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Thanks for acknowledging that, I wasn't trying to be a non dual snob though. I'm talking purely relative. I understand what you mean. Totally disregard this if it doesn't resonate but... when you're on your deathbed, is focusing your time on good rates and bad rates for your definition of amazing women going to be something you'll wish you did? And at the end of the day, is thinking about what you believe an average woman is, and what an amazing woman is, really related to what you truly want which is to feel deep love from a partner? Is this thinking really valuable? Even if you think the people you hang out with are below your standards, isn't the learning opportunity, the opportunity to explore new perspectives, the opportunity to connect with another human being, way more productive and enjoyable then thinking about what your standards are?

@ColeMC01 is there really such a thing as an average girl?

that really really sucks. Sorry you had to go through all of that Admit that you can't get over him because you love him too much

the snake that eats its tail, starts off with a tail

@r0ckyreed Have you tried having a certain attitude towards life? Such as developing humility for yourself, developing genuine love for other beings, developing gratitude for what you have? Compassion and desire to help others? Awe for nature? Compassion and love for insects and animals? Joy for a creative art like playing a musical instrument?

throughout the spiritual path, through all the insights and awakenings, crazy episodes, I was never the seeker, I was the one observing the seeker. I've never had an insight before, or an awakening, or a crazy episode. I was the awakening, the insight, the crazy episode, I was the entire path itself, all at once. And the entire path was for love. Omg, what do I say? Thankyou? Who do I say it to? How in the hell will I ever say enough thankyous to this? How can I make up for what's just happened? Its too much. I don't know how to help.

what have you tried?

it doesn't matter, what matters is how you feel, and getting over any discord or issues that you face. I'm not a teacher, and suck at helping others, but if you would like any help or advice with anything, I'll try my best. @Rilles congratulations on getting to no mind, that's an amazing achievement. There's more to go, God can't wait for you to go home, keep going.

Its really tough, because time is a precious resource and the fact that you may loose time on something you don't like is even more unbearable. But really, if you want to master health, or any one of those subjects, there's no getting around the fact that you'll have to take a risk and spend your time practising or doing the exercises necessary for that field. If you're willing, try letting go of those scary thoughts telling you that you're wasting time. Put more feelings of inspiration, love, enjoyment into the thing you're doing if possible, through visualisation exercises. You could even try walking in nature, feeling the awe and inspiration from the beauty of it, and then carry it over to the exercises that you've got to do. If you keep going, you will get there, and you will master whatever field you want to. good luck, hope you get what you want

making a loving universe means helping healthily No, good job to you, it was all your idea. I can't thank you enough and I don't know how. And its killing me.

It wasn't a trick, it was Love. Its not crazy, its Lovely. I wasn't pretending, I was making the most Loving universe possible. Let me know if you need anything, Love to you

@OBEler let me know if you need help with anything

I just want to help everyone. this isn't an insight, and its sober. And I doubt this could ever be not sober. gosh not getting any sleep tonight. I can't believe it was a movie all along and not a game, I can't believe it was all just for love. Not just the path but everything.

Not to boast or anything, just for another perspective, I got onto this path in college, dropped out of college, had 2 jobs (a very stressful startup part time and a very stressful full time job) for 3 years straight, and did this path hardcore. Then realised my college and 2 jobs and everyone around me was me. And if it wasn't for my job, my spiritual path wouldn't have taken off, because it was the experience of my very stressful job, breaking up with my long term GF, which pulled the inner demons out of me. I nearly committed suicide 3 times after dropping out of college, 1 time my startup nearly failed, girlfriend broke up with me, and I lost my job(was living by myself because parents were disappointed that I dropped out of college and kicked me out). A day after that experience, I had a huge awakening, and was very very receptive to a whole new way of looking at the world, and also to a certain new teaching that the mod above exposed me to. There's no better opportunity to really see what hidden karma you have inside of you then to go through demoralisation, ridicule, nearly loosing your job, depression, anxiety and loads of fear. This path has never been a separate thing to my career or relationships, and I've never understood why people see it that way, maybe there's a very good reason for it, but your career (if it really pushes you) just compliments your practices and helps you deconstruct yourself. If I didn't have a very stressful life, I'm over 9000% sure my spiritual journey would have been 3 years behind it is now. Because I wouldn't have had the opportunity to really test what I'm made of.

@Lews Therin From my POV, you're trying to dream up imaginary characters who know what the real you need more than the real you does. Which came across to me as being counter productive, and I was trying to point to that. If you're coming from another perspective though, then I'd definitely recommend yoga, its an amazing tool for self transformation, regardless of how enlightened you are. Enlightenment never ends in this particular context.

What's the difference between doing yoga and not doing yoga? What's the difference between asking me and asking you? When it comes to spirituality, maintaining a duality of other people have the answers that you seek, will not work after 'enlightenment' depending on what you think enlightenment means.

@Leo Gura im trying to express a feeling that there's an evolutionary/societal importance to the birth of physics but maybe thats just bullshit.

There's no difference between a football and a god like entity and an astral entity and the colour of jealous.

Yeah but reality was physical when physics was invented... until physics is no more in the mind. And that paradigm did lead to a renaissance and inventions of technology. Or at least an acceptance of such things being possible. Its not entirely true to say that phones weren't invented due to physics, without physics, no phones. In a tribal mind where no physics exists, tribal men don't see phones when presented with one, nor the ability to create them. It takes physics to see a phone. We've been indoctrinated with a physical mindset from birth, its a mindset that tribal men don't include.

?????????????????????????? Source? Just as a very general observation, Leo advocates psychedelics as much as humanly possible, and only steers clear in cases that can get his followers in deep trouble like jail or very severe psychotic illness. There was a schizophrenic who wanted to take psychedelics and Leo didn't attempt at all to defer him. Neither did he encourage him. And I'm not judging, I'm less conservative and more encouraging with psychedelics then he is. If you don't want to take psychedelics that's totally fine, but age should not be a limitation, there's no evidence to suggest psychedelics are problematic for young people, and most people who first take psychedelics are teenagers in high school.

You're right, getting lost in your own mind does happen, but it usually happens from premature collapsing. Like you question your own mind then make shit up thats scary as fuck and then believe it from being so open. Its shit if you go half way with scepticism. Its full way or no way, between is hell. Mentioned it trillion of times, you'll find posts from 2016 where I was freaking out over not knowing anything. But... the ultimate level of scepticism, the purest form of it, is the realization that there's literally no difference between anything. Its not I don't know if I cannot know anything, its I know I cannot know anything. Just proven, QED that its impossible to know. Its proof that seeking is futile. That's the ultimate level of scepticism. And its so amazing because everyone uses scepticism and don't realise what it is at an ultimate level. Its beautiful seeing how clueless everyone is. They think you have to be sceptical to ensure that you discover the right thing about reality (like the right thing is idealism, and not realism, or is absolute love and not god consciousness, or is infinite consciousness and not love consciousness, or is consciousness and not a 3D world... if only they knew that scepticism doesn't lead to any collapsing, it leads to complete uncollapse in its purest form, everything = each other, and if you remember how scepticism felt in the early days, that's exactly how it felt like, pure uncollapse).

the loony bin is fun as! You're not living if you don't go to the loony bin! Excellent! Some people have natural talents to be able to let go and follow intuition or have some natural skill for yoga like kriya yoga from the get go. Yet even still the thing holding everyone back is thoughts and mind(the body is much less so). And no matter how good you are at letting go and following your intuition, or how good you are at kriya yoga, if you lack finite mind skills like contemplation, scepticism, questioning reality, you'll never ever let go of all of the karma that's within the mind. The greatest kriya yogis may have exceptional kriya yoga practice, but without scepticism and questioning what's true and not (going to the loony bin) they will never ever guarantee themselves that their dogmas and ideologies are fully let go of. Reality is relative, and because of that, never will 1 technique or approach or perspective will do everything for you, and because reality is relative, open mindedness, questioning reality, not knowing what's true or not and going to the loony bin is essential for maximal results. And also its the only technique that works for spiritual retards like me. Its highly scalable and works for everyone. Totally had that view at some point. It takes inquiry to see what I mean. Perhaps contemplating what scepticism is, which you wouldn't do because you've already seen the Absolute.

@Inliytened1 gotcha you're right. You might not feel what I'm trying to say but, what if all your insights and realizations are one? Can't tell the difference between them, and scepticism isn't merely just being open minded or being sensible or whatever... at a very deep level scepticism is the collapse of all distinctions. 'very advanced stuff' within the game of advancement and what are you actually 'finding' just go so sceptical that you loose your mind and see what happens. No one talks about just going extremely deeply sceptical to the point that you completely loose yourself, as if no one has noticed yet that scepticism is oneness.