Leo Gura

There is a much more fundamental problem here: how does anything work? Like seriously. Like what is your explanation for why you don't fall through the floor of your room? Think about it. What is an explanatory framework at all? And how much does it really explain? Nonduality reveals that all the workings of the universe are spontaneously self-manifesting beyond explanation. Or, in other words: the universe is fundamentally, irreducibly mystical, or mysterious. At rock bottom everything is consciousness and consciousness interacts with the only thing there is: it self!

Yes, which is why it's useful to distinguish between relative truth and absolute Truth. Absolute Truth has no opposite. It is none other than this present experience you are having. Absolute Truth is everything that is, but recontextualized as nondual being. The only difference between experience and being is that expeirence assumes the context of an ego, a subject who is having the expeirence, whereas with being there is no more subject, subject and object are one. Objects are thus self-illuminating or self-knowing.

Spirituality is the art of dying.

Imagine there are more universes than grains of sand on all of Earth. You will experience all of them, but even so, that will not even be 0.0000000000000000000001% of EVERYTHING. Reality goes on FOREVER without an upper or lower bound.

Depends on what sort of questions you seek answers to. Start by contemplating simple ordinary things like: Why do people lie? What is anger? What is fear? What is success? Etc. Those you can get answers to pretty easily just by mulling them over and observing your direct experience. More profound questions like -- What is existence? What am I? What is God? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is death? What is a distinction? -- require transcending the mind into mystical states of consciousness. This can take a lot of focus and work, and it's tricky because the mind itself will get in the way of the answer. The answer to these questions will be experiential, not verbal or logical. The best way to answer your question by taking a psychedelic. You will see within minutes what the answers to such questions feel like. They are often hyper-intuitive, non-verbal, non-linear, and trans-rational.

@Elysian God is far too intelligent to need trial and error. Creation as a whole is perfect and complete.

Hard to say because there are so many hidden agendas possible. Ed Snowden is probably a better example of Yellow.

I used to think infinity was just a dumb brute force process, but then it was revealed to me that this is not so. You are so intelligent that you designed every molecule in the universe to work perfectly together and then forgot about it. Pure intelligence is so infinite it can materialize objects from thin air. Imagine a Jedi who can spawn a star destroyer with his mind. That is the power of God-mind. It's way too radical to believe. It defies all physical laws.

@Pouya Speaking about the absolute: False = that which is not. Falsehood isn't. There is only Truth. Mind and ego are both conceptual constructions. Truth with a capital T has no opposite.

@kieranperez Yes, because the greatest danger to the devil's existence is truth. So spinning falsehood becomes the devil's #1 priority.

@CroMagna Yes it is. But it takes years of rigorous meditation.

No experience lasts forever. They all end. The only thing that can last forever is Nothingness and it is not painful. So in the long run you can look forward to Nothingness That is why enlightenment is the ultimate Good, and why God is ultimately Good. There is literally nothing to fear. All fear is illusion. You just need to become conscious enough to see this. And that can only happen with death (enlightenment). No ego, no problem.

No, but your sufferring would stop, thereby elimating the problem. No self, no problem. For example, you cannot stop all murder, but you can become so conscious that if you were murdered, it would not bother you. This happens everyday to millions of people in the world. Millions of peole suffer pain like you can not imagine. What then? You would suffer until you died. When sufferring gets severe enough it goes full circle into peace. With enough suffering the ego-mind will simply shut off and die, thereby ending the sufferring. Linear time is not infinite. All form, all experience will one day end. Death itself is total bliss. The act of dying, maybe not so much. Ego is an illusion. It is not infinite and nothing formed lasts forever. Ego cannot be immortal. Only the no-self is immortal, and it is bliss beyond anything you can imagine.

The strength and weakness of science is that it's conservative. For science to be able to claim a monopoly on the "truth" is must create a boundary between itself and falsehood. Then this boundary must be maintained by upholding rigorous standards for "proof". This is its strength and weakness. It's precisely because science tries to be so rigorous that it ends up excluding all truths which science hasn't yet figured out how to rigorously prove. Proof is always a smaller subset of truth, as Kurt Godel proved! There are many thinga which are true which are impossible to prove. Like existence, for example! Try to prove that the world exists. You can't! This is basically the same problem as with anti-virus software. In trying so hard to defend your PC it ends up denying many legit software and websites from working. The irony is that a poorly tuned anti-virus software ends up becoming the worst software on your PC. A prime example of how evil and deception happens in the name of good.

More like avoidance of the truth, or self-deception.

Don't worry about it because you will be dead by then. The Void Self will live through a trillion lives. But you are not going to know it because you are one of those lives now. You don't have enough elevation to see the full picture. Imagine that you already died a bunch of times as Napoleon, Hitler, etc. You just don't have access to those memories in this incarnation. So it's no problem for you. The issue here is that who you think you are, are your memories. Those memories will get wiped. Those memories are not the ultimate you, they are the illusory you. Any fear you have is also part of the illusory you.

@nex462 Your question is coming from fear and judgment. That is ego. Rather than trying to find a way to avoid parts of yourself, embrace EVERYTHING!

@BestSelf I recommend you address the root cause of your anxiety. You don't want to depend on modafinil to feel okay.

Love dissolves "evil" like light erases shadow. What is shadow but miniscule light?

Because what you wrote was clickbaity BS.

Sentience is a distinction/duality. Have you ever wondered if you are actually sentient?

Only during a 5-MeO peak.

This thread is bullshit. Don't opine on things you are clueless about.

Obviously Orange

@Bluebird Excellent work!