UnbornTao

I think he’s said that “giving out” the answers gets in the way, and that he did that in some of his old workshops. It’s easy for people to hear the words, make them into a fantasy, believe in the fantasy, and assume they understand. We create a cosmology which is ultimately useless. He now redirects people to focus on their own experience, and makes them question what’s all that about. That’s why he makes a distinction between being a teacher (sharing information) and a facilitator (guiding people in becoming conscious for themselves). Just some consideration on my part.

oh that’s interesting @asha176 but do so with a mask and social distancing

@Eren Eeager careful, potentially addictive.

Contemplate what the trauma is really about. It’s not easy, but that’s the essence: you can’t heal it until you grasp what it is. Traumas are usually suppressed and ignored. Whatever brings the trauma come to the surface, will help you heal it. Psychedelics, contemplation, journaling, self-reflection, therapy. Books won’t. It will probably take more than just an intellectual consideration for the trauma to be healed. In other words, deal with the trauma head-on, directly. Allow it to fully show up, and try letting go of it.

@Hen Zuhe Sólo en inglés!

@Leo Gura can You revolve around You? More like an intellectual question, I’m not conscious of my nature. Still, I’m confused on that level.

All of the above

Here you’ll find many lectures by him on video! Vernon Howard on YouTube

Cool

Sounds like the only solution is total acceptance and surrender. Let the pain be there. It’s okay.

@Leo Gura Eloquence!

Death, fundamentally. A different matter is how willing most people are to admit it.

Your mind wants to keep enlightenment work intellectual, as it is safe to just think about it where it is a mere conceptual abstraction. The real work of confronting your experience through inquiry can, as a result, be subtly (or grossly) resisted. Being involved in the domain of concepts is easy and comfortable and it doesn't increase consciousness. Something I've been paying attention to as of late.

@allislove thanks.

@mandyjw

Enlightened farts don’t suffer.

INTP books usually portrait this personality type as the “philosopher”, one that highly values metaphysical Truth and understanding. I think we’re the more intelectual type, for better or for worse. INTP books: The INTP Quest and The INTP by the same author.

Better to ask first: What is Consciousness? Who am I? What am I really? What is that (‘that’ being your experience of the object )? Maybe there’s nothing ‘there’. Then maybe the assumptions from which your question is made are seen as fundamentally false.

Also distinctions and creativity.

@Leo Gura I prefer to call it Bliss, not pleasure.

@AlphaAbundance Scrivener? @Aaron p Not about the book itself, but rather how little most people care about these topics in a global sense. Or I misinterpreted him. @Leo Gura What about publishing a shorter one first, like the one on psychedelics?

That’s probably a safe assumption to make. I don’t know of any, sorry.

Andrew Cutler is often mentioned in this forum relative to that matter. Maybe it’s useful to try his methodologies.