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The end of seeking. Being yourself. Yourself. The appeasing of an imagined self, so as to assimilate it into yourself and become "whole." <<< all of these are the same thing just from different angles Seeking anything should be impossible considering you are everything you seek, always. What does music seek? What does the color red seek? What does your table seek? What do you seek?

Can be turned to baseline permanently, which is enlightenment. Millions of ways to describe it, but the "resistance" which comes back is just a very genuine belief you have right now that there is actually some place you can go to which isn't now. It's not really a forgetting. More like the opposite. "You", or that "peace", operates outside of forgetting and imagination. It's embedded into reality and exists without logic. It's a remembering of belief systems and identities which "covers yourself" again and tries to override that part of reality. Really, if you forgot everything, you would reach that state again. Your memory and imagination is being used to cover yourself. But it doesn't have to be used to cover yourself, of course. It can co-exist with yourself. That co-existence is enlightenment, you could say. The baseline state can have a different flavour, but that's purely a difference in content. You can be a peaceful worm or a peaceful cat or a peaceful human. The peace, the love, the "you" stays the same throughout, because it is truth and truth can't change.

So the "Jesus Christ" part is real, and the rest is fable? How did you come to this conclusion that you are specifically the Jesus Christ figure, and that this figure is real? Are the other characters real as well? If not, how do you tell which ones aren't real?

You say the real crucifixion was shamanic, did you go through the real crucifixion then? You must have went through the real one, if you were always Jesus Christ. And then is the Bible is simply a documentation of what you went through? What if your memory is wiped, do you stop being Jesus? Is Truth lost forever, then?

What happened to the Jesus Christ that is mentioned in the Bible? Was that you? Did you become him? Were you always Jesus Christ? How can I tell who the real Jesus is? There are many who claim the same as you.

Of course. Words are just words. This is conceptual knowing because the orgasm isn't being experienced anymore. The orgasm knows itself perfectly, because it literally becomes you. When it ends, it's gone, and it stops being you, and so any knowing becomes memory. Anything you experience after the orgasm is not an orgasm, and thus it is concept/knowledge/memory. It doesn't matter if your knowledge of an orgasm relates to a previous event, it is never the orgasm itself, it's just a concept, and so it is always concept/knowledge. Yes, because it's an explanation, not the things being explained.

I'm talking about conceptual knowing, AKA knowledge. There is knowing/understanding in experience as well, but it is completely different from conceptual knowing, which is knowledge. Not the same at all. As different as red and blue. "I know" is always conceptual. "I am a human" is conceptual. "Lamps are objects that create light" is conceptual. All of these are knowledge and are not experienced as anything that isn't concept. Ultimately there isn't a thing that has to know or a process of knowing, so the implied subject-object relation is completely redundant and it is just based on more knowledge/self-knowledge. Bit of a language barrier. Hope this clarifies.

Doesn't point to anything. It's purely just a word/concept. The thing that decides what is right is also a worldview. Worldviews validating worldviews. Of course you don't know these things. It's not you. It's knowledge. It is never necessary to know about yourself because you have no choice but to exist as yourself all the time. It's a useless input on your part. You don't know any of these things exactly because they aren't you. Yes, correct. By definition all knowledge is not really about anything which exists. You can't know a lamp that is in front of you. Knowing becomes a useless input on your part. Knowing is only useful when the thing you're knowing doesn't exist in experience. Right. In this case, the desire for a solution creates a problem that doesn't exist.

Can you point to "confusion"? Can you point to "lack of truth"? Where is it experienced? What is the solution to music? What is the solution to the color red? What is the solution to your experience? Is the sensation of touch confused? Is sound confused? Is your experience confused? Namaste.

Why the fixation on Jesus Christ? Who or what is Jesus Christ? Why do you say you are Jesus Christ?

Ok on some real shit this thread makes no sense 1. There is no envy displayed anywhere, just lust and frustration 2. Why is there frustration over sexual attraction? Where is the issue?

Are other people also immortal or are you just built different?

character development

All made up. Based in nothing of substance, like I said before. Propaganda is real: "Benefits of no-fap: less shame" But seriously, this article is made by a hardcore no-fapper. Alternate sources would be nice. I've been through pretty much all of these articles back when I was going through it and I just realized that all these no-fappers were making shit up lmao. I've done my research. Appreciate the resources though. Just on a side note, my flatline in particular had no emotional element to it at all. No depression or changes in mood. Just strictly a lack of sexual desire and ED, that's it.

Not dismissing any research, just interpreting it properly and showing you that it's not conclusive at all and pretty much all correlation. All the flatline theories are definitely bro-science though. The flatline started happening, and they came up with some theory about how it could fit in to the no-fap ideology: "Hmm, must be withdrawal symptoms, you know, brain rewiring or whatever." Very convenient. It's based on absolutely nothing though, like seriously. No one knows what it is, lmao. Which is pretty crazy.

You don't know that. You're just assuming this. This is all bro science which you have no evidence for. It's not an argument, it's what happened. Erections were fine, after no-fap they weren't fine, then they went back to normal again. So the idea that no-fap increases erection quality is wrong because it is not so linear. There is nuance. The truth is that no one knows what is going on there.

My only real advice to you is still just my second reply on this thread. See what works for you. Good luck.

Haha, if you wanna fight with anecdotes, I reckon there are many more supporting my experience that just didn't bother to type it online because they don't feel the need to hang out in a forum and talk about how good masturbating is.

The conclusion is correct, but there is more to scientific knowledge than just social forces and the aformentioned. Scientific knowledge is the product of knowledge. Science != scientific knowledge. Scientific knowledge is based on science but it is not science, it is an abstraction of science. This is a paradox because you are claiming an absolute truth, which is that there is no absolute truth. So the statement is misguided and loops in on itself. The paradox is created because of a failure to realize that "true" and "false" do not exist in experience, they are just abstracted thought forms which only exist as knowledge. No, this statement doesn't capture the entirety of it. It can be more. It can be based on memory. It's definitely a mental construct though, in all cases. Maybe. Depends on what the criteria is. This statement cannot be validated objectively, because "validity" does not exist as experience. Valid meaning what? Where is it being applied? It won't be valid in the dream state. It might be valid in the waking state. Or it might even be useless in the waking state. Depends.

"Links" and "correlation" galore Anecdotally, none of this stuff is in my direct experience. No ED problems. No libido problems. No issue getting anything up. No relationship problems. And I do it pretty generously. So yeah.

Isn't it like a super common thing to get stuck in your head during sex? This makes sense, and it doesn't necessarily lead to the conclusion that porn caused it.

Look up what a "flatline" is in regards to no-fap. I literally did no-fap and it gave me temporary ED and fucked with my libido for a while. This is a common thing that happens but no one talks about, and it's just chalked up as "oh, your brain is rebooting, bro!!" TLDR, no-fap ironically literally gave me temporary ED and fucked with my libido. But anyways, correlation, never proven. Never had problems getting it up ever until I did no fap, lol. It's fixed now though, it was just temporary, thankfully. I've seen stories of people being in that state for years.

Yeah seriously, you don't have hormones and biological organs attached to your body for the sole purpose of alcohol or weed. This is literally like trying to suppress eating or sleeping.

I also needed the logical and intellectual articulations of Leo to unstick my mind from materialism. He has his own unique talents and flair which is great. You can't make contact with the logical mind with a non-logical mind. But this has to be transcended as well, just like you have to transcend any religious texts, bibles, and any teachers, as they ultimately have nothing to do with YOU, which is all there is, and all there is to learn about. And, of course, all communications are limited, always. No exception, no matter how articulate the person is, it will never work. Any sort of middleman or communication cannot be a replacement for you or reality or truth, ever. Definitely a great thinker though, probably one of the best. Thinking only gets you so far though. Good luck.

It's simply the case that most people are not physiologically afflicted by jerking off, but just negative thoughts and such things that are projected afterwards. There is arguably too much stigma and negativity around jerking off which is based in just bro-science and fearmongering, although valid reasons do exist, and some people do experience negative physical effects. This extra nuance which I am mentioning is constantly used by the former non-afflicted group to justify this idea that masturbation is the source of all their problems even though it probably isn't. No, it's more like, the majority of people are fine with masturbating, and then the minority which has problems spends time online arguing about it and building online communities, which creates an innacurate microcosm portraying it as if it is a widespread issue, and not just a niche thing.