ajasatya

@RawJudah the 10 days solo retreat if you plan it well. the trip is more prone to having several sources of distractions. even the solo retreat can have a lot of distractions if you're careless.

@Dimi you need to contemplate why you exist in the first place. why are you alive? what have you forgotten? learn how to investigate these matters for yourself. this is very different from the common studies, where you listen to a teacher tell you "the truth". Truth is your own very nature. study your own existence... nothing is hidden from you. you're the only one blindfolding yourself, like GOD playing the ultimate trick on itself.

we'd need to go a little deeper. feel free to send me a pm and we can take a closer look at your life. yes. these are my accomplishments in chronological order: dropped toxic habits enlightenment a wonderful marriage an amazing job what i am working for (also in chronological order): moving to canada having children being an amazing father and building a lovely family getting involved in big philanthropic causes, like reforestation, education and world hunger this is my journey: i work hard. this is my daily schedule: i'm either sleeping, eating, working, studying or spending time with my wife. if you're still wasting time and fooling yourself into thinking that you want to live well, it means that you haven't fully grasped what Life is. who are you?

simply put, my experience is as follows: i had no idea about how good life could get. my addictions were: porn, masturbation and alcohol. life feels much better when you can live as an open book. contemplate how it would be like if your heart weighted as much as a feather.

no, children are more like ambulant egos. for a child to be cool/happy/content, everything has to be exactly as he/she wants. that's the opposite of Love.

then you're not hungry for Truth.

do you like oranges?

you should not believe it unless you experience it for yourself. note: there are VERY FEW true lovers of life on this planet.

excellent questions. such questions are worth a few years of contemplation. nobody will be able to answer those for you... not because they don't know the answers for themselves. but because such questions can't be answered by someone else. this is the best part of self-inquiry: there can be no other authority than direct conscious experience. anything else is merely a belief. good luck.

@Dylan Page only the mind can be confused. drop the mind even for a few seconds and you'll have a glimpse of true freedom (freedom of mind, spiritual liberation). go to retreats, embody mindfulness. stop trying to grasp no-mind with mind.

love is altruist. if you really love someone, you want him/her to be happy even if you're not part of his/her life your name won't be known/remembered your face won't be known/remembered your very existence won't be acknowledged at all love does exist. but you won't be able to fully experience it unless you break through the illusion of separation.

@Truth Addict see it for yourself. the only way to know the taste of an orange is by tasting it. seeing it won't be enough. reading about it won't be enough. even smelling it won't be enough. taste it already!

@Devansh Saharan change the way you live. mental phenomena are a consequence of what you experience on a daily basis.

14 yo?

@Ponder you seem to hold a fantasized belief about what enlightenment/liberation is. as time passes by, life itself will show you that it can be even better than that! the mundane life is not something that Truth is not supposed to be. once you learn how to drop all attachments, you're actually free to embrace all aspects of life as you will, even suffering! the difference is that there will be no existential suffering. only mundane suffering that you cherry pick to spice up life. life can't get any juicier than that

"sorry" "it's ok kid, just don't do it again!"

@Ponder i don't suffer unconsciously. i choose my sufferings, so to speak. and i can feel physical pain sometimes.

@Ponder what does "liberated" mean?

@Yuliya_Lei tell him that he's being hypocritical when pursuing ego-death and trying to control you at the same time. poor kid... he doesn't know what he's after.

@Ponder deliberately telling people what to do is offtrack.

@J beastly there is no shortcut. just don't make this longer than it needs to be. feel all the pain you need to feel. don't postpone pain.

@Serotoninluv i'm not saying that statistical significance means causation... also, those (funny) correlation charts are meticulously built, with adjustments on scales and lots of other tricks. it's easy to build an algorithm that looks for periods in which at least a pair of variables present high correlation. what i posted is completely different. i did no manipulation and i didn't cherry pick data. banks using signs to compute credit risk is an old practice and is well known by mathematicians who work in credit risk analysis agencies.

@Aldo i don't know, but banks use people's signs as a variable to decide whether they're going to give people loans or not. crazy, huh? but if you look at the data (i did) and perform hypothesis tests (i did), you will be astonished by the statistical significance of people's signs on their discipline to pay their loans. CRAZY, HUH? self-induced placebo effect? something deeper that we don't know yet? i don't know. i think @Serotoninluv would enjoy this approach. edit: here's the actual screenshot of a jupyter notebook that i was writing when analyzing a dataset containing approximately 60k clients of a bank. "True" means that the client defaulted a payment of his loan for more than 6 months. "False" means the opposite. the p-value of 0.0 is a better approximation than you'd think. if it were 1e-30 it would say "1e-30". thus you can admit that it's lower than 1e-30.

@Sauvik do it. but don't expect it to fulfill you for much longer. as you mature and grow, you will notice that there is a DEEPER level of relationship that cannot be achieved by friendships with benefits.