RendHeaven

You're on your journey. These are good questions

Congrats

Lies

@DieFree There are no "facts," and all proofs are relative.

I can't tell if you're arguing against me or agreeing lol. I'm fully conscious of where these objections are coming from. I've been there myself. I'm just attempting to reveal that Truth with a capital T doesn't give a shit about our objections, nor our pleas for "proof" Truth with a capital T is possible to access, and (to anyone reading this, not just RMQualtrough) you simply can't argue otherwise before having encountered it personally!

Again, it can convincingly seem this way to someone who has yet to "peek behind the curtain." If you directly and immediately recognize that all othernesses (as well as any notions of proof) are transient, partial fabrications within the greater Oneness of Here-Now, there is Absolutely no room left for philosophic waffling.

No dude, you literally think that "else" is an actual thing. It's not a word game to you. The same thing with "proof." I am suggesting that if you stop giving these things actuality, they literally cease to be (not just on the level of words but on the level of literal existence). This possibility alone, if taken seriously, should alert you to the transient and partial nature of these things you give ultimate reality to.

oh my god

Good start. You seem very attached to this idea of "else." Investigate what that literally is.

Actually you can become directly conscious of all things that are - and in that process, realize that all things imagined to exist independent of perception are only real insofar as they are imagined to exist, and that these imaginations are not "real" in any way beyond imagination (certainly not more real than that which is Here-Now). I'm basically suggesting that you can literally peak behind the curtain yourself and find nothing, empirically. And then people who have yet to peak behind the curtain will claim that "it's impossible to know!" but this is simply not the case. Go peak! To whoever is reading this: nobody else will peak behind the curtain for you! It must be you who does it. Debating and slinging ideas back and forth won't cut it either. There is an epistemic difference between theorizing about what Japan is like without having ever been there vs literally booking a plane ticket to Japan and actually stepping foot on its soil

This IS your imagination... But, keep in mind that it is an INFINITELY INTELLIGENT imagination. So be wary, I'm not suggesting that it's some mere flimsy imagination that you can easily dispel. Rather, it is the deepest and strongest imagination conceivable, so yeah it's really no surprise that you don't see through it haha

As others have said, how do you know that ANYTHING isn't just "your subjective experience?" You seem to be disparaging "subjective experience" on the assumption that there is something, anything MORE than that somehow.

bruh

Lol dude he experiences sharp and distinct unbearable pain the moment he tries consuming anything that isn't meat. If it were as easy as drinking a smoothie, this would've all been over years ago. You're vastly underestimating his condition - it'd be wiser to have silent sympathy rather than dishing out obviously misdiagnosed advice.

God's Love Pure fucking beauty with no drawbacks, it's actually sort of ridiculous.

Boo, clickbait

lmao its YOUR house and you can hear them on the couch outside your room

Full playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOy6Eb5pkyY&list=PLP9u5D1zAbmoTkQNV5Hw0piNecvFcuyYD Keep in mind this was back when Leo was spiritually immature, almost none of what you hear him asking is in-line with his teachings now

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Holy moly this is your 'best' journal entry bar far I love how deliberately you teased apart "casual vs intellectual" in a way that made me as a reader think "oh yeah. that sounds right." Uh oh. Am I hearing some life purpose ambitions slipping out? Girl don't even get me started -

I'm actually aware of that~ I'm putting on a sharp tone deliberately as a wake up call. At the end of the day, balance is needed to dissolve toxicity. That means an overactive person needs to learn passivity - and vice versa. ^nobody's gonna fix this other than you, Max (that is, if you desire fixing)

It's actually what's best for her as well. She needs to heal just as much as you do - and your presence hinders that. Someone needs to set the boundary, and she clearly will not. lol. you need to kick her out for her sake. She needs independence even more than you, it seems. P.S. - this is a garbage solution for the well-being of her psyche. She's in the pits of hell, and now her ex is forcing her to find some random dude because he doesn't trust her to take care of herself. Yeah, your solution of "wait for random deus ex machina savior man" is so obviously a way to avoid the responsibility of kicking her out. Part of being an adult means you make harsh decisions NOW for the ultimate good of everyone.

Oh I had @WaveInTheOcean confused with @Surfingthewave haha~

Hah WHAT I swear their profile said "female" a couple months ago. Hence my assumption that they were a "she." I hear you

Yes, I am also fascinated by how quality spiritual practice involves effort of some kind, in the sense that we are genuinely trying in some way. Otherwise, we would just not do the practice. After all, why hone awareness at all? To simply say: "there is no reason," is misleading (even if it's true in the broadest sense). Maybe we do not hone awareness for the sake of some other, but certainly we at the very least hone awareness for the sake of awareness - and this is valuable in some way, whether it grants us Peace, Love, Truth, or God. Even the enlightened, no-self and/or God realized "person," I would say, expends effort, or tries in some way insofar as they hone awareness at all. Because again, they are always free to simply be unaware - to coast through life as a zombie - but some faculty within them gravitates towards awareness nonetheless. At the same time, you're absolutely right that this effort in its purest form is absolutely not forceful. It is only yang insofar as there is equal yin present. Release is just as (if not more, depending on context) effortful and fruitful (than control) on the path towards awareness. But even still, this is a different kind of release than entirely ceasing the spiritual practice, and abandoning awareness altogether. The release that we seek to understand is pure surrender, but it never comes in conflict with the desire to stay attentive. I think that Simone would say that this elusive "desire" or "sense of commitment/sticking to it" is (at least in part) our way of calling down God "long, often, and ardently."