AtmanIsBrahman

Graduation speeches

You can’t die because you aren’t alive. This thing that you think you are dies when the body dies, but you weren’t really that thing. Being alive (as a finite thing) is an illusion that can’t last forever. You’ll eventually be returned to Truth, which is what you ultimately are.

Seems like you’re making some good progress. You can reach a stage where you aren’t really affected by external events, only your internal state—which is largely under your control. Sadhguru talks about this a lot. It’s also in this video:

@Leo Gura contemplating this https://www.actualized.org/insights/you-invented-history I had the insight that time is change. And every change is imaginary because reality is absolute. So when you move your hand, the memory of moving that hand is imaginary, except for the fact that it’s occurring in your direct experience, because change never actually happens. Am I getting it?

“Love is the realization that there is no difference between anything” - Leo Gura

What if you want to become a great mystic philosopher? Wouldn’t you want to start young then? With most things in life, the younger you start, the better your chances of excelling at the thing. Why should consciousness work be any different?

I wrote this poem. I thought this forum might be one of the few places that actually gets it. Tell me what you think! ___________________________ Pure Unabashed Love Please know that the imperfections of this one are not the imperfections of this one They are only temporary scars to be removed and healed away. Please know, honey, that when. I beat you it is because. / I love you..\ Please know that I carried out all the beatings, hangings, rapes, lynchings, drawing and quarterings, of all times. For it is not mine to say it is not mine. / / < / / < / / Bow down before the father For he is the judge Who knows of himself no wrong But can only sit with tears Of love and recognition And I am the father, as you are too / / > / / > / They ask how I take identity with the beloved But do you know your own hand? In the same way I know him. I made you the main character So you could know the joys of progress. I meted out every drop of suffering onto your soul So your being could complete itself. . / / | | . / / | | Blood of my blood, love of my love You are a work of pure imagination Stupendous beauty of self-creation A madness looking within to dissolve in pure bliss

Being upset by the news

Having a dream job (unless it’s based on a life purpose)

Saying that Gen Alpha is stupid, doomed, or somehow worse than previous generations

Has anyone else finished the book yet?

Moving on to Part 2, the book is getting a lot better though.

I’ve been reading this book too. So far I have to say I’m not that impressed. There are many points where Ralston sounds like a materialist scientist, who doesn’t know science very well. The words “physical” and “objective” are used a lot. For example: “All perception, thought, and experience is indirect. This is just saying the perceptive-experience you have of something is not the same as the thing-itself.” “sight is a function of light bouncing off an object and you interpreting the light. This means the “data” gathered by the light stimulating nerves in the eye are funneled through interpretation and association to make sense of it.” But this could also be an issue of how language is used…

It’s a tricky dilemma, because if he watched many years ago, he may be after more basic self-help stuff. Maybe this one? Or some practical video along those lines.

How do you know this?