UnbornTao

Enlightenment isn't a thought, a state, an experience or a perception. It's a direct consciousness of the absolute nature of you, existence, space, etc.

No speculation. Grasp what you are first, the rest of your related questions may sort themselves out afterwards. That'd be every being, I imagine.

Not sure about Leo and won't be able to tell in the end, but the most likely scenario is that nobody here has become conscious of what love is. We should start with that.

What is love then? Go contemplate.

You choose. I'd prefer starting a dedicated account from scratch so that "personal" and "professional" are clearly delineated. You'd start afresh, with less reservations and resistance over what you share.

It's clear how easy it is for people to fall into believing good-sounding claims about love. It makes us feel good. You can see they want to eat it up indiscriminately. How come? Doing this easily leads to fantasizing about it rather than grasping it. We must start by admitting we don't know what love is. Why do you want to contemplate love but not death and suffering? There might be a bias there. You don't call an experience of dog shit an experience of love. Why?

You'd first have to grasp what "this" is before asking any further questions about it. So clarify "this" first. In other words: What is experience? And perhaps: What is perception?

That's the scientific definition but what about giving a grounded explanation for us normies?

Read it yourself first and then tell us. For the looks of it, stoic philosophy can be found to be valuable and interesting. Enjoy!

Haha. I'd say that you wouldn't trade enlightenment not even for all of Earth's gold. Drop everything you've got about it. It's you and nothing else.

Self-doubt is a universal experience. At the core of self's apparent existence, you're afraid it might be empty, that the existence of you is a facade or illusion. This shows up as a fundamental sense of inauthenticity, of unreal-ness. A nagging sense, underlying your experience, of being incapable of life. Self doesn't experience itself as capable of creating life. Are you your self? What is this sense about?

Thoroughly enjoying the Foundation show. Highly recommended. Beautiful visuals and scenery. Have to read the books.

Stop watching porn then.

Thank you.

Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel something.

I meant Razard's attempt at making up a cosmology. You're conflating a psychological condition with direct consciousness.

Avoid making up bullshit as much as possible.

yep

Of course he's just doing it out of the pure goodness of his heart.

You know you can use four, and even five, laughing emojis, right?

@Princess Arabia @Bazooka Jesus stop the childish behaviour. Instead of downplaying a communication, contribute something useful, or not. Keep to the original thread.

What is boredom all about? Why does one need distraction? What may lie behind this drive? What is one trying to get away from, if anything? What is one trying to accomplish? Why boredom?

People are easily fooled by the appearance of things. Go look for decent role models if that's what you want. There are highly intelligent and mature options out there unlikely these ones. There are men to look up to and yet you guys choose to follow opportunistic, cool-looking children.

Leo's busy playing Starfield. No new episode until 2024.