Tim R

Good idea. And a "solipsism questions not allowed" policy haha

Meditation isn't something that you're doing. Meditation is the awareness of what is. And awareness isn't something that you're doing, is it? It even says it: "being aware", not "doing aware". Meditation (as something that you are) and and enlightenment are identical.

My God... You guys also sometimes just tear up over how unbelievably beautiful reality is? Just went for a run.. And I couldn't contain it anymore. How is this possible, I don't know, but thank God... Thank God for Love, thank God for reality, with all its struggles and problems, thank you. It's gorgeous❤️

Before enlightenment, watch cat videos on YouTube. After enlightenment, watch cat videos on YouTube.

Your thoughts are making you sad, nothing else.

@zeroISinfinity Lichess or Chess.com? Yup, that's me. Idk where you live, but where I live it's evening, so... wanna play a couple of rounds?

Showing our faces lol. What's the point of life

@RendHeaven Thanks @Someone here ❤

This becomes evermore important in our own lives...

For sure! @EmptyVase Nice! No, I currently study biology at the JLU in Gießen the next semester is my last one. I'm not quite sure yet whether I wanna get a masters as well (biochemistry) or study something else altogether and I'm still playing with the thought of studying psychology after getting my degree. I love it, together with philosophy and spirituality. And I guess psychology is one of the few fields where a more spiritual approach can be somewhat tolerated. Science in general will be transformed anyway if psychedelics become more mainstream. Maybe I'll get a masters degree in biochemistry and then study psychology and then I'll plunge into the psychedelic revolution haha designing some kind of instant satori-pill that will bring peace and enlightenment to the world what else, right?

Thought I'd say hello to you dear people... Hello!

@EmptyVase Definitely!! Oh, big fat "yes!" to that. We know so little and are so ignorant about the human psyche. Which is tightly linked to our ignorance about reality. What is real? What is healthy and what is sick? Are the hallucinations of a schizophrenic "real"? We say "no" because we're scared that the correct answer might actually be "yes". And what about thoughts? Where the hell do they come from? And dreams? What are dreams? What about memory? There's so much that we don't yet understand (at least in ordinary psychology). Haha Wartesemester also? Do you already have a university in mind?

Hello friends, lately I feel overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by the tasks that life throws at me, none of which I myself am interested in doing. Tasks that I have to do. Additionally, living in Lockdown doesn't exactly make things easier. I get more and more fooled by my thoughts which tell me that life is dreadfully serious and that if I mess up some of these tasks, it's gonna have some serious consequences, whichever they may be. When I think about the tasks left to do, I feel as though I'm facing a gigantic heap of problems and I lose sight of the individual steps, which is pretty discouraging and stresses me. Any tips on how to not worry about this sh*t and keep my cool? I'm getting sucked into this ordinary, stressed out life style and I abhor it.

@SamC Depends on what you mean by "worth it".

German, English, Russian and some French. It's funny you know, the more languages you speak, the less I think you're prone to get fooled by language as such. That is to say, you are less likely to confuse the map with the territory because you see that the world is in fact not what we call it.

Who cares about Leo's opinion on sports, what the hell

@TheSilentObserver Nothing to talk about and yet you've made this post?

@meta_male Hello and welcome to the forum! It's not fucked up at all. Death is the most authentic and real thing there is. Why be inauthentic in the presence of death?

Amen.

@dsfs Bro. What the hell is the point of this thread? No. As far as I know drinking has nothing whatsoever to do with growth. Zero. Not without serious surgical interventions. No, there's absolutely no way of easily or cheaply manipulating you height. Sorry, but that's exactly the sort of answer that you'll get on this forum. You have the perfect height, you're taller than most people but not so tall that it becomes an impediment to yourself or others. So for heavens sake, accept your height. It's not like your 5ft tall, got it? In your life you have no problems whatsoever with your height, other people have either problems to reach stuff or to get fitting clothes. I don't know where you live but even if you'd live in the Netherlands, where people are the tallest (on average) on earth, you wouldn't be considered small. I'm also 183cm so I literally know your perspective. It's the best height any male could ask for. You don't know how good you have it.

Guess that first half-way was the easy part... @Leo Gura Why is that? Why does the way to wisdom behave kinda like a logarithmic function? Why can't it be linear growth?

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What makes you think that nothing = something during sleep?

Nothing is no-thing. So to say that the world is nothing means that the world is no-thing, i.e. no particular some-thing which you could pin down. The real world always escapes concepts because it itself is not a concept (and "it" is also just a concept of course). Concepts try to pin the world down as some-thing, you see? Whereas in reality everything is no-thing. It's like Indra's Net. Look at a river. It's always changing, so you can't pin it down. You can't say about a river that it is some particular way. The moment you say that it is some particular way, it has already escaped. Try catching a river in a bucket. The moment you do so, it stops being a river. That's what it means to say that the world is nothing. What is the world underneath concepts? Underneath "something"? Nothing!

@Rilles Yup (hence I said that it's biased). I couldn't find any other collection of information on her which is why I just showed you that one