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  1. Posted

    6 hours ago, Mu_ said:

    I don't know if you believe in different spritual bodies such as light and what not, but I found that VR has allowed an access to a Self sense I don't think I could of connected with as deeply without VR.

    I've found being in VR outer space and meditating with eye's open to be uniquely liberating.

    @Mu_ Damn, that's cool. :D

  3. Posted

    @Batman At the end of the day I'm just trying to help you/others understand non-duality, bro. I felt like the maybe hangup was an important point to make because I see a lot of people thinking their ideas are the Absolute, so it's a point that I feel like, even if not you specifically, others who read these threads can benefit from. I wrote the maybe thing poetically, so all I was trying to do is an artistic writing style. Hope someone learned something still, and only the best wishes to you.

  4. Posted · Edited by softlyblossoming
    make it make more sense

    On 26/05/2022 at 8:32 AM, Batman said:

    Bro, you ok?

    Yeah, but I could clearly get a lot better at giving pointing out instructions. :D

    I'll try to explain it again and hopefully it will click for you. 

    What you are doing when you think "Not maybe. For sure." is making a double-standard. You are saying to yourself that all truths are inventions, but not realising the full extent of the implications of what you've said. You see, if all truths are invented, then the truth that "all truths are invented", like all other truths, must also be invented! 

    The mind is stuck on a loop -- it goes around and around claiming to have discovered all sorts of invented things to be true and all sorts of true things to have been invented, but it never awakens to Reality because it is trapped inside its loop and Reality isn't inside its loop.

    So the point I'm trying to make is that nothing is certain, including the claim that nothing is certain. But that's a paradox, so upon hearing it, the mind reacts with confusion and disappointment because its nature is to seek things that are not paradoxes, things it can cling onto, things it can 'know' to be 'for sure' rather than 'maybe' because the mind cannot cling to a 'maybe'. The mind lies to itself by saying things like "the paradox is for sure" without understanding that the paradox itself is that the paradox cannot be for sure if the paradox was actually for sure. It's confusing because it's pointing towards a truth and the mind cannot know or cling to a truth!

    If something was for sure, then it wouldn't be invented/illusory -- it would be real. But if everything  is invented, then that means -- nothing -- actual nothing -- is what is true. So the irony is that there is no real insight, just lies all the way down. Truth is just a word we use to describe delusion. You will never get Enlightened is the cosmic joke. Everything you ever wanted, but you don't get to enjoy it – that's enlightenment. If this is going over your head, don't worry -- it will eventually become strikingly obvious if you keep at the non-dual spirituality stuff! You're on the right track.

    If it still hasn't clicked, maybe just read these other ways of saying it and it will, idk:

    1. Is it that "all" discoveries are inventions or is it "all discoveries except this one" that are inventions? Only one statement can be true because "all, except" is by definition not "all".

    2. If everything is an invention then saying "everything is an invention" would also have to be an invention. The end.

    3. Ego vs No-Ego

       - Ego: All I know for sure is that all knowledge is invented.

       - No-Ego: All I know for sure is that all knowledge is invented, including the knowledge that I know for sure that all knowledge is invented, so I know nothing. 

    4. And if I know nothing, then I cannot truly know that I know nothing, so maybe I do and maybe I don't. Maybe. xD

    On 23/05/2022 at 11:15 AM, Batman said:
    On 23/05/2022 at 10:43 AM, JosephKnecht said:

    Maybe the moment of discovery is the moment of invention. 

    Maybe. :)

    Why maybe? For sure.

    Andd uhh yeah that might be why man said "maybe" but idk im not him lol

  5. Posted · Edited by softlyblossoming
    maybe i improved effectiveness of pointer

    3 hours ago, Batman said:

    Yea, which is why I said everything is an invention. 

    Maybe you're not wrong. :)

    ...But maybe you're always wrong.

    ...But maybe there is no such thing as a right answer on a test without a question.

    'Maybe' doesn't mean 'yes' or 'no', but it might.

    Truth is not 'for sure', but maybe it is.

    Maybe Truth is, maybe Truth isn't. 

    Maybe everything is maybe.

    Does a dog have Maybe-Nature? Does a dog have Invention-Nature? Maybe. :)

  6. Posted · Edited by softlyblossoming
    hopefully made explanation more clear

    On 23/05/2022 at 11:15 AM, Batman said:
    On 23/05/2022 at 10:43 AM, JosephKnecht said:

    Maybe the moment of discovery is the moment of invention. 

    Maybe. :)

    Why maybe? For sure. When you "discover" something, you are actually creating (inventing) a distinction of that thing. That distinction never existed in your experience until you created it. When it comes to the conceptual domain, where all forms of language reside, it is even more obvious that it is a distinction created by mind/intellect.

    There is nothing 'for sure' in reality. Everything is maybe/apparently/seemingly/appearing-to-be/perhaps-this-way-perhaps-that-way/dependent on our state of consciousness or our paradigm or our beliefs/etc. The reality is that reality is constructed/imagined/illusory all the way up and all the way down with no topmost/bottommost/'ultimate'/'final'/'true' layer. Nothing is true = nothing is 'for sure' = every honest answer is a 'maybe'.

    This not-for-sure-ness is the Buddha. The Buddha is the Dhamma. The Dhamma is what's not for sure. Whoever sees that things aren't for sure, sees for sure that that's the way they are. The way they are doesn't change into anything else. That's the way things are. That's what the Dhamma is like. And that's what the Buddha is like. If you see the Dhamma, you see the Buddha; if you see the Buddha, you see the Dhamma. If you know inconstancy, not-for-sure-ness, you'll let things go of your own accord. You won't grasp onto them.

    There's no way we can guarantee for sure that this has to be this, or that has to be that, so the Buddha said to just put it down as "not for sure." No matter how much you like something, you have to know that it's not for sure. No matter how much you dislike something, you have to understand that it's not for sure. And these things really aren't for sure. Keep practicing until they're dhammas.

    —Ajahn Chah (source: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/chah/not_for_sure.html)

    I hope this cleared things up or you find it useful in your contemplations, @Batman :)

  9. Posted

    On 13/05/2022 at 5:28 AM, Salvijus said:

    I think delusion has to do with the ego. Ego interprets reality for it's own survival all the time. All interpretations of reality are distortions of reality. Only a place where there is no judgement, no interpretation, just pure seeing without any interpretation is the true clean perception of reality. It's called samadhi. 

    So unless you're in samadhi, your perception is in some way distorted by the ego. If u experience suffering, you are deluded also because only delusions can cause suffering. So the simplest way to tell if you're deluded is. Are u beyond suffering? If no, then you're still in delusion.

    On 13/05/2022 at 6:54 AM, Salvijus said:

    Only if one achieves a state of zero bias can he observe reality as it is and not as he would like it to be. All bias is essentially a distortion of reality to suit your personal agenda and therefore a fake version of reality, aka delusion. To reach zero bias state either ego has to be trancendended or dissolved. Maybe there are some other ways also idk. 

    Hi, I love what you're saying here. This resonates :x. Is the way to get enlightened by entering into the state of samadhi and just staying there through thick and thin, letting it sort-of deepen, until enlightenment occurs? Would you mind describing how it feels to transcend vs dissolve the ego? Thank you :).

  14. Posted

    @BipolarGrowth Bacopa Monnieri is popular.

    Bacopa has a large and consistent effect on delayed word recall. In my personal experience this seems to be the case too. I've found it easier to recall numbers, dreams and random things picked up in conversation while I've been taking Bacopa consistently.

    Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/44g05u/best_nootropics_for_memory/

  15. Posted

    @GreenWoods That's awesome, and thanks for the replies :D. I've been getting better at entering sleep paralysis plus not getting scared and intentionally waking myself back up out of fear. I've had that "consciousness fading" effect happen in the past during the paralysis state, where my mind became super concentrated and unified and body sensations started to disappear, but not today unfortunately. Today I just lay there waiting for that to happen (it didn't), and enjoying the euphoric vibrations in the body ^_^. I can really see the huge potential of this for consciousness work though, so I'll have to keep trying.

    Btw, if you ever need someone to zap with the transmission... ;):P

  18. Posted

    19 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Awakening is omniscience.

    The only thing lacking in you is consciousness.

    Hi, Leo. In a video from a few years ago, you said that our level of consciousness could be measured by the quality of our actions and the quality of our emotions. Do you still recommend this as a metric to measure our level of consciousness at a given moment, or do you recommend a different metric nowadays? :)

  23. Posted

    5 hours ago, Someone here said:

    @Michael Jackson i awakend to absolute solipsism. But there are many facets of awakening that I'm still missing. Like I don't know exactly what happens when you die .and I'm not exactly sure what reality is. But I'm aware that it's no different than a dream at night. It's made of the same stuff .and the buck stops here .

    Hi, @Someone here & @Michael Jackson! Do these insights/awakenings last at all or do they just sort of end and, like, that was that? My awakenings don't seem to ever really lock-in and become my new way of perceiving for the rest of my life. I hear about these permanent shifts people are having, but I don't seem to get any and it's really disparaging. Have yours ever done that, and do the ones that have still sort of flux up and down a bit depending on what you're doing or the circumstances you find yourself in? I'd love to learn all about how this stuff works, what to expect and that sort of jazz :D

    5 hours ago, NoSelfSelf said:

    Ultimate hedonism is knowing/embodying what reality is...

    Beautiful!!

  24. Posted · Edited by softlyblossoming

    3 hours ago, Mu_ said:

    Very much so it could, however ultimately its not about overcoming fear of death, or overcoming fear of being eternal.  But again, both are very much what can appear to happen.

    Is it about not fearing? And to heal* fear, should I openly feel it or keep trying to focus on something else that isn't uncomfortable?

    *Does healing mean lastingly overcoming?

    Thanks again ^_^

  25. Posted

    On 23/03/2022 at 2:35 PM, Mu_ said:

    Actually Existence may not be forever.  Its forever up until this moment, which really isn't a moment in time, but the idea that Existence will continue is not guaranteed. 

    If Existence were to cease, it never be known and there will cease forever to be anything at all forever.  This idea that God can not cease to exist, is a myth.

    But the good news is, it hasn't happened.....yet?

    Have a nice day.

    Do you think the 'insight' that existence is eternal could be a coping mechanism (I'm thinking for the fear of death) masquerading as a spiritual insight?

    I'd love to get your thoughts on this one. Thanks, Orion ^_^