Jakuchu

Hannover, Germany

@Random witch agree to some degree

Right, the map is not the territory. But ideas about awakening is the map, of course you will get tired of it Totally understand what you are saying. The question is what does it mean to live life to the fullest? Life is happening on a level of being and spirituality is about getting you to those high levels. You can't really enjoy and take in this experience if you are not "highly conscious". It would be like wanting to enjoy a beautiful sunset with only two percent eyesight. That's what people generally don't understand. Instead of improving their "vision", they are busy hunting after the most beautiful sunset. No matter how beautiful the sunset gets, the magic of it will not get through to you due to your lack of vision

beautiful!

A transmission is a duality

That is one of the functions of philosophy By being an outsider, you become an insider of the Universe

"All that is required to realise the Self is a good dose of magic mushrooms" Ramana Maharshi

@Tim R yeah, seems like that book contains a lot of speculation. But the little boy in that picture is Wittgenstein. In the article it says that they artificially aged his face and the result was that it actually is him. No idea how that works haha

Whole foods

Well this test assumes that being unaffected when it comes to social rewards is a bad thing. Acting in a way where you know that other people will approve your behaviour seems more psychopathic to me. Adapting to certain rules and ways of behaving is necessary for a healthy society but I think most people cross a line where they overadapt without realising. The need to be normal and average can become so intense that that itself becomes pathological. The term for it is normopathy. The problem with normopathy is that most people are that way, so it is not even seen as a mental disorder

Are you Hannibal Lecter, Sir?

Some questions were a bit vague

Till this day leo is still in the bathroom peeing

Probably when I was around twelve. Was just standing in my room and all of a sudden, nothing. It felt like someone unplugged a cord and my experience of life disappeared. No senses whatsoever, yet I still remained. But I couldn't define myself. Didn't know what to make out of it and was just left confused. Also I had on and off experiences where space or rather distance would become relative. Something a couple feet away, to me felt like it was a couple hundred feet away. Was kinda freaky. Or the room would start stretching

green guy with blue parents

Yes, I have this aswell. You are aware that the body is moving, but you are not actually moving. There is this slight confusion and the act of moving to get somewhere feels pointless, but you just keep walking

3 hours per week? Ohh, I overlooked that. Was thinking 3 hours per day. That is too scant

Well it depends. You can't really apply this to someone who is a professional gamer or makes a living by streaming on twitch. But in regard to an average person just playing for fun I think it fits. This is more of a SD blue reaction, but still think it is a good move. If I was a parent with kids that spent lots of time playing video games, I would probably come up with a similar rule. And three hours are a fair amount in my opinion

The idea of wasting time on something that you actually enjoy can become toxic. The problem is not the video game, it's your relationship to it. You can't control yourself. It's like an ice cream tub. Once that thing is opened, you can't restrain yourself. Don't focus on abondoning video games, focus on building a healthy balanced relationship to it

Actually, it does. Most of the money is earned by leeching. Capitalism is leeching turned into a system A company is leeching off a workers labour

@jimwell that sounds tragic, hope you are doing well

Depressing as hell

If awakening was a sound it would sound like this

Well, i basically have a case regarding my brother, which i can "study". He is a twitch streamer and plays League of Legends and he literally is not interested in anything else. It's like nothing has an appeal to him anymore besides playing that game. And is miserable doing so. Like, going for a walk, reading a book etc. is not even on his mind and is seen as a waste of time. If someone turned off the internet for maintenance for a few days or so, he would have a heart attack. He also calls spirituality bullshit, so that is all you have to know in order to assess someones sanity. If someone says that meditation is a waste of time, that person is insane When you are doing and thinking the same things over and over again, it's like you are creating a hamster wheel for your mind. Everything outside the wheel will be seen as not worthwile enough and you naturally become close minded. It is gonna have a hard time now tolerating change and will not be interested in it. And that is where life becomes hell, when you say no to change. And I am not even talking about a big change, like changing your world view or having to adapt to a completely different culture. I mean little changes such as dressing slightly differently, picking up a more healthy diet, watching something more mindful as your choice of entertainment, reading a new book etc.