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  4. Posted · Edited by SOUL

    Seeing someone as an authority is a widespread issue within the enlightenment and spirituality community and it even extends to speakers assuming a role of an authority even if they deny they are.

    It also includes the ideas and concepts that often get canonized as "truth", not just a personal truth but a universal truth that is said applies to everyone.

    I rarely go into the details about specific ones to dispute because I prefer to not to be contentious on subjective matters and that's what most of spirituality is, it's a personal experience with subjective revelations.

    It wouldn't surprise me that there are many who create a stumbling block for themselves from other people's ideas because it may not be reflective of their own experience.

     

     

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    Buddhism has dogma., if it doesn't why would anyone question if a teaching fits.

    There is even a significant amount of dogma with the ideas about illusion, beliefs, the mind, the self, ego and what or what doesn't exist or is real.

    Don't think so? Present a contrary view to the accepted one on any of those and see what happens.

    There are people who engage in spirituality just so they can learn a way to enjoy their life and have little interest in adhering to the belief system of 'nothingism'.

    Spirituality is subjective and there isn't a right way to do it any more than what works for the individual to accomplish what they seek.

     

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    grammar

    Being open to infinite possibility isn't the same as believing something is possible or not..

    One is an indeterminate mindset, the other is a mindset that has been determined by taking a position.

    It's a nuanced understanding that is to stay open in being at peace with not knowing while the mind is always trying to decide it knows.

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    People keep trying to place things in and on the void, I guess that's what the mind will try to do, think it can know something that isn't knowable,

    The whole undefined and non-delineated everything-less that appears as if it's no-thing is still something so not the void.

    The "one" of all existence is not part of the void, neither is consciousness, everything didn't come from it and nothing goes to it.

    The void is absolute and infinite in it's absence of anything and everything.

    Meditate on that.

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    7 minutes ago, zazed said:

    All spiritual teaching can be condensed to that word. But it's not very helpful to someone who knows nothing about it :D

    Trillions of words are spoken if not more on the subject of spirituality and not one of them is useful in being.

    The words can be of use in explaining how to get the mind out of the way of being but they just as easily wind up placing more mind in the way of being.

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    @zazed  Just being aware of being aware may be a very simple paradigm to be in the mind but that is still a type of orientation of consciousness, a paradigm.

    It could be said that it is exercising the least amount of mind meddling in the process of just being by avoiding the typical trappings associated with the mind.

    Some may call it the most natural way to orient our consciousness, some may say it's the "true" way or it's "real" but all of those is just adding mind meddling.

    If we are just being, it doesn't need an opinion of it how it relates to other ways for us to just be it.

     

     

  16. Posted · Edited by SOUL

    The ego constructs a paradigm in the mind from ideas and concepts that appeals to it in which those ideals it values most it believes in although this issue can arise when it assumes it's valuable to everyone.

    Even the ideal I have about just being aware of being aware in the moment appeals and brings contentment to me, it's my mind's paradigm.

    With every spiritual speaker from Tolle to Hedderman to the Buddha, all of them has a paradigm of the mind they believe in.

    It can be robust and complicate or effortless and simple, it's not good or bad by nature, it's just the way the mind works.

     

    In spirituality "true" and "truth" aren't the same thing as it is in logic or science, this is where the confusion comes in.

    Spiritually "true" isn't factually accurate or logically reasonable, it's being loyal or adhering to a standard, so it's being true to our spiritual ideals.

    Truth is proven by us staying true to our spiritual ideals, if we say they are one thing but do another, it's isn't a spiritual truth, it's just an idea we don't do even if we try to call it our truth.

    Since spirituality and the ideals derived from it are subjective, what accounts for spiritual truth is different for every single one of us.

    There is no universal spiritual truth, big T little t, that's just rhetoric, spiritual truth is as individual as each one of us in our experience.

    When we act in accordance with our spiritual ideals we are being spiritually true and living our spiritual truth.

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    The void can't be the 0th dimension....it's the void, it isn't anything, not absolute truth, not a dimension, not even consciousness.

    The void in it's actual nature is the absence of anything, there isn't anything we can say to describe it, the word void is still too much for it.

    Zero(0) isn't the void either, zero is a value through it's absence of value, it's what we imagine the void to be.

     

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    @rakuul I wonder what happened to the guy who was living and learning from that loving, compassionate and benevolent core to become the guy who exerts effort by insulting someone else who is doing the same thing in living and learning from their own core just because they don't share the same exact ideas in doing so.

    That would be an interesting self talk conversation I'd love to be a fly on a turd blossom nearby to hear it.

  24. Posted · Edited by SOUL

    12 hours ago, Paradigm said:

    Leo does talk with a lot of certainty and authority. While he might verbally say to not blindly follow authority figures and to question everything etc, his entire vibe says otherwise. Humans are not logical creatures and the verbals mean nothing if the entire vibe he gives is "I'm right and you're wrong".

    I haven't watched very many of Leo's videos, just a handful of them on certain big picture topics to get an grasp of his approach and I can agree with this in ways.

    Let me first say that nearly everyone on youtube speaks from their own certainty in their opinions, I don't know that someone would take the time to create a channel, shoot videos, edit and post them to be unsure of what they are saying.

    Which Steven also does himself, he's certain in his authority of being "right" with his opinion about Leo as well as his own professed positions he's expressed in the rest of his videos so the criticism can appear hypocritical.

    If someone is saying things we are open to or already agree with people tend to overlook the tone of the speaker to instead focus on the message but if it's something we don't agree with a are closed off to tone gets amplified so is another reasons to reject it.