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@Kushu2000 Consciousness is occurring inside/dependent on the brain, and the brain is occurring inside/dependent on consciousness. You can't separate the two. They're one and the same. Form is identical to formlessness. How is this even possible? I don't know. Ask God.

Dropping a douce. Honestly, it was so relieving

How would you ever know? See, you can't know anything for sure. You gotta take the leap in order to move, otherwise you will be stuck forever in the same place. There's no way to know, and there are no guarantees. Life is a gamble, place your bets on what you think/feel/intuit will reward you the most. Maybe you could start by working for a month for as much as you can, and then see how it will make you feel and then assess what the next step will be. Maybe you decide that it's healthy for you, so you go for it. And maybe you decide that it's unhealthy, so you change how you go about it. You have to try, or just listen to my or someone else's advice and take it for granted. Whatever you choose, it might work and might not. Asking others for advice is not necessarily meant to give you clear-cut answers, it's essentially meant to give you wider perspective and understanding of the situation, and to make you aware of the traps and blind spots so you can avoid them.

Lose the concept of time. Stop thinking about the future and the past. Embrace the present moment for what it is. Nice thread btw.

I'm not reality. Reality is me. Same goes for the matrix. I like #2 ??

Reality is not a matrix, that's just a new age idea. A matrix has to be grounded in reality, and reality is groundless. Reality is just itself. (I didn't watch the video, so my comment maybe irrelevant).

@Schahin If it's accompanied with suffering, then it's egoic. There's nothing wrong with ego per se, except that it's just a limited perspective, not the whole view. The question is: to what extent are we able to see reality beyond our personal biases? Of course, the more the better for both the individual and the collective. An enlightened person acts from love and acceptance. An enlightened person can choose to change things for the better. Of course, the more aware and educated that enlightened person is, the more efficient they are at creating a better world.

The only way out is in. You can't face fear with more thinking. Break that cycle with courage.

@Kushu2000 The emotional states that psychedelics put you in are no ordinary states. They provides you with satisfaction, courage, confidence, etc... Facing death is not as easy as it is on psychedelics, especially for the ordinary person. Just because someone died on psychedelics or in any other way of ego death, doesn't remove all the programming and old patterns that they have. That has to do with the shadow. P.S. I have no experience with psychedelics, but I experience similar states regularly through meditation.

@Nivsch Meditation is observation. Meditation aims at better understanding of the self, just like science aims at better understanding of the universe. The short term effects might differ, and those should also be noticed and noted, by being aware, in order to understand the self. The ultimate goal is to know the self, by increasing awareness. That can only happen through careful observation, aka meditation.

@Bryanbrax

@TheAvatarState Aren't psychedelics relative as well? Isn't music sacred just as much?

Become your best friend instead of (by default) being your own worst enemy. "Know thyself". Know your authentic self. When you succeed in that, you will have both happiness and meaningfulness altogether.

B(e)

Yes, but not just a push. It lasts for a minute or more. Also it feels like a circle, probably not a perfect one.

Reading this thread stimulated my third-eye chakra. I have no idea what that means.

Die.

You're free to not believe me. I am happy either way. And maybe that definition is flawed. Because to me, it clearly doesn't represent reality. To me, to desire is to just feel wanting, regardless of the consequences.

@Pouya 'Everything' includes this perspective as well. It's like saying that everything is imagination including this claim. Hello strange-loops! ? How to escape strange-loopery? That is the question.

I am happy with my desires and with everything I have. True. The verse is referring to an inauthentic egoic desire (greed). Desires that aren't authentic are against reality, therefore create resistance, therefore create suffering. Authentic desires don't make you suffer. But you have to first know yourself. I don't know any better way to explain this. I hope it penetrates. Meditation is the way.

The answer is beyond the conventional understanding. An enlightened person has no control over their desires, just like ordinary people. The difference is that the enlightened person enjoys their desires by getting along with them instead of trying to suppress/avoid/kill them. An enlightened person is 100% authentic. They have no problem expressing themselves, and that includes their desires. Look at a tree (or a dog), it is enlightened. Does that make it stop growing? A tree is just being itself, completely at peace, having no resistance whatsoever. It takes whatever reality gives to it, because it knows that it is reality. And as for the quotes, the Buddha is talking about transcending the desires, not killing them.

Love you too ? Yeah, you're totally right. "Same page" was just an unconscious expression. We're already on the same infinite page of magic ?

Nope. Resistance is the source of suffering. Not desire. Desire whatever you desire and accept it, and you will be at bliss. Try to kill your desires while they're actually there, and suffer tremendously. Suffering stems from conflict, two things going against each other (mind/heart vs reality). When the mind/heart aligns itself with reality, there will be no suffering at all.

@Schahin At some point, you will stop needing to know, and then start to accept whatever is without no reason or story.

You wouldn't have seen me here if that wasn't the case