Carl-Richard

Just literally become enlightened and spiritual practice is over, now you can live in the illusion and you don't have to cling to a spiritual ego that thinks it needs to "be aware of the illusion".

That's not true. You think two identical twins raised up on different sides of the world would have the same personality? Yes https://www.actualized.org/forum/?app=core&module=system&controller=content&do=find&content_class=forums_Topic&content_id=111596&content_commentid=1700155

Ty

@Elliott I was awake for 21+ hours with a flu finishing my thesis two days ago (even threw a workout in), and today I had to sleep 5 hours in the middle of the day despite sleeping 7-8 hours last night 🙂

I feel like a lobotomy patient in the morning when I take those.

Not just genetic. Leo have to stop presenting his brown-pilled view of genetics. Nothing is "just genetic" except e.g. Huntington's disease or eye color (but that is also highly simplified). Karma, yes. Karma is just another word for "it is what it is" or Newton's third law or physics. But Leo is not akin to Buddha. He's more akin to Plato, or Newton, or Leonardo da Vinci.

OP is practicing triphasic sleep and has problems with restorativeness of sleep.

Find out why you wake up two times a night. That's two times too much.

Identifying with those traits is ego. Ego identification is ego. The illusory world exists, the ego makes you believe it is real and not an illusion. Enlightenment is breaking the belief in the illusion as real, removing identification, not removing the world. Enlightened people can be highly wordly, highly driven, highly successful, highly achievement-oriented, or they can not be. It fundamentally does not reflect their enlightenment because their enlightenment is beyond the world. It's true that if you are identified, focusing more on worldy things instead of enlightenment could make you more egoic. But if you are enlightened, or if you do enlightenment work, that doesn't have to be the case.

Duh. Did the problems start before or after mouth tape?

Connection is not impossible through text. It's quite possible. @Natasha Tori Maru can attest to that. When @Nahm was a regular on this forum, his text connected with me in ways probably no human has. And it's possible to not connect in person. See countless videos of satsangs where guests ask questions and express confusion and doubt. But I'm sure any connection that is there could definitely be magnified in certain ways. I've spent hours just watching spiritual teachers talk, not listening to their words, just watching, and getting more out of that than any words they were saying.

Let's also not dismiss a relevant topic. How do you think AI use relates to the points you brought up? Inb4 geniuses use AI-generated voice. The technology you're looking for is called Discord. But with closer social bonds and the tendency for quicker and shorter format posts comes certain challenges. I think having to express yourself in text in a long format way is an exceptional way to develop your thinking and a way to ensure a level of quality control. When threatened, the ego might become paranoid and project more threats where there aren't any. It's good that you're discovering the imperfections of this forum, just as the world. But just like changing the world, it could be good to hamper one's expectations, start from a level of acceptance. The forum and the world is not a threat to you.

Being bullshitted is not the issue. It's having to smell shit every time you open the door. I'm aesthetically appalled and existentially offended by having to read what a robot has produced when I should be speaking with a human being. If I want to talk to a robot, or something that just sounds like a robot, I can do that on my own time. It's like you go to the cinema and instead of motion pictures, you get a slideshow of still images. "What — you still get to learn the story? What's the big deal?" It's the experience of connecting with the medium you're immersed in, in the way you were expecting, in the way you were intending. I don't connect to a robot. I never did, ever since 2022 when I first used it, except for very few moments. Human connection, connecting to somebody else's mind, authentically, is currently irreplaceable. If you're too insecure to connect with somebody else truly as you are, I feel sorry for you. Develop your weaknesses, don't let an AI take away your very soul.

It's on you to follow the guidelines, and if what you're doing is indistinguishable from what counts as breaking the guidelines, that is also on you. So again, how can we know the difference between you using AI to inform phrasing and not your thinking or ideas? I don't think we can other than taking your word for it, which is not a good basis for moderating. The last few posts you've made only makes me think you're actually letting AI add to your thinking, not just rephrase it.

I sometimes tend to make insensitive statements when I'm sick with the flu. Not to excuse it. But yes. It is an excuse. I'm sorry @Monster Energy

Yes, it's good to get an update on the state of AI use on the forum. We tried that, by the way. How can we know the difference?

Yes, that is the standard sycophantic AI answer. Yeah that's just bullshit. The guidelines are clear: LLM hallucinations combined with sycophantic cheerleading, no wonder why it is linked with psychotic breaks. No mods can ban anybody (unless they're spam accounts). But if all your posts on the forum are bot posts, it would be essentially banning a bot.

If your contribution to the forum is AI slop, and you're not disclosing that it is AI slop, that is against the guidelines.

I suggest ban.

I was being sarcastic. Unless you're living in the jungle alone, your existence will require either your own or someone else's work or money. And to spread your high consciousness message to as many people as possible requires a lot of work and a lot of money. If you only view money as a means to a materialistic-hedonic end, yes, money will probably not be compatible with high consciousness, but that's a low consciousness view of money.

Can you form a single cogent thought?

Locked for low quality.

"Tomorrow it will rain". Where is the fear?

Answer based on the first thing that pops into your mind.

If you're endlessly mind-wandering about future scenarios and how something might affect you or might not affect you, that's ego. Focusing on the future as in doing things in the now that has consequences for the future, that's not intrinsically egoic. Focusing on the future as in thinking about how to manifest changes in the future is not intrinsically egoic either. Egoic identification is ego. With egoic identification comes a certain habitual, cyclical, persistent, repetitive form of thinking about oneself, whether it's in the future or past or relative present. Egoless thinking is much more action-oriented (ironically), much more purposeful and focused, less "what if" and more "this now". On the contrary, I think people who are more "focused on the future" spend less time in egoic states overall than those who aren't. Because egoic thinking inhibits productivity. You don't have time to be thinking about yourself if you have 15 deadlines and you're advising 4 students and your kids are sick and you are sick and your wife is sick and you're constantly abroad for meetings and conferences (ask my thesis advisor). In fact, my thesis advisor despite his "future focus" is one of the most psychologically light, grounded and alive people I've met. When you have a lot to do, you think about what needs to be done. And if you're good at doing lots of things, you'll likely primarily think about those things and not much else.