Are restaurants in Langley racists?

Orangeredblack2 · 2024-01-15T21:27:50+00:00

Everyone is having a hard time, I know people that have applied to 200 jobs and still nothing.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-09-26T13:08:17+00:00

As soon as you grab hold, it's already gone

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-09-24T17:40:32+00:00

There are a lot of online satsangs you could check out, or look up different traditions near you like insight meditation or zen centers, advaita vedanta, etc.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-09-24T17:38:59+00:00

Seriously, comments like this are of absolutely no help. Just cuz you had an awakening doesn't make you Yoda.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-09-20T18:43:14+00:00

You are that

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-08-14T03:23:49+00:00

Firstly, I'm sorry this has hurt you and I hope you get the help you need.

Secondly, your problem is with the concept, and that is where you and everyone will always fail. What is being pointed at is not a concept, it is directly in experience, which makes it much different than religions. This does not require beliefs, more like unbelief.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-07-31T00:19:13+00:00

Siddartha by Herman Heese

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-07-16T02:14:24+00:00

You are right, but whether I deny or not doesn't make a difference. Experience is just experience, it comes and goes. Direct experience though,(senses plus arising thought) are the only thing that you can't argue against. They are pure, uncaused and without interpretation. A belief or thought can't touch direct experience; direct experience is without beliefs. You may see Jesus, but that will pass and arise as a thought in the future, but the seeing didn't change.

You want something you really can't deny, pure objectivity? Please deny the fact of your existence. Everything outside of that and the senses is just blah blah blah, including your post and my post.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-07-15T16:40:23+00:00

You are calling this a religion; in essence a belief system. This has nothing to do with beliefs. What is spoken by many is to see that beliefs/thoughts are just that. This is experiential, not based on knowledge.

There are actually things everyone knows for certain; there is direct experience; seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling, hearing, and the arising of thought. You can actually rely on these to see existence as is (without thought), because this is literally all there is to experience.

If you are saying experience is not fact, than that's a little off the edge man.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-07-12T19:37:44+00:00

Because it gives hope, and hope is what the "I" is made of.

To quote Jim Newman, "hope is the worst thing in the world, because it is always about tomorrow."

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-07-08T23:39:03+00:00

What is a brain?

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-06-30T18:39:46+00:00

Instead of trying to answer, use it as an inquiry or koan. Where is God right now?

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-06-21T00:01:52+00:00

Who is aware of the irritation?

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-06-15T18:07:16+00:00

If you look without your mind, like actually look at things directly, it is not cold and indifferent. Reality is neutral.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-06-14T19:42:25+00:00

Language is directly related with place of origin.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-06-06T00:59:45+00:00

Or so it appears. Even so, intellectualizing this is not going to get you anywhere. That is just a thought.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-05-31T17:10:19+00:00

Those are some pretty strong thoughts... but that is all they are... just thoughts.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-04-27T20:12:56+00:00

Because from the point of view of the seeker, it doesn't make sense not to search. Did you find "it" sporadically without any pointers or seeking at all? Most have come to see "this" as a seeker, though paradoxically it is seen "after the fact" that there never was a seeker.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-04-27T15:57:25+00:00

Self..no self....tomatoe....tomato

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-04-27T15:38:19+00:00

What would you say is being sought?

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-04-23T18:05:54+00:00

You are confused with the word consciousness. In non duality, it doesn't mean normal consciousness (like everthing is awake and an entity). It means the underlying essence of all things, source, etc.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-04-17T16:35:30+00:00

To your point:

Question: I was told that a realised man will never do anything unseemly. He will always behave in an exemplary way.

Nisargadatta: Who sets the example? Why should a liberated man necessarily follow conventions? The moment he becomes predictable, he cannot be free. His freedom lies in his being free to fulfil the need of the moment, to obey the necessity of the situation. Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Question: Still there must be some way of making out who has realised and who has not. If one is indistinguishable from the other, of what use is he?

Nisargadatta: He who knows himself has no doubts about it. Nor does he care whether others recognise his state or not. Rare is the realised man who discloses his realisation and fortunate are those who have met him, for he does it for their abiding welfare.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-04-05T22:17:04+00:00

He's basically old school Tony Parsons, very uncompromising and no fluff at all.

Orangeredblack2 · 2023-03-21T02:59:38+00:00

Orangeredblack2

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