Dodo

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  1. This is simple, the lottery is about odds- maths and about luck. I have more insight into the strange world of luck than most others on this forum, due to my 12 year old fascination in the game of poker, which is a big mixture of skill and luck. There is no evidence to suggest that any sort of Karma is responsible for how the deck of cards is ordered after a random shuffle. So too the numbers drawn in a lottery have nothing to do with Karma. Ofcourse in poker AND in the lottery there is some sort of skill involved if you want to improve your chances of winning. This is *not* done by praying and/or doing good deeds, but by applying mathematical concepts such as combinatorics, right odds and percentages. By applying these one can have much better odds at winning the lottery, but it would still require an enormous amount of luck to do it from a single game. In the long run, however, as we move closer towards big number of attempts, the one who played it smart and had the better odds will outperformed the one who just played randomly. TLDR: Irrespective of whether you are a good or bad person, what is more important in games that include chance is to simply have better odds than your opponents. Casinos do that and they win consistently, even though many would argue that their karma is not the best out there.
  2. @trenton we should play some chess, what's your chesscom id
  3. I do have an account on chesscom (DodosterChess) rating 1000 and on chess24 (GustaffsonGambit) rating 1300 Yeah I'm not even master level, but I'm at a level of play where I can appreciate the beauty and complexity of the game BTW also check out the new tournament Pogchamps which aims to popularise chess
  4. That's the one. I was rooting for Hikaru who is doing a chess boom on twitch
  5. Those who take psychedelics will all deny this. Because it has been said it's like a magic pill for enlightenment. If you say it's actually hurting their progress, now they would feel they are at ground zero and no progress has been made towards Enlightenment If you take the magic pill away, then they have to be a beginner again, just like everybody else...
  6. I am a big fan of ASMR, so this video naturally floated on top of my youtube recommendations. Once I started listening, My nonduality started tingling. I have gone full circle as my ASMR and nonduality addictions merged into One video. Enjoy this masterpiece Choose how to use it, it may help you fall asleep and wake you up at the same time
  7. Piece sacrifice you say? Have you seen GMstockfish? Are you following the online tournaments? I am a chess fan myself. Did you see that Dubov first place in the recent superGM tournament - over Hikaru and Magnus... What a crazy tournament that was, you must watch the games https://www.chess.com/live/game/4954028578
  8. Non-dual translation of Que sera sera Today, now, regardless of my gender I ask my guru what I am Am I pretty, am I rich Here’s what he says to me Ce qui est, c'est. Whatever is simply is The present is ours to be Ce qui est, c'est. What is, is In another instance of the same present moment I ask my guru what truth is here and now Do we have rainbows right now Here’s what my guru says Ce qui est, c'est. Whatever is simply is The present is ours to be Ce qui est, c'est. What is, is Now I have disciples of my own They ask their guru “What am I” Am I handsome, am I rich I tell them silently Ce qui est, c'est. Whatever is simply is The present is ours to be Ce qui est, c'est What is, is Ce qui est, c'est
  9. Don't get out of your head, get fully in it / inhabit it.
  10. Yeah I would say I have no evidence that kind of magic exists, as I have not experienced anything that is not "realistic" under this paradigm we live in. Everything in this reality follows some kind of logic which does not allow for crazy magic, except for tricks.
  11. There are many projections, I dont want to call any projection reality, no matter how real it looks and feels. The actual knowing of it in this moment is the only thing we can prove to ourselves is real. Just by noticing the undeniably real presence of knowing existance in this very moment - IT is real, even if what projects inside it is not real . For example, nothing within your dreams at night is real, but the real formless you is also there just as much as it is here in this higher level dream. The same knowing knows your dream state and your waking state. The content of both dream and waking are not controlled by the individual entity that you call "you". If it has form, it's a dream character. Inside your dream at night the real you is not any of the forms. So you can say that you've created the entire dream, but at the same time while you're in the dream you could have a horrible nightmare of being chased by a monster. Why on earth would you do that? TLDR: Mole or no mole, it's just a dream so whatevs
  12. The real you is not the body or the mind. The real you, awareness itself, neither wants nor doesn't want a mole to be there in your instance of the dream. It just allows everything, even that creature (collection of perceptions, conceptions and food) we call you in regular speech, to exist.
  13. Stupid from what point of view? "Stupid" can only be from the point of view of the ego/ mind/ separate entity that divides what Is into categories and labels. In reality no action/decision is inherently stupid, thinking makes it so. I see reality as one being (formless God/ pure awareness ) manifested as many different minds and forms (dreams within consciousness) . Ultimately all dreams report to the same being (isness), but while in the dream state, there is an experience of being separate. This is done so God can taste duality - because duality is something that isn't essential to reality. But it can be fun.
  14. I havent read the comments but for me it's simple. Either praying happens or doesnt happen, there is no you to make the choice, the choice happens pre-determinately
  15. Equipment necessary: You (Your aware presence) and everything that within it. Boredom is a form of pain which many humans experience on a very regular basis. Since my definition of suffering is "continuous pain", boredom sometimes even becomes a form of suffering. It is then of great importance to know how to rid ourselves of this The downfall of boredom is that "being bored" is actually a very interesting phenomenon to observe. Once you put your attention on the boredom, and view it from a higher ground, consciously , it becomes small or insignificant and sometimes even interesting. One can say the moment you became interested in / started watching the boredom, you immediately removed the boredom since you are now interested in something. (you can't be really interested in something and be bored at the same time) So now since the boredom is gone what are we really observing? Did what we tried to observe even exist to begin with? Or did it just appear and disappear in the shadows? How can I become bored again if the state itself fascinates me so much? TLDR: Boredom defeated
  16. Im sorry but to me this is not art. Or it's as much art as this picture. I love songs that have deep meaningful texts and nice tune, not some random word salad that pretends to be art.
  17. is that even music, my ears are bleeding
  18. Reality is under your nose. Past lives and multiverse exist as thought forms in your mind, no matter how grand and accurate of concepts they are, they are still the matrix.
  19. Look, as long as he was breathing, I am happy with the amount of dead he was.
  20. That "Dead" and "beaming with life" are my own projections is your own projection This game can be played forever. You know very well what it means if someone is dead inside. They are the opposite of enlightened. Perhaps a bad word was used by the OP to describe something different. If you see Eckhart Tolle you cannot say he is dead inside. You can say his ego is transparent, you cant say he is dead inside.
  21. definitely not about the western "enlightenment" you're talking about. Clearly western society will have you believe enlightenment means you are a robot that is dead inside and can perform tasks very well. Stage yellow? Gimme a break. When you can know a tree is a bigger sage than most humans, then call me
  22. And what about exploring boring ol' life without drugs? It's not like it's coming from anywhere other than God, but we are addicted to more interesting stuff.