purerogue

It does not matter in what you believe, it is practical to know that if you will do certain things , certain things will happen. Duality, non-duality is just like chasing perfect perspective in infinity, you might have knowledge of "deeper" perspectives, but it will not change fact that there are people who live their life by "lower" perspective, but again as I said, it is like chasing something that is just something in infinity.

There is difference in how you do mediation, exercise is one word, but it can mean many different things.

Good quality meat is way to expensive for most of people, I can bet that rarely anyone even knows how huge difference there is in what they can find in their local store and what is proper meat. Same goes with pretty much every food.

For me is about balance, if you can live as vegetarian without having problems it is a way I would go , it is about anything really, if you can take action that will be less harmful for everyone involved it is a way to go, I am certainly against animal abuse in food industry and if you are meat eater I would at least try to buy food from providers who let animals live in more free environment. Not all Buddhists are vegetarians!

I do not believe in justification in full sense, if you will try to justify all of your actions you will soon realize that it is not possible and you will have to do things that you might find unethical just because actions have consequences in all directions, you will make your life one huge suffering just so you can escape few more unethical things.

Everything is consciousness, the grass , the tree , vegetables you eat are all conscious, air your breath, it is just matter of how complex it is,

I did not say that vegan diet is unhealthy and meat is healthy, I just pointed out that just because vegan diet , or vegetarian diet worked out for him , does not mean that other people will not have health problems from such diet, he was putting his experience as universal law that for some reason should work for everyone, just because it works for him. It is you who put it as one dimensional, when there was nothing really in my comment to make it one dimensional.

Listen , you are full of shit You start by accusing me of some silly stuff that I did not even say and make some no sense comments to try to prove your point, it is like you make new story of what I told and then start to explain how I was wrong in this story.

we have some interesting progression going on here, to many people reaching this stage lately

Good for you, but lot of people get health problems from vegan diet only, just because it works for you does not make it universal law.

Interesting topic, only thing that I can say from observation is that body adapts to lifestyle, notice how people who are skinny have it quite difficult gain weight even if they sit on proper diet to gain weight , depending on person it can take months , or up to year until you start to get serious gains in weight, it is like you reach point and it spikes your weight, same with losing weight , it can be difficult to lose big amount of weight for a while, but you keep up with it, it starts to become way easier and faster process. Some people can gain 10 or more kilograms in one week, some would not gain even 2 kilograms eating the same in such short time.

Do not think he picked it to fight in ring, or to fight someone.

Not saying that such things can't happen , or they don't happen, but is it real story, or just scripted?

free will is pursue of ego, k I will say that believing that you have no free will is pursue of ego, prove me wrong,

I see, was just curious , gl!

That is some deep experience you had, did you get any non-dual states before this with clear object and observer where you could still sense I?

Listen , it is all good that it worked out for you ,you applied letting go at right time , telling this no free belief of yours to someone who is not ready to integrate it will be devastating and I am telling again, maybe read my post few more times and you will understand why you make 0 sense, or you are simply talking about partial free will, which I would agree with, also it is illusion of being ego, this person , not illusion of free will, idk where you read about there being no free will and who was elaborate enough to explain how he has no free will, but none of teachings I know talks about there being no free will, but rather mechanic that make it partial mix of both.

If there is no free will then you can't really believe , or not believe something, it is simply your attribute that you did not chose, so your whole post makes 0 sense, Also there is huge difference , how and when you apply surrendering , which is not the same as having no free, I am very happy too , but I believe in free will , difference is that I believe in something that I have control of, not believe that I have control of something that I can't have control of to begin with.

No it is bad word play that can get you in trouble -You think that you have no free will and everything that you do is supposed to happen, so you can fuck up your life big time by doing silly shit. -You can start to think that you can't do nothing about your problems, because if they will get fixed, it will happen on its own. -You can't know, you can only have belief,believing that there is no free will does not end your suffering, actually I am quite sure that you will bring way more suffering to you, but I guess we could argue about it.

It is irrelevant, only thing that non-dual state shows is that ego is not you, ofc there are many state in it, but that is not a point I am getting at, observer object state does not free you from I completely, or minds perception of how you will perceive this experience, not to mention that going back into ego mind will surely make it play with experience and picking wrong perspective listening ,reading can make you completely miss the point.

If you think that there is no free will why are you even discussing it, it is completely pointless topic , it would mean you can't even process information yourself, or do anything with it, or let go, anything ,you would be just watching and what ever conclusion you would come up would be already not made by your will, do you really do not understand how silly this debate is, how many times do we need to go trough this in forum. To sum it up for you, there is no way to prove if there is free will, or not, you can't prove no free will and thats why you can't prove free will,only thing we can do is make idea of there being free will , or partial free will, but it will be nothing more then idea.

I am not here to defend all of his work, I was just commenting on this particular video. I have not done any psychotherapy, never felt need to, you are probably going now in direction of how much bs there is in this profession and how it is matter of luck if you are going to get psychotherapist who actually has deep knowledge of human psychology and is there to help, not just for money and following written rules of identifying "mental illnesses" , making drug prescriptions for them. Or how lots of them use silly methods that do not deal with problem, but are more of a affirmation methods.

I think his point was that sometimes you need to strengthen personality, because it can be very difficult to progress in spirituality, I think he gave good enough explanation at the beginning of video what he means by it, because people get confused why you would want to build on top of personality , if your goal is to transcend it, which is very confusing for most , theoretically it is true that you job is to transcend attachment, not personality itself, but sometimes it can be extremely hard if you do not posses certain traits that can loosen up your attachment to other trait.

Problem is that there is no thought to look at , it is just observable conclusion, as I said, I do not know if it is true , or what is exact cause, it is just my observation and would still happen even if I did not make observation of it.

It is all just matter of perspective, I can see both points of view and they both make sense in their own way, you are picking on his way of delivering message, when you both mean the same.