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When you say God in the context of awakening and a Christian says God, two very different meanings are being conveyed. I don’t think it’s wise to try to mix Christianity with nonduality. Christianity has some nondual-esque things about it, but it is far from being nonduality. I actually think some of the most valuable things Christianity brings to the table are lost or reduced when people attempt to mix it too much with nonduality. One of those being a sense of humility. It takes a while for people to mature past the point that awakening to themselves as God does not amplify the ego to a staggering degree both on gross and subtle levels. Usually that maturation process includes a whole lot of blundering and rolling metaphorical 1s on a 20-sided die.

This does sound worth a try.

This is very accurate according to my musings. We are helplessly consciousness acting as it will.

Let’s be honest. We’re not starseeds, previous incarnations of Buddhas, or any other ego-aggrandizing bullshit. We’re simply spiritual nerds on the internet. And that’s a pretty awesome thing by my book! For some reason, or rather more likely a myriad of different reasons, we had an openness to and interest in this work and that is the biggest factor. We have a sort of metaphysical nose about us spiritual nerds that sniffed some fringe and wacky stuff on the horizon when we learned a bit about spirituality, and due to our innate desire for such odd scents, we couldn’t help ourselves but throw ourselves head first down the rabbit hole.

I’ve had good results with this channel in the past.

This thread is somewhat hilarious. Someone is like “maybe we shouldn’t allow spiritual teachers to abuse students”, and everyone is like “nah, fuck that. Unbridled abuse ftw, but only for the sake of the purity of awakening teachings”.

If change did not occur on any level, how would any experience occur at all? At very very fine degrees of perception, one can notice that each nanosecond coincides with tiny transitions in focus and attention, and no matter what sensate particle is most immediate in attention, that sensate particle will be at least slightly different in the next possible moment of perception. You can refute this with the belief “there’s no time bro” after watching one video on YouTube about how time is an illusion. I’m not saying you fall in that camp at all, but I say that because rather than refuting this on the level of belief, knowledge, concepts, ideas, or even “insight”, I think the value comes if you try to witness what I’m describing in your own experience before responding. Giving this way of looking at the smallest and fastest qualia you can locate for least 15 minutes would be ideal if you haven’t already done that sort of practice in the past.

Wouldn’t it be more apt to change - to —? Asking for a friend.

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A pull up is not functional, but pretending to be a flag is. I guess I’ve really misunderstood fitness.

Has this reduced your use of other psychedelics? About a year and a half to two years ago this same switch happened for me with THC. It became at least as strong as other psychedelics had been, but it was far more sustainable and convenient to use often. So I basically stopped using other psychedelics almost entirely because the risks were higher and reward was equal or even less. To me it seems like the amount of hours spent in intensely high states of consciousness is the most important factor for deep awakening. THC becoming ultra potent at low doses made the process a cake walk compared to before.

There’s only one life you get to experience now regardless of how many other people there are. A life purpose can benefit your own experience greatly.

@Federico del pueblo the hilarious part is that functional training in the modern day would be far closer to practicing typing to become more efficient using a keyboard than swinging a kettlebell around in the most arbitrary movement pattern you can imagine. What function are we trying to improve at? Why would the traditional compound movements be bad things to train? It’s just odd. If someone wants to go chop some logs in half for hours, I’m cool with that, but it is in no way optimal for muscle or strength development. You have to train close to muscular failure with 30 reps or less to get optimal muscle growth. You have to train a little further from muscular failure for sets of 1-5 reps for optimal strength improvements. Most of the functional training fad exercises cannot achieve these two goals nearly as well, safely, or predictably as the tried and true compound exercises.

Perfect! Exactly the type of response I was looking for

I’ve found that the two work together quite well. Higher baseline paves the way for higher peaks, and higher peaks pave the way for a higher baseline. Have you noticed a similar effect? I feel like enough results in one side of the equation will lead to results in the other pretty reliably given enough time and practice.

Any tips for setting up an extended stay at a monastery? How did you make that happen?

You obviously have no clue about what Daniel Ingram teaches. Classic.

@CultivateLove I was just listing an absolute ?

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Daniel Ingram is no joke. He knows what he’s talking about and is also a pretty cool guy which is a plus. In case you’re unaware, he has his main book which is a ridiculously impressive piece of work for free here: https://www.mctb.org/ I’ve experienced shifts in baseline consciousness like he describes. It is very real. Frank Yang is another person who has deep experience with this same line of spiritual development. Seeing that Frees by Rob Burbea is a great book once everything in MCTB is pretty well understood that goes a bit deeper.

Functional training is a pretty hilarious concept. I wouldn’t worry too much about his nonsense. Feel free to tell him once he’s ready to stop suboptimal training to let you know ?

I’ve been living in zero gravity for a year straight now. Here’s a convoluted guide to realizing it.

This is a good point. I’ve definitely set myself back significantly multiple times by trying to improve my circumstances too much in a short period of time. Although this is a bit different for me because most people will not go clinically psychotic if they work too much, but this seems to be a pretty steadfast part of my neurology at this point looking at the pattern so far.

Idk, I’d say Brady is a far better footballer.

First time hearing of this