AlwaysBeNice

What's the ego? It's just functioning right? It's therefor not a separate thing, can't have separate functioning, I guess the point of this shabam is realize that you are beyond functioning fundamentally. But we also like to function right? If you don't then that sucks and you should give it up in meditation, change your life. But you can say, that functioning with a negative mind, entangled in the paths in separation, turned to hate, rejection, fear, that's often synonymous with 'ego', the one that is in the human comparing and striving game, which can probably be fine up to a certain extent, if it has positive or natural movement, whilst not forgetting oneness, friendliness, love. So it comes down to, can you love with your ego, and love what you do, or not. But as for total transcendance, idk, not an expert.

Ye emotions are natural, anger can be too, clinging not.

Mooji has a lot that are pretty good

Egos love this though, nothing cooler than being someone with 'insight', at lvl 2.4, 74% clean chakras, deeply studied, master at shielding and removing negative energy and going towards buddha-hood extreme special state. even though there's some truth to it, but spiritual ego is probably an underrated trap on the path because most people in spirituality fall for it to some degree, and just looks so 'cool' it seems, hard the accept the kiddo playing in the mud is doing better than most people whom fill themselves with these concerns.

This is a good example of how Awakening is ultimately part of a grace-controlled reality, and not a materialistic equation of 'having done X retreats or X psychedelic amount, and now I have it', no, deep humble embodied desire to surrender, being utterly self-less and loving and consistent practice are required. Not that M. Ball, was not innocent or genuine in his journey, but possibly a bit naive and childish, and thus unconsciously also still a little ego-centric about it, he also used to have a half-baked materialistic presumption, which would fit this 'chemically induced enlightenment'. So he had a lot of deep experiences through 5-MeO, then had a permanent shift afterwards, talked about his enlightenment (fair enough, it was a genuine awakening right), but then was hit by the mere simplicity and depth that would be reached normally in meditation and going into the deeper consciousness through the gate of sleep. That terrified him, it was a glimpse of deep awakening beyond his self-induced routine, and was or is still left a wreck because of it. . Yet Ramana among others talk about always being awake, God conscious, even in the deepest mode of sleep: http://sri-ramana-maharshi.blogspot.com/2008/05/true-nature-of-sleep.html --- I know a teacher here in Holland whom experienced something similar, he had spend a lot of time on this journey, and at some point he was really good at self-induced meditation and creating 'blissful' states and whatnot, he started teaching, yet he was actually addicted to his meditation states, was not deeply awakened, and had a strong subtle spiritual ego, until some almost spiritual death event would overtake him, and he was left in suicidal panic, despair and depression for quite some time, and a lot of shame probably, because he proclaimed himself to be an enlightened teacher already, imagine how painful that must be, trying to be a light to bring people home, to the ultimate, yet yourself losing faith in it. Later it brought him to a deeper surrender and true enlightenment/awakening in his own words now, Ad Oostendorp is his name.

I think ridding yourself of all defilement is overrated, I think it's good to become aware and have seriously worked and studied with your own emotional body and healing for some years for most people, but a human functioning will always have aversion, conditioning, desires etc., right, even though there can be a totally different way of experiencing it. perhaps unless it's completely permeated by some meditative state, but for what purpose, afaik, true deep awakening should rid you, first of the self-image that makes you want to look perfect, and second to be free to be a bit of a messy human if you want to be, and probably will be, but realizing you're not bound.

Ah, rapé, doesn't do anything but rape your nostrils, truly fitting name.

Pretty sure coma dreams are pretty common and no they don't all claim heaven. The potential of things that can happen in dreams is immense, same with psychedelic trips, in some rare rare cases one can live a long realistic, just as realistic as this, life in one of them.

No, sometimes psychedelics don't even work at all to induce an experience whatsoever. Adi Da said that that enlightenment, is given by grace, I agree, and I think you can say it is given when one is fully 'mature/ripe/deep/devoted' to love or truth. Psychedelics and practices, and life, all push to to become ready, but it is not a materialistic equation, reality is also magic-intelligence.

Thought that popped up today.. In a video game, how can a character in the game, move it's body, move itself forward? From where does it get the momentum, the energy, to push and move itself out of it's position. It can't when you think about, that's why the whole video game world has to be re-created, at every new step, moving with the character and as the character.

He has good teaching, I never have seen or felt that he's off. And even if he is somewhat off in some way, his behavior doesn't seem too bad either, although has been made some allegations against. Anyways, if you want to test and investigate guru's, let me tell you, you have to visit them in person, at least in my experience, the screen never gave a good representation and direct contact was always way different (and much more positive).

721 books in one year? You will be creating an obese monkey mind

'You must enter into love-communion. So our way is characterized by, not by renunciation and self manipulation, but by a moral conversion, by natural lawful disciplines and via the continuous process of self transcendence, through love, '

wow ur head is huge

kidding mate

'It is obvious, from all sorts of subtle details, that he knows what IT's all about... a rare being' - Alan Watts @1:53

The perfect condition Is, for what ever it is worth, I assure you, it Is - Da

Well, you can, in samadhi

Fear is a sensation/thought - perception perceived.

If you want to watch it, you need to watch it till the end

Nicely noticed Peter

Can't really tell in babies, or toddlers, I'd say, and no one can remember either except for a few.

Abuse is also such a tricky thing, especially in spirituality wherein people say that want to go beyond their ego, because one can challenge an ego from a place of love and it can be mistaken for hate or one can actually lash out in dishonesty.

But you can say conditional domains of reality do work through magical/intentionally love based ways, love based, as soon as it's dogmatic, it's deluded. I think you can say shamanistic work: healing, psychic opening work and experience,-- is a preliminary stage to enlightenment, and many shamans are not enlightened, are arrogant, attached and deluded to their spiritual ego and experiences/beliefs, not all of them and to different degrees, and can still be advanced/helpful in some ways.