The0Self

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  1. That’s a love story. And it’s the purpose of all this, for those that derive meaning from it. The purpose is different for others. “I” am willing to throw in on the love side. The other side is just as important though. There is no other side.
  2. Yeah it’s utterly futile. There’s a fine line between suicidal depression and enlightenment. Strange that I’ve never actually been depressed before. Literally not once. I thought it was happening to some degree — turns out it actually just wasn’t.
  3. No reason. It isn’t true. It’s not just that no one knows what this is; no one knows if this is.
  4. For meditation: If you’re confused, you’ve got nothing to worry about. If you’re depressed, you’ve got nothing to gain and nothing to lose. If you’re joyful and happy, you could stand to be happier or more loving. If you’re anxious, you could stand to be less anxious. Hell even if one were a psychopath they could stand to be more compassionate or stop rejecting anything, including their self and others. But of course there isn’t actually anyone. There is only everything, which is of course, not a thing at all.
  5. My character is both transcendently progressive (no judgement of the very “worst” or “best“ things) and happy, btw.. You’d be surprised just how many conservatives are enlightened. It’s actually almost infuriating, if I could possibly care. None of them are on air though. Perhaps it isn’t even that common it’s just many conservatives that I happen to know and love. “They“ were actually so deluded they thought their kids’ minds would grow up into what they thought was “right“ (which was just a dream; absolutely zero reality whatsoever). But that created perfection more than you, or even they, could ever know. Again, this is coming from a progressive character. Reluctantly (easiest decision I ever made) voted for Biden.
  6. For real, it can really vary a lot person to person. People who are depressed and never tried it before especially get extremely powerful results from meditation, to the point where it kills them. And when you die fully, you‘re life, fully.
  7. The tragic miracle: The perpetrators suffer while the victims benefit. But it’s not coming from anywhere.
  8. Aww don’t be ?. Forgive this fool if it is actually so, on the other hand (lol) ?
  9. @electroBeam I’m not enlightened. Sorry if it came off that way. That statement, and also: “What’s your face before you were born?” and anything else really, is a nonsensical statement, because none of this is real. Or unreal.
  10. It can very occasionally be bad but at the level you’d ever have to be worried about it is the level at which bad means nothing...So you’ve got nothing to worry about. This can be taken in infinite different ways and none of them would be true. Let that sink in. In all helpfulness though, I can recommend none other than Rob Burbea’s Seeing That Frees if what you want to do is be as happy as you can possibly be. Also Culadasa’s The Mind Illuminated for a different but useful perspective (which can easily be conceived of as a necessary addition or even introduction to Seeing That Frees).
  11. This will never get over, could never get over, the fact that there aren’t 2 me’s.
  12. @4201 I feel like “you” are like a kind of mirror for this me-body over here. This just felt compelled to write that. Weird. I wouldn’t read into it. Edit: well any me would definitely read into it.
  13. The fact that you’re worried might actually mean “you’re going places.” Maybe use that as motivation ?
  14. It can't unify because there's already unification. It can't disunify because there's already apparent disunification. The supreme does whatever it does simply because... nothing. It doesn't need to. Everything happening means no-thing appearing as everything happening. There are infinite levels of infinity itself, which means there are no levels.
  15. Welcome to an incredible ride! In this hologram, anything is possible. There is even an apparent infinitely loving God-being, within which we are totally all just exactly the same, one being, God, existing in duality, which is the only existence there is... Except that's not all: existence, being duality, is NOT EVEN REAL It also isn't unreal! It's literally so amazing that you "die" right before/as you believe it.
  16. Everyone is so closer than close to having their ego costume (reality confuser) not be there, there's practically no difference to having it "on or off," and yet the apparent difference is also the absolute, and it cannot be taken off by an act of will. Psychedelics can help you realize this but the chances of it blowing this wide open are completely unknown, and the abidance of the resulting state is even more elusive. Italicized portion not 100 percent out of the dream/story, just no other way to say it in a remotely sensible way. And "chances" really doesn't mean much either, since everything not happening is as equally as likely as anything to not happen.
  17. Probably one of the most helpful things anyone's ever posted. But that's not enlightenment. It's ok though. Duality is survival.
  18. Beautiful. To anyone: Get out of God's way. But that's already happening.
  19. That’s the nimitta. Ignore it until it dances and expands, etc.
  20. Wonderful. Open-heartedness is more important than focus, for jhana. Also, steadiness is more important than intensity.