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  1. Posted

    3 hours ago, Phil777 said:

    I now choose to embrace skepticism and rational empiricism, and return to atheism as my default position - but in a non-dogmatic manner. As an atheist, I can subjectively choose to call child rape as evil, based on my own logical definition and values. This allows me to ascribe meaning to my reality as a humanist without resorting to twisted and illogical notions of love.

    Pantheism > Atheism

    I know because I have been both an atheist and a pantheist. How could you not feel the power, sacredness, and mystery of existence and your connection to it when you are solitary in nature? 

  2. Posted

    @Lana Faye

    Psychiatric meds can be useful short term. But they will eventually further destroy your body and mind long term.

    Find a way to get out of meds. Have a strategic plan. This is the fight of your life which will take many years (3 years to a lifetime) to win.

    Seriously implement the basics first: long, deep sleep; eat variety of organic foods; exercise at least 3 times a week, better to take long walks in nature alone and with others (jogging also ok); surround yourself with loving people; etc. 

    The ultimate solutions are to embody unconditional self-love and embrace death. This might sound nothing or useless to you for now, but remember what I said.

    Your love for yourself is very strong and unconditional, it does not matter what you do or what happens. 

    When the intrusive thought invades your mind saying "What if I murder my son?", say to yourself "Be it. But I want to forgive myself and feel peaceful." "I can murder my son, I can murder my husband, I can even murder myself. But I will forgive myself and I want to feel peaceful."

    If the intrusive thought counters "But why would you want to forgive yourself and feel peaceful? You are a horrible mother.", you say to yourself "Because I love myself. No other reason but I love myself, so I will forgive myself and feel peaceful.".

    That's the power of unconditional self-love. It doesn't matter what you do, you will forgive and approve of yourself. 

    Embody unconditional self-love and repeat those self-empowering thoughts everyday for years. 

    I assume you genuinely do NOT want to murder your son. So, it's better to love and nurture him. But even if you really want to murder your son, you can do it and feel peaceful if your love for yourself is very strong and unconditional.

    Neurosis (clinical anxiety) or any form of extreme anxiety at its core is fear of death. All your compulsions are for the purpose of preventing death. Even normal people who have no clinical anxiety and depression actually have significant fears and anxieties because they also fear death. The difference is neurotic humans have extraordinary, uncontrolled, neurotic fears as a result of genetics, abusive parents, childhood trauma, destroyed ego, etc.   

    I know these things work because I have done them. I have crippled my crippling neurosis via unconditional self-love and embracing death. I embody unconditional self-love and I partially embody the embrace of death.

  3. Posted

    3 minutes ago, bloomer said:

    I guess you could make the argument heat/suffering is valuable but it's not the heat that is valued only the result which is cooked ramen/a stronger character. I value you the result more. If it was possible to remove the device to get there and still get the end result why wouldn't you @jimwell?

    xD Why complicate things? You should simplify things instead.

    Of course; if there was a way to produce cooked ramen without using heat, I would go that way.

    Unfortunately, in this world we live in, it is only heat which produces cooked ramen; hence heat is valuable. 

  5. Posted · Edited by jimwell

    2 hours ago, bloomer said:

    This is might point. I think a lot of suffering you get literally nothing valuable out of. It seems a very dangerous and destructive idea to believe suffering can be valuable. 

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    Your belief about suffering being valueless is the real danger. I don't know much about the story behind that suicidal monk. But I am open to the possibility that the monk considered his "tribe" to be worth dying for, hence he murdered himself via fire. The only question is why he thought his tribe was worth dying for.

    But yes, many humans inflict needless suffering on themselves and others because of ignorance and selfishness. Your job is NOT to be one of them.

     

    2 hours ago, bloomer said:

    I think the implication in the statement "suffering builds character" is that the suffering will become less painful the more of it you suffer.

    This is wrong.

     

    2 hours ago, bloomer said:

    But not really. I think suffering can help in that regard if it doesn't cripple, traumatize or deeply wound/scar you.

    The truth is, the bigger the wound or trauma you conquer, the bigger the growth you gain. How do I know this? Via direct experience. I have experienced a few of the greatest mental-emotional tortures God could ever inflict on its creatures; from extreme childhood abuse, to being involved in a motorbike accident at age 16 which fractured my skull and murdered a drunk suicidal human, to extreme anxiety (OCD, BDD, GAD, etc.), suicidal depression, to being born in a 3rd world country, divorce, wage slavery, to being persecuted for being integrous, etc. I never gave up on myself via drugs or self-murder. I stood up for myself for decades. And that's exactly the reason I am who I am now. And I love and feel good about myself. If you have keen senses, you will know I am very mentally mature. 

    Even if there was a button which I could press to erase the extreme suffering I experienced, or at least to replace the extreme suffering with something better, I would NOT press that button. That's how valuable the extreme suffering is to me. 

    But I do empathize with humans and animals who suffer. I have a few close friends in college who murdered themselves because of extreme suffering. I feel sorry for them and I wish they didn't suffer that way, or at least they had the internal resources to conquer the suffering. I wish God could be more empathetic towards its creatures and lessen the torture it has inflicted on them this time. I myself don't want to experience another extreme suffering. It's time to breathe.  

  8. Posted

    5 hours ago, Gabith said:

    What are the solutions ? 

    Your question should have been "How do I acquire the solutions?".

    Self-love and Self-esteem

    Comprehend and then embody them. Embody means you think, act, and react similar to a person who has high self-love and self-esteem. This needs to happen every day or almost every day.

    Implement it to others and to yourself.

    I have seen a few of your posts. It seems you badly need a girlfriend, which is valid. So you also need to embody masculine beauty.

    Masculine beauty

    I don't know whether Leo has a video about it. Try to search for it. You can also search for it on the internet.

    But to give you an idea what it is; Internal and physical strength, bravery, intelligence, confidence, guts, integrity, muscles, boundary, charisma, leadership, etc.

    It also helps if you have fashion intelligence. Make it simple, beautiful, and masculine.

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    Why should you listen to me?

    I am not a master pick-up artist, only because it is women who do pick-up on me. I first started having a girlfriend when I was 11. Another girlfriend when I was 12. Another one when I was 14. Another one when I was 17 and so on. I never exerted much effort. Having girlfriends is easy and natural for me. I banged many women who I socialize and drank with when I was in college. Two of my ex-gf's bestfriends (my ex-gf had 3 female bestfriends) invited me to have threesomes with them. I refused the threesome which I regretted to be honest. I should have gone for it. ? But one of her bestfriends was very insistent on it, I was tempted. She booked a taxi and a hotel and I fucked her real good there. A few months after that, she kept inviting me to fuck her again because according to her I was very good in bed.  But I was always able to refuse. I was still brainwashed by society at that time to honor monogamy. I fucked too many women in college and in my 20s, I can't remember them all. And I'm the type of guy who has a high standard. I only fucked girls who are at least a 7.

    Having girlfriends and fucking women have been easy and natural for me since I was 11. I took it for granted. I never knew others are actually having difficulty with it. I was shocked as fuck when I knew about incels. I am now in my 30s and I have exhausted all my desire to have girlfriends or wives. I can still have girlfriends or wives but I am picky as fuck. They must be a 10. But I still enjoy fucking women who are at least a 7.

    My problem is different. Girls and homosexuals hit on me too often and they are too aggressive, I perceive their sexual advances as sexual harassment. This is a form of suffering believe it or not. Most of the time, I am not interested in the person who hits on me. It's very frustrating. 

    I contemplated my popularity among girls (and homosexuals) a bit. I concluded it must be the self-love, masculine energy I mentioned above, physical and fashion beauty (I'm at least attractive to women in my home country, Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans; I have never been exposed to western women so I don't know about them). Having more feminine aspects such as compassion and sensitivity might also be two of the forces. I'm not sure whether spirituality helps in dating. My guess is that it does if you are being strategic about it.

    I mentioned my history with women and dating NOT to brag or look down on others. I just want you to know me a bit and I want to show you that I speak from experience.

    Now, it's your turn to help me. I lost more or less 70k USD last year to an online scam. My Japanese student visa was rejected a few days ago and I paid 2.3k USD to the Japanese University. They did not refund my money. For context, the annual salary in my home country which is a 3rd world country is 2.2k USD. I lost too much money, I need to get a wage slave job soon to stay alive. And I badly need to go back to Japan as soon as possible. I hope you have good answers.

    How do I quickly and legally earn much money? I have tried starting a business. No, it was not quick and it was very difficult.     

    If you know somebody who owns a business in Japan and can sponsor me a work visa, please recommend me to them. It's essentially impossible to get a Japanese long-term work visa without a sponsor from Japan if you're from a 3rd world country unless you have millions of dollars in your bank account to apply for a business or investor visa. Japan bows down to the USA and other English-speaking countries and looks down on 3rd world countries.  

  9. Posted

    23 hours ago, Gabith said:

    I don't understand because there is some days where I don't really care what others think and I feel more like myself, it's nice because I feel good even if I do "weird" things in front of others. 
    I make jokes, I can stare at people, saying hello to strangers, speaking with a stranger on the bus, not being too self-conscious, smiling at girls etc....

    Manifestations of high self-love and high self-esteem. 

     

    23 hours ago, Gabith said:

    and others day it's like I'm another person, I feel ashamed, too self-conscious, imagining the others judging me and fearing their judgement of me.

    Manifestations of low self-love and low self-esteem. 

    The problems and solutions are obvious. 

  10. Posted

    7 hours ago, Thought Art said:

    If: 

    Money

    Fame

    sex

    girls with nice tits 

    power 

    material wealth 

    social status… 

    wont make me happy. What will?

    They do, at least to a certain degree. You just can't exclude them. 

    The point is to acquire and enjoy them while simultaneously doing your best to minimize the destruction of your spirituality and integrity.

    Believe it or not, you can even use them to practice your spirituality and do more good things in the world.

    Don't just believe everything Leo says. He is limited, hence flawed. I can see some of his flaws.

    I finished watching his video about Tate just now. I don't know the guy because he is not interesting enough to be worth my time. But in general, Leo's video has good points and is worth watching. But believe it or not, Leo displayed his bias there which doesn't need to be your bias. I have seen a few flaws.

    And life is not just contemplation, integrity, and truth. It's also about variety of experiences and enjoyment.

  12. Posted

    5 hours ago, Oeaohoo said:

    Yes, absolutely. In most cases, the liberal ideology is a pure expression of selfishness: whether it is a case of marginal communities who benefit from the weakening of the old order, or the majority who just want to enjoy a “cosmopolitan” lifestyle by tasting every cuisine, going on fancy holidays and enjoying a buffet of sexual partners from all around the globe… It is so grotesque that all of this masquerades as some grand expression of selfless compassion.

    It is selfishness and it is good, not evil. Not all forms of selfishness are harmful to others. 

    Despite liberals' selfishness, they are still more empathetic or sympathetic than conservatives.

     

    6 hours ago, Oeaohoo said:

    Some of us conservatives will learn our lesson. We’ll learn to humbly prostrate ourselves before the liberal elite, and the cosmopolitan world that they must succeed in bringing about. Unfortunately, however, some of us won’t… Who knows what horrors we might bring about in our resistance to progress. It chills me to even think about it. The good news is that… soon all of us conservatives will be dead! Then there’ll be nothing more to worry about.

    It is still intelligent of you to foresee it. Yes, societal evolution powered by liberal values and AI will purge stubborn conservatives from global human population (already starting to happen). Yes, death will be the eventual result, but before that, extreme horrors and suffering must be experienced first.

    Intelligent conservatives will do their best to "grow" to avoid the tragedy I described above.

     

    6 hours ago, Oeaohoo said:

    That is why I have decided to openly and willingly acknowledge our genetic inferiority to liberals. Sure, we can try to rationalise it this way and that… but deep down we know that they are simply better than us in every way.

    Not really. In the domain of survival and stability, conservatives are superior to liberals. But in the domains which are most important in existence, liberals are superior to conservatives.   

    Conservatives are more animalistic than liberals. But since the past few years, I have been seeing and appreciating the beauty or importance of conservatism. I've also been doing my best to embody it. And to be honest, I have been experiencing and loving the good side of it.

    It's all about balance, having healthy amounts of both conservativism and liberalism. 

  14. Posted · Edited by jimwell
    needed to include the incels and the socially awkward followers

    11 hours ago, Vido said:

    I hope the people who copy Leo, get fucked by life. The only thing I'm upset about is that he's not doing more stupid things so that others copy that and have life fuck them hard. 

    xD Why being malicious?

    Nothing to be upset about. Many members here imitate Leo, in words and actions.

    But it never seriously crossed their minds they are just digging a deeper hole for themselves.

    The differences between Leo and his followers are that Leo already has millions or hundreds of thousands in his bank account and has never experienced any form of mental illness or any serious form of trauma, while his followers are being inflicted with various forms of mental illnesses, trauma, and are having financial problems. Many also lack social skills or have never had a girlfriend their entire lives.

    It's ok for Leo to shoot for the stars. It's foolish for his followers to try to do the same thing because for them, it's just spiritual bypassing. Leo's work is NOT for the majority of the population. That's the truth, whether acknowledged or not. 

  16. Posted

    On 9/3/2022 at 8:56 PM, Breakingthewall said:

    the idea rains that you are imagining your mother, when your mother is absolute infinity exactly the same as you, with subjective experience as you. everything is, even the ground you walk on.

    We agree on things except what you said above.

    But in the end, we both need to honor what is true for us based on our experience.

    But I wonder why your spiritual insights are different from Leo's when you both use psychedelics.

    I generated my spiritual insights without using psychedelics and even without my intention. My spiritual path is very different.  

  17. Posted · Edited by jimwell
    enhanced grammar

    On 9/19/2022 at 8:26 AM, thisintegrated said:

    So I manifested a new gf, and all it took was like a day.  Got everything I could've possibly wanted, but now that I got it the excitement maybe has worn off just a little.  It seems no matter what I manifest it's never enough.  I'm wondering if I'll ever be satisfied in a relationship.

    Everything in existence, no matter how beautiful, fades.

    I'll share an experience which happened a few years ago. I was sitting in a Japanese park, marveling at the beauty of the wide-open space, grasses, trees, and skylarks.

    I felt deep joy and I said to myself "I've been looking for this beautiful place my entire life without even knowing it. Now I'm finally here. I will come to this place every few days to watch these beautiful things and feel this joy.".

    So, that was what I did. And for the first month, I was one of the happiest few humans in the world. But I was surprised that the park lost its beauty in the second month. I was very disappointed.

    I contemplated why that was the situation. Then I realized, the park actually did not lose its beauty. It was my senses and perception which lost their appreciation capability, hence the joy also faded. I also realized this is not avoidable. God designed it that way to motivate me to enjoy as many parks as I can. God wants me to enjoy variety of beauty. 

    This is also true to all other things in existence. God wants you to enjoy as many works of art, foods, parks, women, etc., as you can. If you ate only sushi your entire life, you would be sick of it and become unhealthy. It's good to enjoy other foods. If you stayed at the same hotel every vacation time, you would also be sick of it. It's good to enjoy other hotels. Of course, if you flirted and fucked only one woman your entire life, you would also be sick of her and that would be a big tragedy. It's surely good to enjoy other beautiful women.

    Monogamy is dumb. I think polyamory is better. I haven't done much research on polyamory so I don't understand it that much. But I want to say you can have a deep, genuine relationship with more than one woman simultaneously. It functions similar to synergy. When you start to feel sick of flirting and fucking Kimberly, you take a break and you spend more time flirting and fucking Park Min-ji. When you get sick of flirting and fucking Park Min-ji, you take a break again and spend more time with Ishii Yuki or Kimberly again. That's how you generate and sustain love and excitement. And paradoxically, it nourishes romantic relationships. 

    If monogamy is the best, why do you think cheating, domestic abuse and divorce are prevalent? It is natural for a sexual human to be simultaneously sexually attracted to more than one sexual partner. Monogamy forces naturally polygamous humans to enjoy only one partner, hence the marital tragedy. Even married couples who are not legally divorced are essentially divorced. Many of such couples are sexless or the romantic spark is long gone. They are essentially friends who chose to stay together for the kids or other reasons.

    But I need to clarify that this is not true for everybody. Some humans are naturally ok being monogamous (especially humans with low libido). So they should honor their monogamy. I just want to demonstrate why polygamy is superior to monogamy.

  18. Posted

    14 hours ago, integral said:

    Ascending (or self-transcendence)

    Is the upward drive towards heaven, the absolute, union, spirit, or Godhead, away from the fragmented details of the manifest world and its many forms. Einstein’s famous quote aptly describes ascending: “I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.” Ascending is also characterized as “the love that reaches up” (Eros) that brings forth new creations by arranging fragments into larger wholes, such as notes into symphonies, ingredients into meals, colors into paintings, words into sentences, knowledge into wisdom, individuals into couples, or communities into societies. Ascenders look at reality from a distance and see fractions as part of the larger whole or a greater totality. They perceive the world from an extended bird’s eye view and try to rise ever higher in consciousness to encompass everything. Ascending energy expresses itself through wisdom, creativity, novelty, visionary concepts, emptiness, and stillness. Healthy ascending is characterized by a desire to improve, to go beyond, to grow, to transcend, to create, and to think big. This is accomplished by gaining wider perspectives of the self and the nature of things. It requires a willingness to change by letting go of old paradigm sand not sweating the small stuff. Unhealthy ascending ignores, represses, controls, and dominates the lower, instead of embracing and caring for it. It denies feelings, the body, sexuality, and nature. The fear of ascenders is to get dragged down, engulfed, absorbed, and lost (Phobos).

    Descending (or self-immanence)

    is the downward drive towards earth, into the world of many manifestations and the body. Descenders celebrate life and its many forms, the body, and their sexuality. They go with the flow, are in touch with the richness of the manifest world, and experience things from the fullness of existence by diving in deep. Descending is also characterized as “the love that reaches down” (Agape), embracing everything—including earth and all its inhabitants—with selfless compassion and devotion. Descending energy expresses itself through feelings, empathy, emotions, warmth, movement, surrender, fullness, and flow. A descender perceives the world from the inside. Healthy descending means to be connected with and sensitive to the richness and fullness of the world, to be down-to-earth and in touch with one’s body, feelings, emotions, and sexuality. Unhealthy descending means to be overwhelmed, fused with, and run by the many details of life and its manifestations, feelings, earthly desires, and needs. The fear of descenders is to lose touch, to get lost, or to be dissociated from the fullness of life and its forces (Thanatos).106

    Agency (or self-preservation)

    Is the drive towards wholeness, taking action through one’s own will, making independent choices, and exerting power. People with a tendency towards agency have a desire to maintain their own identity, personality, individuality, independence, and autonomy. They focus on rights, rules, laws, and justice that protect and serve the interests of the individual, and are defined by their own decisions, success, and free will, rather than their environment and the opinion of others (it is better to fail at living your own life, than to succeed at living someone else’s). Healthy agency supports the autonomous functioning of the individual. Unhealthy agency leads to alienation and dissociation from others. The fear of agentic people is to lose the freedom to make independent choices, and to become dependent on others for their well-being.

    Communion (or self-adaptation)

    Is the drive to connect (commune) with others, to be part of and act in the interest of the unit or group, and to cooperate. Communion is expressed through qualities of care, responsibility, relationship, lateral bonding, connection, communication, empathy, intimacy, joining, and participation. Communal people feel that their well-being depends on their ability to contribute, trust, depend on others, fit into their environment, and maintain a mutual support system of give and take. Healthy communion is expressed through the peaceful, responsible (response-able), considerate, and caring connection between people. Unhealthy communion leads to fusion, dependency, neediness, and clinging—with the loss of one’s own will, individuality, and autonomy—which eventually leads to resentment. The fear of communion-oriented (communal) people is to be abandoned, unsupported, and alone.

     

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    Maybe the issue is you need to focus on descending/self-immanence?

    A good post. The best way is to embody all 4.

  19. Posted

     

    The music video above is Leo's best song of all time. I also love that song; the lyrics are good and the melody is fun. But I think there are songs out there which are superior. I think Leo is just biased because the vocalist of New Radicals looks similar to him. ?

    The 2 music videos below are superior to Leo's song. But everything in existence is relative especially music. So there's no clear winner. You are also free to disagree. I just want to honor these songs. 

     

     

     

  20. Posted

    15 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

    You are singular and multiple at same time. why not? You are omnipotent, if you want to be multiple, let's multiplicity do. 

    Yes, I also intuit that this is the case. Leo even made a video about this which is titled "Infinity of Gods". Every God has its own solipsistic dream. It's very interesting. 

    But in this dream of yours, you are the solitary dreamer.

     

    15 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

    If only you are real, why are you trying to help him ?

    Because I am honoring the purpose of my life. Helping others is a form of beauty, and I honor all forms of beauty.

     

    15 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

    solipsism is a corrupted interpretation that occurs when you transcend the ego and see that you are absolute, and then go back to the ego. the ego is not absolute.

    No, it's not a twisted interpretation.

    I realized that it is actually good that your level of consciousness goes back to your default state after awakening. During a very elevated state of consciousness, your experience of existence significantly changes. It is very obvious that your parents and everybody else are illusions. There are no other minds. There's nothing there. It becomes absurd to interact with them knowing and experiencing them as illusions. And it becomes very difficult to honor the purpose of your life. 

    Now that my level of consciousness is more human again, existence becomes real. Everybody and everything are real and physical again. Intellectually, I knew that the female intern doctor is an illusion which sprouted from my mind. But experientially, she is real. So, when we flirted with each other, I felt love and enjoyment. If I had the opportunity to hold her face and admire her beauty, it would have been one of the greatest joys in my life, knowing that this beauty sprouted from my mind.

    Without the schizophrenic experience or awakening, things would just be normal and lack intensity.  

  21. Posted

    2 hours ago, michaelcycle00 said:

    You mean others' minds and my mind are the exact same mind, right? RIGHT?

    No. Your mind imagines others' minds.

     

    2 hours ago, michaelcycle00 said:

    'm tired of you guys saying that my ego's perspective is all there is. If it's not true, why torment me/us with that? And if it is, then might as well just be blatant and say my real name so that there's no more doubt.

    I need to say it for what it is. It is surely horrifying at first. But as you bear with it and continue your spiritual journey, you will arrive at a point when it becomes beautiful and magical. 

    "I am all which exists. The entire universe is made of the exact same substance as my body. How beautiful!"

    The thought above fills my heart with much love.

    You need to experience the solipsistic dream for yourself to remove any doubt. But even if you do, you might doubt it first because it is very different from your usual consciousness. It feels similar to insanity. But as you contemplate it more and listen to your intuition, you become surer that the "schizophrenic" experience is the truth. I just described what happened to me and why I created this thread.

     

    3 hours ago, michaelcycle00 said:

    It's so strange because then what does that make you? If you go around telling people in this forum that they're the only solipsistic bubble in existence.

     This dream of yours is grand in its beauty and deception. And I'm a part of this dream, an illusion pretending to be real. xD

  22. Posted

    21 minutes ago, Someone here said:

    Illusion is all there is .then it becomes absolute. Since all there is ,is illusory ..then its as real as real gets .it has no opposite. 

    Also true. And this is good news. It makes accomplishing the purpose of your life more sensible and satisfying. 

    What are you waiting for? It's time to go outside your comfort zone and experience many things. Be brave and detemined, and create and admire as much beauty as you can. Don't waste the gift of life. 

  24. Posted

    It’s a dream.

    As what Leo has said many times, life is a dream. If it's a dream, it's an automatic illusion.

    No, I'm not just parroting him. I speak from direct experience.

     

    Others have no localized consciousness.

    Every human and animal in your life behaves similar to a living thing which has its own mind. But this is not the case.

    There is only one mind in existence which is yours. Another mind-boggling truth is your father and mother are made of the exact same substance or material as your cabinet and PC. No difference. 

     

    Death

    Yes, it’s true that you are alive right now. But it's also true that you are already dead. Why? Because in the end (death), your life will be erased. All memories of your existence will also be erased. It feels similar to having never been born and alive. If you have never been born, it means you have always been dead.

    I'm writing this post not to devalue your life or end it. It's still important to honor the purpose of your life which is to experience, create, and admire the beauty of existence (yourself included). I'm writing this post to help you be less attached to life and embrace unavoidable death.

    This post is also a note to myself. I have mastered seeing and admiring the beauty of existence. But I'm still learning how to embrace death. I'm still far from mastering it.   

  25. Posted

    29 minutes ago, VeganAwake said:

    Life and death are both illusory because the individual within the body that claims "I am here" and "I am alive", is an illusion of self! ? 

    ❤ 

    It is an illusion. But love yourself to death, despite it being an illusion. It's all you have. :)

     

    6 minutes ago, VeganAwake said:

    No one wakes up because awakening is the clear revelation that the individual that believes it could one day in the future awaken is completely unreal!

    "nobody becomes enlightened"

    - nobody

    ❤ 

    There is somebody who can awaken. And it can only be you.