PurpleTree

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.

always thought i'd make a decent dictator i'd rock the hell out of those funny dictator jackets and if i'm not conscious enough i'd hire some peeps from the forum

I don't really assume that, Nahm said that i guess. I just wonder how we can discern between a truthful insight about us or the universe and somebody who gets the insight that he/she can fly and jumps out of a window etc.

i'm actually not really sheltered, everybody has their hardships and trauma but i don't care to get into it. but yea i'm from western europe and it seems we don't put people as much in boxes as the u.s. and we seem to have a more peaceful place, people here don't get shot for hoodies and stuff and cops don't fear for their life everyday/night not saying western europe is perfect or even great btw we have other issues

I met this woman yesterday while i was just taking a stroll who i knew from before. So we had a drink and she was really going in on covid about all the a-holes who don't vaccinate and protest, how they're all marching with rightwing extremist groups and most of them are rightwing too. This covid time even made her hate most yoga and hippie people (because many of them are critical about the vaccination etc.) and she doesn't care about meditation anymore because of the lovey dovey stuff. Personally i don't care if you're vaccinated or not, i'm pretty neutral on the subject. And the debate and conflict doesn't really interest me. Both sides have some decent arguments imo. Sooo i just tried to change the subject like tell me more about such and such country that you've traveled to before covid

so why even pursue spirituality if everything's a delusion anyway and no real insights to be had?

so when i have an insight of everything is one, all is god it's delusional? yea i was talking about myself. but obviously many people have delusional insights themselves.

i mean if you lived in the third reich during the nazi era. if you would have ratted out jews to save yourself and your family nobody knows. maybe you would have even thought exterminating the jews is a good thing or maybe you would have been a schindler

yea maybe i'm in the center tribe, who's trying to avoid conflict also maybe avoiding conflict is wrong, i'm open to that possibility, maybe we need it to get much worse with bloodshed and all before society can heal.

both sides are just screaming imo Also i don't know how i would have reacted around nazis (people seem to love that word on this forum) and you don't know how you would have reacted either

i care about making society less divisive i don't care about joining a tribe in this conflict and then go to war with the other tribe

from another topic

the first video had some great points the last video i'm not so sure about thanks for posting them though i learned something

i just feel like most of those terms put people in boxes and it doesn't really help "she's a karen" "she's a woman of color" "he's an anti-vaxxer" "he's a libtard" "she's the victim" "he's a colonialist" i feel like americans especially love those terms and boxes (not just them obviously) and it shows in the climate of your society now i'm not enlightened or anything etc. there are many things that trigger me and that i'm trying to work on

i'm going the middle/center path here, like buddhism if both sides are fighting imo the only sensible thing is to go to the center if you want peace and i don't care for this dumb conflict

As i posted before asians make the most money in the U.S. not whites. Now it's not all about the money obviously but thats probably the biggest part of privilege imo. If it makes you happy to call yourself a "woman of color" then that's cool, but imo that's another rather useless term. "woman of color" what does that even mean, you're a non white woman? ook to me you're just a person, not a "karen" and not a "woman of color"

You're comparing covid to WW2 and people who don't want the vaccine to Nazis? I find that a bit problematic to say the least. And if the virus mutates you'll blame the people who are critical of the vaccine anyways but yea even the Nazis who died in war deserve a bit of compassion imo Also maybe "they" are misinformed/confused/dumb/egoistic etc. maybe you're right But maybe it's you who's on the "wrong" side if there is such a thing, have you ever thought about that?

you might ? well i'm unsure if it's just the essence that's the same or if all of it is totally you also hitler, trump a pig in a slaughterhouse etc.

i'd prefer it if news were more boring and more truthful than the crap that you have now which is unnecessarily divisive and could cause a civil war at some point let's come back to the center boys and girls f the fringes

50K isn't nothing also if many people hear "this youtuber is running a cult" they'll click on it

she seems normal in your opinion. but she was very angry and overreacting, very easily triggered. but i get it a little bit, she's very much into politics also now she basically hates yoga and meditation and is especially critical of the people who practice it, while she used to like it. well she doesn't hate all meditators she just thinks it's useless lovey dovey stuff

but in the video he also basically said lets be inclusive for non hindus (that means nothing though) and drop the caste system (that seems pretty progressive)

what do you consider a small dose. also how did you work on the purpose of healing sad etc. while on a small dose, did you just meditate and think about it, listen to youtube meditations, contemplate etc. or did you force yourself into social situations etc. while on a small dose?