Breakingthewall

Why the US would oppose an engineering project designed to allow two sovereign and independent countries to trade? Everyone knows the US provoked the war in Ukraine; it's absolutely obvious. Anyone who isn't blind can see it, but think what you want.

Who blow the nord stream? Russia will fortify its borders and the lands of the Donbas in such a way that any attempt at invasion would entail a terrible sacrifice. Furthermore, it will consider the Donbas as Russian territory, and any attempt at invasion will be met with nuclear weapons. Therefore, the answer is that the borders will remain fixed for as long as Russia exists as a country.

Germany is not to blame that the CIA blew up Nord Stream so the US could then sell them expensive gas and ruin their economy; Russia would have continued selling gas to Germany.

@BlueOak How long do you think it will take Germany to start buying Russian gas again? Two years? The US has never stopped buying Russian uranium, while prohibiting Europe from buying Russian energy. We'll see how long this scam lasts.

Sure, EEUU , who starts and provoke wars for profit. Israel kills for what they consider their land, not for economic gain.

A puppet, or perhaps a strategic ally, of the world's leading power. China won't let Russia fall because that would weaken its own position. Russia can sustain this war for years, which is unnecessary since Ukraine is exhausted. The end of the war is near, a war in which Russia wins, Ukraine is destroyed, Europe is impoverished, and BlackRock and others profited by forcing this conflict. The only problem is that EEUU is already a joke, a parody, but business are still working

They are not stupid, they are absolutely corrupted. Without one molecule of integrity. That's western politics nowadays.

I would say it's impossible to make a prediction because it depends heavily on the evolution of technology, and that could take unexpected paths: immortality, unlimited energy, and so on. What does seem obvious is that in the coming years we will see China explode. Never before in history has there been such a push, a billion wills fanatically coordinated forward. The Chinese capitalist model is very different from the American one, since it is state-controlled and follows a fixed agenda. Anyone who deviates from it is expelled. Let's see how it evolves

No, I don't believe in any religion, but I believe that Christianity, or Buddhism, point to positive values (responsibility), and Islam to negative values (obedience) The biggest problem of Christianity was Adopting Augustine of Hippo's idea of eternal hell and original sin, according to which God, who is mercy and love, condemns you to eternal hell for a sin committed by your ancestors that He incited them to commit. Moreover, since He is omniscient, He already knew at creation that your destiny was eternal horror because He loves you. This turns Christianity into an ideology of absolute terror, but if you read Christ and observe His actions, you deduce his message. If you read Muhammad and observe his actions (a pedophile warlord), you deduce his. Christianity is a religion that come from down, from slaves, and in centuries arrives to the state. Islam come from up, from a conqueror, from the beginning. It's absolutely different. And over all societies are what they are, and in the name of the lamb of love they burn you alive in the public square for being a heretic or to steal your lands or anything . But everyone knows that the central idea is love, humility and forgiveness.

Yes, it matters. It's not the same text that tells you to love your enemies and give one of your two tunics to the poor, even if you're a hypocrite and own slaves, is not the same as one that tells you to rip out the hearts of 100 virgins a month so the sun doesn't devour the earth, or one that says only those who die with a sword in their hand will go to Odin's banquet. Or other that says that it's ok to fuck 9 years old girls when you are 53

The only truth there is is: reality is. Therefore, everything you write is writing about the truth. Ineffable, mundane, divine, conscious, elevated, egoic... all of these are merely value judgments that arise within the human paradigm.

Green means you want to be good and be among the good people. Going beyond green means you want truth, clarity, and directness, without judgment.

This whole "path of renunciation" thing is a misunderstanding. The only thing you need to renounce is lies, and not in five years, but always. Spiritual work is about polishing your life every day, peeling away the sticky, disgustingly soft layer of mud made of lies until only polished metal remains. The work must be constant; every second of your life, every breath, your underlying intention, your direction, your very vector of existence must be aimed at breaking through the layer of falsehood.

Wrong, That's the Old Testament. After Jesus Christ, the law changed. Circumcision was no longer required, and certain foods were no longer forbidden, etc. Everything derived from the New Testament is timeless and generally positive.

@Pox Your post shows exceptional maturity for someone who is 21. You have the ability to understand human relationships, how energies are affected by interaction. As you say, your current moment is one of expansion after a period of contraction, surely necessary and beneficial. Perhaps your path is to be a psychologist. Psychologists with real depth are more necessary than engineers in the world to come. It's clear that although you speak of insecurity, you have an underlying sense of absolute confidence in your perception. You will achieve whatever you want.if it's aligned with your talent

Life is war, a zero-sum game. Living beings kill each other and compete to reproduce. They don't do it out of hatred; they do it inevitably. Any human group in a free state will be in permanent war with the other human groups in its area. Genocide is the norm. Today, with technological civilization, this is no longer necessary, but violence permeates everything. In couples and families, there is enormous, underlying violence. At work, there is violence and struggle. To find a partner or sex, the social game is violence, structure, and struggle. In actual world around 2000 million of people don't have access to basic medicines like antibiotics. Their children are dying, and yours aren't. That's life.

It sounds like his editor has told him that sales are declining, that putting on a kind expression with a Buddha smile and a monk's shaved head is no longer enough, something more substantial is needed. Please, think about something, I'm involved in a expensive divorce.

A rock is in perpetual motion; trillions of quantum processes occur within it every millisecond. Its dynamism is simply impossible to imagine, yet it does not suffer. Only living beings suffer, due to their particular nature. A living being is a structure with its own laws within a universe with its own laws. A rock inevitably exists given the laws of the universe. A living being does not. It is a universe within the universe whose essential quality is self-preservation; it repairs itself, reproduces itself, and maintains its unique qualities. This requires suffering. Suffering is what goes against the will of life, which is to persist. Human suffering is the same suffering that occurs in a cell, only amplified by the symbolic mind.

Spiritual teachers say that desire is ego and must disappear to achieve enlightenment, but desire is an inherent part of life. Enlightenment is not the absence of desire; it is openness to the ultimate nature of reality. Let's say the self learns to erase its centrality at will in certain moments and ceases to perceive itself in a self-referential way, like an energetic rebound that only reveals lack, and instead perceives openly, without a background to bounce off of. For the self To perceive is the same as to be; the self is perception. The self, the mind, is an interface between the living organism and the external universe (letting aside all that about it's a dream etc). In fact, it is impossible for the self to disappear if you are alive and conscious; what is possible is the frequency at which it exists. The point is that the energetic cloud that links the organism to the external universe is, in fact, a living organism, a stable, self-preserving structure that seeks to persist. This self is what we call consciousness, and it can be conscious of limits or of limitlessness. In the latter case, the inherent vitality of reality becomes obvious, springing forth endlessly given its limitlessness. Then the self stops perceiving itself as separate, realizes that it is an expression of the totality in a way that is interconnected with everything, and ceases to perceive lack as an absolute in order to perceive limitlessness existing as an ontological ground of reality. This is enlightenment: not realizing that the self is an illusion and all that.

The ego is more than that. When your mind is in absolute silence, there is still a barrier. There is a center, a kind of black hole into which all experience converges. A receiver, an observer, where everything ends, which absorbs all the movement of reality but remains immobile. This center is the ego. It can be an aligned, disciplined ego, one that accepts, that does not desire, that only observes. But it is still an ego. The absence of ego is the dissolution of the center. This is the difficult part of the game. The door without a door, which wants to be opened by the door itself.

@Ishanga The point of spirituality is to place yourself in an enlightened perspective. You already know that this has a large energetic component; it's not something conceptual. It requires polishing the experience, the now, from all the human mire. This, as you also know, is extremely difficult. The human mire traps you one way or another. You think you're free of it, only to realize you're swimming in it. Gurus are human, as expected, they have a very serious narcissistic component. That's why they work as gurus. It's an extremely complicated issue that isn't really defined. Non-duality wallows in human conceptual muck, neo-Advaita is narcissism in great part, Mooji, Adyashanti, Ramana present enlightenment as being "the consciousness". it's all confusing, imprecise, still to be defined. So, this forum is the same as any spiritual community: a group of people who want to find a solution to suffering and death, and they cling to their beliefs. Entering into debate under these conditions is always tense. The idea is to try to find a way to make it somewhat less tense. It's not easy. Be patient and that's it. Lack is everywhere, that's human condition.

The most magnetic and popular ones are usually fake, like Judas, more or less. The thing is, they look authentic. The other thing is: everybody genuinely think they are authentic.

All that you say is true, but what Im trying to point is that all that is a vision filtered through the human programming of lack. You see what's missing. This isn't false, illusory, or egoic; it's the necessary programming that drives life forward. But if one wants to open oneself to what is, to perceive one's fullness, the true face of reality, one must be able to deactivate this function at will. Not because it's illusory, but because it's a function of the current human configuration. It's essential to be able to do this in order not to be perpetually in a state of lack, what is madness. It's simply about stripping reality, this moment, of searching and centering. But this is very difficult because there's an inherent programming in human beings that constructs a center and seeks. Absolutely everything is filtered by that.

Infinity also means infinite impossibilities. Anything that happens in infinite reality will be synchronized to infinite power with me writing on a phone right now. Anything that deviates even a micro quantum vibration from this is impossible.

Of course, adopting an absolute perspective is an acquired skill that requires eliminating the center. You can't live without a center; the center is necessary to function as a human being, but being able to erase the center at certain moments is essential so that life doesn't become a trap.