UnbornTao

@Schizophonia Just a joke 🤣

I hope not.

Fun!

Okay, sounds good. You'll live how you live regardless of whatever practices you may take up, but your point is clear.

@TheSelf

It's Mooh. Amateurs.

@Leo Gura @Natasha Tori Maru Furbo.

No one. If we admit that it's actually unknown and merely believed (in other words, it's hearsay passed down by other believers) then we should go with common sense - the lamest option, too commonplace to excite us in any way. Besides common sense, critical thinking and factual accuracy are useful tools. Oh yeah, if there's anything real about you in this sense, it's your body - I didn't mean to poo-poo that. Contrast that with your notions about it. Fantasy is a broad domain. Anything based on hearsay or wishful thinking, I'd call fantasy. Most of spirituality, and certainly religion, falls into this. I'm not saying to use a philosophical system to ignore your experience; being grounded helps. It reminds me of a quote from Krishnamurti - paraphrasing: "If people called it stretching instead of yoga, they wouldn't be so eager to undertake it." I suspect he's referring to Hatha Yoga, but the point stands: people are sometimes reluctant to call things by their plain name, preferring instead a feel-good belief system. The former is more empowering and real. Sorry, I'm getting off-topic.

Sounds good! As the result of a process. Frustration, for example. It seems to begin with you generating a desire of some sort, or perhaps with resistance to having that desire thwarted.

Brazil - Sweden?

That's the thing: maybe you do want to suffer in some way - but you're not yet conscious of this fact. I'm talking about the mental-emotional kind. Since you're experiencing it, it's fulfilling a job that you think is necessary (but it is not). For instance, pay attention to some minor form of suffering you may be currently enduring. What has to happen in your experience for that suffering to exist in the first place? Maybe you're frustrated because a desire is being thwarted - but then, who's the one having the desire that's being thwarted? This line of questioning suggests that something has to be done first for suffering to arise. It isn't something objectively found or located in existence - so to speak. It is fabricated in one's experience. Which is to say, if you experience suffering, it means you're engaged in a process that has suffering as its outcome or result.

I thought it'd be obvious: the entire video, the notion of mahasamadhi. It boils down to: "He dead."

@Ishanga I meant after the fantasy is set aside. That video is purely fantasy-based.

Cognition fits better here, in my view.

@Protein Thank you. It's simply about how long it's practiced continuously. I see. My initial point was that there wouldn't be many "documented" cases like that in the first place. Got it, thank you. @Ishanga What remains when all the fantasy is set aside?

I think it's an incredibly unusual coincidence.

Have you considered that you may well be behind your experience of suffering?

Tell your beliefs to go fuck themselves. Regardless of their content, they tend to get in the way of open investigation. When it comes to existential - and even experiential (such as the nature of emotions) - matters, they're obstacles.

"That was a Canadian cut; now have the Norwegian one."

Take up the 'no nuts this November' challenge.

Ankara Messi.

I like it. In the Trash bin. Because I have bad taste.

You mean refined white sugar, right? Not natural sugars like those found in fruit or similar sources?