Tag: awareness

Anyone tried Ayawaska (also witten Ayahuasca)?

With so many faked gurus around, I think we should construct a cheat sheet with guidelines based on each one's experience on how to recognize (or at least suspect) a bogus guru...

Your most fundamental fears are inherited

Your most fundamental fears, the ones that grievously spoil your quality of life, the ones that paralyze you completely, happen to be fears you inherited from your parents.

Nisargadatta Maharaj gives seekers the same advice his guru gave him: abide in the "I Am".

I am about to try MDMA (the active ingredient in ecstasy) for the first time. I am interested in the spiritual and psychological applications of it.

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No one can give you the evil eye unless the seed is already planted in you.

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I would like to open this discussion. I'm sometimes doubting whether I should stick to one guru or rather be open to teachings and satsangs of several.

I want to scream it so loud that everybody will hear it but people are not listening:

The way to happiness is so simple -

Someone can say "Jupiter is made of cheese and therefore it looks white". I cannot validate that Jupiter is made of cheese as currently I cannot travel to Jupiter therefore it is a theory for me and therefore useless. Nevertheless, I may be still willing to accept this statement as valid if the sayer is actually an astronaut and happened to travel to Jupiter once...

(The beauty of the following is that it's not a theory, you can try it by yourself)

The observed object determines the observing subject.