Carl-Richard

Translation for non-French people: "When I'm hungry, I crave cardiac arrest" 🤣.

Reason and human imagination grants the ability of conceiving of an unknown separate from what is immediately known (Being), which allows you to postulate something outside of what is right here, right now, which makes Being only absolute with respect to the known. But that is not in itself to argue in favor of any particular unknown more than any other. The unknown could be anything. Being could be limited and outside of it rests a pink elephant, but you can't argue for that absolutely; it might as well be green, or yellow, or a bird. And if that is the case, why bother with it?

We're living in a more dark and twisted version of the movie Wall-E.

I look at small kids today the same way I look at the cockroaches you poured energy drinks on for fun when you were a dumb teenager. They're like small Frankenstein monsters wired out of their minds.

You just described stereotypical New Age. New Age in general is the individualistic "assemble your own spirituality" (which you in reality just got pre-packaged from some YouTube guru, hence how different from religion is it really?). What I described as "stereotypical New Age" (presumably "false spirituality"; I didn't watch the video), seems to fall under the two first categories below, while the "true spirituality" New Age falls under the last category: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age

AI therapists, AI porn, AI-generated educational videos. We're screwed.

Think of it this way: do you think your own IQ would decrease if you went to church and sang songs every Sunday instead of raking your brain over the same TikTok brainrot you usually do? Fun fact: singing in a group is actually a powerful meditative tool (and meditation, believe it or not, is associated with higher IQ). See how I have to paint everything with a New Age brush for you to swallow it? It's almost like you're religious...

Are you are able to just sit, for 1 hour, 2 hours, maybe even 6 hours? If not, why? Is it because of your thoughts? Let go of the thoughts. Is it because of something you have to do? Let go of it. If you are unable to let go of these things, why? 1. Is your attention seemingly drifting outside your awareness, back to thoughts, back to things you have to do? Focus your attention on an object (the breath counts). 2. Does your physical body hurt when sitting for that long? Learn to sit better (fix your posture, fix your seat, fix your legs, fix your breathing). Does it still hurt? Take a break; rest is important. 3. Are your thoughts sticky and associated with unresolved emotions, problems, scenarios? Fix the source, either by solving the problem or planning how you will pursue solving the problem, or drop it, give it up. To give it up, when the thoughts arise, tell yourself that whatever happens, you will be ok. Here you go, I just derived meditation for you.

What's the point of being Enlightened?

Or genetic freaks who just sit down and suddenly hours pass without them noticing.

I haven't tried it yet myself. What you got? Oh that's right, you don't eat vegan food.

Yet some "humans" sit still for 13 days without needing those things.

Is that really impossible though?

Spirituality is the practice of adopting a spiritual ego and then deconstructing it. If you are aware of this process, you will save yourself a lot of self-deception. You will also be more accepting and less reactive (less egoic) about the spiritual process. This also means that all tools, be it intellect or feeling, are accepted and not neglected, as they are seen as an inevitable part of the process and also that it must all be let go off in the end. To react strongly to these things is ego. Accepting them and eventually letting them go avoids excessive and self-referential/meta ego (which is the messy kind).

@all Do you guys still not understand that you have to give up everything? It's so simple it's tragicomical.

Stereotypically "religious" people are as stupid as stereotypically New Age spiritual/religious people. And this forum is New Age. That is not to say stereotypically New Age — that's of course reserved to the "nothing but" (which is a fallacy; they also tend to engage in "legitimate" spiritual practices) crystal healing, spirit channeling, Tarot reading, charka cleansing, feelgood, grounding, Burning Man, natural living people. But still, this forum is New Age. Also, separating spirituality from religion conceptually in a way that is not trivial is hard. Chances are, if you find somebody you look up to who classifies themselves as religious, and even somebody who favors specific denominations (my favorite example is Rupert Sheldrake, but my bachelor advisor was the same), you will quickly not want to categorize all religious people under the stereotypically "religious" label. You will notice that the term is so wide that it could include almost anything, and that those you find "stupid" are stupid for other reasons, and often systematic ones: dogmatism, closemindedness, single-mindedness, lack of pluralism, lack of multi-perspectivalism, rigidity.

Again, (severe) dimwits don't do spiritual practice, don't pursue spiritual traditions, don't do spirituality. The intellect is a tool, just like intuition, feeling, heart, that can be used by the ego, or by God. Enlightened beings, the ones who like to use their intellect, tend to have massive intellects.

I had some severely decent earwax buildup from sleeping with earplugs for over 5 years and not getting my ears emptied out. It was pretty bad because I often had trouble hearing what people were saying if there was a lot of environmental noise. And music always sounded a bit muffled (not to mention one ear more than the other), so that alone was a good reason to get them cleaned out. I initially bought some DIY ear cleaning device from Temu which broke after 3 days — who would have thought that could happen? — and I made some decent progress in cleaning (but I don't recommend it because you can easily hurt yourself), but I eventually got them cleaned out by a doctor (my mom lol) by flushing them. It only took 10 minutes from entering the office and doctor preparing everything and removing all of it. Here is the before and after hearing test using an app on my phone: Before: After: (It seems like I registered O dB according to the chart at 2000 Hz on the after test. Maybe I hallucinated that one, or maybe not). I highly recommend it. Music is so amazing now and I can actually hear people talking to me and things outside when walking.

A.k.a. intellect is useful for spiritual practice. And if you were a dimwit, you wouldn't make this subtle distinction between practicing and dropping the practice. The act of meditating itself is the biggest game of 4D Chess, partly because you have to deconstruct the intellect itself, partly because meditation is meant to be effortless but you're also seemingly making an effort. But having a duller intellect doesn't help with that. You also have to deconstruct the dull intellect, and that's a task when you're essentially dealing with an unruly mule on top of having to deconstruct it. Being a worse Chess player, again, just means you have to rely more on intuition, karma, and luck, as in cases like Nisargadatta Maharaj @UnbornTao. Yes, it's indeed possible to awaken spontaneously without any practice, without any insight or knowledge virtually into anything. But if you don't want to be a literal leaf blowing in the wind, you should not create a blockage against using your intellect. You cannot afford shooting yourself in the foot the very least bit. You're incredibly privileged to have a mind that doesn't just break into nonsense when it encounters a slightly difficult problem.

Notice that people who are intellectually disabled do not engage in spiritual practices. Where does intellect stop being important?

Spiritual practice happens in the relative. Logic, distinctions, happens in the relative. If you're a dimwit, you will struggle with those things, unless your intuition and karma carries you. If you're a person living in a world that otherwise requires you to be intellectual (the West) and you're also advanced spiritually, it's expected that you will be above average in intellect.

If you're unable to make fine distinctions or use logic, that certainly doesn't help you, with anything, except being a dimwit.

Being "spiritual" is easy when will, environment and circumstance are aligned.

It usually follows.