Carl-Richard

This is the cutest post I've seen I love forum newbies.

The only thing you can really trust is that everything is an illusion

I'm not an expert, but the way I see it is that you can condition a specific contradictory response to something if it comes from a higher mental level. It's essentially a mental desire being fullfilled instead of a physical one, and that can cause a lot of pleasure aswell. Arousal associated with the mental anticipation before/during sex is a very big part of the experience, more so for women than men apparenty.

"Becoming aware of the breath" is just a trick to pull your mind away from compulsive thinking and focusing it on an object in awareness. However, awareness is much wider than the object in focus. If the mind is able to quieten itself naturally without having to constantly recalibrate its focus, then you'll start to experience the "spaciousness" of awareness, which is essentially awareness in its base form: undirected raw experience. This awareness is synonymous with consciousness. "Becoming aware" is only done in order to condition an unruly mind. If the mind subsides on its own, then there is nothing to "become" aware to. Awareness is all there is.

Happenstance, repeated exposure and habituation. You've essentially been conditioned by your environment to prefer certain types of familiar stimuli over others. Whatever you entertain, you'll strengthen your connection to that thing, and you also get more used to it. You're also naturally more inclined to some things than others. This is why people have so many different hobbies. Your ability to derive pleasure from something is completely relative to previous experiences. This is why some rich dude can feel depressed while getting a blowjob on a 50 millon dollar yatch and why some buddhist ascetic can feel the pleasure of 100 orgasms just staring into a concrete wall.

"The relative/absolute fallacy": conflating the relative with the absolute. Most contradictions and confusion of terms in spirituality stem from this.

and here we go...

Idk LOL. It's the weirdest thing I've written on here, I spent like 2 minutes giggling afterwards

We're not a turquoise majority forum

Turquoise on the outside, pink on the inside

For me, one thing that makes SD convincing is how it aligns with the broad themes of human history: how we evolved from tribes (purple), to empires (red), to nation states (blue), liberal societies (orange), inclusive societies (green) etc.. If human history is a reflection of human development on a collective level, and given that a collective is made up of individuals, then it's not unfair to expect that the model would apply to the development of individuals.

Not if you do airplane drops

Trump is Hillary.

It's also a mark of a naive mind to think holding that as a belief will be enough to protect yourself from self-deception and bias

If somebody like Trump gets elected, then there is no way somebody like Leo could get elected, not in a million years.

You'll really just have to get used to this. Most people aren't interested in self-improvement, so naturally they'll most likely not be very developed, and you're just going to keep growing as time passes. Then again, you're still young, so time is on your side. Maybe tomorrow you'll find somebody that can resonate with you .

@Ibraheem From what you wrote, it seems like you do have some disagreement with the person and that is what is causing the anger, which is totally normal. One way to solve the anger issue would be to really investigate the nature of disagreements. Everyone has a set of beliefs that they want to defend, justify and promote, and you can't really blame them: it's just survival. Another way would be to meditate and train yourself to catch the thoughts that are causing the anger, and that will tend to shorten the duration of the anger or keep it from happening at all.

Do you in some way dislike or disagree with gay people?

@Robi Steel Would you say that green communists are worse than neo-nazis?

I would expect tier 2 people to be more able to deal with other people in tier 1 than a tier 1 person would. That is kinda the character of tier 2: seeing more similarities than differences, understanding people's perspectives and meeting them where they're at. But then again, it can still be hard when you feel that somebody can't relate to your deepest interests or reciprocate that same level of understanding. Good relationships are born out of synergy, and that could be what you feel that you're missing. As for a solution, I'm not very sure what you can do other than trying your luck in places where you'll find the most high consciousness people, which is not really advice but rather encouragement to keep going at it.

You have a tendency to get hung up on the particular meaning of words lol. What is creating that?