Tim R

How do I recognize it when action or thought stems from the spiritual ego? When for example I see a beggar on the street and give him some money, how do I ensure that this isn't motivated by selfishness masked as selflessness? Wait a minute... Why do I have the desire to avoid selfishness by avoiding a spiritual ego? I'm still being selfish then... It's impossible to do it, isn't it? I can't get around being selfish, no matter what. What should I do? Act out the selfishness? Or pretend to be selfless? It's a perfect trap...

@Blackhawk That's not true at all.

@The0Self Bro. That's 1,5g?

@Tovius Nice?❤

I don't think this is the case. What makes you think that for example yellow admires blue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracles_of_Jesus What do you think about this? Leo sometimes talks about healing and being able to will certain things into existing at sufficiently high levels of consciousness. Was Jesus maybe such an advanced individual? How is this connected to Siddhis? Or are these just stories?

I just realized that open-mindedness is a form of Love. Furthermore, it's a form of courage and trust. Open-mindedness is willingness to die. Because to have an open mind means to face and accept the possibility of the death of ones previous identity and/or belief system. It's a form of trusting yourself to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Holy sh*t, I didn't think this would go that deep. So far I thought open-mindedness was just a...useful trait, I guess? But damn. Now I finally understand why @Leo Gura said that his open-mindedness killed him...

@Gesundheit Lol what does it say???

He describes Love. That's what Love is, pure Acceptance of what is. Without a choice for acceptance or rejection. Reality = Love

That's basically the entire problem with trying to get rid of racism. The end goal is to actually embody the hippie notion of "I don't see race", but in order to get there, we have to take two enormous steps: 1) eliminate systemic racism by a) becoming aware of it b) changing the system 2) and this is the really difficult step: bring up a generation which actually doesn't learn to categorize people based on their skin color anymore than you categorize people based on their hair or eye color. As @Preety_India said correctly: There's nothing wrong with seeing, acknowledging, accepting and embracing our inherent differences. It's true, that's actually real love. Racism arises, when we act in some negatively discriminating manner based on those differences. Btw, "discrimination" has become a bad word. "Discrimination" per se is not a bad thing. It simply means "choosing something over something else" and we do it all the time (-->basically decision making). We must be careful not to abandon the notion of "discrimination" altogether. We have to discriminate, but: on a fair basis.

@Breakingthewall Yeah, that "well of nothing" is you, but that doesn't answer my question

Well said.

@Breakingthewall How do you come to that conclusion?

Omg this is great??

@Someone here You asked the same thing 2 days ago, we gave you the answer. A=A That's it. There is no "reason" behind it. If I were to tell you "well it's because this and that, and 3 billion years ago something happened which caused something else and because of that blah blah blah...", this would simply be dodging the essence of your question. You desire an explanation that will satisfy your mind, forget it. It won't happen. You're asking "why is A=A?" As I told you before, this is an inherently meaningless question. Which is why you won't/can't get a meaningful answer.

@Rilles I want to see you argue with Teal Swan

@Philipp Doubt arises only in the mind. Beyond the mind, there is no doubt.

This started happening to me a couple of weeks ago; every time I go for a run, when I stop running after around 2km (1,2miles) and start walking instead, the world suddenly becomes like on a trip, but without the visuals. Everything becomes absolutely beautiful, fascinating and interesting, more vivid, playful and easy. Especially the beauty of it all can really overwhelm me. I even made a post a while ago, right after this effect happened to me stronger than I've ever experienced it. Brought me to tears. Why does this happen? Anybody else have this?

@StudentOfLeove Nicht schlecht Bruder. Die Lyrics sind sehr geil

Lol @Leo Gura Ever heard of this?

It's mythology. Mythology is supposed to get a principle across, not accurately describe the world. Think of Greek mythology. Those stories also aim at conveying some underlying principle. They contain very symbolic imagery, like Medusa or the many Gods. Yugas work the same way. They describe a principle.

Try finding a better sitting position. Your sitting position isn't supposed to hurt. If you want to sit in this kneeling position, get a little meditation bench.

Do you have some post-meditation routine? Like maybe stretching or going for a walk or something? Or drinking a cup of tea? Or sitting around for 5 minutes not doing anything? Or looking at something? Sometimes my mind just gets right back into thinking mode after my meditation time is up. As though it couldn't wait for it to be over, you know what I mean? So I thought maybe a little routine might help to smoothen this straight cut between no-mind and mind. Your thoughts on this?

"Evil" is synonymous with "against my egotistic survival agenda". Or what's your question?

@Someone here You're basically asking "why is everything the way it is and not any different way?" But look, if things were different, they would still be the same - in the sense that they are what they are. That which is, is, and therefore has no alternative. Because if "the alternative" would be, it would be the only way it could be, because it is!! This is extremely tautological and doesn't make any sense from a logical point of view, I know. What I'm saying is A=A. And you're asking "why is A=A and not A=B?" Because A is A! It is itself and therefore can't be anything but itself, even if reality would be B, it would be B and not A. My answer is meaningless because your question is meaningless.