How to be wise

@Striving for more Approaching at a supermarket isn’t the best place, because their guard will be higher. Find a social event on something that you’re interested in. “People who like the same things tend to like each other” as a great man once said. Also, when you’re speaking to her, look for signs of interest. If she gives you long answers, smiles a lot and is interested in talking to you, then those are good signs. But if she gives short answers, and is generally facing away from you, it’s pretty obvious she’s not interested in moving forward. In which case, no need to risk a rejection, just move on.

@EntheogenTruthSeeker At least a few years in my opinion.

Actually 1 stage above in the west. Plus Green has a lot of power, and gets a lot of media coverage.

@Bazooka Jesus Just watch how quickly it goes by! The beginning of 2020 felt like last week, when that Iranian soldier was killed. I can’t believe this year just shot by.

@benny ‘Psycho-cybernetics’ by Maxwell Maltz. Exactly what you’re looking for!

Basically stage Green. It’s pretty common if you care to notice.

@The Lucid Dreamer Just sounds like ordinary stage Green. Didn’t find any tier 2 material there.

@RedLine Start a meditation practice.

You have a lot of work to do. God did not make a mistake when he invented rape, torture and death.

Which is why he’s not very enlightened.

@wesyasz There’s simply no way to find out, because we can’t ask the animal. All the brain scans in the world wouldn’t confirm what the experience of the animal is. The only way we can know is by hearing the animal’s answer, which of course isn’t possible.

@Shanmugam The Power of Now is for beginners. Once you’ve meditated enough, you will grow beyond it. Eckhart Tolle is not a very enlightened man. A few years of meditation is all you need to overtake him.

@TheSomeBody The brain doesn’t produce consciousness. This is a 3rd person materialistic view. Reality is 1st person subjective, so the brain only exists as an appearance of consciousness. Consciousness produces the brain, neurons and all that. Meditate more, think less.

You’re still stuck on the material view of reality. Reality is not 3rd person, it’s 1st person. So when you go to sleep, your experience of it is the only truth. Your body does not exist. You still have a long way to go. You haven’t deconstructed physical reality.

How can something happen if it took no time?

Notice that you created the ‘nothingness’ after you woke up. I’m not sure how anaesthesia works, but if it’s like sleep then you imagined the ‘nothingness’ after you woke up. Nothing happened whilst you were asleep.

@hyruga Something interesting I learnt from Alan Watts: When you die, you will immediately start your next life. Why? Because the gap between lives, which you might call ‘nothingness’ has no time element, so effectively it doesn’t last any time at all. So whether your next life starts in 10 years, 10 million years or 10 trillion years, it will be immediate because the nothingness has no time, therefore it will pass in a flash. Hence, the moment you die you will be reborn. Not a moment will be wasted ‘in between’ lives.

@TheSomeBody You’re mixing absolute and relative truth. In relative truth, the brain is responsible for consciousness, and anything that affects the brain will affect your consciousness.

@BipolarGrowth You can’t escape suffering no matter how much meditation you do, so I don’t see how it can be used as an escapism. In fact, meditation only makes you more sensitive to suffering. God’s greatest gift to man is suffering. That’s why there’s so much of it!

@jerrypua Other books by Eckhart Tolle?

@Laila Suffering will never end, because it is God’s gift to you. God loves to teach his students by showing them difficulty. As Buddha said, life is suffering.

The beginning of enlightenment.

If you mean others, then yes. If you mean yourself, then wrong. ‘I am’ is not a thought. In fact, your existence is the only truth. The Buddhist notion of ‘no self’ is very deceptive. Your individual self, as separate from reality is certainly false. But the feeling of your existence is most certainly not false. ‘The Self’, as Ramana called it, is supreme truth.

@Nate0068 Correct. The room you are in is all of existence. Everything else is a thought, including others. All of reality is happening for you only.

@Farnaby Yes people are on varied levels of consciousness.