The0Self

Notice how beliefs arise. Beliefs are not a problem. Technically, there is no problem, but for the illusory separate self (which by the way, isn’t happening), those beliefs meaning something, or needing to mean something, is the problem. Need is no-need. No-need is need. Meaning is no-meaning. No-meaning is meaning. Notice how this, what’s apparently happening, is indescribable. Try to describe it, and notice how the process of trying to describe it, too, is utterly indescribable.

How can you know any of that when there isn’t a you? Thats not a criticism, just an added inquiry. Looks awesome.

Yep. Everything, including everything you described, is the something more. All of it, including the frustration. It’s perfection appearing as imperfection. Nothing is everything. Reason is no-reason. There’s no separation; no duality. It’s a joke that nobody has to get.

He seems to have achieved a type of awakening called arahatship. It comes from balancing insight meditation and Samatha. Jhanas help, and he’s achieved the main 8 (haven’t heard him talk about the last 5, Pure Land Jhanas). It’s pretty lofty as far as awakening goes, an extremely rare achievement. I’ve also noticed he’s described the witness, so he’s done enough self inquiry to get to that state too. No idea if he got the Ramana style goal of self inquiry. Probably did. None of that is liberation. Nobody can get liberation because there isn’t anybody lol.

Animals are probably already liberated. It may just be humans that have the apparent me illusion. If you’re referring to personal enlightenment/awakening, then yeah they probably aren’t ever awakened, but awakening in that way is not liberation in the ultimate sense.

There can arise beliefs, but nobody has any clue what they mean.

Not really. They have no one to talk to but they still arise. Meditation and inquiry can certainly reduce apparent thought frequency, but contrary to what some may assume, that actually has no relationship to awakening.

Meditation and detachment can appear to help the me a lot. It doesn’t actually help though — maybe don’t take that statement as anything important though — there’s just no one to help, but that’s meaningless to the apparent “someone“ who’s struggling. Liberation is never caused, but I will say there seems to be an intuition here that self-inquiry and, perhaps far more importantly, coaxing a (non) understanding of emptiness (truly just simply not knowing that appearances are exclusively real), can “actually“ “help.” Again, there is nobody to help and there never was. And by the way, those appearances that appear to be seen as exclusively real are all encompassing. I’m talking about the fact that you know you’re here, or now, or that the past actually happened; about the appearance that the distance between you and the computer/phone screen in front of you is actually based in any kind of reality whatsoever. Those are quite literally all false, as is everything else you could ever know.

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Yeah. It’s just what appears to be happening.

Just you wait until you have no clue what you’re talking about ?

Psychedelics don’t take care of the body, self-love does. And psychedelics can be useful for practicing self-love.

So basically scientific evidence that if you regard cannabis as an entheogen, it has functional use as an entheogen for the one who regards it as such. Rings true for me and jives with my experience. Cannabis was never relaxing (per-se) for “me,” it was always a brightening or revving of self-consciousness. Very psychedelic. Thanks ?

No actual disagreement here, but if they’re ever-increasing, they’re apparent answers, but also apparent questions. Not actual answers. Who would exist to know the answer? The questioner isn’t real. I guess you could say there are answers, but they’re outside the purview of enlightenment, and squarely in the realm of consciousness — which is wonderful!

If you understand anything, there will arise the need to understand more, as well as the need to make what is into what it is already — plainly a contradiction. You never know you’re enlightened. No individual is ever enlightened. There is only this: apparent happening, understood or known by no one. As soon as a knowing of this apparent happening apparently happens, a dream individual seems to be separate from what it seems to know. It quite literally never happens. Separation is not real. There’s just absolute unknowable freedom energy (or whatever you want to call what-is) appearing as everything. But it’s only an appearance. Wave your hand: there’s an apparent movement, but nobody knows that actually happened. However, the individual lives in an illusory dream world of knowing — it doesn’t actually know though, it only apparently seems to — it doesn’t actually exist.

There aren’t any answers. Not for you anyway.

Kratom is not to be played with and... nobody will listen to this. You might as well be discussing responsible use of hydrocodone. Unless you have chronic pain and simply need it for whatever reason, kratom use is just opioid use — recreational drug use. Nothing wrong with that but anyway... kratom is addictive, even if tolerance builds slower than with traditional opioids, it still builds and builds, and will eventually produce opioid withdrawal.

The only way you can pursue spirituality is for selfish reasons. Don’t sweat it. You couldn’t do it otherwise.

If you’re enlightened you don’t know or do anything ever and never have.

So many dualities experienced in such a short time that they collapsed, but didn’t, at the exact same “time.” Words not applicable. There’s a type of infinity beyond understanding.

Simply this.

Literally fucking exactly lol

Exactly. Imagine going multiple days just walking around laughing because you don’t feel the weight of your body at all.

Not enough respect for the compound, not enough preparation, not enough desire, judging, and not enough meditation experience. Also having unclear desire.

Jhana 5, 6, 7, and 8 are considerably more of an intense mystical experience than normal non-reckless doses of all but the gnarliest of psychedelics.