UnbornTao

Ok.

The idea that you have to literally die (what I got from your post) in order to get enlightened.

@Princess Arabia @Schizophonia I might make those at some point.

Whatever's true is true already, so don't promote silly ideas.

What if a brownies recipe were to be shared on this thread?

Your nature (you) getting itself vs thinking about what may be true based on rumors, without a direct encounter.

Get what's true beyond hearsay and speculation.

I've heard David Richo has a good book on that called Shadow Dance.

@strika Conflating two different domains and bringing a fair share of fantasy into the current consideration is problematic. God is on vacation on Venus; best to leave it alone. Anyway, let's keep to the main topic.

Create them.

Hey, that's pretty much its purpose, hence the name. It's not a healing intensive, although some of that might occur.

Kick ass get enlightened and tell us the secret. You misunderstand its purpose, it isn't like you think, so be open.

There's a book called Christ Sutras by Bart Marshall which is recommended.

Absolutely, if you're honest. What you faced was an interpretation of being "near" death--the potential for it. Notice this existed as a concept, because you're still alive. Just addressing its reality in your experience is hard to do. Whatever you're identified with exists in contrast to whatever you're not.

I don't get where you're coming from on this thread. In any case... Everyone is afraid of death since it is the antithesis of yourself--no more you. You're holding an idea or notion rather than the fact.

There's nothing in existence that says Nazis or anything else for that matter, can't exist. We as selves work hard to actively avoid death (it is our whole job), yet it is part of "reality." We may identify ourselves as alive beings, so what does that say about this dilemma? Look deeper into identity.

What's reality? Why the identity requisites? What you do, which then may become a self-trait, and what is the case, don't have to be connected. In fact, you can do anything. Where is the issue with acting a certain way and identifying as X or Y? Is eating fruit less aligned with reality than eating bugs? You could identify yourself as a plethora of things: singer, writer, humanity, animal, an entity, a soul, a body, an ape, the universe, a culture. What you are is up for grabs, while identity is open-ended. What is it for real?

Wo ist hier?

You can clarify what your point is and why you're making it, to start with.

What do you mean by "this"? Perceptive organs are biological inventions for the purpose of survival. For example, hearing a threat beforehand has an evolutionary advantage, whereas an amoeba has to be poked for it to move away from the danger. Perception doesn't have to be accurate--represent reality as it is--as long as it works for our survival. What about apparent individuals? Is that somehow produced by "this" (existence) or by you? But this is just an answer. Looking into it and having insight is another thing.

Haha, gringo.