Heart of Space

I think all you need is tickles and hugs.

Sorry it wasn't for you, friend. I hope you find what you're looking for.

My penis is smaller than your ego!!!! am i doing it right?

Stephan Molyneux is actually legitimately giving people potentially life destroying advice. He constantly has people call in with their life problems and diagnoses them with only vague details of their whole life. He tells them to make drastic life decisions like throw away family relationships. He also somehow finds a way to blame the mother for everything even if the caller is talking about how toxic their relationship is with their dad. Stephan is likely a deeply unhappy narcissist, who talks constantly about how much he hates his mom. It's really tragic actually, and even more tragic that his listeners look up to him so much. Stephan "My radio podcast is the smartest one on the internet and I say that with the seriousness of a doctor telling a patient they have leukemia" Molyneux

*brah

Heck yea, man!

No, no, man. You misunderstand me. I was just in a silly mood and I made a silly post. I'm sure your posts are very well thought out and I value your opinions. Don't pay attention to me I am a mere court jester.

OMG, this is THE Ramana? Sir, can I get your autograph? You're a straight legend in my book. I hear that you could literally meditate until death, no fucks given. That's crazy. Wow, to think the real Sri Ramana Maharshi would come back to life to post on an internet forum actualized.org. Truly extraordinary times we live in.

Are we all going to pretend that this guy I'm quoting doesn't have the best/funniest username to profile pic ratio?

Alternate title to the video: Heart of Space reacts to nonduality in 2014

Illusion is deviation from truth. Seeking in some sense is deviation from truth. But seeking can allow us to let go of a lot of the other ways we deviate from truth. Once you do that to a good extent you can let go of seeking and then only truth remains. It's not so much a paradox as it is scaffolding to help you get to truth and is deconstructed at the end of your spiritual journey.

I'm not sure it means anything. But, I've had similar experiences. I've even had it turn into a very strong buzzing like there's electricity buzzing at that point on my forehead. Had that kind of stuff randomly since I was a child. I've heard of others having similar sensations. Not sure there's actual significance, but it would be cool to hear other's perspectives on it.

A honey bee has no ego, yet it collects honey.

How very relevant, very pretty song. I enjoyed that a lot, thanks Nahm. Damn it, someones cutting onions in here again....

I'd say absolutely. Your personal development as a human being is almost independent to realization of truth. I think that they are heavily correlated, and that enlightenment itself, while it doesn't make you perfect, it can absolutely make you far more efficient and learning and growing as a person because you fully understand the nature of mind, so it doesn't get in your way and stifle your growth like it would have before. This is important to understand I think because people often project (like Leo talks about all the time) their own vision of what enlightenment is and what it means to be expressed in human behavior. Because of this, people will often nit pick and close their minds to what enlightened people have to say because they see that the person is flawed in some way. For example, I was talking to someone who failed to sit through a 10 day vipassana retreat because they saw that S. N. Goenka is fat and they rationalized that this is not the lifestyle that they see for themselves. They completely closed their mind to learning from what he had to say. This is bad, because if you close your mind like this truth can slap you straight in the face and you reject it for petty reasons. Always stay open minded. Anyways, sorry this is kinda a tangent I realize.

It was many factors, one of them included you and many other members of this forum and this forum as a whole. I can't help but randomly cry, not cause I'm sad, but because I see how much beauty and love is in the world. I was a bit of a blubbering mess even on my hour commute to work today. I just can't help but have tears it because there's so much beauty in everything and it's so overwhelming. I used to be so angry and resentful of the world because I thought it was such a nasty place and that everything was against me. I hurt myself and others in the process, because of my ignorance and blindness. I'm just so appreciative of everything in my life that has lead me to where I am, where I'm supposed to be. You, Leo, and this forum as a whole is something that I'm so incredibly grateful for. I'm so lucky, so blessed. Life is so incredibly precious. I know you probably weren't counting on such a long post as a response, but I think it's difficult to convey the incredible importance of a place of discussion like this and I want to at least attempt to convey my utter gratitude for what. I can finally live my life and that means more than anyone could imagine. I'm going to live my life in love for others and help others connect to God, that's who I am now. Love is all there is and I see that now. But anyways,I wish you good luck on this journey in life as well as everyone else here. I know this probably seems overly sentimental, I just can't help it man haha.

I just wanted to compliment people on their thoughtful posts. I don't know, I kinda like that Shin dude, he's the apple of my eye.

Man, some really great and insightful posts in here. Very intelligent and self-aware people on this forum. Honestly, I've got nothing to add after reading a lot of the posts.

No need to apologize, man. Good luck to you.

Really interesting discussion guys. I want to add to it really bad, cause I love this stuff. After skimming I think I agree with @Mighty Mouse, but I'll read and respond to some stuff when I get a moment to be a rascal at work and not actually work.

You're being a bit of a stickler about my words, my man. Replace 'Do you like that better,' with 'do you find removing the only from the sentence more appropriate as advice for the original poster?' You're being a bit close minded about how I use my words and in addition you're making assumptions about what I believe and how strongly those beliefs are held. Words are just words, if you understand the fallibility of words and their meaning you'd be a little more open minded in your approach to talking to me. I'm genuinely trying to meet you in this discussion, but it seems you're intent on finding something wrong with what I say. If this is the case there is nothing I can say that you will agree with and us talking is ultimately fruitless. Discussion full of fruit is pretty awesome wouldn't you say?

Oh ok, take the 'only' out then if you feel that's misleading in some way. Getting to is-ness is a way to enlightenment. Do you like that better?

I'm a bit confused by your response, it's a bit cryptic. I was just saying I'm not sure the real effectiveness of neti neti, or self-inquiry and I feel a Vipassana style works better, but ultimately I could absolutely be wrong. Which is why I made sure to add that he, or she, should do what feels right for them. My only point is that when you concentrate on 'what is' you in effect are doing self-inquiry and neti neti. If you can focus on a sensation in the present moment, the moments with no mind you are experiencing reality without the mind taking ownership. I feel that neti neti in particular could be a bit neurotic because it seems like instead of trying to quiet the mind you're having the thought, "this sensation is NOT me" rather than just seeing the sensation as it is. I believe the goal should be see sensations as they are rather than "this sensation is me," or "this sensation is NOT me." It should look more like "this sensation is this sensation." In my humble opinion. Like I said, I could be wrong. Smarter more experienced people than me would disagree so I'm open to being completely wrong about this.

My opinion is not going to agree with a lot of people on this forum, but I think that self-inquiry and neti neti aren't necessarily the best ways of meditating. If you focus on a sensation and attempt to quiet the mind, you are seeing reality as it is and as a result you are doing same thing as neti neti and self-inquiry in a way. The thing I've always noticed with self-inquiry is that I'd inquire about the self and then my mind would try to find an answer. Any answer it finds is false because that is just the nature of the mind, so I'd often simply go to the present moment with a sensation. I don't know, just take this for what it is and do what you feel is right.

Very true and I totally acknowledge that there's probably more to this. Always a student. Thanks, man.