Spend Every Day Cultivating More Self-Love

[Razard86]

Life is just a journey of Self-Love. Many fall into the trap of chasing money and fame as the key to self-love. Self-Love cannot be bought, it's a daily investment that will eventually culminate into an EXPLOSION! For many that explosion will be what they call physical death. Anyway here is Taylor Swift, on top of the world when it comes to material success talk about how she struggles with feelings of self-worth. 

https://www.nylon.com/taylor-swift-mental-health-struggle

You can obviously choose whatever path you want...but no matter where you go there you are. You cannot drug your way, isolate your way, control your way, fight your way, buy your way to self-acceptance. All you can do is surrender, and accept, and appreciate. Consider that maybe all your self-hatred was conditioned....consider maybe that is why you cannot buy it or escape it. The barrier of Self-Love hides behind all of your conditioned beliefs, and a life-time of distractions won't solve it. 

What worked for me was to cultivate first acceptance of my avatar, the character I invested so much in. After that was acceptance of life, and ultimately the true nature of life as well. This path is not easy...but it's the only path to experience yourself at the deepest levels. The more you expand your love, the more of yourself you experience. 

Edited September 27, 2023 by Razard86

[Water by the River]

All good and fine with the selfworth-topics.

But lets not forget that beyond that on Maslows Pyramid is self-transdence. Overdoing self-love even got a specific character in the classics:

"Narcissus, according to the poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses, is a handsome youth who falls in love with his own reflection. Unable to tear himself away, he dies of his passion, and even as he crosses the Styx continues to gaze at his reflection (Metamorphoses 3:339–510)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(Caravaggio)

Edited September 26, 2023 by Water by the River

[Leo Gura]

Love less, hate more.

[Water by the River]

Differentiate, transcend, integrate.

Or, probably (admittedly) an even much better show: differentiate, disassociate/hate, showtime! One just needs to look at the world to see that... 

 

 

[Razard86]

5 hours ago, Water by the River said:

All good and fine with the selfworth-topics.

But lets not forget that beyond that on Maslows Pyramid is self-transdence. Overdoing self-love even got a specific character in the classics:

"Narcissus, according to the poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses, is a handsome youth who falls in love with his own reflection. Unable to tear himself away, he dies of his passion, and even as he crosses the Styx continues to gaze at his reflection (Metamorphoses 3:339–510)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(Caravaggio)

You really have no clue what I am talking about....talk about a swing and a miss!! Whoosh!!! It flew right over your head!!! Right over!!!

 

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Love less, hate more.

You and your devilry?‍♂️?

Edited September 27, 2023 by Razard86

[CoolDreamThanks]

That's a fool's errand. Why do you need to cultivate what you are? You need to empty the contents of your consciousness until Love bursts forth. Cultivating it is an egoic game, which won't bring you anywhere near enlightenment and will be a false mask anyway. 

[Razard86]

18 hours ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

That's a fool's errand. Why do you need to cultivate what you are? You need to empty the contents of your consciousness until Love bursts forth. Cultivating it is an egoic game, which won't bring you anywhere near enlightenment and will be a false mask anyway. 

You don't know the path of self-love that is why you speak the ignorance you speak. You only seek to jump on threads and disagree because there is much hatred within you. If you have something to actually share, make a thread and share. But jumping on posts with the purpose just to disagree is just an egoic activity.

What you talk about is the path of emptiness which is the Buddhist path. That path does not generate Self-Love. That path provides the awakening of No-Self and Emptiness. To generate the Love Awakening one must cultivate it. You don't know this because you don't know Love. 

[Breakingthewall]

On 26/9/2023 at 8:19 PM, Leo Gura said:

Love less, hate more.

this is good advice. Don't try hard to love, it won't work. focus on hate. hate falsehood, the chains that bind you, like a Taliban, like a medieval warrior to his enemy. hate with passion, so the shit will think twice before approaching you to contaminate your mind

[Water by the River]

19 hours ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

That's a fool's errand. Why do you need to cultivate what you are? You need to empty the contents of your consciousness until Love bursts forth. Cultivating it is an egoic game, which won't bring you anywhere near enlightenment and will be a false mask anyway. 

Bravo!

Apparently, essential spiritual understanding on how transcendence really works (not change the cloths/concepts/worldsviews and replace them with other cloths/concepts/worldsviews, but transcend them alltogether into pure non-conceptual Awareness, or true Awakening) still sprouts from time to time in these conceptual solipsism ignorance playfields.

Awakening is not just a new insight/understanding/whatever, but a change in consciousness/Awakening. 

Razard, it would do you really good to consider what Leo writes in these two posts:

and this here:

On 11.9.2023 at 7:31 PM, Razard86 said:

The Absolute, is the absence of all qualia.

But I already know you won't consider this, because you like manic-like posting and preaching from your favourite conceptual solipsistic bubble way too much. Ego = God.

How about recommending doing actual transcendence practice, like meditation? Getting rid and transcending all these concepts/worldviews, instead of ceaselessly promoting new ones? And not just only preaching a change in conceptual worldviews and concepts? 

Water by the River 

[Magnanimous]

On 9/27/2023 at 4:19 AM, Leo Gura said:

Love less, hate more.

Why Leo?