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Who is your favorite comedian?

Don’t fall into the trap of seeing everything as a trap ?

Psychosis = so different from normal behavior that it requires a stronger word Psychosis has actually not that much to do with your internal experience compared to how your behavior is perceived by others. I’ve had plenty of internal experiences as intense, or even more intense, than my internal experience in cases I was deemed to be in psychosis. Also, someone who’s typically perceived as weird will be less likely to be deemed to be in psychosis than someone who is typically seen as normal but has a sudden shift in behavior.

Decent video on Buddhism. Would be better if the content creator could meditate skillfully ?

You’re already dreaming the only possible perspective.

Don’t come at me with this. We all know that Alexander is an architect who drinks red wine, faps, and goes to art galleries to appear sophisticated. He’s also not going to awaken ?

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I’d rather have Trump as president with this event going on than Biden. I’ll just leave it at that. Outside of war, Biden is probably somewhat better. They’re both not very good options.

Joe the factory worker is not going to awaken. He’s going to drink beer, fuck, and watch sports. There are way more people like that than the amount of people even slightly interested in awakening.

Getting diagnosed has been beneficial for me in every instance. The main takeaways are that getting clinically diagnosed gives you more certainty about a “cause” to certain things which may be problematic and allows you to better pursue treatment for alleviating any problems associated with the illness.

I will be another one to point out that, if the realization leaves one feeling worse, it’s likely missing some rather key elements to it.

Whether a conspiracy theory is true or not, we can be certain that it is of interest of those in power to support the idea that only stupid people believe in conspiracy theories. If you look only at official declassified documents released by the U.S. Government, you can see that multiple things which were conspiracy theories at one point were true and many rather scary and atrocious things people might not have even theorized about being the case took place. It’s generally not a wise use of time to go down the various conspiracy rabbit holes though as the majority are mostly BS.

Good job. As I mentioned to you before, I actually came across your content on TikTok before I saw you on the forum.

I encourage you to try to meet some guys. I see that this will be more difficult in India, but I’m sure there is some sort of scene for that. Some sort of online dating platform might be worth a shot. Relationships among men can be rather special from my experience, although I do have a preference for females. I wish you luck in finding someone.

Keep reinvesting 90% of the income from my rental properties to buy more rental properties. At a certain scale, you can afford to pay someone else to manage the properties and just watch the money come in on its own.

You said “This shit is like crack.” I was assuming by this you’re saying your addiction is similar to crack in how addictive it is. I was saying that there are plenty of people who do not know hardly anything about personal development who were able to quit crack. It seems to me that you likely have more knowledge and skills that might help one move past addiction than many others who were able to successfully overcome addiction.

An impermanent and constantly fluxing reality is quite great. Just think of how boring it would be if things were fixed.

The better translation, according to Bhikkhu Candana, of no self in Buddhism is no substantiality of self. It is to say that there is no continuous form that persists. Any self structure is impermanent and in constant flux.

@Javfly33 how many people have quit crack with less understanding and development than you?

The way to fix this with meditation, in my opinion, would be to develop the ability to be satisfied. Sukha or satisfaction is the opposite of dukkha which is sometimes called dukkha nirodha or the cessation of dissatisfaction. In the Ānāpānasati Sutta, which is the only formal mediation we have record of the Buddha ever teaching in any depth, it has a key element of introducing wholesome thoughts into the equation. In a circumstance where you’re at a national park doing something you enjoy, your dissatisfaction is likely caused by a chain of thoughts that this is somehow not the best or that experience over there at another time is better. In such an instance, you can discard those thoughts born of hindrances to think thoughts which are in accord with satisfaction such as “wow, that’s a beautiful tree”, “the weather is great today”, and “that’s a pretty bird”. Dhammarato has many hours of discussing this type of practice on his YouTube channel. The way to stop desire is to be satisfied. If you really look into your experience, you’ll see that the only times desire has not been there even slightly is when you are in deep satisfaction. Thoughts of satisfaction support further satisfaction. Thoughts of dissatisfaction support more dissatisfaction. You can literally think your way to satisfaction, and this is a key part of Buddhism which gets overlooked rather commonly. The main part of practicing Ānāpānasati is to keep attention on the breath as it is a wholesome object. The breath does not cause suffering unless you have some lung condition. Focusing your mind on things which are good will result in overall feelings of deep satisfaction when practiced consistently and properly.

I agree with this. No self and Self done right are just pointing to the same thing. Done wrong, they are seem to be in some sort of competition.

Psychedelics have impacted chakra activity for me many times, and increasing chakra activity while sober has increased the effects of psychedelics for me in a rather permanent way.

Well, tripping was not as important as many of the Buddhist style realizations, practices, and experiences I had for “mastering” my psyche, yet I doubt that I would have made progress like that within the next 10-20 years without using psychedelics. Most of my spurts of progress on the Buddhist path occurred from meditating on psychedelics, but the first and most pivotal ones happened while just being on psychedelics while doing a lot of chakra work around those times. I do not see myself reaching this point without psychedelics honestly, nor do I see myself getting here without doing many sober practices as well.

Yes, you can certainly say that attachment plays a role in how time is interpreted. I encourage you to keep meditating on psychedelics. It has worked quite well for me.

@Preety_India I hope you take the time to watch this.