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True compassion for Self begins when you become less concerned with self. self concerns itself with suffering of itself and others. Self concerns itself with these things to at least the extent to which all selves are concerned with it, but It/You/Me also realizes there are no problems whatsoever. Relative good is a creation of self/selves that is in truth just as much relative evil as it could be considered good. The self’s “compassion” collapses entirely under careful examination. If your circle of concern is infinite, it seems ridiculous to act as Jesus or Buddha. If your God Realization has been co-opted by one’s superego, you get the type of immense compassion shown by these figures. They are merely baby steps (although very important ones) in the grand scheme of the infinite evolution of the Self. Ask yourself why you care more about yourself than your mother. Then the same question for your family and friends over your community. Then your community over other communities. Then your country over other countries. Then this species over dogs and cats. Then horses over cows. Then animals over plants. Then animals and plants over bacteria and viruses. Then the life of this planet over potential life on other planets. Then life over seemingly material objects. Etc. It’s all ultimately selfish survival shit, but there is selflessness in every instance as well.

This is exactly what my experience, contemplation, and study has revealed to me.

It’s against the desires and values of our current society. There’s absolutely nothing absolute to this being a problem.

@Gesundheit Regardless, this is essentially an inescapable mechanic of consciousness. What I’ve said above is what I have so far been able to verify through both contemplation and experience. The solipsism question is generally framed around the potential consciousness of “others” which is why I included it so much in my response. Do you care to explain your methods for arriving at this particular nothingness conclusion? I’ve had realizations of nothingness, but they all occurred within consciousness. I’m a bit skeptical of how you can know, in an epistemically solid way, that there is something other than consciousness when you would have to use consciousness (in my current understanding at least) to arrive at this conclusion, but I’m open to learn if you’re interested in showing me the way. Feel free to shoot me a PM about this or simply reply here.

They already took the words out of my mouth.

Insanity is more complexity and contrast typically. Sanity is less complexity and contrast. What serves society’s collective ego is deemed sane. What goes against society’s collective ego is deemed insane. Insanity vs. sanity changes throughout the ages as new beliefs are adopted by the masses. The marginalized builds are always closer to insane while the typical, cookie-cutter builds are sane. It’s always a process in which the conclusion is swayed pretty much entirely by the “popular vote.” Gays used to be insane in many people's considerations. Now hardly anyone holds that belief. Believing Jesus is God was absolute heresy and insanity when this first showed up. Now it seems to be the only sane conclusion 2000 years later by 2 billion people, and everything else is heresy to these people. Here is an example of me “insane” 4:34 For Frank Yang the Father of Enlightenment Here is an example of me “sane” Simple Method Builds Credit Quickly

Consciousness itself, at the “deepest” level, is always alone. It simply cannot experience anything but itself. This doesn’t mean that others aren’t conscious necessarily. It just means that if you had a direct experience of “another” consciousness it would still just be one field of consciousness/experience which is what you are. This is all coming from someone with many experiences of being connected to other beings/minds/souls. Even directly interfacing with what indirectly appears to be another consciousness/conscious entity, it doesn’t really change what you are. Ultimately the ego self that could even think of itself as being alone in some way is just as much indirect or direct experience as the indirect or direct experience of thinking another consciousness is somewhere else. From the Relative perspective, it makes all the difference to understand this. From the Absolute perspective, it makes no difference to understand this. Regardless, the Relative and Absolute perspectives are always in a strange loop-ish dance with themselves.

These are fairly good quotes. Seems like some of them are still creating a separation between the ego and God, which is not complete oneness which he describes as being of utmost importance essentially.

@meow_meow in my opinion, it’s better to do spiritual practices you have more desire to do and meditate more once the desire arises. Of course you’ll still get benefits from forcing meditation, but what’s the point? You can get just as deep or deeper following your heart in spiritual practices you enjoy rather than being some modern day ascetic and dictator to your ego. The easiest way to quit something is to force too much disciplined action on yourself when there are realistically no huge short-term punishments for quitting.

Writing in a flow of consciousness style can be very beneficial. I’d almost suggest this over meditation at times for some people.

I have had this same insight many times as well. Is it right? I hope so lol. It’s a lot more grand that way imo.

I have had this same insight many times as well. Is it right? I hope so lol. It’s a lot more grand that way imo.

Human existence is ALWAYS a brain hallucination any way you cut it if you are operating in this paradigm. Using this type of materialistic approach, we are literally a bag of chemicals/drugs interacting with itself and it’s environment our entire lives. Even with this model, almost no one can be expected to have the same perception or experience. The only question is how well does my hallucination align with yours or that of others? Is my bag of drugs working the same as yours? Is multiple bags of drugs working the same way any evidence toward absolute truth? Not really. But for relative truth this is certainly helpful. Nothing in reality is how we perceive it using the materialistic model. We are always off.

Serotonergic psychedelics. That’s your best shot imo. You are fighting an uphill battle against your ego, and the tool you are using to try to win this fight is your ego. A high-dose trip, or several, will most likely act as a huge catalyst in your attempt to return to this state of spiritual progress and attunement. The love experience you seek to set things back in order can quite likely come from psychedelic experiences if they are done with intent and taken seriously.

This is probably against what you’re looking for, but I think it is important for you to consider. My tip is for you to not hide yourself. Being “high consciousness” and inauthentic by hiding who you really are at the same time seems like a recipe for disaster to me. Consider it like this — if every gay person kept their sexuality a secret in the way you’re doing with your spirituality, we would have an even greater stigma against it, more people committing suicide from it, and likely still laws against it. Maybe your friend who asked about your level of happiness might also want to experience that himself. Maybe you could be a crucial part of facilitating his rise in consciousness if you were honest. You not wanting people to think you’re crazy now for your positive and rare development is precisely the kind of activity that will maintain the status quo of people like us being stigmatized, judged, etc. Beyond that, your influence could get people to your level of consciousness or even higher. It could greatly reduce their suffering and reduce the amount of suffering they create for others. Who is it really helping for you to stay in the closet? Is it really even helping you?

@Mips here are some top mentions for me

The Bhagavad Gita describes it.

Pro-tip: If you don’t have time, you can try my trick which is listening to videos as you’re laying down for bed. There are no distractions at this time, and if you’re like me, you’ll get a good 20+ minutes of quality listening each night before you start to fall asleep. Start the video around the last point you clearly remember the next night and continue as long as you want. Why not start by watching what seems most useful and interesting to you? Earlier videos tend to be more practical to basic survival goals. Later videos are typically more abstract and spiritual. All of them can be useful. The spiral dynamics series stands out as something that might help your development quite a bit.

Send me a PM if you want some detailed accounts from me about this. There certainly are people with genuine abilities, but this doesn’t mean they are perfect in their understanding and theories. Don’t take it negatively that people charge money for it. Free service could mean more genuine motivations or it could simply mean they aren’t good enough to charge for it.

This is actually almost perfectly along the lines of some contemplation I’ve done recently. The only issues I see is he is too attached to logic, reason, mathematics, and thought as absolutes. These things are not the basis of anything really. They all exist within awareness of consciousness. Otherwise he has some very good points.

@Dazgwny thanks for the kind words. I hope some more people take the time to watch as you did ?

0:00-33:50 is me describing personal goals/progress and mainly creating automated income (solid stage orange foundation) and some talk on my current approach to improving my mental health. 33:50 onward is about the information in the title of the thread. Update on My Life Goals & Progress + The Most Important Ideas I Could Possibly Share (Spirituality)

I say we instead get him an Aston Martin due to his enjoyment of James Bond lol.

This is fucking great.

How about the millions of natives/ancestors who fucking loved psychedelics to the point they were in many cases central parts of their culture? Stop giving a shit what these disconnected & ethnocentric “nondual” teachers say in all scenarios. They have a system or ideology to promote and are aligned against anything outside of that whether they are awakened or not. Just one example — the Aztecs called psilocybin mushrooms Teonanácatl. This means either flesh of the gods or flesh of god.