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Nobody has answered this question: What is the real difference between David Goggins and a Buddhist monk? Both seek to transcend suffering but one does it through running and another through sitting. But, there are marathon monks who do feats similar to Goggins. So what exactly makes a Buddhist monk different from David Goggins?

One thing that stood out to me from Om Swami is that he illustrated the point of why intention is important. Without true intention to meditate for the purposes of truth, you will end up doing gymnastics instead. One guru claimed to do many sadhanas of ice plunges, fasting, intense mystical experiences, etc. but he was not enlightened. He was focused on transcending suffering rather than on truth. If you had to choose between transcending suffering or truth, I think most monks would choose the former. Thats mainly what Buddhism is about. A big flaw of Buddhism is their conflation of transcendence of suffering with truth. They aren’t the same.

I can never know the experience of others. I can only judge based off of my experience. Unless Wim Hof has demonstrated he has realized God, I remain unconvinced.

What I mean by Enlightenment is total understanding of reality/existence. Enlightenment has nothing to do with how you choose to behave afterwards. It has to do with understanding absolute nature of existence. You can awaken and then choose to start a cult or find your way in creating one.

It’s no different than David Blaine holding his breath underwater or David Goggins running 240 miles. It’s gymnastics. A monk is basically a David Blaine/Goggins for meditation. They meditate but do they realize they are God? Probably not. Look at Wim Hof. He’s doing spiritual gymnastics but he’s not enlightened.

Truth is synonymous with Consciousness. Consciousness is Absolute Truth. It cannot be otherwise. The incorrigible absolute truth is Consciousness. You cannot know anything or even have your skepticism and self-deceptions without Consciousness.

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Wanted to dedicate a thread for real examples of serious people doing serious spirituality. I’ll start with mine. I’ll keep it concise. 10/11/25: At-Home Meditation Retreat Started at 8am with meditation for a 2 hour sit. The main techniques used were breath awareness, open awareness, and light self-inquiry. I took a brief break to use the bathroom and adjust myself. I returned and continued for another 2 hours focusing on stillness leading up to self-inquiry. The main questions contemplated were “What am I, What is Consciousness?” I kept my consciousness on the awareness that I am the entire room. Thoughts of media and videogames kept distracting my attention and I kept returning back to breath and self-inquiry. I had the insight just how much influence the media has had over my mind and how much garbage and past relationships my mind is focused on. Took another break for lunch and just stared at my hands while contemplating consciousness. My hands started to look alien. I kept my awareness on the field of consciousness. Whenever my mind wandered, I returned back to the questions of “What is consciousness? How does this hand exist at all?” Additional questions came up such as “Why does consciousness exist at all?” “How did consciousness decide to experience/create my current life?” Took another brief break and spent the next 2 hours in a dark room in my closet and continued my previous meditation techniques. Nothing new happened here but more mind wandering. Took a break for a brief snack and returned to meditation. I sat for another couple hours and after a while my mind got still. I started feeling love and joy going through every cell of my being. I started having a big smile on my face that I couldn’t resist. It felt like I was on mushrooms for a moment. I started to feel satisfied with my own mind in pure existence. I tried to keep this awareness for as long as I could. My legs started to fall asleep so I had to do some walking meditation for a bit which got me out of that state. I spent the rest of the time contemplating existential topics such as death, eternity, the first cause, time, memory, and my purpose. At around 7pm I couldn’t keep focus anymore and so I decided to end it for today. My main takeaways is how much noise and garbage filled my mind. My mind resisted stillness in the form of thoughts about media and entertainment. I also realized how much I do love my mind because I was able to think creative thoughts and have insights. Other insights I had is that I am imagining time, memory, and the past. The past and memory are nothing but a construction of consciousness. I realized deeper that my consciousness is creating everything I see and hear in a similar way it creates thought/imagination. I also realized that I need to practice meditation more often and that I have been mistreating my mind. Thats all for now.

It’s because of its tiny imaginary brain

But consciousness is not something that can be killed since it is what imagines/creates death and the chainsaw in the first place. There is no death nor the chainsaw without consciousness. Of course, consciousness right now is very attached to this particular human body’s survival. It’s amazing that consciousness so focalized to this particular human organism rather than some ape in the jungle. I wonder what is stopping my consciousness from being focalized into Trump? For some reason, consciousness right now wants to play the story of r0ckyreed and not some ape in the jungle. I can only have the first person experience of r0ckyreed in this lifetime. And then maybe I may have the first person experience of an ape in the jungle.

What I learned from taking mushrooms is that the mushroom itself is my own hallucination. Psilocybin is part of my dream. I am still not conscious why God designed reality in such a way where certain figments of consciousness (aka chemicals) open or limit consciousness.

Chemicals themselves are Consciousness. But consciousness is not mediated by chemicals because that assumes materialism is true. To mediate means to bring about.

But the real kicker is that you’re imagining all those higher states of consciousness right now. All those higher states are consciousness are hallucinations in the now. Since time is illusion, you never experienced them only imagining them now. If you aren’t conscious that you’re a God right now then your previous God realizations are only imagination.

@Leo Gura Will you reveal the substance to the people who have been selected? I think it would be good practice to at least let participants know in advance what substances are used so that full consent is actually given. If it were me, I would want to know what substances would be used so I can prepare and research in advance. I don’t just want to show up with no clue what I’ll be taking and not knowing symptoms or side effects.

This is false. Don’t spread fake news around. I had to look this up myself. Bill Maher did not turn to the right at all.

Hustle culture is BS.

What do you guys think? You think Kriya is a better path? I recently came across a Kundalini for Awakening video on a guided experience and it included Kriya pranayama and fire breathing. Check it out and let me know what you think of the method:

I found this really cool resource on pranayama and breath of fire (aka supreme fire). Is this how you guys do it? I practiced it like done in the video and my mind went silent.

I’m just now getting into Kriya Yoga, Kriya Pranayama and Supreme Fire. Supreme Fire seems very similar to Wim Hof Breathing. I wonder if Supreme Fire is more effective than Wim Hof? I usually have done Wim Hof breath work before a meditation sit. Also, is my understanding of Kriya Pranayama correct in that I am breathing up and down my spine while inhaling 8-12 seconds and exhaling 8-12 seconds? Thanks!

It’s not that simple. If I leave more room, then some asswipe is gonna switch into my lane. I’ve seen it happen many times. But when I tailgate, they can’t lane change right in front of me.

Once you take the red pill, there is no going back. Ask yourself why you took the red pill in the first place. Maybe that will help you move forward. We can’t move back and we can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.

I second this.

I think Infinity Gods is 10% false teachings. All of those Gods are imagined within God. If there are other Gods outside of God’s mind, then God is not God.

But all the Infinite Absolutes are actually One Absolute. There cannot be another absolute. There is only One. If there was another Absolute, then that would mean that the first Absolute is not Absolute enough to contain and be one with the second Absolute. Having 2 absolutes implies duality and relativity. It would be an “other” Absolute which would make it relative and not Absolute. We all know that islands are held together by the sea. The sea represents the Absolute and all the islands are relative since they could all be submerged into the One Ocean. Hope that makes sense. Edit: another Absolute Consciousness is basically imagined within your own Absolute Consciousness. There are no other Absolute Consciousnesses because you imagined Infinite Gods. But that idea of Infinite Gods is a concept and imagination within your direct experience. It’s only real if you imagine it. If you stopped imagining Infinity Gods, you would be left with just the One Absolute Self.

The story says a student asked him: “How are we to treat others?” He replied: “There are no others.” The relative and absolute are one. All the sensory perceptions experienced right now: sights, sound, thoughts, etc. are all that exist. Qualia is absolute truth.