Carl-Richard

Deconstruct your entire life 😂 (not self-deletion, but meditation and letting go of attachments, notions, beliefs, etc.). And do happy and healthy things.

Breh, teachers have tried that and they keep asking. Again, if you understand that the spiritual path starts in form, you won't have this aversion to engaging with form, like speaking, instructing, pointing, conceptualizing. Shutting up and disaffirming pointers has its place, but it cannot be done absolutely, it's actually impossible unless you want to be essentially a rock that sits there and doesn't react to anything that happens around it.

I don't see a significant difference in the meta-ness of God, Truth and Suffering (or Emptiness). Then you shut up. But then the seeker keeps asking. Then you speak. Focusing on your breath can also make you sleepy. The slow, repetitive motions, like a calm sea washing into shore. By the way, I generally haven't done much mantra meditation. I prefer my mind to reveal itself in quiet.

That's not a common word.

You gotta learn to talk with concepts not words.

A very powerful pointer I got from Leo is "you are creating everything". It sort of flips deconstruction on its head: instead of trying to deconstruct the ways which you compulsively and indeliberately construct reality, you take full ownership of the construction, you make it intentional and conscious, you identify with it in its entirity. And that's really the goal of deconstruction, to come to a place where you're constructing everything intentionally.

@Jannes Not even top 100 😂 Jk.

Do you generally identify Shakti in people?

I'm simply clarifying how meditation is something you apparently do as a human being but the result is beyond being human. If that's poisoning the seekers mind, so be it. All teachings do that. The teachings point and then you do the deconstruction. That's why Zen is so shifty in its pointers, because they want you to do deconstruction while dropping the pointers. Here is notion, a concept, an expectation, a reward: “I teach one thing and one thing only: suffering and the end of suffering.” — The Buddha, Samyutta Nikāya 22.86

That's not how it works. Let's also be clear that enlightenment is when you operate in a state of non-duality as your baseline (it's your default state). You can be momentarily thrusted into states like deep sleep and psychedelically induced non-dual experiences or even organically induced ones without letting go of attachments, but they will not last very long or get integrated into your baseline functioning, as attachments are cyclical patterns that repeat over time and inhibit the non-dual state. But when you let go of an attachment and you are at a threshold of a non-dual experience say in meditation, that can often push you over the edge, if indeed that cyclical pattern is particularly active at that time. Again, this is mistaking the deconstruction I'm talking about for a more intellectualized and propositional / discursive form of deconstruction. It's one thing to deconstruct something in the realm of ideas. It's another to deconstruct something in the realm of embodied being. When you for example deconstruct the feeling that you are a body in space, it's more like noticing something rather than affirming something to yourself. Affirming can help in noticing it, but it's not fundamentally needed. Mantras can be beneficial when the patterns have very short cycles and they seem to reconstruct very easily (which the feeling of having a body is an example). Mantras can help direct your focus, just like choosing to focus on the breath. Directing your focus in itself is a form of deconstruction, but a more localized and implicit one (you have to let go of your attention wandering freely in the moment and focus it on something; you're breaking a cyclical pattern). Deconstruction and meditation is generally a recursive process, because some of the patterns seem to be sticky (particularly the very ingrained ones like the notion of the body). That's why it can take 6 years before they seemingly stabilize.

Dying once is not enough. Death has to pervade your being. Again, Leo is not enlightened despite 30 days of 5-MeO. And that is not to pooh-pooh his insights. He will admit this himself.

I considered trying it once but I suspected the way the method works would me make go insane 😂 I'm already too associative for my own good. Training my brain to become more associative would just make me end up as a poet. N-Back training works for me, I think I added a few points from that, but high-intensity cardio and sprint training (things that elevate lactate) are probably just as effective (as well as resistance training and other forms of cardio). Meditation is also super good, especially when done right. I would say try it and report back the results after a month or so 🙂👍

Is it possible that you primed it to mention Leo based on previous interactions?

Funny synchronicity: I wrote the previous post while running a simulation of photons propagating through a digital brain atlas with 100 million photons (Monte Carlo simulation)

This is my understanding: When you put a measurement device at one of the slits (say the left one) and you measure a photon there, you're measuring the photon as it passes through that slit. That photon will travel in a straight line (roughly speaking) and hit the wall as if it's a particle. And if you count up other photons that have passed through that slit, they will create one "spot" on the wall, consistent with the particle interpretation. But if you don't identify any specific photons and you just shine a beam of light on the two slits, you don't know which photons pass through which slit. And if look at the pattern that all those photons create on the wall, you'll see an interference pattern, consistent with the wave interpretation. So it's not that you look at it or don't look at it and it changes. It's that you're dealing with two different things. In one case, you're dealing with a beam of light shining at two slits which then hits a wall. In the other, you're dealing with photons travelling from a specific slit to the wall. You "create" the photons as you're measuring them. Before you measure them, they seem to act like a beam of light; they are a beam of light. And if you measure them before they go through the slits, you don't know which slits they will go through (only probabilistically).

Are these similar, or is the text just a blurry blob to you?

They say that a lot I've noticed. I mean like you won't feed it to kids and such. Reasonable regulations.

I say it all the time

It's probably going to be regulated at some point like all drugs.

I guess you don't buy into the concept of Shaktipat then? When I look at and listen to Sadhguru, I see a highly energetic person with contagious energy and a grand vision. I get high degrees of Shakti transmission from him.

You definitely could. Why is this a scam and a lie? You don't need to perform an autopsy if a doctor certifies that the cause of death was natural. In general, autopsy rates are around 5-20% depending on the country. I assume "fan" means "friend". You can't be friends with the head of state when you're among India's most influential people? Again, more "you can't live in the world or be strategic or use your brain when you care about truth". How can you tell?

Try not being enlightened after you've let go of all your attachments.

No. Why are you talking like deconstructing is easy? It's simple, not easy.

So the reason it's not easy is because it's not easy. Great. You were close, but the answer is: they are busy constructing instead of deconstructing. Constructing is easy, deconstructing is hard.

That's Leo's intellectualized deconstruction. For deconstruction to work for Enlightenment, it must be grocked in your very being.