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@EvilAngel Make sure you do it on an empty stomach. Otherwise bring a vomit bucket.

No, you are merely stripped of fantasies and childish hangups. You become more authentic. Yes, seeking ideals is a big trap in this work. Eventually you're gonna have to surrender all of your ideals for the Truth. Ultimately this work is not about becoming a great person or even being happy. It's about discovering what is life and how it works. When you get to the rock bottom of it your perspective on life will change so dramatically that you will even cease to think you were ever born. If happiness comes, it will be a byproduct of a deep understanding how life works.

This issue has been clearly answered.

Sounds like a move up from Orange to Green.

The day robots do all the work you have been made expendable.

I wish to be a closedminded douche. Change my mind.

The Absolute in none other than all arising contingent phenomena. The Absolute is all that exists. If you can see it, it is the Absolute. Your toilet is the Absolute. If look at your toilet real closely, for a long time, you will realize it is God. That's nonduality. Nothing is hidden or separate.

Of course one can get stuck intellectualizing, but the Truth is also not as clear as most people imagine. The Truth is massive, vast, paradoxical, freaky, and so multi-dimensional so it can easily be glimpsed and misunderstood. Hence the scriptures and teachings have value. A good teaching will give you a framework for understanding the Truth and points out common traps. Very very few people access the Truth fully and clearly in one leap. It usually takes years of stumbling around and piecing things together. The problem is that people turn the teachings into ideology without any direct experience or very limited direct experience.

Psychedelics do not work on undeveloped fools.

@SoonHei Careful, psychedelics are not necessarily identical to enlightenment. Psychedelics can take you into all sorts of wacky dimensions of consciousness. You have to distinguish those from nonduality proper.

@Emanyalpsid Lol

There is escape from suffering. But the irony is that to escape requires lots more suffering so most egos don't want to do it. The ego will settle for pleasure if it can. And these days society makes that very easy.

@Emanyalpsid Dude, enough mental masturabtion. You cannot understand what the words Brahman or Absolute refer to because you have not yet reached a fully nondual state of consciousness. Go self-inquire or meditate, and stop conceptualizing about enlightenment. Your conceptualizing monkey mind is precisely what stands in the way. Or better yet, try some 5-MeO-DMT because otherwise you are gonna waste years chasing your own tail. Psychedelics make this so clear.

If an ordinary person off the street was shown enlightenment for 5 minutes, he would think he went insane. It's a very radical shift in perspective.

@Emanyalpsid Your understanding of Buddhism is weak. Buddha-mind is the Absolute. The Ox is Brahman. Atman = Brahman. Form is formlessness. Formlessness is form. Everything = Nothing = God = Self = Consciousness = Love = Infinity = Oneness

It goes Poof! As the brain was always just a concept.

This is like asking how long it takes to become a millionaire. It all depends on how bad you want it and how hard you're willing to work for it, and how effectitive your chosen methods are. Most people will not become a millionaire ever. Because it isn't simply a function of time. To think of it as a function of time is very mistaken and will in itself ensure you waste years in fruitless practices. Your practice must be serious, genuine, and powerful. Otherwise you will easily waste 20 years meditating without ego death.

They are not different enlightenments but one and the same. "Soul" refers to a subtle aspect of the individualized self. That too is eventually transcended into pure nonduality regardless of which path you take. "Soul" is a technical term. It refers to subtle states of consciousness. Nondual is beyond even that. Transcendence goes: Gross >> Subtle >> Causal >> Nondual

Sounds groovey. You can (and should) be working toward a permanent nondual awareness. That is the point of enlightenment. Kriya yoga can help with developing that.

Being is more meaningful than meaning.

A lot of time by your self contemplating and journaling is necessary. And not just once. You must do it over and over again throughout your life. The LP Course covers this topic a lot. The problem is the social conditioning and childhood survival habits run extremely deep. It is hard to seperate them out from your genuine higher self motives and values. I am still discovering more authentic motives in myself after years of self-reflection and years of satisfying various needs. As you grow your motives will get purified more and more until they run clear like a bitter cold high mountain stream.

We humans are too selfish to die

@CreamCat Even so I think the blueprints and scientific knowledge would survive.

What if God -- that humble bastard -- came to your store, bought some shoes, and left without even saying hello?

@Serotoninluv It's not so hard understand it logically: Everything must include nothing otherwise it would be less than everything, since nothing would be excluded. Another way to phrase it: Without including nothing, everything is incomplete.