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    Let go of your attachments — don't hurt yourself, just let go of yourself.

     

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    Because I don’t want to be here.

    Let go of not wanting to be here.

     

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    Not in this body.

    Let go of not wanting to be in this body. 

     

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    Not in this story.

    Let go of not wanting to be in this story.

     

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    Not as this identity—sexless, aging, suicidal, burnt out, writing endlessly into a void, and watching time bleed out.

    Let go of not wanting to be this identity — sexless, aging, suicidal, burnt out, writing endlessly into a void. Let go of being that identity.

     

    In general, whatever thought that arises in your mind, tell yourself "whatever happens, I will be ok". Once your identity, your "oughts", die down, you will see your identity as that which existed before you were born and which will exist after death.

    But the odds are that once you experience this, you will want to not go all the way and instead pursue those things that you're repressing in the world. You want sex, you want connection, you want things. But it does not hurt to go there. In fact, it might be the only way, other than getting help the other ways you mentioned.

     

     

     

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    4 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

    No there are actually some vegan meals that can taste good.

    But there it's just a bown of lentils with some brocolis and olive oil.

    When i am hungry i crave a big hamburger with french fries and a salade and a big coca cola, or an entrecôte with tartare sauce and aligot (potatoes blended with cheese), a perigord salade with duck and parmesan and bread and goat cheese from the side, cassoulet, blanquette de veau, magret de canard avec pommes de terres sarladaises, rillettes de canard avec pain de campagne...

    Hummmm

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

  8. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    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?

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    16 minutes ago, theleelajoker said:

    I work in education industry. It's scary that many companies are outsourcing educational content creation to AI. Just like that, no responsibility, no bad conscience, no foresight about what the consequences are. It creates low quality bullshit, nobody really gets the stuff, it's mental self castration at it's best. 

    Future generations are gonna be dumb as fuck re critical thinking, creativity and human interaction if we continue on this path as we are doing it now.

    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.

  11. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    The amount of New Age content here is quite low.

    Don't overlook how bad New Age can get. Listen to some truly New Age women on Youtube to see how bad it gets. Demons, entities, astrology, numerology, Satan this, Satan that, 5D this, 4D that, frequencies, vibrations, past lives, aliens, conspiracies, etc. It will make you want to vomit.

    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:

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    Hammer identified much of the New Age as corresponding to the concept of "folk religions" in that it seeks to deal with existential questions regarding subjects like death and disease in "an unsystematic fashion, often through a process of bricolage from already available narratives and rituals".[6] York also heuristically divides the New Age into three broad trends. The first, the social camp, represents groups that primarily seek to bring about social change, while the second, the occult camp, instead focuses on contact with spirit entities and channeling. York's third group, the spiritual camp, represents a middle ground between these two camps that focuses largely on individual development.[36]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age

  13. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    On 16.7.2025 at 3:44 AM, Husseinisdoingfine said:

    By the way, when I say “religious,” I’m particularly referring to those who adhere to Abrahamic religions. I’m mainly talking about normies who follow a traditional religion in a straightforward way—attending church, mosque, or synagogue, praying five times every day, and adhering to prescribed practices—and are totally unfamiliar with mysticism.

    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...

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    1 hour ago, Sugarcoat said:

    I have thought about this too, why do I find it frustrating to sit still for long?

    One thing that comes to mind is that I have impulses. And to resist those impulses seem to cause a certain friction in me that can feel frustrating. Like I’m going against my natural flow, meanwhile following the impulse is me going with my flow.

     It can be the most simple impulse, like the impulse to look around me at the enviroment rather than having my eyes closed. It can be the impulse to say something to someone, the impulse to move my fingers around.

    I think it’s very biological, those impulses seem biological . So us humans are made to be active. We have active minds that are made to get input from external enviroment, to get no input except your own breath and the black under your eyes feels off. 

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

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    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.

  21. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    12 hours ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

    Spiritual or “conscious” people who think they’ve killed their egos have only built an egotistical paradigm where they view themselves as egoless. 

    This very ironically makes them more prone to egotistical behaviour.
    “La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu’il n’existe pas”

    “The finest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist”
    – Charles Baudelaire

    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).

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    13 hours ago, James123 said:

    I, universe, god, infinite, any beliefs (including the enlightenment) can not be so called enlightened. When all these drops then so called enlightenment happens, which is the present moment, now, source. Therefore, so called "speaking" from the source is inevitable.

    Story time ❤️ 

    I was making money from modeling. I had a open heart surgery and lost my career, psychic and money. After that I started to question existence. And started to meditate. While that, I lost my dad and had a seizure. Because of that I have completely dedicated myself for God or Truth. Therefore, start to contemplate, use psychedelics and more meditation, then I have realized that I am infinite, God, everything etc... Moreover, I was diagnosed with ADHD, Major depression and ocd. I was trying let go the ego in order to be god, infinite, knowing everything as in psychedelic state. Than, The last hit came with my son had diagnosed with tachycardia, then I was devastated. All my work, being God, infinite, human, contemplation, being good or bad and meditations etc... were for nothing. After that I have lost all hope, expectations (including breathing or thinking), and let go anything and everything without any expectation (even give up the god, infinite and lost hope of everything). Moreover , I was home, just didn't even hold the body and i fall on the floor. Then rest is come as in the thread. 

    Quotes are deriving in now, which is the source. 

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

  23. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    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.

     

     

  24. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    49 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

    Its not that subtle, literally every serious spiritual tradition talks about it. 

    Again, (severe) dimwits don't do spiritual practice, don't pursue spiritual traditions, don't do spirituality.

     

    49 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

    A nuncanced point is: You have to deconstruct ego, not necessaly intellect. You can have an ego with little to no intellect, and you can have intellect with little to no ego. But this is rare to find.

    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.

  25. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    12 hours ago, Eskilon said:

    Just like a rocket who got to the moon had to drop some of it`s structure to get there, the human has to drop the intellect to develop itself spiritually and eventually awaken. You need intellect to get off the ground but once you get off you need to drop it in spiritual pursuits. 

    Intellect it`s a bridge that has its purpose but needs to be droped to realize certain things. A mean, not the end.

    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.