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  1. @Edogowa Conan Yeah I've seen the masked arab before lmao. Points out contradictions in fundamentalist islam.
  2. When it comes to hearing sounds, it is possible for there to be silence. This silence is the absence of sound and so when there is silence you'd be at "zero" on a some imaginary map which models sound. Seeing on the other hand seems different. Whenever we are conscious (and are not dead or in deep asleep) there is never a "zero" experience of seeing. With scientific terms you can say "black is the absence of colour", however that statement is true because the terms in that sentence have not been defined in a way which addresses how vision is in our first person experience (the statement in quotation marks is based upon considering how visible light is absorbed by objects). My point is, black is not a "zero" experience. Black is a distinct colour which you can see, whilst silence on the other hand is like a zero. I was thinking about this the other day after meditating. All of our senses are so different from each other in essence and the essence of everything in our present moment experience is irreducible. I was wondering what having a new, 6th sense would be like (the same way hearing, smelling and seeing are different senses). A blind person from birth is literally seeing black but is unaware of it because he has never been exposed to more than one expression of his sight. A deaf person from birth on the other hand is literally at a zero point for hearing. And so supposing that there do exist possible extra senses which we do not recognise/have, I wonder whether it is that we are experiencing zero (like a deaf person) or whether it is that we are constantly experiencing just one expression of this sense and are hence unable to recognize this sense (like a blind person).
  3. @MM1988 But let me ask you, from where does the intention/want to think of something specific come from? Lets suppose I've decided that I'm going to keep on thinking about the names of different cities. How did that decision arise? Consider how much control ''you'' really have in your mind choosing to (focus on)/(think about) a particular thing. Be mindful of your present moment experience, you should start to notice how spontaneous and groundless reality is. In your present moment, there is no past or causality. There is this present moment experience and you've done nothing to create it. For as long as you can maintain high levels of awareness you will be in a state of " Wu Wei " to a degree, where all action you take is effortless due to you having little resistance. A thought related to Wu Wei, If someone is to truly live and breathe non-duality they should find no amount of exertion of their physical body to be mentally fatiguing because the distinction between self and other is gone. That's why exercise and discomfort is good for enlightenment work imo as well if you are mindfull of pain and push yourself.
  4. A useless concept.
  5. @Telepresent The thing is I do not know the cause for there to a lack of a zero position for vision, or any other conceivable sense in animals, when we are conscious. It seems complicated scientifically to answer hence even if sharks are constantly experiencing something non-zero in regards to electromagnetic senses I cannot then conclude that we experience something non-zero and are unable to recognise it. A shark canexperience garp but idk if we are experiencing garp. And supposing we are experiencing garp, I'd say that garp is just something we cannot recognise even though it is there. It would be like a constant of our experience. @Leo Gura good reminder.
  6. I feel this is a game if semantics to discuss whether blind people are seeing anything. If my online research is correct, there is black but they do not recognise it. If you want a scientific explanation, we see black when rods and cones in the back of our eyes are not stimulated. Blindness as far as I know is 99.99% of the time a disorder of the eye and optic nerve rather than a disorder of the brain, and so having our rods and cones completely unstimulated gives our brain the same data as the data a completely blind person receives in their brain.
  7. @Saumaya itachi > sasuke.
  8. @SageModeAustin Why is water wet?
  9. @Joseph Maynor Yeah I agree. If I was in Leo's position I could see motivation not fuelled by offence/annoyance to what he does. Leo was wrong to say he'd ban people purely for saying "You are not God", but I'd understand if he wants to ban people who are very argumentative and arrogant in their discussions because thats toxic.
  10. So there's this stretch I do before/after meditating. I discovered it when I was a kid trying to fix my hunch back a few years ago. I've found that from doing it, my mind is calmer and focused. Sit on the floor with your legs crossed, however you want to. Put your arms behind your back clasp your hands together with fingers interlocking. Now whilst keeping your back as straight as you can, and keeping your hands together, pull your shoulders and arms out as far out away from your back as you can. You can alternate between having your hands vertically aligned with your butt and having them vertical aligned with your upper back. The important part is that you're extending your arms, with your hands together and fingers interlocking, and shoulders as far back as you can. The angle isn't too important. Pour your heart in soul into exerting yourself with this stretch. Keep doing this for a few minutes and you should feel a burning/tingling feeling in your forearms and shoulders. You've now hit the jack pot. Keep this stretch up for as long as you can, and the longer you can hold it the better the effect. Once the stretch is over, tell me how you feel.

  11. lmfao replied to lmfao's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Ah it's been almost three weeks now since I've moved out to university. My sleeping pattern is in dissary, and for the first week of when I moved in I barely meditated due to stress and being preoccupied. I still have my problems with Internet addiction, I don't know how to deal with it. I don't know whether weaning off of wasteful technology use is even possible for me. When I get a small taste of distraction/stimulation from the technology I can't help but go all and drown my awareness. My conciousness levels is too much like a yo-yo. I think the only solution is to bite the bullet of cold turkey. I guess I should leave this distracting forum for now lol as well. In terms of technology, I'll limit it to a few things: important communication with others, education and reading and maybe music. I'll also let myself to occasionally listen to Alan Watts or Leo's weekly videos. Video games, porn, YouTube and Netflix is the bane of my existence.
  12. @Jacko yeah boi. @Nahm I don't understand what you mean. You advising that I take smaller steps or larger steps?
  13. @sneha reverse the question. Why would you not have the right to live?
  14. For people who say "you are not God", I think a problem only arises when the person saying this creates a very toxic discussion, especially if the person uses many fallacies and emotional nonsense.
  15. @Leo Gura can banned people read the messages you send them? I sent a message to source mystic but it seems pointless now cuz he's banned lol.
  16. @Source_Mystic am I correct in thinking that the main reason you don't like Leo is that you think he's too much of an intellectual for Enlightenment? In what ways do you think Leo has conceptualised Enlightenment too much (you don't have to type a massive essay in response). You can respond to me in PM's if you want.

  17. Activism

    lmfao replied to Charlotte's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Charlotte Enlightenment does not neccisitate that you care about the suffering of others. The degree to which you care about other people and the degree to which you are enlightened can be very different from each other although I speculate that they are often similar to each other. Imagine spiral dynamics stage red/orange on conciousness work, for example.

  18. Activism

    lmfao replied to Charlotte's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Charlotte Yes the suffering of others would still continue.
  19. @Jaddo This is the problem everyone has. I'm not saying it's "easy" at all, but if you can see your thoughts as just another part of the the one happening that is reality then the problems associated with thought should start to leave. What I mean by this is that you enter a state where you feel your thoughts are as much as you as every other part of reality (the sights and sounds in the external world, actions of other people). What I've noticed for myself is that if im trying to deeply meditate the ego will scream and yell in discomfort, and "you" have to stop acting upon the explosive thoughts and impulses. To stop getting absorbed in your thoughts, awareness alone is curative. In an ideal world this process of overcoming your negative thoughts is 100% passive and unforceful, but I feel that in practice you have to antagonize the "bad" sides of you to a degree because letting go of your ego in one shot often doesn't work.

  20. Activism

    lmfao replied to Charlotte's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Charlotte If we say that to be awakened is to realize how life is game, you can still take part in the game whilst being detached from the consequences. activism is just another part of the game, right?
  21. @kieranperez I remember hearing Alan Watts and maybe Jed Mckenna talk about this. One message you can take away from the Adam and Eve story is that once humans developed the ability to be self conscious and think about the future they fell from their naturally high consciousness state. Before self conciousness and the ability to recognise our place as individuals in the world, we automatically had no resistance to anything we experienced.
  23. @How to be wise I've watched those videos, they're pretty good. Bear in mind that everyone learns things differently. The maths in this video is no more "actual" than other sources of math, it's just that the video tries to develop your intuition. @non_nothing Yeah F=ma is still correct even in the cases where mass is not constant, you just have to bear in mind that mass is a function of time.
  24. I can't be the only one who laughed when seeing this title, if you know what I mean.
  25. PREACH