Hello from Russia

@FlyingLotus what country are you from?

But isn't it just your bias? Cause your avatar is all about understanding stuff? My personal feel about this topic is that fundamentally consciousness is all about issness - being all kinds of stuff and experiencing it fully, with or without self understanding Why the bias towards understanding is not just part of this particular dream either? I can easily picture myself in a consciousness of a rabbit just living his rabbit existence with his the typical survival agenda of a rabbit Though I'm open minded enough to consider that consciousness of a rabbit can still have the potential of self-awareness in which case your self-understanding argument can still hold But what about consciousness of a rabbit who isn't self aware and only cares about finding food and not getting eaten by wolves for the most part? I totally acknowledge that conceptualizing about rabbit is still happening inside a dream, I don't know what will/can happen outside of this dream And I acknowledge that in my current dream state for some reason I care a lot about understanding of the reality/existence and there is a bias and pull towards it But how can you claim that all of consciousness about this dualistic thing - understanding? Within and outside this particular dream. How can you say that it is? I mean, it's about this thing and many others for sure, but how can you claim it's the #1 thing?

I don't want to deal with any of people in Russia because our culture is so bullshit I don't plan to avoid socialization in the future and looking forward to socialize with some more developed folks but right now here in Russia it's just way too sickening to meet people here. Even more spiritual folk here pursue spirituality in such dogmatic ways holy shit I'm not talking about Christianity/Islam even, but more Russian Buddhists and yoga people You love to criticize western buddhism and so forth, but I'm actually hella excited to meet all these people once I get out of here

I mean more like we need to work on increasing the appeal of this work Within ethical way as much as possible and not in some cheap entertainment way either It's a challenge for sure, some need to dedicate their lives to it

Communicate this to them

Ridiculous strawman If you think sex is only for entertainment, you have no idea what sex is

Nahh, this is fun, we need more of that Who cares about Ekchart Tolle or someone like him say be in the present moment bro Both spirituality and philosophy need way more punch than that We need to make it sexy Otherwise it gets associated way too easily with incel culture and so forth by common people We are already too stupid as a society

Why would you be so stupid to work as a professor for minimum wage when you Re that smart. Even if you're working at Harvard

That's basically just a different journaling technique Can relate, I often do something similar

Yes, put a good infrastructure for yourself I have a dedicated laptop for reading, good PDF reading app, I read mainly in PDF. Good note taking app. Don't over read useless information inside books (a lot of books have fairly big amount of empty texts in it) - tho some books are golden almost cover to cover you gotta judge the book well

Slutty girls are the best They have to be both spiritual and sluts - ideal combo

I've read 300 books within 2-3 years time frame, lol Now taking a break from reading cause it's interfereing with my own contemplation. It becomes way too much other people's thoughts in the brain

Lol, it's not that much

Being a wage slave is just a state of consciousness (lol)

A bit surreal to watch something like this in some movie about 10-15 Century and then seeing an identical thing happening with a figure from our modern time

Meh, dude. I studied like 20 religions/spiritual traditions or probably even more than that. They are all group-think as fuck, I wonder if there is any tradition that is not like this

Yeah, she is also super hot I need a wifu like her but 20 years younger

Teal Swan is good, you can tell she is an original thinker. However, most of her stuff is focused around emotions and relationships (all kind)

Dude, stop this 0 nuance bullshit

Lol

@Leo Gura Sort of like enjoy the nightmare as some people enjoy horror movies?

@Leo Gura Hehe, I already had such sex experience, it was much dirtier in a cool way.

@Leo Gura I have a fear of living through these "tough" experiences that are also Love but at the same time terrifying from a relative POV of a person experiencing them. I wonder if you could give some advice to handle this fear? It exists as sort of existential tremor inside. I can totally recognize and be thankful for that my current life experience is not relatively bad as it could possible be (could be infinitely worse). But I have a hard time accepting a possibility that at some time my dream can become a total nightmare. And I have a desire to do anything in my power to avoid such a nightmare as I seemingly tired af from it existentially (maybe grown tired also from past lifetimes too if they exist)

What's wrong with them? How bout Sri Lanca? I was thinking to maybe go retreat there for a year or so, I love buddhist architechture

Wow