Carl-Richard

Let go... or fight it like an idiot. That's what I'm doing

Is this a meme now or is this legit?

The former. The way I formulated it made it look like I was siding with The observer, my bad

@The observer In the spirit of Ken Wilber, the originator of the pre-trans fallacy, I bring you the source of all spiritual confusion: the relative-absolute fallacy. That's what is going on here

@LfcCharlie4 It sounds good in theory, but in practice it's just classic neuroticism. The idea that you have to "bring yourself back to presence" is just another fear-based thought entering your mind and screwing with the already existing presence. Why do you fear being less aware? Just go about your day and accept the fact that you're being helplessly unaware. It's fine. Leave the "awareness-training" to when you're actually sitting down and being focused on only that. That is where the real progress is being made. The attachment of having to be mindful and present 24/7 is the most disruptive attachment you can have. It's like a mind virus that has been granted full access to every moment of your life. It's like spiritual OCD.

TJ is a solid green, god damn

The worst imaginable experience for everyone is Love.

@Galyna Don't give up hope. I tricked myself into giving up all sugars and stimulants when I started believing that it was slowing down my meditation gains. It's kinda true though.

That tends to happen when IAmTheHolySpirit enters your topic

Everytime you remind yourself to be more mindful you end up becoming less mindful. My advice is do your practice and get on with your day. Let your mind come up with whatever it wants when you're not actively practicing. Trying to impose mindfulness onto your daily life is just your neuroticism repackaging itself as spirituality.

I don't do anything anymore because death scares me.

@The observer Sarcasm is hard to convey through text.

@tenta I would add "most" hierachies

@The observer No.

Orange questioner gets injected with some yellow perspective.

@AlwaysBeNice Children are not enlightened. That's a highly idealistic interpretation.

@caelanb Much of this work is about recognizing, working through and accepting the darker aspects of life, which is what most people ignore because it makes them feel comfortable with where they are, which is also why most people are stuck.

@Jacobsrw The mental health enterprise will always find a way to conceptualize dysfunctional behaviours, but remember that it's all on a continuum. To indulge in something that is associated with dysfunctional behaviour doesn't necessarily mean you're being dysfunctional. That's how it is with everything: drugs, diets, ideology etc.

@Spaceofawareness There isn't a contradiction. One is absolute truth and one is relative truth.

Why would you want to rewire your brain?

@James123 U sure?

It's kinda like asking will an enlightened sailor be able to survive a rogue wave on stormy seas? It has probably more to do with the ship than the sailor. Datura does a very specific thing, and I don't think enlightenment will impact it very much.

@Preety_India I found four big sacks of wood in the shed that I somehow manage to use for doing deadlifts. Just ram a curtain pole through the middle and voila; who needs a gym membership?

Man I listened to the entire podcast and it was very sad

@Preety_India I like to think I lift a lot of weights - call it non-functional physical labor. Atleast that used to be true before the lockdown...