Ibn Sina

They are personality types in MBTI. If you want to learn about it , you will have to do a ton of research in the internet.

You are misunderstanding things. Just because everything is of God doesn't mean everything helps you to reach God. Of course everything is God. But that doesn't mean that- taking cocaine everyday and doing meditation and yoga everyday are the same thing. Everything is God. But that doesn't mean having an ego and not having an ego are the same thing. We are here discussing the methods to reach our 'original self' not the distorted egoic self. Both are of God by the way.

Okay, may be the people I have met are ESxx. But this friend of mine is also very good at poetry. So since I tend to associate poetry with a good intuition, I thought he might be an EN. But the man is 100% materialistic, as materialistic as it can get, with 0 spiritual sense. May be ESxx are also good at poems.

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I have had experiences of oneness. I have known God , but the mind still clouds my judgement so still I tend to think I am this body with a certain self with certain desires feeling that I am better or worse then then others which causes so much suffering. It's a continuos battle.

I have not forgotten that. I only asked a question , wanting to know what other people have to say about it. And you gave your opinion, for which I can say thank you. I am just collecting data on what people have to say about this.

Jealousy comes from the feeling that another person is superior than me/you, which of course is a distortion, that is why I am not fully enlightened. It is a battle between the egoic self and the non-egoic self. I don't perceive my friends as superior than me just because he is able to make other people laugh, reasons I have stated already. I sometimes percieve (falsely) that JB/Shawn Mendes are superior than me. Of course, it's a distortion of perception. We are all the same. We are all one.

The way he meant was- If you say you like white ( or may be he says , sun rises from the east, then the other person must try to contradict him. Such is the 'culture'. And also my observation of most people I meet (yesterday I said to one of my friend- Hey, new glassses.. , and that said, the drama started) I am not doing that. And that is why I am 'boring'.

No. I have had more social success than him ( no. of girls liking me > no. of girls liking him), due to various factors which I don't want to write here. He is annoying and there are people who dislike him. I am jealous of people like- Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes etc but it's a mixture of jealousy and admiration . My friend is not a hot type. And I actually like my friend, instead of jealousy. You don't have to be a joker to be attractive. Just for curiousity, I would like to know which part made you think that I might be jealous? Overall post or a specific sentence?

July 15 3 am You can do it. The world CAN BE CONQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRED. NOTHING CAN STOP ME. NOTHING CAN STOP ME. What's more powerful about this , is that Ivar the Boneless was a real viking, his story is 100% true and recorded in the chronicles. Greatness lies within not without. Greatness is a choice.

In this forum there might be many rich people which for me means, travelling, going to places like Bali, Thailand, etc, having the luxury to spend their time doing yoga etc . Do you think you are happy? If not, what kind of problems bothers you although you have money to travel, etc etc ( A post inspired by a materialistic rich girl who is a classmate of mine and appears very happy in her instagram pics about travelling and rich lifestyle). Personally, I don't think money is the answer to happiness.

People make me angry all the time. I cannot beat or shout at everyone (or anyone) who offend me for reasons that are obvious. What are some methods, ways you know to deal with the emotion of anger. I have heard some people deal with anger by releasing it to someone else, eg after their boss makes them angry they beat their dog. I want a better, healthier, ethical, ways to deal with anger. Feel free to post any links , ideas, previously discussed posts. I think one of them is meditation. Does meditation help deal with anger?

Thanx guys for your input.

@Average Investor Yea, that can help, but for me I think what works is thinking and knowing that rich lifestyle is not the answer to happiness and knowing the 'unhappiness traps' that can still be present in such lifestyle. But still, I do get the 'pull' sometimes which might be jealousy (it's less now days) , which I hope one day I will train my mind to eliminate or deal with such mental reactions. I think rather than hardwork, some people are just lucky. So reasoning about their hardwork might not help all the time. I think methods should be developed and explored to cope with such instagram culture, which not everyone can boast, and eliminate feelings of inadequacy.

Yaa, everytime I look at Instagram and other pics in fb it's like my 'egoic self' is again activated, my consciousness is lowered.and somewhere a desire to be like them, be like the 'celebrities' lurks in when I look at such pics and vids, my mind again gets pulled into this culture of never ending rat race of jealousy, competition, materialism which has caused so much depression and low self esteem in this world, even my brother is completely sucked into this culture which favours only the rich and the lucky, and you have to be like reaally reaaaaallly rich and lucky to feel good in this game , which means so much depression and low esteem and inadequateness.in the world. And even if you do get it all, still it's not the answer as evidenced by celebrity suicides and depression like Avicci, Jimi Hendrix, etc. @Serotoninluv @Average Investor Thanx guyz for once again pointing me to the right direction.

- Read Mangala Sutta. - Read about- Bodhidharma, and other monks of ancient china and japan whose names I have forgotten now. - Downloaded Majjhima Nikaya, Anguttaro Nikaya, Samyuttanikaya, Dhammasanghini. - Watched Bhikku Bodhi's lecture on Anguttaro Nikaya - Read and understood the wikipedia article on Critique of pure reason. Mind got absolutely blown. - Read the biography of Spinoza. - Read and understood some topics in the intro of Science of Logic by Hegel. Mind=Blown. It's too huge and dry to study, but I have developed a method to learn it, am planning to learn it in bits. Have read 150 pages of it but am planning to read it again by making notes. - Deeply understood the concept of Ni.

Thanx. Yea, I am just trying to change my relationship with my mind. I don't want my mind to control me, but the other way around. By killing my mind I actually mean killing my 'egoic mind', the mind which causes a lot of suffering in me.

it's a COMPLETELY different topic that you are talking about, it has NOTHING to do with the 'relativity' that I was talking about. The relativity of meaning that the original topic was is- you see one thing I see other thing, are both true at the same time? The relativity (is it?) you are talking about is- If something exists, like for someone to see white, he should not see/imagine x,y,z (obviously?). Likewise one couldn't imagine sfexque because simply because they don't know what that means, no need to add 'there is noreference of what is “sfexqe” and what is not “sfexqe”.' It has no meaning in the dictionary, that is why they can't imagine it, no need to talk about references and all for such a simple idea. Go to the outer space, you will see pure black. Go to a completely lit room. You will see all white. You will not have the same experience in both the cases. With this thought experiment, the idea that for black to exist there should be white etc is disproven (slightly misleading conclusion, it has a dual meaning, I mean one of those, not the other one.)

The speed of light is the absolute cosmic limit, and this cannot be changed. Ask that to Einstein. No such point of references involved unless you are talking about relative velocity which is a small concept in physics, which contains many other concepts. Likewise, yes speed is relative for different observers. My point was absolute facts do exist, my point was not whether speed was relative or not. The fact that g=9.8m/secsquare when measured from earth, is an absolute fact. Which disproves your statement 'everything is relative'. I do not believe the nonsense that for something to be x, the y must be present. The color black is black, it does not need white. Transparent is transparent, it does not need opacity. I can easily imagine a world which was completely white, or a world completely black, I do not need other references to tell me that they are white or black. If you think other wise, it's okay, but not for me. It doesn't. And it has nothing to do with relativity. I said a plant like gymnosperm or angiosperm comes from a seed, which is absolute whether you are a human, a black, white, asian, dog , cat, in all cases this fact remains true. This is out of the topic of discussion. Relative meaning means you and I see the world differently , you and I assign different meanings to the world, but because we believe 2 different things to be true that doesn't mean both things are present in the objective world.

I am an INTJ which kind of makes me a robot.

The goal is not to fight against the world of forms, the goal is to not be attached to the world of forms, the goal is to play along in the world of forms with detachment/ disidentification. ( the concept of 'Leela' of Lord Krishna)

Not all. Some meanings are consistent to the world of forms. Absolute meanings- The speed of light is 3 times 10^8 meter/sec in vaccum. g= 9.8 meter/secsquare G= 6.67 *10^-11 Water is transparent. Milk is whitish. It is the same for you, for me, at least for normal humans. This is not relative. The sun converts hydrogen to helium and releases energy.This is not relative. From seed comes out plant. This is not relative. Relative meanings That person looks beautiful. That person looks ugly. It is wrong, It is right. Tallness, Shortness, small, large. Bad experience, Good experience positive event, negative event. Leo taught it wrong in his vid. Or atleast try to prove how the world is void of absolute meanings.

Outflow of love is poison to the ego.