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Koan #482: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a master Jedi misplaced his light-saber, so he divided his birthday cake in half with his mind. Was the cake one or two?

@Alii Enlightenment = Truth = existence itself. Anything that exists is part of what's true. Enlightenment is not a point of view. It's the fabric of reality itself. Instead of thinking that reality is made out of atoms, think of it as made out of enlightenment. In spirituality, we're not dealing with human perspectives. We're dealing with the fabric of reality itself: consciousness. And consciousness constitutes all there is. So if Hitler exists, there he is... consciousness. When he exists in your mind, there he is... consciousness. What he's doing is irrelevant when it comes to the question of his substance. You don't say Hitler isn't made of atoms just because he killed a bunch of people. He's still made of atoms even if he's the most horrible person in the world. The atoms don't care. There are no "good" atoms and "bad" atoms. Hitler's not made out of "bad" atoms. They are exactly the same atoms. A quantum physicist doesn't care what Hitler did. Neither does a nondualist. At least not on the metaphysical level. On the practical level, the social level, the political level, of course we say it's "bad" and "don't be like Hitler".

@Alii How many times do we have to say that you can be an enlightened rapist? Enlightenment changes nothing. You can think of it this way: everyone is already enlightened, including Hitler. EVERYTHING is GOOD. There are no restrictions upon reality. It can do whatever the hell it wants. To be at peace with that, is to be enlightened. To not be at peace with that, is also to be enlightened. If you imagine yourself becoming the most morally perfect human being of all time, more moral than Jesus, you will be not one ounce better than Hitler. That is nonduality. So all your ideas about how enlightened people "ought" to be behave are just that -- your ideas, not the Truth. People are free to behave in all the ways the human body/mind is able to behave. How do you know it's Good? Because it's happening. Don't be questioning God's creation with that little mind of yours You will always be wrong. Which of course, is just how it's supposed to be. Not only did he eat a cheeseburger, we went to the best strip club in town and I bought him a lap dance so this stripper with perfect, melon-sized boobs smeared him across his face. And he enjoyed it. Fun was had by all. That's life. So throw all your moralizing in the trash. It has nothing to do with enlightenment. If you're thinking enlightenment will make you a good person, think again. If you were an asshole before enlightenment, you'll likely be an asshole long after enlightenment. God creates assholes, after all. Assholes are an integral part of creation. Just look at Trump

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@Hardik jain Contemplate your death. What do you want out of life? If you can't connect to any higher-consciousness desire, then you're out of luck. Maybe in the next life. Or just wait until this life kicks your ass to the point where you can't take it any more.

@Ritu https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-you-must-think-about-failure

@Huz The funny thing is, if Actualized.org was my first business, I would be much more popular, richer, and more developed than I am now. When your work is not aligned with your purpose, you're highly inefficient. In the same way that when you want to go North, yet you're on a bus going East, it's highly inefficient even if goes very fast and very far.

@electroBeam By being a visionary and a leader. Also, you don't need to necessarily convince investors. Do everything yourself if you're that picky. That's what I do. I work solo by design. To run a successful business you have to be a relentless doer and outside the box thinker. No one is going to hold your hand in that process. You will either lead yourself, or nothing's gonna happen. You need to provide all the answers. That's your job. If I solve your business problems for you, then I'm the one creating that business, not you, making you obsolete. The whole point of starting a business is that you personally assume responsibility for solving the hard problems. That's why you get paid the big bucks if you succeed. It's not a paint by numbers process. If you want to paint by numbers, go work in a factory which some visionary has created. You can't have it both ways. You can't say, "I want to be a leader! Can someone please tell me how to lead? It's hard. I don't know what to do!" In that case, you're a follower.

@zikzak Consider that it goes even deeper with manual work.

@MsNobody Sounds like you have a naturally high tolerance. Some people report this. 300ug of AL-LAD should shake the foundations of your reality. You should have difficulty walking on that dose. Brains do vary genetically. Some people are genetically more sensitive to certain neurotransmitters like serotonin, which tryptamines mirror. Sounds like you need larger doses.

@cle103 Anything could be the starting point for a deeper purpose. You could be a thief or rapist, and that could be the starting point for your purpose. Life works in twisted ways. This process requires that you search your heart and contemplate. Use your intuition, foresight, and consciousness.

@Afonso Maybe it is a strength of yours, but you've just totally lost touch with it? Or you discount it as unimportant or "not a good strength". Or you can't easily imagine how to utilize this strength. Or maybe it's not right for you. Search inside for the answer. Contemplate.

You don't understand because you haven't yet become conscious that the waking state (life) has exactly as much reality as the dreaming state. Experiences seem solid through interpretation. Without interpretation, they are nothing at all. This is the KEY point of enlightenment. You need to see that reality is Maya. An infinite hallucination.

Excellent!

You might want to take the assessment again, and make sure you're answering the questions authentically. When you answer each question, think for a moment if the situation and your answer is being authentic and clicking with you. It's easy to sometimes give pat answers which come from social conditioning or bad old habits. You can also approach the whole thing backwards. Look through all the possible strengths, select the top 5 which resonate most, and then double-check that by filling out the assessment in such a way as to arrive at those strengths. And see if those answers really resonate on some level so you're not tricking yourself.

@Hero in progress If very strong emotions are arising, try to just sit quietly doing nothing. Just sit and feel them. That's all. Start letting go of your efforting and trying to achieve something. Just sit, relax, enjoy, surrender. Let it happen naturally. It will happen all on its own if you just sit and watch. Get curious about what is happening. Avoid distractions and entertainment though. If suffering arises, remember to ENJOY your suffering. Seriously.

@Hero in progress You're still chasing experiences and positive states. Enlightenment is not that. Pursue what is TRUE, not bliss and love. Everything else is experience. And all experience is impermanent, and thus an illusion.

Not all vomiting is spiritual purging. It could simply be that you ate a bunch of greasy food which doesn't sit right with the chemical. The problem with vomiting is that if you have a terribly uncomfortable trip, you probably won't ever trip again. With proper chemicals and proper techniques, you NEVER need to vomit. And you will still grow a ton. Don't romanticize vomiting. That's one of the things I don't like about Ayahuasca. We have far better modern chemicals available which don't produce vomiting. Natives use Ayahausca because they have nothing better. If they had 99.9% pure 5-MeO-DMT growing on trees, they would snort that shit up like cocaine.

Yup, all good insights.

Great work!

@electroBeam You're not going to solve a complex system's problem by sending a bull into a china shop. That leads to disaster.

I hope you guys go easy on me when my nude model photos surface.

And there you have the answer for why the system doesn't work the way you want. Indeed, it does go full-circle. The enemy you seek to string up will turn out to be none other than yourself. The LP course is not limited to any one kind of career.

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