ExploringReality

Interesting, there is a top book on Leo's Booklist that integrates awakening with concentration practices to balance your experiences, so you don't fry yourself with fear or overwhelment

Kash Patel is a piece on Trump's chessboard to protect the king from checkmate. Look at Patel's early career! He was a public defender in Miami defending accused criminals and juggling a surmountable amount of cases, that says a lot.

It's nuanced, this is the hot potato. This requires an intelligent answer

@Inliytened1 Young kids as young as toddlers have been separated from their families and even died in conditions of immigrant and ice facilities. They are treated like dogs or rats, no medical care, kids are sleeping on the floor with foil paper, it's over crowded, it's fucking despicable man!!!!

He's basically an adult child. Always center of attention, using his wealth as a form of self worth and value, doesn't pause to think for a second and doesn't consider the cost of his actions on the American people he says he supports. It's a mix of cognitive thrombosis and out of control man child taking over the world. I was analyzing his early childhood and how he behaved and it's literally the same shit he's doing now but with the privilege of being born into this corrupt distorted luxurious life.

What are your thoughts about this happening? Also what do you make of Patel's hearing at Capital Hill? It was a shit show

Trump is stifling free speech by rebranding protest as terrorism. Peaceful resistance and protest are literally what the First Amendment protects. When he calls people "domestic terrorists" just for opposing him and sends federal troops to silence them, that’s a direct attack on freedom of speech. It’s not about safety, that's straight up about control. People are scared to even speak up because he used this term "antifa" as a nebulous concept to blur the lines of free speech and actual terrorism. Basically he can now claim whoever he wants as a domestic terrorists and label them antifa to justify an authoritarian dictator motive and silence anyone who disagrees with his stupid devilishly ruthless ego child agenda. Antifa isn't even an organization or anything. So he's using the fact that it's an amorphous concept to use it against his political opponents

Am I stupid or is Donald Trump using Kirk's murder as leverage to silence the left or anyone he seems peacefully resisting his authoritarianism? Basically eradicating the first amendment to his will and doing anything he can to take away people's ability to bat an eye or raise concern, using force to suppress dissent

I literally just watched this! Wild! That's illegal and they are acting above the law. Trump just issued to have troops flood the city of Oregon Portland today, basically allowing Americans to be kidnapped and killed if they say they are terrorists or antifa. Antifa isn't even a terrorist organization. Trump directed the Department of Defense to “provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland” and secure “ICE facilities under siege.

@Leo Gura Magascism = fascism.

Dammnnnn!!!!!

This is profound. I am looking from the right wing side, and connecting it to your episodes understanding the liberal mind and the conservative mind, and my entire sense of reality is bending in this weird paradox. Now, looking from the opposite perspective I can choose to suspend my judgement or be mindful of my actions and reactions, rather than lashing out or defending from one side. I am my political opponents, we are each other. It's fucking twisted

@Natasha Tori Maru 😂

I understand, what the fuck do you expect us to do? I know we must behave ourselves in the light of all this, but it's really hard especially when people are being bigots talking a bunch of shit in positions of power. I do get emotional because of this stuff but how can I reframe it or what is a better way to go about this, not just me but all the rest of us that are acting like animals?

Make sure our goggles and breathing apparatus are on while swimming through this shit ahha

Insane lol

The solution for the president of the United States is to pack the oval office full of fucking gold while inflation is sky rocketing. Perfect

Basically a white male killed three immigrant detainees at an ice facility and then killed himself by self-inflicted gun wound. No ice agents or officers were killed, only the immigrants were targeted but maga and the vice president is doing something so deceptive and are saying that they are sending their condolences to the ice agents that were targeted even though the immigrants were the ones that were killed and he goes on to say that the left is trying to Target our men in uniform but really no ice agents were targeted. This is so fucking absurd

Dannmm!!!!!!! Wtf

What is your idea of nowness? Is nowness a thing? You cannot hold onto it because it's empty. You cannot hold on to yourself. Yes there is Absolute Now, but our idea of this is not the territory. We have to admit that we don't actually know what now is. This isn't a bad thing, actually it's a very good thing, because people are so quick to fill in the emptiness with words or ideas that are not the same thing as to what they are pointing to. So being in a space of not knowing moves us closer to the reality of what now is.

You gotta watch this!!!!

What is this I? Where am I? Where am I located? Beware of the voice narrating and claiming selfhood. You don't exist, you are not something which has consciousness, that's the illusion. Your imaginary. There is Existence, Reality, but you are not an object within existence. You are absolutely Nothing, you are indefinable, because there is nothing to hold onto as yourself.