UnbornTao

Nice. Do you use a Windows PC now?

Funnily enough, I was writing about this exact point somewhere else: that he, in fact, was not. He was attempting to facilitate the truth he was actually conscious of. Night-and-day difference. The problem is that the profundity of this principle still eludes us. It's a difference that is all too easily missed. We may genuinely think the Buddha was a Buddhist. It isn't even about solipsism or any other particular belief system per se. This is not merely a matter of semantics, either.

It's probably more about the body (and so the brain) enjoying the movement, producing those sweet, sweet neurochemicals, changing your state, and so on. Never mind.

I think this kind of reasoning has the potential to be problematic down the road. If you want, enjoy the occasional beer, but I'd avoid falling into the notion that a substance you ingest is going to increase your consciousness. Sorry for the lecture, wanted to point that out.

Yeah, I'm not going to keep contributing to this. You guys keep jerking each other's off.

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Yeah, maybe. I'd also add that it is possible to discover the truth for oneself, and being a 'special' person is not necessary at all - just in case that's assumed, which is an easy trap to fall into. I appreciate that you admit that it's essentially just mental masturbation.

@CARDOZZO Muito obrigado.

I understand it's hard not to hear that as a negative, but it is not about making yourself wrong or starting a war between two aspects of yourself, so to speak. You're perfectly fine. The place where these things come from, however, is a fantastical world of one's own making. It's mere philosophy. Like, I bet my money the guy on the video has a solid sense of self to which he's attached, like everyone else.

Create the enthusiasm. You might think that other things - things you'll be at the effect of - will do the trick but that's not true. It's like a skilled actor in a play: they can willfully become enthusiastic when needed, in a real way. Consider this possibility. Stop waiting for external things to spark enthusiasm in you.

Good, good.

First, learn to tell your ass from a hole in the ground

That's what I like to hear!

Yep, BS. Stop believing in yourself first.

What the hell is that?

Not sure. Be with them, love them. No need to tell them anything particularly "special," in my view.

Sort of. The point is likely still being missed, as one may still be operating from an intellectual world, as you alluded to. Have you seen cult members and their thinking and apparent certainty in the adopted doctrine's tenets? Consider that this might be a possibility here: believing stuff - certainly good-sounding and affirming stuff, though. It might even make one feel good. Or perhaps, in other words, you can easily make up shit in your mind. Chances are it is heavily biased, subjective, and based on wishful thinking.

That is... probably why you think that psychedelics increase consciousness.

Yeah you guys are full of it.

The guy is probably parroting Ramana. I'd try to grasp what the original guy was trying to teach.

And after this nice conversation, remember to drop whatever you think you understand, and contemplate things for real - without opinion or assumption interfering.