Barna

I like your question, so I'm gonna be a bit dramatic with my answer Let's not go as far as killing. Let's just stay at eating meat. I have a question for you: there is nothing worng with eating your daughter's corpse, becasue it's just a switch of the from - isn't it? You see, if you're not starving to death, then you have to come up with a very fucked up excuse for eating your daughter's corpse... The same way right now your mind is trying to come up with excuses to eat meat in general. You don't consider animals as close to you as your own daughter, so your mind thinks that a weak excuse, like "it's just switching form" is enough. If you can't love an animal as much as you would love your own daughter then I can't explain you what's wrong with eating meat. You're God, and every single animal is your son and daughter. It depends on you how long it takes until you accept this.

You can be right and you may be right The word "non-playable" confused me

Is there a difference between a biological brain and an artificial one? If a biological brain can host a conscious self then what makes you think that an artificial brain can't? We don't even have to go to science fiction to find consciousness in machines. Let's take for example our everyday computers. Computers were first born into this world as a thought form. This thought form was born through humans when we first thought about automating some simple calculations. Then this thought form manifested itself into the physical reality (again through humans) as the very first computers. Then the thought form of the computer started evolving in a rapid rate on the mental plane and also on the physical plane. It also multiplied rapidly and nowadays there are more computers on the world then humans. The next evolutionary step of this thought form is to become self-aware in the physical reality. We humans are basically just the reproductive organ of the computers. Biological cells are basically very sophisticated molecular machines without self consciousness, but through billions of years of evolution they managed to form self conscious human beings. Computers now are also just sophisticated machines without self awareness (computers are still conscious although they are not self conscious). But give them some time, they've started their physical evolution only a hundred years ago... To answer you directly: consciousness is like electricity, as soon as you touch the wires, electricity starts rushing through them. So non-playable characters are improbable because as soon as something becomes sophisticated enough, self-consciousness immediately pops up.

Happiness and unhappiness are irrelevant. Life is not about the me anymore. And paradoxically, this makes me happier than I've ever been. This might be because suffering is possible only if I try to cling to my happiness * The italic highlight doesn't mean anything, it just looks good on me

Why are you asking "am I ready"? If you're afraid of any negative consequence that might follow then you're not ready

I'm practicing Tibetan Reiki. I don't do any other type of energy work so I can't compare it with other practices. But this one seems to work consistently

Distinctions

Self inquiry is about contemplating the question "What am I?" or "Am I aware?". These can be pretty useful, but how about contemplating on the inquiry itself? What is a question? What is this feeling in me that creates a thought in the form of a question? What is curiosity? Is the curiosity conscious? Is Consciousness curiosity? Can I answer any question without knowing the existential nature of the question itself?

@Truth Addict have you read The Power of Now? In that book there's a chapter with the title "Beyond happiness and unhappiness there is peace"

Saying that enlightened people don't care about their looks is like saying that enlightened people don't care about the beauty of a sunrise...

I had a similar discussion on another thread. I'm too lazy to rephrase my answer, so I'm just gonna copy-paste it Here it comes: "Whatever you do is perfect, it's not a question of good or bad. The difference between being awake and being asleep is the same as the difference between truth and illusion. Being asleep basically means that we're dreaming a comfortable lie for ourselves. There's nothing wrong with that, sometimes we need some comfort on the way. But if you've ever tried to cling to comfort for too long then you know that it leads to more and more suffering the longer you try to cling to it." So you can ignore spirituality and enjoy your "vacation" while you can. But your words sound like something in you already started to awaken, so I'm sure that life will throw you out of your comfort zone pretty quickly!

So, uhm... What's the tl;dr version?

Which part of it? The thought form of the question seems to arise somewhere in the head area. But the thought form is fueled by curiosity. The curiosity seem to arise somewhere in the chest area. But what fuels the curiosity? What's its underlying energy?

@Truth Addict ❤️

Of course. The whole purpose of life is to teach us to not be stuck on any perspective.

Whatever you do is perfect, it's not a question of good or bad. The difference between being awake and being asleep is the same as the difference between truth and illusion. Being asleep basically means that we're dreaming a comfortable lie for ourselves. There's nothing wrong with that, sometimes we need some comfort on the way. But if you've ever tried to cling to comfort for too long then you know that it leads to more and more suffering the longer you try to cling to it.

It's not about going anywhere It's about being right here, right now, without being asleep

I'm not talking about realizations on the level of the mind. I'm talking about the process of expanding consciousness to include more and more of the inifinte existence. There's no end to realizations because Infinity doesn't have an end.

Realizations give you the truth. Would you rather be happy than being yourself?

Then turn it into an experience. Do it right now: find the boundary between you and your experience. If you're not your experience then there should be a precise line that separates you from your experience. So where is this line? Don't make it conceptual, go to your direct experience and find this line/boundary. Let me rephrase my question: How will you realize the fullness of your being if you're interested only in the emptiness of it?

The present moment is you. What else could it be? Only you exist. How will you know yourself if you are not interested in yourself?

Every inquiry is self-inquiry when there's no real distinction between self and other. By "world" I mean the eternal and ever changing present moment that we all experience. Don't you want to dive deep into that?

The present moment includes the inquiry. The inquiry includes a curiosity. My perception of myself doesn't change because I am nothing that I can observe. And I am everything that I can observe. Are you trying to point to consciousness? I am aware that I am aware. This a nice starting point, but there's a whole world to discover beyond this. That's why we're experiencing this human existence.

I didn't find a "who". It's just happening. So I'm interested in what is it that's happening right now.