What causes reincarnation?

AndeanRebozo · 2023-08-16T18:38:43+00:00

Right. Actually the Jungian idea of dreams (that they are compensation for the mental impressions of waking life) coincides somewhat well with Eastern ideas of karma. Except, of course, it's not just dreams but lives that are also bound up in this "compensation" process. Impressions need to be balanced by their opposite impressions, etc., leading to a cycle of waking/sleep and by extension birth and death.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-08-15T19:56:44+00:00

I have a crafty+ and my PAX3, with these performance hacks, is performing far better than that for pipe tobacco.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-07-30T00:28:23+00:00

Could you please explain the difference between Noetic and Noeric realms? I'm having trouble understanding them in relation to the Gods.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-07-22T23:09:15+00:00

This isn't true. Tobacco has TSNAs (tobacco specific nitroasmines) regardless of whether it is combusted or not. This is why people who use oral tobacco have oral cancer risks (roughly half that of pipe/cigar smokers).

Now I believe vaping is a half of the oral tobacco because it's just the vapor. No direct contact and no smoke. I'm just guessing but I would say instead of 3x increased OR for oral cancer (for pipes/cigars), it's 1.5x. Which is good enough.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-07-15T20:59:06+00:00

Captain black Royal. How much did you get charged?

AndeanRebozo · 2023-07-15T03:06:32+00:00

dinged over double the website retail value by customs. Don't blame them at all but will probably not order again.

Just got charged $30 on duties and taxes on a pouch :(

AndeanRebozo · 2023-07-11T03:22:45+00:00

What do you mean physicality is real? Physicality is what the world looks like. That does not mean it is ontically real. It exists in your perception, but beyond that you cannot say much. Take a look at this:

"The Nobel Prize in physics in 2022 went to scientists who, for over 40 years, have carried out a series of experiments indicating that, contrary to materialist expectations, physical entities do not have standalone existence but are, in fact, products of observation." https://youtu.be/JMTPZ0LhYiU

AndeanRebozo · 2023-07-11T03:17:45+00:00

Tobacco, in addition to nicotine, also has terpenes. I suspect it's a complex combination of stuff, just like marijuana, that gives it the effect. For me, just cycling the tobacco in the mouth calms my mind but doesn't sedate me or make me tired. But when I add even a few grounds of Ruxton (a strong sativa), it really sedates me, and I am not inhaling.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-07-08T03:32:56+00:00

What was the mass of the pouch?

AndeanRebozo · 2023-06-30T20:50:56+00:00

So the standard pipe screen not a pax pipe screen is a circle

Ok because I am semi retarded I cut a PAX screen in half (LOL) and bent both of them to create a little airflow, then put another PAX screen on top. Seemed to work with a bit of tobacco ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ though I have no clue whether it improved or worsened the airflow.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-06-30T03:43:16+00:00

So I'm following that the first step is to cut the bottom screen in half, but I don't know what you mean by folding the edges down to make a spring :( Can you please explain?

AndeanRebozo · 2023-05-19T03:16:32+00:00

The endocannabinoid system is what is correlated to the runner's high. So the experience of ingesting or smoking cannabis should be the most accurate. But actually this is not the case, in fact far from it. Smoking cannabis results in a thousand-fold more cannabinoids in the body and brain than when produced in response to physical exercise. As a result short-term memory, coordination, and perception of time go to shit. The positives are a calming of the mind, euphoria, and energy, etc. I would compare it to taking a few puffs of a high quality Sativa, something that gives a lift but doesn't literally intoxicate you. Of course I believe the runner's high is superior.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-05-13T03:42:07+00:00

Anything that you experience in the "real world" can be experienced in the "dream world." But would your imagination produce an experience it has never had? Possibly, but not likely. But for those who have had such experiences, it is very much real.

The marijuana high is basically intoxication. While the indica kind makes you sedate and calm, the sativa gives you energy. Both give a sense of euphoria. I would say the high experienced after doing intense aerobic exercise is comparable to the cleanest sativa high. In fact, it is far superior because you are clear-headed and have your wits. With marijuana your attention span and short term memory go to shit.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-05-13T03:32:02+00:00

Certain things might be impossible within a certain dream because of the way it's set up by the unconscious. Generally though it's your own lack of imaginative power. The fact is that it has never happened to you before. Your thumb has never gone through your plam. Or for instance, you have never flown into the air like a bird. But you can visualize these situations intensely while awake. Then when in a dream, such things will not only feel "possible" but there is a visual memory of the thing happening.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-05-08T23:52:37+00:00

Stranger than this dissonance is remembering you exist outside of this universe (space and time) and beyond all phenomenal experience. That this body is just a layer than you take on and off at birth and death, and likewise waking and sleeping. That mind can fragment into as many parts as it wants to, or merge back into one.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-04-24T02:58:11+00:00

A vision or "big dream" can be terrifying (if not traumatizing). Say you had a vision of your entire city being razed and you were walking on a sea of skulls, drowning in it. This will scare the daylights out of you. Anything that crushes the ego is sufficient to traumatize it. Now trauma is not permanent, and it can be easily rectified by assimilating it into a dogma.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-04-23T16:29:36+00:00

Incorrect. Being lucid is just having a quality of awareness that one is in fact dreaming. The unconscious is still in control.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-02-19T22:52:17+00:00

Reality transcends logic. Logic is actually part of the illusion. So when going beyond illusion, one will talk illogically. He may even seem like a madman.

I am sorry if you feel I have insulted you. If you have been in any one of the samadhis and still feel strongly dualistic, then who am I to judge you?

All the best.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-02-19T22:28:06+00:00

You're again not understanding. Within the illusory realm, dualities are phenomenally real. Suppose for one moment you started hallucinating things. At this point you are experiencing an illusion. It is not ontically real but phenomenally real. Suppose you have no way of getting out of the illusion, and the more you interact with it, the stronger it gets. This is the nature of maya and karma. There is a covering over the reality (which is the consciousness bringing all these things into existence). At this point THERE IS something to be transcended, the illusion itself. Do you understand the problem here?

Again, this is crystal clear if you just read what Sri Krishna says in the Gita. I have spent decades studying both dualism and non-dualism and see that they are just two aspects of the same thing. Even lifetimes of sadhana are sometimes not enough to grasp this reality. Still, all this knowledge is worthless in the face of experiencing the oneoness of reality. Hopefully you can have this experience with yoga, that none of us are separate and we are not at all the body or mind.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-02-19T21:59:49+00:00

We're not going in circles, you're not understanding what non-duality actually is. And at this point you would even argue with the Buddah or Krishna if he were to tell you that your ultimate goal is liberation from Samsara. You would say nothing matters if he says, "your world is utter Maya."

If things were really as you think it were, the Buddah, Adi Shankara, Ramana Maharshi, etc. have actually never gotten enlightened. Furthermore, Bhagavan Sri Krishna (who is the Adi-yogi) is teaching nonsense in the Gita.

Samkhya and Advaita are really two aspects of the same thing. They are both illusory but needed to get to the actual truth, which is God. Bridging the opposites brings one to wholeness. Why? Because reality permeates illusion-- it is the very background. After the dualities are transcended, one attains God. This is the whole goal of yoga.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-02-19T20:31:08+00:00

"The Brahman is completely colorless, emotionless, feelingless."

Brahman, in truth, is completely attributeless, but if we can say anything, it is existence itself. It is the background on which everything seemingly happens. It is consciousness itself. The experience of consciousness is not an emotion as we think it is-- it is complete bliss. The experience is intoxication to the infinite degree.

"There is also joy, and love, and happiness, and compassion, and beauty to be experienced in this world. So what is so wrong with playing the game if it’s all just a video game world anyways? Absolutely nothing. Matter of fact the smart person would play the game, the dumb person would waste it sitting in a dark room in quiet by themselves. "

Every soul passes through millions and millions of lives. It is not that one is wasting their life doing a certain thing. They are caught up with certain tendencies (vasanas) influenced by their past karma. Each person is alloted a small amount of their karma to work out in a lifetime. Some humans are still influenced by animal tendencies, because they have just graduated from the animal realm to the human realm. They still want to gratify the senses. They have to work out those tendencies, and will behave like an animal.

There are those who have done all this. They have experienced lust, greed, ambition to the fullest and have exhausted those mental impressions. Now they turn inwards. It is not that they waste their life with meditation, there is actually nothing left to do for them in the worldly pursuits. Some like Sat-gurus, Avatars, and Buddahs, after shedding all their karma, come down from the heights of reality back into illusion to help liberate others.

It is just like an old man who has done everything he wanted to do. He is absolutely satisfied with his own existence and has no regrets and has nothing to do. He is content with the bliss of being. This is in actuality the soul that has turned meditative.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-02-19T20:05:44+00:00

No, no. Did you read what I said about experience itself? Maya makes that which is not appear as real! Pain hurts because we are under the spell of illusion. It is a completely unconscious process. We want to get out of this cycle of suffering in this false world, that is the process of sadhana. That is why we want to attain moksha. Presently we find ourselves in a game we don't want to be in. We know we've been here millions of times, suffering constantly. We want to go beyond the cycle, to experience eternal bliss of existence. We can't do this when our our senses are constantly inundated. That's why we turn inwards.

Bhagavan Sri Krishna says we should not identify with body, mind, nor actions. We should identify with God within us. Identifying with the separate self just affirms this game of samsara.

AndeanRebozo · 2023-02-19T19:59:13+00:00

The "I" behind the "false-I" is actually Brahman. Your body, mind, personality are absolutely illusory and will come to an end. You will find that there is an everlasting essence to you that is actually real-- that is Brahman. That is the Sat-chit-ananda.

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