UnbornTao

Probably yes, but I'd do my research first, depends on what temperatures we're talking about.

What is spiritual meaning? Study what an orgasm is and how it works. What is it? Getting that solves the issue. Our job should be to discover what something --anything-- is. What it means goes after that, and it is added by you. Purpose is another question, it is the function that something serves, the reason for its existence or appearance. What does a toaster floating in outer space mean?

Yeah, for the sake of the debate it'd be useful, and yet all of those factors are irrelevant when it comes to grasping what's being talked about. An illiterate monk may know what consciousness is, science is indirect, and no amounts of debating will make a difference in your experience. What are these debates for?

It doesn't have to be true nor make sense for it to work.

I didn't watch it to be honest, not interested. I just commented on the tendency of so called "spiritual" people of being lost in fantasy, ungrounded. It's better if the conversation is about this point rather than on any particular individual.

Oh boy. It doesn't mean anything except what it itself is. No need to bring one's airy-fairy concepts into physiological processes. If you want to know things of that nature, study physiology and related subjects.

Stop the useless chatter and bs and grasp you directly already, if you haven't, rather than making up more stuff, keep your intention on the subject of your contemplation.

Problem-solving and creating are fundamentally different approaches to any situation. Consider this: What happens when all your problems are solved? Chances are, your situation remains much the same--only now, it’s merely free of problems, not filled with what you actually want. So ask yourself: What do you want to create? How can you begin moving in that direction right now? What one action can you take today that moves you forward?

Man Woody Harrelson is killing it.

Definitely. I pursue both the absolute and transformation, it is helpful to do so. Leo's video on maturity is gold, worth checking out. I'm also young, arrogant and stupid in many ways like every young person, growing up ain't easy and not everyone does it. Good luck on your process, enjoy it!

got it, thank you.

Welcome. By the way, I've heard that David is enlightened, so worth checking out.

A form of seemingly inherent joy naturally comes to the forefront of one’s experience whenever you get out of your own way. Increasing awareness tends to open the door for bliss to become more readily available as a lived experience. In such moments, rather than struggling, you are simply free to be. Cultivate presence and conscious attention--many benefits will arise from this practice.

Yes, there're a bunch of stupid "spiritual" new age people who are ungrounded and lost in fantasy, and that attitude transfers to their money situation.

As some of those zen bastards may say (), spirituality is peeling the potatoes.

Radical honesty, but mostly rather than just reading books practice it and pay attention in your experience at what you do and don't. What allows for that problem for you to occur? Maybe instead of acting in an assertive way at the beginning, you wait until it's late or difficult to change the way others respond to your behavior.

You're talking about two different things, one of which is relative. Meaning isn't found nor inherent, invent the meaning you want as it is helpful for living a happy life. I'd avoid bringing up belief systems such as nihilism, solipsism, etc. already. None is true. This absolute stuff must be grasped directly, no use in discussing it on end.

shit happens, too, not denying that. You're right that it does, what I said doesn't contradict being intelligent about your life. You're holding unfortunate circumstances as fixed or objective and relationship as a superficial self-manipulation done after the fact, from what I gather from your post. A wealthy man may be miserable despite his lifestyle and a poor guy living austerely and with little possessions may be content and satisfied. This shows a curious dynamic: relationship to circumstances is primordial rather than circumstances themselves. Circumstances don't seem to be fixed, what you find depressing another may for example find adventurous or some such, etc. Your relationship to it might determine your experience of it.

My point was be open when wondering about who you are. Thanks for sharing.

You live however you want, that's what you'll do anyway. In any case, contemplation is fundamental, it isn't thinking although thinking will occur. It is setting out to experience what's true, an essential tool for discovery. Study, contemplation and practice are foundational for any multi-dimensional pursuit. It's wondering, opening up your body-mind in order to have insights and breakthroughs into the nature of things. It's perhaps about being silent, "waiting", allowing what's true to come to you, so to speak. Any experience can be contemplated as it is lived. For example, have fun and ask yourself what fun is.

What being are you referring to? Could it be perhaps a feeling-sense of being located behind the eyes and between your ears? Keep asking: who am I? Focus on getting who you are, and hey, remain open. Maybe you turn out to be a carrot or something, you don't know.

Again, I'm not saying that. Basically what I'm saying is that it is possible to realize the absolute while living life.

There are not objectively bad circumstances. If something happens why does that have to mean anything? Are you being honest? You're claiming your life is hell, is that true? When you stop claiming and believing that life is this or that, what that does leave you with? I'm inviting you to look in this direction; that your assessment is an interpretation, and that you can change it. Start by allowing your experience to be what it is, including struggle, joy, etc. Allow yourself to feel it completely without acting it out nor suppressing it. Once it is allowed to be, it'll tend to disappear naturally, and something else will come up. Enjoy the ride. It isn't so much about what you do but about your relationship to it.

You're actually projecting and not listening. Just clarify what you're doing and why. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust.