Carl-Richard

Who is this duality? ?

Yo mooji is so 2015.

Every other forum member has spiritual quotes in their signature. I think you're obsessing over a trivial point. The truth is that everybody who is not already awake misunderstands all of spirituality 99% of the time anyway. The method has always been to throw as much you can at the wall until it sticks. You see this with every guru or teacher. They have to keep trying and trying because the students never get it. You're essentially saying it's possible to word yourself in such a way that everybody will understand. Well if that was the case, then everybody would've been enlightened by now.

Do you have something that supports your back?

Idk. It's deeply ingrained in our culture (nowadays it's seen more as a joke). It think it stems from when we went from being in a union with Denmark to being with Sweden in 1814, and we didn't want to assimilate with the Swedish culture. We actually didn't become a sovereign nation before 1905.

Where do you usually sit?

Us Norwegians look at Sweden with pity and spite

Pride crosswalk in front of my local university in Norway:

Lol no?

Do you feel like you're dying when this happens? Do you ever fear for your sanity when this happens? Do you lose all control and sense of reality? Then you're 0.001% of the way there.

Sit down, close your eyes and observe these thoughts for a while. Just watch them like you would when watching a movie. They are simply thoughts; birds chirping in the wind, leaves falling from a tree, dogs barking at a car, cars driving down a road.

One word: ego backlash.

Survival is based on the proliferation of differences, the truth of impermanence, the evolutionary impulse, the ever-changing nature of the universe. Without differences, without change, without evolution, the universe cannot express itself through form.

It's the Jordan Peterson mentality: if you love yourself just as you are, you have no incentive to become a better person. It's a result of stage blue, conventional, masculine, black-and-white, absolutistic thinking. What they don't understand is that the only way you become a better person is actually through self-love. They just don't want to do it consciously, because they see it as two contradictory perspectives. It IS possible to love yourself and still be striving to be a better person. They're actually the same thing.

Doomer

Express yourself.

Red strategy: war. Orange strategy: winning.

You forgot to quote Leo.

It's exactly like that. It's the ultimate feeling of nostalgia. It's the most familiar thing you've ever known. It's you.

Not going to brag, but I've also done that a couple of times before and I wrote it all again word for word. If it really is a truthful expression of yourself, then you should be able to reconstruct it (or atleast that is how I work. Idk if it's an INFP thing). You have to die. "The suffering of school" is nothing compared to letting go of everything you've ever known. You might have heard about Dr. Alok Kanojia from https://www.twitch.tv/healthygamer_gg. He told the story of how he became a psychiatrist, and before he decided to start med school, he travelled to India to become a monk, because he thought he was a loser with a video game addiction, had bad grades and nothing going for him. The monk's were all highly trained academics and they recommended him to finish med school and then see if he wanted to pursue enlightenment again. They said that pursuing enlightenment is harder than going to school. He did his residency at Harvard medical school and never went back to India. https://kanojiapsychiatry.com/about/ You will not get enlightened just because your life depends on it. It only comes when you don't need anything. Becoming an uneducated homeless person is only to shoot yourself in the foot. It gives a veneer of simplifying your life but actually it just complicates your life. You also seem to have a romanticized picture of homelessness which is a combination of your privilege and your spiritual beliefs. I'm from Scandinavia myself so I'm not saying this to shame you or anything. Just realize that there is a reason why people don't want to be homeless. Maybe you can try it out for a while to teach yourself a lesson, but please don't skip school. I did as little I could to pass high school and I regret every second of it now as a 23 year old who has barely started going to university.

You shouldn't exit society when you haven't even entered it yet. Becoming enlightened is harder than going to school.

Light it up but don't burn it to the ground.