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@Shakazulu The self-actualizing being prays for the courage to self-annihilate

@Jedd Careful with tattoos. They're mostly just an ego thing. A self-image thing. A monkey-see-monkey-do thing. Learn to love yourself as you are first.

That's the paradox of self-transcendence. It requires focusing on yourself. But this here is a bit heartless. You want to be mindful of how your actions impact other people. Which is not to say you shouldn't end a relationship. Just that you shouldn't be so flippant about it. Your girlfriend has feelings for you, and you will be breaking here heart. Empathize with her suffering. That is the essence of spirituality.

Yes, I will release a video about this in the future. Ideals are a double-edged sword. They are necessary and at the same time create suffering and delusion. All ideals must ultimately be transcended, but not too soon. They are like training wheels.

@moon777light If you're labeling while doing it, yes.

Ego has co-opted the pleasure/pain mechanism. It uses those two signals to maintain its power and stay alive. "Pain" is just anything which violates the ego's self-defined boundary. So, of course the process of dissolving all boundaries is not likely to be labeled as "pleasant" by the ego.

@mohdanas I don't want to freak you guys out.

I've fallen into the same trap. It's all part of the journey. There will be many traps along the way. Just keep improving gradually and in a few years your life will be going in cool new places.

@Matt8800 Stop reading Yoganada and just do the practices. They are very direct and pragmatic, without any metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. The whole issue is, spirituality must be directly practiced, not talked about or debated. The more practice you do, the faster all of your questions and doubts will be addressed. And you will feel so much better. Read only as many books as you need to convince yourself to do serious practice.

@GomeGabrielDavid What you think of as "experience" will get recontextualized as Infinity/God. It's a matter of context.

Don't be so sure about that. It is possible to visit hell-realms, from my research. It's a pretty common shamanic journeying experience. Best not to listen to Popes about nonordinary states of consciousness. That is not their area of expertise. And many of them may end up in a hell-realm at some point if they ever recognize how much ignorance they've spread.

@UDT No, it is not an experience. It is Infinity. You will not understand unless you try it. There is no such thing as experience. There is only Infinity. Infinity is not a belief or an interpretation of an experience as you're assuming.

No, that is INSIGHT.

@SpaceCowboy Psychedelics in general should be highly effective for treating depression. The problem is, people misuse psychedelics because they don't do the research and refuse to follow proper protocol. If one is already on the brink of suicide then trying any solution is better than doing nothing.

@Outer All of those are facets of the Truth, but not the full-Monty. The full-Monty is God/Absolute Infinity itself. There really isn't consciousness or solipsism. There is only Infinity. Not inside of infinity, but Infinity itself. Everything is Infinity. This is a radical level of consciousness which is beyond what almost any human being has reached. You are not going to reach it without a superhuman effort, or 5-MeO-DMT. I would not trust most Zen monks to have reached this level of awakening. We are talking about inhuman levels of consciousness the likes of which cannot be imagined, understood, or spoken. Absolute Infinity solves absolutely all questions. But you will not understand until you drown in it. Sorry, I wish I could be more helpful, but there's just no way to communicate it. Mu

@TruthSeeker47 Hate to break it to ya, but you haven't been meditating. You've been doing the exact opposite, driving deeper into monkey-mind. For meditation to be effective, it must be done properly, rigorously. You need to pick one proper technique and master the shit out of it. Like: Do Nothing Labeling Observing the breath Kriya yoga Concentration etc. Pick up. Read the instructions for it. Then follow the instructions rigorously. I have several good books about meditation in the book list. Might want to check out the Consciousness section there.

You've been reading some bad stuff. Healing siddhis are some of the most common and credible of siddhis. You can find healers all over Yelp. This isn't rocket science. I have interacted with people who have healing abilities. It's quite common in spiritual circles. I even hired healers to work on me. I have even experienced healing myself a bit during one LSD trip. You can definitely develop this ability if you really wanted to. But without enlightenment you will likely abuse/misuse any siddhis you develop. So be careful. The potential for Zen Devilry here is great. Don't give spirituality a bad name.

@Epiphany_Inspired Hehehe...

No, he is confused. He's pointing in the opposite direction.

Well, if it works for ya, keep doing it.

He hasn't become conscious of Absolute Infinity yet, otherwise all of these issues would be crystal clear. This is God. But what's missing is the consciousness of what THIS is. THIS is Infinity. It's a level of consciousness that's so radical it cannot be understood by the mind at all. God is not elsewhere. God is right here! Atman = Brahman Such a mindfuck, so ingenious.

There is nothing which isn't a mystery. Reality is fundamentally unknowable. But you can be conscious of nonduality, in which there is no life/death, or any other duality, and none of these dualistic questions. See for yourself.

This will not be understood at the level of consciousness (duality) from which you're asking the question. You're asking the question from the POV of the self. There is no such thing. You were never born and will never die. It's impossible to understand this unless the illusion of duality and self is totally shattered. Talking about this is pointless. Go do your practices.

Capitalism vs communism is a red herring, similar to science vs religion. The issue isn't the content of the beliefs, it's ideology itself. Ideology of any kind, be it capitalist, communist, rationalist, scientific, or spiritual will not work. What's required is genuine openmindedness, unbiased empirical experimentation, love, consciousness, holism, equality, and concern for the truth. The reason that communism fails is actually the same reason capitalism fails: they are both dogmatic, just different styles of dogma. If you want a healthy community, you cannot be ideological about government or economics. You must ACTUALLY empirically test for what works, not dictate what you think will work. No body really knows what the right balance is. Government is too complex to predict. It needs to be found empirically. But by being ideological people do not let the empirical tests be run. They are prejudging the experiment. For example, ideally we'd run an experiment about which election system would produce the most democratic results. But of course this kind of test would never be allowed. Or, for example, ideally we'd run an experiment to determine just how much regulation the banking industry needs. But of course this will never be allowed. The issue is that egos in power will never want to relinquish their power once they have it. Society is fundamentally designed from the top down to be unequal. The ego will simply adopt whatever ideology best serves its agenda, be it religious, capitalist, communist, rationalist, secular, etc. The problem is not capitalism or communism, the problem is ego.

There are better books.