Carl-Richard

India has literally the #1 cheapest weed in the entire world lol

You just can't keep yourself from stealing more of my thoughts? 🙈 I'm not even joking.

Bernardo Kastrup became suicidal after acquiring severe tinnitus. He still has the tinnitus but is no longer suicidal.

But making conceptual statements and making inferences about the boundaries and the limitations and the ontological status of those sensations, of course, are. "The isness that can't be seen as an object" is a profound description which is the point I'm getting at. The moment you start talking about objects that can be seen, then what are we talking about? Objects that can be seen. The isness in its most fundamental sense stands impartial to the objects that can be seen.

Do you realize that investigating your experience in any way that can be spoken about is a conceptual exercise, just like investigating what might be outside or separate from or not immediately apparent in your experience is a conceptual exercise? For example, investigating a sensation and then saying "here it is, here is its shape, here is its texture, here is where it extends, here is where it seems to end" is at the same level of conceptual density as saying "what this current sensation seems to be might be a part of a larger class of many sensations or a larger space of sensation that doesn't end here".

You can perfect the technique to maximize flow. That is essentially the goal of perfecting your technique in sprinting.

Do we recognize that "being that which knows everything" is very different from saying "what is currently known is all that exists"?

Then you also have people who just know how to dance:

Holy shiet I've never been that caught by surprise before in the start of a song

They say that good music keeps you at the edge between familiarity and surprise. Too familiar becomes boring, and too surprising becomes hard to follow. Musical improvisation is the manifestation of this in real time, and you can usually notice when the player is engaging in well-established/familiar patterns ("licks") and when the player is creating something completely original. I'm used to improvising a lot on guitar, and I've noticed that I'm able to imagine impossibly intricate and original lines of improvisation in my head, but I'm in no way technically advanced enough to manifest that through my instrument. When I listen to the most complete virtuostic improvisational players out there, even though they can come very close many times, I always feel a tension between boredom and impenetrability. Of course, this desire I have of hearing the most hyper-creative lines of notes that I can possibly imagine is impossible to fulfill. It's completely relative to my unique conception of music, and I would probably never in a million years get to hear somebody produce even 10 seconds of those exact notes (which would be absolutely transcendentally orgasmic if it happened). Nevertheless, I know two players who come extremely close, and I'll try to weigh to which extent they're too "boring" ("musically conventional" is a better word) or too impenetrable (too melodically or harmonically complex) relative to my impossible standard of imaginative perfection. Guthrie Govan (obviously). It's tricky, because he is so versatile that he often fluctuates between too conventional (like bluesy bendy stuff) and too complex (like jazzy shredding stuff). I'll give an example for each player: Allan Holdsworth is notoriously known for being impossible to imitate by other players. For reference, Guthrie Govan can imitate virtually anyone but him. He often becomes too complex. I sometimes have to listen to his songs 30 times to understand what he is doing (like the run at 1:28 in the video below). (Btw things become more interesting around 0:40).

Then the question obviously becomes "what is truth?". And you'll give me an answer, but that's just your answer, and we've come no further than what people say (and people disagree strongly), hence saying you value truth doesn't mean much. It's an extremely generalized concept where people tend to just fill in whatever they like. I meant a list of five actual people, names, individuals, not a group of people.

Reincarnation makes sense and seems like there is evidence for but I don't rule out immaterial/heavenly realms either. I'm of the impression that there are many layers of reality we're not currently aware of.

Sorry to derail, but I read this and another comment in another thread, and it's actually uncanny how much your thinking is like mine.

The ideal would be to have robotic blackout curtains connected to a smartwatch that open when it register you're waking up.

Ever tried not using theory as much and going with what you feel? That's the true phallic position.

Some people are very forward-moving and goal-oriented, which is synonymous with dopamine. Even if they can't relax and look at the flowers, they do feel like things are moving, and there can be a lot of excitement, flow and creativity involved there. If you want to look at it very simplistically: meaning, action and loftiness is dopamine; being, depth and groundedness is serotonin. The former is more emphasized in current society, the latter is more emphasized by spiritual approaches.

One time during a college lecture, I sat trying to focus on what the teacher was saying, and I noticed a kind of tension related to this, that I was trying really hard to hold my attention on every word, every word on the slide, every moment of the lecture. And when I noticed this tension, I chose to let it go, to let the tension dissolve. Then for a while, nothing much was different, only I felt a little lighter, more fluid. But then suddenly, it hit me. There is literally no time. Things are happening, but it's perfectly still, not moving, just being. It's a singularity morphing onto itself, but nothing moving it in time. And there is literally no me. All of me is plastered on the walls of the room. And this felt like ultimate groundlessness, like reality had disappeared beneath my feet. All that was left was a surging energy that was at the same time completely silent. I felt like my heart had sunk beneath my chest. I grasped my hands to my desk and clenched my leg muscles, trying not to die of terror. And then when the lecture ended, I exited the lecture with my friend, levitating, spending no effort in moving, and the singularity feeling was back as I was talking and making sounds, walking down the stairs, entering the bathroom stall, closing the door and telling myself to get it together. This was the result of more than 1000 hours of seated meditation practice, and more than 16000 hours of complete obsession to awaken. And it was then I decided to stop seeking, because enlightenment, at that stage, was too much for me. Being dead but alive, being in terror but in bliss, was the biggest Catch-22 situation I could have ever imagined. And I wanted out. Turns out that wasn't so easy, but that's another story. Anyways, I've been talking about "deconstruction" before and I felt that it didn't land for many people, maybe that it was too "mental" in its connotation, that it's something intellectual you do. But it's simpler than that. It's just about letting go of whatever thing or process that might be holding you back from experiencing reality as it is. It can be as subtle as a tension associated with focusing on what somebody is saying, or it can be as gross as the sensation of sitting in a room right now and that there is a house surrounding it and that there is a world outside the house and that there is a universe outside the world. Every tension, every feeling of solidity, every ground, every roof, every level, every notion of reality, must be let go of. - Jan Esmann While you can distinguish letting go from the concept of "technique", it can also be thought of as a technique, if you practice it. And practicing letting go in meditation can be quite explosive. It's not necessarily as light and non-confrontational as "ah I'll just let go and sit here and just be still". It can be a quite visceral and energetic process. It can cause all kinds of movements and releases, both physically in the body and emotionally. And using other techniques are in a sense tools for helping you getting to the place of letting go, where letting go gets you to the place you want to go. Because training your focus through focused meditation, or elevating your energy through psychedelics, matters, but they will do nothing if you do not let go. You can take psychedelics and flail around, trying your best to hold on without dissolving into nothingness, and you may be successful in doing so, if not for some intense suffering, but it will not lead you to an expanded state unless you let go. And that's what suffering is about. It's when you can't for the life of you let go. And you keep holding on despite what reality wants you to do, to just accept it. Anyways, even people who are big proponents of psychedelics and who also are big proponents of the non-dual perspective, emphasize the importance of letting go: - Martin Ball And of course, other non-dual proponents say the same thing: - Ramana Maharshi - Rupert Spira And letting go and seeing reality for what it is is synonymous with truth. Just like how Leo says truth is the highest value, letting go is the ultimate meditation, because letting go reveals what is true.

Thank you ☺️

Lol. If you want to call eliminating fun and beautiful things from your life "withdrawal symptoms", then go ahead.

So I was at the gym today, suddenly the entire gym starts smelling like the inside of a weed bag. And everybody were like "wut" looking confused, and the guys next to me were like "must be the ventilation system", and then they started talking about how they have been high at the gym before. It became so bad I decided to leave and take my workout outside elsewhere. And then I sent a tip to the local police cuz fuck that shit. It wasn't that I got extremely baked off my mind, but it's annoying getting that tiny buzz when you just want to get on with your day. Then after finishing the workout and I was about to walk home, the same intense smell appeared right outside the gym. I couldn't locate the source other than some weirdo on an electric scooter looking like he was drunk and staring at me. I swear that upped my tiny buzz by a little, granted placebo of course (you can refrain from commenting anything about placebo; I'm an ex-mega-stoner with a psychology background, ait?) Then I decided to jog home, and as I reached closer to home, I decided to take a bit longer route because I wanted a bit longer cardio workout, and I thought "man, if I run into anymore stoners, I'm gonna actually lose it" (this is a route I've ran into stoners several times before). And wouldn't you believe it, as I reached the most tunnel-like part of the route where there is just a long road with very steep hills on the side, there is this guy doing the classic stoner-lighting-a-joint move, and I'm like "you gotta be fucking kidding me", so I run past holding my breath, and a few meters past him, I of course had to breathe, and I inhale this what feels like a concentrated cloud of weed × tobacco smoke, and if I wasn't high already, now I was. And I'm like going to vote the Green Party in our election the next week which wants to legalize the sale of this shit? I'm like halfway between wanting to vote the most right-wing party we have and becoming a member of the Green Party just to influence policy about having stoners stay the heck away from public spaces. I mean cmon, gyms? Tiny ass roads where people are walking? Where the smoke is confined to a tiny area? That's poisoning of public spaces.

True, and I want to tighten the restrictions. Are you following what I'm saying?

Also, you guys talking like I'm not normal while I'm about to quote the most normie source possible: https://www.cdc.gov/cannabis/health-effects/secondhand-smoke.html

Wut 😂

This is my memory: I was working out, I was completely emotionally neutral, then I felt the kundalini rush in the spine and altered perception, then I later smelled the weed. Then I saw the bloodshot eyes person who smelled like weed. If you wanted to blame it all on an emotional reaction, you would ideally place the order of events in the opposite order. We already have banned smoking in public places. i just want tighter restrictions. Dogs are also banned in some public places and also some dogs on flights.