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Team 444 / 4:44 Anyone seeing that? ♥️♥️♥️♥️ ♥️♥️♥️♥️ ♥️♥️♥️♥️

@Chives99 except that which was never alive can never die It's essentially getting rid of what you're not. Once you're fully naked - you have finally died and can start truly living as a result

Shared on a Facebook group. Some guy killed himself as he was unable to awaken... STAYING ALIVE I’m going to try and lay this down as simply as I can: That spiritual “enlightenment” you’re searching for? Not gonna happen. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, no matter what you are willing to endure, no matter how much you sacrifice yourself in the hopes of one day “waking up” – every ounce of that effort is literally what is preventing you from seeing what is right in front of your eyes. This ideal of the “awakened being”, the enlightened one, is an ideological poison that has infected so many brains and completely hijacked their functioning. Now, I get why it’s so appealing. Society has done us no favors. Its excessive focus on wealth over wisdom, on progress over presence, on consumption over compassion, on “success” over self-knowledge has led to a horrid state of affairs in which we are all alienated from one another and especially from ourselves. We find ourselves in a dull, grey haze of meaninglessness that immediately wilts every form of life it comes upon. Then, in the midst of such desolation, along comes a spiritual teaching that promises the exact opposite. It promises ecstatic bliss, boundless love for one another and ourselves, a feeling of oneness with all that exists, no more fear of the narrow self-interested ego. We begin to greet others with heartfelt hugs and namastes rather than rough handshakes. We begin to lose ourselves in songs of devotion and rhythmic drum circles under starlit skies and to the sounds of the waves lapping on the shore. We feel effusive love for everyone we meet and see the same reflected back in their eyes. And it seems we have finally found our home and our kin. We have left that grey miserable world behind and emerged into a parallel universe bursting with color, love and truth. For a time. Yet, unexpectedly, the old feelings of greyness begin seeping back in. At first we try and rationalize them away as just “having a bad day”. But then it happens more often. Our interactions begin to lack the luster they had before. We continue participating in the devotional songs, the drum circles yet it feels a bit contrived. We continue to greet one another with hugs and namastes but we also see how these shows of affection are somewhat superficial. We begin to see through others and the facades they are projecting because it is similar to the one we are projecting. We begin to see the greyness lurking behind their eyes, the fear behind their smiles, the quiet desperation with which they sing their songs of devotion, the anxiety concealed in every beat of the drum. Spirituality is the art of pretending things are okay when they are not. The more tormented a person is, the more complex the cover up. We will do everything in our power to surround ourselves with the things, the people, the teachings and the rituals that allow us to maintain that active state of denial in the most comprehensive manner possible. And when we ourselves ARE the problem then we will seek to deny our SELVES altogether. THAT’S what the appeal of non-duality is. Escape from the self. TOTAL ESCAPE. Spiritual seekers are some of the most emotionally damaged and psychologically wounded people one will ever meet. And there is a reason why such an incredibly lofty goal such as “enlightenment” appeals to such a person. The solution is in proportion to the problem perceived. And nothing short of a complete overhaul of who we are will suffice to solve it. This was the rationale feeding the mind of one of the readers of this page before he shot himself a couple of days ago. I had never had the opportunity to interact with him directly but I noticed he liked a few of my posts. I was informed of his death by his best friend who is also an active reader and with whom I have had a fair amount of interaction. He messaged me with the news because this is exactly the sort of thinking I have been criticizing through my writings on this page. What I felt last night when I heard what had happened was a mixture of deep sadness and rage. I barely slept because the image of this boy, who felt compelled to throw his life away because he couldn’t “awaken”, kept haunting my thoughts. Believing himself to be a failure in life, that sense of failure was further compounded by his “spiritual failure” to awaken. He had been an avid follower of a certain fraudster in Portugal as well as a few others in the non-duality scene. As a result of all the “enlightenment” propaganda he’d come to believe in, he became convinced that if he could only become awakened, like all his teachers seemed to be, his life would become radically different. That all his problems would go away. He suffered long with depression, headaches, insomnia and ringing in his ears. But when his friend counselled him to seek help he refused. He chose instead to believe what the brainwashed neophytes of the New Age were echoing around him: that all these were signs of “awakening”… What a fucking tragedy. … Spiritual propaganda is just another ideological poison, just another narcotic which may help you wean off the drug of materialism that most other people are hooked on to, but in the end will consume you from the inside and leave you a specter of your former self. “Waking up” has nothing to do with any of this non-dual garbage about transcending the self that people are being fed, these idiotic songs of devotion people are singing to some invisible entity who doesn’t give a fuck about them. It is simply taking a look at what’s around right now and choosing to take responsibility of THAT over anything else the mind can envision as a “better” reality. And “what’s around” INCLUDES the soaring debt, the relationship woes, the conflict with family, the crippling self-doubt, the uncertainty about the future – all those things that we are attempting to escape using our convoluted spiritual practices. It also means that we are not seeking to define ourselves in either material or spiritual terms. There is no “success” and “failure”, no “loser” or “winner” in anything we choose to do in our lives. Some things we choose will hurt more than others. But that is all part of the learning process by which we calibrate our own responses. Nature has programmed us with one job: STAYING ALIVE. Even the lowly amoeba understands this. The only failure is the premature ending of that process. I’m fed up of this fucking bullshittery. This spiritual circus act with these larger-than-life troupes of performers led by greedy, disingenuous ring masters fleecing their audiences for every ounce of material and spiritual wealth they possess. And the gullible sheep who will willingly swallow whatever shit they are being fed because they are so used to being led out to pasture. So, I’m going to lay down some truths right now that I am willing defend until the grave so that anyone who is thinking of walking down that road may have a moment to pause. 1. There is no such thing as an “awakened” or “enlightened” person. No such permanent state of consciousness exists. Everyone who has ever existed including the Buddha, Ramana, Nisargadatta and all the other “enlightened” peeps inhabit the same everyday ordinary kind of consciousness as you and I and all the other “average joes” do. 2. Some people have “awakening” or satori experiences which are TEMPORARY spiritual epiphanies. Sudden moments of clarity in which things appear to come together in a way that they previously hadn’t. NOBODY lives in a state of constant epiphany. Every epiphany, every insight, every heightened state of consciousness must eventually subside and give way to ordinary consciousness. 3. There is absolutely NO WAY to intentionally and accurately orchestrate such an awakening experience. Trying to do so is an effort in futility and a surefire recipe for great suffering. 4. Rarely, an awakening experience MAY follow a catastrophic nervous breakdown or a period of intense depression. But depression is NOT a symptom of awakening. It is a symptom that you need to seek professional help! (Just because some people emerge from car crashes with a new zest for life doesn’t mean car crashes are events one must glorify or aspire to experience). 5. Ordinary consciousness IS where the marrow of life exists. 6. No matter how many epiphanies one has had, one’s problems CANNOT simply vanish. They must be FACED. They must be taken RESPONSIBILITY for. They must be SOLVED by oneself and no one else. Otherwise, they simply remain and magnify over time. 7. Whatever you resist, persists. Whatever you suppress, festers. Whatever you deny, grows in the darkness of your ignorance. 8. If you truly are willing to take full responsibility for life AS IT IS, rather than as you wish it to be, you will find that all the tools you need to fulfill that responsibility are at your disposal. 9. NOTHING is worth ending one’s own life over. No suffering is too great. No hardship too difficult to endure. The human spirit is equipped with a power and an endurance that is truly supernatural. There is only ONE thing that can subvert it: IDEOLOGY. That is our kryptonite. 10. A single ordinary moment of being ALIVE is the highest spiritual achievement anyone can aspire to. Allow all of this to really sink in. Forget what you’ve been taught by society. Forget all the dreams and promises you’ve been fed by your gurus. Watch the twin towers of materialism and spirituality crumble before your eyes. Plant your feet firmly on GROUND ZERO. Take your stand there. And say: NEVER AGAIN. If you find yourself overwhelmed by life, by feelings of depression, by thoughts of suicidal ideation don’t glorify it as a sign of your spiritual transcendence. Speak to someone. A friend, a family member, a therapist, a counsellor, a physician.

it implodes each night you go to sleep and explodes when you wake up

@Anton_Pierre thank you xoxo

+1

if you want analogies. then yes, you (@AlwaysBeNice ) are certainly a character in a book. Like Harry Potter who certainly has free will within the context of the book but no "free will" from the author's point of view... he will do what the author has written he will. so, perspective is key when trying to understand free will... it's all relative. now - as the character @AlwaysBeNice the key thing is to have this in mind... that the outcome of your actions are not in your hand... try your best to do whatever it is you're trying to do... but do not be attached with the result... another way i like saying this is that live with the no free will understanding from your POV as @AlwaysBeNice such that you cannot use I HAVE NO FREE WILL in a court of law actions will have consequences this understanding that whatever has happened in your life and whatever will happen is pre-destined allows you not to suffer from the past and your present circumstance ... it does not advocate that you remain standing in-front of an oncoming bus while crossing the street. and one key thing as a result of the deeper understanding is in your very name.... always. ALWAYS Be Nice knowing that other's are doing whatever they were meant to... take out the "me" from your thought stream... such that you're not saying He/She did this to ME... and instead say He/She did this or that... and instead of this happened to ME, say instead this happened (no attachment to the happenings) live this way until the shift of perception happens wherein you begin to see that even when it is said this happened or he/she did this that is a spontaneous occurrence - without any doing from YOU Love leads the way... always be nice

@AlwaysBeNice there needs to be a separate individual entity to be choosing between choices/actions to have a free will right? if you throw a rock down a steep hill... does it have free will about where it will fall and bounce off of and where it will land? asking if a person has free will is like asking if a rock which is thrown down a hill has free will. that is to say, the question is invalid. does a character in a book have any free will? before this can be answered, you must fill in the blank about: from whose point of view? so, does a character in a book have any free will - from the POV of the author? NO. you read the book over and over again, the story will play out as it was meant to be/written. so, does a character in a book have any free will - from the POV of the character? Yes. The character chooses his/her actions/words/thoughts etc. replace above as follows: character = your ego, you | book = life | author = God

love it @Shiva

+1

@Preetom indeed...

LOL That's Self-Aware Screens to you MR!

@Inder hey man, welcome. as pure awareness - nothing escapes your gaze. you need not put attention on something to be aware of it. you're already aware of everything in your awareness... just not consciousness of the fact that you are. as pure awareness, you're simply aware of all happenings. now here's something which can be very tricky... ALL HAPPENINGS includes :>> Inder (thinking he is speaking as pure awareness) asking: i feel like i can put awareness on my feet, then move to head or any other place, or i can choose to be aware of my thoughts instead of emotions, or aware of emotions instead of thoughts, does awareness has that kind a control or its just all illusion. so as pure awareness (the boded part above), you're simply aware of all that part after the " :>> " as pure awareness, you do nothing which happens in your experience. nothing whatsoever to alter or change the world or place your attention on feet or the sounds you hear... that is Inder doing all of that. and you're aware of Inder doing all that. just like a reader, reading a book. does the reader do anything but read the book? and all the happenings in the book simply happen as they are meant to be. that's your position here. you're the reader, reading a book about inder and as the reader (pure awareness) you're currently reading the part about Inder discovering that what he really is, is pure awareness (reader) but the message is for you the reader (pure awareness) and not inder... the point is to get you the reader/pure awareness to see that you have identified with Inder/character in the book. just as we get fulled engrossed in a horror movie or a tragic movie and are afraid/sad as a result... all the while when we really know it is just a movie/story same thing here. you were/are always free... as the reader is free of the story of the book he reads. he is outside of it and not effected by it... simply aware of it...

xoxoxxoo@Matt8800

@Matt8800 me replying is simply playing your initial tennis serve back with hopes you miss it (understand what I'm saying) and do not play the shot back looks like i might have missed but here's another *SMASSHHH * + *AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUHHHHGHHHH* (Nadal's Grunting in Tennis )

@Matt8800 well... everything is ego based our very discussion about it is ego based and yes, it's because to them, it absolutely holds true... that they are not beneficial. that's the whole dilemma - they are certainly rejecting something from not having tried it themselves... or they could have tried it and had a bad trip thereby warning others not to do it. possibilities are endless and this debates gets you and I nowhere i like to call such debates a game of tennis... we are just playing with this debate/idea. end of day, we will stop and be exactly where we are. for yourself, ask why knowing/discussing this is important for YOU? it's knowledge based info... does nothing to move your spiritual position so to speak... the answer at the end may be correct... but what does it add? it's like you wanting to know the population of a country... okay... you have the answer. now what? #EgoBased

@Inliytened1 really man, you aren't not unreal

@Matt8800 it isn't a must. some may "reject" it in that they do not even know about it... in some countries, using psychedelics to trip / grow spirituality is not even a thing. also for most, they do not know about this property of them. for those who know and do not try... who knows, there could be many reasons... why is yoga not done by all why is mindfulness labeling done by all why is even sitting down to meditate done by all the why isn't exclusive only to psychedelics.

+1 @Esoteric that above is what that is. in a different parallel reality... provided your state of consciousness graduates to the possibility - Raltston is probably growing out wings for himself and his devotees who attend his sessions. there are really no limits other than the ones you imagine open your mind and realize the infinite possibilities the version of Raltston which is in your level of awareness right now is doing ordinary things which you think should be possible for a human. same as the version of Leo you see. there are infinite versions of Leo and the Leo who took 5Meo Dmt vs the one in this version of reality are different . may that Leo already realized God potential and is growing wings and women out of thin air each second each moment new entire universe is rolled before you.. like a different frame of a movie in front of a projector... except each pixel has a different iteration and all such frames exists... infinite x infinite x infinite x infinite across infinite dimensions

oh yes... and paradoxically there are also limits included in the super-set of limitlessness - truly limitless indeed

@Inliytened1 love it and pure potential is truly Infinite.

@Aethereus xoxo anytime Bob! Love Sam

@Aethereus haha i know what you mean that works from my perspective as well from my perspective, you may also be equated to a moving rock but i tell you that i am very much "alive" and have a unique perspective God is infinite! an infinite # of perspectives / POV's simultaneously! don't you think if you as aethereus or the consciousness "behind aethereus' eyes" was the only thing in existence... it would be very limited? every inch and corner of existence is alive. all insects. birds. land and water animals. aliens. and beings we cannot even imagine have perspectives ... the watcher and knower of them all is ONE it comes down to this: this could just be writing appearing to you in your direct experience... soonhei, some character which appears before you and also claims to have a perspective... or soonhei does have a perspective. a very real one. just like you right now it may seem like you're just choosing to believe one or the other option but the latter is correct. and once you have a direct experience of God - more will be understood. and you will come to see that the word infinite also really cannot contain what the TRUTH is... it is beyond infinite! infinite perspectives. all unique. *** your own direct experience leads the way for you

@DrewNows good one! thanks

@Aethereus "other's" have their own unique POV and consciousness. everything in existence is consciousness but it is all part of ONE GRAND SINGULAR CONSCIOUSNESS just like the same one electric current powering the tv, the fridge, the fan, the vaccum in your house. the answer to your question depends on which POV you are taking. analogies can help you see this. here's another: imagine an Actor MIKE who plays a double role in a movie. he plays 2 characters BOB and also SAM in the finished movie, both BOB and SAM have a life/character/POV of their own and are two very different people. but from the OUTSIDE OF MOVIE point of view. they are both played by / and are MIKE. so when you're asking What's the point of connecting with others? Of supporting them? Or even interacting at all with them? It's confusing when enlightened people try to help others while they say that they don't exist. that is equal to SAM or BOB asking this question. from their POV this is not the case. for SAM, Bob is very real and for BOB, Sam is very real. it is only from the POV of MIKE does that question come into play and right now you're not speaking from the POV of MIKE (God) ... you're speaking from the POV of BOB/SAM (@Aethereus ) so as @Aethereus don't get lost in that .. because that would be nihilsim - which isn't the case. enjoy and be happy!