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@Goldzilla You do not know what you’re talking about. Sure, self development, enlightenment, good health, etc. can go hand and hand but not to the level you are saying. If it can it is one of the rarest things known to man. You have no experience with it regardless which is why you continue to push your ‘perspective’ and ‘view’ on it like a devil.

I remember in kindergarten or first grade I grabbed a GI Joe book for the first time and decided to give it a try. As I grabbed it and was walking away, one of my friends began telling me how lame the book was and shaming me a little for choosing it (this is elementary school mind you, no grudge here, I find it hilarious). I put the book back, he picks it up and I realize it was the only one. He checks it out. I got swindled.

I agree with Leo on this one, IQ tests are a one dimensional measurement of intelligence. Nonetheless, he’d probably score at least a 160, if not closer to 200 lol.

The answer is relative to you. What do you think when you imagine your life purpose? Career? To me, it’s the difference between self ignited discipline and freedom, a life purpose, and wage slavery and dependence, a career. A career will get me some security and certainly cash (nothing wrong with that) but leave me dependent and mechanical. A life purpose, done effectively with patience, could hypothetically (because I’m not there yet) provide a comparable amount of cash and security while leaving room for creativity and perhaps more importantly, purpose. The difference between just surviving and truly living. Of course it’s easier to just keep the job I have now.

@BipolarGrowth If your implication is that bestiality is bad, you have missed the point.

@Thought Art I forget who it was, a monk or someone responded with ‘a turd’ after being asked ‘what is enlightenment.’ Something like that idk really. But, yes, a profound shit. Everything is profound I love it - which is why I responded with something so stupid. To appreciate the profoundness of something other than a ‘spiritual teaching.’

I am currently in the midst of a deep, profound, shit.

@Leo Gura I love you because of me. Thank us.

We are in a very similar spot. Stop being lazy. Stop smoking weed for every occasion. Stop worrying about others. Do not stop caring for other. Stop worrying about others. Get off your fucking phone. Buy a timed lock box if you need to (this works for weed as well). No you’re not to young to self actualize, that’s stupid, the younger the better. If you’re thinking about how to do something, you’re not doing it.

Maybe go for more walks.

Ultimately there is no difference between insanity or sanity. But, assuming there is a difference, the difference would be subjective. Maybe Sadghuru thinks he’s insane. As far as ‘waking up’ being the new norm, it pretty much already is. It’s just the pace that can suck. Also, since reality is infinite - there is no end to the awakening. It’s easy to think this world is insanity and waking up is not the norm. It is way more difficult to see this is also the widest the world’s eyes have ever been; wide awake.

@iceprincess Idk why I cared to respond to all of this because I think horoscopes are outright dumb and misleading, and also that it’s not worth it to debate the birth of someone who may or may not have existed - nonetheless, from my experience, most people, including some devote Catholics I know, understand jesus was actually born sometime in the spring. As if there was not enough controversy in religion lol.

The symphony conductor is both feeling and thinking. There are rational, linear aspects to the song such as timing, transitions and other constants, while the dynamics or articulation is more often felt as their plane is not exactly linear. So, yes, you’re on to something and I hope this will all help you visualize a new relationship with systems; they can be felt or rationalized. People more inclined to feel systems may respond more liberally, to reactions and effects within a system, as they come, whereas more logic based thinkers often model solutions to the effects from the system. Feelers are often more flexible to systems but more unorthodox. Thinkers often remain consistent and to the point but may have a harder time managing the more ‘airy fairy if buts or ands’ of the system. So, yes, there’s systems feeling and thinking. Obviously both are important.

If you look around, do you see a lot of ‘hardcore actualizers’ fighting to improve themselves and be the best they can? No. Not many people like that, that I know of at least. So who would teach this?

Each time we create, a new ‘lego block’ forms in our mind. The more you create the more blocks you get to play with. Coming up with 20 poopy riffs on guitar fuels 1/10 of a great riff.

There are infinite meanings to life; including no meaning.

Lex Friedman Podcast https://lexfridman.com/podcast/ Perhaps you have heard of Lex. He is a scientist at MIT and works with AI. He is fairly open minded and notices the importance of Love. He seems rather material but I think you guys could have a great conversation about love, maybe the materialistic paradigm or consciousness. You’d blow his mind on consciousness. Hard to say what value you’d get from any of these interviews/podcasts but if it seems this would be more out of a place of giving, granted they’re wide enough to have you - I think lex may be.

Contemplation and debate are two different things. Arguing with others is the same as arguing with yourself.

If you truly had free-will you could just make up a way to have ‘God’s will’ without giving up your free-will.

You are asking rather subjective question that will be best answered by yourself and can never truly be satisfied by another. Nonetheless, I’ll play. 1. Anxiety can be seen as the thing that reminds you to survive. 2. I have heard once before something song the lines of ‘those who are depressed dread the past as those who are anxious dread the future.’ Something like that. Best of luck figuring out what anxiety is to you. PS, remember it’s all love. all of it. everything. even anxiety.

I will never consider myself educated; nor anyone else. Even if I turn to an expert, or claim to be one myself - in the words of Obi-wan - ‘there’s always a bigger fish’

Technically rape is God as well. Also Technically a really healthy relationship is also God. I would be willing to bet you’d have different reactions to those two examples though. You know - Despite them and everything else being God. Yes the ego is God. But can you see how it is also the Devil? It is also just a story. It is also non-existent. If seeing your ego as God gives a more loving perspective - so be it. It does feel good to know that our own character is ‘crafted out of the holy love of God.’ But it can also be a MASSIVE ego trap - because you’re literally saying you’re God. So know what your saying and do not stop self development or any work because you realize that your ego is, like literally everything else, God.

when the answer comes from within and you do not have to ask random forum users of course that answer is relative to me, who often finds themselves looking to others for answers I already hold. You already know, or maybe you do not. But we certainly do not. Perhaps we could note likable aspects of your idea - but opening that door creates a dependence on our opinions, rather yours. Besides, if it is a good idea - somebody could steal it after enough asking around. So my answer is really just another question all in all, what shall you do?

There’s a good probability the last sentence of what you said, with the pendulum, is correct. Nonetheless, there is no ‘white racism’ to an extent that matters. I can tell just by your profile picture you’ve (probably) never been hit with a fire hose or discriminated against. Also, what Leo said was not an egocentric statement and he did not seemed threatened at all. There is a stark difference between ‘hey the worlds ending big Orange man bad is going to destroy us and our democracy’ and what Leo said which was essentially ‘hey we should be conscious this moron might fuck some more shit up.’ Which he did. Do I think trump is directly responsible for the capital riot, no, probably not - but Leo’s prediction was spot on as far as whining and denying that he lost.

@Leo Gura I am probably just not understanding something then. I thought infinity = 0