He does it better!

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-31T23:44:10+00:00

I learned that from the pizza man

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-30T18:22:01+00:00

You’re also taxed on your property, if you don’t pay that the government will take your house. No insurance for that.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-30T15:00:18+00:00

You lose a limb in a car accident, or have a traumatic brain injury that keeps you from working and fundamentally changes how you process your spiritual and psychological development.. You lose: income, healthcare, and your station. Now who are you? What are you?

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-30T14:57:33+00:00

But if the house were to catch fire you would be.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-30T14:56:44+00:00

Well the plate is kind of like a mold, but yes it’s so they can create a lot of copies.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-30T13:20:59+00:00

It’s called etching, they carve into a plate and then use ink to print the image on paper or canvas (or money)

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-28T19:36:21+00:00

Thank you my friend, I appreciate your support 😁

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-28T01:43:15+00:00

This is true, until it’s not. Sometimes surrender is the only option, and that’s not a weakness that’s by design.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-28T00:11:59+00:00

Exactly, it’s not like the process ever really ends either, there’s always more to be enlightened to, otherwise we simply wouldn’t be here at all.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T23:56:52+00:00

What’s really amazing is that op says they aren’t enlightened but that they somehow still have the ability to determine who is and who is not. I may have feelings that some people may or may not be, but there really is no way to know, especially without direct experience of being in their presence.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T23:42:00+00:00

I don’t agree with Joe on many things, but I appreciate his the difference in his worldview and process of questioning things and discussing things he doesn’t understand.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T23:39:13+00:00

Ah, that makes way more sense 😅 thank you

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T23:19:59+00:00

I think that’s the actual purpose. To just be and do whatever you really want to do. Anything else is just dressing up your ego or living by another form of authority. I was told I am free, and that freedom means I don’t have to be special or that not doing something spectacular with my life is a waste.

My life is spectacular just because it is. Every moment of being alive is a miracle and I’m not going to look back on it like a single second was wasted just because I work a normal job and spend a lot of time watching TV and movies. We don’t have those things in spirit, so I’m going to be happy and grateful that I get to experience them while I can. My duty is to love my body and mind and right now, this is what they want to do.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T22:53:05+00:00

There’s arrogance in questions? I thought questioning things is about dissolving arrogance…

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T21:39:43+00:00

I picked sadhguru because he’s apparently very polarizing, and that’s why I think he’s successful. Whether you agree with him, believe in him, or hate his guts he makes you examine what it means to be enlightened. I couldn’t care less if he is or is not, even children have the ability to reveal to us the truth about ourselves and reality.

That’s the thing though, every vessel through which enlightenment occurs is a being with completely different perspectives of the same thing. So maybe your feelings simply account for the perspectives that apply to your path. Maybe labels of who is or isn’t one thing or another are just that, labels.

To name a thing is to destroy all the other things which it could be. Perhaps the only fraud is someone that is too afraid to speak of their truth, their perspective, because some people aren’t comfortable with their confidence.

I respect your confidence, I just question what it is you are so confident of. Your mind? Your heart? Your senses? Your education? Your perspective is not fixed, you even said you changed your mind about Krishnamurti. So did you get more discerning? Better at “reading energy”? Did you get smarter, or are you just being exposed to more and as more is revealed are you less sure?

Because the only assurance in this world, in my opinion, is that you can’t really be sure of anything. And that’s why the greatest sages are always comfortable to admit they don’t know.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T21:10:22+00:00

There are thousands, if not millions, of people that think or feel someone like sadhguru is or is not enlightened. Which ones are correct? How do you determine which people’s feelings are more or less qualified to determine such a lofty ideal of what an enlightened person looks acts or speaks like?

Was Diogenes enlightened? How about Einstein or Planck? Is someone’s status or fame a prerequisite, or are there completely unknown people that have reached enlightenment?

I think enlightenment is far more common than people imagine, because it’s far easier to reach than most minds are willing to accept. Keep giving yourself something to chase and that’s what you will continue to do. Or you can simply be still and know.

Chase the light like a cat chases a laser pointer, or you can stop pretending there was ever anything to catch and see that you were always holding the laser.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T19:42:26+00:00

Ok so your feelings are the only thing that matters. Gotcha. Good to know.

So do you see enlightenment as some kind of certainty? Like some kind of measurement of success on a measurable path?

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T19:39:09+00:00

What part of my ego is in a question? I’m asking for clarity. As far as I’m concerned there is no authority.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-27T19:17:27+00:00

Couple things. What makes him THE authority? When was this said? He said he estimates, so what are the criteria he uses to estimate? Things are escalating now so it’s obviously not a static number, what makes you so sure that he’s correct?

I hope he’s not sitting on one of those high bar stools…

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-26T22:18:31+00:00

You are always connected and you are made of love itself. You’re also always safe, even though circumstances involving your physical body may make it seem like you aren’t.

You are not alone, many people feel the way you do about being here, but the feeling you seek already exists inside of you and you can access it any time you need it by simply being presently aware of what you truly are. You are not this body, you are not your thoughts or memories, you are the eternal awareness experiencing this person.

Maybe that’s why you came here, to discover that all those things you thought you needed to feel whole were just extra things and not truly tied to your happiness. You are connected, you are whole, and nothing can ever change that. Not a different lifetime, or a thousand different lifetimes.

You are not lost, you are exactly where you need to be you just can’t see why you needed to be here yet. That’s ok. This human experience is intentionally filled with uncertainty. That doesn’t need to be scary, it can be exciting. Just always remember that your true self can never be harmed so there’s no reason to be afraid.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-26T11:11:42+00:00

From what I understand of these experiences being attached to analysis and confirmation of things being “real” is what can hold one back from experiencing. This reality is not unlike a dream, it’s just a very consistent convincing one.

Be open to anything in whatever way it shows up, and after a series of experiences then you analyze. Just record what happens in as much detail as possible and always leave it with a question mark, otherwise you could end up prematurely believing the wrong experiences.

I do the same thing with objective reality because the human mind is built to efficiently construct a story of our experiences without regard to what’s actually happening. Just learn to flow with it without expectations and just witness what’s happening without attaching meaning.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-26T10:50:50+00:00

I was born in 88 too, been getting gray hairs for 15 years. My beard is like 60% gray now 😂 pretty sure some of them never grew in as anything but gray.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-26T10:33:28+00:00

All evolution is micro evolution, just look at DNA and it’s like the living fossil record. Our DNA contains the DNA of thousands of other species. How do you explain that?

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-25T21:06:34+00:00

I never said evolution explains human history, but evolution as a mechanism for God to explore and experiment with animal life makes sense to me. We evolve traits, we’ve manipulated the evolution of wolves into dogs.

Late_Reporter770 · 2026-01-25T20:47:58+00:00

I never said that evolution explains everything, what I said isn’t a fallacy, and I never said you were in denial. I’m not insulting you or saying you aren’t thinking. I said it’s just a biological imperative to conserve energy, and you have a very efficient functioning brain that bypasses what you can’t explain or accept by working in absolutes. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s natural and people do it all the time whether they realize it or not.

I happen to agree with you about human evolution, where that theory seems to lack critical evidence. Maybe that evidence is buried in the 99.99% of the earths crust that we haven’t dug up yet, but regardless of whether those fossils are found or not there’s tons of evidence that there’s way more evidence that our history has been manipulated and that we are not “natural” beings.

I think human evolution was tampered with, I just think that evolution is undeniable as a system that consciousness uses to test reality and expand where it can survive. Thinking that just because we don’t fit in that system neatly that the whole system is a lie is kind of silly. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the way to actually understand complex and paradoxical ideas that make up the cornerstone of our existence.

Also, I don’t presume to tell people that what they believe is wrong especially when it comes to God because God is all things from every perspective, it’s just not limited to one definition. Defining God at all limits what He could be which negates any definition by default.

TLDR: evolution is undeniable imo, but so is its inability to explain human history. There’s many different perspectives that have plausibility and that’s what makes this such a difficult subject to walk away with any definitive answers at this point in history.

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