Anton Rogachevski

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  1. @The Don

    Dear Sir,

    I'm sorry if it will seem harsh and rude, but someone should tell you this,

    You are wasting your time here. Do yourself a huge favour and leave. For some people it may do damage, because they are not ready.

    If I really tried to explain why, I would say that some people are just not mentally capable of crossing the post-rational barrier, and so non-dual teaching are not useful for them in any way whatsoever.

    Really, I wish you well with all my heart,

    Godspeed


  2. @Preety_India

    I guess we can boil it all down to Borderline thinking and exaggeration. Thinking you are either nice or a jerk, and going from one extreme to other. This kind of radicality is just a result of a low level of development, and that's where most people are, so that's why we get all the stereotypes. (All women yada yada, All men yada yada.) My personal rule of thumb is not to judge the whole by the majority. To personally embody this means to understand that you always represent all your kind, and to act accordingly.


  3. @Fede83

    This issue goes much deeper and it has to do with codependency. One of its most common patterns of behaviour is pleasing others from a place of neediness.

    Someone who has that, sees his behaviour as "nice", and when he sees someone who doesn't do the same he calls him " a rude and arrogant jerk", but all that is a borderline judgement from a limited selfish perspective, which stems from low self esteem - this means that his perception is twisted by his illness.

    Also, it all depends on where the niceness is coming from, if it's not from manipulation, but an honest giving of kindness with no strings attached, then we are getting somewhere. A well rounded individual knows how to blend all these principles in a tactful manner, and so he may be both kind and attractive.

    You can also throw in stereotypical thinking, generalizing and level of development. It's obvious that people on different levels of development appreciate, and are attracted to different kinds of behaviours. For example, unhealthy stage red is attracted to displays of power.


  4. @Leo Gura

    Is it true to say that if many have committed suicide, it was indeed god's plan? How can anything go against god's will? If he gave us free choice, why should any choice be wrong?

    If death is imaginary, is suicide also imaginary?

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    Look, you can do whatever you want. Just don't forget that all actions have natural consequences.

    When you piss into the wind don't be surprised when it lands on your shoes.

     

    Isn't it arrogant to assume that that we can affect the way of nature with our actions?


  5. @Leo Gura

    1. How can you take an entheogen and say that the truth shown to you is absolute? Isn't the experience (or no-experience) relative to the entheogen and the temporary state? We say that if something is changing it can't be the absolute.

    2. If I reach a state where the mind isn't perceiving objects (no-mind), is it correct then to assume that they aren't real?

    3. Isn't non duality a confusion of the subjective for the objective, and a basic assumption that one can reach truth via subjective experience? (Of course in a non-dual state the duality of the subjective-objective collapses, but is that state dependent collapse reliable?)


  6. 1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    Where IS mind.

    Get it?

    ;)

    There are so many perspectives to take on this, that I will get tired of listing them all.

    Where ISn't mind? Is there even a "mind"?

    Mind is god, god is mind, it's nowhere, and everywhere, and neither of those, at the same time, nothing is not mind, so there's no way of talking about it without creating an illusory duality.

     

    @fridjonk Who escapes and why?