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I am flirting with being an activist, just to burn through GREEN. Your thoughts?

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/spiral-dynamics-don-edward-beck/1121800741

LOL!

@Leo Gura if you have a moderator slot opening, could I fill it?

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We had guests over, and they asked me who tf was that portrait depicting, I just told them it was Lenin.

When I first discovered Actualized.org while in High School, I binge watched every day. I even would have it playing on my computer on the bed next to me, until I fell asleep. My step dad even came into the room while I was passed out and had to turn off the computer. [SERIOUS] I recall actually in art class, I had to coal sketch a portrait of someone who inspired me, and charcoal portrait Leo was born. I held it in my room for almost a year until it had to be repainted. IDK why, but I did weird things like bow down to the portrait. I still have it in my basement.

Oh no... Wait did that guy and the new girl in town eventually hit it off? Girls don't like parents arranging nice guys for them.

I second this.

Actually, Fredrich Engels wrote a pretty good essay about how marriage was a rather recent, and unnatural phenomenon. Marriage is pretty much a strategy of imprisonment and enslavement by the society.

Which is quite bizarre as there exists Islamic mystics who've interacted with God long after Muhammed.

We would... Become a less militarized society and finally have access to decent Social/Public services? Also:

Thank you. The philosopher is only good at thinking about things endlessly, it is a mind approach. Hence, mind is a breeding ground for philosophies, all of which are false. My approach is a no mind approach. Once the mind disappears, all philosophies disappear.

Philosophy, in my opinion, is the incorrect approach. The mind is a question creating factory, and each answer only brings about more questions. Philosophers go on and on chasing their own tails, trapped in their intellect. Spirituality does not require your intellect, rather the opposite.

I had recently purchased a Zen Buddhist calendar. I open to February, and it gives me this nice quote: “Our core beliefs need to be seen for what they are: deeply held assumptions about reality that our particular life circumstances have conditioned us to accept as absolute truth.” ― Ezra Bayda

https://actualized.org/insights/explaining-take-down-new-awakening I mean, the Buddha himself was awakened through meditation. What should I do with this info? I'm only 19 and just getting into meditation, only to hear that it's imaginary. Also, our Gurus aren't awake? What? But a lot of these people are superhardcore. Perhaps they too are withholding all they know. Also, how do I go back on spiritual progress? Is that possible? Like I can reverse spiritual progress? If possible, tell me how just in case.

This type of talk was precisely why I left the forum a while ago. That and his vulgarity and crude speech.

In the Leo/Kurt Jaimungal interviews, Leo provides the perspective that life is a precious gift. Rajneesh as well shares this perspective. But the Hindu perspective is that of a pessimist, and Hinduism tells that death is something to look forward to. We should purify our souls to escape the cycle of pain and rebirth. The virtuous and enlightened will be privileged enough to die, and stay that way, but the sinful and un enlightened will have to suffer through rebirth. Their punishment is literally that they have to re live the ‘precious gift’ of life. How precious… The Buddhist perspective is that life is suffering, and provides us the eighth fold path to relieve us from suffering. Wait, isn’t suffering an illusion? How does Buddhism reconcile this? To be fair to Buddhism, ‘suffering’ is likely to be more accurately translated to ‘Dukkha’ (meaning dissatisfaction). So which is it? Because it can’t be both, as why would the gift be suffering? I’m sorry, but I don’t at all buy that life is a gift. Sure, it is a gift for you, having grown up in first world comforts. But this world is so full of poverty and violence. How is this a gift? This is not a gift package, this is world is a masochistic vengeance package. Also, life = gift, isn’t that a relative human projection our minds put on the world?

I can personally attest to this.

Addition: According to Hinduism, we currently reside in Maya/Illusion. So the precious gift of life is to live in Illusion? If I suicide myself, I’m technically then free of illusion, so why not? I’d be doing the ultimate spiritual good!

I found this video cute. And this one as well.

Look forward to death - Moksha ''Hinduism is hugely radical in suggesting that there is nothing especially noble or interesting about being alive…" Rejoin cosmic totality - Dharma Don't forget money - Artha Don't turn against sex - Kama

Wait a sec, other people have watched the Solipsism video? Hmmm… ?