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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.

Anything done excessively is never wise. It will backfire. You will find one of the most unwise people within the gaming community. These people loose touch with life and they don't even realise it. It will become an addiction to a point where you can't appreciate anything that is not as exciting, stimulating and distracting as playing a video game. Also it will loose it's excitement very quickly. Years of that and it will become almost impossible to do anything related to spirituality, because at that point you won't have the mental capacity to do any spiritual practice. In moderation it can enrich your life. Treat it the same way as you would treat a movie theatre. You don't wanna be in a theatre and watch movies all day Why go and do a meditation retreat, if i can play a fun exciting video game? That is how a gamer thinks

What? The opposite is the case. Death is the transcendence of separation. The devil is calling oneness death in order to stay a devil

Watched this a while ago and found it quite interesting At around 1:00 Sadhguru mentions love and fear as being reactions to ones environment. And that those are psychological, not existential. And when the Rabbi followed up with the question "Love is not an existential reality?", Sadhguru gave a clear "no". I was surprised to be honest

@Charlotte I am this way too, but mostly it's something that I am not compassionate about. Love is missing in that case, and therefore it feels too much like a duty which causes anxiety

I know, my shirt is enlightened af

"Stop a stop a war", So you mean create a war?

My mother is the opposite, she is busy decreasing it. You gotta put in some real work to keep up with her

That everything is good and that I am God Honestly, i don't even think in terms of good or bad anymore. It's the same with the weather. Whenever I overhear people talk about the weather being good or bad, my mind almost can't make sense of that. A rainy day to me is a rainy day and I enjoy the rain. Maybe a walk, seeing happy people outside that radiate a lively energy (not many of them though, most are zombie-like), a tasty meal, a grounding meditation session etc.

Well, we are not hanging up the whole field of spirituality, just one way of approaching it. It's not a lasting way of going about Enlightenment. For deep quick insights it is unbeatable, but those states don't last. It's like a rocket that no matter how far it goes into space it always comes back to earth. In the long run it kinda feels dissatisfying because those high states and ones current sober state are too far apart. So, the question is how do we close that gap. That's where you start looking for methods which give you "permanent" results. If psychedelics worked in terms of "permanent" Enlightenment then why the need to take more of them? It would be like being in heaven but wanting to take a substance so it becomes more heavenly, but that would mean that you are not in heaven to begin with As Sadhguru said: "the question is how to get there and stay there". To me the staying part is what defines Enlightenment

@impulse9 Nicely put. To be honest i am in the same boat as you. Didn't have nearly as much trips, but I have the same Intuition already

Enlightenment is close, only 1% Attachment

It is you as the finite being that wants physical pleasure, not the Godhead. But you wanna act as the Godhead in favor of the finite selfish being. God doesn't put blow jobs over non-blow jobs, you as a human do. Pure God has no interest in physical pleasure, but you wanna act from that position. It's like asking, why doesn't Jesus help Hitler in his ridiculously selfish plan of extinguishing jews? all ❤️. I might come across too serious and self confident

Because there is a thing called memory If you had those levels of consciousness, you wouldn't need those pleasures anyways. physical pleasure is just a poor substitute for spiritual pleasure

it is your moment to shine, you boomeranged that shit like a god. that quote doesn't sit well with you. but also do you agree to some extent? cause in your latest blog post you indirectly agreed with it

@Goldzilla you are annoying

If you have a well made umbrella for rainy days, then i would consider you as wise

you are conscious that it is real, it's that simple. it is very hard to delude yourself when you are super-conscious. it's like a bank robber trying to rob a bank with bright lights, cameras, alarm, police etc. everywhere