Johnny5
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Johnny5 replied to Zanoni's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@allislove Defo out of my league ? -
Johnny5 replied to Zanoni's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@allislove Oooooh, I see! Enlightenment is tripping... Got it -
Johnny5 replied to An young being's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Johnny5 replied to Zanoni's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
indeed... that's unconditional love for ya! -
Johnny5 replied to Zanoni's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Wtf does that even mean... ?♂️ "Seeing what is and not seeing what's not." -- Jed McKenna I also like how @Tim R puts it. -
I seem to remember there being some interesting interviews of Marilyn Manson on youtube, if you're interested in him as an artist or person. ?
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Johnny5 replied to Mosess's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
And neither both nor neither and/or neither and both maybe perhaps or not... (gotta love the catuskoti) -
Johnny5 replied to An young being's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
https://www.wisefoolpress.com/free/2see1/ https://www.wisefoolpress.com/free/2see2/ https://www.wisefoolpress.com/free/2see3/ -
Johnny5 replied to CroMagna's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Last I checked, everything is empty and everything is mind ? -
Johnny5 replied to Mosess's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Say more? -
Johnny5 replied to An young being's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Maybe the sensory seeing is just a metaphor for the real seeing... -
Johnny5 replied to Leo Gura's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Some Fella ? ? ? -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@dyslexicCnut I don't really see much as defects anymore, so the question of tolerance comes up less. Perception drives behavior. Looks like I simply mistook this whole thread for something else how embarassing... I remember your other thread about the unpleasant nature of reality, so I assumed you were driven to "the search" out of suffering. Someone in that position can easily get triggered by people who take it less than serious. Because to them, it's literally life or death. I'm sure you can see how that would be much more relevant to them than the silly partisan shenanigans of the day. So I thought that's where you were coming from. ?♂️ -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@dyslexicCnut Ok thanks for that and apologies for any confusion. I don't venture out of this subsection much, politics least of all, so I was unaware that it had spilled over into this thread. All I saw was two "joke" videos about enlightenment, and I assumed that's what you reacted against. I hadn't even noticed that OP's name was Enlightenment ? so... that's where I wrote my replies from. Nothing to do with politics, nor with OP. Hope that makes sense... -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@dyslexicCnut Btw I'm probably stupid but I don't get how this was a political/partisan issue, so maybe I misinterpreted why you reacted the way you did. FWIW... -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Main takeaway is that you don't try to make your reactions "wrong". Repression can only ever take you in the opposite direction of where you want to go. Perception drives behaviour, not the other way around. Or I guess in "spiritual" terms, "right view" leads to "right action". And given your perceptions, your reactions are perfectly natural and valid. The key here, and in general, is that you address root causes, which are your perceptions. The other way around doesn't work. That's one way of framing "the path": Addressing mistaken perceptions. Everything else follows from that. And that's very different from all the endless self-improvement projects where somehow you're just never good enough. That's a non-starter, not just because it doesn't work but because that in itself is a mistaken perception. That said, you're not entirely wrong about what you see as "enlightenment cretins". Your reaction against it merely suggests, to your credit, that you take it a lot more seriously than they do. And also to your credit, you can tell the difference. Hence my previous reply. "Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou shouldst go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How canst thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou canst not go mad?" -- Ahab -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@mandyjw "If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and there is no woman to hear him... is he still wrong?" ? -- Sir Ken Robinson -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
A strategy is still being formulated... -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Dodo If I can't take masturbation with me, I ain't going -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@mandyjw Credit where credit's due, I had never associated Rick Astley with masturbation before. I must not be unconditionally loving enough... -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@mandyjw How unenlightened of you. Mental masturbate much? -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@mandyjw Careful, I could argue anything I want -
Johnny5 replied to Enlightenment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Can't argue with that... -
Johnny5 replied to BipolarGrowth's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Patriarchy! ? -
Johnny5 replied to Kalki Avatar's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I agree with that ?