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Because we are one with The Force. The Force encompasses everything and allows everyone to feel happiness and fear because without fear there can be no true happiness and love. I used to think there was a universal fear. I think Some people do not fear death and yet they still have fears.

Yolo does not exist. It is Yodo. “You don’t live only once. You only die once, and you live everyday.” -R0ckyreed

Ultimate Mega Thread For Happiness Journal/Homework What Is Happiness? (Incomplete) Happiness is being completely satisfied with the present moment exactly as it is. There are many forms and levels of happiness, ranging from contentment/satisfaction to excitement/ecstasy. Happiness comes down to being fulfilled with my life as it is now. Happiness isn’t in the future, it is my relationship to the present moment. Desire Vs. Happiness Leo did not really talk emphasis the relationships between desire and happiness as much as I would have thought. Buddhism assumes that desire is the root cause of suffering and dissatisfaction or dunks. But is desire an obstacle to happiness? The relationship between desire and happiness reminds me of the scene in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone where Dumbledore tells Harry that “The happiest man on Earth can look into the mirror and see only himself exactly as he is.” I think this means that when we are completely happy, that means we are completely satisfied. When we are completely satisfied, we do not desire for anything to be different. Desire often times comes from a place of dissatisfaction. We want something that we do not have. But desire is part of life. To live life is to desire. I do not desire safety now because I already have it. But as soon as what I love is threatened to be gone, I desire to maintain it and get it back. As soon as my attachments are threatened to be lost, I desire to maintain. But when we are completely happy and satisfied with life, we still have hidden desires. Just because it appears we have no desires now does not mean we have no desires now. Hidden is the desire for life and that is always running even when happy. I can be completely satisfied with everything and still have desires but the content and quality of my desires will be different. A person who desires is someone who has meaning and a want for something more. A person who is depressed probably has fewer desires and fewer things make them happy. Desire is a good thing but excessive desire like excessive anything can become toxic in the same way that water nourishes the soul but can also drown it. We can also be drowned in our desires, so Buddhism is partly right about the excessive extremes of desire, but desire itself is the drive in all living things for greatness and happiness. Without desire, we would all be clinically depressed, with no meaning at all to live. Each breath we take is a desire for life. Contentment Vs. Happiness Contentment is also another part of happiness. Contentment can be seen as positive or negative. Contentment for the overall big picture of life is essential. But contentment for mediocrity can be a recipe for disaster. It is important to be content in striving for excellence. There is something rewarding about striving for excellence. Contentment can lead to complacency which can stunt ones growth and happiness. Happiness appears to be related to balance. When one has balance in their life, one is happy. Again, excessiveness to either extreme of excessive desire or contentment leads to unhappiness. Happiness is like walking a tight rope between contentment and desire. I will share more of my thoughts on happiness as I continue to contemplate them more. Happiness List of What Makes Me Happy (incomplete) Listening to music - beautiful soundtracks Spending time outdoors in nature Meditating (in nature) Hiking (in nature) Running (in nature) Going to the hot tub Watching beautiful inspiring movies (Harry Potter, Castaway, Forrest Gump, Pirates of Caribbean, etc.) Playing beautiful video games (i.e., The Last of Us, Life Is Strange, Uncharted, Skyrim, RuneScape, etc.) Reflecting on some of my happiest memories during my childhood/adolescence Helping people feel good, inspired, and happy Sharing wisdom with others Learning about personal development, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality Contemplation - Thinking philosophically about life to gain deeper understanding. Creativity - writing whatever I want Love - spending time with my girlfriend and family Driving in the country wilderness and around cities Reading a book in my room or out in nature Going to a restaurant and getting the meal I want Good health - being able to have a lot of energy Being able to travel to novel places to explore the beauty of the world Singing and making music Jumping and not having a care in the world Picnicking in nature

Yup! It is fascinating. And you further imagined you taking cannabis and having a cannabis trip of you imagining a car crash and Super Mario. Then, you imagined writing about it on the forum here. And now, you may be imagining writing a reply to this message or not.

What’s more impressive is if you can Bhaktisamadhi.

Get clear about what you really want out of life. Then go take the necessary action steps to do it.

Nothing in this world is more hilarious than a Solipsist Food Fight. All your arguments here are a sign that you don’t know the Truth. If you knew what Solipsism is, there would be no reason to be playing these BS games, unless you want to go back into The Matrix. It shows you are not serious about Truth. If Awakening is not present now, then it is imaginary (like Santa Clause). None of you all are Awake. Your notions of Solipsism and Truth are a self-deception. This self-deception is locking your mind in another Matrix within the Matrix.

https://gazette.com/news/us-world/pentagon-officials-claim-alien-mothership-could-send-ships-to-earth-in-draft-research-paper/article_d1b180d9-61d7-5100-a020-96385f437253.html Is this fake news? I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t already been posted and addressed here if it isn’t fake. Edit: I know that the Alien Mothership is imaginary, but I am wondering whether it is something we will imagine being as real as our physical bodies some day? There is a difference between something being imaginary that doesn’t actually exist vs something that does. This present moment is imaginary. So I’m wondering if the Alien Mothership news is as real as this moment or if it is fake news like Santa Clause? Edit Edit: Those who say there is no difference between real news vs. fake news are fools. Conflating wisdom and foolishness together is Foolish with capital F.

They should outlaw clickbait as false advertising! Thank you!

Thanks guys for your responses! I have gained more clarity now on the matter! Everything is God no matter the quality. God is omnipresent in Heaven and Hell. Thanks again!

So the God-Self is not a place behind the eyes but rather the entire field of perception, everything in the visual field is God. This makes me wonder because my eyesight has been decreasing over time. I get blurry vision sometimes, does that mean that my access to God is more limited? What about if I become blind? Does that mean that God loses a part of itself? Why would God allow for that? Why would God allow for blurry vision if it is it? It is probably a dumb question, but I feel like others have a much better experience of God than I do because my field is more limited. Why do I need glasses to access God? Are some people just born disconnected from God with no chance of being fully connected? Thanks for your response!

I can tell by the first sentence that you are not ready nor mature enough to handle these teachings. Do yourself a favor and forget about spirituality and this solipsism stuff and just focus on living life for a while and build yourself up. You are going to become even more depressed and suicidal if you continue down this path trying to brainwash yourself with solipsism. This is misunderstanding spirituality/solipsism. The point isn’t to brainwash yourself. The point is to discover what is true. All of your ideas of solipsism and spirituality are False!!!! I will say that again! All of your ideas about spirituality/solipsism/enlightenment are False and not true!!! If you can’t see everything as the Self, you got it wrong. And if that realization makes you depressed or egotistical, you got it wrong.

Maybe God hides Leo’s toilet in the same way that Whiterun is hidden from Consciousness during the opening of Skyrim. In a first person game, there are things that appear to be in the distance that I can go to. It is amazing how that works in a game. All there is, is the Screen that gives the illusion of other and external reality.

You have to challenge your negative automatic thoughts, core beliefs and integrate shadow. It is all about interpretation and perspective. Try to see that comparison is a game that gets you nowhere. Same with negative thinking. That’s all comparison boils down to. The only thing worth comparing yourself to is compare yourself to God.

Okay. So basically God is the field I am experiencing now. It is all of my senses whether they are shit or not, it is God. Being blind is another experience. To ask why God would make me blind is to also ask God, why did you make me human and not some worm or alien? The main thing that stumps me is that God hides many things from itself. Right now, I cannot see or access Leo’s toilet. I only have a concept of it right now based on my experiences of toilets. Does Leo’s toilet even exist as anything more than my concept of it? I believe that I could go out in the world (or my perceptual field) and locate it, so does that mean that Leo’s toilet still exists even if I am not there to perceive it? Leo initially seemed to state it like his toilet really exists even when God does not have access to it in its field. If God can hide things from itself and they still exist, then how is that any different than the idea of an external world?

Yes.

That’s right. How can you say the external world doesn’t exist when toilets exist outside of your awareness? How can God be omniscient if there are things outside of God? Your toilet is not in my consciousness, so it either doesn’t exist, God is not omniscient, or God is more than my sensory fields. That’s the contradiction I see. So the genetic freaks who see more to reality than me have a greater perception of God than I do. I can’t see how God can be omniscient if there are things outside of God’s fields that it can’t access. Thanks for your patience and time. I’m trying to understand the paradox here.

But if you are blind, then color, light, and that visual form of the menu no longer exists, hence your experience of God is more limited.

I got that the entire field is God. My question though is that if I lose one of my senses, do I also lose that connection to God. If I become blind, I am no longer connected to light, color, and visual shape. The visual world of God ceases to exist. Losing a field of perception seems to limit access to all of Reality/God. If I lose auditory field, I can no longer hear the wisdom and music of God in some very important ways. Consciousness work seems like it would change drastically if you lose a field like sound and vision because they are dominant. But why would God allow itself to be able to lose perceptual fields of itself if it really wants connection? I guess you could say it is like being born with Fragile X syndrome (low consciousness) or having awakening experiences and hallucinations. It is all God, but some states seem to give one more of God than others. It seems there are genetic freaks, psychics, and mystics who have an elevated experience of God than I do. They are more connected to Infinite Intelligence than I am. Why is that if I am God? Why do I have a limited access to God compared to what is possible? But I guess I could ask this question in any state of consciousness.

It’s interesting how if we act like there is no external world, our lives will become nightmare. To survive and thrive in this world comes with partaking in the variety of life’s illusions - to play the game, so to speak. If we don’t participate in the illusions, we quit the game. I have to assume that there are other people viewing my actions on a security camera even though I know the guard is a hallucination of my own mind.

It seems to contradict God’s Infinitude because our fields of experience are limited. Some more so than others. How can Consciousness be infinite if it is so limited?

If you were born in a sensory deprivation tank your whole life, never experiencing sound, taste, touch, smell, sight, or thought, you couldn’t say you can be conscious of anything. You couldn’t even know if you existed or not. We can only be conscious now because we have developed the sense of thought, which thought cannot develop without the other senses. I think of thought as an immaterial replication of the senses.

100% commitment and discipline.

Part of it does. I am no longer aware of colors, light, and my vibrant visual field. All I can be aware of is blackness. If you lose all of your senses, you will have nothing to be conscious of.

God is a verb not a noun!! Here is the definition of verb from Wikipedia: “A verb is a word that in syntax generally conveys an action, an occurrence, or a state of being. In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive. Here is the definition of a noun: “a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).” God is The Ultimate State of Being. God conveys action. Existence is action. God is not a man in the sky or on earth. God is the activity that makes up a man. We cannot exist without verbs.