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  1. Posted · Edited by Osaid

    1 hour ago, Gesundheit said:

    but then how do you explain smoking, video games addiction, unhealthy diets, and all the other stupid things that humans do that clearly go against survival?

    It's actually a virtual identity which is trying to survive, AKA the ego. The ego does not have to pertain itself to just the physical body, people can identify with anything. The body is just a very common and primitive identification. Since the human mind is so complex, our identity can become heavily entangled with our environment and daily activities.

    For example, smoking keeps the ego comfortable and satisfied, and so it will do its best to perpetuate the cycle of smoking. The perpetuation of that cycle is survival. In this case, smoking is prioritized over the health of the body, and so the habit of smoking will be perpetuated by the ego.

    Ultimately, survival is just the maintenance of a specific form.

    Leo has a really good 2 part series on survival which explains this stuff in detail

     

     

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    1 hour ago, Someone here said:

    But who is the "you" that needs to survive? I think we are talking about the body here. So the ego is necessary for the body to survive. But then you are secretly admiting here that "you" are the body. 

    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.

    1 hour ago, Someone here said:

    But I meant you have no method to verify that yesterday memories really happened.. So how can you trust it undoubtedly? And this Is a rather important function of your survival and function in society. 

    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.

     

     

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    15 hours ago, Someone here said:

    Why does the "I" thought keep arising throughout your whole life even after seeing through the misidentification? 

    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.

    15 hours ago, Someone here said:

    What role do memories play in grounding your sense of self?  What is the difference between a memory and a thought? 

    Now a whole pack of questions can open up about memory .is the past even real ? No matter where you look you can't find anything but the present and How can we trust our memory if any at all? Etc but I will just stop here. 

    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?

  11. Posted · Edited by Osaid

    29 minutes ago, sat2493 said:

    What is the difference between karma and equivalent exchange?

    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.

     

  12. Posted · Edited by Osaid

    18 hours ago, sat2493 said:

    What are some of the most fundamental lessons that one, or a conscious being, learns in life?

    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

    18 hours ago, sat2493 said:

    How does one take into account the uniqueness of their own lessons in life? For example, I know my lesson involving cheating was definitely meant for me, but it does not necessarily apply to all coders.

    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.

     

    18 hours ago, sat2493 said:

    Are lessons just semantic? Is it even possible to have a conversation about lessons when every person has a subjective lesson they need to learn to understand concepts?

    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.

     

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    17 hours ago, communitybuilder said:

    Why do I not have an extremely high level of understanding, or even total understanding, of how reality / the universe works? If I'm 'God,' shouldn't it be easy to understand exactly how everything works, since I built everything / am everything? Shouldn't I have all the laws of physics, chemistry, computer programming, and the rest of the universe's information at my fingertips, with perfect understanding of how they all work? I definitely don't have access to even 1% of this today.

    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.

    17 hours ago, communitybuilder said:

    why do I not have an extremely high degree of control over my reality?

    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?"

    17 hours ago, communitybuilder said:

    where is everything else that I'm not currently experiencing from my human consciousness POV? Where are all of the colors, visuals, sounds, and emotions that I KNOW exist (since I've experienced them at other points in my life), but aren't in my current experience/POV?

    You're imagining all of these things, until you experience them. And then, when you don't experience them, you're imagining it again.

     

  15. Posted · Edited by Osaid

    20 minutes ago, lmfao said:

    ^^this. Its a very weird experience, I ended up getting scared and quitting nofap midway. Maybe next time I do nofap I'll push through

    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.

    14 minutes ago, BornToBoil said:

    I honestly don't get why people worry about it that much. If you are aware that it will happen and that it will pass then what's the bid deal?

    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.

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    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.

    2 minutes ago, BornToBoil said:

    Also it's an opportunity to learn more about your body and your sexuality.

    This is also very true.

    It's definitely worth doing for at least 30 days just to see what happens and what you discover.

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    6 hours ago, The_Alchemist said:

    "Human behavior is 93 percent predictable, a group of leading Northeastern University network scientists recently found."And both of these thoughts are in line with something Napoleon Hill suggested 80 years ago in Outwitting the Devil, that 98% of people are controlled by external forces against their real and true interests.


    "With two days of data, basically all human behavior is predictable. It turns out that people do the same thing EVERYDAY" -Charles Isbell
    "92% of what we worry about is NON ESSENTIAL" Earl Nightingale

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11362246/Just-three-in-10-people-feel-happy-with-their-lives.html
    Researchers find 69 per cent of people feel trapped in the same old routine and over 40 per cent are unhappy with their lives
    https://www.swnsdigital.com/2017/02/80-of-americans-admit-to-being-stuck-in-a-routine/
    80% of Americans Admit to Being Stuck in a Routine

    The ego is a scary thing. Good reality check.

     

  20. Posted

    It's called samadhi BTW, although I don't think I've ever had one 

    1 hour ago, InterruptReQuest said:

    where one's consciousness will merge with an object or another being's

    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.

    5 minutes ago, snowyowl said:

    But not in the sense of my consciousness separating from my body and moving into another object as you describe. Its more like starting from a state of me observing the object as an external separate thing, in a subject-object relationship. And moving to a state of unity where the duality collapses, the observer merges with the observed. So there is no longer an object 'in consciousness', just pure consciousness.

    Yeah, this is what I thought. I think I've had glimpses of it.

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    2 hours ago, triadne said:

    if someone, say for example and internet troll, fails to see how right I am, how kind I am, how skilled I am, if they don't respect me for how special I am, I can't just let them get away with that

    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.

    2 hours ago, triadne said:

    and being kind is especially good trait. I am so good at this, that people have to like me for that. if they don't, then I am worthless

    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.