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  2. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

    All the ways of conceptualizing Enlightenment are like getting 100 cab drivers to write an essay on how to drive a car.  Now, you’re given those 100 essays.  What do you make of them?  Do you get lost in them?  Do you take notes on them?    Do you form a religion out of them?  What use to you are they when you sit down in the car to drive?  

    I know, you are right..

  3. Posted · Edited by MarkusSweden

    I once saw a video with a western guy speaking of advaita vedanta. That guy had a map of some sort, like a 1m x 1m map behind him. It was very pedagogic.

    The map had a white background for the absolute qualities and a dark background for the relative qualities of reality, and some sort of coloured filter that covered everything as a pedagogic way to show that everything ultimately is one thing, is non duality. 

    I have high intuition and have had mysterious experiences since I was a child. I never formulated my experience in any way though, I had a non language understanding of the divine let's say. 

    I came here to gain the conceptual understanding, since I didn't have the map. Not that I needed it, but in order to communicate it I thought a language/map based understanding could be good to have. 

    My journey was kind of backwards, I traveled the territory first, without the map. Most people construct the map before entering the territory I suppose. 

    Anyway, whichever path, whichever direction you go, a solid conceptual map won't hurt. Shouldn't we construct an own map of reality, and whenever someone suggest adding or changing something we discuss it here.  

    As time goes by, that map might evolve to the best conceptual map known to man, although it will only be a map of course. 

    In judaism, in the spiritual branch of kabbalah have mind maps to explain reality, looks like a tree, very pedagogic, how things relate to eachother and to which branch. 

    We could make one that is much more advanced. Some people here are great with programming and softwares, they can create cool graphics, some have good insights, etcetera. A good detail map how everything relate to each other could be a good idea, don't you think? 

  6. Posted · Edited by MarkusSweden

    18 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    In the Absolute sense nothing exists. You gotta be careful not to conflate relative and absolute statements.

    If chakras exist, they exist relatively, in the way that your brain exists relatively.

    But Leo, how ever you twist it, reality is utterly crazy. 

    Just look at these two facts. 

    1. From absolute perspective everything is consciousness, 'matter' is nothing but consciousness, the "consciousness only"-model by Rupert Spira describes it very well what is going on from the absolute perspective.

    2.  From the relative perspective, the world/matter is the OPPOSITE of consciousness. Matter is dense, has form, is solid, is finite, has objective qualities, is a thing etcetera. Where as consciousness is transparent, infinite, empty, no-thingness etcetera. This is all true from the relative perspective.

    Is so stupid is a way. Up is down and down is up depending on what perspective you choose. 

    Utterly utterly crazy and stupid. I agree life can be pleasant and be absent of suffering. But it can NEVER make sense, It can never be sane.  

  7. Posted · Edited by MarkusSweden

    I love to just be, pure be-ing. Doing is a distraction from this pure being, doing is a distraction from resting in infinite consciousness. 

    My awareness goes into a contemplative and a meditative mode without any effort when I don't do anything at all. To just be is beautiful. 

    Concentration and doing is a distraction from the truth and the love I feel when I let the spontaneous contemplation just happens, as it always does when resting in pure being with nothing else to do. 

    My dad on the other hand loves doing, i don't think he has anything going on in his inner being other then the satisfaction over something he does in the outer world.

    The arrangement of the outer world, like working, cleaning, house keeping, pay bills, wash the cars etcetera, gives him satisfaction. He view me as lazy and I view him as a closed minded person with no access to divine consciousness.

    I would like him to have the taste of Godly awareness, but that will never happens. 

    Anyway, it's tricky with my dad, but other people who are "doers" that I don't know personally, those people I love, they don't bother me(because they don't know me, hence they don't know we are different) and I love the sounds of people working, the discussions they have, the sound of construction working in action. But I love it only when I'm not part of it my self.

    I like to blissfully witness it all from a distance, with a cup of coffee in my hand and love in my heart. 

    Those "working-bees" do so much things for me, they build my house, they build my car, they construct all the roads I love to travel. They transport and manufacture all the delicious foods and goods to my local store for me to pick whatever I like. 

    I can't help but feeling some trace guilt in the middle of all the bliss. I obviously like to consume the fruits of society, but clearly, I don't contribute anything myself(I'm lucky regarding economy). The only thing I provide for others are an open mind, kindness, happiness, but no real goods, nothing tangible.

    Aren't those working-bees right about us to some degree, we are somewhat lazy, we don't help the wheels of society to spin that much, do we? 

    After all, teaching non duality which many of us realised do, has no value for those who can't pick it up, which are most people, nor do they desire it. Only like 0.02% of people both desire AND are able to pick it up and transform themselves from the non duality teachings. And there are by far enough teachers out there to supply the non dual teaching demands from those tiny 0.02 % who wants it. 

    You see what I'm saying here?

    Elaborate.  

  8. Posted · Edited by MarkusSweden

    @Devil High consciousness = Choke jerking(If you do it right and find the balance point where you are close to unconsciousness, yet not so close that you risk hurting yourself, then you can fully and safety relax into present choke-jerking moment, that is extremely high consciousness I would say, almost as a path of its own towards enlightenment. 

     

  11. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Devil said:

    @MarkusSweden You're a flashlight seeking bigfoot in the woods in the middle of the night. You have to wake up and realize that YOU are bigfoot and turn the flashlight towards yourself.

     

    You're communicating with yourself here. Why waste your time when you could be the truth?

    Sounds reasonable. 

    Let me ask you, have you experiences with heavy doses of potent psychedelics, like 5-meo-dmt? In that case, does your trips confirm the picture you give here? 

    Is it fair to say that God is afraid you think? Because his desperately need to find out the truth? 

    Also, could it be that truth with capital T doesn't exists. I have ideas that there might be a dark insight to find if we really dig deep. Like an infinite trap let's say.

  13. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Faceless said:

    The burden of psychological authority....

     

    The dependence on authority inevitably nourishes fear, in which leads to antagonism-violence. 

    This perpetuation of Fear = antagonism-violence. 

    The guru destroys the disciple, and the disciple destroys the guru.

     

    I view you as my online authority, yet there is no movement of antagonism-violence between us.

    You are my guru, but ALSO an equal nice fella who can chit chat on random topics in PM's like training, family life etcetera. 

    Hence it doesn't have to be the way you describe. There can be a guru-disciple relationship, yet a common friendship on another level as well. 

    At least that is true online it seems. 

    No movement of fear is involved between us what I can tell. 

    B|

  15. Posted

    19 hours ago, Faceless said:

    Has nothing to do with gender. We are speaking about division in general. Playing the opposition game has had its day. Just another game of fragmentation. 

    Fragmentation/division is caused by the false notion of the movement of time. Without time(which doesn't exist) all other factors/variables that cause fragmentation dissolve. Time is the key factor here. 

    You see?

  16. Posted · Edited by MarkusSweden

    I bought the whole package, the globalist conspiracy, the sionist conspiracy, the evil bank elite conspiracy, Migration as a tool for the elites to gain power and money, as a "rule and conquer"-tactics. The lgbt as a political tool to destroy families and homogeneity etcetera .

    No wonder I was mad with the world, those 4chan forums, Breitbart and all local message boards along with the alt right twitter elite manage to fool me into thinking they was right.

    I never thought I could be brainwashed, I even believed the most insane things like the jewish conspiracy and things like that. 

    I was nuts, but I'm on my way back now.

    It's very strange because I use to be the rational one with capacity for critical and abstract thinking. But I swallowed everything in the alt-right narrative. 

    I ended up as a train wreck after all my hate on lefties, feminist, lgbt, socialist, communists, cultural marxists etcetera, I thought all of that was evil, that's how brainwashed I was. 

    Now how can I put this behind and be the friendly and sane Markus again?

    #Walkawayfromaltright

  18. Posted

    There is a clip somewhere on the internet where a woman who admire mooji so deeply but she realised that she didn't need him any longer because she find what she was looking for, she find her true self, and with that finding she lose all attachments, even the attachment to mooji, and she explain that in a satsang full of tears down her chins, because she find it sad in a way despite being coming 'home' to her true self. 

    Mooji couldn't handle that honesty and start mocking her in a subtle way, telling her things like.. "Don't cry, you save your plane ticket money" and things like that. He didn't say it in a warm kind of way, definitely Mooji's ego who was speaking in defence there. Could anyone help me to find that clip, it would be appropriate for this thread. 

    But hey, who says he need to be perfect? He's more pleasant to meet that 99% of the people in the world anyway. We always demand nearly perfect people to be completely perfect, don't we? 

  20. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Nahm said:

    @MarkusSweden Why is there evil and suffering in the world?

    Because of the false notion of a separate self. We should live for the whole, not for a subpart of the whole aka the illusion of a separate self. 

    But that's how humanity has always unfold, and always will unfold, that's the tragic of humanity I guess. 

    Even we who are interested in dissolving the ego often fails to do so, and our societal surrounding will always encourage us to be the illusionary entity of the ego. 

  21. Posted · Edited by MarkusSweden

    With reality I mean the ordinary everyday reality in human societies that are built on false belief that we are unchanged separate agents over time.

    When you live in truth(in the now) you might think that you can bring that truth-aspect to reality, but that will never work, 'reality' will always stay the same. 

    You can only bring people from reality to the truth, but you can never bring truth to reality. 

    I know that "reality" is not an accurate word, but it's good to use it this way, because there is really a reality to the lie(notions of separate selves), there is a reality to that dream-state from the perspective of the sleeping ones.

    And majority of humanity will always be asleep, that's just statistics. Enlightenment is certainly not for everyone.  

    However, once you find the truth, when you respond accordingly to the NOW(which is all you have, you realise), then you might find that stage of true presence, true awareness so simple, so obvious and fulfilling that you want to bring that to everyone, to the whole of humanity. 

    You might even think that it might be a relatively easy thing to do, because you can't imagine not being in this raw presence, in this happy and obvious state of mind(pure consciousness). 

    It's a good reminder that we(if we succeed) will always be the happy misfits that don't lack anything. We will be crackpots in the eyes of humanity as a whole. That is not a tragedy to us, but a tragedy for humanity..

    But hey, that's how it goes, that's the hand that was dealt to humanity. 

    We should also be careful who we give the advice and insights to. Because they might only be prepared for the great gift in it, but might not be prepared to lose "reality", which is nothing to lose of course, but that's another story. :) 

    Elaborate.

    Namaste.     

  22. Posted · Edited by MarkusSweden

    6 minutes ago, rounder said:

    100k hands ain't shit. I thought Limit was figured out? I thought that would be like 90% bots. But yeah I played NL obviously, and now I'm remembering another reason I don't play, fuck bots and people who might be bots. It literally sucks the fun right out for some reason, even though it shouldn't 

    I also just realized Im on a forum where everyone isn't American. And i'm in NY, so i'm banned from like 98% u.s. of rooms lol

    Like fuck, if I could play poker in Sweden I probably wouldn't of made any of my posts I completely forgot how whack my country is in that sense. I also probably never would of found this site lol. 

    like god damn, i'm about to go live in a cave in the east and somehow get wifi through it for an hour a day and live off that lols

    Limit HU is figured out, not shorthanded. Bots are good at Heads up. Shorthanded is tricky for bots, they don't model how the other players understand each other very well. Heads up has no psychology to it, it''s all about mixing up your game and having a good diversity in your decision making within your range. 

    Shorthanded has huge amount of psychology to it.   

  23. Posted

    1 minute ago, rounder said:

    Lol, do I sound like someone who can handle The Great Game of PLO?

    xD

    Lol, the variance in PLO is huge. I played short handed(3-6 player) limit hold'em professionally for a few years. That variance in limit HE is bigger then in NLHE, but not as big as in PLO. Swings are huge and you can't really tell if you're a winning player or not unless you have 100.000++ hands behind you belt or more. 

    It's a funny game though. 

    The reason I played shorthanded limit was because you have to make marginal decisions and forced to play crappy hands which sort out the good ones from the bad players rather quick.

    Specially the marginal play at the river is fascinating. I actually bet for value with nothing but 'king high' heads up, against player who occasionally make calls with 'queen high'

    I've also called river bet HU with '10 high' and won against players who missed their low straight draws and tried to bluff at the river, after semi bluffing the flop and turn. :) 

  24. Posted

    2 minutes ago, rounder said:

    I can't even sit down at tables where Im clearly the best at anymore, it always feels like a complete waste of time. 

    What drives you to even keep playing? I can see the beauty in the game still, and have passion for it and what not, but its all a huge distraction to me.

    What are you valuing when you play all this, even if I was steady at $50-200/per hour, it seems like a horrible investment compared to what you can be doing. This is just me and thats why Im asking because I really want to know how ya'll on this forum still justify playing cards and crypto. 

    I mean, no matter what it seems competitive, and that hourly is just getting lower and lower unless you are studying everyday as much as the average player which is a lot of truth you could be finding out instead. 

    but yeah thats a cool name, what about the domain though? Or I guess that doesn't really matter for blogs

    True, it's not fulfilling, just to have some income. Are you familiar with Hold'em?