Moksha

I can't answer your question, because I never hid any posts before I became a mod. I can tell you that as a mod, I am able to see hidden posts. So they don't just disappear. I agree it would be nice for people to be able to see and unhide their posts, if it is possible.

From the perspective of Eastern wisdom, "spiritual genetics" is nothing more than the accumulation of experiences along the journey of many lives. It's just another word for karma.

I was referring to spiritual growth. Survival in the relative world happens for right- or left-brained people, as long as they choose a profession that aligns with their abilities and passion. Rather than pursuing "right-brain thinking", my advice is to increase the luminosity level of your Consciousness. The more present you are, the more clearly you can channel the infinite intelligence that is your ultimate nature. Artists seem to do this intuitively, but it is possible in any profession. Spiritual growth is universally empowering

@Godishere I agree that psychedelics can provide a profound glimpse of ultimate reality. I mentioned pivotal spiritual teachers that have extensive experience with psychedelics, and have spoken to these benefits. My point is that all of them say that there is far more to awakening, beyond the momentary glimpse that you get on a trip. True spiritual realization requires work. Momentary seeing is different from perpetually being. I have never taken psychedelics, but I see the seamlessness and the sameness in all things. How is that possible? Perhaps, trust that the traditional path may not only lead to awakening, but as a side benefit, may more naturally align with your readiness to awaken.

Doesn't matter if your brain is wired right or left, although perhaps more creative beings find it easier to channel their true nature as Consciousness, since all creativity arises from Consciousness. Awakening is the realization that you are not your brain, regardless of its inclinations. It is the letting go of thinking, as a defining aspect of who you actually are. You are the spaciousness within which thoughts arise, but thoughts themselves are only products of the conditioned mind.

@Inliytened1 Consciousness is such a sadist

Awesome, thanks for sharing. ? I disagree with him that Joe Biden is in "fairly serious cognitive decline". The guy stutters, and sometimes people misperceive that as lack of cogent thinking. Otherwise, spot on for most of his observations.

Suffering is the ultimate psychedelic. It will jailbreak your mind, when you are ready. I have never dismissed the power of psychedelics, but have no desire to try them myself. The serious teachers that I have studied, like Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, and Ram Dass, have extensive experience with psychedelics, and have found that psychedelics alone were insufficient to truly awaken them. They can show you the potential of the spiritual path, but ultimately the work has to be done. I had thought of psychedelics as a spiritual path, and now he was pulling that conceptual rug out from under me. From the place of oneness where Maharaj-ji sits, psychedelics are just a fragmentary shard of a vastly deeper reality. He showed me they are a limited window, all the while reflecting back to me the deeper place of love within myself… It was good to visit Christ, Maraj-ji said, but it was better to be Christ. "This medicine won't do that," he continued. "It's not the true samadhi, absorption in God. Love is a much stronger medicine." - Ram Dass

Not sure, but Sadghuru is worth around $25 million. Like I said, it's not about being rich, it's about being attached to your wealth.

Ultimate Consciousness is changeless. Time and space are dimensions within the dream that Consciousness creates. They are imagined, because without them, there can be no story. The you that feels and seems so unconscious, is a ripple on the infinite ocean of Consciousness, which is who You actually are.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a Self-realized mystic who wasn't a minimalist. Not to say all of them are materially poor; they simply see the ephemeral nature of things, and don't place much value on them. There is nothing wrong with being rich, as long as you don't identify with your wealth. Unfortunately, for most people, materialism is a trap. Rather than owning, they become owned. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. - Matthew 19:24

Siddhis are rare, but they can happen with human beings. I see them as solar flares from the ultimate plane of Consciousness, spicing up stories with their energy. Walking on water, multiplying fishes and loaves, and returning from the dead are just that....stories within stories. Imagination has no limit. That said, don't count on doing any of this within "your" own story, unless You as Consciousness desire it. Just because you have realized your true identity doesn't mean you are unbound by the restrictions of your form. Apparently, Consciousness prefers miracles to be the extreme exception, rather than the rule.

How can there be a "first duality" when ultimately, time and sequentiality are an illusion? Ultimate Consciousness is the uncaused cause. It is outside of time and space. It never became dual, but it creates the illusion of duality, within itself. Duality is nothing more than the changeless, creating the story of change. My advice: don't try to understand it. It is called the Mystery for a reason. It is beyond the capacity of the human mind to comprehend it. Obsessing over it is binding yourself to the hamster wheel of intellectualization, which will never free you from the conceptual cage. The only way to be free from the cage is to realize that there is no cage, and indeed there is no "you" within the cage; ultimately all separation arises from the imagination of Consciousness.

Yes, I agree that it is more than just a game. It is creation. The sincerity of the story is the beauty that it creates. In games, there is a winner, and a loser. Art is ineffable beauty. Consciousness is the ultimate artist.

Samsara is the game that Consciousness, as changelessness, plays to experience the illusion of change. Ultimately, the "purpose of spirituality" is nothing more than a game that we, as Consciousness, create for ourselves. It's like "Choose Your Own Adventure". Without a story, with all its risks and rewards, what is the point? Changelessness is so....changeless.

@Breakingthewall I get you, and agree. The illusion of separation is the source of suffering. Isn't that what love actually is? The realization that we are all the same? We fall into the trap of "we", and chase the satiation of separation, without realizing that there is only "I", which is already infinitely abundant. The hero and the villain make a great story, I guess.

That, my friend, is the blessing and the curse of duality. Reward and punishment are two ends of the same stick. Pick it up, or don't, but neither is possible without the other. That is the beauty of being. Beyond platitudes, it is true all the same. Serenity and love are not bound in this way. They are nondual, and are our inherent nature. We are a being circle, and our creation is a non-being stick.

True, in relative reality. Ultimately, there is no end, and no beginning. Changelessness, apparently, enjoys the dream of change.

Spirituality is nothing more than learning to dream lucidly. It is realizing the true nature of God, within the creation of God. It is the rediscovery of ultimate love. Consciousness creates each soul, and sends it on a journey, which ultimately resolves back into itself. Even during the dream, Consciousness is here, telling the story, and being the story. It is all the same Consciousness, in different states, but always ultimately the same.

The beauty of living meditation is that it puts your vigilance to the test: When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. In the still mind, in the depths of meditation, the Self reveals itself. Beholding the Self by means of the Self, an aspirant knows the joy and peace of complete fulfillment. Having attained that abiding joy beyond the senses, revealed in the stilled mind, he never swerves from the eternal truth. He desires nothing else, and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow. - Bhagavad Gita 6:19 Meditating in solitude is relatively easy. The biggest enemy is boredom. So easy to consider yourself a guru in a vacuum. Try maintaining presence in the face of your family, your boss, or the death of a loved one. Meditation literally rewires the mind, and empowers you to remain unwavering, despite the turbulence of life.

I'm too lazy to search through all of his posts, but it was in the last couple of weeks Disrespect is a sign of disillusion. If you see how all of us are ultimately the same, how could you possibly disrespect "someone else"?

Do you ecstatically chop wood and carry water, year after year? I see enlightenment as sustained serenity and joy, but ecstasy is situational, and ephemeral.

Persistent baseline non-duality, devoid of suffering, manifested as freedom from attachments, and unconditional love

Actually he posted a few weeks back that he is not enlightened. Then again, your definition of enlightenment may be very different from his

I hear you