UnbornTao

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  1. Don't confuse a breakthrough with a breakdown. Btw, moved to Mental Health section.
  2. Upsides: It's a spiritual forum Downsides: It's a spiritual forum
  3. @Water by the River Enlightenment and transcending suffering are different pursuits. Trying to dissolve suffering is still a form of suffering.
  4. How many of our attempts at "resolving" life are essentially pointless, the equivalent to the following: Being blind, in order to recover your sight, you go about changing the surroundings that you find yourself in? In this analogy, what's addressed are superficial manifestations rather than the bottom line cause or condition that sources our given struggle in the first place. Feeling inadequate and doubting your "worthiness", you may, for example, set out to become a bodybuilder in an attempt to pacify your inner insecurity. I'm not disparaging such efforts but rather directing us to the motives behind them. Do what you want, and be clear why you're undertaking it. What's my approach to life? What challenges do I continuously come across? How am I dealing with situations? Get at the root of the condition. What is it? How does the condition exist? Where does it start and end? What is it made out of?
  5. Seems to be mostly unnecessary and self-created. But the reality of this eludes us.
  6. The mind is constantly struggling for certainty and safety.
  7. AVOID. Stick to the relatively safe psychedelics.
  8. Perception is a meaningless phenomenon.
  9. Jesus wasn't a christian!
  10. Enjoying the Shogun TV show.
  11. The Buddha had several enlightenments before his awakening under the Bodhi tree. This suggests that paradoxically, one can become more deeply conscious of the absolute, and also that transcending life and death requires more than a few enlightenment experiences. Maybe.
  12. Hmm. I think it's useful to first see it in yourself. Then, you can see how you actually love everyone, and so do others. Although this isn't evident or obvious. It's more existential. A bit like: without another, I can't exist. So my existence is fundamentally shaped by "other." Something to investigate.
  13. Just started watching True Vs False Skepticism.
  14. Whatever you have about the absolute is not it. Notice how language subtly influences the way you think of it as "something" that is huge, as "lots and lots". It's useful to check yourself on that.
  15. — Rinzai
  16. What is worth and what is life? We've got work to do!
  17. [Fill in with correct answer]. What does hearing an assertion change in your consciousness? At best it opens up new doors; you may even get a hint of its reality experientially. In any case, it's best to get serious with grasping one's nature, and that of life, for yourself independent of confabulation.