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If you want them to be. That decision is up to you.

@Alexander Goffrier Hmmmm. I personally am not for cutting out eggs, but that's me. I like the protein and lack of carbs, especially in conjunction with some exercise routine. Right now I'm the process of trying to reduce gluten, dairy, soy and corn to eventually zero and then ill be able to test what I'm sensitive to. I'm reading on autoimmune problems from diet, and the author recommends testing your sensitivity to these four things. So far I've only cut out dairy. I've linked a table of the advice Im trying to follow. I took the photo at a retarded angle with my front camera to make the image small enough for me to upload.

@kieranperez I'm pretty sure I have adhd. I know you said that you can't afford getting modafinil, but for me my stock of armodafinil is going to last me a long time because I only use it very occasionally and in small doses. For me armodafanil isn't amazing because I experience side effects like head aches, nausea and anxiety too much but perhaps it will work for you I don't know. It certainly helps me concentrate when I do take it sometimes, but it was by no means a full cure at all. I've found https://www.modafinilstar.com this site to be good, they just have some weird payment method I had to go through of buying a gift card on amazon. This site worked for me fine.

@Guided Perhaps the teacher is saying there comes a point where even the illusion of flux disappears as you enter the present, who knows. And maybe it's like your awareness is becoming closer and closer to some singularity, which is ultimately nothing in the end. I feel like everyone who's done meditation has at least a small glimpse of this.

@Guided The first sentence from that article you linked. Part of this talk about infinite regress leads to me thinking about the old fashioned problem of the "uncaused cause" that you hear in philosophy. Why is there something rather than nothing? On a tangent, when it comes to maths specifically and the example I stated, infinity as a word was used to say "more can be generated". No matter how numbers I write down on paper between x and y, the mathematical language is defined such that I can always generate a new number between x and y no matter how long my list is. Infinity in this sense is a property of the mathematical language. Doing 1 divided by 3 leads to another infinite regress of sorts. If you go through the process of computing it without a calculator and doing it manually, you find yourself writing "3" over and over again due a to a circular loop you have trapped yourself in with concepts. This tangent I went on is besides the point of time. Reality is just inherently non-sensical, with there being something for no reason. All that exists is the present. You are always a present moment experience which "you" did nothing to create. The experience just is. Realising the nature of time is one way to enter the non-dual state, as you see reality to be in a situation which you did nothing to create.

I might have a slightly different train of thought, but its still a representation of my experience with time and change. I've often heard people say time is an illusion, and you can experience this. Something I wonder, is "flux" itself then supposed to be an illusion? Because if all we have is the present moment, then surely it should seem like reality is static (since time is the medium throughout which flux occurs). If time does not exist, then how does any sort of "event" exist? How is reality both simultaneously static and fluid? It's something very hard to put into words, the meditation experiences you've had. On a random tangent, it reminds about how on any given line (let the line represent an interval of time) there are literally an infinite number of points. It doesn't matter how large or small the line is. There are an infinite number of points. And any line can be chopped into an infinite number of lines, with each line having an infinite number of points. This is related to the ideas of continuity and discontinuity in maths. And as far as our first experience is concerned, all of this happening that is reality is coming from nothing and energy is somehow created from nothing.

@now is forever You seem to have a problem with the OP using the word God to describe the true self, but Leo uses that terminology all the time. I haven't seen you argue with him at lengths about it. Theres the classic non-dual idea that everyone is a different mask/expression of God. At the end of the day we're using concepts and concepts are a sloppy imitation of the real thing so maybe you could be a bit more charitable in how you interpret the OP.

I hope so

Pretty much lol

I ate too much pizza today, my stomach feels bloated and is in pain. This is making awakening very hard.

@Commodent @martins name (can't get rid of the @martins name on mobile)

Oh god no. @Good-boy Get a grip OP! Work on becoming woke my nigga. Its what Leo would have wanted ?

Sadhguru claims that when doctors measured his brain waves they thought he was brain dead when he was, in his own words, simply "sitting still" with his eyes closed for 15-20 minutes or so.

@FoxFoxFox Yeah I'm not sure what sort of environment makes someone like that man. The video he uploaded made me physically sick and he sounds borderline psychotic in his manifesto. On to the other point you made about how men are raised. Well the "detachment" that men are traditionally taught is not the same sort of detachment you learn form consciousness work. The word detachment can have different meanings and hence you might confuse what the word means in different contexts. You could probably look at whatever buddhist word people use for detachment, it probably has a more specific meaning for what is meant by detachment in consciousness work. The detachment you learn from Enlightenment work leads to you loving all parts of reality equally. It's about union with reality. Western masculinity has this schizophrenic attitude of "dominating" reality and "conquering" it, rather than becoming in tune with it.

@martins name What I like about Yang is that he seems like someone who can get along with all the different demographics in America. There are significant amounts of dysfunctional blue, dysfunctional orange and even dysfunctional green in America. Since I think Yang is above it all, I think he can push everyone forward. Yang is healthy green and healthy orange fused together imo. I don't know whats the case for Bernie, but I sense a more developed presence from Yang. That's just my two cents.

@Highest ego is just another part of reality, it isn't anymore further from "Truth" then anything else. Ofc you haven't contradicted that, I just feel it worth saying. Even the concepts of "delusion" and "illusion" are thoughts which are as "fictitious" as any other thought. Even the word "fictitious" is but a thought. Since "the ultimate truth" encompasses all words and thoughts you cannot use thoughts to contain and communicate its nature. This has created a paradox by the mere fact I type these thought stories. The ultimate truth cannot be adequetly spoken about, only felt.

@Highest It depends if you find it interesting or not. Everything is an illusion, but what parts of the illusion you find interesting is up to you. @Shadowraix Yeah I 100% agree with you tbh. At a fundamental level I have no scientific understanding of how "information" and "intelligence" works and so I'm ultimately undecided on how close brains and computers are at a literal level, but beyond the literal level the comparison is very true just in the realm of thinking about self actualisation. @Serotoninluv Yeah his dollar bill thought experiment was stupid. The largest stretch of a conclusion I derive from everything he said about that experiment is that even if a human brain were to "be like" a computer it would obviously be very different in important ways. The absence of having a photographic memory doesn't invalidate the brain to computer comparison at all. Yes exactly. It was indeed an argument from ignorance. It reminds me of religious people who demand that you have every single existing unknown be explained in scientific terms before they accept science, rather than looking at the knowns science has given. A religious fundamentalist might ask "how do randomly moving molecules form biological life" and the absence of an answer gives them justification to say that it must be God.

I dont think its possible to be weak in beige. As I understand it beige is the lowest common denominator, your starting point. But even if you say "If you weakest link is at purple, your development is actually at purple." I still think thats wrong. Peoples development is multifaceted and are multiple stages at a time. Yes

yeah true.

Quote by Noel Ignatiev. Pathological green at its worst, quite reminiscent of blue. Perhaps it is blue. The label you give such a thing is perhaps arbitrary anyway.

#YangGang

A student once asked his teacher, "Master, what is Enlightenment?" The master replied, "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep."

@Aakash Sam Harris recently deleted and re-uploaded all of his YouTube videos within the span of a month, and so his view count has been messed up because of it. His previous podcasts have way more views than what is written on YouTube.

@Arcangelo Ah yes it was a massive burden off of my chest, but instead of my mind ruminating about whether I was sinful or ruminating about whether God exists, it ruminates about other things. Such is life.

@Jed Vassallo If most of what's written in that article is true, it would seem that at the very least Mooji is getting a few personal advantages from his followers if he's sleeping with them. Being enlightened has no direct relation to ethics, so this wouldn't surprise me. I can't say I have a good enough understanding about psychology and people to say whether sleeping with your students is always bad as a guru. Sex is a complicated thing. I can understand people having very great love and admiration for a guru. It's just something which can happen. And the article insinuated that these rituals they do are bad, but I think it could perhaps be the case these rituals are just like any other spiritual practice but the author of the article is twisting it. Nothing wrong with rituals. One thing I hope is not the case is that these followers have their non-dual experiences and emotions connected to some delusional belief structure. Back when I was still a Muslim, there were times when through deep prayer I'd feel very strong emotions due to a 100% conviction in the idea that all of reality is inherently good thanks to God and the existence of the afterlife. But looking back, those states I reached were attached to something external and phony in a sort of way. That isn't to say those states were not profound and meaningful, just that they partially arose from a place of delusion. And so whilst devotion is obviously powerful, I am extremely skeptical of people who would justify followers of a Guru to think that their Guru is some lofty, divine, infallible figure. That is just pure stage blue territory. And if a Guru is just teaching his followers to look inwards and do practices, I don't see why the followers should then think their Guru is a literal God in the duality sense of the word. The same way current christians might think of Jesus as being a God separate and above them. Ofc I don't know whats really the case for Mooji. But if he is encouraging his followers to worship him and do gestures of respect I would be suspicious. But if a guru is instead encouraging his followers to instead hug him and he hugs them back thats obviously different. Mooji doesn't be having to be telling his followers that he is some divine, infallible figure who is above them. It could always be much subtler, as the dynamics of any group are nuanced with shades of grey. There could still be cultish dynamics where Mooji is treated like a messiah. But then again, feeling of admiration for a person who's changed your life would be powerful enough to the point where you love that person completely and utterly and it would be natural. Regardless of what's the case, still listen to his teachings if they're good regardless of whats true about his life.