[Other forum for trip reports]

1 hour ago, Con heo dien said:

This is a major one: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/

That's the exact one I was looking for. Thank you. Google results for searches on psychedelics seems to be extremely filtered.

[Other forum for trip reports]

A while ago I stumbled on a forum (not actualized.org) that was a mainly a collection of trip reports and discussion of psychedelics. Now I cannot find it or remember what it was called. Is anyone here involved with other spiritual/psychedelic forums and care to share?

[I am enlightened. Sincere seekers: ask me anything]

Can you talk more about psychotherapy as it relates to enlightenment? Are all therapists enlightened? Are most?

[I am enlightened. Sincere seekers: ask me anything]

How do I know when I've gotten there?

[The key to letting go]

@LaucherJunge 

what do you hope to achieve through letting go?

[What is friendship?]

Hello guys. I come with a question/discussion,

What is friendship? Why do we make friends? What does it provide us?

Is it a reptilian tendency? Is it a societal coping strategy? An extension of your self?

What is the true reason for human connection?

Post opinions . Interested to hear what you guys think.

[Only men can achieve enlightenment?]

Hi all. I was told that some buddhists believe that women are unable to achieve nirvana/enlightenment. Their only hope for liberation is to be reincarnated as a male. 

So, what gives? Where did this belief come from? Anyone have any insight on this?

Here are some resources I found on the matter:

http://newbuddhist.com/discussion/21694/only-men-find-nirvana

http://buddhists.livejournal.com/740846.html

https://protectingnyingma2.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/can-women-achieve-enlightenment/

[What does it mean that Enlightenment has infinite depth?]

11 minutes ago, Heart of Space said:

t's really quite something worthy of the most intense astonishment.  

Well said.

[What’s your domain of mastery and why did you choose it?]

On 1/18/2018 at 6:07 PM, ajasatya said:

computer science, zen, agroforestry and intimate relationships (sexuality)

please, tell me more about how you've mastered zen oh wise one 

[What is The Human Condition?]

@Nahm you can't assume what happens when we die, now. Were we in a euphria before we were born?

[What is The Human Condition?]

Post your thoughts/ideas here 

[Over confidence & worst case scenario thoughts]

@Marinus Simple duality  

 

We all know the term. Happy/Sad, Up/Down, Yin/Yang. You can't have one without the other. The higher the High.... the lower the Low. This is the way of things and there's nothing we can do about it. Work on finding your center and work on feeling comfortable in the "eh, neutral" 

 

It's a balance game . Just try not to get hurt.

[hit rock bottom]

@thehero sounds like poetry my friend .

i would let you sing me to sleep every night if you would let me.

[!!CAUTION!! mind pitfalls ahead.]

@Shu

I wish I could help you

2 hours ago, Shu said:

- all embracing addiction.

How do you think AA got started?

[Has anyone completely healed their anxiety?]

@ajasatya

Those words almost made me cry.

[Enlightenment is hard, living with the paradoxes.]

@AleksM

Can you conceive paradox?

[Enlightenment is hard, living with the paradoxes.]

7 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

  I fell in love with it because I started seeing the results, and then those begin to snow-ball.

Snowballed like a good thought/insight! 

 

Do you think a strong enough mind can conceive a paradox? Or is it, by nature, impossible.

 

[Enlightenment is hard, living with the paradoxes.]

@Joseph Maynor

What now?

[Enlightenment is hard, living with the paradoxes.]

2 minutes ago, SOUL said:

The clickbait is that enlightenment exists as much as the self does.....

Really?

I feel pretty real to me.

[Enlightenment is hard, living with the paradoxes.]

@Leo Gura

Clickbait. 

It worked, didn't it?

[Enlightenment is hard, living with the paradoxes.]

@Leo Gura

I never said that it was hard.

[Enlightenment is hard, living with the paradoxes.]

We know while others merely think they know.

Yet at the same time, we don't know just as much as they do.

 

I understand how nobody is inherently better than anybody else, but I still can't shake the feeling that everyone is missing something. 

How do we live with such paradoxes that create the very fabric of reality?

[Why mostly depressed people search for Enlightenment?!]

7 hours ago, Arman said:

Then depression has been overcome and well-being is stabilized I think a more authentic search begins  

Unless the subject is so relieved to have overcome depression that they are OK living whatever life rather than continue searching for truth.

[You have 100% free will and you also have no free will. The other side of the Paradox.]

On 11/21/2017 at 3:28 PM, Nahm said:

When I look to the illusion, I only find more of me and find the divine, and when I look through the divine, i only find i am free because I am nothing. Nothing. 

 

This is similar to the Ram Dass lecture where he talks about "down looking up" versus "up looking down."

Beautiful.

[I Don't Enjoy Anything?]

@sleeperstakes Get a therapist at school. Most universities offer them as a free resource. I 100% recommend this as a fellow undergrad especially if you have a previous case of anxiety. Don't count on changing schools being enough to fix your problem.