Tim R

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  2. Posted

    Mysticism isn't always the right answer. In fact, it's the "wrong" (or rather: inappropriate) answer to most problems, even though one could say that, in a sense, mysticism is the ultimate solution to all problems. 

    But as the Buddha said, It's much easier to pay a nickel to get on a boat, instead of developing Siddhis that allow you to walk across water. 

    So if you want to be wise, pay the nickel. 

    Have you tried to approach them? Like talk things out? Two years is a long time ago.. 

    And if it was two years ago, and since then they haven't done anything - that's good, don't you think? 

  4. Posted

    @Vibroverse 

    You're conflating the relative with the absolute and you're projecting absolute principles on relative problems. It's rather similar to Zen-devilry.

    Thinking about "deleting your neighbours from existence" because you are God and your neighbor is "imaginary" is selfish desire.

    Which is why I said that this is how things become pathological. 

    Your crazy neighbors are God too. God doesn't get upset about them, you do. 

  7. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Anahata said:

    Well, that dopamine hit is made of the same stuff everything else is made of. Consciousness

    Yeah, the question is therfore: so what?

    Because one can't say anything about everything.

    Only because everything is consicousness / god, that doesn't mean that the answer to ordinary questions like "why are phones addictive" has to involve consicousness or god.

    In fact, it's rather counterproductive, because such an answer just isn't helpful, you know?

    It doesn't add anything valuable (I'm not shitting on you or your post in particular, this is a pattern I've genereally observed on the forum) to the discussion. 

  8. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Anahata said:

    God is dreaming up all these tools and gateways to access more and more of itself Infinity/Akasha : Books, psychedelics, technology, teachings, visual art, music  etc

    Why does the answer have to involve God and imagination? 

    Why would saying "because it gives you a dopamine hit" not be sufficient? 

  9. Posted

    This thread is a perfect example for how this stuff can become pathological. Just move to another neighbourhood for christs sake.

    4 hours ago, BipolarGrowth said:

    I could be off here, but it might be the case that saving money to move would be far simpler, easier, and faster than doing consciousness work to the point that you’re a wizard. 

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    A man moved near a river and, wanting to find a way to travel across the water, spent ten years forming a type of levitation that would allow him to float across it.

    Buddha, who was preaching in town, was confronted by this man, who said, “Look master, look what I have achieved. I can walk across the water.”

    And Buddha said, “Yeah, but the ferry only costs a nickel…"

     

     

  12. Posted

    Just now, Mason Riggle said:

    If all I see is me, and I want to be selfish for me, aren't I being compassionate towards myself? 

    Well yes, but now we're just juggling wordsxD the no-self-Self can't be selfish, unless you think of it as something distict/finite, which, as you said, it  isn't.

    Is compassion only drected towards finite beings? Because if yes, then compassion is essentially also just playing the game. 

    If compassion = selflessness... wouldn't that make your true nature the same thing as compassion? (rhetorical pointer question)

  14. Posted

    What's your understanding of compassion? How important is it in your life?

    After all, if others are illusory, why be compassionate? That's one of the big questions.

    In Buddhism it is said that "Karuna" wells up from within you like a spring, once you realize who your are. Alledgedly, many people here have realized the Self. 

    How compassionate are you? What would it mean if you're not compassionate? Because it seems to me that the opposite of compassion is selfishness, in whatever form it might manifest

  15. Posted

    35 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:
    1 hour ago, r0ckyreed said:

    Most of these quotes don’t understand what oneness means or what solipsism really means.

    43 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

    Pick one?

     

    Pretty much all of them except from @Gili Trawangan, @Leo Gura, and @GreenWoods

    @r0ckyreed As far as I can tell each and every one of those quotes are saying the exact same thing. Solipsism/bubble is based on self/separation, whereas consciousness isn't. 

    6 hours ago, Forza21 said:

    There is no one to be all alone. The ego co-opts awakening and claims ownership of God. There isn't a 'you', Reality/God is beyond being a self or not a self. It's infinite, it can appear as a self or as many selves whilst never actually being anything. These are thoughts that are being believed, you're too caught up in this forum's narrative. Truth is love, peace and happiness. There isn't 'other', but what's being missed is that there isn't a 'self' either.

    This pretty much sums all of it up. 

     

    Solipsism is not awakening, not sorry to burst your bubble. Pun intended.

    Awakening = no bubble

    Awakening goes way, way beyond beliefs like Solipsism. 

    No self, no other, no separation, non-finite!! So long as you perceive reality as this finite bubble (which is literally why you even chose that word in the first place), there's a bubble left for you to burst. This "bubble" is a belief, a fiction, a projection. 

  23. Posted

    37 minutes ago, Consilience said:

    Forum won't let me edit post, made a typo with the schedule. Lunch time needs to be labeled with "pm" and evening times are labeled as "am", but should be labeled with "pm". 

    I got you fam ?

    Damn, what a post. Thanks for sharing, that was interesting to read! Quite some insight you got there

  24. Posted

    5 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:
    8 hours ago, Someone here said:

    you don't want to bite the bullet and accept that you are all alone as God. 

    Not exactly.   Accepting it would be accpting it as a belief.   Be very careful here.  Did you accept this as a belief?  If you did then what @Tim R has been saying to you this whole time is accurate and you have taken the nature of reality (im not using the other word) as a belief and not directly becoming conscious of it or direcr experience.

    This is exactly what I was trying to point out here the whole time. There is no bullet to bite. 

    It's so much easier and so much more plausible to accept Solipsism as a belief as a result of three times in a row listening to the same 2 hour long video  on "how solipsism is true" than actually having a profound mystical experience as a result of years of spiritual work, meditation, psychedelics, contemplation, etc. 

    I'm trying to point out belief, not deny experience.

    Belief is the number one enemy of this work. But it's so tricky to become conscious of belief, because belief = appearance (in some cases at least, certainly in the case of solipsism). Something seems to be the case when in reality, it isn't.

  25. Posted

    28 minutes ago, Someone here said:

    it hurts the ego

    28 minutes ago, Someone here said:

    you don't want to bite the bullet 

    lmao?? God doesn't need to bite any bullets.

    I know who I am. There's no one to be hurt by "it", and no one to bite any bullet, simple as that.

    I am Truth, I can't "face it". And "it" certainly can't "hurt the ego", because if awakening means anything, it means insight into the total and complete unreality of oneself as someone apart from God who would ever have to "face" anything.

    Biting bullets is still playing games9_9 there is absolutely no bullet to bite.