Breakingthewall

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.

Well, if God is the reality the humans are an expression of the reality, are the reality in the form of an human, then there is no difference between god and humans, but you could say the same with anything else. The problem is thinking that, as the humans have a will, objetives, fears, desires, God aka the total reality also must have them. The absolute is not an individual that wants, but due it's limitlessness it's always expansion, movement, creation, coherence and synchronicity. The point is seeing that will, fear, desire, etc, are expressions of the limitlessness in human form. Reality in not personal, it's not someone with a plan, it's just unlimited. Unlimited means everything else.

I'm not saying the self doesn't exist, because it obviously does. What happens is that the self is a structure, a creation that occurs within reality. It is reality expressed as the perceiving center. Therefore, the self can perform an action of opening up, of dissolving its centrality, in order to perceive itself as the reality, the totality that is. If this doesn't mean anything to you, that's normal, since it's not something interesting to know, but rather something that needs to be done. How to to it? Very easy, or maybe very difficult, it depends: just identify the barriers that are trapping you and break them. How? Only you could know how. Intuition and absolute will of freedom.

Good text, high level of analysis. The problem with what we call materialism is that it doesn't fully explore what matter is. Matter isn't something like basic particles, but rather the result of the interaction of fields in reality within a universe with a defined and coherent framework of laws. Therefore, matter would be the result of this framework. Why does reality create finely tuned, coherent frameworks to allow for increasingly complex structures? That would be the question. It depends on how you look at it. From a broader perspective, life would be inevitable, not improbable. If you consider the emergence of a universe in which everything that exists interacts and self-organizes in patterns of increasing complexity, seemingly without absolute limits, the appearance of self-preserving energy patterns that don't violate the laws of the universe but create their own legal framework within it, and initiate a new phase of increasing complexity, would be inevitable, and that's life, an universe within the universe. Depends. If one understands that the inevitable impulse of all that is real is expansion, since reality is the absence of limits manifesting in partially limited but ultimately unlimited frameworks, then one understands that what you call spirit is simply limitlessness. Limitlessness is being, and being manifests in limited structures because without limits there is no manifestation. And limited structures must always have an openness to the unlimited, since otherwise they would be frozen in eternity, they would be absolute limits, which is an ontological impossibility. There is no entity directing with an intention; there is inevitable limitlessness. This is equivalent to an entity directing in its outcome, only that entity is unlimited being, which is not a thing, it is the absence of limits.

Spirituality doesn't imply detachment from material success. It implies reconfiguring the idea of material success towards your true inner calling, detaching yourself from the social paradigm of success. The material and the spiritual are one; aligning yourself with the flow doesn't mean rejecting the mundane, but rather seeing it as an expression of the flow of reality. Periods of crisis or disorientation may occur, but the more you break the energetic structure that confines you, the more fluid your life will be. It's not a mistake to delve deeper into the path you've begun, but rather the only possible success. I would say it's essential not to believe, or to believe with many reservations, in teachers; great part of their message is geared towards their own success as teachers. The only authority on this matter is yourself. The path to the complete opening of your energetic structure is unique; it must be discovered by you. No one can guide you. Anyone who tells you they can is trying to steal your sovereignty over yourself. This is very common in spirituality, which is plagued by vampiric narcissists. You are a pioneer in this. What you are going to do has never been done before, since there has never been another structure like yours.

The dissolution of the center. Centrality occurs by default in the dual configuration, where reality perceives itself trough the form. A perceiving individual separate from an external universe is necessary. Both the universe and the individual are configurations that occur within reality. The dissolution of centrality allows reality to perceive itself in its essence, true nature ,from the individual/universe configuration, but beyond both.

I don't think that there is any difference. Any logical reasoning, such as: "I can only exist within my direct experience, therefore I cannot prove the existence of others," is a logical construct. The problem is that it's a flawed construct, based on a false premise. that statement reveals a lack of understanding that you can never truly escape your direct experience because what you call "I" is a construct that arises within this experience. "You" are not an absolute. This leads to solipsism and the belief that you are God dreaming, and the kind of "enlightenment" we know. Enlightenment is precisely the dissolution, or opening, of the self. This is logic applied correctly versus logic applied incorrectly. Can you understand how the self can be dissolved? Not right? Because if you do, you would do it. The only understanding of the opening of the self is the opening of the self.

The drama of life is an energetic labyrinth that must be resolved, and the complete resolution of this drama is total alignment with the flow of reality, that's also called enlightenment. Drama is an evolutionary engine; it is how life functions, facing challenges to move forward. It is absolutely ruthless and spares no suffering. Every living being is an evolutionary warrior, and a human even more so, since human evolution progresses millions of times faster than genetic evolution. Because humans are both animal and mind, and the mind is freed in great way from its attachment to matter, mind is a living being who evolve so rapidly that one generation is equivalent to a geological era. And suffering is proportional to that speed.

If you are aligned with the flow you enjoy every second of life, everything is magic, same than where you were a kid but better

Very well, except for the subtle detail that your direct experience, without logic, is meaningless. There are no others who may or may not exist, nor you, there is no question of whether only you exist, or even whether you exist at all. All of that is logical formulation you create. So, since you're creating them, explore them thoroughly, Einstein-style, don't get stuck in a simplistic, flawed logic.

I don't know how to define it. Maybe it's high consciousness, I see it more like openess in the sense that seems like we have many doors that closes in our mind, then we start opening one after another. Every one that you open brings more clear vision, but you have to align yourself in certain way to allow this opening . In some point there are no more doors, you are opened to the totality, you are that and same time you are a perceptor, because the duality is a fact, and structure that is happening. Consciousness happens due the duality, without duality it's impossible, but duality happens. Then, in some point you are the totality perceiving itself.

you can call it a dream or whatever you like. All movement is relationship, and every relationship is caused by a chain of relationships that has no beginning, because a beginning would be an absolute limit. Therefore, your direct experience is caused by an infinite chain of events that unfolds in infinite directions and dimensions. Therefore, it is absolutely certain that your point of view is one among infinities. Maybe the other pov were in another dimension, time, reality, but time is not lineal, there are infinite timelines, because there can't be límits.

Existence is a coherent, harmonious, synchronous, perfect, dynamic relationship between reflectiosn, opposites. It is like a living dance that creates complex patterns; its character is expansion because it has no limits, and its perfection is absolute because it is exactly what is possible. This dance is expansive, alive, and its vitality is unlimited. It is a supernova raised to infinite power. You can call it love, glory, or totality. It is not like being in love; it is total, living perfection without limits. It's like a flame that can't be extinguished, and in all directions it expands into infinite forms of infinite perfection. It is inevitable, because there are no limits. All that form is only form; its basis is being, which is because there are no limits. Being is not neutral; it rejoices in its totality and expands endlessly because it has no limits. And you are that. Simple.