Davino

It can. But it's very hard to be that serious, given the plan he has. There are better ways to go about a retreat, better methodologies, combination of yoga, pranayama, meditation, psychedelics. Hardcore presence sitting for 10 days straight is a hell of a marathon. What will happen in the end is just a long run, but nothing substantial. I wanna save him of that by playing the bad cop.

What makes the work so deep is that all you fucking think reality is will be stripped like it never even existed. You have good potentiality but you are green. I don't think you know what you are getting yourself in. Not gonna work. What has been your longest time doing that? I bet you 100€ you haven't been 180min in continuos meditation in your single life and you wanna take this challenge. I know you can make better assesments of where you are at and how do you wanna continue going further. Awakening doesn't happen by luck, it happens by consciousness and existential intelligence. Right now you don't have neither and you are guessing. I recommend you go do 10 day retreats with a master with extensive experience. Get serious, like really serious, with your daily practice. It's not about duration it's about intensity. A 15min intense conscious and powerful sit is better than hours playing around, but right now all of it is grey and you hope for us to get some insights about it. If you are serious find 5meo-Dmt, get a breakthrough and see if it's something you are interested in. This is solid advice and I'm harsh with you because I really see something in you and I don't want you to waste time here and there. Try psychedelics, get the experience, post your trip reports and we'll work from there. Till that, all we can do is superficial advise that won't scratch the itch.

Take care while tripping. Take vitamins if possible

what is the purpose behind your 10 day retreat? will you actually do it?

Question: People are asked to worship God, to sing His praise in hymns, to perform puja, to repeat constantly His name, and they do all this without knowing what God is. Will you please explain? Answer: God is all-knowledge, and one cannot know God's true nature till one attains Self-Realisation. Then one will find God to be none other than oneself, the only I or Atman, the only Self there is, and that God is with form as Reality and without form as Chit, Pure Consciousness. In the meantime, prayers, worship and meditation have to be performed. Question: How can our minds be free for prayer and meditation. When we are so burdened by work and family responsibilities? What should we do in that case? Answer: Let the work be done of its own accord, without strain. Work without the feeling that it is you who are working. Take it as if it is God's work, done through you as His instrument. Now go do your work, God's Work.

That's the one million dollar question I've been reflection on for years. In my case, I don't think I can make it. I wanna make my job about what I truly love in life or something that synergises with it. What if your Life Purpose was actually "deeper epistomology, metaphysics and enligtenment"? What if you didn't have to wait 10 years to get it but maybe 5 or even less. You just need to figure out a way to make it of value to other people, so that they give you money in return. And there you have it your dream life. How to do this? Well good question. Any ideas? Also take into account that a lot of hard work will be involved no matter what path you choose, it's always gonna be difficult, but you can choose what to suffer for and hopefully make all the sweat and blood meaningful.

If you want it that bad, then you will become mature and design your life arround it. I remember you once said something among the lines: Saying that you want something, that you truly desire something, means to actually DO all the work it takes to accomplish it. Otherwise, you are not allowed to dream. I reflect on it many times. If someone really wants the highest Awakenings, it will arrange its own life and self to make it happen. Does it sound familiar? It's true that maybe one doesn't know what such desire implies and what it takes to bring it to full fruition. But I still think it boils down to: How badly do I want to Awaken? I really want it very badly. And I write this with tears in my eyes. It's the only thing that I find meaningful in my life. This of course, changes from person to person and I think it's at the Heart of getting results in Awakening. How badly do I want to God-Realize? That determines everything else and I'm even unsure if such desire is chosen. It can be nurtured that for sure, but seeding it so deep, maybe that is a given.

@stephenkettley I would say that it boils down to your will or desire. How badly do you want to Awaken? The percentage of the committment will yield it's results for your given case. Regarding psychedelics, go to 5-MeO-Malt and 5-MeO-DMT. Those are the most consistent tools for Awakening. A 20mg of 5meo will give you a good spiritual experience that you will be able to translate in your daily practice. As you now are able to orient yourself inside the practice for higher consciousness. In my case, daily practice is for baseline consciousness and Psychedelics are for peak consciousness. Both have their role that the other cannot substitute.

You are already brainwashed by Russian culture. There is no way arround social brainwashing for the first solid 16 years of your life. If anything, getting in contact with other culture reflects your own cultural brainwashing as well as the brainwashing from the new culture. Language is an extremely deep topic and the way it interconnects with sociology and what I call "the tribe personality of a nation" is fascinating. Exactly the opposite. You will learn different ways of thinking, behaving and looking at the world. Each language is an emergent phenomenon of a group of people. I'm not pulling this out of my ass but from actual experience. I'm fluent in 5 languages and I've had the luck to study and live in different countries as I was growing up. Few things have been so life transforming as learning languages and getting to know different cultures. It's really rewarding, I encourage you to keep learning Arab and getting to know the culture. It's actually very beautiful when you really immerse yourself in it as an insider and not as a tourist. Luckily you have family and that's a great motivation for learning Arabic! To the extent to which you are not able to contrast it by exposure to another culture. We are fish in water in our mother tongue and culture (till we get outside of it and cognise the world through a radically new language and culture) we cannot see in what ways we have been brainwashed. By this process you will become mature and more intelligent, new brain connections are made and actually new insights flourish as each language presents a unique thought corrent and words that are exclusive to it. If a word doesn't exist in your language, there is no way for you to point to that aspect of reality. I actually struggle a lot with this as I want to communciate concepts that are from other languages through a system that didn't emerge with that need of communication.

Spoken like a true crocodile 🐊

I'm sure logicians are one of the professions that less get laid

That's real tough. Sigh...

Existence=Consciousness

I was thinking that you on the other hand usually get the bigger picture right but sometimes become imprecise in the narrow details. It's better to get the big picture right, but be also more eager to polish the technicalities for higher holism in your thinking. I'm not trying to school you or anything but I wanted to give you this feedback. I know you are aware of it already but I invite you to give it another thought: how not being detailed-accurate is skewing my understanding of Reality? I'm an abstract big picture thinker and lately I'm trying to polish the detail sharpness inside my macroscopic mind-view.

I have become aware that the reason why I struggle so much to pass my exams is not because I procrastinate or I lack discipline but most essentially because I don't enjoy it. It feels tedious and is not my calling. I know the ease of studying and understanding deeply what you most love. As a matter of fact, I was surprised to pass with honours my only subject on philosophy in my engineering degrees. Learning about my inner psychology is deeply fascinating to me, I'm like a sponge absorbing information, generating insights and flowing in the moment. I'm also very passionate about languages and even without being in the top, it's something I really enjoy doing. In addition, Martial Arts play a crucial role in my life and body. But engineering? I decided to take the double degree because when I was a kid I got fascinated by the idea of being a hacker. Such possibility fascinated me, cracking through technology by intelligence, it amazed me. Nonetheless, that dream was long once forgotten and I kept going with the flow my whole life just assuming engineering would be my major and career. I'm consider myself a jack of many trades and I get how difficult it can be to master one and live only out of that, leaving behind all others. The point is I do like more other trades right now and that makes my current situation hard. I'm really looking forward to finish next year and start my life. I'm unsure what do and many paths are open. But I have some kind of dream right now. 10+years of personal development and providing coaching, making an impact in the world. Transitioning to full time God-Realization. That's something I would wake up every morning for.

Brindavan in this context means heaven. Leela means play or game, the divine play of existence itself. Now take a deep breath 🫁 and enjoy:

Here are some tips for anyone who is considering to use weed via smoking ROA and how to reduce the harm associated with this. Smoking IS bad for your health, so if you are gonna do it anyway, make it as healthy as possible. Use charcoal activated filters. Here you have a list of the different available options. Charcoal filters are a revolution. Do not blend with tobacco, there are many other smokable plants that offer great alternatives. I use marshmallow leaf that has medicinal properties to help with lung inflamation. Here you can see many other options that will give your smoking experience a new vibe. Smoke calmly and at least 3 normal breaths to 1 smoke puff ratio. Inhaling the smoke via nose ( open your mouth and inhale with your nose) can filter more impurities and help distribute the stress between mouth to nose. Advanced tip: Brushing your teeth AFTER smoking is extremely negative for your health, as toxic chemicals enter deeper into the gums with the brush. It's recommended to brush your teeth always before smoking otherwise wait at least 30min to brush your teeth after smoking. Do you have any other cool tips? Please share it down bellow

lmao, this opened my eyes. Thanks for sharing Yimpa

Try it out. When was the last time you did one? Please post more pranayamas. I benefit from them a lot. For a 10min investment everyday you get a lot of benefits out of it.

The enormous challenge that self-referentiality poses to all systems

It's a symbol, the symbol is less intuitive for you but it points to the same things as the number 1, it's just another form of it

This sentence is false

It's very simple in fact. The problem is the symbology that trips people up. There is only one case in nature where we can have x^0 and that is when we have a number divided by itself. Let me do an example: x/x = 1 x^2= x*x (x*x) ÷ (x*x) = 1 (x^2) ÷ (x^2) = x^(2-2) = x^(0)=1 So what happens is that we have 2 symbols pointing to the same thing, which causes this confusion. There's nothing esoteric about this.