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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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I think being religious from a place of having followed what you were brought up might be a sign of ranking low on the openness personality trait of the big five personality traits.

Do you mean I as in consciousness? I wanna do psychedelics but I live at my parents it’s one reason I wanna move out lowkey When you say “imagining” it sounds like two. So we have the source, and then the source imagines and from it emanates the content. Like the human mind, we can say the brain is the source, then the imagination are the thoughts. But I don’t think reality is like that, I don’t know though. I think reality just is, no source behind it. But maybe I’m being picky on words here, maybe you mean everything is the same substance or something, which I think I’d agree on

Hahah you are free to do that. I don’t mind I agree It’s also possible to be a very detached person without being enlightened. It took me a lot of work and shedding of layers to the ego but it’s possible

A lot of fear is tied to something so it helps to expose ourselves to it to intensify it to be able to face it wholly, but yes you could have fear in you whilst in comfortable situation so there’s always chance to face fear I took low dose of 5 Meo because I was afraid to go high because I didn’t know how it was gonna be. It was uncomfortable yes it exposed a fear in me I didn’t even know I had.

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I’m open to try

I was thinking similar lines I was almost gonna ask Leo if he ever doesn’t want people to have god realizations so he can be the special one. But I do think he is aware of that and has transcended some of it due to his development

So you mean he’s sick so he’s prevented from having the energy to change humanity?

I wanna do this. I use q tips sometimes because it feels good but I’ve heard it’s not good so I wonder if I have something built up in my ears

I don’t have attachment to my house so I wouldn’t be sad nor do I fear if it burned down. But I wouldn’t want it to happen, it would be an annoyance: having to do all the things to fix a new one. Im not attached to my parents, so I wouldn’t grieve if they died. When it comes to homelessness it can lead to being cold during the night, starving etc that brings about physical discomfort so that’s not something I would be okay with . Im not afraid of going blind but I have a preference of being able to see I’m not claiming to be enlightened btw.

@Schizophonia 😅

This is not important at all lol but what if there was a way to see how much you have posted in 24 hours and thus see how close you are to the posting limit. So that you could chose your last replies wisely and prioritize them lol.