Carl-Richard

It's like going to the dating section and saying "guys, we need to get down to brass tacks and define what is meant by 'game', 'romance' and 'love': here is this one 7-factor model by this one pickup artist that I want us all to adopt and follow slavishly. It's the best approach obviously, but any feedback on the limitations with this approach?"

The point is conservatism on its own doesn't solve the difficult world problems of today.

No. Are you?

Higher birth rates = more nukes. How does conservatism deal with nukes?

Of course you have to let go of letting go if letting go is the only game in town 😉

Ask Leo if he is in a non-dual state right now. Meditation is like going to the gym. You target specific muscles, you break them down, and then after the gym, you rest and grow. Deconstruction can be done anywhere, but it should definitely be done during meditation.

God damn it.

Do you have a 30 cm diameter trunk?

Genetics, stage in life, method and values predict deconstruction. Some are born more deconstructive than others. Seeing through worldly desires and being ready to die requires deconstruction (implicit or explicit, deliberate or unintentional). You can do psychedelics and ignore the invitation to deconstruction, and you can avoid integrating it into your life. Yes, in the meditation itself. That is when you have the mental capacity to do it effectively. You are noticing the contractions and subtle mental imagery around various patterns and notions your mind and body is holding on to and then you let them go. That's actually a meditation mantra recommended by Sadhguru. After meditation is just a state where you're distracted and your attention is constantly wandering to objects. Why that is a better state to do deconstruction? You integrate the deconstruction in that state. Uncovering the things that need to be deconstructed needs more attention and awareness. Deconstructing deconstruction is a mental game. Deconstructing your notions and bodily energetic patterns goes deeper than that.

Next time I'll touch a metal pole and report my findings 🫡

@theleelajoker Holy you need some religion brutha. I just think trying to make people to speak the same language, especially when that requires reading into a particular religion, on a forum where people are generally pluralistic in their use of language (or aspiring to be) and don't read particularly into one religion, is a bit futile.

"Let's use one way to define Enlightenment based on the words of the main religious figure of a world religion on a forum where people mix and match knowledge from all places to inform their view on a topic".

On a forum with women, good luck. You will die.

Buddhism is a religion.

Does she draw mostly from her imagination? I used to only draw from my imagination when I was little, and when we had to draw the teacher in art class in high school (he was posing), I only drew him from my imagination, not what he actually looked like 😂

You can't feed traditional religion to a New Age cat 🐱

No 🙂

Did you deconstruct anything during those 7 days?

That's good. It's really the only way it works.

And that's when all the delusions occur, e.g. "I'm all alone" therefore "nobody else is conscious", or "I know everything" therefore "I know what is behind that door". Solipsism, the way 95% of people understand it, is one such delusion.

Is that which is, spatio-temporally constrained? Is is-ness located in space? Is is-ness an object you can draw on a piece of paper? Nopity nope.

I want to be crystal clear that solipsism in the sense that 95% of people understand it, is not non-duality, not Absolute Truth, not spiritual, not insightful, not deep, not worth anybody's time. It's de-lu-sional.

Great, so now that we've established that there is no room, no inside or outside: there is only what is. Done. We're pointing towards non-duality, not "there is nothing outside my room". Are the solipsists hearing this? @Solipsism

Hehehe are we talking about the body being the ontological primitive now are we? No we're obviously not. Why are you bringing this up, Razard?