How to be wise

@ivankiss I think most people (including myself) needed a teacher to get started with enlightenment. It’s pretty hard to figure out all of enlightenment yourself. Breaking off from the teacher happens later. But certainly there is value in teachers in the beginning.

Just sitting? Surely if sitting was a practice everyone would be enlightened!

@Swarnim Reality is infinite. The same situation can be recontextualised an infinite amount of times. But this is the realm of the mind, not the soul. It is relative truth, not absolute truth.

@Carl-Richard What practice do you follow?

@Carl-Richard You’re stuck in the mind. Just do the practices and see what happens.

@Eph75 I actually got this from another book of his, namely Sufis the people of the path. I certainly remember a time in middle school when I was attracted to some boys in my class. I always thought it was because, in middle school, the boys aren’t very different to girls. It’s only after they become more muscular, and grow facial hair that there is a big difference between boys and girls. But after I heard Osho, I thought maybe I was going through the homosexual phase. My ‘homosexual phase’ ended when the boys my age started growing facial hair and became muscular. After that, I was only attracted to girls. So my journey certainly supports his model.

About 30 books since Covid started. Most of them are so thick I need to take a break from holding them!

There is only one ego: yours. Other egos are just a creation of your ego.

@Tim R Ram Dass said that his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, took some LSD, and nothing happened to him. Ram Dass’ explanation was “you don’t need to take a bus to Detroit if you’re already in Detroit.” Although something tells me that Neem Karoli Baba probably didn’t have LSD consciousness 24/7.

@Dodo All of science is relative, meaning that it has nothing to do with awakening. Quantum mechanics is beneficial because it breaks down the material world, which is a stubborn obstacle to awakening. But after that, you need to leave it behind.

@Shanmugam In ‘Conversations with God’, God says that Jesus is a reincarnation of a person who had, in a previous life, finished his awakening process, but had decided to come back for the sake of his fellow men.

@Ook Do you mind explaining it. I haven’t read every spiritual book out there!

@Leo Gura But don’t you think that a chain reaction has begun. The number of people interested in spirituality is growing very fast. Sooner or later it will get to the mainstream.

@The_Alchemist It was boring at first, but thanks to it I got way deeper into spirituality. It turned out to be for the best in the end.

@Ibgdrgnxxv What’s the point of this topic?

@Daphnedenninghoff23 The religion of tomorrow by Ken Wilber. It’s a pretty gargantuan book, but it really ties together everything related to spirituality.

When Sadhguru talks about karma, he basically means ‘consequence.’ If you do x, then expect y to happen. For example, if you gorge on sugar, expect to gain weight. That definition of karma makes sense to me. But most people, especially in the west, define karma as ‘retribution’, which I believe is false.

@Brandon Nankivell Of course don’t forget Ramaji’s scale. He wrote a book called ‘1000’, and he numbered a huge amount of spiritual teachers. Very important model.

@The_Alchemist I do spiritual techniques several times a day. The remaining time I just waste on recreational videos, plus reading some spiritual books. I live a very sedentary lifestyle. I almost never talk to anyone. And no friends since three years ago. I doubt I could relate to anybody after my awakening last year.

@Chr1st1ne If I were you, I’d focus on enlightenment, the zen style. There’s plenty of distractions in the spiritual marketplace, including crystals and chakras. Do those things after you’re enlightened.

@Eren Eeager My guess is that the ego is infinite, meaning that it never gets fully dissolved no matter how much work you do. That’s why all gurus will have some ‘egoistic tendencies.’ The prime example is yogiraj siddhanath. Despite having a high level of consciousness (LOC 1000), I saw a video where he was shouting at his students because they were sneezing too much!

@machinegun This may be hard to believe, but everything that happens in life is a gift for you. Everything, bar none. If it wasn’t for your highest good, it wouldn’t be happening. Karma doesn’t exist, but not because life is unfair. It doesn’t exist because nothing bad happens in life that requires retribution. This is something that I have directly experienced. The only reason you’re not seeing it is because your ego is doing a good job of hiding it. Once you’ve done enough work on your ego, I’m sure you’ll see it too. Life is good!

You're forgetting the third part. We humans are three part beings, as God said. Body, mind and soul. The soul is not inside the body as most people think. It’s actually everywhere. All of reality is your soul. So there are no such things as ‘individual souls.’ There is only one soul.

@xxxx The mind isn’t located in the brain. It’s actually located in the entire body. Every cell has a mind. The reason why we associate the mind with the brain is because the brain has the most cells. That’s it. The entire body is the mind. This is one of the most interesting things I learnt from the book ‘Conversations with God.’

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