An young being

Sex is no different from other pleasures, if enjoying a spicy and tasty fried meat has a pleasure rating of 5 on a scale of 10, animalistic sex would have something around 9 to 10. Sex can be done in different forms, and each carries different pleasure levels. Pure animalistic sex or masturbation with only the urge to quench your thirst or desire without regard for the heart has the highest pleasure and hence the highest pain, especially for those with desires set on a spiritual path. Sex with the intention to feel pleasure mutually and connect with your partner romantically has a mixture of both pleasure and bliss. Tantric sex with a pure intention to connect with eyes and immerse in love with your partner or yourself has lower pleasure and higher bliss. Anything that is pleasurable is selfish in nature, and hence comes back to you in the form of pain one way or the other. When you are indulging in pleasurable activities like sex, eating, watching shorts or anything else, the activity itself may not be a hindrance to spiritual path, but with what intention you do the activity or how selfish you are while setting your intention or doing it.

A guru having consensual sex is not a problem. A guru who advocates against pleasure and disciplines his followers by not allowing them to have sex, and then secretly doing it himself can be a problem. A guru who takes advantage of his followers by telling them things like having sex with me will make you feel spiritual heaven or will speed up your liberation is a huge problem.

Wonderful! Jai shri ram !

TN

Yes, that's what we are.

Why mysterious? It has no mystery. Nothing to be known.

And very young too

What about homosexuals? What about earthworms? I believe everything can be simplified into opposites for the mind. For something to be different and thus create a distinction, atleast two has to be known. That's how logic exists. More than two also can be known. For white to be differentiated as white, black has to exist in our mind. For grey to be differentiated as grey, both white and black has to exist or known. Otherwise grey will become black. The question is, can one be known without its opposite? Can one be experienced without the opposite?

Your desire has to be very strong, you might have to think deep and find all the rewards you will get if you succeed in this exam. Then you can keep them as a motivation. If those rewards involve the happiness of others, those would work the best, for example for the happiness of your parents. Disciplining yourself with short term rewards also might help.

It could be like that, but as far as I remember, the sleep paralysis happened together with the dream. I previously had sleep paralysis a couple times in the normal way as well

Some biases are deeply rooted in most human beings and those are mostly for the sake of survival. It's necessary to keep those biases, so that you don't eat spoiled food or shit and get sick. But there are many biases which are developed due to our surroundings and environment. It's better to try reducing such biases so that you are open to more experiences in this universe. But if you think you already have too many experiences to immerse yourself in this world, you can keep those biases too. But God has the least bias, so if you wish to do that, better start noticing and destroying those biases.

Those who love horror movies would love sleep paralysis. I once felt like I had sleep paralysis, tried to break the shackles, finally woke up only to find myself back at the beginning. The loop continued for four to five times.

Two more things to add to the enlightenment list: 1. An apple cutter exists more complex than my nail cutter 2. Apples need not be round @UnbornTao @Nemra @Husseinisdoingfine Enjoy your favourite apples this weekend Maybe you don't love unripe ones! Sounds yummy, some might also love the rare ones which are purple, ironically ( or unironically) it's called a black diamond apple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Diamond_Apple#:~:text=The Black Diamond Apple (Chinese,white pulp on the inside.

Laughter is the best medicine! ( According to doctors) In my locality, mothers many times literally call their children gods (sami)

Looks like this post exists for you

Funny and enlightening at the same time. I never knew you could make sauce out of apple!

We know nothing about her, we don't even care if she will push for friendlier relationship with India or not, our state people want her to win because her maternal grandfather lived here long long ago. That's how deep family runs here 😂 https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/excitement-in-air-in-kamala-harris-ancestral-village-in-tamil-nadu/article68436804.ece Yes, we have lots of coconuts here, and we take full credit for the meme. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_production_in_India

You don't have to believe that you were conscious and forgot it. You just have to not believe that you weren't conscious at all. I don't know.

If you died and no one is around to remember it, does it mean your life's meaningless? That's a blessing! You aren't dumb though, you should get dumber so that you can experience life to its fullest!

Here's my thought process behind this question: The red one🍎 - the one that's expecting someone to reply to this post, the desire for my pleasure The green one🍏 - the one that's trying to help someone learn because of this post, the expectation to make others learn The yellow one - Having both the desires Stopping yourself from eating the forbidden fruit 🌳- trying to type all these with no ego at all - so that we don't notice the nakedness

How do you know if you had any experience if you don't remember it?

It's wise to consider that memory may not be a part of consciousness. Yes, you can still be wise, you don't need wisdom teeth for that!

Wonderful trying to describe what cannot be described. Every religion has the opportunity to become the best in the world, but most people forget the spiritual part within each, and choose to take pleasure in the egoic parts of it.

And of course, there's the mother of all ignorance, that pleasure is good for everyone since it makes people look happy.