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I just think it's interesting that on a topic where the OP exclaims an absolutistic and misplaced notion of "you cannot be oriented towards truth and live in the world at the same time", this distrust of spiritual figures with a wordly orientation "coincidentally" arises.

I still think you're paranoid.

"I was ready to die", "it was not that difficult". Those two can be conjoined only by extreme sarcasm or covert narcissism (or frontal lobe dementia). "Just die" is the cream of the crop of what makes spirituality an accessible and ethically consciable endevor #NeoAdvaitaRotMyBrain Spiritual practice is about linking form to the formless, the normal to the divine, the immanent to the transcendent. That requires informing about specific content in detail. You don't get far by "just be", "just witness", "just die". Even if you're "only" doing those things while in the non-dual state, you have to have severe retrograde amnesia if you think that was the only thing you ever did on your path to that state. That is really the only thing Neo-Advaita is: a spirituality for spiritual teachers with retrograde amnesia, and an absolutistic / contentless approach to the letting go process. You're essentially just saying "let go" while disregarding any specifics that could possibly inform that letting go process.

@Breakingthewall @Javfly33 To think Sadhguru is a secretly evil man is the ultimate paranoid fantasy. To try to read into that based on 10 second clips is exactly the kind of traps that QAnon and MAGA conspiritard people fall into.

Who is saying Orange will?

Was it that easy for you?

Lab mommies. I know a few. But for real, lab mommies.

Are you following the topic or are we just defending conservatism because whatever? Sustainable civilization. That's the topic we're on right now.

You simply don't solve problems like nukes and AI with "marry your wife and build a family".

It's like going to the dating section and saying "guys, we need to get down to brass tacks and define what is meant by 'game', 'romance' and 'love': here is this one 7-factor model by this one pickup artist that I want us all to adopt and follow slavishly. It's the best approach obviously, but any feedback on the limitations with this approach?"

The point is conservatism on its own doesn't solve the difficult world problems of today.

No. Are you?

Higher birth rates = more nukes. How does conservatism deal with nukes?

Of course you have to let go of letting go if letting go is the only game in town 😉

Ask Leo if he is in a non-dual state right now. Meditation is like going to the gym. You target specific muscles, you break them down, and then after the gym, you rest and grow. Deconstruction can be done anywhere, but it should definitely be done during meditation.

God damn it.

Do you have a 30 cm diameter trunk?

Genetics, stage in life, method and values predict deconstruction. Some are born more deconstructive than others. Seeing through worldly desires and being ready to die requires deconstruction (implicit or explicit, deliberate or unintentional). You can do psychedelics and ignore the invitation to deconstruction, and you can avoid integrating it into your life. Yes, in the meditation itself. That is when you have the mental capacity to do it effectively. You are noticing the contractions and subtle mental imagery around various patterns and notions your mind and body is holding on to and then you let them go. That's actually a meditation mantra recommended by Sadhguru. After meditation is just a state where you're distracted and your attention is constantly wandering to objects. Why that is a better state to do deconstruction? You integrate the deconstruction in that state. Uncovering the things that need to be deconstructed needs more attention and awareness. Deconstructing deconstruction is a mental game. Deconstructing your notions and bodily energetic patterns goes deeper than that.

Next time I'll touch a metal pole and report my findings 🫡

@theleelajoker Holy you need some religion brutha. I just think trying to make people to speak the same language, especially when that requires reading into a particular religion, on a forum where people are generally pluralistic in their use of language (or aspiring to be) and don't read particularly into one religion, is a bit futile.

"Let's use one way to define Enlightenment based on the words of the main religious figure of a world religion on a forum where people mix and match knowledge from all places to inform their view on a topic".

On a forum with women, good luck. You will die.

Buddhism is a religion.

Does she draw mostly from her imagination? I used to only draw from my imagination when I was little, and when we had to draw the teacher in art class in high school (he was posing), I only drew him from my imagination, not what he actually looked like 😂

You can't feed traditional religion to a New Age cat 🐱