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@eskwire You ain't really done Vipassana till you've plugged some 5-MeO up your butt That's a little secret Goenka forgot to tell you about

No, it does not. You are misunderstanding what consciousness is. You haven't actually had a direct experience of what nonduality means. You're intellectualizing it. I know an enlightened master who took 1000ug of LSD after his enlightenment to test himself. He was unable to tell the difference between night and day. But his grounding in Nothingness was unshaken. Consciousness isn't a product of the brain. The brain is a form within consciousness, and as consciousness is the only thing there is, it is self-interactive. A rock hitting you in the head and causing a bruise is consciousness (a rock) interacting with consciousness (your head) causing a change in consciousness (a bruise).

Lol, That's the #1 secret of the millionaire mind: advertise yourself shamelessly.

@John Iverson 1) Ego backlash 2) Sex drive is hard to just stop. In fact you bascially can't. The only way to transcend it is through lots of conscious spiritual puriffication work. I wouldn't worry about sex too much. Don't try to suppress it. Learn to accept it and to fulfill it in healthy ways.

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@SeekingPeace You are seeing a higher truth. Most work is just a waste of time and life. There are other options to the conventional rat race. You could join an ashram or commune. I have a friend who didn't want to work so he joined the Hare Krishna commune in Tennessee. I don't necessarily endorse that. Communes can have lots of issues of their own, but it's certainly one viable possibility. Research your options. Stop thinking inside the rat race box.

Awaken

Reality doesn't work by chance at all. It only seems that way when the linear materialistic mind cannot fathom nonlinear infinity. When a scientist says "chance" or "random", what he really means is: "It's too complex for me to figure out in detail. And I don't want to admit it because I know best and science knows all. So chance."

Mushrooms and LSD are equally intense. Just depends on dosage. A high dose will scare the shit out of you regardless of substance, so make sure you get your dose right and go slow.

@blazed You still get bored with it and quit out of boredom. Boredom always wins in the game, no matter how good it is.

You have to take into account that the people in solitary confinement are already very mentally dysfunction. Many of them are violent offenders and probably have mental illnesses. So solitary for them only makes things worse. They also do not know how to meditate or self-inquire, or that this is even an option.

Just to be clear, I will not be sitting still the whole time like the story of the Buddha. In fact, I am sort of over the whole Zen formal sitting thing. I do not care how I sit or if I move. My #1 priority will be surrendering of the mind and maintaining contentration on the present moment. I've sort of stopped caring at this point about using formal techniques. I just sit and focus on the immediate present moment and the fact that consciousness is happening. I will also be doing lots of 5-MeO to definitively demonstrate its permanent enlightenment potential. My goal is to show that 5-MeO is the best tool for awakening, along with just sitting and surrendering. I want to demonstrate that 5-MeO can permanently rewire the "brain". It was already done so for me, but now we will take it to the next level. I want to accomplish what the Buddha accomplished, but using 5-MeO. Or to show that it isn't possible.

Time is an illusion. Reality is not causal. Nothing causes anything else. Cause and effect is an illusion. Infinity just is.

Best way to get over games is to notice how every game -- even the best games of all time -- leaves you feeling hollow and unsatisfied.

I don't hate Mooji. Nothing I said was hateful. I was merely pointing out how ego distracts itself from doing the work. Just because you don't kiss someone's ass doesn't mean you hate him. There is a middle position. Respect your teachers, but do not kiss their ass. This isn't complicated. But people love to worship people. Lots of people looking for idealized daddy figures to worship, like Osho.

There literally is no brain. Wake up!

Lol That is your naive materialist assumption. Stop assuming that. A beer having an effect does not prove a brain any more than Super Mario drinking a beer proves he has a brain. The beer is a hallucination. You drinking it is a hallucination. It affecting you is a hallucination. Your brain is a hallucination. YOU are a hallucination. Cause/effect is a hallucination. Because hallucination is all there is. The hallucination is infinitely self-interactive. There is no such thing as mind. You are still not grasping the depth of all this.

Of course. That's the case with most gurus, and they get off on it. Did you really expect people to do the hard work of pursuing their own enlightenments? Nope! The whole point of a spiritual community is to delay enlightenment as long as possible by distractions such as kissing Mooji's ass.

@Thanatos13 You are still assigning negative meaning to meaninglessness. You haven't reached true awakening yet. There is deeper. Much deeper.

@7thLetter Wisdom is often earned through making naive mistakes. The important thing is that you learn the lessons from each mistake. Make sure you are really learning each lesson. Contemplate what each of those mistakes was meant to teach you about life. Don't beat yourself up over mistakes. Reframe them as valuable lessons. You didn't pay $5,000 for a stupid tattoo, you paid $5,000 for the life lesson it taught you. What was that $5,000 lesson? You didn't pay $600 to quit a security job, you paid $600 for the life lesson it taught you. What was that $600 lesson? The more painful the lessons, the easier they are to learn

@Slade Right here you already betray that you know what the right path is, and what the wrong path is. Waking up is the right path. Falling back asleep is the wrong path. Don't beat yourself up too much about being 100% on the right path. That is difficult and rare. In practice, you will fall off the path and slide into unconsciousness many times along the way. Maybe when you first start, you will only be 20% on the right path and 80% on the wrong path. That is okay. Just keep your eye on the ultimate vision and keep working the right path. Over time you will build momentum and your percentage will increase from 20% to 30% to 40%, etc. You will if you stick to the right path (awakening). True growth means expansion in your consciousness. Life is long. You can accomplish all the above and more. But you need to create a road map, a plan, an order of priorities. And don't confuse material success with true growth. You can still pursue material success, but don't get lost in it.

It's not practical because you are not yet conscious of what pain is. You've merely been told about this as a possibility. You haven't done anything yet to actualize it. You might as well complain that earning a million dollars is impractical simply because you've heard it's possible to earn, but you haven't bothered doing any work towards it yet. If you became conscious of what pain is, the pain would stop being pain.

How could it not be? Why would pain be fundamentally different from pleasure? Both are just sensations. For you, you are tangible to the degree that you think you exist. But you don't. Haven't you learned yet that appearance is not to be trusted?

Are you sure it was LSD? Laughter could be a phase. It will pass with more tripping. But get your substance and dosages straight. Don't be relying on stuff some random friend handed you. I would bet what you took wasn't real LSD.