Shin

If you really want to know: Sit and ask what is beyond death. Don't listen or care for any of your thoughts that may appear. Focus on your will to know what is true, no matter what it is. If you do this everyday for at least 30 minutes, you will know at some point ☺

You know that your avatar is false advertisement ? People expect the bald monk and then see that you have hair ! Thanks for everything you're doing Mu_, thanks very much ❤

It's a method when you think as a newbie: "I'm doing my daily meditation to be more conscious !" In a sense that's great to do that, but in another sense it makes you think that being in a meditative state 24/24 is not possible or realistic. If you really want to be conscious, like really conscious, you can't just "sit and do my daily meditation", it has to be 24/24. You must have the will to stay conscious all the time, all day, all month and all year. If you do that for a certain amount of time, without quitting, you won't do meditation anymore, it's gonna be your natural state, you gonna realize it's your natural "state". That's what monks do in a nutshell, their seated meditation is a tiny part of the day where they train themselves to be conscious, it's the rest of the day that really matters, all the activities you normally do mindlessly daydreaming about anything and everything. The seated meditation become more like a "time of the day to relax even more" rather than a "time of the day where I try to finally relax my mind". This is maybe one of the most important insight to have, because until then, you can meditate for decades and still be highly unconscious and dissatisfied with life (it's not that uncommon). That is essentially because people think this way "Meditation is an activity that I do at a certain time of the day, and being conscious is not possible all the time, it is an experience that I can only reach in "meditation"" No, you can be conscious 100% of the time (by being conscious I mean being aware, not having a blank mind), you won't even be able to stop once it's the case, because that was always the case. You just were too invested and attached to the voice in your head, creating an illusion of unconsciousness

My concepts and beliefs are the TRUE ones ???

Do colors disappear when you take out your sunglasses ?

Reality vs reality ! Only one is real !!! ?

You're drawing conclusions/assuming things that aren't in your direct experience. As long as you do this, you'll always be confused.

Meditations from Marcus Aurelius

@arlin Technically speaking, there is no way to know if anything has consciousness (from the scientific paradigm we live in). How would you know if a rock has consciousness or not ? You could say "it hasn't a brain, so it just can't", that would be assuming consciousness comes from the brain (what about animals without brain ?). This is an assumption that comes from science telling us that consciousness must come from the brain, even though they can't prove anything about it, and still struggle to even define what consciousness is. Do you ever had a dream where you weren't anything in particular ? Where you where just spectator of experiences happening ? Or perhaps a dream where you could be a woman one second, then the man you were fucking the next moment ? What about the one where you were nothing in particular, then realized you were an object ? Not drawing any conclusions here, but maybe consciousness is something that isn't really anything in particular, or maybe it is something that encompass everything in itself. Can be a lot of things if you're open to it and just sit silently without trying to "get it" in your head, but just really open to what the answer might be. If you really want to be open to the truth, whatever it might be, that implies that you really don't know the answer yet, as in really have no clue whatsoever. Would the answer of your question even be an answer if "consciousness" is something that transcend everything (even your own mind) ? Or could it be something you're already experiencing right now but aren't paying attention to it, because it is too obvious and mundain ? Don't try to "get it" with your head, just read those questions and sit silently. You'd be surprised how much you can discover by doing nothing at all

When you use any kind of langage, it is naturally dualistic. Langage ist what we created to explain experience and communicate what we want to each other (and by each other I mean everything). That implies two experiences. So in other words, as long as you speak, write, or even use body langage, you can never communicate consciousness. And yes consciousness is an arbitrary word I just used to describe what you (oops I (oops ...) did it again) are. ?

Typical pluralist ? Right Charlotte ? ?

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Watch Matt Khan's video then

Isn't it motivating to know there is a possibility to be infinite(ly) love/free/infinite ?

"If you feel alone when you're by yourself, surely you're in bad company" Sadhguru Yes or no ?

Doesn't excuse the insensitive part of the Strategist thinking he is above everyone though Don't worry he is acutely aware of this, it's literally untenable in his mind

From what I feel nowadays, I feel that I'm not feeling love because I fear to either be overwhelmed and/or die. There is a very vivid fear that happens if I open up too much, which translate in a total blockage of all the love that is possible to feel. This is very rare, cause most of the time I just feel peaceful, and I rarely experience positive emotions (and negative emotions). I can literally feel a infinite amount of energy that could be unleashed, but is unconsciously repressed and locked in some dark cell. This is paradoxical, cause I don't feel it as I said (but I can't express it otherwise so bear with me ), except in rare cases, but even then, it's an infinite small portion of what I intuitively feel I could feel. It's like the only thing that I care about as of now, and I'm distracting myself A LOT not to just sit and see where it goes. I'm obviously willing to go on again, and is my reason of asking you for help. I kinda know what to do, but I also want all the possible help So asides the advice and questions you will write, do you know any good books/techniques that could help ? I have those books in mind: The Art Of Loving from Erich Fromm and The Power from Rhonda Byrne. Thank you

That's actually one of the way to do it. The mind has to break to be able to see through itself. Either through gentle or fierce love. Ideally a mix of both ☺

Thank you ? I usually listen to some beautiful music everyday, and in certain day it really makes me cry a lot. Not because I feel sad, but because I feel an orgasmic high coming from nowhere and then think of that is just the tip of the iceberg. Those moments happens more and more and I feel so blessed to even feel how I feel now, let alone whatever else is in front of me. It just feels too good to be true, and this is very funny considering I'm scared of that ?

Before I realized you were posting one of your video I thought this was legit questions and was like: «Oh boy, you're on for a mighty ride» ?

How can you prove anything that is subjective ?

Love is just being ? The nouns/verb does not compute sorry ?