UnbornTao

You do have a knack for marketing.

@Carl-Richard There's your reading assignment. @Be-ing Welcome, btw! Hope you find the place helpful.

No. Sure.

It is equally easy - for me or anyone - to speak about any subject, yet that doesn't make it true or mean it comes from an authentic experience or breakthrough. In the end, it has to be real. Now, one trap we can easily fall into is generating experiences formed by or even based on the beliefs we hold as individuals. This is entirely subjective, possible, and might be the case here - especially if there was drug use involved. It can also be powerful, convincing, and even healing and beneficial, yet that doesn't change the fact that it is belief-based. Based on your past history, I still sense quite a bit of fantasy in the air (as in your post on exiting the body and experiencing your unlimited self.) If it's true for you, and to the degree it is, then great - but since you've already asserted that it is, I'm writing this as a reality-check. Take it into account. To clarify, connection implies that something was separate from another thing in the first place. Everything relative is a process, even if it occurs in a millisecond. It is comprised of steps and happens within time. You keep framing the matter as relative - probably as a state, from the way you write. If it comes from a real enlightenment, your mind might be focusing on what it can focus on - the "side-effects" of the breakthrough, which are not the consciousness itself. But direct consciousness has nothing to do with your surrounding environment, feeling, love, state, or the mind. It is not a perception nor an experience. The way language is used hints at where one is or may be coming from. Let me ask: What purpose does asserting something presumably absolute serve for others, in the end? My post was more of an attempt to uncover some possibly overlooked assumptions, whereas yours was, in my view, somewhat misleading from the get-go. Notice, the direction of mine was to negate or remove conceptual stories, whereas you simply made an assertion about the nature of something, tacitly meant to be believed. I presented a possibility, whereas you made a sloppy, inaccurate claim, referring to process (felt mental connection, surrounding environment, etc.) I'm not saying I know - but it is likely that you don't either, and instead are reacting against that suggestion. Rigor and a "rock-bottom" kind of honesty are cornerstones of this contemplation work - along with groundedness. And, after all this chatter, what has each of our responses accomplished? At best, they can provide some direction for others, hopefully towards something real; at worst, people will believe them based on their preferences and past beliefs, which is not useful at all. This may still turn out to be somewhat useful: Sometimes, not saying something is a better way to assist others than feeding their minds with what they want to hear.

You're essentially operating on hearsay, thinking it is true. This is a fool's errand. You need to toss out all that and honestly search out whatever is true regarding self, life, and existence. Also, was this written by AI?

Yes, fucking move and exercise.

@Breakingthewall Maybe, just stay on topic. @James123 You guys should make a thread on romantic relationship issues.

Okay, got it.

Stay on topic, guys. @Breakingthewall Calm down.

Is it just me, or do more posts seem to be written by AI?

@Oppositionless Change your environment, and you'll encounter new people, circumstances, and situations - both positive and negative. No need for wishful thinking to back that up. Have you watched the ad?

The point is not 'astrocartography' per se, whatever that even is, but the blatant fantasy being sold, feeding off people's gullibility and sense of hope. I thought that would be obvious to most people.

The entire forum to this thread:

Anyone else getting an "astrocartography" ad when playing the fake spirituality video? The irony.

Loving Season 3!

C'est la vie.

Use that as an exercise to unpack each of those activities. Ask yourself questions such as: What am I seeing? What does it mean to me? Judgment is a form of meaning, and labeling may be a subset of identification - but you tell me.

Nice, thank you.

Nein, I don't. Just know a few simple words.

Feeling and connection reside within the world of process and activity, and so they are still too far from 'direct.' It is consciousness being in the same "place" as the thing being contemplated - or so the theory goes. In the end, it's better left as a possibility one can personally have and verify for oneself.

No one likes cockroaches - that's the truth!

The one who knocks?

Sure, thanks. Maybe in this discussion it'd be like asking: What does a cookie mean? Or thinking of the cookie as a good sweet. We'd have to have a cookie awakening. "Bad" is essentially an assessment of meaning. Seeing war as physically harmful may be more accurate in terms of identifying it (or rather, its effects) than making a value assessment of it as something bad. Two different activities. Obviously, since it's already been established as harmful, that is estimated to be negative. Yes, it is never about the existence of anything, but about how that something relates to you in a way that serves yourself - for example, by assessing whether it is positive or negative, which show up in various forms: interesting, irrelevant, worthy, trivial, valuable, significant, useless, important, etc. For instance, you could ask: Worthless for what? Or: Useful for whom?

cool!

Whatever the self is attached to gives it meaning. But does it have to be attached to those particular things? Not necessarily - it can attach or identify itself with all kinds of things. Another perspective: at the end of the day, do we really care what the meaning of life is? We seem to simply go about the business of living, and the meaning appears to underlie the activities we engage in. From yet another view, we might say everyone's purpose is ego survival, and the meaning - perhaps - to be happy. People already seem to live their lives assigning to them the meaning they want, even though meaning isn't intrinsic.