Porphyry Fedotov
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If you want something very simple - then When Awareness Becomes Natural by Sayadaw U Tejaniya is for you.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki is great as well.
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To be honest I don't know what is the issue with your practice, personally I feel more calm and happy after it. I use 'Nam Myoho Renge Kyo' mantra and repeat it for an hour. I consider it supplementary practice though.
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14 hours ago, Space Lizard said:I am curious how much, if any, of this protesting is being sponsored by the usual suspects (CIA, Soros, etc.) as it was in Ukraine, Hong Kong, etc. How much is an authentic, home-grown uprising, and how much is a Color Revolution being pushed by outside agitators? It's certainly convenient to have another country on Russia's borders experiencing unrest just as Russia is taking a hard stance toward NATO, and no doubt the professional Russophobes and subversives will try to take advantage of it.
Ukraine and Hong Kong protests were authentic. What are you on, dude
Also what happening in Kazakhstan is quite simple - people got sick and tired of Nazarbayev and the fuel price spike was the final straw. So they deposed him. I think Russia may use this situation to invade Kazakhstan as it did with Ukraine during The Revolution of Dignity (but I hope it wont). It's hilarious to see how this thread degraded into discussion about how Russia is a shithole. In some ways it is a shithole but it's more complicated than that. There is beauty in every country and a silver lining in every situation.
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They may have high income and GDP but you can't have a democracy if your population at Red or Blue stage of development. You can give tribal people great infrastructure and high income - however they won't stop holding onto tribal values. Look closely for example how all this great infrastructure was built by the way. By slave force, that should tell you something about Gulf states' societies.
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On 1/1/2022 at 10:17 AM, Raze said:I think joe is being very reckless having this guy as well as Mcullough on. I’d be more interested in a debate between one of them and a doctor representing the mainstream view.
He has been reckless that way since the whole ivermectin story, it seems personal now. As for Mcullough, Joe has been having questionable guests for ages now. However it isn't the wisest thing to do in the midst of the COVID epidemic, like the last adequate guy he had over was Sanjay Gupta and we all know how it went down. By the way, I noticed a similar trend with Russel Brand. He also became very paranoid about vaccines related stuff.
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Thanks for the advice. So even my room isn't safe from tobacco smoke if somebody smokes in a kitchen with a closed door?
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Fermented milk (kefir and such) is pretty healthy, other forms of milk like cheese or raw milk- not so much. I have a gastritis and after I started a vegan diet I found that the lack of kefir had detrimental effect on my health. So now I'm a lacto vegetarian and my stomach inflammation mostly eased.
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Is passive smoking a significant source of heavy metals? My father has been been smoking around me since I was a kid. Only recently I've been trying to avoid it. Is it as dangerous as the press making it out to be? How do you guys deal with smokers in family? Like if a person smokes in the kitchen for how long you should air it?
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22 hours ago, Fleetinglife said:Putin is an ethnonationalist autocrat who romanticizes the old days of what Lenin called ''Greater Russian chauvinism'' by denying Ukrainians the right to a free volitionally formed national identity and a separate national culture by promoting a conspiracy theorist perspective that it was formed in aid by Polish Catholic elites in Western Ukraine to divide ''the Great Rus'' people who, from his POV, essentially have the same culture and language and were artificially divided by foreign powers historically to weaken the influence of Russia and of Orthodox culture from Europe, and thus considers Ukraine to be a part of ''Malorossiya'' or ''Little Russia'' and Ukrainians to be historically in actuality ''Malorossiyans'', as it was historically called up until the 18th or 19th century, and therefore though part of the Russian influence zone, and Ukrainians attempt to form their own separate national identity in the age of nationalism in the 19th and 20th century to be null, artificial and void of their primordial ties with ethnic Russians and Russian culture.
He talks about this openly in his official article published as President of Russia on the Kremlin website:
''dominated by the claim that Ukrainians are an ancient, inseparable part of the ‘triune Russian nation’. This community is based on a common history spanning one thousand years, the language, the ‘Russian’ ethnic identity, the shared cultural sphere, and the Orthodox religion. Their bond with the Russian state is special and organic; it guarantees Ukraine’s development, and any attempts to sever or weaken this bond (which could only be inspired by external actors) will inevitably result in the collapse of Ukrainian statehood.''
''Putin’s article reflects his attachment to Russia’s imperial history and its ‘history-making’ destiny to determine the fate of the Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples. He reiterates, in an oversimplified manner, the basic assumptions of 19th-century official historiography of the Russian Empire. He also refers to conspiracy theories formulated by Russian far-right groups, claiming that the Ukrainian nation was a Polish (and later an Austro-Hungarian) anti-Russian political project. In order to prove his main argument, Putin passes over events which are inconvenient for Russia and presents many others in a biased or blatantly distorted manner. This falsified ‘common history’ is intended to legitimate Russia’s influence on Ukrainian society, in order to correct the mistakes made by the ‘puppet’ government in Kyiv.''
Pretty accurate POV. It's tragic that Putin and his clique treat Ukraine as CCP treated Tibet in 40's. Putin is clearly overestimating the importance of Ukraine for Russia. I think Russia will be alright even if Ukraine become NATO member, a lot of Russians sick and tired of Russian unchecked aggression against our neighbors (Georgia, Ukraine etc).
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On 10/10/2021 at 10:54 AM, m0hsen said:
@DVL I think very few people in this forum are into lucid dreaming or these kinda of stuff in general, you'd have to use other specialized forums like dreamviews to reach out to advanced lucid dreamers.Btw what's your method for lucid dreaming?
Why not? Lucid dreaming is a legit spiritual practice.
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Stupid question, but how do you guys practice it with open eyes or closed eyes?
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16 minutes ago, Nahm said:Careful with attributing properties or cause to the mushroom. The big punchline is it’s just a mushroom.
Maybe I should've used different words. I feel like any psychedelic opens you to conscious high frequency vibrations which transform and attune you to the level they are at. It's like there is a hidden intelligence to this process
It's not that I attributing something specifically to a mushroom. I mostly use them only because I have an easy access to them. Otherwise I would have switched to 5 meo dmt or something like that long ago.
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22 minutes ago, BipolarGrowth said:Try to take a broad approach to spirituality which is beyond just meditation, trips, Actualized videos, etc. For example, finding my twin flame lead
What is twin flame?
Can you elaborate a bit on your broad approach? Do you suggest investigating avenues of spirituality I've never been to before?
Also how do you discern when a method doesn't work for you? Sometimes it's confusing. Some authors like Pema Chodron in "the Wisdom of no escape" advice to just feel whatever you are feeling no matter how difficult the feeling. Isn't it pointless to start looking for a new method every time you hit a rough patch in your practice? Or when it's mostly rough? The climbing of Everest isn't supposed to be an easy task.
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Hi everybody. I've recently read "The Mind of the Universe" by Christopher Bache. For those who is unfamiliar with his work - he did about 70 high dose LSD (500 and higher) trips. What I found out was revealing and confirmed and clarified my own experience. Basically, before every breakthrough and god realization he had to go through excruciatingly purifying suffering. It seems to me that taking the 'right dosage' of psychedelic isn't enough to have an awakening experience. The psychedelic has to clean up the The Augean Stables of your mind to make room for it. Leo rarely talks about it.
At least it was for Christopher Bache and as I found for me as well. For example - even to get the tiny sample of blissful cosmic love I myself went through tons of trips filled with suffering. It's like in order to experience subtle states of consciousness, your own consciousness has to be pulverized to more subtle formation and attuned. And this process of refinement ain't easy. It's difficult as fuck. I feel like I'm moving very slowly in this direction fighting at every step and even when I surrender - I never do it fully because I still not fully understand how to do it properly. It goes like this - at the beginning of a trip I usually realize that I'm in the midst of internal struggle, and I'm like fuck here we go again. It takes time to get to the point when I surrender (or sometimes not).
For me purification takes two form. First one is getting attacked by very coarse bass-like vibrations which grind and massage my consciousness. I call it cosmic coffee grinder. It takes slightly different forms. Sometimes it accompanied with visuals, sometimes not.
Second one happens when you feel unpleasant feeling like fear until it gest absurdly intense and magnified so that it disappear.
That's what happened to me yesterday. I drunk 3 gr mushroom tea. And most of the trip was suffering. At some point I felt relief when a blob blocking the flow peeled off. Then followed extreme fear which run it course and followed by impatience which run its course as well. Then a brief moment when I kind of surrendered and for a short time became breath and I was an energy flowing through myself peacefully. Then at the end of a trip were usual post effects, all these beautiful but vacuous bells and whistles like fractals and extreme mind-wandering.
Do any of you have similar experience? Can it be somehow related to the particular type of psychedelic? Christopher Bache used LSD, I usually use mushrooms. I only used LSD once and from my experience it was extremely similar to shrooms.
Also does it have to do with trauma? Because I definitely had a few traumatic experiences in my life (for example I even have a physical manifestation of I guess some trauma - constant ache on the left side of body below heart. There're moments when I don't feel it, but it never goes away)
Any suggestions on to how to improve the quality of trips?
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14 minutes ago, DocWatts said:Ive also found it helpful to oscillate between reading different types of books. After finishing something long and technical I might grab a work of fantasy literature or someone's memoirs as my next read. Or move to a non fiction book in an unrelated subject to my previous read.
Great advice. I tend to do the same.
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On 10/18/2021 at 3:49 AM, Leo Gura said:I am not suggesting that the killing of a murderer is to be done as vengeance. It is done to conserve system-wide resources which are better used elsewhere. The money we spend feeding and housing a murderer for 40 years is better invested in education, child care, healthcare, reducing poverty, etc.
Sounds like a scarcity mindset to me...
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If reincarnation exists it's most likely non-linear.
Here is a pretty good video illustrating it:
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Hardcore mode: How to find stage green people in Russia?
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Interesting stuff.
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Maybe because the collective ego of many Zen traditions is at Stage Blue. Like look how life is organized in any Zen monastery - it's strictly hierarchical and rigorously ritualized
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Sounds like initial signs of top-down Kundalini awakening. It's usually explained in terms of Cosmic Maha Kundalini descending into the human body and going down from the crown chakra to the Muladhara and below. Shri Aurobindo described his awakening experience as an extreme pressure that started at the top of his head and slowly went all they way down to his soles.
“When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates inner mind centres, then into the heart centre, then into the navel and other vital centres, them into the sacral region and below. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation. It takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonizes, establishes a new rhythm in the nature.”
I had similar experiences my lucid dreams, but it didn't go further than that for some reason.
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I find all this recent development in the UFO story to be very intriguing. However it's suspicious that all of these disclosures are happening in only one country - the USA. Pentagon declassifies three UFO videos, Pentagon releases report on the UFO's, all the interviews with pilots.
I understand why Russia and China are silent on the issue. Russia is notoriously secretive about its military information (even now there are classified archives from the Soviet Era), China is the same way. But what about the EU countries? They're supposed to be the most transparent in regard to this topic (considering how far are some of the EU countries on spiral) and yet they haven't put out much information
I hope this isn't just a pretext for the US military to increase its budget spending for the United States Space Force or something like that.
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He isn't going to occupy Ukraine. I think he will dismantle Ukrainian democracy and get rid of its political elites. Ukraine is going to be another Russian client state just like Belarus or Kazakhstan. I feel sad and sorry for them, since Ukraine was a real democracy, not without flaws, but still, and it's a big deal for a post-USSR country.