ExploringReality

@Princess Arabia Namaste.

@Princess Arabia I am seriously curious. With my deepest sincerity, why do you say I want to control and dominate? What do you see in me that I may not see in myself? Maybe I do want to control and dominate. I'm curious to get a perspective from you, for it may be of value on my own self reflection. 🪞

@Princess Arabia that is because impermanence is the flowing river of reality. There is suffering in joy, that's what makes it human. That's what makes you appreciate an ice cream, because it will melt. That's what makes human sexuality and love so beautiful because it will pass But you can glimpse a transcendental love in the midst of pain and pleasure.

@Peo yes as long as your identity is contingent on the physical body and mind. Try looking at it from an existential point of view independent of the human species.

There is joy in the negative. Especially in the good, but we must learn to embrace the suffering as an inseperable aspect of life. There is beauty to suffering, pain and loss. Look at the beauty of a black panther feasting on its prey, a snake choking and eating a living being. Being shot, having your neck sliced, being in the hospital. Losing a loved one, these are all aspects of life that must exist because they do.

@Princess Arabia I have been doing deep pranayama, belly breathing and intense emotional release exercises, the effects were an increase in energy, this primal animal bloodlust is being released for my fighting. I have been doing some really heavy practices. This energy is running through my veins, but I need to balance this pranic force with wisdom and love. I can't control it.

I didn't intend to slander your personality or character. I'm sure it'd be fun to sip tea together while moon gazing, maybe jumping down each other's throats. If you felt that way, I apologize. I love you.

@Princess Arabia Lol. Are we good? 💯

@Princess Arabia I agree.

@Leo Gura Is that your karma Mr gura? 😂

Developing Good Politics By Leo Gura - November 19, 2024 Here’s what you need to understand about politics. Politics is its own developmental line. Having good, high-quality, wise, mature politics is nothing natural or automatic. Very few people have it because it requires specialized research, study, and contemplation to get. Do not assume that just because someone is spiritually advanced, or has a high IQ, or is good at business or science, or is popular or successful, that they should have good politics. No, no, no. Spirituality and Awakening will not give you good politics. Going to an Ivy League university will not give you good politics. Reading a bunch of books will not give you good politics. The only thing that will give you good politics is if you do serious work in specifically developing good politics. Of course good politics requires a good epistemic foundation, but even a good epistemic foundation on its own is not enough to assure good politics. Good politics requires lots of experience and exposure to political events plus historical grounding, reading, and independent contemplation. It takes at least a decade of following politics to get good at understanding its tricks. Which explains why good politics is so, so rare. Most people are not interested enough in this domain to develop this far, and those who are interested mostly fall into the trap of one ideology or another. To spend a decade studying politics and avoid every ideology, every side, is rare indeed. The reason I was able to do achieve it was because all of my work is fundamentally grounded in pure understanding of reality. My political understanding is just an extension of that, grounded in my understanding of existence at a metaphysical, spiritual, psychological, and philosophical level. You see, unlike most people in politics, I am not a political actor. Nor am I a journalist or pundit. My aim within politics was always this: pure understanding. My aim was philosophical, not activist or journalistic. This allowed me to keep my mind from getting corrupted with bias and various human agendas. Because I never took my eye off this ball for 25+ years, my reward is that now I have good politics. That doesn’t mean I believe in the right set of positions. It means I understand politics on an existential level, as a domain of mind. While everyone else was busy arguing over this or that ideology, or reporting on news, I was busy understanding reality at an existential level. That’s what you must do to cut through all the human noise. What I see instead is everyone lost and distract by the human noise. As a result, they never gain an existential understanding of politics and are forever lost and confused, arguing over breadcrumbs like rats. Beware: if you become a political actor you will take your eye off the ball of pure understanding and you will thereby never really understand politics, you will be a pawn within the game. Your mind will get so corrupted by human agenda, by survival, that you will not have the purity and objectivity necessary to understand what’s really going on. You have a basic loyalty test before you now: will you be loyal to pure understanding and truth, or will you be loyal to human activity and survival goodies? You can have one or the other. Choose carefully. Getting extraordinary results requires having extraordinary intent. What is your intent? The quality of your intent makes all the difference. Is your intent social justice? Is your intent having your side win? Is your intent proving others wrong? Is your intent personal fame and profit? Is your intent power? Is your intent fear and worry? Or is your intent something beyond all that? Why do you think about politics at all?

The only malicious intent I have is ending someone in a boxing ring.

@Princess Arabia I’m not trying to control you, I’m just calling out the reality of this conversation. You keep accusing me of silencing you, but all I’m doing is challenging your ideas, not your right to speak. If you feel threatened by someone questioning your beliefs, maybe it’s not about me controlling you, maybe it’s about you not being used to being challenged. The fact that you're reacting so strongly shows more about your need to defend something fragile, not my need to control.

You're projecting control issues onto someone simply responding to your points. I’m not here to win,I’m here to cut through fluff and speak clearly. If that threatens you, maybe it's not me you need to silence. It’s the mirror

If truth feels like violence, maybe it's your illusion that’s bleeding. I’m not attacking, I’m just allergic to circular logic and spiritual fluff. You’re giving me hives. I’m not here to become anything either, I’m just not pretending to float above it all. If calling out incoherence feels like an attack, maybe it’s not me you’re at war with.

@Princess Arabia You’ve reached enlightenment… yet still can’t stop typing. Must be a glitch in the Void. The dreamer woke up and still kept debating in the dream. That’s deep sleep

@Princess Arabia Cool story. The Absolute doesn’t need to remind itself it’s the Absolute every five minutes. You say you’re not going anywhere, yet you’ve sprinted in circles just to prove it. Stillness doesn’t talk this much. The couch didn’t ask for your enlightenment.

@Princess Arabia Who’s saying that? If there’s truly nothing going on, why the need to explain it? Even the claim nothing is happening' is happening. Trying to out think the dream is still dreaming. You’re describing illusions with more illusions, polishing fog.

@Princess Arabia who is trying to get close? Let that go too. The closer you try to get, the further you are

@Princess Arabia all of it is happening in a larger context is what you don't see. Time is relative. There is only this present moment no matter what's going on within it. From the macro to the micro

If words are all you have, then silence is already closer than your next sentence.

@Princess Arabia No self, no truth, no dream, but you still typed that. Why?

@Princess Arabia Time is the moving image of eternity -Plato

@Princess Arabia You are a mental gymnastics performer. Jumping through all sorts of hoops rather than burning your ignorance and dogmatic attitude.

@Princess Arabia the present moment is timeless is the point your missing, actually the only point. Of course duality is inherently inseparable from non Duality, but don't confuse relative with Absolute. Don't conflate the Absolute with duality even tho they are one, there is the little one and the big One. Paradoxically. Reality is Paradoxical in nature is the reason you are stuck at the level of words.