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Yeah, this is why I'm unsure about Leo talking with him or whatever. His thumbnails are so clearly for shock value, it just feels dirty.

Yes, we're talking about the body. I said "your" body just out of habit and in order to convey my message. You can replace the word "your" with "this" if it makes it clearer for you. Otherwise, I don't see how ego being necessary for the body to survive proves that "you" are the body. I'm not too sure what your point here is actually. Is your question: "what separates memory from imagination?" There is no separation. It's just that memory is a specific type of imagination which is designed to make your reality seem consistent. It's just a story to explain how you got here, which is actually from nowhere. Don't forget, it's possible to have bad memory, memory which is inaccurate to what reality portrays. Usually, when this happens, people will say: "you must have imagined it." See the distinction that's being made between memory and imagination? The degree to which you trust your memory is in accordance with how accurately it represents reality. If you "remember" a chair being in your room and it is not there, then you wouldn't trust your memory. If it is there, then you would. But really, memory and imagination is just a false duality that is being created.

Survival. The ego's entire game is to survive, it's not gonna be that easy to completely dismantle it. It's tough for people to quit simple addictions, yet you think you're gonna completely remove the ego just by realizing it is false? That is going to be extremely tough. Although, without any of the ego's survival mechanisms, I'm not sure how long your finite manifestation would last. I think some sort of balance between the two is needed. What if the entire universe was created last Thursday, along with all of your memories? What if it was created in the last hour? Or maybe it's all being created right now, in the present moment? Does it really matter?

he's saying the expectation to be happy and calm is a joke

I think they're both actually the same thing, but karma seems to be referring to a more specific form of equivalent exchange where it only focuses on the human aspect of it. For example, if someone throws a ball into the air, you wouldn't normally call that karma even though it is an equivalent exchange of cause and effect. But, you might call it karma if the ball falls down and hits you in the head.

For me, it is the concept of equivalent exchange. There is always a pay-off for things in life. You can cheat on a test, but what is the cost? What is the benefit of not cheating? Why is it possible that I can put in less work than other people and get a better mark by cheating? Where is the pay-off that allows this to happen? After a while you will start to see these equivalent pay-offs in pretty much all aspects of your life. Your coding problem was a pretty good example of this btw Your inner state will manifest itself physically. For example, a depressed person could become fat and infatuated with food as a by-product of their inner state, which is depression. And then, health problems and other such things will start to manifest and slowly become worse until they fix their state of mind. Once they fix their state of mind, their need for food and their obesity will also automatically fix themselves. It can also go the other way around, they can fix their need for food and their obesity and then that will also fix their mind in the process. The order doesn't really matter. So, you could say the uniqueness is proportional to what their level of development is and what they are struggling with. It is basically just karma/equivalent exchange playing itself out. It's like the Universe putting a splinter in your thumb to wake you up and make you realize that you can improve yourself. You can also have two different experiences which contain the same lesson, it doesn't have to be the exact same experience which teaches it.

If God wanted to be a human, would it give itself access to these things? No, that would defeat the purpose of being a human. You wouldn't be human anymore if you were aware of these things. If God wanted to become a dog, it wouldn't allow itself knowledge on how the entire universe works while being a dog, or else it isn't a dog anymore. Because "I" is imagination. "I" doesn't exist. You might as well ask, "why don't unicorns have an extremely high degree of control over my reality?" You're imagining all of these things, until you experience them. And then, when you don't experience them, you're imagining it again.

I'm going through it right now, apparently it is actually a form of PAWS (Post Addiction Withdrawal Symptoms) and one of the listed symptoms is loss of libido so it does make sense. But, they haven't found an actual solid reasoning for why it happens yet. I just hope my dick isn't broken lol. If you wake up one day with a complete loss of libido and difficulty getting erect your mind will scare the shit out of you. The mind is very good at doing that. All of sudden you've lost control over something you previously had control over and you have no clarity on how long it will last. Your mind will say: "What if this is different from a flatline? Maybe this is permanent?" etc. Most people don't even know flatlines exist before it happens to them cause no one talks to them about it. I knew flatlines existed, but I didn't look into it because I didn't think it would be something that would happen to me. Also, it can last very long, and the amount of time it lasts is different for everyone.

I do feel an energy boost at around day 7, but it seems to stay the same from there, I don't think it increases the longer you go. It is also a good dopamine-detox and a good test of temptation, so there is some spiritual advantage in that regard. Something a lot of people don't seem to talk about is the flatline, which is a pretty scary thing to experience. This is also very true. It's definitely worth doing for at least 30 days just to see what happens and what you discover.

thank you for your effort

The ego is a scary thing. Good reality check.

they're joking lol

It's called samadhi BTW, although I don't think I've ever had one I wonder what this actually means. Even right now "you" are not separate from anything, so maybe samadhi is a conscious actualization of that fact. When I first heard this description I assumed you leave the body and start seeing from the perspective of a table or something, but I'm not sure if it's that drastic. It might be more of a recontextualization. Or maybe I'm completely wrong. Yeah, this is what I thought. I think I've had glimpses of it.

Pretty much all you need But basically religion is just teachings from very old enlightened masters

No-fap and ketosis

This is probably something a lot of people already know about, but you can search Google using images. If you need to see if Google has a certain image on their database you can just drag it into here: https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=EN

You yourself are also imaginary Also, what would proof that other people exist look like?

You will never get everyone you meet to respect you, this is a never-ending game you've created here. The solution is to be fine with that reality without changing it. Your sense of worth here is completely created by your own egoic paradigm. You have left your sense of worth at the hands of other people. You have to learn to love yourself without getting that love from other people. Your ego has created specific conditions which make it okay for you to love yourself, and if those conditions are broken it feels guilty for loving itself and thinks of itself as "scum" and "shit". You need to ask yourself why this is and where you adopted these conditions from. It's easy for me to give the advice, but I actually struggle with this stuff and relate to it a lot. I have also had similar thoughts and experiences, as if everyone's love towards me is conditional. But, this is also why it is so important to have the ability to love yourself without relying on other people to give you that love. The less you feel the need to control others the happier you will be.

hahaha, asking the real questions But honestly, I think they are real from what I've seen. Not sure about the starseed stuff though

Language is helpful, but it is just a pointer to the actual experience. It is not the actual experience itself, and so it will always be lacking in that aspect.

I have had such things happen even without sleep, but honestly can't tell if it's just my bad memory. I guess I'll never know.

Your higher self is your intuition. Or it could also refer to the underlying awareness behind everything, the pure awareness that does not change.

Consciousness is exactly what you are experiencing. That's it.

If I saw your reflection and my reflection at the same time, I wouldn't be me anymore. It would become a combination of you and me, which defeats the purpose of me being me. In order for you to be you, you cannot have access to someone else's perceptions, or you wouldn't be yourself anymore. This limitation is what it means for you to be you. You are me right now, but in order for you to be me, you cannot have memories or perceptions of your current life, or that wouldn't be me anymore If God wants to become a dog, God has to limit his memories and knowledge to that of a dog, because that's what it means to be a dog. A dog can't be conscious of another human's life at the same time, or else it wouldn't be a dog anymore.