Carl-Richard

I believe your motivation for meditation is one of the very strongest predictors of the outcomes of meditation. If your motivation is enlightenment, that will lead to more profound outcomes than if your motivation is stress-reduction or whatever metric you would want to maximize your well-being at a normal kind of level. And changing your motivation (authentically) is hard. It's wired into you. If you're not motivated to meditate for enlightenment, there are very few things that can do that for you. So where would you expect to cultivate such a motivation with greater efficiency? Schools. Children are under creation, they are impressionable, and they are not distracted by life, by having a job, a family to take care of, financial status, social status, etc. Even if you meditate consistently every day as an adult, even while aiming at these higher states (awakening, enlightenment), you might not want to give up your job, your family, your finances, to become enlightened, or to pursue these things more rigorously. You're attached to these things, authentically giving them up is not usually something you can do over night. That's the crux of the issue of an unenlightened society. Nobody wants to give up what they have. They want to cling to what is their current life, the status quo, what feels secure. Even if they know very intimately what the enlightened experience entails, they might not want to actually give (and give up) what it takes to get there. So to create an enlightened Earth, you must start with the soil, you must water it so that the plants grow, you must give the plants the right attention and tools to grow into the potential that you give them. Let the old plants do what they do until they wither away. That's just the state of nature at this point.

Funny = mistake? 🤔 I just don't know what "inner friction" means (unless we're in the bedroom; talking psychologically of course). 🥴

Bruh the pen broke me. Reading cognitive science and neuroscience is basically getting this point hammered into your head again and again. It breaks your mind after a while. "Prediction errors", "forward models", "cognitive schemas", "fast-and-frugal heuristics", "ecological rationality", "Gestalt psychology", "top-down vs bottom-up processing".

I was calling my own comment about you cringe, not you 💀 You thought I thought it was cringe that you pointed out Putin's energy? I meant it was cringe I pointed out my impression of your past and current patterns. It was meant to disarm my next statements, but you took the disarming as an attack 😂

You have these funny concepts.

I can't watch AI videos because they are robotic :,) They rot my soul, and the brain-to-brain connection is non-existent. The organic feelings that try to peer through the surface layer just runs into metal, silicone, 1s and 0s.

It's funny that a video serving Russian propaganda is made soelly through the use of Western AI technology

Right, correct, thank you 🙏

I know I know >:) "Control yourself, you're a member" 🤔

I'll reveal everything, don't you worry. I want to reveal as much as I possibly can. You might even want to close your eyes.

I gave a caveat that it is cringe, give me a break And by giving that caveat and still going ahead with it, I was indeed controlling myself :,) You see, this person you're talking to right now is very mean, calculated, cold, when he wants to >:) I will also just splerg out emotions if that's what's up, if that's part of the plan >:) But yes, Ramasta, just thoughts, just thoughts.

The #1 rule of world politics is Donald Trump doesn't know what the fuck he is doing. Everything else is secondary to that. What people think Kim Jong-Un is, Trump is. A clueless, narcissistic piece of rotten scum :,)

That you get genuine energy from? You're getting hypnotized by that weird woman with a weird voice 🥴 I find it cringe to point out personal things generally, but I think you're very impressionable by outside influences, more than you might realize. It's the fruit diet thing ("I just feel better on it; I also just happened to read this book on it where they argue why it's the most evolutionarily healthy diet"). It's this ("I feel Putin's energy as positive; I also just happened to watch a supposed psychic read their energy and describe it as positive"). It's perhaps other things ("they said she was 141 so I think that she is", I don't know as much about that one). Just some thoughts, don't need to take them as absolute truth ;P

If you want love without psychedelics, Jan is the teacher to go to:

I think when somebody tries to say "no other minds exist", that is what they're trying to say. And when they point to the limited human experience being the reason for that, they can't be talking about the Absolute. And when they keep referring to limited objects of their experience, e.g. "what you're reading right now", that becomes even more clear. If they then at some point concede "ok, no in fact, no objects are absolute, I'm actually not talking about my limited experience but the unlimited experience or recognition of the totality of everything", them we can talk about the Absolute again. But then they are either contradicting themselves or they are simply confused or unable to make proper distinctions that convey their understanding more or less accurately. That's the crux of the issue. If they were to study what the "mind" is in a Western psychology sense (e.g. mostly human perceptions, sensations, feelings, experiences) and contrast this with the mind in a Hindu Advaita Vedanta sense or Buddhist sense (unlimited consciousness beyond all human experience, emptiness), they would maybe see that what they're trying to deny the existence of is other human minds in the Western sense while they actually are having intuitive insights into the Hindu/Buddhist mind, which is an unfortunate conflation. Imagine going into a food store and you run into apples in the fruit section (and the oranges are hidden behind a stack of crates) and you say "there are only apples here, that means oranges can't exist, because only the store exists". That's the level of confusion of a solipsist who declares that their human limited experience is absolute (and that other human minds don't exist), while grounding their reasoning in insights into unlimited consciousness.

Give me your best explanation. Best explanation gets a cookie (laced with meth).

I'm specifically saying the solipsism of taking your finite limited experience as a human (and only it) as Absolute, is what doesn't work. If you want to say that the aloneness of the great beyond or perfect ultimate presence is solipsistic, that's fine, but that is usually not what solipsists want to do. They want to pull it into the human realm. They want to talk about "other human minds" and such topics. Their focus is interestingly very human, perhaps because that is where their identification (and attachments and fears) lies. What strikes me is you will (to my knowledge) never find an Enlightened (not merely awakened) person obsessing about the ontological status of other human minds. It's only those who are awakened (or parroting those awakened or enlightened) who are still (most of the time) identified with their finite mind that go into these weird obsessions and neuroses. If you ask an Enlightened person "do you think other minds exist?", they will be like "what? Not even your own mind exists. What are you so concerned about? See that you were always dead, nobody was alive, it was all a show, including you and your story".

Why are there seasons? Why is there night and day? Why are there orbits around the Sun? Why are there orbits of the Moon around the Earth? Why do women have cycles? Why do men have cycles (breathing, eating, working, resting, women too)? Why does your attention have cycles (between details and the big picture)? Why does your thinking have cycles (between selecting information and generating new information)? Why does your cells have cycles (between clearing waste and building new infrastructure)? Why does your neuronal cells have cycles (between excitation and recovery)? You see, the world is cyclical, and we adapt accordingly.

Teachers who talk very little (while initially having the heart in the right place, end up thinking very little and perhaps not making things clear enough, giving out clues but not carrying the students through the clues to the end and leaving them confused) are ironically complicit in spreading the solipsism bug. A student will ask a question "what is consciousness? What is the Absolute truth?", the teacher will say "This!" and just lift their hands and look around. Then the student asks "but what is this?". And the teacher answers "just this" and smiles. And the student might conclude that "this" is just their sensory experience, and hence solipsism might arise, but the teacher actually refers to the recognition of your true nature as pure ever-lasting presence. The thing about your true nature is it has existed since before you were born. Now, imagine how ridiculous it is realizing you were never actually born and then you start talking about that the human experience you have now is actually what is the most real thing. It's like you're experiencing the most extreme form of amnesia, forgetting completely where you came from before all these human stories, perceptions, thoughts, ideas about minds and other minds. It's not just that you saw the Sun and now you retreated back to the cave of shadows. It's that you were a Supernova, but you forgot all about it.

Watch his BATGAP interviews if you want to be absolutely blown away. The experiences he talks about makes all the ridiculous stories of saints throughout history sound plausible.

"Your experience right now", if it is limited to right here, right now (and whatever colors, sensations, experiences you associate with it), does not transcend space and time. Space and time is exactly what is meant by "right here, right now". But if your experience right here right now is part of (or at One with) something greater, and this thing transcends space and time, then you can look at what is right here and right now and feel that it is part of this larger thing. But that does not mean that the right here right now is all that there is. It's all that there is right here right now. You're trying to claim something limited as unlimited when you say "these limited things are the only things that exist, and this is Absolute". The Absolute is unlimited.

I'm saying that is not Absolute. There is no limitation to your experience as the Absolute. That's true Omniscience. Your experience as the Absolute is fundamentally beyond space and time, beyond immediate appearances. The mistake of making limited appearances Absolute is the mistake of taking the shadows as the Sun. And it's understandable, as the human mind has trouble conceiving of experience beyond space and time. Even when having had glimpses into it, the mind can still make the conflation, because it inevitably tries to make sense of it. And as the Absolute is beyond space and time, beyond immediate appearances, there is nothing stopping it from creating experiences beyond those limited appearances. What's stopping it? It's not bound by space and time, unlike the appearances you're pointing to. It can create "separate" bubbles that don't overlap (or partially overlap) with each other. Because the separation is not spatial, not temporal, you don't have to notice. Now, this is different from saying "there are" such separate bubbles out there, but from the Absolute perspective, nothing stops that from being possible.

Seems consistent with my experience. I feel better on some level of carbs, but I avoid sharp-spiking carbs (refined sugars or too much carbs without enough fiber). The safest bet is using whole foods or again simply getting 50% of meal weight in veggies or fruits.

So bread.

Sometimes a student goes too deep that you need a guru mechanic to re-install a "seed of ignorance" so that they can function in the world. I believe Ramana Maharshi was in such a state at some point. And a note about the video: it's interesting how he said he had to manually count the years back to see how old he was. It's like his Default Mode Network was so turned off that it did not have the automatic loop of "age" anymore and he had to use his tasking network to find it manually. I've said before that the non-dual state is essentially being in the tasking network so thoroughly that no self is to be found, and apparently, unless you make it a task to find it.