Sugarcoat

Ok I like what you write sometimes on the forum, are you realized if that’s a valid question to you? Hope I’m not coming on too strong

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I think we are staying true to ourselves by allowing ourselves to talk in relative terms while we live in the relative dream. To walk around and deny concepts in the name of radical non duality is kinda self deceptive, because for most it’s not gonna change the fact that they are still operating in the relative dream

I don’t know what that means

It seems that enlightenment is possible because we have a brain. So a table can’t be enlightened because it has no consciousness/no brain. So maybe the brain plays a role in enlightenment. The brain is like a type of form that creates (or at least contributes to) a conscious experience/self, so it has the possibility of getting in touch with the true nature of reality, for the person to become enlightened Nothing I say is something I know of course. Permanent enlightenment in general seems highly unlikely. But maybe psychedelics can increase chance for it, Martin ball for example who used 5 Meo dmt

Is it something you directly experience? So when you have physical pain, the suffering is not inherent in the experience of the pain, instead it’s caused by the minds reaction to the pain (the resistance)? When you meditate on the pain do you put your attention on it directly or how do you do? I have just a little bit of experience in how directing your attention to a physical sensation can change the experience of it

Yea but I guess it’s one piece to the puzzle

I don’t know, I was mostly talking about things that change the brain, so psychedelics and hardcore spiritual practice

I don’t know if they’re speaking from the same place but I find both have truth to it

If the self is in the brain And psychedelics act on the brain to temporarily alter or dissolve the self And if enlightenment means no self Then it seems enlightenment can have some sort of neural basis and there could be tangible methods increasing the chance of it

That seems to be a first step, to realize nothingness (the eternal)

What do you mean by awareness penetrates all transient existence?

What I meant is that his teachings seem to me to come from a place of some kind of true realization, not that’s it’s gonna change one’s life tho

I am open to it and I find he does have some value to what he says, that’s what I intuit at least. What degree of awakening he has I don’t know, if it’s the same as the radical non dualists or different (can’t know for sure if they are legit either, but I do resonate with some really small YouTube channels)

If I remember correctly Rupert spira once said there’s two steps to awakening. First you awaken to nothingness, consciousness, but it’s still a nothingness that’s separate from everything, then second step is consciousness realizes it’s everything so merges with everything Havent verified it to myself btw A radical non dualist young woman who later disappeared from YouTube talked about something similar in her own experience.

Thanks for the suggestion I see how definitions could hold a certain truth but might not be an absolute truth. So it’s like they hold truth in this relative domain I live in. And even that is a definition I find my mind to be limited to my experience but still is aware of that limitation and intuits there’s something more going on, perhaps the nature of reality

That is literally me with my depersonalization type issues

How you know? Well I don’t feel a ~need~ to know about the nature of reality, I would be fine without an answer. And also because I am not enlightened most of things about the nature of reality are just ideas to me (or intuitions) But I ask because it’s something I’ve heard before. For example in the past year I’ve been struggling and one time I felt this presence and heard this voice tell me that my struggle is “love” (maybe it sound psychotic lol). Not love as in the human love, my struggle doesn’t relate to love in that way, but love in the way non dualists call reality love. So I was just curious about it. It’s a peculiar thing to call reality. It can be hard to stomach to a human that even the worst suffering can be called love. But it’s not a human love, so it doesn’t follow the conventional definition.

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@Bogdan is reality infinite love?

I don’t know if it’s true either but I just saw that I held it as a belief in my mind

In the past I was meditating and then suddenly I saw how my mind was making up this conceptual worldview of how I’m increasing my awareness and it’s gonna lead to awakening. It’s not that it isn’t true, it’s just that I saw that it was a mental construct for me, an interpretation of my direct experience

I wonder the same. Is it even possible to transcend physical suffering as long as you’re human

If someone is in physical pain, plus has a negative reaction to it, is the suffering caused by the reaction (resistance) or is the suffering inherent to the pain?

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