Indisguise

Holy crap that's a beautiful story mate. Should probably give it a try😄

Especially those who are interested in spirituality and psychedelics? That'd be cool. What are your strategies? Especially when you're new in a city?

This just sounded like a defensive and slightly cynical comment, even though before you literally told someone what to do on their spiritual path:

Who told you what to do?...

This is good stuff.

No, I have never felt anything but the Self (even though I didn't always know that i am everything) . Everything is me, everything is known by/as being. And no, of course I have no edges.

@Mandy Makes sense, one question though; why then don't I always feel good? If I am the good feeling? Am I somehow clouded by thoughts? And if so, shouldn't this clouding also be an illusion? Since there also can't be "clouded" vs "clear" or "degrees of clouding/clarity"? Yes, but not if these ideas of levels and degrees are getting in the way. @Aware Wolf I like you😄 Suffering. Yeah. @Phil Why has wakefulness forgotten? ...has wakefulness even forgotten?

What is meant by "assertion"? "Assertion" means something like "statement", right? Or something else in this context?

Life is so unbelievable complex, I don't even know where to begin to tell you how absolutely and mind-bogglingly complex and sophisticated biological life is. On the one hand there's the macro-structures, the whole organism, running, swimming, flying or crawling around and doing it's thing, human beings, animals, plants, mushrooms, insects, bacteria, archaea, birds, mammals, fish, dinosaurs, the list would comprise hundreds upon hundreds of millions of living beings, and they're ALL so absolutely f*cking shopisticated biochemical machines, it's completely and indescribably insane. Each cell is so, so complicated, with millions of processes going on in each cell, and you have trillions of cells in your body, comprising this wonderful body that you are. The micro structure, molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, biochemistry, is what I'm really talking about tho. Most people don't know anything about molecular biology and molecular physiology, but if they knew, they'd exclaim: HOLY F*CK!!! Appreciate your body, Appreciate life. It's so god damn complex, and it works perfectly!! The biochemical pathways, the networks, the organization, there is no computer with enough computing power on earth that could ever come close to even mapping all of it. Just mapping it! I'm not even talking building a reproduction of even a single molcular machine like an enzyme like ATPase or some Polymerase, they are like ultra spohisticated nano-bots. I have a degree in biology and caught myself during my studies multiple times wondering if creationists maybe do have a point. And I understand why so many people are simply not satisfied with normal reductionistic, mechanistic, materialistic explanations for evolution. It's just too damn sophisticated. The universe truly is infinitely intelligent. There's no other way. Mind-boggling.

= Solipsism isn't misguiding but believing in it?

It's just in order to communicate preferences. Doesn't really have to do anything with identifying as a vegetarian/vegan/whatever. Yeah... Reliable way for me to overcome this is by taking mushrooms😂 then I can't go into the super market and look at all the dead meat without feeling too much of a hypocrite, until I'm back to my normal, selfish, hypocritical self🙃 @Phil Have you ever eaten meat because you felt like it? By "feels better", do you mean health wise or also in conjuction with compassion with animals?

Thank god all people don't want to eat the same things! Yeah... But once you've chosen what you want to eat, you can classify it into an -ism.

"Isn't it? Hello?" *shakes head furiously*

What are your thoughts and opinions on what to eat and why? Are you omivore? Vegan? Vegetarian? Fruititarian? Or what? And why? I personally eat everything, because I had some trouble with weight loss during the last 2 years, so I can't be too picky with what I eat; on top of that I work out a lot (cardio) and need all the energy and nutrients I can get my paws on. I'd love to hear your opinions, this was inspired by a post made by @Orb

"Don't nondual bear me!"😂😂 There's nothing wrong with saying things like "there's no self". It's inevitable that phrases like that turn into platitudes.

"Nobody is awake" as in: no person is awake. It's just another case of language limitation when it comes to talking about nonduality. No self to be awake, when awakening is the recognition of there not being any self to be either awake or not awake.

I love this🙏

This is the funniest shit y'all😂😂

Haha😂😂😂 Nah, they're so extraordinarily ordinary you wouldn't even recognize it. 10. Return to Society Barefooted and naked of breast, I mingle with the people of the world. My clothes are ragged and dust-laden, and I am ever blissful. I use no magic to extend my life; Now, before me, the dead trees become alive.

They're not though. They're conceptual, not actual. "Higher" is a relational word of description, higher is only in relation to lower - which itself is only defined in terms of the "higher".

What I meant is this: when I lay in the bathtub, it's pleasant, but not higher consciousness. But when I for example take mushrooms or meditate, I feel like I become more aware, or develop more clarity. And that there are degrees. And that's pleasant. But not the same thing as with enjoying a hot bath.

@Orb But I don't necessarily think that pleasurable sensations are "higher consciousness" - although I think that "higher consciousness" is more pleasant, is that what you mean?

At first one thinks that enlightenment is a binary thing. Either your awake or not. Then one gets more sophisticated and starts thinking of enlightenment in terms of "degrees" and "levels", and that one can "deepen" ones awakening and become more and more enlightened. On a conceptual level, I understand that "more" and "less" are not real. But I still feel that for example on some days, there is more clarity into a certain insight like no-self. And it feels like there's "less" ego. How to get rid of "degrees" once and for all? Now obviously, when I look for "degrees" of consciousness during my meditation practice for example, I can't find any. But it still sometimes seems like there's more or less clarity/consciousness/etc. Help?

You met Bush? What the heck, who are you😂 How do you reconcile compassion with "egomanical assholes" with the suffering they inflict on others? In other words, I'm sure you agree with me that hurting others isn't good, however innocent delusion/ignorance may be.

I think it's so funny that this is pretty much Leo's reasoning (although I'm sure that you're not Leo, which makes your post even more ironic), because this is precisely what happened with Actualized.org. Many people became rather mindless, indoctrinated followers of Leo. And then he speaks of "the dangers of false teachings and teachers who don't know how to run a community". Oh the irony...