Truth

Haha I was talking about the meditation hours

@everythingisnothing

This video is on point @Joseph Maynor

Yep, you're not on the journey. The body is. You're merely a guide.

@egoless The problem is your projections and conclusions, not the scenarios.

@mathieu if people are rejecting you and hating you or even threatening you there's something DEEP you don't understand about how you come off towards others. NO ONE wants to be told that they're wrong, or that they're ignorant, or anything such as this, and if you come off that way it's clear why people are acting this way. It doesn't even matter if you haven't explicitly told them they are wrong in some way, they can see it in how you act, how you react, how you talk to others, your attitude. On this forum people are more conscious of it, but 99% of other people haven't even thought about these topics, until they do they will live in the default state which is in the reactive state. Look at how you come off. I guarantee you're coming off as dogmatic in SOME way if this is happening to you. It's really a lack of understanding social skills and social interactions.

@Serotoninluv No it's not a waste of time, you can start making greater distinctions within awareness, even help communicate this idea with others, but just always recognize that it's not it, its always a concept used to point at the truth. Clarity is here right now, but are you aware of it? All distinctions collapse into unity or into a paradox, or being, or nothing, because this emptiness is always being occupied by the begging question of "what and why is that?" and then you're stuck in that, and it's infinite.

@Serotoninluv This is good, you’re starting to see what you ACTUALLY FACTUALLY are. But there needs to be an important distinction made, thoughts, ideas, me, you, observer, person, movie, these are all CONCEPTS. These all occupy the space from which you are not. You’re like an open space that notices something within your awareness (feelings, sensations, emotions, colors, visuals) each and every time you posit a concept or idea of what or how you are, you’ve failed. No matter how accurate it is, it will ALWAYS, EVERYTIME, NEVER be the truth. It’s confusing the map for the territory, and when the map get’s so good that you start to confuse it for the territory, you’re lost even deeper. Awareness hasn’t changed since you last saw it, only your perception and positing of it has, and you’re trying to use more words and definitions to describe something that is ultimately, literally not describable, cannot be made “clear” and cannot be “understood”, because anything you or I say it is, it is not. You can’t use words to see yourself, you have to be yourself to see yourself, It’s actually BEING the truth, instead of having an idea of the truth.

Lol a Harley that's an interesting image

@Amit if it's a part of reality, I consider it God. Just the fact I'm conscious of my own existence blows my fkn mind.

God for me is everything that is or isn't right in front of your "eyes".

Sounds like a "The more the merrier" kind of thing, it doesn't sound like it would be that big of a deal if you didn't go, especially since you have other things going on.

@Staples You don't even need spirituality to understand that one lol

Enlightenment is concept-free realization, its non-conceptual being, and living it is the expression of nobility and magnanimity. Expression or clarification of words, definitions or truths are merely pretenses and veneers of what is actually the case. When you drop ALL conceptualizations such as "mirror neurons" and go beyond them, you'll see what I'm talking about.

Realize you're not your thoughts, REALLY grasp that, this takes mindfulness and awareness. the more you're attached to your thoughts and emotions, positivity and negativity, the more you're gonna stay stuck in them.

@K VIL people like boobs. I know I do. and thanks

@Mad Max not saying your right either. If he takes your advice at face value it's just gonna turn into polar opposing insecurity compensation, and into a new dogma, then he'll have an even deeper issue to deal with.

@Mad MaxYou don't understand what I mean by ego. There needs to be a distinction made between identity and "identity", the ego and the "ego", the true self and the false self, illusion and truth. I'm not trying to shit on your parade or say your wrong. I just don't want you to miss my point.

As @Leo Gura said, it might seem the external solution would be to live in a cave, but the real solution is just turning inward. And in current society it can be hard to do that with boobs bouncing in your face, well atleast it is for me.

@Mad Max Typical chimp behavior right here. Someone with low self-esteem might need to use this mentality, but really it's just the opposite of what we said. the only difference is the extremes and where someone sits on this spectrum of Low self-esteem ego's and high self-esteem ego's. The real issue is not seeing the ego game being played here. the True issue is the ego itself if you really want to start solving problems masterfully.

In your case the best thing you could have done was smiled and said my bad or something along those lines. But since this would (in this case) make you feel weak or think "I can't give him what he wants! Fuck that! He's ignorant!" You actually made the situation worse. If you want to fix this issue, humble yourself. Give them what they want, give them the respect etc. Watch how much you resist doing this. A strong or tough ego can easily turn into arrogance without awareness. Weakening your ego in this case would actually be the absolute best thing for you. Allow yourself to feel weak, vulnerable, because in the end you’re just protecting yourself, Which is fine, but ask yourself, am I really protecting myself? Or am I protecting the idea of myself? In this case you're just protecting the idea. Unless of course he threatened you with a knife or something.

+1 for Bo Burnham, I look up to this kid a lot.

Habits. Motivation is temporary, not to say it isn't massively important, but habit is the thing that keeps the ball moving, it keeps the momentum, helps you do it even when you have 0 motivation and your mind is completely somewhere else. Find habits to build specifically for your goals and do it everyday or every week, month etc depending on your goal.

Your egoic constructs are very, very limited compared to being. Everything you say is "good", "positive" any goals is all predicated on your survival and the self or ego is the number 1 thing keeping you from Truth. So how could you ever know that being is actually what you want when all you know is your egoic desires? And when the ego doesn't get these things it sits there and wonders why it feels empty, why it feels it has problems, why it needs to work on itself, improve itself and it starts to suffer and now not having this love or family etc. Starts to harm you and you'll never be satisfied in this unconscious chasing process, you'll ALWAYS feel like you're missing something, you can't FILL the void inside you, its always there. Nothing fills it. Being allows you to be conscious of your Egoic Illusion Chasing. Chase after all that stuff but do it consciously so you're not left sitting there wondering why you're not happy or why you feel empty or that you're suffering. Being is Truth, its the thing that allows you to enjoy every moment. Its "more exciting" because there's no YOU to say that things are shitty, or that things bother you, or that you need to be protected. Alk that shit goes out the window, now imagine how happy you could be from that. Get out of the rat race and BE.

Prince EA has a really good video about this too if you haven't seen