PurpleTree

a tough read because it's triggering shame etc. or because it's complicated to read? well i'm not sure how to answer that

haha yea i love that word, it's funny i tend to agree with you here. this just seems like another form of "tribalism" frank yang i haven't seen too much of his stuff, on one hand i find him inspiring because he's also really fit and a good violin player etc. and goes deep in on the consciousness stuff he's smiling too much though, is he laughing at us, is he trying to portray a happy enlightened guy or is he just happy? <--this isn't so serious

everything's just a perspective but i guess we can all agree that slavery was very damaging for many people and the ripples and traumas are still felt most of us would probably also agree that factory cattle farming is terrible for said animals and we shouldn't do it.

yea many people are losing their marbles for sure still pretty interesting times though

nah that sounds too cultish

well they want you to buy their "stuff" and if you don't need their stuff to be happy then they have a problem

maybe because of the mass suicides by cults which happened a few times also i do think that there are powerful people who'd rather have a lot of people ignorant than enlightened <- not saying this is true btw

also don't give people 100 yrs jail time, that's nuts i think the max here is 20 yrs

i think the way we do it in a lot of european countries is probably the best we can do right now lock them away from society for the time of their sentence but in a decent prison with humane conditions give them therapy etc.

the baby would be like: Leo give me some stuff please, i like to have some stuff now or i'll poop on the floor and Leo would be like: this isn't stuff this is consciousness you little devil

ok well i've never heard of him before

far less developed human beings? that sounds a bit elitist maybe

because they're annoying they scream and want stuff and poop on the floor

hihihi i mean i know that term isn't cool anymore but it's funny when osho says it

me too hihihi although i'm not sure if the technique is working for me

we also don't need bacon to survive yet many of us (me included, not often though) still eat it but i get it, i looove dolphins, swam with them in egypt once, and it's sad to see them like that.

so do you think we should eat cats, dogs etc. too because it doesn't matter either way or we shouldn't eat animals at all? or should we categorize them by "smartness" and eat only the "dumber" animals, so maybe in that way we have to stop eating pork, octopi, dolphins, whales etc. or eat animals but stop factory farming? also many animals die from farming plants oviously

i didn't read all of the op post but some of it and think i got the gist of it it makes some great points i think the buddha said life is suffering and some say suffering is the best teacher so naturally people who struggle with having fulfilling relationships people with depression and anxiety, trauma etc. are more drawn to spirituality than people who don't have these issues but it's also the "spiritual ego" at play here we have to take care that we don't think because we let's say suffer more, think deeper, ponder the universe and existence etc. that we're somehow better or more important than people who are just happy go lucky, players etc. and don't really care about those things it's like some people who ask for a womans number, the woman says no and the guy says "well you're a bish anyway"

Do you always feel that way. Or are you sometimes confident and feeling fine? It seems that you really want sex now. So that makes you needy, which is normal. And that vibe probably comes off.

yea why not, if you find a good one maybe you can clear some blockages i thought about going to a tantra yoga group (which is naked yoga etc.) but i'm not sure

i think it's carrots

I'm not saying it's valid i'm just saying i can always replicate it and been there hundreds of times. And the "vision" or "insight" that i'm just imagining it all i just really had once. So why should i believe the thing that i only experienced once over the thing that i experienced hundreds of times. personally i'm not sure what to believe anyway

for example the store in my city is always there when i go there. i can go inside, talk to the sales personnel, go on their website try clothing on etc. it's very stable so i'll assume it exists on this level i can always replicate that experience at any time basically i can almost always go to stillness and replicate that experience but god realisation i can't really replicate whenever i want

thanks how about the "god" and "one-ness" etc. insights though, how do we know those are true? because they happen often and to many "people"? for me it only happened once or twice really over two years ago and then i wasn't able to replicate it.