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@ajs That is fine, but your challenge in this work will then be to find a way to harness the emotion contained in those sports experiences and put it to productive, creative use. I'm sure it can be done. But you'll have to think a bit outside the box. Meaning... it won't be as simple as saying, "Okay, I get a thrill out of playing golf. So that means I should be a professional golfer or golf coach." No! You need to think deeper and connect more dots. What does the thrill of golf say about the kind of impact you want your creative work to have on people? "Creative work" and also be interpreted broadly. For example, someone like Bear Grylls does creative work. But it's not your typical idea of creative work. It's more kinesthetic. You sound like a kinesthetic person, so you'll need a life purpose which feeds into and off of that. Find a way to make it creative rather than competitive. Competitive sports are shallow and short-lived. You gotta find a way to build something with your activity.

@5thPablo You'll never understand until you're there. Once you're there, you'll laugh at how you could think anything else could have been even remotely true. The problem is, you've never yet experienced the possibility of an ABSOLUTE reality. Absolute means, God himself could not make it otherwise. It's true under all conditions, for eternity! Such a thing is completely outside the realm of any human experience. No human you've ever personally known has experienced truth at such a profound level. So to you it is unimaginable. Which is why I keep insisting on radical openmindedness.

Here's some food for thought for ya guys: Are there any things which are unrelated to anything else? What is selecting out the objects which are said to be related? Why those two objects and not others? Are relationships only between sentient beings, or other things too? What does it mean to be in relationship with another thing?

@Saba That's a good start. Just keep at it. Ultimately you want to ponder: What is the substance of a relationship? Is it made out of matter? Energy? Concepts? People? What? Where does the relationship exist? Who is creating it? Etc. Don't necessarily expect some giant epiphany with all your questions. Sometimes you'll just get some minor insights and more clarity.

@Garuda Probably just bad LSD.

@LowPlanetary The first thing to understand is that that's YOU holding motivation that way. There's nothing inherently unstable about motivation. You just haven't found a way to tap into it. Stable motivation is the key to all success, and its foundation lies much better than merely getting yourself into a motivated state every morning. The way I solved the motivation issue in my life is by finding my life purpose and committing to it. My spiritual motivation has also been going through the roof lately because I'm slowly building it up in my mind as I talk about in the life purpose course. When you lay a deep foundation, the motivation tends to be quite stable. Your problem then will be too much motivation and so many different motivations that you don't have time for them all. It takes time to build up the momentum and go through the wobbly phases where you're up and down a lot.

@100rockets Desire for liberation is good. You need that. The key now is to channel it effectively rather than just to spout hot air. If you're serious, you can start by reforming your lifestyle. Clean it up. Make it conducive to enlightenment work. Start building the right habits, including mindfulness meditation, clean eating, cutting out TV and other addictions, visualizations, etc. Then you need to make sure you understand this path conceptually, and all of its traps. Which means lots of study. (See my book list for best enlightenment books). Then you will be ready to invest more and more time into self-inquiry. If you're serious, try doing a solo 7-day contemplation/meditation retreat. Plan it out well and spend 7 days straight in contemplation or meditation, with short breaks for eating and naps. This isn't rocket science. It's all very basic and common sense stuff. The trick is, you gotta actually do it. And your ego will create excuses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzimtzum I love this part especially: Dead-on descriptions of Absolute Infinity, clearly from direct experience.

@MissMiki You're wasting time with fantasy. You must tackle this head-on. Grasp WHAT you are right now! You're it right now! What is aware?

@MissMiki Will is just a feeling you have. You can deconstruct it. You don't really have it. Which is why you feel so weak and struggle so much with self-control. There is INFINITE variety! It doesn't stop. The phenomenal world (Maya) is infinitely complex. You are none of that. You are the emptiness within which Maya dances. What is aware of all the variety? What is aware of the feeling of will? There is nothing you can do within Maya to escape Maya. Because you are already free of Maya. You just have to grasp that.

Cool beans. What was your dose? Now go make that level of awakeness permanent. And it still goes deeper.

You'd be surprised. Some girls are not bothered by guy going to a strip club. Those would be the more secure girls. Needy girls will of course not be able to hand something like that, because they will perceive it as a threat. I like the kind of girl who I could take to a strip club with me and we both have fun. Good relationships require good communication ability, honesty, selflessness, and many other spiritual qualities. It's a huge topic of mastery. Mostly I keep to myself because I'm introverted and don't have much time or desire to socialize. But sometimes I do. Just depends on the situation. Developing the ability to socialize on the turn of a dime is good. Then you're free to be however you want in the moment. Up to you. If you're highly conscious, it will be difficult for you to be on the same wavelength as a low consciousness partner. So that will probably not work long-term. You'd want to find someone who is at least interested in growing themselves and learning from you.

@username Like attracts like

I spent last Monday chatting up strippers at a strip club with my enlightened buddy. I chatted to them about meditation, yoga, enlightenment, DMT, and normal everyday things for 2.5 hours. We all had great fun. One of the strippers even had a Sanskrit tattoo which I quickly identified. Another stripper was into meditation but drank too much to maintain a steady habit. I jokingly lectured her about her unhealthy drinking habits. A 3rd stripper wanted to try some DMT, and I educated her about the benefits of 5-meo and how my enlightened buddy was too big of a pussy to do a 30mg dose. Don't be so serious about being "spiritual" and developed. You should be able to relate to ordinary people once you're in touch with the being-level of life. It's all being after all. Everyone is at your level. You can learn to talk to people about anything. Just don't expect them to change or convert to your ways. And don't expect people to bring up the topics YOU want to talk about. That burden is on you as the conversationalist.

@Joel3102 Funny, isn't it, how you want to create a mechanical system for being more conscious? Why not just meditate and be conscious? Isn't it obvious when you're conscious and when you're mechanical?

You seek Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi That will take some serious enlightening. If you have a cave nearby, might be a good idea to relocate there for a few years of meditatin'

Firstly, realize that what you want here is a VERY juicy thing. Everyone and their uncle wants that. The question is, how hard are you willing to work for it? What are you willing to sacrifice for it? How much are you willing to push your comfort zone to get it? How clever are you willing to be? Secondly, realize that what you want will be MUCH harder than you currently assume it is to achieve. It will be much harder, but also extremely rewarding and worth it. It's just that you have to set proper expectations or you will quickly quit. I've faced this exact same challenge as you in my 20's. Which is why I created the my Life Purpose Course, where I walk you step by step through all the foundational concepts you need to know in order to have a chance to succeed. Check it out if you're serious. This is a very big topic which cannot be adequately addressed in one video, let alone one forum post. I took all the core insights and lessons I've learned in the last 10 years of starting small businesses and developing my life purpose, and put them into the LP Course.

There's gonna be a lot of shit to do to accomplish your life purpose. Hence why you gotta really love it. When you really love it, the minor shit can be annoying, but isn't enough to ever stop you. There's plenty of annoying stuff I had to do to get to where I currently am. It's not a big deal because it's eclipsed by the good stuff. This should go without saying, but without self-discipline, nothing can happen. Maybe take this opportunity to really contemplate why you are shooting yourself in the foot with such petty laziness, and re-commit to disciplining yourself a bit.

@James Hunter In practice, you will still have many beliefs, even post-enlightenment. The beliefs which are necessary to eliminate for enlightenment are certain existential beliefs about self, reality, science, religion, spirituality, etc. Besides the above, you hold many pragmatic beliefs which are simply there to allow you to navigate the everyday world. Beliefs such as "jumping out of a skyscraper will hurt". These beliefs are no problem. You can hang on to them. Most of your business beliefs will not impede enlightenment work. Other than maybe beliefs about why you want to have a business at all, or why you want success or money. Success in business generally doesn't require a lot of "believing" in stuff, other than just a core belief in your ability to follow through. That's not really a belief. That's more like confidence or motivation and clarity of intent. Those are good things. You will need plenty of that to become enlightened too.

@optimize Sounds like you're a creative guy (or girl). Sounds like you want creative autonomy too. If that's the case, you need to leverage your creativity more. That's your money-maker right there. You can lean much harder on it. Whatever creative work you've done so far, start thinking of it as just the tip of the iceberg of what your mind is capable of. Don't limit your mind. You have some ideas of the kind of animations you wanna make, but it sounds like you're clinging to them too much. Be more open. Let your mind consider other bold possibilities within animation. Sit down and brainstorm 50 ways you could make animations which are fresh and interesting to you, but ALSO are marketable. When you're first starting your career, you may not have enough career capital to have full creative autonomy. That's something you gotta work up to. You may have to sacrifice autonomy for a while to release some stuff which is marketable and financially viable. Why can't you start a second channel which has popular animations, and then use that to funnel eyeballs to your more niche animations? Or find a way to make your niche animations really popular. Explore various styles, themes, lengths, etc. If you're gonna be an entrepreneur, you gotta learn how to feel the pulse of your audience. You cannot work only for yourself. You've learn how to generate value. And value is defined as something other people really want. It sounds like you're lacking a foundation in marketing. You could go buy some marketing courses and learn the fundamentals so that you have a better idea of how to tailor your content to attract eyeballs. Also, don't limit yourself only to Youtube. Be more creative! Every fool and his grandma has a Youtube channel. You gotta push the envelop and explore many other avenues. Also, invest more time perfecting your animation style. Find more of your own voice. This will set you apart from the crowd. You might need to invest more time just mastering your craft. In which case, maybe get a part-time day job and spend your nights practicing. Remember that your best work will only come in 5, 10, 20 years. So don't get too hung up on any one thing right now. Explore your entire field more. Develop something truly original and inspiring. Then people will come. Your jealously will go away when you turn inward and put all your energy into developing yourself and your craft. Forge a deeper connection with the love you have for your craft. That is your major advantage over everyone else who hasn't taken the LP course. You know your life purpose explicitly now. That is a huge advantage, but only if you use it.

@Lha Bho I wonder what a dose of MDMA or other psychedelic would do for a person with DP/DR. It may pop you out of your mental rut. Like kicking a stuck computer. Seems like you're missing the experience of divine love. So are you conscious of what you are? Or what reality is? If not, you're not enlightened, and what you should be shooting for is actual enlightenment, not "normal". Your desire to become "normal" is already evidence of your ego-mind being normal. That's exactly how a normal mind acts. It's seeking states and experiences because it knows nothing else. The solution is always MORE awareness, not less. You need awareness of how your mind is twisting around and getting hung up on itself. Your mind is doing something wonky, because otherwise you should be aware of the beauty of reality. Which suggests to me that you may not be as aware as you think you are. Or maybe you have a physiological brain issue. I bet you that an actual enlightenment experience would pop you out of your rut. Have you had any?

@Tuure That certainly doesn't help with enlightenment. The whole point of enlightenment is to realize that being a millionaire is unimportant.

No, you can do both.

@I Am That Considered it yes, but it's addictive and harmful to the body. So I tend to avoid that.

"Supernatural" is just a term you invented for things you don't yet understand and which would force you to abandon your current paradigm. You need to preserve your paradigm, so you cleverly dismiss anything that could break it as "supernatural". Thus allowing you to stay blissfully ignorant of other facets of reality.