Arthogaan

I agree mostly but on the other end of the spectrum you can even have just simple drums with zero melody and it generates this very unique shaman-like, tribal, trance vibe - and in that unique case adding melody to it would take away from this raw, tribal feel. Check this out:

I would argue it's not about melody or rhytm but VIBES. Vibe creation. I can listen to ambient or drum&bass with simple 2 chord progression for hours if soundscape and sound engineering produces interesting vibe/archetype. It's metaphysical at it's core and its about god exploring it's different flavours and aspects.

When it comes to their silly point about consent being so coherent framework when it comes to morality I think good deconstructing counterpoints are: - eating meat, - teaching young kids anything - do we have consent from kids to condition them in a way we see proper as parents? - even eating fruits - do we have consent from the tree? Sort of. - smoking in public -> you make air worse for others -> and therefore even just by a fact of being alive you produce co2 and take oxygen - did you ask other people if you can?

I am too lazy to respond more broadly, but I agree with your points and my book recommendations for you are two: Rob Burbea - Seeing that Frees. - he speaks there a lot how CONCEPTION = PERCEPTION. And goes very deep into the defabrication of that knot. Yeshuani's work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbOwaZB4k0M&t=1919s - she speaks in terms of structure generating your life patterns and loops specific to you.

I am too lazy to respond more broadly, but I agree with your points and my book recommendations for you are two: Rob Burbea - Seeing that Frees. - he speaks there a lot how CONCEPTION = PERCEPTION. And goes very deep into the defabrication of that knot. Yeshuani's work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbOwaZB4k0M&t=1919s - she speaks in terms of structure generating your life patterns and loops specific to you.

haha, that's lovely

100% agree. You could imagine a couple arguing about something, word salad, drama, and then they suddenly just stop, look into each other eyes and all arguments seems silly.

Literally the whole point of my post was that words are just pointings. And then you do a very convenient strategy of "your words and Leo's are claims, mine words are just pointings" so you give yourself a double standard here. Relax. Do not assume so easily. And check the remnants of grasping mechanisms and mechanisms of superiority. Because thosr mechanisms can still run on their own even after seeing through a separate agent.

Golden description @Davino, or should I say Divino.

Yeah, and your words are also function of the mind. Yet they point to the Nameless. Just as Leo's words. You see other people's words and assume "ha, that's just mind's blah blah" and continue to write words yourself lol. And no need to go to "as before so called birth" - your birth never happened, the Nameless is right here, right now.

@James123 You disagreement with Leo here is just semantics and grasping to words. Everyone has slightly different connotations so it is very hard to point to true nature. But Leo saying infinity is all there is is exactly the same what you are saying. Infinity is not an experience for Leo. Maybe in your vocabulary your neural network points to something that is an experience. But the nitty gritty of all this is just that there only ever was THIS/INFINITY. Just imaginary differences happening in undescribeable, undefinable, limitless, boundaryless, self-less, THIS. When all limits, diferencess, dualities are seen through you are left with just THIS. Just this pure magic appearing out of nowhere. And that's what Leo calls infinity. And there was always just this/infinity. It only seemed otherwise because of grasping to definitions/categories/dualities.

@UnbornTao It seem's to me you lack some epistemic humility. Let look at this hypothetical: You have teachers you give more credit than Leo. Let's say I treat Leo degrees more deep than Ramana, Ralston after listening and practicing all of them - let's say main disadvantage of "your guys" is serious underapreciation of the degrees of Love possible (or at least underspeaking about this aspect, because I am of a believe they have awoken to Love but out of conformity Ralston is scared about using that word) You can say that your sense making capabilities, your inteligence and intuition make it very obvious that your teachers are the real deal. Now I can say exactly the same about my inteligence, observation, practice, experience - that obviously Leo is more well rounded teacher. So now how do we figure out whose sense making framework is better? We literally can't. It would be difficult even in person, even when feeling each others vibe, energy and level of equanimity, love etc. And on a fucking forum? Impossible. So just please, be less harsh and more humble about your perspective of devaluing Leo's work. Much love.

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Yooo, this selection is crazy good. Really cool that you found them moving and detailed diferent aspects. This is all very close to my own understanding. I especially liked the personal aspect. I really like to explore this aspect and it is not mentioned often enough - how close, intimate, personal, the mind of God is. I really like this artist:

For me this meme was more about the fact that when real spirituality starts amd your whole identity gets deconstructed there can be a period of existential terror, depression, dark night of the soul -> and in those moments sometimes you gotta smoke a cig man.

Both Free Will and Determinism are false because they both presuposses two unfindable things: 1. Separation - things predetermine other things. Or I can act upon other things. God is Self-Determined. 2. Time. There is no time therefore reality spontaneously appears this momement without chain of causation.

Angelo also speaks very clearly about this: https://youtu.be/Jc2hOTNpTbY?si=xvufZgwcrPxUTLFN

Highly recommend the movie: Perfect Days About toilet cleaner in Tokyo and his zen-like contentment. Beautiful movie.

But if we want to be very precise - would you agree that this is still refying Formless Emptiness into a noun, where in truth it is more like a verb or like a nature of anything that can be dreamt of? There is only dream-stuff. And nature of it is impermanence, emptiness - but that nature isn't in the background anywhere. There is no "behind the curtains". It's like Absolute Mind and it's contents - dream stuff - these are not separate right? It's not really like God/Absolute Mind dreams stuff out of itself, because that would suggest some stable Mind "behind the curtains" - The Mind and the Dreamt Stuff is pointing to the same Formless Empty Nature, they are not separate. Just like in a nightly dream when you become lucid - any Idea that it is happening in your Mind, in some stable background is just another Idea that is not direct experience - there is just dream stuff that morphs into different things and it's nature is Emptiness/Love. Would you agree with my train of thought?

Sitting in silence and. contemplating, exploring one's psyche, mind. Seeing patterns in one's behaviour. Using your imagination like a tripping tool.

In the past what helped me most was to skip breakfast and curb apetite with a little bit of stimulant (cup of coffee/nicotine gum). But now I no longer want to use stimulants at all so for me sadly (beautifully) it is deeply accepting hunger as part of being a human (at least part of being me while wanting to be lean). Meditation and going deeply into center of sensation helps.

Personal apetite varies a lot. I absolutely was gaining weight on both keto, paleo or mainly protein diets if I was not carefull about controlling myself. I lost and gained 10kg couple of times in my life and it never was possible without accepting being hungry most of the day. Not difficult for me to eat over 1000kcal of mostly protein in one sitting.

That is one of the best reports i've read. You put very nicely into words of how information access works/feels in those higher states. How much were you able to integrate this information access into daily life? How has it changed your daily life?