UnbornTao

After awakening:

Silence is also conversation.

@Jakuchu yep.

The more relaxed, the more effective. Discipline and commitment are simple, straightforward.

By not deliberately creating a purpose for yourself, you might have fallen into a disempowering one by default.

The INTP: Personality… etc.

Could you give some examples? Just curious.

A genuine insight is self-validating. Consider the Eureka! moment of Archimedes. You find it. It’s a insight. Or an Apple falls on your head — gravity! Otherwise you confuse what an insight is with some intellectual process, like becoming convinced.

@JayySur fellow psycho! Haha. @Max8 it means our egos are way too honest, lie a little once in a while. Aim for 0% in both categories.

@Osaid Lol

@Blackhawk it can happen in an instant, that’s the goal. It is always instant. Consider Maharshi’s case.

2hrs 40mins paid work? What do you do? Is it a golden one?

AL-LAD, an LSD analogue. Great for newbies. It produces a pleasant and smooth experience, gentler than LSD. Also magic truffles of a low-intensity mushroom, like Tampanensis Atlantis. Always start with a low dose and gradually go up from there. Gain more experience with other psychedelics before trying 5meo. No rush.

@Leo Gura isn’t ontology more fundamental than metaphysics and epistemology? What is is prior to knowledge or even “reality”. In contemplation, what we are basically doing is asking an ontology question: “What is X?” Right? So, with that wider use, why don’t you emphasize it?

Buddha wanted to transcend life and death. That was his main focus. The suffering part? I mean… he could have been motivated to pursue awakening by suffering, but freedom from life and death is, I’d say, was his real “purpose”. Of course it turns out that in order to transcend something you msut first get deeply conscious of what that is. But really, with complete awakening, focusing on suffering sounds like empathy for other people so that they can focus on pragmatic matters, et al.

Tick, tack. 4 hours.

Get you, then we’ll talk.

Mmm. I don’t know. But be careful: make a distinction between believing Leo because it sounds good vs being genuinely conscious of its nature. It seems like many people believe it and try to defend that belief without really knowing what it is. Intuition from what I read, I may of course be wrong, but still… smells like most are just believing - whether it is X or Y, absolute or not. I in fact caught myself believing that love is relative withoout direct experience.

@roopepa I don’t know @gettoefl just follow the principle of honesty

Self-survival is not a pursuit of the truth. See the implications of this. And self survival is the game in town. Always will be. If we dress up Truth in beautiful clothes and fantasies, that’s probably what helps people discover it — the little ones who do. Notice that if your experience of life would be happy, optimal, you wouldn’t care about the truth, would you? We want it because we suffer and think that discovering it will free us from our fundamental pain. Vernon Howard said something along the lines of the following: The first step in discovering the truth lies in honestly observing that you don’t care about it.

Oh shit, September 6th? Looks like it. See Community in the interviewer’s channel. I thought it was today. Sad face

In 2016-17 he said: Toyota Matrix.