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Dr. Joe Dispenza is Killing it Right Now
Dr. Joe Dispenza is Killing it Right NowPretty remarkable how stereotypical eastern wisdom and western technology and science slowly, but surely, converge and at what stage of unity they're already at. Sure, also Dispenza's understanding of non-duality and consciousness might not be absolutely perfect, but it's pretty good if you ask me - he's surely "getting there". However, the most important thing IMO is that he's a good communicator and presenter that succesfully manages to get more and more people on track with mysticism and spirituality in a very healthy way, especially with his apparent healing-abilities that he offers to people and encourages them to find out about them for themselves.
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Self inquiry help
Self inquiry helpWas wondering if anyone had any self inquiry techniques that they might like to share any tips/ advice are welcome.
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One doing
One doingThere is no difference between cause and effect, it’s all one dance, a play with form and its all the same thing. These forms are not separate. The words that you are seeing on this page have not been typed by me but instead are here because of an untraceable cause of events. Understand that your mind finds it hard for this to be true because of all the concepts and ideas it likes to pile on top. Where do these concepts and ideas exist other than in our minds? Truth lies in objectivity and cannot be found while you still see yourself as separate. The idea that someone typed this out on a keyboard is nothing but a belief or idea, a concept. It’s very simple and also inconceivably complicated how these words appeared on the screen for you to read. They are just there, because they are. Because the universal dance with form led them to be here. No choices were made no decisions led me to type this out. That is nothing more than a belief created by the mind.
I don’t buy into the idea that I am a separate person going around making choices and decisions with good or bad outcomes. I fail to see the difference between what I call myself and literally anything else here that you may think as separate from “me”. Every single atom in existence, every single object you can think of is contributing to the seeing of these words on this screen just as much as “I” am. A person that still believes he is a separate individual might say in response to this:
“You literally put your hands on your keyboard and pushed the keys down in the correct order to type what you wanted to type didn’t you? What if I can sit next to you and watched you type on the keyboard? That would be proof wouldn’t it?”
You are still assuming that there is a me that could be typing on the keyboard whether you watch me or not. What I’m telling you is that there is no me. The me and you that you think are objective facts are nothing more than beliefs. You believe that there is a me and you because you are under the illusion that you have some kind of control over “your body and or mind”. All it takes is 20 – 30 minutes of sitting down and just watching to realise that you have no control whatsoever there are just things happening in the field of awareness, these include thoughts, feelings, all of your senses and literally anything else that you can think of. When you come to realise that you have no control over absolutely anything it should come fairly easily to also realise that the lines that we like to draw between the doer and the doing are just absurd. There is only one doing, one play, one dance, whatever you like to call it really does not matter.
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A description of pre and post Enlightenment
A description of pre and post EnlightenmentA beautiful description of how one sees the world pre and post Enlightenment by Shinzen Young.
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"You Manifested in Form to Discover This"
"You Manifested in Form to Discover This"Had to share this special Mooji satsang it is so powerful.
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True enlightenment is..
Am I alone? Enlightenment experience led to Solipsism, and it made me DepressedTrue Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the Ocean.
Its pure freedom, pure love, joy, bliss and understanding for years and years to come. Most of these experiences/glimpses people post about on the forums or talk about on youtube videos i believe are not "True Enlightenment" but simply (glimpses of Enlightenment) or (waves of Enlightenment) because in true/absolute enlightenment you would simply "innerstand" wholeness, completeness thus cannot be an expression by any other than universal love and clarity/purest state of being because by default you now know your true absolute nature and it is universally pointless/meaningless and in that beingness not possible to be anything else. (Sorry if this makes no sense, its quite hard to explain with words or expressions) its just a knowing from within, an Innerstanding that is absolutely direct and pure.
I believe we have these "glimpses" or "awakenings" to teach us and show us of our true nature and how to live/apply to finally become true/absolute/pure and when we don't apply or live as we now know, we suffer.
Which is why i like to use the word Awakenings for glimpses/trips ect... instead and not interchangeably with Enlightenment.
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A solution for Relapse into old habits (Leo's 3rd retreat recap)
A solution for Relapse into old habits (Leo's 3rd retreat recap)(mentioned at 1:08:55) @Leo Gura
The problem: relapse into old habits, when returning to daily life.
To discuss a solution, let's acknowledge some of the dynamics which are are at play here, and some relevant bullet points. Kindof a hodgepodge of ideas:
the principle of induction is immutable, and always in effect. Whether in electromagnetism or induction of behaviors. Everything is a tuning fork for everything else. Environments and circumstances induce habits. anchoring is relevant here. Merely encountering a familiar sight or smell will automatically re-prime the behavioral patterns most often associated with that stimulus. So some amount of stimulus avoidance or de-correlation is helpful. The human body and brain is old, possibly outdated hardware. Our innate habit-formation protocols are based on a primitive, dangerous survival environment. we live in a messy era of increasing confusion. None of us have a damn clue what we're doing here on Earth, what we are, or what to do about it. Until this is resolved, we will continue to indulge escapist tendencies. like seeks like. Habits of all kinds drive us to seek out other habits which will reinforce it. We fall back into our "old ways" because these ways have mini egos and are afraid of dying. we need to have the humility to view ourselves as mechanical. There is a continuum (or maybe mobius strip) between inertial and volitional. Commander, and commanded. You and I are an amalgam/system of both. all indulgent behaviors are an attempt to get a taste of the divine, which is actually a self-loving act. If we were to reconfigure the human experience such that divinity were the default, rather than the rarity, no one would feel the need to "get high". Ideally, choosing the healthier option must feel just as good or better than choosing the unhealthy one. Belief plays a big role. If you don't believe you will be emotionally supported in a new lifestyle, then you will continue to get your support where you already know you can get it (old habits). Many tiny unpredictable things trigger our web of habits and loops. Even specularity (quality of lighting) matters a great deal. It influences your mood etcetera, driving you to behave this or that way. Expansion caps. Expanding with vigor only to hit the walls of a limited box that you can't get out of: whether consciously or unconsciously, we intuitively know that for all our efforts, brutal annihilation is our fate (at this level, anyway). So when we get too close to optimization, we bump up against limits of our human form and habitat. I think we avoid getting too perfect, because we know that there is nowhere to go from there. So by refining ourselves, we are heading straight for anxiety and paralysis. Whereas, when we fuck ourselves over, at least we have something to do and some way to grow in the aftermath. Feeling the gap: becoming a more healthy and streamlined person will force you to feel the gap between you and others who aren't at that level. So we avoid transcending opur dysfunctions, because doing so would bring the dysfunctions into sharper contrast. people have no choice but to seek relief. Certain activities are a "match" to the 9-inch face mole in our lives. Imagine trying to get a date , but you have a mole which covers your entire face. The whole face is just one big mole. Yeah, that's what it's like trying to get in shape or become enlightened while having a job which takes up all your time. until we get rid of the mole, it will seek matches to perpetuate its existence. We need freedom AND resources, or short-term gratification habits will inevitably creep in. where are habits stored? "neurons that fire together wire together". Habits are intricate webs of large self-reinforcing tapestries.
The solution: It sucks because it is a mind-numbingly monumental task, and it's not actionable just yet... but the solution, as i estimate, is to take a systems engineering approach. to put "quality control" on Reality or our neighborhood of it, to the degree that that's possible.
the only real situation is to map out the dynamics at play, as many as possible, and treat it all like a circuit. For instance, if we could somehow implement proactive monitoring (computer-assisted correlation maps) and on-the-fly decorrelation procedures, then we'd stand a much better chance. What those decorrelation procedures might look like, I have no idea. But it would be like an "anti-habit", or habit kryptonite.
-An under-discussed pillar of physical fitness is: not having a job AND already having enough money to buy any food you want AND living close to a gym AND etc etc. The idea here is that unless you have all of the "and"s checked off, relapse is inevitable, in a deterministic sense. So nothing less than a complete restructuring of human society will solve relapse issues. And even then, life as a fragile fleshy body in an indifferent universe is traumatizing enough, even if you have your survival and thriving needs met. So from there, full extrication from our physical universe to "greener pastures" will be in order. Like a system upgrade. Our type of universe is an old model and is not well-suited for habitation. it comes with inherent stresses, which will necessarily lead to dysfunctions and relapses of all kinds, no matter your level of willpower.
Just as a psychedelic can supercharge your meditation, a environment finely tuned to be conducive to well-being of its inhabitants can supercharge habits (or decharge the bad ones).
But by all means, exercise the willpower that you do have.
Some helpful habit hacks:
-cold showers (builds will power)
-start each day with a small act of discipline, before any acts of gratification.
-wear earplugs. (drowns out noise, decreases its effect on you).
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Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life, the Universe and Everything?
Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life, the Universe and Everything?A great article in Scientific American that flirts with nondual concepts.
Not all scientists are into scientism! The great ones are always going against the flow.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/could-multiple-personality-disorder-explain-life-the-universe-and-everything/
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Evil and lack of consciousness
Evil and lack of consciousnessHave you seen my video: What Is The Devil?
If not, you should really watch it. It's one of my best.
Evil is simply a judgment the ego-mind makes because it wants to survive. See? Anything that threatens your survival you will call "evil". It's as simple as that.
For example, the reason terrorists are thought of as evil by much of Western civilization is only because they threaten the survival of Western civilization.
If you didn't care about survival, nothing would be evil to you.
From God's perspective nothing is evil because God is infinite and cannot die. So it would be nice if you were able to switch your identification from being a human ego to being God. Then you'd stop seeing evil in the world. You'd see the world through God's eyes, which is ego-less.
Since low consciousness correlates to denser ego, it also correlates to greater selfishness and greater potential for "evil" -- that is, doing selfish acts. As consciousness increases, the ego thins out, and this correlates with selflessness. Selfless people have much less need to do selfish acts. They are more loving and caring and gentle because they are not preoccupied with their own survival.
An egoless person can sacrifice his life without much problem. Not because he is brave, but because he knows he's infinite and cannot really die.