Nak Khid

anybody that says they know what happens after death doesn't know

So some people who are mentally and spiritually ready merge with God when they die but others don't? What happens to the one's that don't when they die? Do they merge with something else?

The New York times article is about a specific situation regarding KSK members. I also included the whole long AfD manifesto link in the same post. Fox news has not been covering the Afd much lately

you said "can I blink?" Anyway keep practicing your lotus position. Half lotus is easier https://stylesatlife.com/articles/zen-meditation/ This Burmese position is even easier and is fine also I recommend doing the strong determination in all positions including in a chair. Set a timer alarm that will go off and then stop so after you meet the required time you can continue if you feel like it and not have to move to turn the alarm off. So when you have pain in your legs you are also training to deal with the pain (and stop and move around if you are starting to hurt yourself) Then at a different sitting do it in a chair or stool (your back must not touch the back of the stool) so this way you can do it much longer, you won't have to worry about your legs. But you can see the convenience of not using a chair if you are outside. The meditation is not supposed to be completely comfortable but also not all a physical endurance test of the body. I would also try four times in a row the zen method where your eyes are open halfway or less. The head is down very slightly and your line of sight is going down 45 degrees. The view can be blurry and not focused on anything. Face a wall a few feet away You might try this and feel like "this doesn't feel right, it's deeper if I close my eyes" That is just clinging to habit. If you do it this way and stick to it that feeling will go away. In this type of string determination meditation you are not supposed to be tranquilized and peaceful. You are supposed to be dealing with your self. The peace and tranquility will also come. Take note of it in the mind and don't cling to it. Don't reject it either. Let it rise and fall like everything else.

The question is reasonable IF...... if someone was taught that on dying one merges into infinite consciousness and one becomes God.

@Sokrates what do you think of the Afd? ________________________________________________________ AfD manifesto (2017) https://www.afd.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2017/04/2017-04-12_afd-grundsatzprogramm-englisch_web.pdf _________________________________________________________ (excerpts) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/world/europe/germany-military-neo-nazis-ksk.html As Neo-Nazis Seed Military ranks, Germany Confronts and 'enemy within' After plastic explosives and Nazi memorabilia were found at an elite soldier's home, Germany is worrying about a problem of far-right infiltration at the heart of its democracy By Katrin Bennhold Published July 3, 2020 CALW, Germany — As Germany emerged from its coronavirus lockdown in May, police commandos pulled up outside a rural property owned by a sergeant major in the special forces, the country’s most highly trained and secretive military unit. They brought a digger. The sergeant major’s nickname was Little Sheep. He was suspected of being a neo-Nazi. Buried in the garden, the police found two kilograms of PETN plastic explosives, a detonator, a fuse, an AK-47, a silencer, two knives, a crossbow and thousands of rounds of ammunition, much of it believed to have been stolen from the German military. They also found an SS songbook, 14 editions of a magazine for former members of the Waffen SS and a host of other Nazi memorabilia. “He had a plan,” said Eva Högl, Germany’s parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces. “And he is not the only one.” _________________________ The problem has deepened with the emergence of the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, which legitimized a far-right ideology that used the arrival of more than a million migrants in 2015 — and more recently the coronavirus pandemic — to engender a sense of impending crisis. Most concerning to the authorities is that the extremists appear to be concentrated in the military unit that is supposed to be the most elite and dedicated to the German state, the special forces, known by their German acronym, the KSK. This week, Germany’s defense minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, took the drastic step of disbanding a fighting company in the KSK considered infested with extremists. Little Sheep, the sergeant major whose weapons stash was uncovered in May, was a member. Some 48,000 rounds of ammunition and 62 kilograms, or about 137 pounds, of explosives have disappeared from the KSK altogether, she said. Germany’s military counterintelligence agency is now investigating more than 600 soldiers for far-right extremism, out of 184,000 in the military. Some 20 of them are in the KSK, a proportion that is five times higher than in other units. _____________________ The New Right, which encompasses youth activists, intellectuals and the AfD, worries General Kreitmayr. The lawmaker whose anti-Semitic comments led to General Günzel’s firing all those years ago now sits in the German Parliament for the AfD. “You have leading representatives of political parties like the AfD, who say things that not only make you sick but that are clearly far-right, radical ideology,” General Kreitmayr said. Soldiers were not immune to this cultural shift in the country, he said. Just recently a fellow general had become a mayoral candidate for the AfD. Several former soldiers represent the party in Parliament.

I don't see convincing evidence for the pretzel having been invented in Austria

You assume the following 1) God exists 2) a person is not merged with God but when they die they become merged with God 3) that if something called "awakening" occurs a person who is awakened had an ego before this occurred but after they are awakened they no longer do _______________________________ Ego Death In descriptions of psychedelic experiences, the term is used synonymous with ego-loss to refer to (temporary) loss of one's sense of self due to the use of psychedelics. The term was used as such by Timothy Leary et al. to describe the death of the ego in the first phase of an LSD trip, in which a "complete transcendence" of the self ________________________________ So if all these people took LSD and some had ego deaths then how is it they still have egos after coming down? - did the ego merely go into hiding and not "die" ? - did the ego leave the body > but then sneak in again through the ear?

Abortion is voluntary , that's a red herring to bring up

This is a very complex question. No doubt that racial profiling goes on but if there is a racial element it's very hard to prove legally or be certian what is in people's heads. If you say "More black people get racially profiled every day." do you mean it keeps happening or do you mean it's happening more often? O.k. you might say "It's happening so whichever one it is it shouldn't be happening" So how do you stop it ? That's the hard part.

which non-Democratic nation/s do you prefer?

No, the law is not partial to race so your list here doesn't apply. If you do a crime you are supposed to be charged and treated without regard to race

It's a good point but with "Black Lives Matter" (which I think do matter) it is hard to not speak racially now and for people to look at things like killings by police and murders by race It might be better to not to categorize people by race, to not have it on the census as some countries don't but if so then "Black Lives Matter" is playing in to this color minded system instead of "Stop Police Brutality" which is not not race specified

are you considering suicide?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHI1aPUxs4s "Strong Determination" Meditation Sits ~ Shinzen Young _______________________________________________________________________ yes yes yes but there is another mediation technique gazing, which is a for of concentration meditation and concentration meditation is different. Gazing does not always include forcing the eyes to stay open but that is one method. You should try with that and without. If you do it including blinking you can do it much longer but it is less concentrated. https://liveanddare.com/trataka/

I didn't know, tell us how that is being done Muslim in Germany are about 6-7% the majority of them of Turkish background and most Muslims being in the West In the United states about 1% and they have very little political visibility in the U.S. regardless of it was Barack Obama or Trump in the white house Trump wanting to keep out Mexican illegals has very little comparison to Muslims who represent a specific belief system so I don't see a strong comparison to the politics in Germany. Mexicans will be increasing needed as workers in the future because U.S. birth rates are going down. So even in the highest case projection it's 20% by 2050 so how is that an Islamic state? And do you support the ADF or GI ?

God is not a focal point of the nondual traditions,

the extracts strengths are not standardized, there is no oversight Try getting a hold of the plain leaves. Start with ten. Chew them thoroughly and every once in a hold the wad under the tongue

It depends on if you believe one should meditate on observing the monkey mind in such a way as to not be attached to it and to be aware of the present moment, experiencing moments of silence and sublime nothingness in the process Or if you wish to meditate on loving God A discord occurs if you try to mix them

compare to Yanis Varoufakis

By "God" here you are referring to an alternate word for "everything" However God is not talked about in the classic nondual traditions, Zen Buddhism and to an extent Advaita Vedanta. It's more characteristic of Bhakti yoga. But some recent speakers who identify themselves as nondualists have attempted a hybrid But in the end you wind up with an alternative word for "everything" with a religious connotation alluding to it's dualistic forms

yes, we assume that God created the universe rather than just dwells in it The steady-state model asserts that although the universe is expanding, it nevertheless does not change its appearance over time (the perfect cosmological principle); the universe has no beginning and no end. This requires that matter be continually created in order to keep the universe's density from decreasing. Influential papers on steady-state cosmologies were published by Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle in 1948.It is now known that Albert Einstein considered a steady-state model of the expanding universe, as indicated in a 1931 manuscript, many years before Hoyle

No, the first one went back in time infinitely but then died. We are only up to the third one and no one knows if they will go on forever