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    All dopamine addictions will work the same, whether it be food, sex, YouTube, etc. So, you can try to find a pattern to how it works and then try applying it. You could try something like a dopamine detox.

    Personally, I'm doing intermittent fasting right now which is also acting as a sort of dopamine detox since I get so much enjoyment out of food. I have noticed I am less lazy now and much more grateful and happy when eating and doing other things that stimulate dopamine.

    1 hour ago, 4201 said:

    But hey, pushing this idea aside and assuming there's no brain, is there a way to permanently fix that issue through understanding? Is this issue a lack of understanding?

    Well, you're still functioning within the construct of a human body. I don't think you're gonna understand your way out of experiencing dopamine, but you can manipulate it through understanding it more. It is a very nice feature of reality, I think. It will reward you for not giving into temptations and it keeps balance to your enjoyment.

    In my experience, the "forcing yourself to do work" method didn't work very well for me. It was only after I quit video games out of boredom that I realized how useless it was and how I had wasted my entire time playing it. One day you will quit, and the game wont even matter to you one bit. It becomes irrelevant just like that, and then you will move on to the next big dopamine influx. The fact that something I put so much time into didn't even matter to me anymore drove me to realize how devastating the dopamine cycle can be.

  15. Posted · Edited by Osaid

    I believe Napoleon Hill used Infinite Intelligence to probe the ego in his book Outwitting The Devil, at the interview part.

    Apparently he had to let go of all his fear in order to achieve a conversation with "the devil". Leo also had a conversation with Infinite Intelligence which can be found on the blog.

    So perhaps it can be achieved through a state where you have no fear left, maybe through the use of psychedelics.

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    @lmfao There was a story with the Buddha that I'm reminded of. To paraphrase, someone spat on the Buddha and then the next day started apologizing for what he had done. Then the Buddha said something along the lines of "Why are you apologizing? You never spat on me. The person who spat on me is not here anymore"

    Basically, our identity is always changing. If you feel guilty about it and you've acknowledged your mistake, then you've already evolved to a different person now. You just need to make amends and move on.

  20. Posted · Edited by Osaid

    @Nak Khid It really is nothing, not how you're imagining it though.

    It is completely impossible to imagine BTW, because your mind is finite and can only know finite things, whereas nothingness is infinite and without duality. It's like trying to imagine what having no eyesight is like, it's just absent. There is the experience of it being absent. You don't see black, you don't see any colors, it's just completely gone. That's what turiya is like, but your entire reality is gone along with your eyesight. And you just exist there.

    I like how Rupert Spira describes it, "absence of absence". Your reality/body becomes nothing but existence is still there. It's a paradox to the finite mind.

    Pure consciousness would just be pure awareness with nothing else, aka nothingness. What else would it be? What do you think pure awareness is like? It's awareness with nothing else. Pure existence with no content.

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    I see this happen a lot and I just ignore it. Usually they're not really asking for my opinion and they just try to slip it into the conversation. Then i'll just ignore it or try not to validate it. But if they zone in on me and ask for my specific view then i'll try to tell them my view in the most easiest way for them to comprehend. Or I might take occasional jabs at certain things they say. Truth is, a lot of people won't be ready for the truth so you can't just throw it in their face or they will attack back to keep their ego alive.

    This happens a lot with my friends who are very unconscious and I know it will lead to conflict if I straight up called them out. You just gotta be gentle with it or ignore it for the time being. If you're too confrontational with it, their worldview will lock up and it will just become an ego fight. It is a tricky thing.