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It takes strong determination to succeed at meditation. I know a monk who meditated in Burma and he spent several months sitting up while he slept, and his sleep was only for a few hours a day. He wouldn’t sleep laying down. That is the lengths people go to make meditation work. It isn’t easy. Nobody does that in America, so people just see the results and say it was a natural gift.

The Buddhists believe that Buddha had been working on himself for multiple reincarnations in the past. That could be confused with genetics, which is a recent explanation of scientific materialism.

I just got back from two weeks in the Amazon. It was highly useful. The jungle changes you. Nature has a different rhythm than modern life, which is noisy and chaotic. Everything flows, moves slowly with focused attention. It is a community,( the plants, insects, animals) that moves and flows together like a dance. No one in the jungle gives orders and commands. Everyone wants to eat you. Being in nature gets you in contact with the Tao.

Just lower the dosage. You can micro-dose 5-meo and use it to teach you how to meditate.

Who cares if he has powers? What good does that do for you? Shouldn’t that question be: can this person teach my something useful? All gurus are fake. They are followed by lazy people who don’t want to put in the effort.

You learn to be shy. It is a type of learning. You had traumatic experiences when you were a child and your mind decided that avoidance is the best strategy for survival. If you accept this model, there is possibility for change. You can learn social skills and intentionally expose yourself to social situations that your mind is screaming at you to avoid. You can unlearn the behavior and learn better strategies to survive in an adult world.

I have a friend who trained in a monestary as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He introduced me to the practice of the Green Tara. He believes in her so devotedly that he can manifest visions of her in front of his eyes. But at the same time he realizes that she is just a symbol in his mind pointing to compassion. He plays with the belief system. He is not attached. The real Buddhist are so beyond the triteness you find on the Internet.

All beliefs are bullshit, including the non duality fad. That's why the real Buddha provided a practice, and not beliefs. If you want to see who is real you have to make personal contact. The Internet is a bullshiter's paradise.

The Buddha didn’t read books. He followed a path of direct experience. My impression of Wilbur is that he likes to synthesize and create grand systems. So he can read 400 books and synthesize the knowledge. He can take 400 mind castles and create 1 mind castle. But his system doesn't go beyond the opinions of 400 authors. He has no direct experience. I am not awake either. But I know that I have to be 100% honest with myself and live with the unknown to get out of the trap of my own mind and other people’s arbitrary opinions.

Reading books is not an accomplishment.

Your dad is right.

My ex-wife was from Colombia. I have been there dozens of times. It just shows he is picking up women of ill repute in order to get layed and has no ability to judge character. More proof that all PUAs are frauds.

It’s a matter of your personal preferences. In my opinion, Hollywood movies are shallow trash and foreign countries are producing superior content. I’m also not impressed by most of the American spiritual teachers.

Not telling your therapist about a psychedelic is like taking a heart medication and then going to see you doctor, without telling him, and expecting it to somehow turn out all right. Stan Grof is one of the pioneers of LSD therapy. If you are interested in using LSD then you should seek out a therapist who has been trained in a method of therapy using LSD. The problem is that if you have a serious freakout reaction, you need a healer who knows what he or she is doing. The healer can guide you so that you liberate energy as opposed to being retraumatized. The healers I have seen at shamanic ceremonies have a natural gift for guiding people through these experiences. I doubt there are many therapists that have a clue on how to do this. Taking psychedelics alone is called entertainment.

My opinion is that LSD is too much in the head and not a good choice. My most powerful experiences of connection have been with San Pedro (Huachuma). It takes me from my head into my heart like no other medicine. San Pedro has a natural form of mescaline. It is used in a day ceremony where you can connect with nature and other people. You heal each other in a safe container.

Any belief that forms an identity which fuels anger and hatred is low consciousness and will bite you in the ass. The pretense won’t reduce your suffering.

I recently met a guy at an ayahuasca ceremony who was a monk for several years in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. It was his first time. I have been meditating for years and I could tell from his demeanor that he was way advanced. I asked him to describe his trip. He said that mother aya came to him and asked him how far he wanted to go. He said: “I want to go as far as you can take me”. She then unleashed and sent him on a deep journey, and then came back and said ok now let’s get to work.

I have learned to give these medicines the greatest respect. That’s why I do ceremonies. It’s about respecting their power and holding space. At any moment, they can decide to take you into uncharted territory and farther down the rabbit hole than you are prepared to go. Less medicine is better.

Here is a well done video on Tate by a criminal lawyer.

Thank you for this video. It clearly shows that he is a con artist and a criminal.

He should contradict himself. God can't be contained in a logical box.

There are many philosophies and religions that will give you a simple and non-contradictory definition of God. The problem is that they are all wrong. Osho treats the subject with the respect that it requires.