
Scholar
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Actually the Rogan podcast was filled with misinformation and incompetence from both sides: 7 hours of free schooling and explanations, very interesting to actually get to understand where these people make mistakes or are simply incompetent.
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I can only say it again, people just do not see the depth of the problem. Everything I experience is such radically my subjective experience that even the notion of subjective experience falls apart. Even the notion and sense of reality itself is something "subjective". The reason you do not agree with everything is consciousness is because are deeply confused about what everything actually is. Everything is a notion, just as any other notion you can come up with, happening in the mind/consciousness. If you were to see this problem you would realize how much deep of an epistemic riddle this is. This is so deep that even epistemicness itself falls apart, literally everything does, including the questioning of this problem itself. That which you call world cannot be the world, and that which you call outside cannot be outside. Question what outsidedness and worldness even are. It is very interesting to observe how minds play around with the idea that all they experience is their own mind, but it always happens as if in a quarantined realm where they actually do not truly apply it to all they experience, but instead apply this idea only to the intellectual realm. You do not actually see that everything you experience and can possibly experience is your own mind, and once you realize that, truly, you will see how completely absurd your assumptions about "reality" were.
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I also do sense that Leo is hiding it for marketing reasons. It could have been something that would be damaging to his reputation if it went public, I do not really buy the "I don't want to tell you because it's a distraction" claim. But in the end who knows.
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I disagree. To me this person seems philosophically and scientifically illiterate. To be careful and not blindly believe Leo's positions is something we should already be aware of as Leo himself is advocating for that. What exactly in his critique seems reasonable and valuable to you?
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Do you guys think there is anything to this?
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Scholar replied to Emanyalpsid's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
How do you know anything you just said? How do you know the question you asked even makes sense or is valid to ask? You are begging the question here big time. -
Scholar replied to Emanyalpsid's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
How do you know that, and what is "existing"? -
Scholar replied to Emanyalpsid's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Why do you think that such a thing as creation even exists? -
It seems like he is one of those people who blindly accept spirituality without having a solid scientific foundation. He deluded himself into spirituality without understanding it, and now that he caught up on some of the scientific literature he is bashing his previous believes. It's like a person who was raised christian and then went atheist because of how silly Christianity is. Maybe this is why you learn philosophy and science before you become spiritual. From what I can tell he does not yet recognize the mind-reality problem and it's significance.
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Scholar replied to The Don's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yes, I think the problem is that we conflate concepts with reality. So when we say "Nothing is what is left when you remove everything, it's still something!" we are actually talking about the concept of nothing. The concept of nothing is actually something, it is the concept of "The absence of everything!". It's nothing but a delusion of language, and has as much to do with nothingness as the concept of red has to do with redness. I just want to poke into Leo's logic, because he values concepts so much when they do not seem to have much to do with what is beyond. -
Scholar replied to Scholar's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
The problem is I know that, but it doesn't help at all. I am not conscious that my ideas are delusional, and when I am I fall back to it as soon as I become more conscious of reality. -
After listening to so many of Leo's videos, and other enlightenment content, I feel like I already know the answer and it's so hard to ignore it when I am self-inquiring. It's like I am always trying to find that the answer is true, instead of being actually curious about my reality. I used to be very curious, before I knew Leo I spent hours and hours thinking about reality and what it is, I came to all sorts of conclusions like reality being necessarily unlimited and infinite, but I didn't know of spirituality back then and it was more of an intellectual exercise. Now that I know how significant it is to inspect consciousness, I cannot do it because I already feel like I know the answer. Whenever I am self-inquiring I am trying to get rid of my self, because I already know that I am not what I think the self is. I am using the Neti-Neti method with a clear expectation of what will happen and it's just useless. It kills my curiosity. The only times where I seem to get deep is when I question language, when I question the meaning of words until they make no sense anymore, and that is when I don't actually think about enlightenment at all, but I am actually curious. Though even that is being corrupted by the ideas I have, whenever I realize that I am getting onto something I immediately think of enlightenment and am like "Wow, this is it, this is how I will get to the truth!" and then it's all for nothing. How do I get rid of all these ideas and concepts? Or how can I use these concepts to aid me on my inquiry instead of being road-blocked by them? I have this problem that I am only curious when I try to investigate matters on my own, when someone makes me question something about reality that I then have to figure out by myself. This is when I can actually inquire into the nature of things. Listening to teachings to me is almost like adding delusions to my conceptual framework. It's like spoiling a movie for me that I then don't care to watch anymore. I know that the experience of watching the movie is different from the information I was told, but that does not change the lack of curiosity and the inability to actually, consciously inspect the mind.
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Scholar replied to Scholar's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I have no access to them. -
Scholar replied to Emanyalpsid's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Is it not ironic that you say the egg came from outside of consciousness, when the concept of "outsideness" itself is something that is actually in your consciousness? -
Scholar replied to The Don's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yes but that means reality is clearly limited to logic! All has no opposite in your opinion because it makes no sense to you logically, or because you have not become aware of it. But that limits reality to either of those two things: Nothing can exists completely outside of your awareness. Reality is bound to logic. Both of these things limit reality, why would such a limit exist? -
Scholar replied to The Don's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
But not being able to have an opposite is a limit, is it not? -
Scholar replied to The Don's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
If reality has no opposite, reality is not limitless. -
Scholar replied to Ingit's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
But then, is your thought of a thought of a rock not being a rock actually a thought of a rock not being a rock? -
From time to time I do entertain the idea that Leo might be some sort of super-genius charlatan. Who knows... he might have deluded us all.
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But the all is the source of suffering, if one is conscious of being the all, why do something about something the all has created in the first place?
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Is it possible, or is there already a practice, that combines martial arts and enlightenment work? I wonder if it is possible to use Martial Arts, or aspects of it, to achieve ego death.
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@pluto @Michael569 Is chlorella and spirulina not dangerous due to it likely containing neurotoxins?
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Max Richter is pretty nice for those melancholic vibes:
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I have been contemplating morality these past few weeks, I read up on moral philosophy and the more I think about this topic the more confused I get. There are so many positions on this, and it seems like they are almost all linked to suffering. Previously I thought that morality was relative, that it depended on the (mostly sub-conscious) preference of the subject. Like when I say reality should not be a certain way, then I am really saying that I do not want reality to be a certain way, that I have an expectation towards reality to manifest in a particular manner I desire. For example when I say I do not want someone to be hurt, I say that, even if it is not articulated, because there is an expectation of suffering from the empathy I will feel. It's not just an expectation, but it seems like the idea of that possible manifestation of reality is making me suffering in the moment itself, and my inherent drive to avoid that suffering leads me to choices I make towards alleviating suffering of others. I have reached a point, just a few moments ago, where I am not sure anymore what suffering actually is. It seemed so self-evident a few minutes ago, but now I just do not understand it anymore. Why is suffering bad? What about the experience of suffering is intrinsically undesirable? Or is suffering itself "undesire"? But what are it's actual qualities? What is truly the difference between suffering and joy? It was unquestionable for me that suffering for all of eternity was inherently bad, but now I don't even know anymore what that would mean? Like all other experiences it seems to me like it is nothing but a driver for certain behaviors, but why does that matter? I know I will care about my own suffering, but I do not understand why that even matters? So what that I will suffer and resist reality? I would want to ask why it would be significant, but I am not even sure what significance means anymore. Does anyone have thoughts on this?
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Scholar replied to Scholar's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@SOUL I think I know what you mean now.