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  1. Posted · Edited by Barna

    2 hours ago, Waken said:

    Perhaps focus more on relaxing a bit more:-)

    I can't do that when I'm single. Every day I have to develop myself through work, sports, and learning, otherwise I feel like I don't deserve a woman with high standards. But I aim to get a solid 8 hours of sleep every night, that's my relaxation time. 

    While writing this down, I just realized that I sound like one of those "grind bros" on LinkedIn... :D 

    But I do mini-breaks. Like, I just discovered the Almost Friday TV channel, this is fuckin' GOLD

  2. Posted · Edited by Barna

    When I got a bit deeper into spirituality, I learned that my feelings don't need to be defined by the events that were happening around me. This was very liberating so I strated to detach my emotions more and more from the external world, while I regularly went deeper and deeper into myself with psychedelics and meditation. I got a bit lazy about progressing towards my external goals but I didn't mind because I was happier than before.

    What I didn't see back then is that I had started lose my enthusiasm towards life. Nothing, other than consciousness, was worthy of my enthusiasm. This gave me a focus on what's really important, but it also made me indifferent towards everything else. 

    Though the main problem was that I've lost my energy. I lived day-by-day with no motivation towards anything, and still having to work, still having to do the chores. After a while even maintaining friendships felt like a chore. I just felt tired all the time. 

    Now when I try to be really enthusiastic towards anything, it feels like it goes completely against my whole personality. And that's how I know that I've identified my shadow. 

    But I want to heal it and I want to find a way back to enthusiasm. I already feel how much energy and motivation it can give me. So I will become enthusiastic again. But this time the enthusiasm is gonna be unconditional. 

    Love you all ♥️

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    4 hours ago, ZenSwift said:

    Wild Idea, but would a tagging system be beneficial?  Where posts are organized with tags and maintained by every member in the community? 

    Similar to an imagebooru. 

    This is a pretty good idea, I would like that!

    @Leo Gura what do you think about tagging? Replacing the whole subforum system with a tag based system would be huge work, but what about introducing tags as a feature alongside the current subforum setup? This way people could tag their topics as e.g. "experience", I would filter by this tag, and find easily what I'm interested in.

  5. Posted · Edited by Barna

    37 minutes ago, OBEler said:

    @Barna the forum would drie out with more Division. The Division between spiritual theme and psychedelics was the biggest 

    The current "Spirituality..." subforum supposed to dry out if more and more people are interested in special subtopics of spirituality.

    The case with the Psychedelic subforum proves that people are drawn out from this general subforum to more specific ones.

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    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    I don't think there would not be enough posts in such a sub-forum.

    We create new sub-forums only if there's enough volume of posts to fill it, so it doesn't feel like a ghost-town.

    High quality posts are rare, but the spiritual experiences subforum would be a collection of those I assume. Don't you think it's worth separating from the rest?

    I think highly conscious people won't be an active member of the current "Spirituality..." subforum because there's too much bs there. 

    The question is really: Do you want to make this forum appealing for high quality content writers or not? 

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    17 hours ago, JoeVolcano said:

    I'm not sure you can or should. Even as a truth seeker I never was the slightest bit interested in someone telling me to fall in love with life just the way it is. I was suffering too damn much, and not even because there was anything particularly wrong with my life. You don't tell someone like that to fall in love with it. They need to get cracking, not to get soothed.

    You're are basically saying that people who have problems need personal trainers instead of spiritual masters. Is that what you wanted to express?

    15 hours ago, DefinitelyNotARobot said:

    All you can really do is to live by example and inspire others to be the best versions of themselves. If someone doesn't want that path for themselves they can't be forced into it, but you can show them how beautifully effortless life can be, which might get their attention.

    Yeah, I did exactly that. I lived my life, mindig my own business, expecting that people will notice how I live and how I relate so that I can lead by example. 

    Now that I have a good life, I'm not relatable anymore because people can say "Sure, it's easy for you to love Life..." 

    So I feel like I failed miserably in the "lead by example" process.

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    I want to express how happiness (while it's really pleasant) is irrelevant to having a deep unconditional love for Life itself.

    From my perspective, happiness comes from your personal context (good career, loving relationships).

    But if you want to feel love, you shouldn't focus on happiness, you should focus on loving Life unconditionally. But how can I say that to anyone when I already have a happy life? I can already hear people telling me "Sure, it's easy for you to love Life when you already have happy personal life...". 

    How can you make people interested in spiritual values (like love) when they want to focus on personal context (like happiness)?

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    A self-driving car perceives its surroundings through cameras.
    The car's computer reconstructs a virtual reality based on its perception. 
    It puts itself (the car) into this virtual world. 
    Now the car is the context and also the content of this virtual world. 

    When this car burns to the ground, does its very primitive (insect-like) "consciousness" continue and get reborn as another self-driving car?

    If it doesn't, then why would the human consciousness continue? 

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    26 minutes ago, WelcometoReality said:

    Yeah, memory is "attached" to the body in the form of thought so memory can't be it.

    Can you find any separation between the now and consciousness? To me it seems like they are the same thing.

    Yeah, I agree with this. The now and consciousness is the same thing because I can't find any difference between the two. 

    28 minutes ago, WelcometoReality said:

    At the same time there is a connection to the body in day to day life but in certain states the body disappears and there is only consciousness present.

    I don't see it that way. The body (the brain) never really disappears, it's never dead. Sometimes consciousness is not conscious of the body, but that doesn't mean that the body completely disappears. The body disappears only from consciousness, not from the persistent level of physicality. You can easily prove it by filming yourself while sleeping. While sleeping, the body disappears from consciousness, but the camera footage proves that the body was there the whole time on the physical level. 

    If you could show me a case where someone showed consciousness while having a dead body, that would be proof that consciousness continues after physical death. 

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    59 minutes ago, WelcometoReality said:

    Isn't the now eternal?

    I meant eternal in a temporal sense (if that makes any sense). 

    I don't remember always existing, so I can't be sure that I'll always exist. 

    The now is ever-present, but from my perspective, it started when this body was born (I don't remember the now "existing" before that), so it might end when this body dies.

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    13 hours ago, Gesundheit2 said:

    No need for speculations or subjective definitions. It's not like new-agers invented this word or anything.

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/aware

    "Aware: knowing that something exists, or having knowledge or experience of a particular thing"

    Computers also know if something exists in their internal storage, but they are not generally aware of anything. 

    For me, awareness is more like an understanding of existence. 

    And if I could explain what understanding means, I would have already created AI :D 

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    8 hours ago, LoseYourvelf said:

    For living the most fulfilling human life and reducing suffering in it, do you think their is a greater need for the "practice" of being able to stay in one state of consciousness for a long period of time and keep elements of your conscious the same for long periods of time or on the other hand is there a greater need in being able to adapt with things and to practice generally experiencing things randomly and as new and trying not to conform to a daily routine/model, going with the flow let's say etc?

    Which do you think tends do be more A. spiritually productive and B. human wellbeing and health productive, are they the same or different? If it's both for either end, which would win it out and be more important if you had to choose one and stick to it for YOU specifically and why?

    Great question, welcome to the forum! :) 

    I'm not sure about the proper answer for this, but I can tell you how I approach it: 
    When I meditate, I focus on pure consciousness by letting go of every content of consciousness. 
    When I'm living my daily life, I practice radical acceptance by lovingly embracing every challenge of the day, knowing that nothing can touch what I really am. But to do this, I need the meditation to know the I. And to have time to meditate, I need to do my daily tasks, earn money, and so on. 
    And to do both, I don't really have any time left for free-flow, only when others invite me to flow with them. :D 

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    3 hours ago, Aleister Crowleyy said:

    You simply want Leo's recognition. Please find a more constructive way to obtain admiration from the administration.

    Every ego wants admiration, mine is not an exception. But this wasn't my main motivation.

    Although, you sensed it correctly, I do have an ulterior motive: I want a revolution against spiritual beliefs because I think this is the only way to face the fears that they try to cover. 

  24. Posted

    This is a side effect of Leo's style. 

    Leo doesn't really teach open mindedness or the importance of "I don't know".

    I think deep down he knows that he doesn't know. But not knowing is not something that the YouTube audience wants to hear about.

    I'm hopeful that in the future he will have another awakening that faces him with the importance of being honest about not knowing.