IntuitiveWanderer

Yeah, you're right. But the Freemasons are most likely some sort of mafia who use funny stowees to make friends and influence people.

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS....

Internet mysticism: Here is how it appears to be: And here is how it really is:

Yeah, maybe I slightly exagerated. Also, I would like to add that what I mean by essence, is 'essential information' or 'quality information' as opposed to a pile of useless hopes, dreams and memories. I am thinking that, by that time in history, the global unity project will be complete and a centralized holistic cultural system will be established which will inevitably be tailored to the needs of different classes of people, for efficiency. And I am almost certain that 80 percent of the books published in the 21st century will be destroyed and forgotten.

Indeed, executive functions go against the lower nature. We have not yet totally conquered the lower nature, this is why we are not yet living in a utopia. Also. actually, Krishna tells Arjuna to get a grip on himself and slay his relatives and former friends in the name of righteousness. I think that the Yogis, Sages, Brahmins have a far richer inner life than the average person who still is attached to the delusion that matter matters, precisely because they have subdued their lower nature and expanded their consciousness, thus perceiving the essence which is pure, beautiful, real, and undying. And righteous conduct, selfless action, is a requirement in order to achieve liberation from the chains of Karma.

There is no such thing as success, because ultimately nothing matters. But it's fun to pretend like it does matter, and such. In the future there will come an inevitable point when people realise that they have been carying too much cultural dead weight around, and they will start burning books and forgeting people. And start concentrating on the essence instead.

Aye... I didn't plan on doing that, initially.... I just repeatedly missclicked.

Or 5 hay bales!

As if the people of India really care what methinks. I am just a confused young man, man...

Ah, yeah...so the boots are an analogy for the uncontrolled ego and the delusion resultant from it, while the realization is that the suffering was produced by delusion. Did I get it right? If that is what you meant, then I agree. Also, the awakened has a new level of awareness and thus greater capacity for self-control and, most importantly, he takes refuge in Brahman. But I am guessing that it also takes constant practice and dilligence in order to reach that state; the mind must be purged of impurities and kept clean through virtuous conduct in accordance with one's dharma so as to avoid getting chained by Karma, and the maintenance of that state must be performed through constant practice. The boot analogy sounds like a passage I have read in a book about quitting cigarettes written by a guy named Allen Carr. He made the same analogy, saying that the pleasure from smoking derived from neutralization of nicotine withdrawal and the pain resultant from it. Thus, he said, smoking for pleasure is like wearing painfully small shoes in order to get the relief when you finally take them off. It also reminds me of Schopenhauer's pessimism, Schopenhauer also argued that evil in fact is positive in its nature and that the good is negative, in the sense that we are in constant pain because we are always in need, impermanence being positive evil while the good is the negation of pain and the achievement of momentary peaceful equilibrium. Schopenhauer was heavily influenced by the Upanishads but ultimately his philosophy makes you want to kill yourself so it sucks. And, like 90 percent of western philosophy (bold generalization indeed), it eventually deviates from the truth and starts making false assumptions until all that is left is a fashion statement. Maybe I am exagerating although I don't think so since it is clear that western philosophy has, after 2500 years, still not grasped the truth on the nature of the absolute, in fact it has degenerated more and more, since the ancient greeks were certainly aware of this truth. Alfred North Witehead, the matemathician and philospoher, said that "the safest general characterization of the European tradition is that it is a series of footnotes to Plato." lol.

How do you deal with uncertainty? And I mean epistemological uncertainty, as in when you just can't process something because it simply inaccesible due to uncertainty. Like, for example, intelligent people avoid certain subjects because of this process, this subconscious Occam's razor, this mental Cerberus, guarding the gates of the inner world. I can't process information when the context is not fully understood, I cannot jump into an epystemological abys, risking injury to my sanity. Usually things that I cannot process in the moment, but suspect of being true, end up stored in a corner somewhere in the back of the mind, and are summoned automatically when the epistemic uncertainty is reduced to moderate, or low-moderate. Does this sound familiar, how do you go about uncertainty, does it even matter? What does the Tao Te Ching say about this? Can one be foolishly skeptical?

I have a question regarding proper breathing patterns and the ideal of practices involving the control of the breath, because I have observed that deep breathing is widely advocated by diverse teachers or people giving advice. But I have read that hyperventilation is unhealthy and according to some teachers of Yoga, the goal of Yoga is not to increase the intake of oxygen but the reverse, namely to breath less than the average. Here is a wikipedia article on the physiological effects of hyperventilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperventilation Here is a video in which a professional practitioner of Yoga argues that the purpose of Yoga practice is to develop the ability to breath less than the average: http://blog.yogasynergy.com/2012/11/spinal-movement-sequence-part-23-why-to-breathe-less-than-normal-in-yoga/ What do you think?

It takes two poles to make a field.

I sincerely apologize to any Romani person on this forum.

Okay, then I will give you a serious argument, Have you ever read the Satanist code of conduct? If you do you will see how many paralels there are between it and gypsy behavioral patterns (the real). Heck, even that spooky evil guy LaVey admitted to being a gypsy. But, ultimately, I was kidding...who cares to what degree the gypsies are Satanists. Live and let live, brother. I am not the prison warden here.

Christianity just reeks of psycho-social subversion, if ye ask me... I mean, it is itself a subversive movement. Although nowadays it seems saintly, because we are in the Kali yuga, back in the day morality was the norm, so one can't really say that it contributed much to morality... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Germanic_law#Tacitus Christianity is imoral because it breds suffering by letting the corrupt do their thing and hoping that they will reform their behavior by believing the inconsistent fiction of the Bible without question. No wonder they killed Jesus, he was a charismatic madman, Jesus was the Hitler of his day. He was even worse than Hitler because he was a sly subversive who used his occult knowledge to spread ignorance undetected.

I don't know about you, but gypsies...when they defecate in public ...that just seems Satanic to me. That's definitely proof that they are from India...although I doubt that it was those people who wrote the Vedas.. http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-india-has-highest-number-of-people-practicing-open-defecation-2036591

"The plane which is reached by the Jnânins is also reached by the Karmayogins. Who sees knowledge and performance of action as one, he sees. Renunciation of action, O mighty-armed, is hard to attain to without performance of action; the man of meditation, purified by devotion to action, quickly goes to Brahman. With the mind purified by devotion to performance of action, and the body conquered, and senses subdued, one who realises one's Self, as the Self in all beings, though acting, is not tainted. The knower of Truth, (being) centred (in the Self) should think, "I do nothing at all"—though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, breathing, speaking, letting go, holding, opening and closing the eyes—convinced that it is the senses that move among sense-objects. He who does actions forsaking attachment, resigning them to Brahman, is not soiled by evil, like unto a lotus-leaf by water. Devotees in the path of work perform action, only with body, mind, senses, and intellect, forsaking attachment, for the purification of the heart. The well-poised, forsaking the fruit of action, attains peace, born of steadfastness; the unbalanced one, led by desire, is bound by being attached to the fruit (of action). The subduer (of the senses), having renounced all actions by discrimination, rests happily in the city of the nine gates, neither acting, nor causing (others) to act. Neither agency, nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor (does He bring about) the union with the fruit of action. It is universal ignorance that does. (it all). The Omnipresent takes note of the merit or demerit of none. Knowledge is enveloped in ignorance, hence do beings get deluded. But whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of Self,—that knowledge of theirs, like the sun, reveals the Supreme (Brahman). Those who have their intellect absorbed in That, whose self is That, whose steadfastness is in That, whose consummation is That, their impurities cleansed by knowledge, they attain to Non-return (Moksha). The knowers of the Self look with an equal eye on a Brâhmana endowed with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a pariah. (Relative) existence has been conquered by them, even in this world, whose mind rests in evenness, since Brahman is even and without imperfection: therefore they indeed rest in Brahman. Resting in Brahman, with intellect steady, and without delusion, the knower of Brahman neither rejoiceth on receiving what is pleasant, nor grieveth on receiving what is unpleasant. With the heart unattached to external objects, he realises the joy that is in the Self. With the heart devoted to the meditation of Brahman, he attains un-decaying happiness. Since enjoyments that are contact-born are parents of misery alone, and with beginning and end, O son of Kunti, a wise man does not seek pleasure in them. He who can withstand in this world, before the liberation from the body, the impulse arising from lust and anger, he is steadfast (in Yoga), he is a happy man. Whose happiness is within, whose relaxation is within, whose light is within, that Yogi alone, becoming Brahman, gains absolute freedom." - Krishna instructs Nagarjuna in The Way of Renunciation, Bahvagad Gita; 1909, translated by Swami Swarupananda

I think this trance-like state or whatever, is what artists call "flow". The subconscious processes a lot more info than the conscious, so I'm guessing it has to do with accessing the subconscious. Or maybe it's just playing with information and losing oneself in the journey until there is only Journey but no journal. Like Jesus said: "In losing yourself you find yourself." ...or something like that. The Hindu ancients must have taught him that.

Using one label to categorize them all is quite racist.

Isn't Satanism the ethnic religion of the gypsy people?

"Helplessness guides the wandering thought in their breasts; they are carried along deaf and blind alike, dazed, beasts without judgment, convinced that to be and not to be are the same and not the same, and that the road of all things is a backward-turning one." - Parmenides of Elea

Don't go into this maze.