UnbornTao

@Miguel1 It's locked now.

There's no way for me to convince you that X is true. However, based on my direct experience for the last seven years, I am completely certain of its truth. The only thing I can ask you to do is keep an open mind. Question all of your assumptions. I hope you find the truth.

@Sugarcoat @Yimpa

Linux Mint is calling, then

@SQAAD I wasn't attacking your situation, but the victim mindset you seem to have fallen into. Ask yourself whether you want to continue whining, or whether you're willing to do something about it. Otherwise, what are you doing - complaining and blaming "the world" for your experience of life? How is that higher consciousness?

MILF: Man I Love Food.

I hope they are as healthy as the fresh varieties. I like to buy plain cooked legumes, except maybe lentils, which I get fresh, and then add a couple of stir-fried vegetables, like onion and red bell pepper, along with sauces, water, spices, salt, and some tomato soup to make a hearty meal in about 10 minutes. So yeah, I don't know

Not sure why dairy would be included in a pyramid like that. I get that commercial interests play a role in its design, though. Dairy is a relatively recent development in human history, and most adult mammals don't drink milk. It's not necessary for health at all. Probably neither are bread and pasta, strictly speaking. That said, I do drink full-fat milk daily, mostly in my coffee. A bit out of the blue, anyway.

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I hope you know what you're doing by randomly picking and eating wild mushrooms. Don't be negligent. Otherwise, it's a recipe for disaster. And do not combine alcohol and mushrooms, just in case it were to occur to you. Oh, and don't fool yourself. If you just want to get high, be honest about that. This is my advice, based on how I interpreted your post. God, I'm drunk with mod power!

Fanaticism is a function of repressed doubt. — Dune

@Yimpa

Sorry I didn't respond to your post earlier. I really can't tell what you may have become conscious of - if anything. Hopefully it was true and profound. The point is that the mind can pretty much make things up and distort whatever insight may have been had. I could retroactively attempt to confirm my belief system - if I were a Scientologist or a Buddhist - and with enough fervor, I probably could. I would be able to "move with the map", so to speak. I could think in such a way that any other conceptual structure like idealism, nonduality, and so on would be "confirmed" in my own mind. This is a fundamental point. For example, consider that Ramana was not talking about solipsism. As far as I can tell, he was attempting to communicate the truth he was directly conscious of. Huge difference. The realness of the consciousness is what is in question. I guess the point, once again, is basically this: we're biased. Our minds are biased. I've realized that, generally speaking, people are not very good at discerning what is a real communication and what is something else - and how to tell when someone is speaking from an imaginative intellectual world or a conclusion, rather than from direct consciousness. As an example, revisit the thread on Teal Swan. Also, you mention Bashar, and to me it is not much different from the former. Like seriously, why are you listening to him? It's a waste of time.

Blueberries is all I care about. Fuck the rest.