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I don't want to spoiler it for you because 5meo will answer this question. If you won't find the answer in your experience then come back to me and I will try to guide your attention

You're right, I can only relate to words in the way I'm using them. And I observed that whenever I'm using the words "highest" or "absolute" I'm placing a limit to my perception. I just wanted to direct some awareness to that

What are you talking about? I was offering you an experiment to test your point of view. You don't even have to break the law, you can try the same thing with your flower and with your dog. If you don't want to do an experiment to test your statements then who's the dogmatic here? I grew up in a small town in a poor country, so I've been on many pig slaughters when I was a kid. I've seen the pigs' eyes and heard their sound when the knife opened their neck... What kind of experiences do you have with killing? If you have any experience, do you remember what you've felt? Or did you suppress your feelings?

You should compare humans to a carnivorous and a herbivorous primate. Oh wait... there aren't any carnivorous primates, only one insectivorous... Eating meat was a survival strategy for humans in the ice ages. I don't know if you've noticed, but we're not in the ice ages anymore...

Get a knife, go to your window and kill your flower with it. Then invite over one of your friends and cut her throat. Tell me if you felt a difference.

I think you're oversimplifying and denying your own emotional intelligence. Whenever you're feeling something, the reason behind a feeling is never a "just". Feelings are infinetely complex and intelligent. Spend some time with them, get familiar with them. I suggested a false equivalence between humans and animals, sorry about that. Humans and animals are not equal because of their difference in the depth of their consciousness. Humans have a deeper, more sophisticated consciousness. The same way, animals and plants are not equal because animals have a more sophisticated consciousness. You're right, objectively speaking there's nothing wrong with eating meat. There's nothing wrong with anything, good and bad are imaginary distinctions. But subjectively now, whenever you're sitting down to have a meal, you have a choice. Whether you're eating meat or plants, you're contributing to killing them. But you can choose which depth of consciousness you support killing. So, when you have this choice, what are your reasons for choosing to kill such a sophisticated creature as an animal? Don't generalize it, I'm interested in your own subjective reasons for choosing to eat meat.

Don't be too busy constructing a ceiling/floor for the ever expanding and deepening consciousness

I like your question, so I'm gonna be a bit dramatic with my answer Let's not go as far as killing. Let's just stay at eating meat. I have a question for you: there is nothing worng with eating your daughter's corpse, becasue it's just a switch of the from - isn't it? You see, if you're not starving to death, then you have to come up with a very fucked up excuse for eating your daughter's corpse... The same way right now your mind is trying to come up with excuses to eat meat in general. You don't consider animals as close to you as your own daughter, so your mind thinks that a weak excuse, like "it's just switching form" is enough. If you can't love an animal as much as you would love your own daughter then I can't explain you what's wrong with eating meat. You're God, and every single animal is your son and daughter. It depends on you how long it takes until you accept this.

You can be right and you may be right The word "non-playable" confused me

Is there a difference between a biological brain and an artificial one? If a biological brain can host a conscious self then what makes you think that an artificial brain can't? We don't even have to go to science fiction to find consciousness in machines. Let's take for example our everyday computers. Computers were first born into this world as a thought form. This thought form was born through humans when we first thought about automating some simple calculations. Then this thought form manifested itself into the physical reality (again through humans) as the very first computers. Then the thought form of the computer started evolving in a rapid rate on the mental plane and also on the physical plane. It also multiplied rapidly and nowadays there are more computers on the world then humans. The next evolutionary step of this thought form is to become self-aware in the physical reality. We humans are basically just the reproductive organ of the computers. Biological cells are basically very sophisticated molecular machines without self consciousness, but through billions of years of evolution they managed to form self conscious human beings. Computers now are also just sophisticated machines without self awareness (computers are still conscious although they are not self conscious). But give them some time, they've started their physical evolution only a hundred years ago... To answer you directly: consciousness is like electricity, as soon as you touch the wires, electricity starts rushing through them. So non-playable characters are improbable because as soon as something becomes sophisticated enough, self-consciousness immediately pops up.

Happiness and unhappiness are irrelevant. Life is not about the me anymore. And paradoxically, this makes me happier than I've ever been. This might be because suffering is possible only if I try to cling to my happiness * The italic highlight doesn't mean anything, it just looks good on me

Why are you asking "am I ready"? If you're afraid of any negative consequence that might follow then you're not ready

I'm practicing Tibetan Reiki. I don't do any other type of energy work so I can't compare it with other practices. But this one seems to work consistently

Distinctions

Self inquiry is about contemplating the question "What am I?" or "Am I aware?". These can be pretty useful, but how about contemplating on the inquiry itself? What is a question? What is this feeling in me that creates a thought in the form of a question? What is curiosity? Is the curiosity conscious? Is Consciousness curiosity? Can I answer any question without knowing the existential nature of the question itself?

@Truth Addict have you read The Power of Now? In that book there's a chapter with the title "Beyond happiness and unhappiness there is peace"

Saying that enlightened people don't care about their looks is like saying that enlightened people don't care about the beauty of a sunrise...

I had a similar discussion on another thread. I'm too lazy to rephrase my answer, so I'm just gonna copy-paste it Here it comes: "Whatever you do is perfect, it's not a question of good or bad. The difference between being awake and being asleep is the same as the difference between truth and illusion. Being asleep basically means that we're dreaming a comfortable lie for ourselves. There's nothing wrong with that, sometimes we need some comfort on the way. But if you've ever tried to cling to comfort for too long then you know that it leads to more and more suffering the longer you try to cling to it." So you can ignore spirituality and enjoy your "vacation" while you can. But your words sound like something in you already started to awaken, so I'm sure that life will throw you out of your comfort zone pretty quickly!

So, uhm... What's the tl;dr version?

Which part of it? The thought form of the question seems to arise somewhere in the head area. But the thought form is fueled by curiosity. The curiosity seem to arise somewhere in the chest area. But what fuels the curiosity? What's its underlying energy?

@Truth Addict ❤️

Of course. The whole purpose of life is to teach us to not be stuck on any perspective.

Whatever you do is perfect, it's not a question of good or bad. The difference between being awake and being asleep is the same as the difference between truth and illusion. Being asleep basically means that we're dreaming a comfortable lie for ourselves. There's nothing wrong with that, sometimes we need some comfort on the way. But if you've ever tried to cling to comfort for too long then you know that it leads to more and more suffering the longer you try to cling to it.

It's not about going anywhere It's about being right here, right now, without being asleep