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This thread is created with the intent to help those who explore it to better know themselves. Learning intimately about others is the only thing that has ever taught me about myself, because the eye cannot see itself. Recorded December 6, 2021 — My Intense Journey from Stream Entry to 3rd Path (Theravada Buddhism) — Part 1 Recorded April 10, 2014 — Pleasure is Everything Those are the first and last recordings I still have access to from my YouTube account. I really wish I had my first popular video to share, but it was deleted. It was a 12-14 year old me giving a guide on how to train melee combat stats in the most effective way in RuneScape 2 with a whiny high-pitched voice I was incredibly self-conscious of. Here are two amazing videos made by a couple of the people I’ve imitated the most. They are the highest creations accessible that the two individuals have ever made, in my flawed and humble opinion. Remember though, even my humility is a complete lie a front regardless of how genuine and authentic it might feel to me at the time of writing this. I’ve spent hundreds of hours watching both of these people, their journeys, and their teachings over many years. All you can ever do is imitate. The entire journey from egoic consciousness to Absolute Divinity, Full Enlightenment, and God-Realization occurs in every micro-moment of time. Find more Time. No power or force can ever escape this process. God has trapped itself in an eternal prison. The only worthwhile thing to do is to find a way to enjoy the prison which will not work for anything longer than a micro-moment of time. There is no such thing as a present moment. The most effective thing I can do personally to reduce this arrogance is to repent my sin which is the exact same sin Lucifer committed before we came to earth. I repent to God/Heavenly Father/Heavenly Mother/Tao through the impeccable vehicle of Jesus Christ as I was raised in a Mormon church, grew up in America, and other cultural factors. Regardless of this, I really do urge you to consider why the Bible is the most popular book ever written and Christianity is the world's largest religion with only Islam coming close and even that encapsulates Jesus Christ directly into the religion when studied properly. The Buddha is a real mutha-fuckin’ G in my eyes as someone post-stream entry, but I don’t consider him to be anywhere as pure of an example as Jesus. Jesus transmitted the Dharma by bringing the Highest Teaching to the most downtrodden of society in a public setting to his ultimate demise and supposedly took the FULL WRATH OF GOD IN THREE HOURS. Like I kind of said already, it’s a preference of mine, but hey, what is not a preference at the end of the day? This describes the Natural State rather impeccably which I have verified through direct experience: "Quite surprisingly, upon reentry, life becomes very simple and ordinary. We no longer feel driven to have extraordinary moments, to have transcendent experiences. Sitting at the table in the morning and drinking a cup of tea is perfectly adequate. Drinking a cup of tea is experienced as a full expression of ultimate reality. The cup itself is a full expression of everything we have realized. Walking down the hallway, each step is a complete expression of the deepest realization. Raising a family, dealing with children, going to work, going on vacation — all of it is a true expression of that which is inexpressible." — The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment by Adyashanti One more boat to use until you reach the shore: Memory is just a commonplace deja-vu. With “love,” Brandon Rohe ?

Merry Christmas, you crazy motherfuckers ❤️

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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.