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@who chit and I would like to understand if it's possible.

@Joseph Maynor nice! I hope you'll have a great time!

@Nathan J Wanting comes from believing. If you believe in something, you will want to do something about it. It seems to me that you want to discipline yourself, and that you want to want , these are good signs. But have you inquired why you do want them in the first place? Again, believing is the fuel of life. You can't move forward without belief. So, check your current beliefs about life, and change them to your benefit. Good luck!

@Preetom thank you for the input! I'm still in my third month of practising self-inquiry, the results are good so far, but no huge breakthroughs yet. @who chit I don't think I understand the question quite well. If you please would elaborate.

@Serotoninluv @thesmileyone and you think that wasn't inevitable? And you think what you think isn't inevitable? @Joseph Maynor cool buddy! I'd love to hear about your journey to India, any plans for spiritual work? Any gurus you're planning to meet? Any psychedelics you're planning to do? I wish you good luck!

@Nathan J Make sure you don't confuse the map with the territory, it seems to me like you are taking spiral dynamics too literally, if I was you I would examine that. This has to do with discipline, mindfulness, and concentration. The solution is to do some research on these subjects, watch some videos and then do the work, beware not to fall into the trap of procrastination and over-theorising. Of course, the solution requires a problem in the first place, so you must consider these issues as problems in order to succeed in changing them, or else accept yourself as you are if you have more important things to do. I don't follow here! What do you mean? Spiral dynamics doesn't have only one criterion to measure yourself on. It's a very complex theory. You can be at stage turquoise and still have a job, it's completely irrelevant. It's only how you perform and practise your work and develop your skills that change, and for the better of course. The more you grow (physically), the more experience you will acquire. And it adds up everyday. So by definition, everyday you become smarter than yesterday. I don't know if my advice alone are enough, and it's only a perspective, you certainly know better. But I hope you find what you're looking for.

Said the enlightened guy. Haha, no offence.

@Emne Consistency is just for building your discipline. You should meditate as much as you need to, might be 5 mins, might be 5 hours. @sidaz10 It's better to place quality above quantity at first. Once quality is maintained, quantity is a matter of discipline.

@FoxFoxFox No thread Not moving on ... Are you sure you're that empty?

If I may answer.. No, you're fine. Just keep on noticing that strange phenomena, observe it and it will fix itself by itself. The reason that is the case is because you need time to adjust until the old awareness gets replaced with the new one.

I like abandoning the past and believing in the future, what are you gonna do about it?

@SQAAD Well, consider... How do trees grow when they have NO FREE WILL? How does rain fall when it has NO FREE WILL? How does the sun rise and set when it has NO FREE WILL? Etc...

@NoSelfSelf I'm helping you re-evaluating your concepts. It seemed to me at first that you wanted to stop bullshitting yourself, and I was asking you accordingly. I'll just leave you with this to contemplate on: "Spirituality is bullshit." I'm sorry if I caused any distress.

And what is ego? Could ideas about what causes happiness be some part of ego? Could something like this be some part of ego: ?

Can babies suffer? If no, then what is it exactly that makes the humans suffer?

Bear with me, could happiness be pure ignorance (not-knowing)? And could suffering be an illusion of knowledge (true ignorance)?

I see, but what if I am happy with delusion? Could it be that happiness is independent of illusion and stuff like that?

What do you mean exactly by the word "sucks"?

@Nahm I'm failing to get what you're pointing me to.

What's wrong with all of these?

You can say that, depending on your understanding of the concept "bullshit".

The assumption is that everything you do is bullshit, and escaping is a "doing", so by the same logic, escaping is also bullshit. Being aware is not doing, but rather a pause before doing. It helps reconsider what bullshit is best!

But you can still set two traps for both rabbits. You can work for both in different times.

@Nathan J It depends on where you are at in life. If you're still young and you don't have covered your survival issues well, then it would be a mistake to ignore your mundane life problems. On the other hand, if you're secure with your financial situation, then you can pursue enlightenment all you want with all your power. A brief about your situation in life would help us provide better advice.

@Javad What makes you think that he's at stage turquoise?