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That's why @electroBeam said sorry and corrected himself to 1987. I don't know what this discussion is about, you guys must have not eaten your breakfast today

You know that after buying the list no-one forces you to read books only from that list? You can still read what you want. I am lately catching up with the list and listening to 2-3 books a week, thanks to a cool trick on Audible that allows you to get 3 books for one credit. Ok, maybe it's not a trick but straightout gaming the system, but you can exchange any book twice and no-one asks a question. Great option for people from developing countries.

Don't give up. Meditate or do yoga everyday, it's worth it.

@electroBeam chill, the deluded people sentence wasn't aimed at you but people who live normal lives completly oblivious to spirituality and are therefore suffering needlessly. My argument was that telling them about Enlightenment is less misleading than saying there's nothing to pursue. You have said you don't know what to do. In my perception the answer is more spiritual practice. Sitting in silence, yoga, journaling, etc. Whatever rocks your boat.

I don't think that the idea of Enlightenment is misleading. It tells you that in a limited time that this body-mind has in its current form it can get conscious enough to grasp the Absolute Truth. At least some degree of it, with maybe becoming happy and loving as a spill-over side effect of that realization. From my perspective telling people who clearly live in a delusion that they are Enlightened is more misleading.

That is not Enlightenment. So keep doing the spiritual work.

Rupert is my favourite teacher. He has some of the clearest explanations of non-duality. I especially like the kind of videos where he describes life from enlightened perspective, like this one: Buddha At The Gas Pump's interviews with Rupert are also great.

I would like to bring fun to Enlightenment work as my life purpose. Not humor, fun. Make it enjoyable. Connect with that child-like nature of human beings. Help to make people their meditation/yoga/self-inquiry practice the most interesting and pleasant part of their day. Help them cope with psychedelic trips, approach them with a light-hearted mindset. Motivate them with fantastic stories, alegories of Enlightment. I am basically thinking of taking deep spiritual truths and dressing them with words into modern myths that include Mecha robots, people with superpowers, aliens, etc. Like craft a story of how you will become God by doing yoga, pack it with outlandish claims that will make it obviously look like someone's imagination, so people can smile about it, it will then make for a bigger laugh when they finally realize that the "becoming God" part wasn't an exagerration. I don't know, just letting my thoughts run loose. I am so lost about this whole life purpose thing.

I know it's hard to trip consistently. I haven't been tripping for almost a year. Maybe schedule a date beforehand and then it will be harder to bail out.

If you have been sitting bored for most of your trips I think you need to up the dose.

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How can a movie throw anything at you? You either are aware it's only a show and accept everything that happens or you are not and struggle. It seems like your understanding is correct, but you need to go waaay deeper. My advice is do more spiritual practice and everything will eventually pan out for you. Or not. That's life.

@SickLuv If I understand you right you are smoking weed for a few years and asking for reasons to be sober? I don't know, get rid of it for 3 months and see how your life unfolds for you. Maybe you will like being sober more, maybe not. No-one will tell you that your use of weed is good or bad. You have to judge that yourself. Personally I wouldn't rely on using any substance everyday unless it was absolutely needed to function. But that's me.

For some reason I hate ebooks. Digital versions of paperbacks are hard to read and make the eyes tired. I have never owned a Kindle, maybe they really are comfortable. The Kindle books are ugly though, the text is formatted like on the web page, I don't know maybe they have improved it by now, I have looked into it last time a few years ago. Paperbacks are art. I read like 70% audiobooks, 25% paperbacks, 5% ebooks on computers. There's a trick with Audible to listen to 3 books a month instead of one. You can return a book 2 times, no questions asked. It's rather obvious, but I didn't think about it when I first made an account there. Not every book is a kind of book that I would be reading again, so I order it first, listen to, then return.

I would go to a normal job at 3/4 time. You would earn enough to live on and still have 2-4 hours everyday to practice yoga. Freelancing is a time stealer. In the beginning it takes way more effort than 9 to 5. You could also take up some seasonal job and have a few months in a year to retreat on.

One could still take iMAO beforehand. It would make it a weird kind of plugged ayahuasca

@supremeyingyang I am studying management at the moment, I find a good course for someone planning to become a coach or yoga teacher too. I mean the quality of what they teach at the university is not high, but it's easy so I use the free time to go to work and listen to audiobooks.

Yeah, the more esoteric the stuff is, the more scammers there will be doing it. One always has to do research, but even being well-trained in distinguishing genuine vs fake information there are still no guarantees that your judgment will be accurate. Sometimes there's even no data to analyze and the only way to judge outlandish claims is to test them personally.

@Forrest Adkins what about soma? And the whole tradition of yogis smoking weed? Even Shiva smokes.

I'm interested in people's experience with such a path, too.

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Buy yourself some nuts and maybe honey to snack on. They are delicious and healthy. I often eat like three rice cakes with honey before going out with friends and it's so much easier not to look at the fast-food after having eaten something so tasty.

@Chumbimba I think, therefore I am. I AM. Just "I am", not "I am a body". If anyone is imagining anything here it's God imagining you and the whole reality. It's God imagining you thinking, eating and typing the keyboard. Just like in a dream. Do you need a body to feel pain in a dream? God is dreaming you up just like you dream up your dreams. Here's the plot twist: God is Nothingess. So, if you want you could say that for something to be imaginary there doesn't have to be a one imagining. Imagining happens, feeling happens, thinking happens, everything happens as a process, directly, by itself. Can you notice it? When you think of pink elephants, it's not you thinking about some object, it's a single happening.

God doesn't care which thing you choose. Why would you choose the option that you acknowledge is relatively packed with more suffering? God won't have an issue if you choose a more evolved option either.

@Llight Go to some war zone and tell us how many of your actions where about God and how many about not getting your ass shot by a bullet. That's why. If you want to live in a more loving society you have to evolve.