Leo Gura

Sadhguru's minions are def brainwashed, but that's what they signed up for and that's par for the course in India. The whole of India is brainwashed with Hindu spiritual dogma. Becoming a monk is an intense life choice. Obviously not right for most people.

PM is more correct than say a religious fundamentalist who reads the Bible literally and thinks his interpretation is the only objectively valid one. Or a scientist who thinks that science is the best and most objective way to see reality. That's what PM is pointing out as a mistake.

What's unhealthy for society is denying the obvious psychological differences between men and women. When I say man, what I really mean is masculine. If a man is not masculine then what I say doesn't apply. Just because there are feminine men doesn't touch my point. The meta problem here is that people don't understand the proper and important function of generalizations. You tell a stage Green a valid generalization and they instictively try to hairsplit it to death to satisfy their political social justice agenda and worldview.

Sounds like a tempest in a teapot.

It's hard to articulate since it is oblique.

Watch this: Now ask yourself, Does the Fossa logically know how it selects mates? It has no idea. But it is very good at it nonetheless.

Your survival is not logical. You don't know you're doing it, you're just living. There is enormous intelligence in how women screen out low value men. And it's all instinctive and unconscious, such that you'd have to study it for years like a zoologist to see it.

That's not a bug, that's a feature. That's how women screen out the weak men. They don't want to give weak men explicit signals or help in mating them. What you gotta understand is that women are not here to serve you. They are always doing what is best for them, not what you need. Don't try to change women, change how you see them. It is not a woman's job to help you have sex with her. Her job is to put up obstacles.

If you were a Zionist you'd be happy and self-righteous, patting yourself on the back.

She makes plenty of high quality and wise posts on this forum. She just has a different perspective than you. Why make it personal?

Tone it down a bit, please. Being this aggressive hurts your arguments.

That's why we have reincarnation

The point is that your understanding of what I say is always mediated by your interpretations and needs. Even if there is such a thing as what I mean, you will never know it for sure. What PM is pointing out is the foolishness of people who naively go around thinking they understand the original intent of authors, as if this is some objective scientific thing.

It's not a fallacy. That's the distinction between masculine and feminine modes. People have stopped understanding what masculine and feminine means. This doesn't mean that women never use logic and it doesn't mean that men are perfectly logical, or that the logic isn't a gross distortion of reality.

It's a general pattern, not an absolute.

Sorry man. Hopefully Biden will give you guys some federal aid money to rebuild. I expect him to announce that.

Trump is more emotionally unhinged than Kamala.

No, it's practicing Imagination.

Look at it like this: Is color knowledge? Is color insight? No. Color is more fundamental than both. So clearly we got some very fundamental stuff going on even without any crazy mystical mumbo-jumbo.

I'm working on it. Should be too long.

Insight is deeper than you give it credit for. You are assuming you understand what insight is, which is not a safe assumption. Consciousnes is even more fundamental than insight, although insight is more fundamental the knowledge. Insight is an aspect of Awakening but not the whole of it. Awakened consciousness is the basis for the insight of awakening. Consciousness awakens first, then insight catches up, or it could work the other way too. Awakening comes with insight but it's the same as insight. How is anything possible?

It's better to phrase it as realizing that reality is Consciousness/Mind. The world is actually a cosmic mind, forever dreaming, like a mad artist lost in an opium den. It can dream anything. This realization is more than knowledge, it's your state of being. It's your condition. You are a dream. Being in a dream is beyond any knowledge of the dream's content. "Knowledge" itself is a dream. You are dreaming knowledge, which is why knowledge is fallible and partial. Before there can be any knowledge, there must first be a dream about which to have knowledge. So dreaming is more fundamental than knowledge. Awakening is not about changing your knowledge, it's about seeing the dream as a dream. Which is why no amount of knowledge can awaken you.

Any of the classic spiritual pratices or psychedelics. The classic practices usually require long retreats and extreme rigor to work. And contemplation on top of that. It's not just rooted in truth. It IS truth. Existence itself is recognized to be Absolute Truth. Awakening is the realization of the nature of existence itself. What is existence? You grasp its nature absolutely. It's as if you lived your whole life in a dark room and suddenly someone turned on the lights. There is no doubt that the light is on once it is on. Or it's like you have been a fish your whole life and finally you realize what water is.

Awakening is not an escape from mind, it's the realization that mind is actually Mind. It's the absolutizing of Mind. You don't need phenomena to be mind independent, you just need to realize that phenomena are absolutely mind dependent. Awakening is the realization of the absoluteness of consciousness. Absoluteness of consciousness is that one thing you cannot be wrong about. And it's not knowledge. Awakening is beyond knowledge, it is a state of consciousness. With that said, there are still many degrees of awakening and more you can realize. You are right to realize that knowledge isn't definitive, it is relative, partial, and highly fallible. But knowledge ain't all there is. So you must seek beyond knowledge.

@Jayson G It's not possible nor good to try every solution because you can waste your whole life on a wild goose chase. At some point you have to stop looking for solutions and accept your situation. Many health problems have no solution. The universe doesn't owe you any solutions. Sometimes everything you try will fail.