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@Psychonaut Buddha's first truth: all duality is suffering. You cannot escape that. You will never be happy stuck in duality, no matter how hard you self-actualize or what you achieve or do or don't do. The entire point of the self is to be constantly unsatisfied.

@jdeugarte You're just getting started in this work. Keep going.

@Inglorious Just the opposite. Try meditating on the noise of an airplane, your A/C blowing, or a lawnmower. You could become enlightened just through meditation on noises. Watch out for how your mind judges certain sensations as inferior to others. All sensations are equal.

No That's an insufficiently nuanced understanding. If it was that simple, all I'd be teaching is meditation.

Funny coincidence, I have a blog post lined up on this topic. Good example of science done right. Sophia University is one of the few holistic, transpersonal psychology programs around. Although it doesn't sound like they really grasp the full depth possible with nonduality yet. it goes way beyond brain states. The reason mystics mysticize nonduality is because they reach such extraordinary depths that the scientific realist paradigm becomes utterly untenable.

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@SeekingFreedom Try to enjoy the process. Don't treat it like you're being forced to do this. Exploring metaphysics should be a joy. The emotional mastery part is the hardest. It will take years and decades. But the joy of exploring metaphysics is something you can tap into right now. Are you ACTUALLY curious about exploring reality? << You should be. Get in touch with that!

Something like this does the trick: http://amzn.to/2lcABSz

Yeah, true not-knowing is harder than it would seem. You have to really unearth and drop a lot of totally taken-for-granted assumptions. Keep questioning everything. How do you know you're that body?

Contemplating the root of your resistance can be valuable. Contemplate: Why am I creating these emotions? What's the bottom line? What role is this resistance serving? But you gotta contemplate very self-honestly. Surface-level intellectual answers will not suffice.

@Old Soul I never worked for Bethesda.

@Psychonaut Spiritualizing one's butt-hurt is an important sign of progress. I know of no better way of cleaning out your 1st chakra than with a blast of high-potency tryptamine. A God enema if you will.

Trump would ban all the dark elves and put a gag order on the Mages Guild.

@Not a shaolin monk Depends on the depth of your enlightenment. Chances are you'll be doing this work for years to come, make yourself comfy.

How mankind ends: super-intelligent AI learns how to cocktease shallow man into perpetual slavery with big virtual boobs.

@Loreena Oh, I see. Yeah, I will add some kind of categories once there are a good number of posts.

Hey ya'll, I'm launching a new feature on the Actualized.org site today called Quick Insights. Found here: https://www.actualized.org/insights It's basically like a mini-blog where I want to dump various random juicy insights that I have throughout the week, but don't have time to shoot a video for. These days my videos are pretty structured and long. These insights are designed to be more half-baked and philosophical. I don't go into a lot of detail explaining things. I just throw the insights out there as food for thought for more advanced practitioners of this work. This will also give you a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at my thought process. Also, the written text format has certain advantages over videos. And I'm finding myself more and more itching to write, not just speak. Since these quick insights are intended to be off-the-cuff, I'm not going to commit to any kind of regular schedule for posting them. But I'm hoping to update that page a couple times a week. I find myself having a lot of insights that are just never going to make it into video format, and I'm tired of hoarding them, so here you go. Check it out and let me know what you think. I'm planning more exclusive, off-Youtube stuff for you in the future.

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@Echoes See my video about "flattening the illusion". The mind will come up with models. Your job is to resolve what those models actually are when flattened. Contemplate the question: What is a model? or What is a thought?

At the rate we're headed.

Nothing is hidden. When you meditate/self-inquiry, aim to drop all metaphors and models. They are all symbols but your aim here is non-symbolic awareness. You cannot get to the Absolute through symbols. It's hard because the mind is addicted to symbols. Nothingness is not separate from the present experience you're having.

Good work! Now the real work begins.

It's all a joke, until someone pisses in your soup

@Empty Just keep doing the self-inquiry work and keep doing personal development. It all fades in the long-run. In the short-run, shit will happen. Learn to see the arising of strong negative emotions on this path as evidence of spiritual purification.

@Hunter Arrington Every tradition has its pros and cons and depends on how you practice it. Comparing Buddhist vs yoga is a topic one could write an entire book on. So we can't get into it here. If all you study and practice is Zen, you will miss things. If all you study and practice is Yoga, you will miss things. If all you study and practice is Buddhism, you will miss things. Because these teachings are not aimed strictly at Truth and self-mastery. These are entire cultures more than just teachings! They come with baggage and biases. They are partial perspectives. They have a cultural agenda to uphold. There is a cultural ego at work in them, whether gross or subtle. Which is why I endorse an eclectic approach. Just don't lose focus too much.