Ima Freeman

NORMal things aren't automatically conformity

Stop trolling. You know that's totally false.

What really bogs my mind is how the whole endeavour of spirituality is to come to Truth, Awakening, God, Moksha,... But how certain of an attainment is this, if in all eternity, life is where it is right now. Confused, suffering, frustrated? Ok some joy, some clarity too, but still so confused, suffering, frustrated. In all eternity life is like it is right now. So how about a state of omiscience, of freedom, of clarity, when all of eternity lead to ignorance, bondage and confusion? It feels like it needs limitations to even be something.

Reminds me of Giordano Bruno's book that I am reading right now. Would you say that only via nothingness, the absolute can be experienced?

True in a sense, Catholic church, Communist parties, Monarchies, big industries,... Although I would say a lot of conditioning has to do with pragmatic survival matters, proper functioning of society, and general lack of education. The most important thing is how you develop yourself. Don't hope for elites to hand you everything on a silver platter.

Even if I see time as illusion, still there is sequence. Life flows as a state of consciousness, allowing things to happen in different specifications, limits,... So, you distinguish between this reality (understandable to a degree) and infinity (not understandable)? If not understanding, can you embody the absolute or shape yourself to reflect it?

Death is already here in a way. The acquired mind is futile and will wane again. And that's the whole point - it seems like awakening is happening over and over again, because sleep and ignorance will set in again and again. It's like night and day.

Cats definitely are frustrated sometimes.

Great saying! You came up with it?

Opening a discussion

Definitely, time is an illusion. I'm referring to spirituality, to reaching more holistic states of consciousness and, specifically how futile it seems. In this context, playing along the game does no good. If I play along, I would eat fastfood daily, bingwatching TV, Youtube, Netflix and TikTok, reading mainstream media, instead of doing yoga, watching out on my health, reading philosophy and contemplate,....

Interesting. A swinging pendulum it seems. There is a reason though that conservatives are taking over European parliaments. Mass migration from the Middle East made some damage.

I don't know what kind of week long debate is going on in this thread right know, don't bother to read that much. But I want to share some thoughts I had recently about the Israel-Palestine conflict. This whole conflict is the navel of human conflict. The conflict between East and West. The conflict between Global North and the Global South. The conflict between wealthy (post-)Europeans and poor dark skinned people.

My orgasms are weak and unfulfilling. For years I feel somehow unfulfilled, EVERY time I'm cumming. I thought that real sex, instead of masturbation, will change that. But since having a girlfriend for a year, sex gives me no significantly better orgasms. Maybe more pleasure in between, while having sex, but orgasms are not great.

Thank y'all for your different perspectives and strategies. Gonna study how to study now.

Since starting to seriously study again for college, I thought about how to do it very smart and dustainably instead of just pushing a lot of information into my mind for a short period of time. Especially now with the advent of AI there are many more intelligent ways to study. Apart from basics like finding interest and passion in the subject that you learn or finding connections between different fields, do you have practical strategies for how to aquire a lot of knowledge and expertise?

I just thought about how the degree of consciousness is closely related to health. As I experience cognitive issues, low clarity and peace of mind, an racing mind with constant daydreaming, it makes it clear to me, that good health is the prerequisite for achieving awakening. Further, health can be seen as the degree of awakening itself. If there is lack of energy, lack of stability in the body-mind system, if there is pain and other more subtle forms of discomfort, awakening can become impossible. It's not about having a individual healthy body. It's about shifting the state of Being itself to be God-like. The more energy, the more harmony, the more well-being, the more concentration, the more clarity, the more peace of mind there is, the deeper life can be grasped. While fatigue, sleepiness, dissonance, discomfort, scattering of attention, confusion, conflict are symptoms of illness and hinder awakening, truthfulness and insight. In this sense the quest for spiritual awakening and Oneness seems to be mostly the quest for the ultimate health of the universe. Of course there is more, like epistemology, open-mindedness, discipline, austerity, genetics, karma,... So, maybe this notion is incomplete. But still, I think the importance of Health with an capital H, as an overarching component of development is overlooked.

I recently had the experience of letting go of an attachment, in the form of clinging to savings, and can see what you wrote. How would you say, should one go about building a great life and not getting attached to goals? Of course this is different than pure awakening.

Should illness be accepted as Life's will? I' mean I still will fight for my health, but what comes out of it is what God or Life wants.

Making it out alive? How that?

In this case fasting should lead to higher vitality.

How do you know?

One could say so. God must by definition encompass everything. But you know what I mean. There are prerequisites for awakening. There are good states and bad states, the way nature laid it out, the way Life wants it.

@Sugarcoat Someone in a healthy state of consciousness cannot get suicidal, except people trying to do something like Mahasamadhi or radical people like jihadist who are sure to enter into a glorious afterlife. If you get suicidal thoughts, you either have some persistent physical ailment (heavy metals, chronic infections, hormonal imbalances ..) or psychological stress (bullying, poverty, loneliness, nihilism, ...) that you deem to be extremely hard to overcome or don't even see a way to overcome. If you have a healthy body and your needs are sufficiently met, you have radiant wellbeing in your body and happy emotions leading to constructive thoughts. There is no way for suicidal thoughts. Only when you experience persistent suffering and have little to no hope for relsolve than suicidal thoughts creep in as a self destruction mechanism, because the human system is geared towards wellbeing.