you look at it. Eternity is before you were born. Eternity is right now. Eternity is when you're gone. this moment is proof that eternity equals existence. 7. Consciousness is 100% transcendent of physicality, due to it not being subject to change or decay. I don't know why this argument isnt brought up more often, since it in my opinion is hard evidence that consciousness transcends the limits of the physical, since EVERYTHING known in the physical universe is subject to change or decay. and consciousness IS NOT. it has been completely the same from the moment you were born till now, unlike your other senses, and body for that matter, which is decaying and changing every moment. 8. You are most likely God due to several factors; if everything is one, theres definitively no seperation between you and anything else, here under God. Another strong argument is this; we find ourselves in a seemingly intelligently designed creation, without knowing how it got here. There exists an experience in which you become an infinitely intelligent creator, one with the entire creation. coincidence? 9. Solipsism is most likely true. However its not negative at all. do not waste time conceptualizing solipsism, since it only leads to suffering 10. Love is the fabric of existence 11. Philosophizing is extremely unlikely to lead to awakening, and more likely to create more conceptual layers, which basically is the antithesis of spiritual evolution. 12. Life is a miracle beyond comprehension. the only thing to do is realize it more and more. there it is. was bored and needed some form of expression. hope some of you can use some of this

what the fuck that was epic. LOL. ur post was so much better than mine

<3 you said it yourself. notice that solipsism is only negative / uncomfortable, in virtue of the thoughts you have surrounding it. you apply the negativity through your concept of solipsism, which is not actual solipsism. if one can live their whole life without knowing about solipsism, and not being negatively affected by it, its proof that solipsism only is negative if you make it out to be. furthermore, in my own experience, realizations of solipsism are FAR from negative, quite on the contrary. i never felt so connected to people before in my life, as after my solipsistic awakening

@MarioGabrielJ right back at u! i dont know if i agree with that. I would say references and thoughts are categories of its own. Yes, all possible thoughts and references do exists; AS thoughts and references, but nothing more. the thought of a car is not an actual car

yea you could say nothing is the back of your head. thats the same as deep sleep imo. but yes i think ultimately we agree. True nothingness does not exist. but nothingness can be experienced and thus it does exist,but in virtue of it being experiencable (word?) and existing, its not true nothingness.

well. i would say in deep sleep you aren't aware of neither of those things. its completely without qualities. however i will agree with you, its not true non existence, since when you wake up, you are aware there was a period in which all phenomena ceased. true non existence could be said to be THIS right here. because its not here. an eternity of true non existence could elapse during every single moment of existence, and there would be absolutley no difference in how we experienced life. because it would not exist. true non existence cannot be. but Nothingness can be experienced. nothingness is the ceasing of all phenomena, which is deep sleep. yet it is still something

this sounds very much like derealization. had it myself for the better part of 2 years - worst years of my life. but life is so much more beautiful when u get out on the other side

being the deep sleep lord of this forum; again, if nothing cant exist, what do you call deep sleep? even non existence is bound by existence. Nothing does exist

hahahah true, but he does have a point tho. ego death might be a misleading term after all, since psychedelic induced ego death is a temporary state. something thats dead doesnt return this would also be my reply to OP i guess. although temporary, in my experience the ego can be completely annihilated through psychedelics. it does however return afterwards of course

ive been delving into the subject the past few days, and the term has very different meanings depending on the tradition. from what i gather, the theravada buddhists believe you just merge into vast Nothingness / for ever non existence / deep sleep. Then there are people like Osho, who take the term Nirvana / Mukti / liberation to be a complete merging with all of existence. Existing for ever as the universe itself. This is much aligned with leos teachings. I can't quite decipher what someone like Sadhguru means with the term liberation. I stumbled upon this article, and isolated it seems that to him Liberation is simply non existence https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/wisdom/article/samadhi-to-go-beyond-existence It can be interpreted in different ways. there are other articles where he clearly states that all that is lost after Liberation is the individual identity, and that life itself goes on just being Life. Quite generally this seem to be the Hindu understanding of Liberation, and also other variants of buddhism, such as mahayana to be fair im pretty mindfucked atm. seems like quite a bummer if the purpose of existence is to get rid of it lol. My take is that ultimately, whereever we end up, it has to be the same place that got us here in the first place. Say you dismantle your karma totally, and end up in non existence - whats to prevent that non existence from popping into existence again? it must be the same thing that spawned you in the first place whats your guys' take on this?

i like this and agree largely. however if nothing cant exist, what is deep sleep?

read the article i linked, it could be interpreted as total non existence. specifically the section on mahasamadhi although given sadhgurus other statements, i believe its to be interpreted as non existence in terms of individual identity

yes, this was my takeaway as well.

yea that was basically my point. i think us being incarnated right now is proof that eternity equals incarnation

yes, im fairly certain that Sadhguru means that after Mukti you exist as pure consciousness / the universe forever. i recall him saying in videos "the buddha is just as alive today as he was 3500 years ago. hes just liberated from physical bondage" or something like that. he also uses the analogy of the soap bubble, where you blow that bubble, and the air inside merge with the air around. furthermore he also explicitely says that life goes on, its just individual existence that ends. so im fairly sure that hes view is that of a continued existence

this is trippy

the boat can always be turned around. always. though you may get other lives, THIS specific life will probably never come back. the things you want in this life, you'll never get to experience it excactly the way you do in this life. your favorite songs, your favorite meals, your favorite movies. your family, your friends. all that is completely unique to your life. even if you were to experience the life of one of your family members, their perspective on the same things would be completely different. this makes the individual life immensly precious. and remember; death is certain. life is impermanent. its only temporary. this means theres a limitation to how wrong life can go. so what the hell, why not try to make it through it, even through it might suck and you might suffer? maybe you would end up turning your life around, and you'd get to experience the precious value of your unique individual life. in the end, you will be released from the cage of the body anyways.

@Keryo Koffa hahahahah i was just thinking the same. epic

this mahasamadhi-like experience i always found quite fascinating. were you able to enter that state at will with 5meo? and do u think what you experienced is actually what the yogis experience when they do mahasamadhi?

+1. notice that solipsism only feels uncomfortable in virtue of the thoughts you have surrounding it. actual solipsism is not negative, thoughts make it negative

what do u mean, did u actually physically die?

this conflict has been looming for decades in northern europe. my guess is this only will be the beginning unfortunately

lol hahah

no fap has been completely life changing in my experience. sexual energy is completely magical when experienced in all of its power. when you get this you will not want to waste it ejaculating to porn watching porn and fapping once in a while doesnt really affect me that much. however being in the habit of fapping / porning regularly is what sucks out your life force