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  1. Stage Turquoise Excesses

    lmfao replied to Mohamad Tahmas's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Bitch you just jealous of my aubergine swag

  2. Stage Turquoise Excesses

    lmfao replied to Mohamad Tahmas's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Mohamad Tahmas I believe that the use of Spiral Dynamics in accurately modelling human development collapses around turquoise because it is around turquoise that you enter the realm of deep spirituality which is concerned with ultimate truth and the nature of being, so I therefore think it's possible Leo does not wish to explore SD beyond turquoise because he thinks SD is an unhelpful model.
  3. @Roman Edouard this may sound generic but I think that acceptance of death is about acceptance of the emptiness of your being. Everyone, at least during some point, feels their existence to be empty. I currently think that once you are dead you return to the existence you had before you were born. This may sound tangiantial but bear with me. Have you ever meditated and reached a state of heightened awareness? There is this completely spontaneous present moment. The present moment is uncreated. You did nothing to create this present moment. There is no cause for anything. Just observe the origin of anything internal or external in your consciousness and pay attention to what is. To truly see through the illusion of past and future requires you cease clinging. If you reach this state you start to see the emptiness of your existence. I have found this very scary. But upon reaching this consciousness you are forced to confront the fact that emptiness is undeniably a core element of your being at all times, which is contrary to how we humans normally operate. We normally sweep emptiness under the rug. But if you let go you'll have a funny, surreal feeling inside.
  4. @The Don X is relative to Y if X can only be defined through reference to Y.
  5. @SageModeAustin The quotation "drastic times call for drastic measures" may be applicable in your case. Your question is hard for me to answer because you've basically stated that your entire psychology is fucked but no other details about your life are mentioned. How long have you been exposed to non-duality practices/theory? You say you've struggled with what sounds to depression for about 10 years, I'm just curious for how long you've been into spirituality. Have you had enlightenment experiences? If so, then you should know there is "hope". Do you have any hardcore addictions sucking the life out of you? I remember reading a post in which you copy and pasted a section of a book on negative emotion, I thought it was good. Try and apply that. Another thing I'm curious about, how much theory have you been exposed to? Because if you've spent a lot of time reading and listening to videos on non-duality then I doubt that there is much that can be said to help you. Although it its perhaps the case that you always need a reminder. If I'm looking for some spiritual inspiration I like to listen to Alan Watts.
  6. @Poetryandpolygraphs good question. If I had to (describe)/(guess the nature of) enlightenment I'd say that it probably involves the transcending of paradigms in the sense the your awareness is completely fixated in the present moment and sees through all the "thought stories" you create. Like everyone has paradigms they use, and the way I conceptualise the existence of paradigms is to say that the contents of a paradigm are the result of the metaphysics and axioms held about reality. For example, a form of the "scientific paradigm" holds as a premise that there are natural causes to things going in the world. This paradigm can include the assumption that logic, maths and reason will help you understand reality, the assumption that determinism is true, the assumption that everything is physical and etc. The way I see it, enlightened people still operate on paradigms it's just that they know that their paradigms are not to be confused with reality.
  7. @Edogowa Conan Yeah I've seen the masked arab before lmao. Points out contradictions in fundamentalist islam.
  8. When it comes to hearing sounds, it is possible for there to be silence. This silence is the absence of sound and so when there is silence you'd be at "zero" on a some imaginary map which models sound. Seeing on the other hand seems different. Whenever we are conscious (and are not dead or in deep asleep) there is never a "zero" experience of seeing. With scientific terms you can say "black is the absence of colour", however that statement is true because the terms in that sentence have not been defined in a way which addresses how vision is in our first person experience (the statement in quotation marks is based upon considering how visible light is absorbed by objects). My point is, black is not a "zero" experience. Black is a distinct colour which you can see, whilst silence on the other hand is like a zero. I was thinking about this the other day after meditating. All of our senses are so different from each other in essence and the essence of everything in our present moment experience is irreducible. I was wondering what having a new, 6th sense would be like (the same way hearing, smelling and seeing are different senses). A blind person from birth is literally seeing black but is unaware of it because he has never been exposed to more than one expression of his sight. A deaf person from birth on the other hand is literally at a zero point for hearing. And so supposing that there do exist possible extra senses which we do not recognise/have, I wonder whether it is that we are experiencing zero (like a deaf person) or whether it is that we are constantly experiencing just one expression of this sense and are hence unable to recognize this sense (like a blind person).
  9. @MM1988 But let me ask you, from where does the intention/want to think of something specific come from? Lets suppose I've decided that I'm going to keep on thinking about the names of different cities. How did that decision arise? Consider how much control ''you'' really have in your mind choosing to (focus on)/(think about) a particular thing. Be mindful of your present moment experience, you should start to notice how spontaneous and groundless reality is. In your present moment, there is no past or causality. There is this present moment experience and you've done nothing to create it. For as long as you can maintain high levels of awareness you will be in a state of " Wu Wei " to a degree, where all action you take is effortless due to you having little resistance. A thought related to Wu Wei, If someone is to truly live and breathe non-duality they should find no amount of exertion of their physical body to be mentally fatiguing because the distinction between self and other is gone. That's why exercise and discomfort is good for enlightenment work imo as well if you are mindfull of pain and push yourself.
  10. A useless concept.
  11. @Telepresent The thing is I do not know the cause for there to a lack of a zero position for vision, or any other conceivable sense in animals, when we are conscious. It seems complicated scientifically to answer hence even if sharks are constantly experiencing something non-zero in regards to electromagnetic senses I cannot then conclude that we experience something non-zero and are unable to recognise it. A shark canexperience garp but idk if we are experiencing garp. And supposing we are experiencing garp, I'd say that garp is just something we cannot recognise even though it is there. It would be like a constant of our experience. @Leo Gura good reminder.
  12. I feel this is a game if semantics to discuss whether blind people are seeing anything. If my online research is correct, there is black but they do not recognise it. If you want a scientific explanation, we see black when rods and cones in the back of our eyes are not stimulated. Blindness as far as I know is 99.99% of the time a disorder of the eye and optic nerve rather than a disorder of the brain, and so having our rods and cones completely unstimulated gives our brain the same data as the data a completely blind person receives in their brain.
  13. @Saumaya itachi > sasuke.
  14. @SageModeAustin Why is water wet?
  15. @Joseph Maynor Yeah I agree. If I was in Leo's position I could see motivation not fuelled by offence/annoyance to what he does. Leo was wrong to say he'd ban people purely for saying "You are not God", but I'd understand if he wants to ban people who are very argumentative and arrogant in their discussions because thats toxic.
  16. So there's this stretch I do before/after meditating. I discovered it when I was a kid trying to fix my hunch back a few years ago. I've found that from doing it, my mind is calmer and focused. Sit on the floor with your legs crossed, however you want to. Put your arms behind your back clasp your hands together with fingers interlocking. Now whilst keeping your back as straight as you can, and keeping your hands together, pull your shoulders and arms out as far out away from your back as you can. You can alternate between having your hands vertically aligned with your butt and having them vertical aligned with your upper back. The important part is that you're extending your arms, with your hands together and fingers interlocking, and shoulders as far back as you can. The angle isn't too important. Pour your heart in soul into exerting yourself with this stretch. Keep doing this for a few minutes and you should feel a burning/tingling feeling in your forearms and shoulders. You've now hit the jack pot. Keep this stretch up for as long as you can, and the longer you can hold it the better the effect. Once the stretch is over, tell me how you feel.

  17. lmfao replied to lmfao's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Ah it's been almost three weeks now since I've moved out to university. My sleeping pattern is in dissary, and for the first week of when I moved in I barely meditated due to stress and being preoccupied. I still have my problems with Internet addiction, I don't know how to deal with it. I don't know whether weaning off of wasteful technology use is even possible for me. When I get a small taste of distraction/stimulation from the technology I can't help but go all and drown my awareness. My conciousness levels is too much like a yo-yo. I think the only solution is to bite the bullet of cold turkey. I guess I should leave this distracting forum for now lol as well. In terms of technology, I'll limit it to a few things: important communication with others, education and reading and maybe music. I'll also let myself to occasionally listen to Alan Watts or Leo's weekly videos. Video games, porn, YouTube and Netflix is the bane of my existence.
  18. @Jacko yeah boi. @Nahm I don't understand what you mean. You advising that I take smaller steps or larger steps?
  19. @sneha reverse the question. Why would you not have the right to live?
  20. For people who say "you are not God", I think a problem only arises when the person saying this creates a very toxic discussion, especially if the person uses many fallacies and emotional nonsense.
  21. @Leo Gura can banned people read the messages you send them? I sent a message to source mystic but it seems pointless now cuz he's banned lol.
  22. @Source_Mystic am I correct in thinking that the main reason you don't like Leo is that you think he's too much of an intellectual for Enlightenment? In what ways do you think Leo has conceptualised Enlightenment too much (you don't have to type a massive essay in response). You can respond to me in PM's if you want.

  23. Activism

    lmfao replied to Charlotte's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Charlotte Enlightenment does not neccisitate that you care about the suffering of others. The degree to which you care about other people and the degree to which you are enlightened can be very different from each other although I speculate that they are often similar to each other. Imagine spiral dynamics stage red/orange on conciousness work, for example.

  24. Activism

    lmfao replied to Charlotte's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Charlotte Yes the suffering of others would still continue.
  25. @Jaddo This is the problem everyone has. I'm not saying it's "easy" at all, but if you can see your thoughts as just another part of the the one happening that is reality then the problems associated with thought should start to leave. What I mean by this is that you enter a state where you feel your thoughts are as much as you as every other part of reality (the sights and sounds in the external world, actions of other people). What I've noticed for myself is that if im trying to deeply meditate the ego will scream and yell in discomfort, and "you" have to stop acting upon the explosive thoughts and impulses. To stop getting absorbed in your thoughts, awareness alone is curative. In an ideal world this process of overcoming your negative thoughts is 100% passive and unforceful, but I feel that in practice you have to antagonize the "bad" sides of you to a degree because letting go of your ego in one shot often doesn't work.