How to be wise

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A Muslim and an atheist debate about the origin of the universe. But what amazed me was how intellectual this Muslim fellow was, given that he is stage blue. Don Beck says in the audiobook ‘Spiral Dynamics Integral’ that a stage blue person is capable of reaching the top of Maslow’s hierarchy. It seems like stage blue can be nearly as intelligent as a stage orange person.

@Harikrishnan @Serotoninluv It’s funny I actually know this guy (Mohammad Hijab). He teaches English in a nearby school. I often see him walking across the street.

@Tom T I’ve thought about doing that in the past. Just living in a zen temple in the mountains and meditating all day long sounds quite romantic. But then again, what is wrong with your present reality. And I mean right here now, are there any problems. If not, then you are already in your perfect zen temple right now. You’re just not aware of it.

Ever since an experience that I had last week, my body has been oozing with an energy of Love. Love mainly for other people. However, today it went to another level... All of a sudden, my heart started pounding very fast, and I started feeling an extreme attraction towards almost every person that I remembered! This attraction is not sexual in nature; I have no desire to see any of them naked. This attraction is romantic, though. Even as I type right now, my heart feels like it is burning with this Love. It hurts that I don’t know how to deal with this. This has never happened to me before in my life. I would really appreciate if anyone knew about something like this, how to deal with this. Right now, it’s only getting stronger. My heart feels like it is burning. It does not feel very pleasant.

@Jack River What is your experience of the present moment? Spiritual teachers say that it is an illusion, but I don’t have the experience of this? Do you also see that the present moment is not real?

@Jack River yes man. The process of purging my mind and ego is a painful one. But also very worth it.

@Girzo But that feeling also comes with thoughts of being attracted to people. Surely that isn’t caused by sitting too much!

@MsNobody Thank you for sharing.

@Nahm Yes. A lot of times it feels like my entire body is being fuelled with the energy of Love. But I still have a sharp pain in the heart. Thank you for sharing. @Jack River I will attempt it. Thank you. @Girzo Thank you. I will wait for it to pass (or change).

I understand where you’re coming from. Thank you. @Bluebird Yes that is right. It is a sharp pain in the heart. I will follow your advice. Thank you a lot.

@Gabriel Antonio I understand. I can tell you that this love came as a result of undoing so many of my negative beliefs, that these days I find it very hard to find something that can hurt me. Just two days ago, around £200 was stolen from me. When I saw my empty wallet, I tried to make myself feel angry and sad, but nothing came out. A few minutes later, I just burst out laughing. The belief that the money was ever inside the wallet is what causes the pain. I no longer held such a belief.

@ivankiss Thank you for the brilliant advice. @AlwaysBeNice Thank you @Serotoninluv Thank you

@Joseph Maynor Thank you

@ivankiss Thank you very much. The problem is, I’m still a bit too introverted to express those feelings fully. Today, I was in uni, when I felt this intense spiritual love for two girls who were sitting a few rows ahead of me. I just wanted to go over and hug them for no reason. But I was too introverted to do anything, and I left the hall without saying a word. It can get very intense if I don’t have the confidence to express my feelings.

@Wisebaxter It’s quite painful to be honest. There is no way of acting on it.

@Truth Addict How would I know if you hated me? @Wisebaxter Thank you. Talking about the chakra system really makes sense now. I’ll just have to be patient. @OneWithAll Meditation (The Work) is what got me into this in the first place.

@UDT Thanks for the great advice! @SOUL I understand your point. Thank you. @Joseph Maynor Thank you for brilliant advice.

The solution to the conflict between spirituality and life purpose, is to think of life purpose as a way of helping people, rather than as a ‘mission’ to ‘save the world.’ A few months ago, the life purpose course really gave me the impression that the world NEEDS you, and that you can ‘save the world’ in your own unique way. That was a very stressful way of thinking about it, because I put the ‘impact’ ahead of my ‘passion,’ so I came up with a life purpose that fired me up to make a change in the world, but I wasn’t too excited about the work itself. And even to think about ‘making an impact in the world’ is already stressful enough, because ‘the world’ just consists of thoughts and beliefs in your head. You can’t properly use that to motivate you. The real motivation is Love. Wanting to be of service to people out of love for them is a really good way to think about life purpose. With this love, I can get fired up to do a lot of work. Helping people really excites me now. How can I be of help, is a really good question to ponder during the life purpose course.

@Aakash Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows.

*Mystic

As I was doing The Work this morning, I had a remarkable experience where I realised that Love is the answer to loneliness. I was doing The Work on my time in high school. Specifically, there was a time when I was in the English Classroom, sitting in the back table all alone, and watching everybody else talking and playing with each other. It hurt me so much that not one person turned back to look at me. I was working with the thought “The class should care for me.” I asked myself the fourth question of The Work, ‘Who would you be, just in that moment, without that thought ?’ I meditated on that question, until I had a profound experience. I realised that, without the thought ‘they should care for me,’ if I didn’t believe that thought, I would just be sitting there, watching the class, and loving them. I wouldn’t have a story about what their intentions are, what they are going to do, and so on. I would just see them without my story, and I would fall in love with them. I would really enjoy just watching them have fun, and I would be open enough to go over to them and sit next to them. I realised that the cure to loneliness, is to love what is in front of you right now. Emptiness is love. Beneath nihilism is love. Go deeper. This experience has stayed with me the whole day. A massive shift has occurred as to how I see everybody now.

@isabel of course not. I’m a great follower of her work though.

@OrpheusNovum ‘Different realities’ is only a thought in your mind. It has no substance to it in reality. The past and future only exist as thoughts in your mind. There is no substance to them in reality. Even the present moment only exists as thoughts. This is something that I heard from spiritual teachers, but I have yet to experience that insight.

@EvilAngel https://www.amazon.co.uk/Need-Your-Love-approval-appreciation-ebook/dp/B0031RS9TS/ref=dp_kinw_strp_2