ajasatya

Let's say that the process in which God gradually becomes aware of Itself is full of hiccups... Sooner or later, we'll need to learn how to deal with those. The Zen schools have their method: you're not allowed to mention how enlightened you are unless a proper committee is formed for that. Such rituals are called "Dharma Combats". After the committee recognizes you as God fully realized, you become apt to teach in the name of the Zen tradition and organize Zazenkais, Sesshins etc. But you come back to not being allowed to mention how enlightened you are. It's a protocol to protect the lineages from cult-like tendencies and other forms of devilry.

Honestly, I don't see why God, when becoming fully aware of Itself, would cease to exist. In fact, it would be a reason to exist and expand itself FURTHER and MORE INTENSELY. Reality/God is non-dual, but duality as we know it (the experience of being an individual) is the ultimate miracle. This is the mystical absurdity, the core of the paradox. This is where Enlightenment meets Self-Actualization. This is how holy human beings, so to speak, come to be. They realize themselves as "the son of God" and "the son of man", or simply "God as a person". Again, this is very different from ego trips. God, when aware of Itself, is an extremely humbling experience.

@xthebentnecklady What happens in the level of mind when the experience of "neuroses" comes up? What does the mental voice say?

Funny question.

Yeah, but @Chilli is right. Hijacking threads is against the forum guidelines, regardless of your likes and dislikes.

When I smoked weed, I just felt retarded and paranoid.

Yes, I forgot to mention that. But by "good job" I'd mean doing something that makes me feel intellectually challenged. Your definition of "good job" might be different, I don't know.

@kieranperez Yes, and its actually where the real labor lies on. This is also what non-dual robots fear the most: purification.

Enough food and water A warm place to sleep/rest Comfortable clothes Basic hygiene That's all. But Life can also be more awesome than that.

It means that enlightenment is a phenomenon of the Universe. The Universe becomes aware of itself through you. It does not mean that your mother will become enlightened. That's the trap of the mind.

If a group of gangsters stole all your money and beat you to the hospital, would you like if the authorities from the social justice system were on the same hierarchical level as the burglars so that the burglars could decide for themselves not to suffer the consequences of their act? The creation of an unified power called "State" is the attempt of mankind to protect itself from its own ignorance. We need common good to beat individualist devilry. The quality of your life can be severely affected if you don't feel minimally safe when walking around. This was just an example.

Sex is how Life continues, like drinking water and eating food. It's a completely different matter. Yes, that's the way it's going to be. I know that such societies exist legally in Brazil, United States, Portugal, Australia, Spain, Switzerland and Netherlands. I'm not very optimistic about Russia, China and North Korea, though.

You're failing to notice that you did exactly what he told you not to do, which is hold beliefs as dogma. Time to throw it away. C'mon, you're smarter than that.

Okay. It will take a while for you to realize the depths of your attachments. You haven't experienced the cosmic joke yet. You don't know what you're talking about. Your misery is under your conscious control. Your misery is you forcing yourself to believe in solipsism. It will stop as soon as you admit that you've distorted Enlightenment into an immature drama. All it takes is noticing your own stubbornness.

Alright, then let go of this very belief. If you want to discredit mental experiences just for the fact that they're mental, then the only option is to live without any thoughts. But this is FAR from how amazing a human life can be. You're struggling very hard to convince yourself that your life is (and must be) miserable.

It's nothing new... Kenneth G. Libbrecht. "Snowflake Myths and Nonsense". California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 21 July 2012. Harriet Hall (November 2007). "Masaru Emoto's Wonderful World of Water". Skeptical Inquirer. Reville, William (February 17, 2011). "The pseudoscience of creating beautiful (or ugly) water". The Irish Times. Dublin. p. 14. Retrieved 2014-08-21 Koh, Lay Chin (January 28, 2009). "A 'hado' will never replace a home full of life". New Straits Times. Kuala Lumpur, MY. p. 17. Retrieved 2014-08-21. Tiller, William (2004). "What the Bleep do we Know!?: A Personal Narrative". Vision In Action. 2 (3–4). Matthews, Robert (April 8, 2006). "Water: The quantum elixir". New Scientist (2546).

That "me" might be where your ignorance is. If I'm wrong, why are you even taking Leo's words in consideration? Wouldn't you just be Leo's imagination? Or... Why Leo's imagination specifically? Why not Donald Trump's imagination? See, there are many fallacies that can follow poorly integrated mystical experiences. Your "extremely challenging" attempt to accept whatever you're trying to accept is like shoving a bunch of dogmas in your own throat. God is One, but as many. It's an absurdity. It's infinitely mystical. You, "Shaun" can create genuine connections with "others". The depth of sincere connections is real. It's, indeed, God connecting with Itself. But if you say "It's all me", you cannot think that you're the only valid experience out there. Or you thought that God was as simple as solipsism? Nah... gotta go further than that. It's infinitely mindblowing.

Dean Radin is seriously legit, but @Dimi was talking about those photos of water molecules that became famous.

@Shaun You've certainly seen something interesting, but the mind is a tricky thing. It takes over and assumes that it's the only genuine experience of the Reality. It's a clear case of ego backlash. Assuming that your perspective is the only perspective that exists is the easy way out of the mind in order to make sense of a radically paradoxical experience of no-self. Your experience was/is real, but your beliefs about it are arbitrary. Reality is One, but your perspective is not the only one because GOD is infinitely more powerful than that.

@FrankTheTank Look around you. Do you think that the average joe can create something like actualized.org? This very forum is a demonstration of "superhuman" power. That experiment has been proved irreproducible.

@Shaun Oh wow... you've taken your beliefs to another level. What if you're fundamentally wrong? What if you're mistaken about what enlightenment actually is? I'll serve you with a different food for thought. You're not the only gadget of the Universe that's able to access the feeling of "I AM". The Universe can feel "I AM" through every human being, which makes the human creature one of the highest events of existence... not a "wage slave form". In other words, your photography hobby was just fine. The spiritual path is the path towards a fulfilling/healthy Life. If you've reached unhappiness and such, it means that you're still indulging in some form of ignorance.

@Tetcher Thanks for the info. I can't confirm that it's true, but I felt disappointment just from reading some of the sources.

Interesting. I am going to ask you a few questions. Feel free to ignore any (or all) of them if you find it too uncomfortable to answer. How do you relate to people around you? Do you feel like you have the chance to be sincere about your feelings? Do you hold feelings of regret? Do you have something that you really enjoy doing and that's not toxic/destructive?

Absolutely. Because porn can ruin your sexual life. Porn teaches an extremely ill way of dealing with intimate moments.

@Shaun I don't understand why you don't treat yourself more gently. Do you?