Breakingthewall

Let's assume the theory of reincarnation and karma, if that's okay with you. This means that after many cycles a structure of reality is created and grows in complexity and deepens in consciousness. An essential part of this process is suffering, which opens a dimension of depth that makes possible the ultimate realization, which a sheep or a tuna could not have. This does not mean that you or I have to seek suffering, but that it occurs as a crucible that expands the dimension of consciousness of a specific structure again and again, until it is ready to ascend to another level. If this has not happened, it does not matter what is done, because complete opening will be impossible. It does not depend on the will of the individual, but it occurs at the moment when the structure is mature, it is a natural cyclical process of reality that evolves by its own inertia. Suffering is perceived as bad, none of us want to be prisoners in a jail in congo, but it is necessary in the order of the cycles of reality.

Suffering is a must 100% . If I don't remember bad, mentioning sadhguru because you respect him, he said that he had a lot of suffering in past lifes. Human life entails a lot of suffering. Think that total realization of the nature of existence is very rare, most of us are in the path but no one here has arrived

Good points. Thinking in it again, really intuition is always true, but what could be deceptive is the mental structure that we create over that intuition . Intuition is the direct perception of the reality

@Blood is Life great. Very profound post and very true. Suffering deepens the nature of existence, opens a new dimension. wrong, real suffering opens your heart. The nature of existence is in your heart and suffering is the crucible that opens it. Blessed are those who suffer, for they shall see God. That's how it works.

There are plenty of stupids intuitions. The stupidest intuitions are usually projections of our behavior onto other people, thus believing that we intuit their nature without even knowing them and seeing how they act, only because of the feeling they transmit in us. That's the intuition, a feeling. It's right in the sense that it's your feeling, but nothing else, things could be totally different than that feeling make us believe

Enlightenment is just being yourself, what you really are. All us obviously already are us, but It is always veiled and the spiritual work is to open that veil and see yourself, to open your heart to yourself. Vision is not only with the mind, it is with the heart, it is being open to the totality of what you are. it's very difficult because the mind is like a maze, has many layers of mechanisms that close. Human life creates that, since identification is essential for survival, its depth is enormous, it is very difficult to get out of it, the energy of attachment and fear do not allow to get out of the human loop.

It also has the advantage that there is more time to think about what is said and that there is not such an obvious energy exchange, which makes cleaner communication possible in many aspects.

Why roleplaying? Sorry for the comment btw, I deleted later. Why do you put personal communication above virtual communication? In certain aspects, in the purely intellectual aspect, virtual communication is superior

Maybe you should go to the church and work as a volunteer with the homeless or anything, but this doesn't mean that that's the path of everyone. Some people need total isolation for a while to get deep into themselves, then when their being is totally open the relationship with the world will arrives naturally. .

Of course , and as he said they will do again. It's quite simple, they have demonstrated their willingness to sacrifice their people for their cause. Israel has demonstrated its inability to sacrifice its people and its ethics. They can kill, but there is a limit. The Jews are not going to be genocidal, they cannot be. It's a duel of fanatism, and Hamas and the Palestinians are not attacking their survival either, they have no capacity for it, they will only make their lives hell, year after year. It is the only possible strategy to win. Invading Israel is impossible, but making their lives miserable is possible, and the Jews of today are not the Jews of 1960. Who wants that shit? Are we crazy? But who knows, now that the Jews have understood that it is a duel of fanaticism, there will be a movement to become more fanatic, the sane people will leave and the crazy fanatics will stay. Party!

He is right, from the Zionist point of view the ceasefire and the exchange of hostages is a clear victory for Hamas. They can disguise it as good will, but what it is is a surrender. Israel cannot handle the pressure, Hamas wins. Hamas are now the heroes of Islam, thousands will join them. A step towards Israel's defeat. If Hamas is firm and is willing to sacrifice millions of its people, Israel is lost. Israel cannot kill millions, nor can it afford thousands and thousands of casualties of its soldiers. The pressure is closing in on Israel, if they keep tightening, Israel loses. Hamas has nothing to lose, everything to gain: paradise and victory. How many Palestinians have seen their children die under the rubble? Soldiers for Hamas, hundreds of thousands. It is impossible to defeat them if you are not willing to massacre millions, and Israel cannot do it. Goodbye Israel

Imo it's a wrong approach in some sense. Your approach is positive: becoming a sage. What is a sage? An idea you have in your mind, like a beard. Here is the mistake (in my humble opinion). The correct approach would be negative: erasing all obstacles, dissolving all barriers, emptying the structure of the psyche. This is extremely difficult and if you really contemplate it, the magnitude of the challenge is revealed. As the Zen poem says, if you have no preferences, heaven manifests itself. The moment you have any preferences, heaven and earth become infinitely separated. The only way to be a real sage is the cessation of the self, and if the self wants to be a sage.... twisted maze. But of course, maybe you can achieve it, why not? Everything is possible

I don't think the United States is any more stupid today than it was before, it's just that now there are social networks to display your stupidity. You should see the leaders of 50 years ago up close, all of them severe alcoholics and compulsive smokers with enormous complexes about their masculinity, presenting a normative face completely different from the real one, on the verge of psychosis. And yet the world moved forward, incredibly. The normal thing, seeing the human being, would be that everything was a primordial mud of permanent war and destruction, but the flashes of genius are there.

Yes and without doubt both are right. But what a human should want, to look to the future or to the past? To face the risk of the unknown or to cling to a static tradition? One of the two lives, even if that life leads to destruction. The other is dead in life, trapped in a mental corset with which he oppresses himself and which prevents him from evolving. Perhaps he is more efficient, he reproduces more, but he is trapped. Human beings must look to the future, open their minds and hearts. This is difficult because there is so much conflict, selfishness and greed. Perhaps it is impossible but we must try, otherwise we would rather disappear as a species. Total destruction is preferable to stagnation, because humans are suffering beings. Who wants this? Preserve what? The lie, oppression and fear? Better to die. Anyway it's just an opinion, of course

Of course, christians use to be a brunch of mental retarded tied in the darkness and in the fear who killed each other for religious reasons for centuries, who burned scientists at the stake and who denied saying that the earth was round. It is wonderful that most of the West thinks that the entire Catholic religion is a tale for repressed senile old women. Why the Muslims can't do the same with their stupid religion? We both, cristians and Muslims, have a common point: we are retarded. Let's admit and be brothers in our stupidity, then let's forget that shit of religion as it were old clothes. Well, I know why it's impossible: because the Muslims have the feeling that they are being submitted, defeated, then they choose be stronger in they madness. Not smart imo, Islam is a cancer, absolutely useless, would be much better if it dissapear

Are you sure? It would seem that a true Muslim should be an Islamist in some extent. Islamist means that we should impose Islam, punish those who do not bow to Islam. A true Muslim is partly an Islamist, perhaps not actively but ideologically, deep down in his soul he is intolerant. A tolerant Muslim is not a true Muslim. Are you a true Muslim? I would say no. You are someone who loves his culture and his origins, and honors them, but you are not a Muslim, same that I'm not a Catholic. Why should I pretend to be a Catholic? I think catholic church is a huge shit, they could dissapear tomorrow and nothing would be lost. Christianity has interesting points, same than Quran or Muslim mystics. But Muslim mystics like Rumi or Ibn Arabi are not Muslims, they are mystics. Mystics are universal, but if they had spoken against Islam they would have been silenced.

Haha that's good ,me too. I was thinking that maybe committing suicide is stupid. If karma has dealt you a bitter pill, swallow it. Reality is the whole package, we have to open our heart to everything, understand that it is part of the path, integrate it and place ourself on a higher level. It is possible.

The concepts are something that we use to talk, not something that we believe like if you are thinking all time: I'm a human, I'm a human, I'm a human, without pause. You just perceive the reality, but still there are barriers, even you are totally empty of words. Silence is not the end, is the begining. The perception of what you are is much deeper than realizing that you are not something conceptual

I think that if the body fails, better a total failure jumping from 100 meters high. Let's see if there is the openess necessary to do it with joy. That would be a real success.

Spirituality is realizing that you are, nothing else. Everything else are histories

Yes, or when the doctor tells you that you have a cancer in the brain. You will think that maybe reality is, let's say, wild. Nobody control it, nobody creates that shit, it's the flow of the existence, the whell of karma

Spiritual searching is what intelligent people do, because they realize that not doing it sends you straight to hell. People are so stupid that they search for stupid things without realizing how close they are from the abyss, they live in unconsciousness because they cannot become aware that they are alive, their mind is deceiving them as if they were in a movie. Spirituality is realizing yourself, nothing else, but it's not easy, you need to be really motivated

It's exactly the same than saying that it has not meaning, what is meaning? Just an idea that appears in the mind. Reality is, and that's it. What more is needed? Call it illusion is another label that the human mind creates The witness only exist when there is an object to perceive, then you could say that the perceiver is just an appearance, but anyway, reality is. If reality is, you are that. Not you and a person, you as the only thing that is, the being. Or maybe you can deny that being is?

If the emptiness is full of anything, call you appearance or anything, it's always full because if anything appears it's because everything is

@Salariatu The soul is the pure essence that takes form after form and evolves with the eternal dance of karma, with which it corrupts itself to deepen itself incessantly, until it is freed to be form and non-form at the same time, ascending to less dense and deeper dimensions, in an inevitable cycle given the absence of limits of reality.