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@VeganAwake here's a common ground for us:

Cool, then I'm quite spiritual today ?‍♂️ "Gratitude, JoY and Love", I like this trinity, we can abbreviate this and call it GaYLv from now on.

You're right, I'm stagnating like hell in my spiritual growth. But I'm not even offering help in that regard. I've offered help before on this forum with emotional stuff because I'm a pretty joyful person, so I think I can help others become more joyful as well. I think in the end it doesn't really matter how fast you reach enlightenment, what's more important is to enjoy the path, so I aim to teach joy. But joy is a personal "tool", not a spiritual one. Suffering will take you much further on your spiritual path.

That's alright because that's the kind of game I prefer playing. I love helping video game characters

I know that the person doesn't exist. But realizing this is not the end, the way we express ourselves still needs to develop to match our realization. For example, you can't keep a normal conversation without correcting other people's spiritual grammar. And this is not because your lack of realization, it's rather because the way you express yourself still has room to evolve. This skill of expressing oneself is called personality structure. Please stop saying that this concept is an illusion just because it has the word personality in its name.

I'm not against thinking, as I mentioned before: But Zen mind is the opposite of thinking, so throwing it away means starting to think again

I totally agree

Wow, you must be tripping very hard. What kind of spellchecker program do you use, because your typing is close to flawless!

I help others because I want to feel good about myself. So I'm doing it for purely selfish reasons. But from this perspective, there are no selfless activities, everything comes from selfishness in the end, and I guess that's okay. Do I feel superior while helping others? Yes, I do. And I guess that's obvious if you read my posts. But this feeling of superiority happens in many areas of my life, I guess it's an unhealthy overcompensation mechanism from my personality structure for feeling generally inferior in the past. I know about this, but I don't think it's the main reason why I want to help others. What else did you notice about my motivations? Maybe you're seeing something about me that I don't.

I know that I cannot transform other people, but leaving them behind is not an option for me. Life is based on infinitely interconnected service between one another. The organs in your body wouldn't function if the cells didn't serve each other and the organ as a whole. Your body would die if the organs didn't serve each other and the body as a whole. And so on... Living only for myself would feel like being cancer.

Wtf @Zeroguy, you joined only a year ago but you already have 4k+ posts and your own sect?!

So, after your enlightenment, you're not able to talk about practicalities anymore because you judge that as part of the seeking? Do you have a main direction in life? Or is your life a series of haphazard actions? I mean, even if it's all an illusion, it's still worth playing with it, and playing the best game you've got. Otherwise, what are you even doing on Earth? It's like going to Disneyland just to sit on the grass and meditate. Sure, you can do that, and you would probably enjoy that, but it still seems like a waste of opportunity, it seems like a lack of love for the illusion.

I don't use Spotify. I don't even understand why do people still use Spotify. I watch YouTube every day so I pay for YouTube Premium, and YouTube Music comes with that for free. @flowboy Do you pay for YouTube Premium and Spotify every month? Or did you just get used to advertisements?

But who said anything about seeking? Why do you assume that orienting your daily activities (so that you don't waste all your time) has anything to do with seeking? Why do you assume that the intelligence that tries to manage your life (you call it ego) is an illusion? Why don't you want to work with this intelligence for the benefit of all? I also had this "There's no one here, nothing to do" period in my life. But looking back, it just feels like it was sustained by sheer laziness.

A beautiful way to put it.

I understand what you're saying. But let's do a mental experiment. Let's say that you get enlightened right here right now. No ego anymore, and the concepts of past and future lose their validity. So practically speaking, what do you do in the next months? Will you just lay in bed all day because there's nothing to do, no one to fulfill? For me, this doesn't look like healthy enlightenment. This looks like a rushed enlightenment followed by a mental breakdown. Some people are rushing so much to get enlightened that they totally forget about their structural development and mental health. So basically what you're saying here is useless. The Absolute doesn't need this information to be absolute. And the ego doesn't need this information because it cannot use it for anything. So, what motivates you to tell me this?

Well, as Ken Wilber explains, we can differentiate between structure and state development. Your everyday personality and worldview depend on your personality structure. The level of mindlessness you "achieve" during meditation depends on your meditative state. In everyday life, we need a developed mind that grants us a developed personality structure. But during meditation, we need to develop our ability to silence the mind so that we can reach higher states, and bring back the lessons and wisdom from these states into our everyday life.

I don't demonize the mind. I'm a developer, I love my mind, it works hard to earn my salary And I don't have a Zen master, I've found this quote on Twitter ? What I meant, is that all the spiritual perspective is useless in the long run if you don't spend your time/energy into helping others

Alright, I start: Opiuo - SYZYGY 02

Don't worry, I don't solipsize Wasn't that illegal here?

Oh, that's what you meant by "dream". I guess it makes sense. After awakening, some people redefine themselves as space and some people redefine reality instead as illusion/dream. I guess both of these work to blunt the edge

I feel like you're missing a higher perspective here. I mean, sure, you can go to the psychological level and think your way through the confusion, and that's very useful for your psyche, I recommend you do that. But don't forget that emotions cannot touch who you really are. You are not the emotions, you are the space in which the emotions appear. You are not the one suffering from the pain, you're the space in which the pain is just happening. Just because you feel fear, it doesn't mean that you have to be afraid. Do you feel the difference here? Feeling fear means that you're aware of the fear. But being afraid means that you've identified yourself with this fear.

If you're constantly looking for stimulation then it's an addiction. You could be asking the same way: "Why do I need to do heroine all the time to feel good? If I am god, why can't I just raise my serotonin and dopamine levels by being alone?" Well, you can be happy while you're alone. But it's a skill, and it seems like you haven't developed it yet. You're in the right place here, the people on this forum will point you in the right direction to develop these spiritual skills.

Thank you