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@Leo Gura Did you mean this topic?

You most likely won't do this. If you release resistance and become more authentic, you will become more conscious sooner or later. It works backwards as well. Consciousness kills resistance and low-consciousness behavior. You create a duality here which doesn't need to be there. You need to accept the desire. As Teal Swan puts it, there is craving and there is desire. Desire allows if the thing does not come true, craving does not. Enlightened people do not have cravings and most likely living with 100% authenticity and here is no such thing as choice (this is the degree of authenticity I was talking about). Even if they have dreams, those are purified desires, not cravings.

@Dino D Is this a product of contemplation or is this mental masturbation? I am asking because you haven't experienced 100% authenticity, I am sure. You are 100% authentic when you do not control yourself at all. Authenticity does not add anything, it does not deal with multiple selves because even if you accept fragmentation, multiple selves can't dominate at the same time - authenticity is expressing what is here and now. Many people ask: how do I find my authentic self? It can't be found - it just is. There is and isn't an authentic self at the same time. Authenticity is the opposite of resistance - it is the source of all spiritual purification. And when the last drop resistance is dropped, you - because your substance is resistance and untruth - die. You could say that you become God. Authenticity just is. (Sorry, I am really passionate about this, authenticity is my number one value )

jk I agree with @Soulbass Or do I?

@Leo Gura Just do fucking not. A 220 minute video would be heaven.

@Leo Gura Gotcha! Oh no, there is no Leo that could troll us... and simultaneously there is. So it's a non-dual superposition of two non-dual states.

Sit down, and just be there. If you are going wherever your monkey mind takes you 100%, you are identified with it, it's being the thinker. The Do Nothing technique is looking to decrease that percentage. It's okay to get lost at first, but by just being there, it should become apparent to you that you are not the mind. As for purification, it happens only when you are detached and letting an emotion play out. Keep doing the practice and you will get to awareness more often until it becomes effortless.

He does not realize that he contradicts himself. He realized that all worries are unnecessary and still, he worries about his interactions with people. He realized his existential nature and still, he wants to go back to the illusion. It's like pondering solipsism for the first time. You want to go back to the "healthier" belief. @Leo Gura Are you trolling rn or just being authentic in a weird way

Yes, this is heavy purification. I have experienced this - surely many others as well - with smaller movements. As for letting go and getting into trouble, welcome to the authenticity train! It is possible to let go so much that you can't control yourself anymore. And this is purification too. Authenticity is the source of all spiritual purification.

I am curious about this too. From what I've experienced, romantic love is a projection. You project the feelings you wanna get onto a person and this mixture of feelings are so unique that you think you are in love with someone when actually that's not the case. Not sure the end of craving how affects this though.

@Ether You haven't studied gender, have ya?

@Shin You have sum sick Photoshop skills dude. 100% perfect fit on every single image I make my memes in Microsoft PowerPoint what can I say

@Ether My --- I'm a minor though, I won't post my teenage face here.

@Ether Sorry my ---, I can't be taken seriously with only 200 posts

He nows de wae, my budda!

Make a picture of yourself turning your head like 60 degrees so I can make a Drakeposting meme template with your face 10/10 though, would smash (jk, I am not gay )

"When I want to grow up, I want to be @Shin" - @Ether in his head. Probably.

This link redirects you to a classic example of a strong ego from the animal kingdom being affected by biological urges. Because the need is not met, we can see the protagonist projecting this need onto others instead of self-reflecting and realizing that the suffering is created by himself. This video is full of meaning and everybody should see it.

@egoeimai This instantly popped into my mind when I read your answer:

Funny how I started to try to make sense out of sum pixels on a screen. @Shin On a serious note, this makes me wish there were two Eiffel-towers so we wouldn't have to fly to America to commit existential suicide

Even the cat down the road who is doing the 7 day vegan challange.

@John Iverson The map is not the territory. If you are trying to understand direct experience, you just won't if you create symbols of it and mess with them.

@Ether Do you make your own beats? Because I really like 'em. Also, can you share the lyrics of these songs? I like to look at the lyrics of a song before listening to it, it puts everything into perspective.

This itself is a thought and a special pleading to this belief of yours

@Ether I feel you are using one little insight to put everything else into place. The word "hand" exists as a mental sound and an image, but words don't do justice in explaining this. The statement "Thoughts are unreal are false" is a thought itself. This in itself is a thought, so this is all self-defeating. And thoughts do affect your experience. This is why awareness alone is curative. Awareness adjusts the map to fit the territory which causes otherwise unwanted behaviors to be recognized thus eliminated.