Inliytened1

It is the false belief in the self that creates the suffering. Suffering is a consequence of selfishness. Liberation comes with selflessness as there is no small self only the Self. God. To align with Truth is to align with selflessness and Love. Peace is found here and now in this moment - this moment which is You. It is not found chasing pleasure externally - because in Truth there is no you and there is no external reality. There is only Being. There is only now which is God. And that is what you are. If you chase satisfaction externally you are chasing a ghost. It will cause you eternal suffering. Counterintuitively, decades of suffering can yield a massive awakening to Truth as the suffering may actually push you to become more conscious. Taking the long way isn't always a bad thing. Just ask the buddha.

One of my favorite works. Yes he definitely got it.

What does "I'm over here and the bad guys are out there somewhere" stink of? Low consciousness.

It's not just that. He is probably getting lots of pressure to open - and it "appears" the hotspot states have plateaued...the deaths we are seeing now are from weeks ago. We have just seen 12k deaths in like 5 days as it is up to like 32k deaths right now. People are getting anxious. The curve has flattened. Yet to your point this monster is still out there. We need the antibody testing which we don't have and probably won't anytime soon. We need the regular testing and as of right now we don't have the volume of testing it would take to get things opened. We would need radical testing so that only people testing negative could enter public establishments - holding their test results with them. So without this we are really just gambling that it will spread again if we open it up too soon. Taking people's temps isn't a good solution as most are asymptomatic. Yet, as most crisis seem to reach a peak and then decline, perhaps the beast has lost some steam due to the social distancing. I tell you what, personally I'm on board with opening things back up May 1st in my state if we have some things in place to ensure shit doesn't hit the fan. But we don't have them yet.

@SamueLSD haha never heard that term before i like it! Funny seeing this thread resurrected from the dead again, too.

Much love Zero the enlightened one.

Meaning a lot of people seem to think awakening on psychedelics is less valid than an awakening sober. They think it was just the psychedelics and not actual. I say awakening is awakening. Truth is Truth!

Maybe that's because we are not taking into account suffering due to one's own selfishness. I had decades of it.

This can't be echoed more. What is actual is Truth. Many mistake that here and choose to use psychedelics as the scapegoat (i have no idea why)

@Preety_India Better not leave You are one of the reasons the forum is what it is... it can be frustrating at times but there are also a lot of good people like you here.

@r0ckyreed practice self inquiry and in between doing that- practice do nothing meditation. Then go back to self inquiry. Right now do you believe you are an entity behind a pair of eyes? Answer honestly.

You have and will. But you have also discovered yourself and will continue to do so

This right here is it. If you need help with self inquiry tips listen to Leo's enlightenment videos in order.

@Florexianer you are dreaming right now.

Mind fuck him more next time that wasn't sufficient Reality is such a mindfuck it's unreal. And that in itself was a mindfuck haha. Love it.

Its due to Oneness and the strange loopyness of Oneness. If you want a big taste of this study Quantum Mechanics - listen to Leo's videos on debunking Quantum Mechanic's and then i recommend the Great Courses on Quantum Mechanics and Einsteins Relativity. Basically as you inspect the nature of reality at the subatomic level - in other words rockbottom - you find that matter exists as a wave function - existing in a superposition (infinity) only to collapse into a particular possibility upon observation. So this reality has no substance. It is but a dream or a hallucination. But then you might wonder - why couldn't it be completely measurable and objective? Why couldn't it be a dream that is completely undetectable as a dream? Something completely objective or completely "physical" that is then within another dream? The "real" dream....the "real" reality... But see - then you are grounding reality in something, when it is groundless. Something that is One has absolutely no ground. It is itself. So it leaves clues for itself and then gets lost in itself, only to find itself.

True that!

@zeroISinfinity @Gili Trawangan love you guys

@Pacific Sage @tedens thanks gents

@Anna1 moddin' aint easy Thanks

I think you also do a great job adding humor to the forum

Thanks much appreciated:)?❤

Thanks bud it is great to also see that you seem to be growing by the day. Your response to @PlayTheGame in the other thread was very well said.

@Bazooka Jesus we love you

@VeganAwake thanks man that means a lot brother!! Hope you are staying healthy and happy out there in Cali as well. Thanks for military service as well! @SoonHei thanks brother bless you too