Breakingthewall

Yes, in the sense that everything is one, etc, but in a relative sense, as a human.

Good insight, I would say that the thoughts are you, but at the same time they are something alien to you. You as an individual being are mind, perception, movement. Thought is something learned, it comes from outside, it is programming. It is the collective mind entering you and possessing you to use your processing power. This is inevitable, language is this and you, as an individual being, are not worth more than a larva, you need the collective to survive. the problem with being enslaved like this is that it makes your life an alienated, miserable shit, suffering. the solution is understanding, total clarity, mastery of yourself, detaching of the thought.

the substance is the mind. All living beings have a mind, or are a mind you could say, but their mind is completely tied to their physical being, they are one. Its mind evolves at the same time as its body, there is no separation, its mind is limited by it's body, really, it is the body. On the other hand, in humans, the mind has been freed and the language is the key if this liberation. it is an independent entity, it evolves at a brutal speed, uniting with other minds through language, creating a separate entity supported by all individuals, which evolves independently. We, individuals, are servants of the collective mind, simple units, cells that form a living organism that grows and evolves monstrously. life in action, creating itself, increasing in complexity. That's why we want to free from the mind, because we are slaves. It's ok to be a servant, but not 24/7, and not unconsciously. Let's be the Master of the mind, not the slave.

ego death is the best, unfiltered life. unfortunately it is not easy because we have a very solid ego. Every time you get ego death, you understand a little more the subtle mechanisms with which you create the ego barrier. For me the main reason for psychedelic is ego death. 5meo works...sometimes. not always. LSD and mushrooms the same. a willingness to let go is necessary, even in an intense psychedelic trip. for my ego death it has to be zero conceptual mind, zero grip. let go completely. sometimes i get it with 30ug of lsd and a hit of weed, other times i can't get it by vaping 20mg of 5meo in one hit. I would like to get sober and achieve that state at will. I would say that spiritual work should have that as its goal.

That's right, you have to be able to let go of your mind. reality is fluid, it is a flow, and the mind compartmentalizes the flow, captures it, like a photograph, interprets it and apparently stops it, blocks you. the mind is greed, since its purpose is conservation, survival. It is extremely useful for that, but at the price of becoming a blocked being. all interpretation is greed, and impedes the flow. stopping the mind is generosity, releasing it into the void and being now

In a sense, it's right. You are imagining everything, every barrier, but In another sense, the idea: you are imagining reality. it's the other way around. you are being created by the flow of reality. there is no you, there is an endless ocean flowing. you can't grab it, you can flow. each idea kind: you are doing such a thing. it is completely toxic. It is a barrier, a dike on the river. what you are is a stream of existence, and the only way to understand it is to drop your mind. all definitions of what you are are mind. You are a verb, not a name. the only understanding is the verb: to be. exists. you cannot capture the verb, you can flow and be. Sound obvious, but it isn't so easy to do

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for, or against, anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. When the deep meaning of things is not understood, the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail. The Way is perfect, like vast space where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess. Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things. Live neither in the entanglements of outer things, nor in inner feelings of emptiness. Be serene in the oneness of things, and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves. When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity, your very effort fills you with activity. As long as you remain in one extreme or the other, you will never know Oneness. Those who do not live in the single Way fail in both activity and passivity, assertion and denial. To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know. To return to the root is to find the meaning, but to pursue appearances is to miss the source. At the moment of inner enlightenment, there is going beyond appearance and emptiness. The changes that appear to occur in the empty world we call real only because of our ignorance. Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions. Do not remain in the dualistic state; avoid such pursuits carefully. If there is even a trace of this and that, of right and wrong, the Mind-essence will be lost in confusion. Although all dualities come from the One, do not be attached even to this One. When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist. When thought-objects vanish, the thinking-subject vanishes, as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish. Things are objects because of the subject (mind); the mind (subject) is such because of things (objects). Understand the relativity of these two and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness. In this Emptiness the two are indistinguishable and each contains, in itself, the whole world. If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine, you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion. To live in the great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute; the faster they hurry, the slower they go. And clinging (attachment) cannot be limited. Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way, and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature) and you will walk freely and undisturbed. When thought is in bondage, the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separation? If you wish to move in the one Way, do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas. Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true enlightenment. The wise man strives to no goals, but the foolish man fetters himself. There is one Dharma, not many; distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant. To seek Mind with the (discriminating) mind is the greatest of all mistakes. Rest and unrest derive from illusion; with enlightenment there is no liking and disliking. All dualities come from ignorant inference. They are like dreams or flowers in air; foolish to try to grasp them. Gain and loss, right and wrong; such thoughts must finally be abolished at once. If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease. If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are, of single essence. To understand the mystery of this One-essence is to be released from all entanglements. When all things are seen equally, the timeless Self-essence is reached. No comparisons or analogies are possible in this causeless, relationless state. Consider movement stationary, and the stationary in motion; both movement and rest disappear. When such dualities cease to exist, Oneness itself cannot exist. To this ultimate finality no law or description applies. For the unified mind in accord with the Way, all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish, and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power. Here thought, feeling, knowledge and imagination are of no value. In this world of Suchness, there is neither self nor other-than-self. To come directly into harmony with this reality, just simply say when doubts arise, "Not two". In this "not two", nothing is separate, nothing is excluded. No matter when or where, enlightenment means entering this truth. And this truth is beyond extension or diminution in time or space; in it, a single thought is ten thousand years. Emptiness here, emptiness there, but the infinite universe stands always before your eyes. Infinitely large and infinitely small; no difference, for definitions have vanished and no boundaries are seen. So, too, with being and non-being. Don't waste time in doubts and arguments that have nothing to do with this. One thing, all things, move among and intermingle without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind. Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it, there is no yesterday, no tomorrow, no today. Hsing hsing poem, written in 6 century in china. Id say it's a complete guide for enlightenment. No more is needed.

you are an unreal construction created by the flow of reality. there is no self. Yes, and if you deconstruct more, the self will collapse and the infinity will manifest

I think that the problem of solipsism comes as a consequence of the error: I am infinite, or I am God. if there is "I", it is because the limits have only been partially broken and the construction of the self remains. then from that base everything is corrupted.if I am infinite, only I exist, then others do not exist, is logical reasoning. I would say that the reality is that from the relative point of view, the others are real, and from the absolute, there are no others or me, there is totality. if it seems to you that you are in an infinite state and you think: fuck! The others are not real, only I exist! It is that you are not in an infinite state. if there is loneliness, ideas that you are creating reality because you feel alone, all this means that the self is still there. The total infinity is impersonal, it's not "you", because the self is a relative creation.

I wouldn't say it works that way. You are not creating anything or imagining anything. to do this implies actor, action and result. It is not like this. now reality is. in this present moment is everything. It's infinite. right now, the totality of reality is. but by a kind of flow, of movement, only the part that forms your current experience manifests. there is no you creating or dreaming, but the you is formed by the apparent limitation of the infinite that now, and always, since it is absolute, is, and the you is the experience that is apparently happening, that is relative. but this is just a theory based on insights, which I elaborate out of curiosity. you cannot know this for sure. they are just beliefs and can be very far from reality. The only thing you can know for sure, and what you can delve into, is your nature, what you are.

I choose to forget them completely. the only use they have is that they are steps towards a greater opening, but the only real opening is what it is now. thinking "i am god" because two weeks ago i realized that on an lsd trip is completely stupid imo. only the now exists, any memory is ego, it does not count, it is not real. No concept or idea counts, not even from a mystical experience from 2 hours ago, only the opening that is happening now. For example, yesterday I vaped 20 mg of 5 meo, I don't remember any realization, I try to don't have realizations, just to open myself completely, to be a infinite hole without any content. The goal is let go everything, to be now. It's an exercise, not a search of realizations. Realizations are relative, only now is absolute. anyway, what is the use of knowing things? It is now when I exist, what I am looking for is to get out of the conceptual bubble and remember a mystical experience is conceptual bubble, so an obstacle.

Haha I never did, but maybe he said similar things, because they are obvious. Life is hard, no doubt about it. Maybe the humans have achieved a bubble of apparent comfort, but life is always there lurking, putting its yang in the ying. it is impossible to escape

I would say that what works best to open yourself up to reality and get out of the conceptual bubble is to want to do it, without reservations. then you find the way, which can be psychedelic or whatever. you are advancing millimeter by millimeter, if your will to do so is real, it never stops. If you want "awakening" to stop suffering, to evade yourself, to be the smartest in the class, to achieve something, etc., it doesn't work. It is wanting the reality, the truth, in an irremediable way, without a doubt, you are an arrow shot, while you are alive, you will open more and more the now.

that's how it is. life is A kind of war in many senses. the problem is the current human mentality that says that life is an amusement park and that everything has to be perfect. It is absurd, that only generates neurosis. life is unpredictable, it can hit you in a thousand ways. you have to see the beauty and joy behind the war, and even in it. Being alive is wonderful, just forget the content, focus in the fact of existing.

survival is a ruthless competition, who wins lives, who loses dies. at the individual and genetic/ species level. Life is designed that way in order to evolve into increasingly complex systems. for billions of years life was only single-celled organisms. one day, one of them join with another to be bigger and stronger to kill the others and stole his vital energy. and the party started. life is more or less the game of to see who is more cunning, aggressive, effective killer ,at the genetic and individual level. The game is: for me to live, you have to die, and both have the total desire of survive , and impulsed by this pressure, let's see what life can create. Why do you think humans are such bastards? we are life

It does not compete in beauty, it competes to live, to stretch more than other roses and have more sunlight, to have more vivid colors and attract more insects and thus spread their genes more than others, because there are not infinite insects, nor infinite space for be in the sun. that a rose ,something more complex, like a rat, more than competing, is at war. he comes out of his hole with all his senses alert because it lives surrounded of assassin that wants to steal it's body. Threats can come from anywhere, its offspring can starve at any time, it must find food before it is taken from it, he must take it from another, he must kill, hide, steal. There is only one rule: survive at any costs

It is to drop the self into nothingness. stop wanting and fearing, even for a few seconds. we are constantly controlling, interpreting, grasping reality. It is all illusion, we are not in control of anything, but the appearance of control allows us to have the illusion of standing on solid ground. It's not real, we're in the infinite now. this is existence existing and the controlling self is an illusion. it is seized, contracted, controlling every second, surrounding every instant with a capsule of mental flow, but this control is only illusory. Surrender is redundant because you're really already surrended. You just have to surrender a lie, the illusion that you control this moment with your mind, and open yourself now to the infinity that this moment is.

Id say it's quite masculine. something like: I don't care what happens to me. I throw myself into the abyss without expectation, without asking for anything in return, just for the beauty of throwing myself without holding on to anything. forget about surrendering to a superior being, that is already holding on to something. You have to jump into the void without a parachute.

I don't like that life is designed like a competition, and I like that life feels wonderful.

But what is enlightenment? there are levels of openness to reality, and there are moments of absolute dissolution, when you completely drop the self. (which by the way fit his description of impersonal empty conciousness) but then those moments pass, and you return to limited state. from that state we create stories about what reality is, but they have little value. what has value is the opening now. How far can that opening go? We don't know, the work is to open more and more the reality (so us). I'd say that on the one hand, there is enlightenment, now realizing your true nature, of the total emptiness that is the infinite, that same time is everything, and on the other hand, there is the understanding of the cosmos, of God. I would say that God is the cosmos. God is a creation. you are god in the sense that you are the reality happening, but before god you are the empty ocean of being. but maybe in a month I'll say something different.

I'd say that he has done more work than everyone on this forum put together, and that he chooses texts that match his personal realizations. He also has a memory and an ability to find quotes from books and old conversations in the forum typical of an AI. is what I read between the lines, but of course, you never know

Well said. Well, there are many here who speak with our own words. It is good to also read words that have endured over time, maybe there is a reason why that has happened

Yes, of course, meditation is about achieving unity, blurring and making separation disappear, then a meditation system that promotes any kind of violence would be nonsense. Another thing is that reality does not promote violence. it does .

That nationalism is only a human concept that is based on the number one rule of life: competition. How do you know which form, whether physical or in the form of ideas, systems, norms, whatever, is going to prevail and which one will disappear? by force. In the Middle Ages they were very clear about it with judgment of God. Who has the reason? the one who wins. that is the only law of life, aka god. suffering? who cares? all living beings are soldiers with a mission: evolution. life is one, and in it a chemical reaction is taking place, an alchemy, an evolution, and suffering is part of the recipe. The thing is that war maybe is not necessary for the evolution that is taking place, but if it were necessary, if will happen, and it's not bad, just life

the problem with this type of character is not that it is difficult to deal with, it is the lie. towards himself above all. the guy is a genius and you just have to see the quality and the breadth of his content, but at a given moment, the virus of narcissism manifested itself more severely, and there was a detour, a wrong path. an apparently infinite but really limited vision. instead of an ever greater openness to existence, to life, a path of evasion, of addiction (or it seems so). but since we are talking about a genius, I would say that he will be able to correct the course . Life is long and give up is not an option. Yes, everyone talking about god, etc. just for having internalized ideas heard in the videos, going through life like ubermenchen surrounded by chimpanzees. Could it be more pathetic? is not easy