Gesundheit

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  1. Thinking in terms of "better" and "worse" is ego. What do you want?
  2. Maybe she was speechless. I've had times where I could not even express the depth of the insights I've been having, although all sober. In certain states of mind, the simple act of talking feels like the biggest hypocrisy in the world. And it's true, thought always betrays the essence. No words can communicate. Sometimes talking about wisdom feels like the exact opposite of wisdom. Sometimes it feels like the wisdom is the source of ego. It really gets strange at times.
  3. Sorry but I don't think you do. What's the point? You're gonna die eventually anyway. So, it definitely has nothing to do with wisdom, and everything to do with desire, fear, pride, and attachment, etc... aka ego.
  4. Riddims like this one are what makes Jamaican music culture the best.
  5. Contemplating death puts reality into perspective. Because life is not everything, the picture is not complete without death.
  6. @Mosess Without ego, none of these concerns could exist. Concerns = fear = ego "In other words, go jump off a cliff. Don’t go near the cliff and contemplate jumping off. Don’t read a book about jumping off. Don’t study the art and science of jumping off. Don’t join a support group for jumping off. Don’t write poems about jumping off. Don’t kiss the ass of someone else who jumped off. Just jump." -- Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
  7. Why did Nahm appear in my dream last night?
  8. When I think back about my last relationship, I realize that I have no regrets. Even though it ended very sadly and gave me quite a heavy shock later on when I found out that she's having a psychotic episode, but I still feel that we did everything right, both during and after. We both made no mistakes. It just wasn't destined to be. We seized the moment entirely, spent a lot of time together, talked every day and every night, shared love - it was sacred and mystical - and we grew a lot together. We lived the connection to the fullest. We worshipped each other. She was the kind of person who is a good student, and a great teacher. And to her, I was the same. She was the purest soul I've ever known, literally. She was simply out of this world. I realize how strange the story that we've had is. You just can't find two more similar people. It's pretty rare. And it's gone. And we're done. Strange. She was strange.
  9. Describes me perfectly. Strange I'd forgot all about it for a long time.
  10. I feel like I'm starting to lose the ability to think purposefully. It happened twice yesterday. I was trying to respond to replies here and I was unable to find the words that I was looking for. I was perfectly aware and was able to read and understand and talk and everything. It's just that when I was trying to force certain thoughts to come up, it felt like they were somehow blocked from me. Eventually, I did find the words and post the replies, and they were good I think. But it was extremely difficult, like creating matter out of nothing.
  11. Quite a misleading title though.
  12. How do you know or determine what enough caring is? What if you were right the whole time and everyone else was wrong?
  13. This question is false because it's presented in a non-contextual manner, and without context, there cannot be answers. The relationship between thought and truth is 100% contextual. You cannot define truth without a context. Before the context existed, truth was impossible.
  14. By stopping all self-help and self-actualization work. When you feel exhausted; stop, rest, breathe, sleep, have a snack, etc... Just don't keep pushing.
  15. You're probably wasting your energy by squandering it all over the place. Try a dopamine detox challenge.
  16. @Fuku Can you track it down back to the moment where it started exactly? How did it start and how did it evolve? Chances are it wasn't extreme at first, but then as soon as it started, you started feeding into it until it got here. Also, ask yourself this question: if there was no porno for your specific kink, would you still have it? And if that specific porn category suddenly disappeared from existence, how would that affect your life?
  17. As I am reading the thread on Leo recruiting for a gf, I realize that there are a few people here who are literally like spam. I may need to make use of the ignore function from now on.
  18. How many masturbation marathons did it take you before you realized this was a mistake? Be honest ? Anyway I am disappointed. You got my hopes up as I was expecting spiritual porno ?? Okay seriously don't ban me. I wish you good luck whatever you decide.
  19. Totally clueless here. Any thoughts? Perhaps consider which perspective(s) you're deriving your answers from. I would definitely love to hear especially from the spiritual perspective as well as the materialist perspective. What is understanding?
  20. It's the exact opposite of desire. So pure, it only presents itself in the absence of desire. It's beyond description. It transcends both hell and heaven. Once you desire it (or anything else for that matter), you will lose it. It is the most sacred thing there is. It is not to be touched by the profanity of the ego.
  21. I'm not sure I understand your question, but I have a theory for the human psyche. The theory assumes separation in the human psyche in two categories; conscious and unconscious. The conscious is unconditional, slow, present, of little capacity for storage, and aware. The unconscious is conditioned, extremely quick, and of extremely large capacity for storage. In essence, no external or internal events should have any emotional effects. Emotions emerge due to the qualitative differences between the conscious and the unconscious. When an event occurs, it affects both sections. But the reactions in each section differ, again due to the qualitative differences. Let's take physical pain for example. What is it actually? One way to define pain is that it's an extremely condensed form of psychological fear. Certain undesired events keep reoccurring. The mind is in resistance. Fear emerges. It keeps accumulating and accumulating until it turns into physical pain. This pain is a fear strong enough to make the mind figure out ways to move away from it, because the initial fear wasn't enough. So what once was superficial fear/conscious emotional pain, now after decades or maybe even lifetimes of conditioning has become deep fear, which is unconscious physical pain. The body and the psyche store that information in the unconsciousness because it's much faster and has much more capacity than consciousness. Now, if you want to unpack that conditioning, you can, at least theoretically. But you'd have to shift everything to the conscious and away from the unconscious. I don't know if that's possible, but I don't see why not. After all, it's all one thing, not two. Duality is imaginary.
  22. I find what you said a little bit problematic because you're separating the innate from the acquired. This separation may have practical value, but in the context of truth, I think it's not the best way to approach this discussion. The innate, we actually acquired from our ancestors. The acquired, we inherit to our descendants, and it becomes their innate. This circle keeps going to infinity. But there's no actual separation between the two. So that's the fundamental problem here. This separation assumes that there are things that can be changed (acquired) and some other things that cannot (innate). I find that to be incorrect from my personal experience. Second, I disagree with your views on attraction. We don't feel attracted towards what maxes out our survival. But let's assume it is about survival. Still it's tricky because what do you mean by that? Is survival purely physical or psychological? Or both? Regardless, how do we even know what is good for our (physical, psychological, whatever) survival? When we say survival, it's not that simple. We have to know exactly how it works in reality. Notice that ultimately what survival means is maintainance, actually. And what is maintainance but keeping the Pavlovian reflex alive while at the same time allowing change and adaptation? This Pavlov scientist figured all of reality out with this one concept, which I actually find identical to non-duality. Reality is nothing but a Pavlovian reflex. I think what modern scientists do is just patching their theories about life with evolution since it's the most prominent theory in our time. And I think many people do the same as well.