Breakingthewall

He really has some kind of autism? I see in him a vibe similar to the guy from Free Solo, Alex Honnold; it's like the problematic emotional hardware we all have is very subdued. That has great advantages, you can climb 900m walls without a rope or be a perfect martial artist, always totally focused, but like everything in life, it has its downside: maybe less connection or understanding of certain human facets that are real

Anyway, I know this might be below some people's level, but maybe anyone will find it interesting. Ruminative mental suffering occurs because your circumstance plus your innate system have created a certain structure. Challenges and emotional burdens have arisen in your life that you haven't been able to manage and have been covered up by emotional mechanisms aimed at preserving your stability. For example, your need for belonging in childhood and adolescence was non-negotiable; if it couldn't be satisfied, you would cover up a part of your system in order to function. These accumulated scars create an underlying dissonance that can manifest as hysterical rumination because your partner isn't calling you. You can't stop this rumination at will, you are not "doing " it, it's happening due the energetic structure that you are now. but you can understand your mechanisms, look at them directly without falsehood, open yourself to your suffering, become one with it, align yourself with it, see it as an energetic burden, a circumstance that occurs, and not run away from it. If you think that the suffering is a mistake that you are doing, you are trapped

No no , its ok, you are too charitable. I greatly appreciate your patience and charity . I'm very sorry if I bothered you by expressing opinions that, in your wisdom, you've deemed stupid, and it's perfectly legitimate for someone as charitable as you to, at times, driven by righteous indignation, insult or even block people who hold different opinions.

Be careful or he's going to block you. He insult endorsed with his power to block you here a week or two

Well, tell me exactly what I can say to don't offended you and what is allowed here. It's easy, I didn't know, then I gave a free opinion, but thanks to correct me so wisely

He sends a seductive message: reality is simple, you're the one complicating it. Focus on the sensory and abandon the mental, which is false. Well, this message is completely wrong; it's what's called spiritual bypassing. But this is what sells, because people don't want to, or can't, go deeper. They want to be told that everything is easy and that everything will be alright. Do you want to be a successful spiritual teacher? Tell the people that their suffering is an illusion and absolute happiness is easy, just stop suffering. It's you who's creating suffering, then you can stop it. Tell it a lot of times, then they will buy, because they need it. And then they will tell others that now they are happy, because they know that suffering is false. the reality could be the opposite, but they will make up everything to pretend that they are happy, with addictions, rumination, depression, repression, hate, etc. That's just narcissism. The mind is not a mistake to transcend but a structural phase of reality. Attempting to bypass it creates dissociation, not freedom. If you want freedom you have to align your system, not denying it. There is the real work.

Exactly, and that grip is extremely deep. The human world is moved by that grip, people lives and dies moved by this, it's what we are. If you don't understand it and trivializes the ego as an illusion, you are going to be prisoner without scape. Understanding is essential, and Ralston only sells attitude, not understanding

The problem I see with Ralston is that he doesn't realize, or seems not to realize, the enormous emotional burden that comes with being human, and how incredibly difficult that is to manage. Fear, the need for belonging, for acceptance, for self-preservation, for permanence, are encoded deep within our genetic makeup, and very few people manage to align their energies to achieve a permanent state of openness. It's like an autistic person who doesn't feel emotions or fear danger becoming a coach and telling you: just climb that 700-meter rock wall in solo, and that's it. It's easy! Well, no, it's extremely difficult, and a teacher who doesn't understand the difficulty involved is not fit for the job.

Even the word "source" could be confusing implying a duality: a source from which reality emerges, when reality does not emerge, it simply is. The concept of enlightenment is extremely simple: what everything is, is being. Being is, and everything is an expression of being. Being is absolute, without opposite, since non-being is not. Forms are relative; they are relational. Enlightenment is the form that is conscious of form becoming aware of its absolute nature. When you open yourself to your nature, you realize that being is everything, and form are form. That's it, sounds anticlimactic but it isn't. About God, you could say that the totality of the being manifested is God, and you and God are one in essence. But what you can't say is that you are god dreaming the reality and you are omnipotent, because it's not true, you are a relative form. Relative to the other forms, created by them by relationship, and creator of them by relationship .

A revolution is currently underway in Iran to overthrow the Ayatollahs' regime. The population is in the streets, government buildings are being set on fire, and in many cases, the police are joining the protesters, Israel is ready to act. This is a global event of immense importance, and the news isn't saying a single word about it. Why?

Good to see you again. Well, source and God have different connotations . God implies a creator with an intention, like, ok, I'm god and I will create humans, because I want. Humans, be! And the humans are. Source implies the foundation of the reality, of what is, and because it is, the humans are. Why? Because are a possibility, a potentiality that is happening. Without any intention, since the source is not limited. The source doesn't decide, it flows, and this flow now is you.

It depends, if your ego is oriented to become a Buddhist monk expert in meditation then you could meditate a lot

There is only one enlightenment, and it's simple. Being is. If you are totally open to it, that's everything. All what you said before are states of consciousness that are fundamentally subjective perceptions of the human mind. Like if you find boring the normie perception and you create special perceptions, like infinite god full of love that is dreaming for fun, for example. And then you affirm that this is the truth because you imagined it being drugged after watching a video of a guy saying that he realized that reality is and infinite god full of love etc etc. I think it wouldn't pass a deep logic questioning, but if you want to try, let's.

I've always been sure that almost all spiritual teachers are narcissists. The problem is that everything they say is geared toward their own success. Spirituality is fake, but necessary

I didn't, Just his main ideas by curiosity . I'm not saying what he says is false, I'm saying it has no relation to enlightenment. It's very possible, but it's just something that happens and we cant explain, like quantum physics 100 years ago. Maybe the structure of reality is very complex and interconnected and what we understand is just the surface. What is an awakening? It's very simple. It's about dissolving the barrier that keeps you separate. Structurally, we are separate individuals; in essence, ontologically, we are reality. The point is to transcend the barriers that define you as an individual and be aware of yourself as reality. Reality isn't something defined, because if it were, it would be an individual. If it were God or consciousness, for example. It's nothing that can be named; as the Tao says, it is the totality. It's not thinkable; you can only be it. That's the only awakening or enlightenment, not knowing that everything is consciousness, or that you are god. Those are forms that the mind creates. The mind can create extremely precise and persuasive forms.

Schmidt sells you Ideas like the universe has an intention and responds to your vibration . This sell well; people want to hear that. It could be that your inner vibration attracts events in a "magical" way, and that this could be proven by science in the future due to interdimensional quantum connections or something like that, and this would have no relation to opening yourself to the totality. When he presents awakening as something mysterious that only happens by accident, he tries to make you believe he knows something very mysterious you don't, but that a select few will know. perhaps you're one of them. This sells very well. Siren songs to lure the unwary traveler. Awakening doesn't depend on "spiritual" genetics or being "spiritually gifted," but rather on your will and intelligence to avoid falling into traps. Awakening is very simple: it's opening yourself to the totality, period. The totality has not intention because any intention is not total. Obvious right?

Really? I think that most of them are narcissists who believe their own histories because they make them feel safe. Narcissism is so powerful that can induce mystical experiences, but there is something that is impossible to falsifying, the openness that is the end of the emotional rollercoaster. If you are not open you system can't be stable

Feminism inevitably leads to the end of procreation and to transactional sexual relationships. This is positive because in the future, it seems robots will be doing the hard work, and procreation will be highly planned rather than widespread. You only have to look at birth rates according to level of development. It's just the next evolutionary step.

It's a matter of will. If the will is absolute, the obstacles fall away. Will of absolute freedom, absolute truth, absolute openess. The question would be: is your will enough to leave everything? Even god, permanence, consciousness? It's enough to open yourself to real death without greed? If the question is really yes, you are honest enough to cross the border. But if you are looking for something divine, wonderful, better, then you will get delusions. Many are called, but few are chosen. If even a trace of greed exists, that trace will be an insurmountable barrier. It will lead you down paths of madness where you will wander in circles, in mystic circles believing delusions. The heart must be open, the mind be integral. If not, the door will be armored.

The answer is easy. Just stop being an ugly unemployed looser abandoned by your wife and insulted by your kids and became a successful sportsman with iron will, international guru millionaire admired by millions and voila! No mental suffering! 😅

Ok something simple for you: solipsism is impossible because if it were the case, the reality would be limited to one perspective. It's the opposite of enlightenment. Enlightenment means the dissolution of the ego, solipsism means the rising of the ego to the category of God. Spirituality is not believing that you are god creating a dream and that everything is a dream and only you are real, it's the dissolution of the centrality. Exactly the opposite

Ok a question for Ralston: If you have been so successful person, champion of martial arts when young and according to you enlightened since early twenties, how can you teach how to overcome trauma and mental suffering, if in your life there has been no severe trauma and mental suffering?

Well, this idea of expansion and exploration can only occur locally. On a total level, expansion can only be total, since it never began. It's not something the mind can grasp because the mind operates within limits. The only logical possibility is that the unlimited manifests within limited structural frameworks, but always with openness; nothing can be closed because that would be an absolute limit. Reality, not being contained, flows incessantly and self-organizes into increasingly complex patterns, expanding. But this expansion is only apparent from a local perspective, since on a total level, expansion is absolute, never initiated, without progression. The unlimited cannot progress; it is already total.

Well observed. The idea of stillness that Buddhism promotes as an ideal is the opposite of what reality is. Reality manifests as ceaseless dynamism, since it is not contained, it has no absolute limits. Therefore, there is always a point to reach, a movement to make. Although from an absolute perspective these movements may not lead anywhere, the flow of existence is always dynamic. Wanting to be static is resisting that flow, believing that you know how reality should be. It doesn't work; what works is aligning yourself with the flow and becoming one with it.

If I may, what you're discussing is the point of spirituality rooted in Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, and in my (humble) opinion, it's a very serious mistake. I myself fell into it when I was 16 or 17. I read Krishnamurti and others and came to the obvious conclusion that all suffering is self-generated by thought and that if I stopped thinking, I would be free and present like a bird. This sounds very obvious and liberating, but it's a complete error, since it denies the mind as an illusion. It would be like telling an ant that all that stuff about queens, workers, and soldiers is an illusion, that it should forget all that and be like a bird. The ant would tell you that it's a cell in an anthill, not a bird, and that if you want to induce some kind of schizophrenia in it, as its entire system has evolved over billions of years to do exactly what it does, just like your conceptual/verbal/logical/evaluative/social mind. If you do what Ralston suggests, you're creating an ontological distinction between physical sensations and mental movement, asserting that the physical, hunger, cold, pain, are real, and the mental is false. Let's see: cold makes you move to a warmer place to avoid dying. The idea of Rome's grandeur leads to the construction of coliseums. Both are reality switches that trigger movement. There's basic movement, like that of bacteria, and complex movement, like the creation of a religion to provoke a unanimous movement of a billion individuals. The entire emotional system is synchronized with conceptual triggers of attachment, rejection, belonging, purpose, reproduction, family, tribe. Denying it is seductive; it seems like the direct path to freedom, but it's an illusion, it doesn't work. It always seems like you're one step away, just one final step toward freedom, which never comes.