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Intense suffering becomes less intense as time passes and heals itself. But consider a situation like this: you dedicated your life for the nation. You are caught in the enemy hands. You are tortured endlessly. You are given food through a tube, so you can't resist eating and die. You have no choice but to suffer endlessly till you are broken. Does God help him here? An open minded question with no point to prove.

Compassion involves the ego more in the sense that it helps to dissolve it.

Everything is selfish as long as your ego exists. But we can always desire to be less selfish.

What about ego centric desires? Desire to kill and rape?

You don't have to resist. It's entirely possible to allow compassion to overcome the feeling of desire.

Actions indeed have consequences. It is entirely possible to meditate only 5 minutes a day or be mindful and still attain enlightenment. But, you have to practice compassion, gratitude, Unconditional love, forgiveness etc. in your daily life. You have to break the barrier of sex, religion, nationality, and all those that divide you and enlarge your circle of inclusion of ego and humanity as much as you can. Once you enlarge your ego to include everyone and everything, the ego bubble will burst and you will become one with the air.

For those who don't understand: Moths - Humans Light - Spiritual knowledge Moon and natural light sources - Mindfulness, compassion, gratitude, basic meditation, step by step spiritual paths - main purpose is to guide our life in the right direction through the desire for enlightenment Artificial light sources - Extreme meditation, psychedelics - promises Enlightenment in a short duration but we keep on dashing into the light to know more and more. Ultraviolet light - Highest form of spiritual knowledge ( Violet colour is the third eye chakra) Predators - People earning money by offering quick and guaranteed enlightenment using artificial lights. Now, watch the video taking these points in into your mind.

What is knowable and known is that there are tonne load of things to experience using our human mind in this life. Everything else doesn't matter to me, the eternal truth, the ultimate consciousness, all these are just things to be treated as an experience, not as something that is our ultimate goal or ultimate knowledge. But to believe that I have unearthed the ultimate level of consciousness is also a good experience. But, at the core, it's just a belief.

How did you manage to see it at first?

The fact that something like quantum entanglement exists simply shows that how complex the rules are in the universe.

You do enjoy playing video games knowing that you are not that character, right? Just because the whole game is made of the same code doesn't mean you are not able to differentiate the individual things, even if you know for the first time that it's all the same code.

Most of the people who undergo extreme suffering either die quickly or undergo the pain for a short duration. Even if they continue experiencing pain, their mind gradually gets used to it and they return back to their normal standards after sometime. Isn't it nature's beautiful and balancing act of reducing suffering and prolonging their survival at the same time?

Consciousness is said to be fundamental. And yet, we wake up after sleep with no memory of being aware during sleep. Could it be the case that we were indeed aware during sleep, but our memory is not switched on during sleep to record or recall our experience?

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@Florian You are right, but I was talking about the ego dissolution experience. It's true that psychedelics ( and also long term meditation) increase serotonin and dopamine levels, which I believe is the cause for the synchronicities and hallucinative experiences and also allows the universe to be more in control of you, and you to be more in control of the universe. But, I firmly believe ego dissolution is the result of switching off your brain parts that limits you and draws boundary to your body and ego. The brain has evolved to contain you to your ego ( for your survival, of course), but by switching off those parts, you realise that you have no boundaries. Here is a research article that supports my view: https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/we-now-know-what-a-spiritual-awakening-looks-like-inside-the-brain/

These are just my views, so feel free to shatter them. 1. Both psychedelics and years of meditation work by reducing activity in the brain and can produce the oneness experience. We are not producing any new experience here, instead we are just shutting down the veil created by the brain. Both psychedelics and years of meditation does this job perfectly. 2. Psychedelics do not produce all the beneficial effects as years of meditation. Imagine you are a rich guy and you are born with a Mercedes. Will he experience the same joy of attaining the Mercedes compared to a poor guy who worked hard for years and earned the same Mercedes ? In the first case, it was a gift, while in second case it was a reward for your hardwork. 3. Spirituality and meditation builds your character and makes you ready for that divine experience. The experience of oneness will shatter you into thousand pieces if you are not ready for it, especially if you are clinging strongly to your ego. Even extreme meditation alone is not enough to make you ready for it. It works the best only if you work from the lower chakras like survival and happiness to the middle chakras of unconditional love, compassion, gratitude and forgiveness. Then only you can go to the higher chakras of enlightenment if you wish to attain all the benefits of it, even though you can skip those lower and middle parts. 4. Psychedelics are there for their therapeutical benefits, but not strictly for enlightenment. If you are not able to achieve the oneness experience with years of meditation ( atleast 5 to 10 years), don't straightaway jump into psychedelics. Strengthen your heart first by filling your mind with love, compassion, gratitude and forgiveness, weaken your ego ( by enlarging it's circle of inclusion) and then try meditation. Even if you didn't experience the so called enlightenment experience, you would have already reaped many benefits from the process. Still, if you are longing for that experience after doing the above, then you can try psychedelics where it is legal.

I understand what you meant, but using science to justify Spiritual concepts might help it to reach wider audience. I understand your enthusiasm, but as even Leo says, there are many levels of enlightenment. We have many posts to discuss that, so let's not go to the farthest end and try to explain it in simpler terms. If you tell someone not interested in Spirituality or Enlightenment that sleep is not real, very few people will believe it, even if it's true. On the other hand, if we prove something using science, people will readily accept it. My goal here in this post is not to understand reality at it's deepest or rawest form, but trying to use science to justify a spiritual concept that is widely acknowledged, which is awareness is fundamental. I meant not to dwelve further than what I already know, and to verify what I already know using science, so that more people become interested in it.

It might help a lot, especially for those people experiencing mental suffering, but for those people who have moderate to lots of free time, I suggest meditation and mindfulness while simultaneously developing a strong heart and a purpose. Once you have tried that with no results, maybe you can try other methods like psychedelics. Enlightenment is extremely beneficial, it can even cause permanent changes in your way of thinking, but it's better to make sure you are ready to take that all in at once.

Ok, I will be open here. I don't want to understand the nature of awareness,atleast for now, because it's too complex for me to understand. The main point I want to make here is that, many people argue that awareness is not fundamental because there is no awareness during sleep and something called unawareness exists, even though it is inside awareness. This is because awareness comes back after deep sleep. My question is, is there any research that supports that memory is inactive during deep sleep and doesn't record awareness? If that's the case, nobody can claim that we are not aware during deep sleep. I believe that memory is exclusive to brain and ceases to exist once our brain is dead, but awareness is fundamental.

I perceive it because there is no memory of me being aware during deep sleep. That's the only way I can guess if I was aware during deep sleep or not. How else do you suggest I can find out if I am aware or not during deep sleep? @Princess Arabia while this has some good ideas, this doesn't entirely explain if I am aware or not during deep sleep. I am aware that I slept and it felt good, but not during the sleep, but only after completing it. The peaceful feeling could very well be the result of my chaotic memories being aligned during sleep.

Fear of death is created for survival by nature. Those who feared death lived longer lives and survived. Man of current conscious levels wouldn't have existed if the ancestors didn't fear death. Fear of death won't vanish completely from humanity until we have complete control over our mind and it's experiences.

Thank you! But all the credit doesn't go to meditation, I naturally had some resistance to pain ( only external) but I fortified it with the help of meditation. Seems different people have different resistance to pain.

I was able to overcome suffering due to external physical pain using meditation to a large extent by focusing on the pain ( in specific cases like heating and getting beaten) but for some reason, I was not able to escape the suffering due to internal pain( eg. Pain caused due to head ache) .

I have no experience regarding solipsism, but I have experienced great synchronicities that fundamentally need everyone and everything around me to work together just so that I can learn some things. If the universe can do that, then sollipsism is definitely possible.