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@beastmode If I threw creativity or contribution into the trashcan and you never saw them again, would you care? Do you care about them both as ends, not just means to ends? If one is just a means to the other, throw it out. If you care about each one individually for its own reasons, then keep them both. If you find they are just synonyms for the same basic idea, merge them into one.

All good suggestions above. I will just add: get used to it. Boredom and sleepiness are one of the mind's best defense mechanisms against Truth, so it will use them often on this path. It might take you a year or more to work all that "sleepiness stuff" out of your system. Sleepiness is not just sleepiness. Sleepiness is loaded with a bunch of psychological issues and neuroses. It will gradually get purged as you keep up with your practice. But, also, of course, make sure you're getting enough sleep at night and don't eat anything for at least a few hours before you meditate. Nothing like a full stomach to make you sleepy.

@Ether First few years are pretty slow, especially if your meditation is sloppy and weak. Stick with it anyways. It gets exponentially better with practice. And take some week-long retreats to super-charge your practice. Or add some psychedelics to it and you'll get 10 years of growth in 6 months.

Yes, the infinite intelligence of the All, inherent in everything. It's hard to believe until you experience it first-hand.

@ajasatya The crazy thing is, for a guy in his 40's, he looks ridiculously young and healthy. So maybe he found the elixir of life!

@kieranperez Great!

Serotoninluv's GF: "Honey, I love you." Serotoninluv: *slaps her across the face* "WAKE UP! There is no you or me! There is only Buddha-nature, and it loves all equally."

@Max_V You should name your child Spruce Spyro

In the context of this discussion about this freaky frog, yes. This reminds of another Vice documentary about a guy who injected himself with cobra venom every week for 10 years. Now that's fucking hardcore. He makes the craziest psychonuat looks like a pansy.

You have to learn to recognize consciousness even when it doesn't fit your expectations.

Yeah... don't seem too pleasant. I would stick to regular psychedelics. Putting yourself through hell isn't necessary.

@SirVladimir You can't lay on the nonduality lectures on a wounded, grieving ego. In a situation like that, you apply compassion, then you bring up nonduality LATER, once he's not emotional. The whole point of an emotional reaction is that the mind is resisting reality. So of course at that moment the last thing it wants to hear is a nonduality lecture. That's like talking calculus at a mule.

You know... Adderall is basically Meth.

@Swagala The real you don't exist. Ta-da! So what are you calling "me"?

Hard to imagine humanity not still going. The question is, at what pace? In what condition?

@kieranperez Research, research, research. See my latest blog post.

@Revolutionary Think The mind cannot stop the mind. Stopping the mind requires some serious meditation/self-inquiry. Years of it. Or some deep tripping. Keep at it. Don't try to stop it in the ordinary sense of telling yourself not to think while laying in bed. That doesn't work.

@kieranperez Psychedelics help with all matters, even those you didn't know you had. The problem is, you're on a chemical cocktail of stuff already, and who knows how all of that will mix? Worst case scenario, it can kill you. You should do serious research online to find people who were taking your kind of cocktail and see if they had any complications with psychedelics. Mixing SSRIs and psychedelics is a bad idea. Ween yourself off first if you want to become a psychonaut. That is the best general advice.

Precisely! Which is why 99.999% ain't enlightened and won't be for a long time to come. The trick to understanding reality is that whatever happens is precisely what was supposed to happen. If you work your ass off and get enlightened, that was supposed to happen If you work your ass off and don't get enlightened, that was supposed to happen If you sit on the couch your whole life eating Cheetos, that was supposed to happen If you read this and decide that all is hopeless and you are victim, that was supposed to happen If you read this and decide that you will double your efforts and that leads your enlightenment, that was supposed to happen How do we know it was supposed to happen? Because it happened!

@cle103 You should be grateful you've had enough wisdom and motivation to get this far. If you made it this far, you can make it to the end of the rabbit hole. No one said this would be easy. We are talking about suicide here, after all. The ego will not give up without a fight.

@Source_Mystic Yes, of course, as it must be. When you truly grasp it, there is nothing to say. And nothing said can make you truly grasp it. That is the game we are playing. Fish huddle together only in the darkness, because they are too scared to step into the light.

@Serotoninluv If it was pleasant, you wouldn't need me telling you about it, it would be advertized on TV

Ahahahaha...... I have created a monster.

By doing self-inquiry, contemplation, studying nonduality, and tripping consistently. Yes, I also meant normal human state. Infinity is independent of state and independent of being human. Self-inquiry is the key. Ya'll keep avoiding it. That's the whole problem here. If you actually did it, you wouldn't need me or this forum or anyone else. But you hate doing self-inquiry, so here we are. Actualized.org is just babysitting for kids who refuse to do self-inquiry

@AleksM Yes, that's no-mind. That's good. But most people are not there yet, and will never get there unless they are led out of the mind using the mind. That's the point of spiritual teachings. And even then, the fact is you still use stories -- or differentiation of truth from falsehood -- to navigate everyday life. For example, if I told you that nukes are flying here from North Korea, that's not a story you can ignore, if true. Which brings us back to the original problem. It's not a problem that ever goes away.