Ishanga

The Majority of ppl construct themselves Unconsciously, so it appears everything is happening by accident, randomness rules, but what can be done Unconsciously can be done Consciously, then everything comes into perspective and nothing is random anymore, that is the basic fundamental of what it means to be Human, doing things Unconsciously or Consciously, no other life form has this available to them...

Anyone that buys into Solipsism completely, that I am the only one in existence, everything else is a figment of my imagination is completely Narcissistic..This is Anti Spirituality, anti Life...

Language/Logic obviously will fail to describe such things as Soul/Atman/God/Absolute, since words are based on logic, logic on intellect, intellect is ruled by Identification, which is the main problem in the Human Today, too identified with this or that, to defragmented, separated from What Is..but here it goes.. Soul is just God/Absolute within You Embodied, its covered with layers, and it can be experienced, its a sort of Grand Intelligence, not the calculating type of Intelligence, rather the sort of Intelligence that allows what makes up the fundamental aspect of Creation to be as it iis, an Atom turns into what You Experience Yourself to be right Now as a Human, and all the other life forms and non living forms possible.. Its too complex, to sophisticated to be explained or understood by the Human Mind, its that sort of Intelligence and much more..It makes all Potential and Possibility come to Life! Like a Bubble full of Air, Soul is the Air, we are the Bubble, the layer surrounding the Air, it is the Body/Mind/Emotions and Energy kept together via the Karmic Glue, we think we are these layers but we are really the Air (Soul/God/Atman), it is just we are Embodied and here to play out this Potential/Possibility game so Absolute can know itself and experience itself in Trillions of ways over Trillions of Years, then it dies and restarts again! If You realize You are the Air, then the bubble burst and your merge with the rest of the Air (Absolute) and lose all individuality, if You do not realize You are the Air, then the Bubble never really burst, it just transforms into another bubble based on actions performed unconsciously or consciously, that is your Free Will to decide how the Bubble will be or even if it is created again!

The US will eventually take over Canada and maybe Mexico and then become the Undefeatable Powerhouse, it sort of it already but when this happens then that is it for any other so called Super Power. China from my sources of info is thru within 10yrs, Europe I don't know much about, but it seems like it is not doing to well either, middle east, at least the rationale parts of it maybe will flourish more, from my recent research of places like Dubai which are thriving with energy and innovation, they may in a generation or two take over, but for now I think the USA is on the rise for more of everything it already has, complete Dominance!!

Questions are for beginners, as is seeking answers, if Your still in this stage "God" will not come to You as You would ask the completely wrong questions and misinterpret all the answers, only when one is beyond Q&A does God or Absolute come truly into Your life...

Eckhart Tolle New Earth and Power of Now, very basic and simple Spirituality explained very well, these books got me on this path.. Sadhguru's A Yogi's Guide to Joy, basically an overview of his Inner Engineering program, its a step by step explanation of Reality, the How's and Why's of Consciousness in modern Day terms, completely relatable and applicable to anyone that can read it...!

Solipsism is only true on the Absolute Level, but there are levels, relatively speaking there is no solipsism. One should not take an Absolute view on anything while embodied as we are, here with a Body and Mind to use, You can be intouch with it, all inclusive, all one, all complete experience, then play the game of life but go thru it untouched, that is the main goal, experience everything absolutely, totally involved with whatever is within this Moment, but be untouched by it...

Free will has nothing to do with this for the most part, the body has no free will in normal conditions, its ruled by karma and conditioning to keep the survival of itself possible. But at extreme levels of Awareness You can control farts, and most all bodily functions, if that is Your Goal, so Free Will in this aspect is possible. If its not Your goal, then farts will come and go via the will of the Body.. No matter what one thinks about Free Will, yay or nay, whatever you think is Your Will, Your Understanding, Your Experience, so that is Free Will in its essence, the very fact some here say Yes there is Free will, and others say No there is not is proof. But every Argument can be backed up via individual logic, which is free will but done unconsciously, if You do it consciously, then it become more available to One, if its unconscious its random...

The media here is eating this stuff up, and the Politicians (even though deep down I think they think it would be a good idea, they don't dare say that because of the elections coming up), are playing up the drama too, with this Tariff threat what is being promoted is pro Canada rhetoric, buy Canadian goods and services, and rive Canadian pride, but in the end if You really look at it without these filters of Identity, we are pretty dependent on the Americans.. Now they want to try to diversify our economy and try to not be so reliant on just one customer the USA, but this will take a long long time to accomplish maybe a whole generation or two of time, as our greatest assets are our natural resources and to get them to other markets besides USA is going to take allot of money and time to build the infrastructure, or they could just drop the identity and go with the Americans and life will be instantly settled and better overall imo... There's no real difference between Us and the Americans, I grew up on American TV and Movies and Heroes lol, we may seem more polite but just go to to a local hockey game and it will be seen how unpolite we can be, plus we drink like a sun of a bitch and everyone here likes to fight or get into trouble, Toronto is overrun will crime and organized Crime, it just the America has been at it longer than Us, we are a few years behind in that regard..We fought in the same wars and had the same sort of struggles, as when America struggles so do we, so we might as well become one Country!!!

@zazen The above meme and what is said is Dangerous, on most all front we would lose any sort of war against the USA, you see this is what deep identification does, it blinds one to reality, this person is completely Identified with a man made line on a map, via that he thinks we can fight with the Americans, we can for a bit, deprive them of things they need, but in the end we will lose big time, so in the end joining the USA economically, would be a benefit for Us not a bad thing imo...Saying this as a Canadian...

Buddha is popular because many millions of ppl immigrated from India and the East to the West and brought him with them.. Same with Christ and since America uses Christianity as a benchmark of sorts (ppl swear on the bible, and swear to God in Government, etc) and he is the centerpoint of Christianity, he is super popular because of that, but organized Religion is decreasing in popularity and Spirituality, Eastern methods of Enlightenment are rising up.. My Understanding is the Buddhism and Yoga have given rise the most Enlightened Beings of any organized anything,,, Religion is cheap psychiatry and an easy way to keep the society in line somewhat, using Sin and Damnation in Hell as a way for ppl to not go too far or otherwise face the wrath of some God, but that is lessening big time as generations go by...

Economically I think Canada becoming a part of the USA would be beneficial over all, even if just our dollar become American Dollars we would benefit greatly, and the trade and Us Becoming a part of the economy of the USA would make this region a super super power, with our resources combined with the USA that would make all of Us in North America almost Invincible Economically and National Security wise I think.. I'm not identified with Canada, its a Great Country no doubt, but all Countries for the most part have their Greatness, my generation maybe is the last one to have any sort of strong identification with Canada, my Dad's did big time, he was in WW2 and fought and was a proud Canadian, since being involved in Spiritual Matters, I've dropped most identifications at least lowered them, and in my POV overall the benefits out way the disadvantages (which I don't really see) in regards to joining the Union in the States, especially too if we could live and work their without Green Cards required and such perks!! From what I am hearing here on the media, Trump want to do something big this time to cement his legacy, and that is he wants to add land mass to the USA, so acquiring Canada (since we are one of the largest Countries land mass wise) would fulfill that desire he has, and he is going to do it via Economically making it hard for Canada to stay afloat, with all this uncertainty investors will not invest in Canada and we have our own trading problems btwn provinces that doesn't allow us to be self sufficient and our politics is messed up right now...

Yes, Consciousness in this context is present in all Creation...Simple enough answer? Problem is is Why or How, this is where it gets complex and logic cannot be used to define or describe it...

The Idea of making North America one Economic Unit, as a Canadian, I don't mind this idea, our currency turns into US dollars, we have no tariffs or customs taxes to pay when going back and forth, we are free to work or live in either country, trade is free, that sort of thing is appealing to me, but it doesn't have to go as far as Us becoming a state of the US, more like what they do in EU with the Euro and no Travel Restrictions... What is happening now will hurt all the countries involved, no doubts, mostly Americans I think...

Yes the Existence in its fundamental nature is Non Sense or Not Logical, but what You write here about Spiritual matters, which is what we are discussing here on this forum is nonsense...Nothing is Happening, No One is Here, this sort of language and understanding of Spirituality is dangerous actually!

Nonsense!!

Umm first Consciousness means the samething as Absolute or God or Life in this context.. So there is no Your Consciousness or my Consciousness, we are all Life, its just that You have a certain sized Bubble of it, I have a certain sized bubble of it and so forth for everyone else. Think of Yourself as a Bubble of Air, most of the bubble is made up of Air, but most ppl think of themselves as the Bubble lining, so that is the mis Conception or Experience.. There is no dream or imaginary life or situations in life, this sort of terminology I am against since it implies that it is not real, what is happening in Your life and others is Real. Its just how You Respond or React to it that is illusionary...Since most ppl are coming from the data collected by their 5 senses over a period of time from Birth until Now, they are thinking this is what Life is, but Life is completely within You, You've never Experienced Life outside of Yourself, so what one has to do is be in Complete Connection with what it is that they are, they are not the Body or Mind, what it is has to be Experienced, any explanation will fall short and not give You a clear understanding of what it is.. So if You know Yourself Completely, then you will Know the Universe Completely, since You Fundamentally are Absolute in Embodied Form, You can be intouch with Absolute (this is what Enlightenment is) as a Human, no other Life form on this planet is capable of this, so once that is set usually a Human drops the Body/Mind Complex, loses all Individuality and merges with Absolute, like a Bubble of Air getting burst! Inanimate objects like rocks, dead planets, asteroids have no ability to be Aware like we can, there very very limited in that nature, they are a part of the Life Force or Consciousness but no ability to be Aware...

@Schahin Don't go down the rabbit hole with Princess, it will lead You to more not knowing, she's not even in the field when it comes to Spiritual Matters, just saying to save You some grief!! In an instant, Absolute or God (don't think of God/Absolute as an Entity like You and I, its just a Potential and Possibility creating machine, and language fails miserably when trying to describe it, since language is logic based, logic has no place when it comes to these matters..) created Creation, in that instant all Potentials where encased into it, as we came from that moment of Creation, call it Big Bang or whatever to what is here today and Now, all this creation, all the Galaxies and Universes it came from that one instant, so all Potentials are like this. It is like when You were born, You were so little, no knowledge of anything or experience of anything and now today you are much bigger and more knowledgeable and curious about Life and Creation, its like that but much more complex.. Absolute does not need to be Conscious of all this creation because Absolute in Embodied/Material Form is the fundamental nature of all of it, saying or asking if it is Conscious of it implies a Separation between it and all Creation, there is no Separation in actuality, but Experientially as a Human most Experience a separation btwn them and most everything around them, that is the whole point of Spirituality, to get rid of this Experience of Separation and make it into what it is, an All Inclusive Creation, all atoms are connected to the other atoms and in communication, your made up of atoms and on and on it goes up the line.. So there is no need for Absolute to be Conscious of it all because it is IT on a fundamental Level!

Adam Chan out of Vancouver Canada.. He's also very much into Qi Gung, it healed him recently, he was in tremendous pain and almost died to overtraining and such from his years of MA training, nothing helped him so he went to his Qi Gung Master and did the practices (4hrs a day for two years), it totally cured him and he's never been happier and healthier he says, and its improved his Martial Arts skills too.. He's into Wing Chun, and his form of Jeet Kune Do, as he learned from Bruce Lee's 1st student and others as well, plus he's sort of a MA genius himself (he's never admit this) and added his own creations to it, being invovled with MA as long as I have I will verify he's top level and very humble but a realist in the end!

Look at someone's life as best You can then if what they are doing seems to be the way you would like to live then listen to them,, Forget information, stuff You see online, whatever You buy into there are so many counter arguments it make You confused, in fact there is too much sharing going on and for the wrong reasons, ppl want fame rather than sharing authenically what they know... I know a World Class Martial Artist, he's Bruce Lee level skill, he has a Youtube channel, he's been sharing videos for years and he still has a hard time getting 10K views for a particular video, whereas some dummy will post something I know doesn't work (30yrs+yrs in Martial Art) and he gets 100K views in a day, and the quality is not as good either, but if You look at the two there is no comparison in skill levels and knowledge..So if You can see how they live their lives, you'll find out the truth that way for sure...

Your too caught up in Your Mind, and what the Society (and here) is feeding it.. You have a vast intelligence within You, not the sort of Intelligence that figures out how to survive another day or how to do a rubiks cube, but a sort of intelligence that made the Creation Your 5 senses gather in everyday, most of which is not even the real reality, tap into that then what You are feeling will fade away...Don't focus on the WHY, focus on the HOW!

@Misato Katsuragi just get back to the basics.. Use Your Body senses, focus on everything You See, Hear, Touch, Taste and Smell, make all of that super intense, especially in unique situations like a cold shower, spicy food, loud annoying music or sound, stuff like that, create a big focus on Body, which is part of the Earth and that may help!!

There is no reply, since there is no You by which a reply can come forth from that is stating there is no Dog, stating that thinking that is a Dog creates the Dog that is not there... utter Bullshit!! no offence can happen since there is no reply, since no one is here to reply to or from, therefore no ego to offend.. perfect example of why this forum now should be shut down and closed to anything new..ppl losing their minds in philosophizing life and what it is about...

Suffering something like that is a choice, some use it to live full and complete lives while they still have a body to do so, but many suffer it, that is their choice... Suffering is not an absolute, its not a guarantee upon hearing bad news, there is no bad news, your response to it is what matters.. yes many do not have the consciousness level to be like this, so that is the point of Spiritual Practices, so that they have a means to be like this and live more complete lives..