UnbornTao

Listen to that and consider experientially for yourself.

That's fantasy. Setting out to experience what's true is not about beliefs. Additionally, not everything is purely dogmatic. Certainly there're degrees of it. Religion is founded on belief systems, as opposed to say, science, which is based on objective observations. It's meant to be grounded on what's real and factual, relatively speaking. Certain practices emphasize personal investigation more than others, such as Zen, whose original intention is a direct personal consciousness of the absolute. After all is said and done: What are they doing? Notice how questioning is not encouraged at all and may even be actively suppressed by religion. It's not up to profound inquiry. Unfortunately for religion, the way towards insight and breakthrough is through questioning, not dogma.

@Carl-Richard What do you specifically mean by spirituality and new age? We don't know what's true, and contemplation is the direct way for becoming aware. Anything less than that in this context is fundamentally not needed, I'd say. Religion, by its nature, discourages open inquiry.

Moved to Health subforum.

Would individuals follow and concoct religions, worldviews and rituals if they experienced what's true? When does religion originate in one's experience? After our failure to experientially grasp whatever's true. We make up stuff to believe in due to our inability to stand not knowing. Rather than personal contemplation, social activities like religion inevitably turn into collective issues, which is the wrong focus in this context. Why is it so easy for the masses to adopt religion? Among other things, it's packaged for mass consumption. It's easy to believe in a doctrine whereas contemplating for yourself is tricky. With time, religion always degrades into dogma in the end. What is a belief?

In the context of enlightenment work, what you need is not-knowing and a genuine passion to know. Why would there be a need for religion in the first place? Because you lack understanding, consciousness, personal experience of what's true. Religion is antithetical to the pursuit of truth as it is faith-based and embraces beliefs. It essentially is about doctrine and ideas to be believed in and not questioned. What else?

Make a leap. Do it. Intend to grasp who you are now. Do that until you do.

Hearing that, you may assume a couple of things: considering self (what you identify as yourself) with you (your true nature) thinking that you already know what you, your nature, is. First, grasp who and what you authentically are. Always have been.

You're welcome. Hey, everyone's got their ups and downs. Thank you, too!

Kindle Paperwhite 8th or 9th edition (whichever's the latest). I bought it pretty much when it released. At that time I didn't own an eReader, and I used to have an older version of that same model, six or so years ago. Overall, I prefer paperbacks or audiobooks over digital. Having an eReader allows me to save up a lot of money that would otherwise go to shipping costs, which could sometimes be almost as costly as the book itself.

that's cool.

This is what true revolution looks like. All benefits!

hey gtp, cook an omelette for me

You are the only being in existence. Is this what's being discussed? I've heard from a couple of deeply conscious individuals that it's true, ha! Not that hearsay is valuable in this work...

yeeha

Ineffective. Confront the fear and do it. What's meant by impossible likely is that it hasn't been done yet. Try approaching without expecting anything in return, simply talk to many women. Might be a good first step.

you're afraid of something

@Leo Gura @MihaiXx life's a bitch and then you die

sounds good. Simple structure, as if it were a OneNote commonplace book. 3 sections, each with its own subfolders. So I'm not tapping the app's potential but currently I see no need to overcomplicate things. Might eventually look into it.

Probably guys like Ramana or Gautama did transcend suffering. But don't confuse that with pain. Pain is a function of the nervous system whereas you can probably do away with most of what you call suffering because it is an unnecessary activity done by you. Suffering is added onto pain. But hey, awaken and find out. Extrapolating doesn't make any difference except that it's entertaining.

search the video library. there are a few of them that deal with what you write. Why is there something rather than nothing, etc.

@Carl-Richard just a joke man haha

no porn euphemisms please

Many people seem to be stuck on adolescence and don't grow beyond that. You've occasionally encountered individuals who are mature and grown up. What's maturity?