Thought Art

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    On 2023-03-29 at 1:21 PM, Breakingthewall said:

    and have you realized that all your stupidity and dysfunction is lack of love? When you realize the lack of love that is to be a human being, sadness is great, but I think it is the beginning of realizing reality

    Lack of love was part of it for sure

    But, it was love that looked objectively, love that set the goals, did the work, failed and is still growing and improving and over time succeeding today.

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    I’ve decided I am going to attend ToastMasters once a week for the next 12 months. 
     

    Goals within this 12 months:

    1. Do at 3 speeches or more at the toastmasters meetings

    2. Enter both a speech competition and a table talk competition 

    3. Complete one of the Pathways online courses: Visionary Communication (still learning about these).

    4. With the momentum of these meetings find an actual speaking Gig talking about Workplace Stress, Qigong and how to have less stress and more energy throughout the workweek. 

  10. Posted · Edited by Thought Art

    @Squeekytoy People who are jerks to me, I’m not nice to. I’m going to be assertive when I see people are obviously being foolish or a jerk to me. 
     

    Which includes you. Stop being a jerk!

    That, or I’m just ignoring some of you guys. Ignoring is probably what will happen. 
     

    I personally am working on not being nice. I also have to observe myself because… it’s likely on this forum jerks aren’t going away anytime soon because many of you lack maturity.
     

    It’s probably going to be,

    1. I am assertive,

    2. I am focused on learning and providing value and

    3. I’m engaging less and less with fools and jerks. 

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    1 hour ago, Inliytened1 said:

    You should see things begin to dance to and fro...side to side.  Like the dancing Buddha.   This shows the solidity of physical reality is a falsehood - and a dreamlike nature begins to be revealed. 

    How about the walls literally splitting open revealing a massive Aztec like face which warps and changes as your entire field of focus becomes absolute. Impossible shapes, bright colours shifting around. Hard, solid shapes. Reality is a consciousness. Not a human, not a physical experience but… a pure being with no limitations. 
     

    Dancing Buddha is weak sauce

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    I identity politics stuff is just surface level. It's really about trauma, mental illness and peoples ability to totally deceive themselves. Now, maybe he was always trans or had gender dysforia since a young age and he was several abused and traumatized by what happened to him as a kid and that school. There is no reason to shoot kids and student. I know that person who did the shooting went to that christian school when he was a kid.

    There is a lot of mental illness in trans community. There is a lot of mental illness in the west right now in general. 

    Try not to demonize Trans people. But, also notice how much bullshit there is there.

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    @spiritual memes @Water by the River

    In the end, every tool can be used as you wish. 

    Psychedelics can be used maturely without messing someone’s life. They are a field of mastery like anything. It should be obvious not all tools or practices can be treated the same way. Every practice will come with pros and cons and it’s own unique safety precautions. 
     

    My personal view is, psychedelics are powerful tools for deep awakening. Their use when done maturely over time, with proper integration periods, they can be great. But, yes risky.

    I do have an understanding of the difference between absolute and relative truth though. It’s just fresh. 
     

    Anyway, all for now for us on this conversation.

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    Or, read a book like: 

    There is a Way Out by Vernon Howard or Warrior of Light by Paulo Coehlo 

    These books are Amal bite sized chunks of wisdom. 
     

    Other good ones like this are:

    Daily Laws by Robert Green

    Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by ?

    These books are little bite sized books where you can read a single page to get the whole idea. They are also easy to finish and add to a feeling of satisfaction when you read the book.

    Start with small short books, that are fun l, satisfying and interesting, that each day you read it inspires you. 

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    @spiritual memes Well, then meditation doesn’t increase baseline state either. If you stop practicing for a year then… you’ll lose your gains. 
     

    You must not be watching Leo’s videos on a regular basis or in completion. Leo talks about all kinds of things. He mentions exactly what I said above a lot. Just because some episodes are focused on tripping doesn’t mean he doesn’t stress the importance of other practices. When he talks about deepest awakenings, yeah that’s psychedelics. Doesn’t mean meditation isn’t useful. 
     

    and your last comment. You don’t know. These things require contemplation as well. Not just sitting or tripping. 
     

    Baseline state is increased by a combination of practices, tools, and habits used on a regular basis. No single technique will increase baseline state. 

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    @spiritual memes You are wrong about psychedelics not increasing baseline state. Mushrooms for example removed any glimpse of suicidal thought from my mind for 3 months afterward and one trip was a major life improvement. This was a baseline improvement. 
     

    Some of the states offered by tripping you don’t want to be in all the time. that’s why they are bottled up in substance, not constant. 
     

    Leo, in my view clearly teaches to balance manual spiritual practices and psychedelics. Don’t distort what he teaches. If you trip but don’t contemplate, and do manual spiritual practice you might as well be a retard.

    You don’t understand the distinctions, nuances and paradoxes of relative and absolute truth.