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And how would anyone discover what is in bold without evil? You can get rid of evil people all you want. You’ll just meet a bigger fish.

A Zen Devil Teaches about Stream Entry (The 1st Path of Enlightenment) It's nice to know you’re thinking of us Dr. Zizek.

Maybe life has evil people because they serve a purpose.

I can definitely resonate with the stuff you said about the community here. The spiritual path is a lot different for those of us with mental illness. Hopefully one day there will be more of an open environment. Neurotypical bias is a strong cause of devilry at times.

I’m out at Frickers (sports bar popular in U.S.) with a couple friends. We always eat and have a few drinks before going to the pac-man machine to play some games. Friend #1: (Immediately after he dies to one of the ghosts) They really sensed what I was doing there! Friend #2 who has a PhD in philosophy among other degrees: It’s funny how we attribute human qualities like that to algorithms. Me: Aren’t human beings simply more complex algorithms? Friend #2: Stop that shit; we’re playing pac-man! ????

Just did this practice from the perspective of most likely 3rd path in Theravada Buddhism via the criteria outlined in Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha and other writings of Daniel Ingram, and it is clear that @ardacigin knows his stuff ??❤️ Please consider doing this practice if you have not or even have already reached stream entry. It can be very effective.

How’s your baseline state of consciousness doing? If you have any suffering at all, any sense of agency remaining, and aren’t at non-locality yet, you’ve got plenty of work to do. Even all of what I mentioned are baby steps compared to the full potential of a human being.

The deepest experience of hatred I had in my life had nothing to do with jealousy. It was actually caused by a hatred of what I perceived to be ignorance in others. I was not jealous of anything these people had. I wanted to be as far from and distinguished from what they had/were as possible.

Teaching about Love and teaching about suffering are the same thing when it goes full circle, just different flavors. Until it goes full circle, they seem like oppositional forces. Try considering dukkha as a continuum rather than one side of a duality that somehow prevails over sukha. The Four Noble Truths dismantle the idea that everything is suffering for if there is a path out of suffering, the way suffering is experienced and conceived of prior to that path being Realized cannot be some permanent universal constant. The three characteristics are just pointers that self destruct upon 4th path Realization, at least how they were perceived prior to that Realization. They mean something entirely different. Once one gets to the other shore, the boat is left behind. Nondoership/penetrating the illusion of agency upgrades cravings to Nature/Tao/Universal Control. Fighting a seeking urge before reaching the loss of suffering as a solution is not necessarily effective in many cases. Daniel Ingram suggests that practice should be maintained especially in the rough spots. He also says that himself and a small group of highly awake people had a discussion in which they all without question arrived at the conclusion that practice should be maintained even after full enlightenment on the insight/wisdom axis of development. You could even gather statistics on whoever you think to be fully awake beings, and I guarantee you’ll see more of them continuing to practice compared to those who stop. Stopping seeking in any intentional way is in many cases just another form of seeking. “I’m here already. Enlightenment is already the case.” True in many respects, but also restrictive in many other ways also.

It seems to be individualized quite a bit, meaning this progression order might have a lot to do with your specific journey. It all makes sense though. Noticing things in this specific way can certainly recreate this type of linear progression to some degree. At the end of the day though, the unfoldment of all these emotions will likely be chaotic, bouncy, complex, and unpredictable much of the time.

There is no subject, and that is the subject.

Everything and nothing.

It’s a better question to ask if you even exist. In a sense, there’s just the bubble, and both you and the others are “unreal.” They’re also just as real as you. The bubbles you think they have are just imagination, but everything is imagination. If they have a bubble for you at any level, they do have a bubble. If they don’t, they don’t. But you’d have to be in a pretty radical state of consciousness for you to actually have a complete direct experience of them not having bubbles. There’s a difference between a weak belief of them having no bubbles and a direct realization which has wiped the slate clean of the opposing possibility. You can even experience multiple bubbles at once, but it’s ultimately in some type of transcendent “God bubble” as some people report. It’s still in a way only one bubble even then though. Most succinctly: they neither have bubbles nor don't have bubbles.

The Law of One books claim higher consciousness beings are collective minds that are immaterial yet can choose to materialize at will. Form = formlessness though if you want to play around enough with insight and formless jhanas as one method to realize this for example. Formlessness is just seen as this special thing because you feel to have started in form in this life. It’s all just empty fabrications on empty fabrications, and don’t forget emptiness is an empty fabrication ?

Sometimes not taking enough can lead to worse outcomes from my experience. This usually applies to a certain type of person though. Intuition should be trusted at least as much as the intellectualized/survival approach when choosing how to proceed.

The only direct experience I have with angels is that I met one who cried tears of Absolute Love on my heart to prepare me to see Absolute Divinity. An insight came during this experience that angels or the Divinity they represent is within everything, and this Divine energy is paired with our organic and more “mundane” life to actually make things perfect. It was clear that to have the Divine without the mundane embodied existence would not be nearly as important as if everything was only the Divine side of reality. Ultimately Divine and mundane fuse together to create everything we see. The angel showed me that it’s not simply about Love, but they also have a deep honor and respect for everything. It appears that nothing is judged as “lower” by “them”.

It’s seriously fun.

I’ve not come across him. I’ll check him out. Thanks for the info ❤️?

You might ask @The0Self for advice on this. He seems to have some good firsthand experience and has reached a high level of awakening it appears from the way he expresses himself in posts. Send him a PM.

Also remember in Buddhism thoughts/mind is seen as a sixth sense door. The thoughts giving solidity to your body are more fleeting sensations. Maybe focus your vipassana on a balance of No Self & impermanence.

This. If you’re doing vipassana, that’s probably the best “natural” approach, but you can only go so far so fast naturally. Psychedelics can save you quite a bit of time if used properly as is covered in a number of Leo’s videos.

1. Madness (any seasoned psychonaut should see this. It is a raw and chaotic form of creativity which challenges even the most accepting of spiritual people. Inquire, “is there even a single thing in front of me that is not related to madness?”) 2. Intensity 3. Destruction 4. Decay 5. Growth 6. Evolution 7. Chaos (see #1) 8. Power 9. Unpredictability 10. Mystery 11. Simplicity 12. Complexity 13. Neither ________ nor _______ 14. The finest possible distinctions 15. No distinctions 16. Absurdity 17. Magnetism (the human urge to return to Source and for Source to return to the human) 18. ___________ 19. 20. ?-?=?️ 21. Progress 23. Regression 24. Impermanence 25. Permanence 26. No Self 27. Self 28. No self 29. self 30. Self-sacrifice 31. Self-preservation 32. Art 33. Nature 34. Neither life nor death 35. Neither existence nor nonexistence (See Mahayana Buddhism Two Truths) — "By & large, Kaccayana, this world is supported by (takes as its object) a polarity, that of existence & non-existence. But when one sees the origination of the world as it actually is with right discernment, 'non-existence' with reference to the world does not occur to one. When one sees the cessation of the world as it actually is with right discernment, 'existence' with reference to the world does not occur to one.” From https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn12/sn12.015.than.html 36. Unknowable 37. Unreachable 38. Always known 39. Closer than reaching 40. Conflict 41. Struggle 42. Suffering 43. Beauty 44. Tao 45. Energy 46. Stillness 47. Movement 48. Duality 49. Nonduality 50. Imagination 51. Infinite 52. Finite 53. Emptiness 54. Form 55. Something 56. Nothing 57. All human emotions 58. All emotions outside of humanity 59. Gentleness 60. Brutality 61. Technology 62. Divinity (higher beings & possibilities for evolution) 63. Profanity (evil/lower beings & possibilities for devolution) 64. Laws of the Universe 65. The bending of Universal Laws 66. Jesus Christ 67. Buddha 68. Krishna 69. Mansur Al-Hallaj 70. Other great human spiritual figures 71. Criminals, terrorists, McDonald’s workers on their first day who make you wait 14 seconds longer than usual 72. Morality/Sila

Mystery is a good thing to notice. Now follow the Blue’s Clues.

Well, the main difference is what comes before and after the cessation. I’ve not heard stories of people with narcolepsy having permanent baseline shifts in consciousness/perceptual abilities afterwards, but I’m no expert on narcolepsy. The same difference I just mentioned above also applies to deep sleep. The old monks/yogis were rather convinced there is consciousness in deep sleep and none in cessation; I’m putting some faith in their expertise and greater experience with it than myself. I just ask if he’s been through that yet because it opened my eyes to the whole concept of nonexistence and what that would even “be like” in ways I had no other way to access before the “non experience” of cessation. Beyond it just opening my eyes to it, it has done very similar things to a good percentage of others who have been through it. It has certainly shaped much of Buddhism, with the Buddha even calling nirodha samapatti the highest temporary attainment possible in life (spiritually speaking). It also is much of what created the framework for the Two Truths in Mahayana Buddhism. At the end of the day, the ridiculous and permanent shift cessations have had on my life is what leads me to see them as significant and different. I’m quite convinced we’d see different shifts in brain activity occurring in cases of cessation vs. narcolepsy or deep sleep as well, but that’s just a guess for now.