Truth Addict

Yes. And I don't know why. God is puzzling!

Sounds like a Green God. Move to Yellow.

@Bill W Haha! ? I hear you. For me it's when I say that I'm going to do something, I probably don't. Everything seems to be going well until I announce that I want to do it.

I clearly have major commitment issues. I can't commit to anything. It's ironic how I even have a job!

Why does this modern God not talk about Hell?

If you want truth, stop ignoring your feelings.

I think having a basic understanding of statistics is very important for expanding consciousness. There are many useful distinctions to learn from there.

Meaning is your creation. Create whatever you want/need.

And now chances are you're attached to the idea of not being attached to the body. ?

You sound like someone I know. However, I can't remember. It's been like forever.

Flow state is when you stop doubting, second-guessing, and forget about your goals and just do things for the sake of doing. It's when you lose your agendas and you, ego, therefore, stop existing as limitation. It's when you accept 'what is' fully without any bit of resistance whatsoever. If you master letting go, you will be able to live your whole life as one big flow state. You will become the stream. Or more precisely put, you will not become, but simply just be.

I don't know if you've been through the same experience as mine. But before I knew of the possibility that my religion could be false, it really hanged together. It's like it was real and true until I'd explored beyond it. However, as I was growing up and as I started learning concepts, especially concepts like past and future, right and wrong, true and false, etc... I started to question my old beliefs through the lens of the new ones, starting by trying to preserve the old ones, and ending up with having them all destroyed. So, then the newer beliefs took place, and this cycle kept repeating itself maybe five or six times, plus experiencing many regressions, until now. It's like I was drawn to always seek new beliefs and to leave the old ones. The point of this is coming after the next two quotations. I apologise, I didn't mean to caricature you. Of course I didn't mean those were your only values, but rather I thought that that was the general theme. Sure I wouldn't know. But was just making a point. God-realization is when you discover that reality is basically magical, cannot be explained, and that it does not obey the conceptual systems we create and use. It's when you discover that what you thought of as first order was always second order and vice-versa, as in a creator and a creation, an atheist thinks that humans created the concept of God, where after God-realization you discover that God is the one who created the concept of humans. That's how I would define it, given that I think there's a difference between that and Truth-realization. That is when you discover that the magic of being is true! And that falsehood does not exist at all unless you create it, whether consciously or unconsciously. A mystical experience is like lucid-dreaming with much more awareness than the usual. It's usually accompanied by loss of the sense of self aka unity with God. I'm not very experienced in this regard, so. The reason I said that they're not the truth is because they are part of the truth, not the whole of it. When we say something is true, we automatically assume that the opposite is false. So, if I say that God-realization is the truth, then that means that God-unrealization is not. And here it gets very tricky, because it's a paradox, because one remains unrealized until they realise. That's why they say that you're already enlightened, because you actually are but you think that aren't. It's just as simple as that. A thought saying that you're unrealized. You can either stop believing it and then realise, or not and remain bound to it. That's a great practice, indeed. But make sure you are still able to detach from it at any given point, just so you don't end up in an eternal loop of debunking. I'll give you a pointer that might or might not resonate with you. If you want the absolute truth, kill your doubt. This is it. Stop creating doubt. Here is the truth. You're perceiving it. What else do you require as proof?! Of course, only if it was that easy. But hey, we can try. Cheers Nick! ?

Why should I listen to this? I mean it's just as imaginary as the thing it calls out as 'imaginary'. Of course, if there is any answer, it will also automatically be imaginary.

@Serotoninluv Nice!

Seems like an imbalance between theory and practice. It seems like you've cultivated very high ideals while at the same time being disconnected from reality. Simply put, you need to break the fear with practice, that's the ultimate solution. 10% theory + 90% action. Also, just to refresh your life, change some of the little stuff that you routinely do. Or make big changes if you want to create a new person. Your environment affects you, be wise with it.

By calling things falsehood/illusion, aren't we surviving the problem as well? Even though it doesn't exist. Or is some illusion (spiritual) actually better than other illusions? Or is it simply pure narcissism? Such in 'my illusion is the best illusion'.

@The Don Activate your ego.

@Sidra

@MuddyBoots I think the thing is that fundamentalist religion gives us the answers. The problem is that we don't understand them, probably because they don't resonate with our standards for judging truth and distinguishing it from falsehood. But are our standards (in your case, liberal and scientific) true measures? Or are they just some invented intellectual systems to process reality in certain specific ways (in your case, humanitarian materialistic way)? Also, we need to make a clear distinction between a mystical experience and God-realization. Both of which are not the truth, still. Maybe it's just wording, but it's not possible to find truth. Because how to find that which has never been lost? As for the avatar, try picking a shiny one instead. Shiny objects usually seem more likeable. Although I like this one.

@tsuki I've been thinking. And I figured, open-mindedness doesn't have anything to do with causing enlightenment or its permanence. It rather affects the depth of it when it occurs. What are your thoughts on this?

How do you know that that's not how you find the truth? See? You're already assuming that you know how to find the truth. But do you actually know? Your assumption that your path towards truth being better than fundamentalist religion's path, is just a sneaky part your belief system.

I enlighten my parents without them even knowing. For example, I tell them a story about suffering, and then give them a conclusion that suffering is the stupidest thing to do. Not only that it's unnecessary and a waste of time, but that it's creating problems instead of solving them. Sometimes it clicks, sometimes it doesn't. I'm still figuring out how to bring the highest teachings down to level of ordinary people.

How do you know?

You are describing your current position. You are the deluded one here. All of your non-dogmatic beliefs are bullshit.

There's no no-self. There is the [self vs. no-self] paradox, a pendulum that goes back and forth all the time. You either follow its movement, or you stay stuck, then either suffer or die, any of which will ultimately lead to the same conclusion as well, i.e. the other side of the pendulum.