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@Sahi96 Just for the sake of understanding, let's differentiate between "love" and "Love". "love" is the emotion that we feel towards something or someone. Let's take a look at this "love", what precisely do we mean when we say "I love you" ? Isn't saying "I love you" basically the same as saying "I accept and embrace you exactly as you are" ? "Love" is the same. It's like saying "I accept and embrace you exactly as you are.", only in this case, it's existence saying to itself "I accept and embrace you exactly as you are." (this is a metaphor of course). Existence is 100% selfless(ness). There is no individual self within existence, which could reject anything else within existence. Love isn't something that existence "does" it's something that existence is. Existence is pure, selfless acceptance of what is, what ever it might be. Love is therefore not the opposite of suffering or evil, Love has no opposite. It can't have an opposite because that would mean that there's something "outside" of the acceptance of what is, but whatever is, is, and therefore "accepts itself" as existing. The "act" of existing is the same as the act of "accepting". You understand? But we as human being have egos. And egos have a survival agenda, which means, that there are certain thing which serve this agenda and certain other things which don't serve this agenda. Which means that we'll "love" the things that serve us and reject the things that don't. It's our selfishness that prevents us from seeing Love.

That is so cool

@Vision Do you feel like your meditation is something that you must do?

Spiritual bypassing is a real problem for me and I have to stop it. I feel like I've "brainwashed" myself with all kinds of ideas about life in order to escape reality. When I started my journey a couple of years ago, I had just moved out from home and enjoyed the freedom. But instead of creating a solid foundation for my life, I kept bumbling around, smoking weed, listening to Alan Watts talking about how reality isn't serious and life's just a game yadayadayada. You know the drill. So this of course is just perfect to reject a responsible and solid way of living. I want to... well, not "go back" to the basics, because I know that there's only moving forward, but stop the bypassing and build a proper life without giving up spirituality (because I love it). And yet, spirituality is still more ideas than actuality for me, although I've had a couple of real and deep experiences. So I know it's real and I know that it's worthwhile and I'm not gonna say "ok f*ck spirituality, it made my life worse" no, spirituality is great but I think I'll have to be honest about it and admit that maybe I'm not yet mature enough to really go deep with it. As Jung said, the first half of life is to develop the ego and the second half is to prepare for death. So... that's probably a good plan. What concrete steps should I implement? Thank you❤

Yeah but that's the way it has to be. Among the millions of followers and listeners, a few will lick blood and get to work and they'll dive deeper than the rest. Tolle's teachings are exactly perfect as they are, providing a smooth and rather easy entrance into spirituality. You can't tell people "oh ok you wanna get into spirituality? Cool, and btw; you're actually dead, reality is an illusion and your family ain't real." See how many people will get into spirituality if it wasn't for guys like Tolle... So there really is no need to be particularly biased against mainstream teachers imo.

@justfortoday You know what's also gonna be really weird? When after a while you try to recontextualize the world back into 3-D. And then you'll go like "ahh right, that's how I used to see the world, it's beautiful as well. How could I've missed this my whole life?" nice work btw!

There's a cool phenomenon called "semantic satiation" when you say a word so often that it suddenly starts to lose any meaning and becomes nothing but a funny noise Not to forget glossolalia...

@Steelheart Depends on what you yourself feel to be sufficient. And god only knows how many factors there are to that. But I think one can say fairly confidently that online interactions can't really replace face-to-face. We're social animals after all and a real person is just not the same as a display

@K Ghoul Jesus Christ man, chill. Giving Joseph shit for trying to help someone, what the hell? Not helpful. You don't have to donate or anything, but don't trash him like that when he's being kind and generous.

Wow man, what a story! Glad that you brought yourself a bit closer to yourself

I just found out about this guy named "Elliot Rodgers" (read abut him in a post by @Preety_India). Though his story is tragic, it's a good opportunity to learnt about resentment, narcissism and neglect. He ended up shooting and killing people out of this resentment. He also wrote a manifesto, in case you're interested in his very private thoughts and motivations: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1173808-elliot-rodger-manifesto.html Resentment is just so unbelievably destructive...

Currently, 1CP-LSD is legal where I live. But not for long, it's been decided to make it illegal within the next few months, so I thought about... prophylactic hoarding, essentially What are your experiences with it? (I mean with the substance, not the hoarding lol) I'm also interested in using it for microdosing, does anyone here have experience with that?

Imagine you got the opportunity for an interview with God. You are allowed to ask one question, so think carefully. What would you ask?

@Cireeric Yup. Ok cool so... guess I'll make mir ein Wurschtbrot

@outlandish Thanks!

Every time Nahm replies, I feel that I don't understand sh*t... so much to learn... almost discouraging. But only almost @Nahm So as far as I could make it out, "feeling" is the ultimate guidance, yes? Feeling will guide you towards your true nature, as long as you have an allowing relationship to them?

@JosephKnecht What about this one then?

@Chumbimba Aren't you trying to become more confident to eventually sleep with them? Otherwise... what's the point?

What do you guys think about the relation that we as (more or less) younger people have towards the elderly in our societies? How important do you think this relationship is? How does it look like when the relationship between the younger and older generation is healthy? How does this relationship dynamic change across the spiral development of individuals and society at large? In all societies across human history, the older generation was considered wise and respectable and younger people often came to them for life advice and wisdom, since this tends to develop naturally as you age. This is not really how I feel our societies (in the West) relate to the old. We regard them as a sort of burden. Depending on the demography of your country, these dynamics change. Living in Germany, I'm sure to have a different relation to the elderly than someone who lives in let's say India, where most people aren't very old yet. So what can both young and old do in order to improve their relationship?

https://youtu.be/mnn0IU0-atg?t=3770 Ever since I've glimpsed Love, it's the most amazing thing I've ever come across. I feel like I have more Love in my heart, but still not enough. Why is that? Is that what was meant by saying that life is a race for love? Because look, if I feel like there's not enough Love, whether I'm not loving myself or others enough, I'm (at least seemingly) in discord with Love, because I don't love my lack of Love. Ok, so the answer to overcoming that is obviously "that's okay too, loving your lack of Love is the solution". So if it's a race, isn't that an "infinite lack" of Love that must be resolved with "more" Love? How then can there be such a race in the first place? And why is everything else silliness? Aren't collecting shoelaces and fear part of that race as well? @Leo Gura Thank you for that video, it's my absolute favorite. Keep making videos on Love, you're amazing❤

Yea but that's not Love and not what I mean

lmao???

@Kalo It's not that I want Love for myself, that's not Love, it's the opposite, it's giving yourself and whatever you have to offer, and the funny thing is, that for some reason that creates more Love. And that's where I feel as though I never am enough Love, in other words, I feel like my Love is too little. Idk maybe you're right, maybe it somehow has something to do with ego. Probably.

Love is more than a by-product tho.

Holy shit these videos are so damn good