Carl-Richard

James Bond in No Time To Die.

Yes. No.

Transcending suffering is so profound that it is worthy of the name Truth.

A buddhist believes in the Four Noble Truths and follows the Noble Eightfold path. David Goggins goes hard. Buddhists literally talk about the cessation of suffering. David Goggins talks about going hard. Where you got the similarities from, is hard to grasp (only if we don't assume ad hoc reasoning).

Spoken like a true fanatic👌

Probably many people throughout history.

Heaven obviously exists. It's what's at the other side of the hell experiences.

Hell experiences are reasonably a thing. But is Jesus the only Lord and Savior? 🤔

Yep. Different things work at different points of the path. At some point, for example focusing on the breath can seem counterproductive and simply resting in awareness is more productive. And sometimes resting in awareness is counterproductive because whenever you encounter samadhi, you recoil in fear. Then letting go of the resistance becomes more productive. And if you don't feel you can let go of the resistance, then finding out why you can't let go is more productive. At some point, meditating every living moment of your life and obsessing constantly about enlightenment can be more productive. And at some point, letting go of the practice, letting go of the obsession can be more productive. That's the tension between Neo-Advaita "you're already it, stop, relax" and the progressive path "meditate or take psychedelics", or Integral people "work on your shadow and integrate your psyche before self-transcending". It's not a tension when you recognize that different things work at different points of the path.

Leo has expressed resistance to letting go of his identity, as have @Inliytened1 for example. That means you're not enlightened. If you are still hanging on to your identity, you are still identified, you are still suffering. And when you let go, you're free from suffering. So enlightenment is about suffering just as much as it's about truth, because seeing the truth means you stop suffering. Seeing illusion and delusion means you suffer. Suffering is tied to ignorance. You should read more Buddhism.

You can't deny there is a correlation between how long you can meditate for and how deep you can meditate. If you can enter deep meditation after 5 minutes, you can also very likely meditate for a very long time after that without problems. But if you cannot meditate for more than 5 minutes, you probably can't meditate very deeply in any case.

You can't meditate for 13 days straight without meditating deeply.

Do you distinguish between the relative and the absolute? Do you know about this distinction?

I see Leo contemplating reality but he is not enlightened.

If you can't distinguish relative from absolute, I can't help you. I can help you, but you have to at least become familar with the concept.

Inspiration and flow is your natural state. Too much ups and downs can mess with it.

How long can you meditate for?

Combining AI brainrot with non-duality arguments, that's too much for me. You'll find me outside meditating under a tree.

We know people with high IQs (Mike Israetel *erm*) tend to be very quantitatively impressive, in that they can produce many thoughts very fast and hold many of them in their head at one time, and of course they become better problem-solvers as a result. However, as Mike also has demonstrated (sorry if you're not keeping up), having a quantitatively impressive mind does not necessarily make you immune from having not so smart thoughts. Because you can have many thoughts and handle them well, but what if your thoughts are shit? Which things influence or determine the quality of a single thought? What if you can have a relatively low IQ but consistently have very great thoughts pop into your mind at the right place and the right time, with immense precision, like bullets? So yeah, which things influence or determine the quality of a thought? Which things cause you to have high or low quality thoughts? Which things predict or lead to an increase or decrease in the quality of thoughts? I'll add my own thoughts later (let's see how precise they are ;P) but I'm curious what you think.

@James123 How many hours have you meditated? How many hours have you contemplated? How many insights have you had? How many experiences of glimpsing the truth have you had? Answer the questions.

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Humans ask questions, humans reflect on what they are. Find me an animal who does these two things.

Not at all an ad hoc argument, at all.

Yet it makes everybody on the forum Tier 2 😂