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You nondual keyboard warriors are adorable lol @Consilience dude I’m not here to answer everyone’s comments. I plan on trying to do Ralstons fall workshop and would like to do the 4 weeks but that depends on how much money I pull for this summer gig Im working 70-80 hours a week for. So I don’t know.

The happiness that’s a result from awakening is a result of freedom. If you’re seeking truth as a means to try and live a better life then yeah have fun trying to do it that way. Knock yourself out and see where that goes. If you care about the truth enough that you want to know even if it kills you and may “make your life worse” regardless of outcome then yeah you’ll probably have a better place to stand. Were answering this in relative terms so understand no matter what answer you or I give it’s all irrelevant. Nothing you or I say can explain the Absolute. “Ego” is a relative activity that has no existence in itself other than an illusion in an illusory word, none of which exist Absolutely. We’re answering this in a relative philosophical frame about something Absolute so all of this again is still going to be wrong and bullshit at the end of the day. Do you see a mind sitting around somewhere to transcend? So long as you assume you’re stuck or ever were stuck in a relative world there will still be the illusion of mind. Realize there is no world and is no mind. Saying you want to truth to be happy is as partially true as saying you want to seek the truth only for its own sake... in yet still... all of that is also false since it’s based around a person who wants to be happy and that one that I has no Absolute existence.

@Nahm As far as your story goes. First off, i would suggest you don’t go around trying to solve other people’s problems. Be mindful of being nosy of people’s issues. Further, understand still what it is that actually occurred. You can have all these alternative experiences of mind but that still is all stuff you imagine in relative world. Find out what’s absolutely true about mind is and what experience is. Glad it helped though.

And the reason we do that is for survival.

Anything you think about enlightenment, nonduality, whatever we wanna call this is at the end of the day WRONG. None of it at the end of the day is fundamentally true. If we’re gonna talk most accurately about what’s Absolute we would either have to admit that anything we say at the end of the day is all bullshit babble or we shut ourselves up. Nothing you think is the Truth. TRUTH is the point! If you care about usefulness then the pursuit of truth ain’t the right path. If you care about the truth regardless of whether or not it’s of use, them the pursuit is definitely for you. Anything we say about nonduality is mental masterbation. There’s a usefulness to it in order to pursue, but at the end of the day it is nonetheless all hogwash.

Siddhis have nothing to do with enlightenment. If you want more sugary unfulfilling experiences, go ahead. If you want truth and truly care about truth, the moment you have a full blow siddhi like experience you’ll realize just how silly it is. Siddhis may come in the relative world as a result of freedom from the illusion of a body and a mind and that you are that but I can promise you, if that’s what you want out of seeing the truth, then you’re just spinning your wheels. So what if you could walk on water? How is that any better than walking on pavement? You can meet yogis who have what some may call “profound” siddhis but are no more enlightened and free than the rest of the population.

@electroBeam you fabricate “other perspectives”. All perspective collapse into the subjective. Anything you perceive is something you’re inventing, fabricating, projecting, and imagining. To notice an angry person, you have to create that anger and create that even as an internal state while simultaneously not be aware that you are generating that. You’re projecting the illusion that there are other people and placing importance in them. All of that is something you’re generating unconsciously. You believe in other people because you assume their existence, not to mention that there’s the belief that they’re separate from you.

More sugary experiences. More distractions.

Thanks (: The funny part is I’m starting to sense the utter irony of such a phrase like “expansion of consciousness”. Relative states of consciousness are cool but the unchanging truth of what I can feel Consciousness is unchanging, empty, and totally silent. That which includes all relative states of consciousness. I feel I’m moving towards more towards freedom of that which has always been free.

What do you mean? Thanks man. People like you and Ralston have been truly instrumental in putting not-knowing into the right context. Not-Knowing is moving towards more freedom and more towards being able to stand and look with clarity where I already am rather than through taken for granted assumptions. You’re more in touch with your own direct consciousness and experience. It really puts the power back in my hands. The mystery of life is open for more questioning. I remember I heard Ralston say once “something need not be existentially true in order to serve as a useful tool”. That struck me because I eventually tied how he commonly says everything we do and perceive as inventions to what you phrase as “reality is pure imagination” and my own direct conscious realization of how “other perspectives” are really my own creation. Nothing can exist that I don’t make up. “Other perspectives” are just distinctions I make up that occur in and through me. They don’t actually fundamentally exist.

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+1 yeah it’s a tough bullet to bite for sure. Integrity is huge when taking this. If you come from a background of always breaking your word consistently, your word and commitments have no power. You don’t take yourself seriously anymore.

@Shadowraix yeah I mostly concur. Id put it as simple as this: Why is walking on water somehow more superior than walking on pavement?

@Ibn Sina Don’t assume you know what I have aversions to. You don’t know me. I have a deep love for philosophy. If anything I’m more philophsicaly minded than anything else as far as my mind and what. Having said that, that doesn’t diminish my underlying point. Anything you or I can conceive of is irrelevant as far as enlightenment goes. It’s a game that will not under nor ever be completed. Enlightenment, or truth, or that which really cannot be depicted not symbolized cannot have a concept regardless of our limited interpretations. We could write an infinite number of books on what enlightenment is. The reason it seems to you that I have an aversion to some philosophical interpretation is because it’s irrelevant at the end of the day. My emphasis here is on waking up, nothing more nothing less. Belief and assumption I am not a topic nor some concept lol. You’re drawing and fabricating these distinctions. You’re not recognizing your assumptions here. I suggest you stay vigilant about your projections of me, my character, etc. You don’t know me. All authority you outsource to others occurs in you. Truth has no picture. Anything you or I say about the Absolute is at the end of the day completely false and just wrong. From the relative side of the street (and this includes conversations regarding the Absolute) there will always be some partial truth in everything and also falsehood. Like I said, be mindful of what you assume about me. There’s a reason I’m emphasizing what I’m emphasizing. Philosophy is a lot of fun. I get it. I can appreciate that. However, everything that’s relative, you perceive, believe, even sense is all your/my/our mind that has no Absolute existence to it. All stories at the end of the day do not exist. I’m not calling myself some special dedicated one nor did I ever. You’re assigning that to me. Everything occurs right now. The sense of relative world helps to open up blind spots in our own layers of assumptions to what is right here. The consciousness of the Absolute is not reserved to a special dedicated few.

Lol you still don’t get it. Philosphy is not enlightenment. Zen is not enlightenment. Buddhism is not enlightenment. Academic nitpicking of traditions is not enlightenment. Nonduality is about practice and waking up now indpendent of what silly tradition you’re part of or subscribe to at the end of the day. No tradition “has the truth”. If you’re don’t wake up, you’re just jerking off your mind at the end of the day and spinning your wheels and that game will never EVER end. If you’re not practicing you’re not going to awaken. I can pretty much guarantee you that. And if you don’t awaken, you don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re talking about an orange without having ever eaten an orange.

Read the last 3 paragraphs of what I’m saying. Siddhis are distractions. It’s more sugary experience. Even if you could for example walk on water.... so fucking what? There’s a reason these siddhis are generally hidden from ordinary people - because of how immaturely we think of them. If you could for example close a door that’s 10 feet a way from you sitting in your chair not moving... so what?

@Leo Gura just thought I’d share this. Thought you might find this kinda cool due to the positive shoutout and kudos from Brendan Lea

They exist. Siddhis are not something tied to liberation per say. You can meet l yogis and such people who have these siddhis to various degrees but not be more liberated than anyone else. Hale Dwoskin from the Sedona Method has talked about how he met a yogi he was with and he walked across water. Sadhguru’s biography talks about this same thing. These powers do not require some “super human enlightenment”. I had a coworker in retail who was VERY clarivoyant. She actually couldn’t stand it and as she put it “turned it off because it was annoying”. Understand though that at the end of the day all of this stuff is just more experience. They may sound crazy and cool but it’s just more sugary experience. I’ve had certain spontaneous yet very psychic siddhi experiences but so what? It’s more experience. Truth and enlightenment is 10000000x more worth pursuing than some juvenile experiences. Since when are the majority of people generally right on anything? Much less what’s possible.

@Ibn Sina to know “real Buddhism” would be to wake up. Buddhism is not Buddha. Work towards waking up and get off this academic analysis. You can draw distinctions and contrasts forever. That game will never end.

@Ibn Sina are you really here to be a historian? No one on earth has an accurate detail of Buddha and what he said. In the end there is no Buddha.

Like I said, I was joking lol Not going to sell air ?

It was a joke lol

Gonna start a business that sells organic lead, mercury, and gluten free air in biodegradable boxes. Who wants to buy?

What are the symptoms of high mercury in the body? I have both ADHD and a more consistent metallic taste in my mouth and am wondering if there’s a connection.

@Leo Gura as you wish Guraji