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  1. Living By Grace Vs Fear

    vizual replied to Aldo Marchand's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I always lol when people bring up positive thinking: "Yeah, just think positively bro, everything is gonna work out great" Positive thinking can only exist if there is also negative thinking. There is thinking, and then there's positive/negative thinking. You can't have your cake and eat it too, I guess is the expression.
  2. We are not Gods, there is only God. There is no one to be a God. You need to experience this, till then it's good you stay skeptical of what you believe. Get to the truth yourself. Question everything, all your beliefs, and see what's left for yourself.
  3. Well that is your assumption. The ego tries to hold on and thrives on passing judgments constantly, if you can alleviate that you can live a heck more consciously. It all depends on how the person interprets these statements. At the end of day, no single statement will make a person more conscious, the person actually has to do it.
  4. Only from the egoic perspective
  5. By simply letting go and accept whatever it may bring without judgment
  6. On the other hand. If you start helping people because you expect that it might give you something(enlightenment), helping others is now claimed and conceptualized by the ego. Everyone has to find out their own path. For some that might be helping others, for others it might be a different approach

  7. All The Liars Here

    vizual replied to Berk's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Once I reach XYZ I'll be happy That girl was totally checking me out(not really bro lol) When someone shoulderbumps me in a crowd with force I think: "What a lovely person" I'm a Zen master, nothing can shake my world If I won the lottery I would make all my dreams come true All people are better than me, and worse than me
  8. Interesting exercise. The most interesting to me is to what my attention is trying to avoid. There are some parts of my face which I don't find particularly attractive and my attention is trying to block out those parts and focus on the "good" parts. There are clearly some self esteem issues there I have to delve deeper into. Thanks
  9. God is with you right now, you just haven't realized it yet. When you are identified with the ego you are merely confused with who you are. You have this vague sense of that you are your thoughts, senses and body, but you can't quite pinpoint what the real essence of you is. There is definitely a vague story about who you think you are but when you get to the bottom of that you might be surprised what you'd find. Get to the bottom of the story how you define your life. This will take contemplation and work so you have to have a yearning for the truth about your life.

  10. Vision = Science = Spiritual

    vizual replied to Aldo Marchand's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Science = creation, just as art = creation. Science just tries to create things to which all our senses can be deceived by. I'd say science is art for our logical part of the brain, and art is science for the emotional part of our brain. And of course they both overlap. For example, when you see an expressionistic painting your senses tell you that painting is not 'real', but the evoked emotion might be real. Art might give you new insight and knowledge about our emotional experience. Science presumes that the universe is made up of separate parts(logical brain) and creates new parts which give insight and knowledge about our logical experience.

  11. Opinions On Teal Swan

    vizual replied to Enizeo's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I can imagine when you experience intense abuse for years you are permanently "damaged", the damaging simply becomes a part of you which you can't "fix". This damage doesn't make her suffer anymore, it just is what it is, a part of who she is. That probably makes her more drawn to this kooky stuff.

  12. The car theory - tuning yourself

    vizual replied to Thomas Taschler's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Typing yourself as a certain personality while you are still a victim of circumstance(which most people are) is just throwing oil on the fire. Most people are bounced around by their fears and their false desires and call it life. People lead their lives dancing around the fire in stead of going through it, fixing your personality or whatever you think you are is useless. Overcome your fears, stop chasing ghosts, become your authentic self. Then you can see what personality type fits.
  13. It planted the enlightenment seed in me, that's all I can say about it. Before that I thought religion and spirituality was a bunch of hogwash invented for stupid woolly people.

  14. Big Personal Question For Leo

    vizual replied to William32's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I'm curious to what the OP is doing to help the world stop suffering, and what his idea is of stopping the suffering.
  15. The point of a strong determination sitting is not the amount of time you sit, time is irrelevant. It's the physical discomfort and all the thoughts that arise with that what it's about.
  16. The funny thing is that everyone who speaks with 100% conviction that their words are truth is full of shit, no matter what it's subject about. If you think your words are truth, it's shit. Even if you are a decorated master in your field and you think you have all the knowledge there is about it, when you speak about it as absolute truth there will still be a tiny little voice in the back of your head saying you are full of shit. The ego of course tries to suppress this, since it has become his identity. The best thing is to become Truth. And when you do, you will choose your words carefully. But I'm probably full of shit anyway
  17. The question shouldn't be what the benefits of enlightenment are, the question should be what the drawbacks of having an ego are.

  18. I Love My Life

    vizual replied to Ayla's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Grateful for the beauty of the rain, for the fleeting gaze of a stranger, the accidental bump of the shoulder. Grateful for the text message of a lost friend, the smell of a fresh book and the moment I lie in bed in the evening and the thought arises: It was a good day
  19. Science tries to measure something which is unmeasurable. It tries to put a ruler to something which is zero and infinite at the same time. Science can keep measuring to amazingly small to amazingly large but it can never measure infinity or zero. Everything which is not zero is made up by ego, another story. Science is like art, except science deludes itself that its somehow more truthful than art. I'd say art is way more truthful than science ever was, it gives a more representative picture of reality(whatever that means lol). But I guess there is fun to be had in at least trying to get as close as possible to truth with science, and that definitely counts for something.
  20. I think you should honestly ask yourself first. If you'd make chasing enlightenment right now your number one priority in life, is that something you really want to pursue the most, or do you simply use it as another excuse to run away again. If you use it as something as an excuse you are going to undermine the results of your efforts. Your spiritual work will be way more effective if you can authentically focus on your spiritual work without your "true" desires lurking in the background. The best way to find happiness is still to follow your deepest gut instinct and see where they may lead, and it's probably saying that you should go for your dreams. Of course you can still do enlightenment work in addition to you working toward your worldly goals in life, it would probably even be beneficial. There are 24 hours in a day, you won't spend all of them on one goal, probably.
  21. As long as you are pursuing things in your life you won't be optimizing your happiness. Because you only pursue things if you think your life will be better when you attain the thing you are pursuing. But I will say, pursuing things is surely a big step up from running away from things in regard to being happy. The pursuit definitely gives you a sense of power and purpose when you are engaged in it. So if you are currently running away in your life, go follow your goals/dreams/whatever.When you have eaten enough cake you will probably be looking for something 'more' anyway. Which might be enlightenment, or it might be becoming a big time philanthropist, or both, or something else.

  22. Thoughts Of Minimalism

    vizual replied to Olly's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I always strived for minimalism in my life. The less junk in my life the better. But the most important aspect of application is the minimalism of mind. We want to use minimalism to declutter our lives, our lives start with our minds, throw away all the useless junk in there. I think one of the reason I looked for minimalism outside of myself is because it was such a damn cluttered mess inside of myself. Once I fixed that(or at least lessened it) my outer life went to a more balanced state, as opposed to as minimalistic as possible.
  23. That's the ever present story. We go on this amazing journey to find happiness only to realize the happiness was at home all this time and we didn't even see it. In a way you don't have to go on the journey since the realization is there up for grabs, but no one actually comes to the realization this way. Most people go on their journey, set up their tent somewhere and try to defend the tent with all their might. Because along the way they forgot, they forgot what it's about.

  24. Expand A Wrong Knowledge Graph?

    vizual replied to Anna Konstantaki's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    When you become enlightened/truth-realized your world inside the illusion probably won't change that much for you except the perspective. Even if you dedicate your entire life to enlightenment from this moment on, there will come a point in which you will want to come back to the illusion anyway. And even if you indeed dedicate 24 hours a day to seeking, the seeking itself will become the obstacle. Think about the Middle Way of the Buddha. Try to avoid the extreme stuff if you are a seeker. Remember that at the end of the day all the obstacles are an illusion. Having a job is not an obstacle to becoming enlightened.
  25. Ethics is simply something humans engage in, no different than things as entertainment, business, news, socializing etc. Don't confuse ethics with truth, don't try to get to the bottom of ethics, there is no bottom. Ethics of today are different from the ethics yesterday, the best you can do is to strife for an accurate snapshot of today's ethics with a little bit of personal creativity. The eventual bottom of everything can only be Truth, that does not mean that we shouldn't engage in activities which are not Truth(since that wouldn't be possible anyway lol).