Truth Addict

Just enjoy the ride.

There is no path to be walked. We're going to nowhere.

Belief in God is God. Delusion is God. Fantasy is God. Ignorance of God is God. Wake up! Although being asleep is also God ?

@electroBeam It does not matter what you choose. Both good and bad Karma are irrelevant to God-realisation. The only function of Karma is morality, and the only function of morality is to keep other people from killing you. That being said, as long as you resist suffering, you will not be able to see God. Just as much as you resist anything else. As long as you resist, you will still be a devil, and you will suffer. Accept everything, including resistance, and see God.

From your earlier post, I doubt you ever experienced any higher states of consciousness.

That sounds like suffering on your side. That's irrelevant to what I'm trying to point out to you. Anyway, where exactly is this 'there' that the moon would be in, other than your imagination? If you're not looking at the moon right now, how do you know with a 100% certainty that it's still in the sky? How do you know with a 100% certainty that there is even a sky if you're not looking at it right now? You might say: I could go outside and look at it, and that would prove that I'm right. But that would be you imagining a future where you could go and do that, not actually experiencing any moon in the present moment. If you want to understand spirituality, you must discard all notions of future and past at first. I don't have a problem with it too, except that it's not the absolute truth, but rather just a perspective, a very practical one indeed (which is the best thing about materialism). Materialism is highly dependent on imagination/assumptions, and materialists believe that it delivers the truth (notice: belief = imagination). Materialists poo poo metaphysics, but you (especially materialists) can't escape metaphysics. Become aware of that.

@FoxFoxFox Well, true. But then how are you going to communicate that with someone who doesn't understand what you're talking about? The only way out of the mind is awareness/observation. I know. But I had to use duality for the sake of writing this thread.

Gym is great! Anything that can get you in a flow state will do. You need more flow states.

Why do you want an answer? I don't need your answer, keep it for yourself. Become aware of your mechanisms. And let me help you out a little bit. It matters to you because you believe that the world is material. You deem everyone who doesn't believe the same thing 'deluded' and discount them. You're like super obvious, classic materialist. Then there would be 8 billion human beings minus one, telling that one a story about the existence of the moon. Very simple. Stories are not true, nor false. They're just stories. Become aware of that.

You make it sound like it matters. Like your identity is dependent on the moon's existence. It's possible that the moon gets hit by a massive meteor while you're not looking. Who knows? What do you know other than right now? Literally nothing.

LOL. This can't be further from the truth. Ordinary states of consciousness are just as real as the higher ones. All states of consciousness are real. There's nothing but states of consciousness. That's what the higher states show you.

@Serotoninluv

I chose to say "remain as God" because I thought it was a better put than "live as God". The ego is temporary, God isn't. The ego dies, and God doesn't. That's what I meant to say.

Easy, just move from thinking to doing. I mean spend more time on physical activities (even unrelated to discipline activities) than on mental exercises. That'll improve your discipline to a certain degree, and then you'd have to deal with the rest.

I think it's necessary for everyone to (at least try to) take the other side's point of view in order to avoid 'Paradigm Lock'

We can't just take the pros and leave the cons from each side and think we're fine, because that's the essence of bad politics. Each party thinks they have the best values and ideals, and so they trash all other parties. Instead, we should move more into systems thinking and integration, aka stage Yellow of Spiral Dynamics. Systems thinking requires nuanced and specific studies, and it approaches each project/problem with radical open-mindedness. To a systematic thinker, each case is different. And the whole system must be taken into account before applying solutions. Integration means that we can't remove the left or the right, but that we should help them evolve and educate themselves.

Where did you see that?

Acceptance/surrendering alone can make a devil turn into an angel. Acceptance/surrendering alone can make all hells turn into paradise. Love suffering to death. ❤️

Prayer works on every level if you truly believe.

First of all, acceptance. Then doing whatever feels right.

Physical pain prevents physical death. It is love protecting us from getting killed. Emotional suffering prevents ego-death. The reason why evil terrifies you is because in your mind it's related to death. Your mind associated survival with goodness, and death with evil. There is no evil. You decided to invent this idea and call it 'evil' and then you decided to associate it with the stuff that does not serve your survival, whether physical survival or egoic survival. This decision is merely a programming that you've learned from your culture while growing up. You can undo that programming and see things as they actually are: void of evil, and full of love.

@Max_V I see. But you also believe that pain is a bad thing. Who said that? Pain exists for protection. Is protection bad?

@Max_V You believe that death is a bad thing. What if it's the best thing that could ever happen? (hint: it is).

@Giulio Bevilacqua Well, here's a harsh fact: you can't avoid hurting others. You are in a constant battle against everything else in order to stay who you are. This fear that you are feeling is a weapon the ego uses to hide that fact from you. Just let loose and don't take thoughts seriously, because (and this is critical) you are hurting yourself and others through that fear. Imagine what you could do for yourself and others if stopped fearing. A leader does not fear. A leader knows what's best for himself and others.