How to be wise

What do you mean by this? It always is. The Work has clearly shown me that. Why are you afraid to open yourself up to this?

@cetus56 God needs to buy a mirror ?

@Leo Gura you seem rather dogmatic about this maybe the techniques you found just aren’t the best. When you become a jack of all trades, you overlook some very powerful techniques. I went very deep with this technique and what I discovered is astonishing. Fyi, I’ve tried all of the techniques that you have prescribed to us for several months each. I can see how it will take decades with those techniques. The problem with meditation and self-inquiry is that it is very mechanical. Most of the time will not be spent focusing on the technique. The Work is a non-mechanical technique. You must answer each of the questions right away. That’s why it’s so powerful.

@Leo Gura I disagree when you say that results come after several years. I’ve been doing The Work for a few months, and I am permanently aware that the present moment is all that exists. I have completely detached from the mind’s idea of past and future. I have also lost major amount of ‘control’ of this body. It now feels to me like this body is moving on its own. Why do you insist that mastery takes a decades? With the way I’m going now, I’m sure to hit it in a few years.

@cetus56 I’m not enlightened yet. Once I am, I’m out of here.

@TheAvatarState You can’t lead your heart. Your heart leads you. Your heart will never have ‘something to do.’ There’s nothing to do. Your heart lives in a spontaneous ‘yes/no’ mode. The only time you will help somebody is when that person specifically asked for your help. Otherwise you just live your life following its instructions.

@Jeff Zhang http://thework.com/en

@ivory Well, she should call herself something else. She’s ruining the image of zen. Zen teachers who have never done zen. I see women these days teaching all sorts of meditation that they have never practiced in their entire lives. It’s best not to look up to such people.

@Leo Gura I see these days you’ve regressed back to YELLOW. What happened to TURQUOISE? In TURQUOISE level, the world is never a mess. I heard a lot of spiritual teachers saying that they wouldn’t fight back to some army that invades their country, because all the bad stuff they think will happen as a result is just a story of the mind, and not true. How is it possible to fight back to some army peacefully? I can’t see how.

@molosku Wrong! I myself am quite aware spirituality, and from my direct experience, I can tell you that there is no brain whatsoever. Nothing about it is true. Nothing!

“A donkey cannot have an insight about the true nature of existence” is not true. Again, you are talking from YELLOW, not TURQUOISE. No wonder TURQUOISE science will be amazing. Any conclusions drawn from modern science, no matter how obviously seeming it is, will be dismissed. The possibilities will seem endless. Are you saying that one can have the experience of love without any such concept at all. In a no-mind state?

@Leo Gura Sadhguru also says that love is just “a sweetness of emotion.” And plus, talking about a brain is also quite delusional. Didn’t you say in the past that there is no such thing as a brain in reality. Aren’t you just mixing TURQUOISE with delusional YELLOW.

@Yousef change requires time. Can you not see that? A video is just a large set of pictures, set in time. In the now, there is only a picture. That is a good anecdote.

@Yousef It doesn’t change. At every moment, whatever you’re seeing is it. Everything else is an idea. What it was a second ago is now just an idea. It doesn’t change as long as you don’t believe your thoughts.

@Freyah I doubt most people would be able to handle that. The mind will resist. The friction between the mind and (virtual) reality will break most people.

@Yousef infinite forms is an idea. External reality always has one form only: the form that you’re seeing right now.

@Arhattobe I’ve been doing The Work for 9 months. And it was only very recently I noticed how far along the path I went. I didn’t notice any change, but I saw that all of a sudden people could not understand very simple non-dual ideas that are obscenely obvious to me now. I’m very aware of the nature of time, especially. Permanent awareness that is.

Wrong thread. This is the spirituality thread.

@Rilles The way that I see things, reality is finite. There is only the now. The past and future are actually just images in our heads. And right now, without any thoughts, there is nothing. What I can say for sure is that the ‘idea’ of infinity is wrong. When you think about infinity, whatever comes to your head is wrong. The true infinity is nothing. That is what I have direct experience of right now.

@Leo Gura You mentioned that with programming skills, we can start our own business. How do we do this? The reason is that I have my life purpose in mind, but it will take around 5-10 years of study and skill building to achieve. In the meantime, I would like to have the time and freedom to actually gain skill in my life purpose. That’s why I’m interested in the programming business. I’m currently in college, but I hate my degree and would like to start a business ASAP. Any tips?

@Charlotte I notice that many of your posts are just too kind. I’m wondering if this is due to some people-pleasing mentality that you got used to. Are you really being yourself when you write sweet posts? Or are you subconsciously seeking other people to love you? I was thinking about this, because usually people have a stage red repertoire we’re they just like to express themselves, regardless of what other people might think. It’s perfectly normal. I just don’t see it within you. Are you already aware that you have a people-pleasing mentality?

You seem to be one troubled young woman...

@Leo Gura But doesn’t ‘wanting’ something mean that you want it so you can be happy. That’s basically why people would want something. Also, if I change ‘happiness’ to ‘love’, would that still not be true. I just don’t understand why you would pursue the truth even if it makes you miserable.

@Leo Gura Can you explain why truth is higher than happiness? I don’t understand that.

@Charlotte Radical Islam is RED/blue, whilst general Muslims are red/BLUE or BLUE. In western countries they’re usually BLUE/orange. Muslim youngsters in western countries are blue/ORANGE.