Thought Art

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  1. Posted · Edited by Thought Art

    @Twega
     

    Books for Honouring Your Life:

    1. Code of the Extraordinary Mind - Vishen Lahkiani 

    2. The Art of Loving - Erich Fromm

    3. Pathways to Perfect Living - Vernon Howard 

    4. Mystic Path to Cosmic Power - Vernon Howard 

    5. The Greatest Salesman in The World -Og Mandino

    6. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason 

    7. Adversity Quotient by ?

    8. Guide to Rational Living by ?

    9. The Success Principles - Jack Canfield 

    10. Loving What Is - Byron Katie 

    11. Total Forgiveness - R.T Kendall 

    12. How to be an adult in love - David Richo

    13. Personal Finance for Dummies 

    14. Simple Qigong - Mantak Chia and Lee Holden 

    15. Full Catastrophe Living - Jon Kabat Zin 

    16. Multi-orgasmic Man - Mantak Chia

    and more

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    3 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

    I can sympathize with being fed up with being told "you ain't shit" by some random dudes on the internet day-in and day-out. Imagine if the forum was a corporation and Leo was the CEO and people went up to him regularly to say "you ain't shit". Those people would disappear pretty quickly.

    On the other hand, this is a forum, and returning the abuse in a public manner like this sets a bad example. It puts the law-abiding forum members in a double-bind: "should I follow the guidelines or should I follow the owner? The owner regularly calls people idiots, so why can't I?" And also, it just makes people confused and forces them to make up elaborate excuses for behavior that they know is not ok.

    So what should Leo do? Shut down the forum? Go for a walk? Meditate? That's up to him, but I will keep making the same point every time something like this happens.

    Good points. Nothing I say is gonna change anyone’s mind. I personally don’t care if he occasionally cusses out some assholes. 
     

    At the same time, I am trying to observe everything objectively. 

  8. Posted · Edited by Thought Art

    People think they can come to a forum a guy runs, verbally abuse him all they want and if he reacts they get upset, play victim. 
     

    Generally, I do not condone that type of language but at the same time. 
     

    Thank you Leo for keeping the forum open despite all the assholes you deal with. 
     

    I enjoy my time here with you all. I respect Leo and understand why he is upset. 

  11. Posted · Edited by Thought Art

    @MisterNobody

    There is just reality as it appears. Not even solipsism exactly. Just pure consciousness un restrained. But, it's dreaming it's human. The infinite dreamer. There is no external reality at all. 

    It's more like, everyone including you is happening in consciousness. It's all the dream. Everyone is just you. All duality and difference is imaginary.

    It's 100%, as if there was others. It makes no difference. It's fun to contemplate and play with. Thats part of the dream. But, in the end it's useless to think about. Reality as a human is a dream, in which others are real. 

    But, if you fully awaken to realize you created the entire fucking dream, you realize you are alone.

    But, as a human others might as well be real from your perspective.

    If it makes you depressed, you don't get it.

    YOU are a distinction in consciousness. OTHER is a distinction in consciousness. It's all good. 

    Smoke soom nnDMT and maybe you will see what I mean when a door opens up literally from the field of perception into an impossible dimension or the walls melt and a face talks to you. When you reveal to yourself you are the infinite Now. All is here, NOW.

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    @axiom Sure, but do you journal and contemplate or just meditate? What does that have to do with you, yourself putting healthy boundaries in your life?

    Thoughts arise, they come and go, and they you generally can't "Control them" exactly. However, at the exact same time you can decide. 

    You can decide to meditate, you learn, to go to bed, go to school, to educate yourself, etc. 

    You ARE ALIVE! Live, think, and meditation is good too.

    I think it's a mistake to say, just because you meditate, and now you see thoughts coming and going from no where that... You can't make quality decisions. When you read my words, think, and then you respond to it. You can also respond of your given data base, axioms, opinions, biases and past experiences. You don't have complete free will. This is why we have: Morons, idiots, mentally ill, people because... We have our own minds, our own limitations. That being said, you can decide.

    This lack of free will is why books, and teachers are important. But so is direct experience, contemplation, visualization. 

     

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    I think the real challenge, that I struggle with is demonizing people. That is the real problem. 

    However, it's important we develop keen discernment about people. It's important to begin to recognize fools, idiots, the mentally ill, etc and avoid/ handle them with skill and care.

    This doesn't mean we don't love them. Those of us who have suffered from being a fool, or mentally ill understand these people because we ourselves have been there. But, if we are serious about developing our lives we should learn to see them, and know how to operate in life with the fact that these people exist.

    Love everybody, but the highest forms of love for a human involve boundaries.

    Ideally, we bring high quality people into our lives. I personally know I want to make more friendships. But, I am also cutting people out of my life who I think are idiots, fools, mentally ill, drama starters, etc because, it just drains me from focusing on my personal growth and visioning for my life. 

     

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    1 hour ago, The Mystical Man said:

    You guys are so ensnared by Gura that you can't even see that having two or three suicides under your belt is not normal. If that doesn't sober you up, I don't know what will. Considering that there are so many great teachers out there, I don't know why anyone feels the need to put Gura on a pedestal. I can tell that many of you have not even bothered to read a single book.

    How many Buddhist’s have committed suicide?

    Not to mention the one who set himself on fire!

    People unfortunately kill themselves. I don’t believe you can blame Leo?