How to be wise

My mom is purple/blue. She is too strict about Islam. In the past, she used to tell me and my siblings about the different clans in our home country, and how she hated some of those clans. Nowadays she is a lot more into Islam. One of the reasons is that as she gets older she is becoming more conscious of her death and the limits of this life. And she is becoming more religious than she used to be.

@Silvester you can attain enlightenment and live in 100% bliss all day.

When we ask the question ‘is it true?’, how do you know whether something is true or not? Is it by your direct experiences? The reason I’m asking this question is to help my own self-inquiry practice. I’m not posing this question for a metaphysical discussion. Any ideas are appreciated.

@Arkandeus not very convincing for self-inquiry. But generally, I think you’re right.

@Leo Gura the premise that ‘only my direct experience is true’ is what I’m struggling to accept. For the past two months, I have been using that premise to deconstruct a lot of my beliefs. When I ask ‘is that true’, with that premise I could see that it wasn’t. But for the past few days, there was a huge resistance from my mind that my direct experience alone is true. My entire body started resisting that notion, and I feel pain in my body whenever I try to use that premise for deconstruction. My mind is telling me that my direct experience needs my interpretation in order to get the truth, and that my direct experience without my interpretation formed an incomplete picture of reality. Any advise? @ajasatya my current self-inquiry method is to use the question ‘is it true’ to deconstruct my beliefs. So I need a sort of basis for what truth is. @Victor Mgazi my mind is currently rejecting the idea of ‘seeing is believing’. If my perceptions only was truth, the world would look very strange indeed. My entire body is reacting against that.

@Etagnwo but how can you be sure that bacteria doesn’t exist? Can awareness prove that they don’t exist?

@Victor Mgazi I know that perception is reality. But is there more to truth. For example, you can’t percieve bacteria. But are they real? Is it true that bacteria exists?

@Etagnwo I’m talking practically. I’ve watched Leo’s videos and I’ve heard the concepts of infinity and nothingness to death. But really, in your day to day life, how will you qualify something as being ‘true’? What measures do you use?

Sadhguru disagrees with you. He says that love has nothing to do with the outside world. Go to 22:57:

@Leo Gura I once heard sadhguru say that he had no values or beliefs. With that, can you still put him on turquoise? I thought that even turquoise has its own values?

Why is that? What was so special in the last 200 years? Surely ‘modern western culture’ is not needed for reaching green and yellow?

@Leo Gura What about Martin Luther King? I thought he would’ve been a stage yellow guy.

I still don’t understand how strange loops is real. I’ve never heard a non-duality teacher talking about strange loops.

@Quanty @Prabhaker

@Quanty wrong

@Prabhaker why wouldn’t it be possible to create your own deity? Many people have done it before.

@Nadosa http://thework.com/en

@martin_malin what is the fear about? What are you thinking when the fear arises?

@Cara those are some great questions to inquire on. Can I really know that there is a hell or heaven after I die? Go inside yourself to find those answers.

@Viking why do you need to love people? Inquire into that. Do you need to climb up the spiral dynamics ladder? If yes, then why? Meditate on those questions. Free yourself. ??

@metwinn what he said, was that you were created because of the fluids from your parents. How can you reincarnate without your parents, without those fluids. When you die, you die for good.

@Patang According to Nisargadatta, after you die you will not be reborn again. He is saying it in 1:21:00 Nisargadatta is highly enlightened. What he is saying should be taken seriously.

@okulele I’m currently working towards it. I feel far more bliss than I did just two months ago. I’m confident I’ll make it to constant bliss by a year or two. If you’re thinking about getting to constant bliss through meditation, you can forget about it. You won’t get it.

@tsuki it won’t happen. The do-nothing technique (or anything of that sort) will never lead to enlightenment, ever. That is my assertion.