Truth Addict

@xthebentnecklady By dissolving the shadow.

@Matt8800 ? It's much more simpler than that. Whatever you think/believe becomes reality for you. If you believe that gnosis is reliable, it becomes reliable. If you believe it isn't, it doesn't. Thought is a sneaky S.O.B. And you can't even argue against this, because I already know/believe that it's true ??

@Enlightenment I meant the sperms. We, humans, don't care for anything that is not relevant to our survival. Anti-natalism is pure ego. It stems either from moralistic opinions which are grounded in ego, which is groundless. Or a desire for better survival, which is selfish, and also groundless. The question only has value to us because it affects our survival.

@d0ornokey I'm sorry, I can't hurt a plant for my own amusement and experimentations.

@Matt8800 Okay, thanks for explaining. But isn't the word "real" itself a judgement, and therefore an interpretation? What is the difference between real and unreal anyway? Why does it matter to us to say that direct experience is real and all other things are not? Is there a deeper dynamic here? The map is not the territory, but isn't it? I mean thoughts are happening inside awareness, right? What I want to say is that, yes, direct experience is real in the present moment, and only in the present moment. After that, it becomes a memory, and therefore cannot be trusted, because what do we call it when we trust a thought? A belief, of course. So, eventually, there is no difference between belief and direct experience in the sense that you're presenting here. They are the same thing in the present moment/awareness. Only difference is that direct experience gives something that I call "personal thoughts", and beliefs are rather just some "external thoughts". So, to be more accurate, we could say that the present moment/awareness is all that there is, whether with or without interpretation/maps. What do you think? @Serotoninluv Leo would say 5-MeO-DMT ?

Why doesn't anybody care for the death of billions of other potential human lives? Just saying. (The answer might just give you THE answer)

@Nahm Just out of curiosity...are you going to believe my answer, or not believe my answer? ?? No, seriously. I'm up to something here.

Assume that I'm dumb, and please bear with me. Could you please give an example of how direct experience is real? I'm not trying to disagree or share perspectives. I'm trying to connect some dots.

How do you know?

@Inder If the ego does not have a free will, then whose will is all of this? Is it free or not? It's beyond freedom. It is aware of freedom and determinism. Nothing is even determined, it's already done. Immediately, if not before!

@Matt8800 I agree with your OP, except for that direct experience is real. Because when we usually talk about direct experience, we don't strip the interpretation out of it.

@outlandish Yes! It was accompanied by sleep paralysis, not together at the same time, but at the same period in my life, and the latter stopped probably one year earlier. It was also accompanied by strong fear of death.

@ThinAir Words can't explain. I don't know what it was. But it was not a nightmare, that's for sure.

@ThinAir I haven't done a psychedelic ever and haven't had any mystical experiences ever in my life. But I used to experience something similar to what you described in my sleep. The waves were like the violet music they use in movies for crucial scenes. It begins faint and from far, then it gets closer and stronger, and then it hits, one wave at a time, for however long it takes for them to go away. I don't know if this applies to your case, but I'll say it anyway: I tried many times to surrender to them, but I couldn't, until finally I did. It was horrifying, but I reminded myself of love, and it got me through. The waves kept coming and getting stronger, until finally they vanished, and peace remained. I have never had them ever since.

@tsuki Just transcend the mind already

There you go:

@Aethereus ??

I read the translation: My eyes are filled with tears right now.

Yes, but also keep in mind that not all people will encourage them. Some will be straightforward honest with them and hurt their ego with the truth, and some will be more gentle. So, after the dynamic works itself out and is done, to whom do they lean? To the ones who supported them, of course. Both tough love and soft love are required in order to grow perfectly. The intent is the most important factor, I believe. Now, after you get them to like you, they will become more accepting and will listen to you whatever you say.

For all of you who are arguing that Sadhguru is deep and meaningful for rejecting psychedelics. I think he's not. I think he's just serving some political agenda. Why is he so against them? Why is he so sure? Something seems fishy here. Authority abuse. He could have easily said that he doesn't know, and that he's not interested in them because they seem harmful. But no, he has to maintain something, an image of himself, or something else.

@Preetom I agree ? We're still learning how to express ourselves in healthy ways.

LOL. I can't even imagine how he looks like riding a motorcycle. ??? True. Much ego games. I'm sorry, I read it somewhere but never looked for evidence. Thank you for the clarification.

@Apparation of Jack Like @Preetom said, and I like to add that the context is here realising Truth, but debating distorts that intention. And my loud-mouthed uncle does not do any of that. LOL. He does some other things though. And @Preetom, I think that even screaming lunatically is good too. It's an expression of the Self after all, just like dancing and singing. It's a form of God expressing itself. The smart thing to do here is to make a room for such behaviours (organise them), because otherwise they will be stored in the body as trauma.

Oh! Come on! I'm not a materialist, but seriously, Come on!

Am I the only one who does not find solipsism an issue? So what? What does it mean to be alone? Everything will stay the same. Nothing will change. What is so horrifying about being alone? I think religion had this problem solved by saying that we are the same in substance (Source, Soul, God, Creator, etc...), and different in appearance. Be careful of your interpretation of non-duality. Thoughts are not to be trusted.