Davino

In a way, nothing finite truly satisfies, for satisfaction and dissatisfaction cocreate each other. This comes with the insight that there's everything in life and so it must be, the only choice is to continuously refine the whole spectrum but the spectrum always exists, that's the nature and beauty of reality and contrast.

Yes but less if done correctly. With a teacher you have his awakening, the transmission and the interpretation of the communication. Moreover, you have different consciousness, psyches, personalities, gender, historical and cultural times, genetics, and so on. With yourself, you cook it to your own taste. And of course, you only reach to being self-taught, once you have exhausted others teachings, this I thought came without saying. My point was to proceed further with real spirituality, in the same way that Mozart learnt to a certain point from other and then had to carve a new pathway of music, self-taught, of course. Now people can arrive to that level and real music begins when continuing further. Deluded. In the same way, imagine you spent your whole life thinking someone is deluded, not knowing the difference. What does that leave you with? Moreover, it may be the case that teachers are a complex intermingle of truth and falsehood and that one needs to develop the ability to dissect and extract the truth from every perspective like a surgeon removes a tumor and studies the beating of the heart crack open. I know, I've spent many years deeply studying mystics from around the world from all ages, putting to test their techniques and pointers. I've presented you in this thread with my methodology to judge the quality of teachers after my extensive work. I'm curious to know what is your methodology and then maybe we can contrast and learn from each other. Probably you just go by vibes and validation of your own unconscious axioms of what reality is, you have not done enough work to invent your own framework, check mechanisms, error correction, bias correction, to study a new teacher. For example, I see a new teacher X and I know how to proceed, I've done it hundreds of times, you just go with vibes, it's just casual work for you but you go on trying to lecture me when I've just traversed the space to exhaustion, but when I do so you accuse me of bragging, hence the paradigm lock. Otherwise, I'm curious to know what is your methodology and then maybe we can contrast and learn from each other. You see the first example isn't even yours, it's from Peter Ralston, how do I know that? Mmm... You haven't exhausted teachers hence you cannot go beyond them, they are like anchors in your mind. While the one who has freed his mind, learns the truth from everyone and has a groundless mind. If you go to search a diamond you don't care to swim in a river of shit, others just see the river of shit and say why get dirty for the possibility of maybe finding a gem, hence they are satisfied with silver. The mystics takes a deep plunge and may only find shit, but when a gem appears, it's rare and no one will understand nor go through the process of cleaning their psyche and crowning the jewel. That's the methodology I follow after exhausting the first layer of investigation with a teacher. That's also what I'm doing with you now, I've already gotten the first layer gold after years listening to you and now I'm getting a deep plunge into your consciousness and psyche to see if there is any gem in there.

All teachers are limited at end the of the day, don't follow mystics but what mystics follow. After a threshold, spirituality must be self-taught, that's the beginning of real spirituality.

He def would benefit from outsourcing more stuff. He loves to do it all himself to his taste, but at his stage you can't be micromanaging everything cause it's gonna be a bottle neck. It's like wanting to be both a CEO and a technician, there's a trade-off in being so complete.

Leo, why do you often say you're going to do something and then it doesn't happen? This is not an attack and I don't want any explanations. I just cannot help but observe over the years this pattern of making a promise and then not delivering. For example, you've posted on the Corruption of... series, but then have not finished the deconstructing Rationality series which you said would be delivered in a row and I'm skeptical of how many chapters will be done on the corruption series. Still again this is just a local, limited and only a trigger of a metapoint on this lack of integrity and cornering yourself in future actions that don't materialize. Give it another introspective chain of thoughts because I'm puzzled you haven't polished this already.

Why?

If you fight with your thoughts you've already lost If you resist them you're entangled In the same way you ignore a distant street sound Ignore thoughts Let them be You just don't care If you find yourself lost again in thoughts Ignore again If you find thoughts about how the meditation is going or how to improve it. Ignore again Finally ignore ignoring as well And rest Awake and Free

Everything is alive at different degrees, everything is consciousness at different states and spaces. Your experience right now is not material, it's a phenomenology, meaning sensations, a soup of consciousness divinely harmonized. Be aware that this world/moment is made out of Pure Consciousness, then you're Awake. Realize this present experience is a manifestation of Pure Infinity, making Reality totally boundless (no edges/end) and groundless (ungraspable/self-evident). Awake into higher and more complete orders of Infinity, Consciousness, Love, Truth, Perfection, strange-loops, and so on so forth. Then by the self-touch of Divine grace, One may be blessed to be God-Conscious or enter into God-Mode. Here words lack description, it's hard to walk, hard to take the next breath, God's Immense Presence Saturates all of Reality. One is God, nothingness is God, All is God; God and only God, for Infinity.

I agree, I'm just giving general advice. That's too advanced for most people. When I'm feeling open I just sit to bliss out in samadhi. Thoughts or no thoughts are irrelevant at that point, I'm too conscious for that game.

Yes, thanks for pointing it out

That's an interesting position You gotta master both ends before transcending them Most people are just too caught up in accepting all thoughts So it's good to go once in a while to the other extreme and ignore all thoughts Once you are able to do both, THEN you have the freedom and wisdom consider them unbiasedly

That's about using the mind properly which is crucial in life But you gotta learn how to unplug once in a while

Only when you sit for meditation, focus on all Infinity but on thoughts. Out of the meditation cushion do your normal life. It's good to disconnect once in a while from a busy mind, indeed it's very healthy

God is not human but it's sentient God is intelligence God is alive God is existence Truly this World is the living God So God is both this Reality and unbounded by it (infinite) Like a mirror that reflects all experiences and is all experiences potentially Also consider there's no God without you, nor anything without you. You are the the needle by which the thread of this world-dream goes through.

@Butters Make a list of all the things you hate about reality, all the things you fear about reality, all the suffering that happened to you, all the unfairness, that nasty thing they told you, how they scammed you that one time, how they laughed at your, when someone you really loved died... Really do make that list Then go one by one, reliving that moment and infusing it with acceptance, embracement and love, without the need to change nothing at all, an absolute alignment with reality and an overflowing love for it all. And if you can't do it, then love where you're at. This is the tough path of Love, not some light sensation on the chest. This is the challenging Love journey that will yield true and enduring Love.

If the substance is LSD or is an analog that behaves like it, sublingual is done because you feel the effect a bit sooner than if eaten. Other than that, effects are the same. I don't know of many substance that do work sublingually but not via the digestive system.

"The one who thinks he's bellow me does not understand me The one who thinks he's above me does not understand me The one who thinks he's equal to me does not understand me The one who is in oneness with me understands me" Sri Nithyananda ParamaShiva

I recommend you to search about Sri Anandamayi Ma, the only recorded case in history where a being was born egoless and remained this way till her death. There was no beggar or so called enligthened Guru that was not astonished by her simplicity and presence. If you pay real attention and read closely, undressing the words to what they point to, you will see that a very clear message of God-Realization is being transmited.

The human brain may be compared to the root of a tree; if the root is watered, nourishment spreads to every part of the plant. There are occasions when you say your brain is tired. When does this happen? When you are very busy with outer things. But as soon as you return home and talk to your loved ones, your head feels light and you are full of joy. For this reason it is said, because your brain belongs to yourself, your own work does not produce weariness. Really speaking, all work is your work - only how can you understand this? Indeed the whole world is yours, of your Self, your very own - but you perceive it as separate, just as you see ‘others.’ To know it to be your own gives happiness, but the notion that it is apart form you causes misery. To perceive duality means pain, conflict, struggle and death. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

That's a very Christian view to be punished, the point is that the state of one's mind matters a lot at the time of death. You make your own punishment or your own blessing. Make your last breath be love and you'll bask in infinite Love, make your last breath be of fear and you'll bask in infinite fear before dissolving into infinite Love.

Buddhism is a drop in God's Ocean Yet the drop is Infinite in itself and reflects the whole Yet what about the Ocean that is a drop in God and reflects all Oceans?

Sounds like a third eye awakening that could have flowered into a mystical experience, it's like you were masturbating your energy but you stopped before reaching orgasm so it's difficult to know what could have happened

@LambdaDelta There's a crude Awakening when we realise we have all broken the law, one day or the other, hence we are all criminals on different degrees.

@Nemra There will come a moment where everything is seen as Consciousness always. I live in this space and it's beautiful, it's like being always home.