Keryo Koffa

@Yimpa C'mon, my externalized proxy and alter-ego, my ego-mind was really hoping to latch onto some concepts from the persona that you are to it and that it makes itself believe that it is too lazy to come up with itself, regardless of the fact that this very resistance is more tenuous than actually doing it. But now you disappointed its expectations through a higher consciousness response intended for self-inquiry, which is the last thing it wants to do, but it will and realize it's higher self in the process of doing and thank you for it later, despite always having had the means of doing it itself, and instead searching it in it's memory through physical cues from "others".

Realize that resistance is fear and ego ignorance. Others will try to control you as they control themselves. But their perspectives are partial and circumstantial. You and I were like that once when we didn't know any better. But now that we do, we can see it for what it is, a lower perspective that is yet to be transcended. Experience is only ever attained in the present moment by pushing the borders of one's curiosity into the unknown.

@Livingstone The world is filled with ego, which manifests itself through projection and ignorance. You don't need any degree, knowledge fills you with insights, but the only point of learning anything at all is to expand your perspective. Universities don't teach you any more than ChatGPT does, it's merely the game of degrees, diplomas, titles and certificates which self-perpetuates narrow thinking, specialized studies and the export of responsibility to authority. Society plays the game of validating certificates, but look at all the successful entrepreneurs, they're only where they are because they ditched this mindset and society tries to mimic them and fails because there never were any rules to it, they just did their own thing. Institutions slow you down to match their timeframe. You wait days to go and memorize some stupid speech that you can just watch right now on YouTube. It's either public knowledge, or if it's not, do you really want to participate in hiding knowledge away and monetizing it? Ideally, it'd be an environment of open thought, sharing and holistic interconnection through the lens of whatever is studied, group discussions, active participation, constructivist reimagining. Open thinking, active doing, immediate testing, passion, spirit, truth. But that's not what we see. Students are depressed, look at the suicide rates, look at what you're trying to do, you're trying to help but the elaborate means of getting there through all the bullshit diplomas to justify a human's ability to interact and help another human while outsourcing responsibility to some "professional intellectuals" is exactly what got us into this mess. Nobody can talk frankly anymore, everybody's distracted, people are referred to suicide watches, to group therapy, to some impersonal institutions, to fix problems that stem from being unable to interact with their own environment due to its nature. You and I are discouraged all our lives from sharing our thoughts, ideas, gaslight into inaction, blind trust in a system of consensus bullshitting, depressed and stopped from learning on our own and making our own decisions, constant second guessing, constant need to validate our thoughts with at least one more person sharing the sentiment, constant doubt and fear of getting things wrong and being shamed for it. The only way I got out of that were psychedelics that I started three months ago. The most valuable part of the psychedelic experience is to get fully in tune with yourself and to be able to experientially and emotionally feel that which you already know to be the case. To accept the truth and shed all doubt for the ego-game that it is. I had the same idea as you. I though, hmm what about psychology to help people? That I realized, it's a narrow focus, monetized profession, strict timetables, you'll be called crazy if you do overtime or want to help people outside of work because "you're not earning money doing it". It's so limiting, then I thought how can I do better? What do I even do? How do I help people? And I realized, people are everywhere, everyone's got their own unique problems. A person really just needs to vent and become in tune with their emotions, desires and thoughts. For the next two weeks, I spent a lot of time of Reddit, typing with people in awful situations, sharing insights, just talking about their life and hearing them out. It feels like I made their days better. Your goal is noble. But what I realized is that my drive was really out of needing that which I gave them myself, I never had anyone to help me and by helping them, I used them as a proxy to help myself. But I kept realizing how complex life is and how much there is to integrate and that I really need to work on myself. Because you can only help others up to the state of mind that you yourself are in.

transience means my happiness will pass but so will my anguish, so when I anguish I can look forward to happiness, and when I'm in happiness I know it won't be gone for good and so when I do anguish I can appreciate it for what it is and anguish less for the anguish was really an absence of happiness due to attachment I suffers because I is attached to I-self, but I isn't I, I is connected to parts that I grows attached to but I is everything and nothing and all that I yet isn't. I hasn't realized it, but I always changes, I's environment changes, but I remains, I's body changes, but I is still I, I's thoughts and identity change, but I knows I-self to be I nonetheless, I only knows what it's like to be, but I only is when I experiences, but I doesn't always experience, I only knows I's awareness when I is aware, for I is awareness. I always maintained a loose but continuous memory of I, the attachment to this memory I can overcome as I realizes its transient nature, the last question is if I can allow I-self to forget and suffer to learn I-self anew in a different form before I's imagined death. The last border to cross on ego-death, for I is not ego but ego is a transient part I grown attached to.

@Squeekytoy Life is homeostatic, it survives because it's good at it. It's defined by that trait and seeks it out through all its instincts. Evolution: Fear. Love. Desire. Exploration. Safety. Meaning. Freedom. Presence. Fight. Flight. Freeze. Repression. Shadow. Unity. Imagination. To understand our distraction and resistance towards self-annihilation, we only have to look at where it comes from, we evolved to be opposite and can only move there under a pretense like seeking truth or becoming more resilient or having a price wafting for us there. Without motivation, we go nowhere. Motivation is drive is seeking comes from desire comes from instinct comes from form that consciousness takes.

@Squeekytoy @Yimpa The reason why all of us are still here

I could see how an unbalanced ego could eventually fall into nihilism, due to a dissolution of all preferences and navigational capacity. I could also see it as an increased attachment, an ego expansion. But you'll have to elaborate for me to understand exactly what you mean. Without ego, there is nothing to appreciate, or is there?

Ah yes, the path of deconstruction and recontextualization: I'm quite fond of it myself. You can learn much about a person just looking at where and how they spend most of their day. But it's equally essential to extinguish one's own bias and projected "meaning well" The ego wants nothing more than to make everyone else your clone, but you can use that. You just have to expand your ego so far, that it covers all aspects of human life and personality. Then you'll see others just as yourself in a different circumstance and mindset.

This is it. Any moment that awareness is content with is a beautiful one. Resistance to the present moment is what runs this world and is its own currency that shapes our lives in every way. We have forgotten how blissful the mere state of conscious existence is, no matter its form. LET ME ADD TO YOUR POST: Our mind is made of countless memories, conscious and unconscious desires To realize their nature and consciously resolve and dismiss the need to hold onto them and carry them inside will diminish the continuous arising of long-term resistance and the return and waves of ego-backlash. We don't need to realize them in real life via proxies, they originated in imagination and that's where we can resolve them. At the same time, there are massive amounts within us, and it might feel like a distraction from pure being. But the body and mind are one and we can see them from this elevated perspective. Just like nutrition will make our body healthier, so will letting go. Yet we're already perfect if we can be present. It's just that distraction, sleep, etc. shifts our consciousness out of it. In a healthy state that will happen less.

I find it hard to understand "complete enlightenment". I imagine it as a state of mindlessness, no desire, no intention, no need. But perhaps it is not mindlessness but mindfulness. Perhaps it is perfect regretless alignment with oneself and the state of one's desires and knowledge? What about thoughts, are they not part of it? Contemplation, problem-solving? There might be no need, but to live one needs to navigate life. I am continuously letting go of more and more layers of resistance, so I feel like I'm getting more content and less needful or reality being different ways. Maybe some enlightened ones can accelerate my progress through guiding self-reflection pointers?

@Someone here I'll try to reflect the pointer I interpret from the others through some perspectives. The problem is, it's initially very anti-climactic. It's to stop thinking and conceptualizing reality, essentially "going outside to touch grass". I know we both are addicted to consciousness understanding, tracking it back through fractal dimensions and reverse engineering separate conscious reality bubbles and their relationship with our unconscious. What I believe the "other's" point to, is just being. Being like "aha" and looking around without a single thought, not needing anything to be the case, and extinguishing one's desires, at least in the moment. And then integrating that state of mind over longer time. "There is no self, so there is no agenda", "I am not this body, I am the conscious experience", "Information changes and is somehow communicated to me, but I need not act upon it", "everything is variable and relative". To think and reason is not to just be and exists calmly, this state of mind would reflect you having achieved everything you ever wanted, and just being content being.

But if you want to imagine solipsism, imagine that you are playing with yourself. You are this forum and everyone within it. Your avatar's perspective is easier to access but it's all just different yous, because you are the universe in control of a specific subset of itself experiencing itself through that lens. LET'S PLAY THE SOLIPSIST GAME, THIS ENTIRE FORUM IS YOU, LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO YOURSELF: You're enthusiastically sharing your newest insight, then you're making fun of yourself for your hubris, then you're getting confused by yourself, then you're having a fun quarrel fighting with yourself, then you're justifying your hard work through more ego, then you're talking past yourself and dismiss yourself, you're humoring and aggravating yourself over yourself, you're imagining yourself creating other yous, you're wondering if you're you or if you is you (god and ego), you're confusing yourself about existing at different times simultaneously in different forms of yourself, you're getting annoyed at mind games, you're imagining yourself in higher consciousness making yourself less conscious, telling yourself that you're already a cardboard so you need be be something else, thinking about being a different form like a fractal and observing yourself, and finally you're hypothesizing that you can experience more of yourself by synchronizing yourself to yourself and becoming aware of more of yourself.

@Someone here Holism. Ideas emerge from a deeper reality and try to shape it egoically, but cannot change its nature, for they are a subset. Your mind fills itself with millions of ideas based on millions of experiences. Based on what? The Duality of Reality and Desire. Reality is only and ever itself. It does not delude you, only you can do that. How? By memorizing parts and pieces, intuiting their connections, getting complacent with your realizations and finally imposing those partial truth upon the whole. You are trying to define the whole of reality by one of its subsets and let it drive the purpose of everything. Ego is Attachment. Everything is infinitely interconnected. All ideas are true, for they exist, but they are partial and relative, incomplete, complacent. The truth is immutable and permanent, never lost and needs not be defended. We are lifeforms building systems bottom up to understand the nature of reality through the dualities we create, but they are just parts and interact infinitely with all other parts, understanding is infinite and never ends. Solipsism is an intuition, it is not your experience. You need to become aware that you are not you, you're not imagining others, something imagines reality, including you, your desires and preferences, fears and dreams are just as imaginary as the others you see. There is no distinction. Until you realize exactly how you create others and can predict their every word, you are not god, but a subset experiencing its opposite, through a selective filtering of god's consciousness we call the brain. But that's just part of it, all of reality is a navigation of qualia and you the consciousness within you adapts to it, to simulate it, forgetting, remembering, memorizing, and sense making just in the right way to make this coherent. Fear not to be alone, for aloneness is a property of separation, and united there is no loneliness. It's like fearing hunger when you're in an astral body that needs no food. It's like fear of death in a world without dying.

"I" "am" "attached" "to" "sharing" "insights" . separation | identity | belief | desire | perpetuation| need | stubbornness Before I write the next word, new insights change my whole trajectory. To hold onto them was always an ego game. Attachment breeds desire breeds attachment all over again. It's funny how I/we need excuses to accept the present truth.

I've learned much and there is much to learn. Or I could stop deluding myself and be enlightened now. But that would be very anti-climactic, don't wanna disappoint y'all. Besides all of you could do it, it's just about knowing how to want it. Cause once you want it, you can just be it. But we all need reasons to allow ourselves to be it. And the reasons must be more important than whatever our ego wants now that keeps us.

Here's some important points I had to be reminded of today: Insights do not inform reality, reality informs insights, attachment is ignorance causes suffering for truth is ephemeral (Buddhism) Consciousness transcends the physical body and is a vast fundamental reality manifesting itself through a million forms (Hinduism) If you are not precisely aware of how you construct physical reality, fear not to lose it. Once you have the power, it will be your decision. Ego-death is the mere act of easing yourself into accepting that which you already know to be the case, becoming authentic and alive. Free Will is a distraction. You fear to lose something, but it's only a concept. Nothing changes, except you becoming more in tune with yourself.

You guys are disturbing my inner Buddha. I never heard anything this accurate before... I ffeel... ATTACHMENT .. to that title. Oh no! My years of ego-death gone to waste

@Yimpa I just noticed. Damn, synchronicity hits hard

Understanding is as limitless as the infinite and infinitely divisible fractal of consciousness that spawns it. Everything is it, infinitely connected, infinitely contained, infinitely expressed. In all directions, forever and the human brain is one receptor and processor of experience, the qualia and state of mind acquired don't disappear, just become less accessible to the human who relies on their reality to maintain it. The simulation on the lowest level of qualia processing is all a grid of experience to form egos out of, but the broad net has the quality of complete remembrance.

@Yimpa God is such a weirdo. Am I me or am I him? If I am you and you are I for there is no you and I, then what's issing? The only way to understand that guy is to become that guy. Who's even doing the sucking at that point? Me, myself and I? Is this plane made for self delusion or is it a game to transcend it or is it just a side effect? Who am I supposed to suck?

New ideas flowed in. You know how Leo talks about conditional and unconditional love? It's the same with letting go. There is conditional and unconditional letting go. If you need to materialize a desire in reality to be able to let go of it, then it's conditional letting go. If you can however consciously and unemotionally dismiss it, then it's unconditional letting go. It's acceptance all over again. But we are so lost in the ego, that we cannot just accept high teachings, the disconnect is too large, the intuition unclear and the will not present. One needs to burn some karma to understand what it feels like and be able to abstract all similar processes away but there is also a will to experience that needs to be realized in some shape and form to be let go of. Emotions are desires, not good or bad but they keep you localized, or at least that's the illusion when one doesn't contextualize them. That's why mindfulness is so important. Imagine if your memory reset every time you slept, you'd never make progress, your brain is limited but it has mechanisms to account for that, specific information is accessed in association and gets slowly abstracted into a broader intuition. The road to enlightenment, as I see it, is continuous conscious experience of letting go in different ways and burning your karma to build a deep intuition of the process, annihilate ever more ego-desires, be ever more in tune with the universe and oneself to then finally be so conscious that nothing can shake you anymore. Though I'm not there yet, it's just an intuition. I feel the drive to explore the universe, enter astral realms, construct understanding and sense more qualia. All desires, all infinitely perpetuable. I guess it depends on what we define as Enlightened. To live is to prefer existing, to do nothing is still to breathe or not to breathe, how does an enlightened one act. If it is to the best of one's ability and conscious awareness, then isn't that just a highly aware variable and minimalist ego? There is still dualistic context, senses show something, something is not nothing, an image even when undifferentiated into objects is still intuitively identifiable. All I'm saying is theory and not being although it is based on intuition gained on high states of being. I'd love for someone to comment on my intuition, give perspective. My latest insights are: Some things, you only allow yourself to let go of, if you materialize them in the physical world, and then dismiss them for they now exist apart of the mind that feels an obligation towards them Communication is intention but no intention is as strong as the one who receives these words now Only have with you as much as you can carry Wisdom is proportional to and the process of universal contextualization It's not that I didn't know, I was too focused to be aware

The path I walk is long, since I'm fueled by continuous deconstruction and recontextualization of reality instead of just being content which if I really willed, I could be since the path is infinite anyway, but I need to realize it like becoming meta of what I'm talking about right now, which I do for example by writing this very sentence and diverging from my original intention by new realization, but then I have priorities that keep me in the loop, because I'm not willing to let them go or change my awareness yet out of a deluded sense of obligation in hope of getting there after I conclude my local task. So anyway, I've had 10 Psychedelic Trips in last 3 months and the insights are my continuous spiritual insights. 1 Letting go of disorders, fears and phobias and getting back to old friends 2 Feeling alive and getting in tune with my body, emotions, senses and passions 3 Revisiting my past to reexperience nostalgia and dancing for the first time 4 Immortality lost appeal when contextualized to be a prison of my own creation 5 Seeing the nature of society, its structure and myself within it, quit my job 6 Unlocking cognitive speedrunning and witnessed myself and others ethologically 7 Realizing I was the alien I was looking for all along, materializing in body 8 Becoming aware of universal consciousness and a transcendent "puppet-master" 9 Breaking through fear-rationalization, consciousness disconnect and letting go 10 Clearing my "cache" and old "to-do" pointers, realizing them now instead So I'm really getting the feeling of trembling next to a singularity at this point and I want to conclude and let go of all the memories that keep me localized by reexperiencing them and then letting go, my physical environment and my computer is full of ideas I saved in a desire to realize them at some point, but the desire is recontextualized now and no longer authentic, I still feel that I need to fully immerse myself in those one last time to show my past self some love, before I completely change my trajectory towards conscious practical spiritual in the present living without baggage, being mobile, unattached, all reasoning top down from universal recontextualization and transforming it at every new insight and recontextualizing anew, intuiting the arbitrariness of the process and living on ever less concepts and instead point to reality more, building holistic minimalistic contextualized theories instead. So that's where I'm at, and being aware, open and having let go, I will soon recontextualize myself anew in my next trip. But not before squeezing as much consciousness out of myself as possible before tripping, since the trip is a multiplier to base consciousness, and I can do so much more now, before I enter another wave of synthetic accelerationism. Truly I'm intuiting that my identity is the process of getting closer to an asymptote instead of becoming the value out of ego-identification, but it only takes one move to change that when aware, and I'm leaving that for later \

The pictures on your phone, the neurons on your brain, this forum, it's all a qualia navigation circuitry. Brain configuration determines identity and the brain is just a circuitry for consciousness to flow into and mimic. It's all navigation, where you are and want to go next is determined purely by your senses and context (mind and body). States of mind are just a different configuration of perceptual navigation, it corresponds with neural activity to a good degree. Really the brain is a filter for qualia, to let it in, process it, navigate it, contextualize it, interconnect it to gain intuitions and adapt. But consciousness is consciousness, it's vast and mysterious, this plane follows simple looking rules as a subset of an infinite mind. I wonder how one navigates astral planes of existence, an ego is always necessary to experience anything, it would be a more integrated one. For ego is self and the self is a split, and consciousness is an observer towards the observed, a duality, an ego. A difference, but no selfish intent. I definitely need to try DMT at some point though. I know enlightenment is being infinitely fine anywhere, but HOLY SHIT! let me burn my karma

@Yimpa I love you

@Dodo I'm noticing that more and more. A sword is a sword, it can be metal, wood, rubber, as long as it fulfills it's function, but a scythe is not a sword, but what about a scythe sword, one can create everything in-between. There was never a sword but a sword is and only ever was itself, a projection onto reality based on specific qualia experience. But a sword isn't material, it's just stuff that shapes around the form of sword and it's not qualia, that also wraps around the notion of a sword. The sword is not conscious but it is consciously observed, or is it? It's not observed, it is imagined, but it isn't imagined, it is intuited. But what is intuition? The sword isn't fractal, a fractal is just an idea, or pointer to an experience, but a sword is just a sword. Does a sword exist? Yes, no, maybe?? Is sword in time and space? Yes, no, maybe? Is a sword outside of existence? Ehhhhh.... Is the sword god? No, what's a sword? A sword is made of sword