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@Joseph Maynor life purpose is the shit my dude. @Hellspeed I can't say I can exactly "verify" whether what you're saying is physically true but I suppose that doesn't really matter or change anything for what I should go overall. Namaste. @Shadowraix yeah purification feels like a weird place to be. Ive been doing strong determination sitting recently and on some level it feels like "forcing it" but on some truer level I know it's the thing for me to be doing since it's about me exploring and seeing what's true about my experience. @winterknight yeah, who is the one asking the question eh. @Serotoninluv ikr.

High consciousness, is supposed to effortless in some sense, its supposed to just be about "being". It's about stopping the activity of obsessive/neurotic thoughts. But how can one actually just "be"? Any sort of meditation effort/practice is accompanied by a sense of exertion, a sense forcing. Yet meditation is supposed to be about not forcing. So it feels as though, no matter which way I look, no matter what I do, I can't go or get anywhere. It's a double bind with no logical escape, a paradox. No matter which way I turn, no matter what I do, I've conceptualised/created a trap.

@Truth Addict Leo's deluded, the sky is blue, objects fall under gravity and the birds sing. Beautiful isn't it.

Thanks for all the replies I can get with this. Yeah, it really is about just doing it as much as possible. And when a high state is reached, one just has the urge to be silent. Good advice. The Kriya Yoga book I was reading talked about there being chakra stuck in the lower parts of your body and its a goal to bring that chakra all the way from the bottom to every part to the top. Why do you specifically refer to the first 5 chakras and not the other 2?(I assume its the 2 on the head you're leaving out) Yeah the trap does get bypassed, even if it only is temporarily and partially. It is inexplicable why/how, it just does. Hell, in the domain of the absolute there wasn't even a past moment when you were in illusion. Since it only is now.

@Hardkill I mean it depends on what the leader's role is, what their responsibility to their group is and what their social position represents. The leader of an aggressive group of teenagers who are disobedient? A strong masculine fist is the only thing to keep that in line. For basically any other role I don't think it matters, since not all leaders need to scare the shit out of their followers and threaten them with violence.

gg Oh shit I shouldn't have replied to this thread so soon, now people won't see Leo is the last reply and get excited.

@Harikrishnan Yeah, not to be arrogant but I'd describe my teenage self as someone who was intelligent blue for a period of time so I can feel I can spot it. Quite a few of my family members and other muslims I know are very well educated and etc but still very much religious and stuck in their ways. I've been around and talked to a lot of muslims. By the time I was 13 I was questioning Islam, the only way I kept myself into it for a bit was to research supposed miracles of the Quran, listen to lots of muslim arguments and videos, try to form a logical mathematical proof of sorts in my mind saying "There is 100% proof Islam is the truth". I'm probably Orange now. I know it's my lack of imagination which makes me say this, but I just find it so surprising when I see these clever fully matured adults who don't see the farce of fundamentalist religion since I snapped out the illusion as a teenager. And the funniest irony of all, is that I know this person who liked to bring up this quote from the Quran as part of a discussion about the ignorance of the world in general spiritually and politically. The thing is, that guy is repeating the same exact mistake of those he criticises. 99% of muslims are fundamentalist. I'm not talking about the wikipedia definition of "Islamic fundamentalism", I mean this definition "a person who believes in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture in a religion.". Everything in the Quran is to be interpreted as the infallible words of god himself, only thing to be debated is a few contextual issues but that's about it. This guy is no different. With that sort of blockage in your thought process, your growth will forever be capped. There's a very large youtube community of muslims in general. You only have to watch 1 or 2 videos of these videos by popular channels to know what sort of community it is. Nah this is my first post, if you're referring to me lol.

Not yellow at all. He's intelligent blue, with maybe some orange. I just watched another one of his videos. I've talked to intelligent blue people before.

Who is it that wants to watch the new video?

@ValiantSalvatore Yeah one of the truest things Alan Watts said about getting a job is to find a way to get paid for playing around.

@Mezanti Yeah it shouldn't be rocket science. Just give someone normal, self help advice independent of non-duality but also give them non-duality advice. I know that's what I want. The dynamic of asking questions and getting answers on this forum differs from that of a student asking his zen master for a question. In order for the student to be a student, he has to go through intense practices, prove his commitment to the task of getting enlightenment. Therefore when a student asks his zen master for advice or a question, the student is seeking specifically for a non-dual answer. That isn't the case in on this forum. We just have a bunch of people on the internet. Talking about non-duality is a minefield, must be done carefully. I like instructions of practice or very common traps/experiences to be focuses of discussions, rather than too much conceptualising. This isn't to say I think talking about non-duality is wrong or to assert what people should be talking about at all, I just stating what my current preferences are in terms of what interests me or bores me. If you want to read something on non-duality, listen to Leo or read a non-duality book. The Book of Not Knowing, Kriya Secrets Revealed and whatever other books you want. Imma probably keep reading Peter Ralston for now.

On the bright side I'll have two doses of spiritual crack 5 days apart.

@d0ornokey I fit mine reasonably well. MBTI is a somewhat good rule of thumb, not divine revelation. Examining the cognitive functions, different axes, different dichotimies in typology is explanatory to a degree of people and yourself. But in all honestly I haven't found much of a use for it. I found it interesting and useful when I first heard about it and the information was novel to me, as it gave me mental reassurance/validation that it's ok to be different from the majority. A while ago I made this playlist of good videos on MBTI for myself to watch. The first video and second video in the playlist overlap in material, otherwise its pretty good. If you want to learn how to determine someone's cognitive functions from their 4 letters it's pretty easy. But just know that you can't do a simple/linear reading of the order in which the functions are someone's stack and expect to understand someone in a reductionistic way. There's a good video series on each type as well

@Ponder Yeah I've basically listened to all the content he has at this point. I'm yet to see someone who could so eloquently describe non-duality, honestly his explanations were so good and so clear. I've listened to him so many times I need to move on. Recently however I've found myself becoming more obsessed with Peter Ralston as I've now started reading his book properly. I really like Mooji as well.

@Fountainbleu Its a bit odd for you to be so sensitive to even green tea and not be able to handle it.

This @Beard When you enter a state beyond all concepts and words, you'll see.

@Shaun

None of the above. Me telling you that gives you more information about my age funny enough @7thLetter

@Serotoninluv To make an observation of something the observer has to interact with it in some way, otherwise the observer will remain in a state of not having an observation. This is a no duh statement. I suppose a question I've had about Quantum Mechanics is what is the nature of the observation, what sort of interaction is going on. When I first heard of quantum mechanics I initially thought that in order to do the observation, we are interacting with a system in some blatantly coarse, physical way which directly changes the state of the system. Like if you physically touch something you change the state of that something, and I thought something like that was going on. But it seems that is not the case, and if there is some interaction between the observer and observed it's not as simple as that. I remember the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment being interesting.

Who's right? To say someone is right and say someone else is wrong, we have to construct some sense of objective reality. With our normal scientific assumptions, most people would just say "the guru wasn't levitating but his mind gave him the illusion that he was" as a consequence of deeming the camera to be an accurate measure of objective reality. When it comes to contemplating things and etc, perhaps one of the best things you can do is look at the world with a high consciousness clarity and muted monkey mind. The type of clarity which is just totally present with everything in your experience. You've experienced this before and know what it looks like. Like when it comes to what clarity might look like, one example I find easy to write about is just about looking at your thoughts. With clarity you feel and notice your thoughts to be just random noises like the noises you might hear outside (e.g. birds chirping). You don't "identify" with them in some sense. It's that sort of clarity and direct connection to reality which is ideal it seems. I'm working on trying to not fall in the trap of letting non-identification become an excuse to become dispassionate about life, rather high consciousness should be about exploring every aspect of my experience and being. But beyond high consciousness, there's still plenty for you to discover in some sense when we talk about the realm of the relative I think. And so thinking and etc are used in the domain of the relative, which is what we need.

@Ferdi Le SD seems to offer a very loose framework for understanding the why and what of human thoughts, emotions and behaviour. In it one gets the impression that people are the way they are because that's how nature is. There is no moralistic reason for why people are the way they are, they are just the way they are. If you want to stop getting triggered by people and having emotional clarity, meditation/yoga is always best.

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Watch this if you want bitches. I'm not watching it rn tho.

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I think for anyone who's decently put together, emotionally calm they have a choice in getting overwhelmed. I am not this however so my mind/emotions just become a bit neurotic when I don't like the vibes. Like all emotions and mental states you find yourself in, its all about what you cause yourself to feel. So you're in an atmosphere for example, something feels off/lacking/dry about the people you're talking to, and then your mind/body just enters fantasy mode in reaction. I think the thing which can frequently feel off/lacking is the sensation that many people around you are inauthentic, blocked or clunky in some way. I feel it goes beyond whether someone is warm or cold. No I don't think I'm able to manipulate people through charm and charisma. I'm a nerd.