Eskilon

It's time to God podcast with Leo, don't you think?

LMAAAAO This is too good!

It is, but you didn't frame it that way in your message. You were using words like "easy" "worse" and so on. Clearly you are not talking only about the absolute here, there is still ego, however small it may be.

Yeah Truth is all that, but Truth is also infinite orgasm, infinite goodness and infinite benevolence. So in the end you will not just experience all the "negative"(from the ego's point of view) stuff, you will experience all the goodness(again from the ego's point of view) too. I know you are making your point to say that Truth is not just rainbows and butteflies, but it also not just hell and suffering. And honestly all this conversation is still limited from consciousness point of view, no human will ever fully comprehend consciousness and talk about it using dualistic language. That's why it's better to avoid talking about the absolute.

I see, It's more flexible than meditation, where you would discard all thoughts all together. It seems like you found a good middle ground, and that is cool and valid

Well, you are doing something

I agree. But that's kind of inevitable in current times with the overall collective state of consciousness. I've watched "Arrival" by him. Good movie Will check the channel, ty.

@Leo Gura What's your taste in film? Do you like surreal movies? Like the ones made by David Lynch and Luis Buñuel.

@integral I think a factor is that we don't see sexual violence outside the human domain. While we do see a lot of killing happening in nature. So for us that feeds into our minds that killing, while ugly, it's justifiable because to survive we need to kill(meat eaters and stuff like that), but we do not need to abuse someone sexually to survive.

Skateboarding and consciousness !

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Watch this movie blind, it's great

That might be what extraterrestrials looks like 👽

@cjoseph90 I meant that if you are gonna watch it don't watch the trailer because there are major spoilers there. Just read a short synopsis and watch it. The movie has some revelations that you should get only when watching, otherwise it might compromise your enjoyment of the story

Do you think robotics will help humans self-actualize more in the long run? I mean if we polish the technology enough we can offload brute force stuff to robots and build enough infrastructure so people can self-reflect and enter into higher domains of abstraction; and also increase their consciousness doing inner work and contemplation. Do you think this is to naive of a future scenario? Or maybe too optimistic lol

Yes, I understand you. You are right in this, but we must not forget that this also assumes a certain state of consciousness and a perspective.

Are you a Buddhist rat? How do you know that a thought is a thought？

You are talented . Really beautiful

I like Leo's post about New Age Fantasy. It is important to balance open-mindness with rigor. But, you can really favor rigor really, because you dont know if rigor is really true. Wheter the pyramids were built by aliens or by humans, you cant really know; you were not there. You need to be open to the possibility that the crazier theory might be true, whether it is more probable or not. You cant really just side with probability and discart the alien outcome just because it is more hippie or new agey and not grounded in anything reasonable. Because again, you don't know whether probability itself is true. You need deep not-knowing and open-mindness when investigating anything seriously. True rigor is when the rigor eat itself.

This is a wrong assessment of Buddhism. The cessation of suffering(Dukkha) is the path one takes through meditation and awareness. This path of letting go of the ego, eventually will lead to the ultimate Truth. So is not that Buddhism conflates the two, is that the two are interconnected. You can't really suffer if you know the Truth, you definately can if you do not.

But let's say it can be explained by something, in that case you would also need to provide explanation to that something and so on ad infinitum, otherwise you are just making stuff up(and you always are lol). So the answer here is yes and no. Its a strange-loop.

The Book Of Secrets by Osho. Not just the best spiritual book, but probably the best book ever written.

Can God trap itself in an infinite hell forever? Can God exclude itself from experience goodness forever? Two questions but yeah lol

At the end of the day, its a model for sense making. And as such, because it is a model, it is limited and should be considered as another option/lense for helping you understand reality. You need balance and wisdom to be able to know when it is appropriate to use it and when it is not. Also if people are labeling and demonizing tier 1 stages, that just show you they have a lot of work to do to embody the model values and understanding.

@LambdaDeltaReally nice stuff, impressive. Be careful though, you might end up getting hit by an arrow on your back if you explore too much