DocHoliday

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  1. @Annoynymous Alright then, that's great. When I discovered her I also found her to be quite interesting at first and I watched some of her videos, but as time went on I found her to be "too far out there", or too unrelateable. At first, I thought she really might have something I might be missing, but as it turned out that obviously wasn't the case at all. That kinda comes back to the point on relying too much, or even at all, on outside authority. Of course, always be open to what others have to say, but don't delude yourself into thinking that you have to succumb to their prespective, teachings or tenets, since you seem to be somehow inferior to them, which is absolutely not the case.
  2. @Annoynymous What do you say? Leo's oppinion doesn't mean shit. Just as anyone else's. What do you feel while watching her content? Let your intuition guide you.
  3. @Leo Gura Can I get one in pink? That'd be rad! Puts me more in touch with my feminine side for sure.
  4. Additionally, even though I do not have the slightest intention to rail against her, what I've also noticed is that in her videos she always talks and presents herself and the topic and content in a very particular way. I always get the feeling while listening to her that she's trying. Trying to convince the listener of something - and doing so always a little too hard. She's also always rather tense, or at least that's the vibe I'm getting from her. As if she's trying to convey to the viewer something along the lines like "Yeah, you really ought to know that I, Teal Swan, know you better than you know yourself and I'm gonna let you feel it so that you'll take this sufficiently serious and gonna go with what I say".
  5. @Annoynymous Yeah, basically it's very simple. You just have to think for yourself. You can always distill some gold nuggets out of anything somebody may say, despite whether one might like them or not Simply remind yourself of what Sadhguru uses to say: "If it's not in your direct experience, it's not true for you". So there you go:) Take what you need, leave out the rest. Never make yourself reliant on any sort of outside authority. Edit: I gotta say though, now that I took a look into her store... I really wouldn't have thought she would push it that far. The concept behind every single item offered is basically simply exploiting the placebo effect. Of course I have to admit that I don't know if the products really have in inherent effect on its user, but I dare to call bullshit on that. To me, she's exploiting the make-believe of the people who go that far with her.
  6. @MisterMan Oh well, now I’m back on track. And yes, most definitely do experiences of non duality and enlightenment in general fall into the trans rational category. That’s why you can’t intellectually understand them. Nooo way?
  7. @MisterMan I've watched the video too but I've already forgotten what that means specifically. That term is way too fancy for me to understand what it means all on its own [insert crying laughing emoji]
  8. @MisterMan Yes... but once again, there is no other way it couldn’t be like that:) One directly implies the other. It’s not just simply -a- way, that is how it is. “Pure non-duality” would be an impossibility in itself. It would be like the experience of non-existence. It just doesn’t work. Therefore, “to experience itself” as a certain Rupert Spira would say, duality is directly implied in non-duality; and vice versa. But you know what... it’s best to stop talking about it altogether. If it’s not directly experienced on an experiential level then it’s redundant one way or the other.
  9. @Harikrishnan Okay then, as far as the thirst for the videos goes I can certainly relate to that to some extent because I know what you mean by that feeling to perhaps "miss something" essential. But, you gotta see what you're doing by that, namely putting the responsibility for your life and yourself into the hands of other people. It's outside authority that you rely on, to a seemingly unhealthy degree because it robs you of confidence and the ability to assess situations for yourself. I don't know man, it's always so difficult to find the right thing to say when you have to work with not a lot of information on the person you're trying to give advice to. Fact is, you need to find balance. But I think you have to look for yourself as to what it's gonna be that will give that to you. And if it's not balance that you need, then you need to unravel the "shadow-side" to your addiction.
  10. Thinking that stuff really matters. Thinking that you matter - in the grand scheme of everything. I've posted a post some time ago now titled "there is no you required". You see, life happens the way it does no matter whether there is a you involved or not. I don't know if you get what I mean by that, but my advice to you is to take yourself more and more out of the equation of life:) Think of it in the analogy of the rower and the sailor. Both will get where they want to in the end but the difference between them is that the rower completely exhausted himself in trying to take control over the boat the whole time whereas the sailor simply let his boat flow. Surely the importance for balance has to be accentuated, as for any undergoing in life, but I think you get the point. Be the sailor when things are getting too tight and rigid - and be the rower when there is more need for clear definition and direction. Edit: The true art, though, is to simultaneously be neither one of them. (That's coming back to the point of taking yourself out of the equation)
  11. Ok then, so do you actually have a bigger issue with your phone itself or with your endless thirst for Pers.Dev. videos?
  12. Don’t believe what you think?. If you actually expect to get better results from escaping to another forum (that’s still located on the internet anyway, just like anything else that’s non-locally accessible) then you’re just full of shit. ...as we all are to varying degrees, but please, become aware of how you’re kidding yourself.
  13. To raise a discussion about this “issue” is irrelevant. It’s all based upon subjective evaluation anyway. Either one gets something out of what he’s presenting, or one doesn’t. If one doesn’t, then he ought leave the whole thing alone, but to classify someone as a scammer or other things of that nature is generally simply a sign that it goes against one’s own (self) agenda. Now if that is the case, then one might argue who’s in the right or who’s “more true”. See, it’s all based upon real Truth at the end of the day. And to find out what’s true... well that’s everyone’s own business.
  14. For all the time you seem to be more or less wasting watching more and more YouTube videos, go outside. Just take some nice walks and/or talk to some strangers. Then you could also actually put to use all the things you have mentally gathered so far. Strangers will teach you far far far far far far far far faaaaaar more than any YT video ever could. And you know why? Direct experience. As you said it yourself, being chained to- and bound by your phone addiction, all that it is is an excuse and an escape from the fear or just sheer unwillingness to expose yourself to direct experience. ?
  15. @TheAvatarState ??
  16. @TheAvatarState I don't know, in some weird way of thinking about this, this might make sense. Obviously the point of motivation from which one might decide to overcome fear can be completely individual and different every time, that's correct. But I can't really see how you thus conclude that the meme suggested what you thought it suggested. All that I wanted to get to with it is to point out the fact that if you wish to not fear anymore, you can't run away from it or distance yourself and thereby delude yourself into thinking that you now overcame it. It has to be invited in and accepted for what it is for it to be "elimiated".
  17. @TheAvatarState Sure, why not. Edit: But be careful with what you call "love". True love is absolutely selfless. What many people call love is actually just desire, need or want disguised as "love".
  18. @MisterMan You don’t even have any other choice than doing so. What else besides duality would you use to “find” unity?? (quotation marks implying that it’s not something separate or additional to duality, of course) If you haven’t experienced unity ever before, all you have is duality. But of course, as Leo pointed out, you have to go full circle to see that there really was no difference all along. And yet there is. But isn’t.
  19. @Shin What I mean by it is quite literally “conflict”. When you are hungry, that’s a conflict to resolve. When you need sleep, that’s conflict. When you need money - conflict. The acquisition of material objects - conflict. Needing love. Even needing to breath. Arguing over certain things. Wanting to get an opinion across. Trying to appear a certain way socially. Having to abide to social constructs and rules. Being able to pay bills. Trying to become enlightened. Practicing spirituality. And so on and so on... You see? Everything is in a sense a conflict to resolve. So, if there’d be no conflict whatsoever, life wouldn’t even be worth living. That’s what I’m saying. What there is to draw from that would be that upon realising it, you’re free like never before!? Because you now know why you’d do anything in your life at all. It’s all conflict, and your challenge as a human being is to resolve it somehow. And if it all gets too much, well, then suicide is gonna be your method of resolvement. And back you go again, starting all anew...
  20. @Consept Yes, okay, in that sense I would agree with what you say For what that’s worth...?
  21. @Shin Hah, well, in fact that person doesn't think that at all. All I said is that there would be no reason to exist without any conflict whatsoever, but that there's no real goal or meaning to life anyway (in the big big picture) doesn't affect that.
  22. @Shin Don't jump to conclusions with this! Really stop and think about it for a second. Yes, you could just literally kill yourself once you've realised this. But what good would that be? You'd come back either way. Non-existence is not a thing. There's endless conflict to solve and simultaneously none at all. Edit: Also, they wouldn't even mind doing so:) Or at least it wouldn't matter to them if death occured through some other cause.
  23. Hah, so fascinating. It works so beautifully in both ways. Either there's absolutely no conflict to resolve and you would thereby have no reason to exist or you find that there's way too much conflict in your life than you could handle - and then commit suicide. Therefore, human beings are essentially just conflict-resolution-machines. God... there's really nothing else to do than to enjoy the ride.... and everything's fine all along the way. Beautiful.