Is the road to enlightenment blue pilled? Meditation, detachment from ego, is it beta in todays society...

Is the road to enlightenment blue pilled? Meditation, detachment from ego, is it beta in todays society? If the world was a peaceful place It would be key.

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Yes it is. Most of this eastern mysticism was used as weapon by the cia to further demoralize and sedate the population. That's why all these hollyweird types from LA get into it and then broadcast in their songs and media.

If you want to be truly spiritually awake become an Orthodox Christian and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ as they were meant to be taught.

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Enlightenment is literally the attainment of knowledge. It is not bicycling to work, eating granola, saying Namaste to everyone you meet, staring at your navel while chanting Om, wearing a bindi on your forehead, burning incense, living in a monastery, speaking cryptically, adhering to any particular path ethos or morality, giving away your material wealth, or any of that shit.

To be enlightened is to be red-pilled.

But isn't being Red Pilled just stimulating your ego?

OP sucks off poo-in-loo cult leaders.

This. There is more than one path to enlightenment, and there's nothing bluepilled about any legit road to enlightenment. Stuff like the non-self principles are about getting a more objective view of the world. When you understand something objectively, then you're enlightened. It's not just something Siddhartha Gautama came up with starving to death under a tree.

These guys aren't just into polytheism... they know fully well that these dieties are actually demons. These poo-in-loo cult leaders are all perverted faggots. People who listen to them are cuckolds... and I mean that as litteral as possible.

Don't you people the third eye meditations are a lot like the mark of the beast in the bible?

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samefagging because I got to elaborate on this. It's not just about going 'oh there is no me,' it's about acknowledging an unhappy truth and negotiating with it. Let's talk about rejection of the ego and the concept of a fixed Self.

A human body is matter like anything else. You eat, and the food is absorbed. You shit some out, but some of the food becomes a part of you. And, you also shit out part of what once was a part of you. Every day parts of you is dying - stomach lining constantly dying from contact with stomach acid, replacing itself every four days. Every six weeks your liver has completely replaced itself. And when a cell dies, it's already made its replacement. Some of it is recycled, some of it is replaced with new material, some of it is excreted. At what point do you stop being 'you' from the 'you' you were born? There is logical basis for an unchanging concrete self.

There's an empirical self - one you can deduce by rational analysis, but there's nothing intrinsically you about you. This exists and can be shown to exist: the ability to think proves by necessity there's something like a you, even if there isn't a permanent, unchanging you. And the whole point is cultivating this empirical self, about learning and reading and thinking, while disabusing yourself of lies that sound happy.

Sound like anything yet?

If you're going for the whole buddhist thing - you don't have to but whatever works for you - make sure you're actually adhering to buddhism and not the bullshit WholeFoods buddhism. The hippie shit that's in America often misses the point.

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Knowledge is not opinion, opinion is opinion. If enlightenment is attainment of knowledge, and knowledge is inherently based on fact, then it can be safely said knowledge which can not be put to use is of no value. If something was true before you knew it, and knowing it makes no difference whatsoever, then that knowledge has no more value residing in you than it did residing in Nature as fact.

If the only use to which you put knowledge is satisfaction in your own achievement of knowledge then yes, it is nothing but ego stimulation. One can as easily be humbled by knowledge as be made more egoic by it, therefore knowledge, and its attainment, are not inherently egoic; neither in its pursuit nor in its attainment. Enlightenment is not knowing without acting, it is both knowing and knowing when and where to apply that knowing.

Very well put! You seem to know a lot about this or have experimented with it.

I have always had a fondness for the application of Theseus' Ship to philosophy and self-reflection, and that parallels much of what you said.

I mostly agree with your assessment of Buddhism and the pseudo-Easternization of the American trustafarian, but in my experience it is actually better to dabble than commit when it comes to religion or philosophy; provided that one is dabbling in many pools of thought. Every religion and spiritual path offers knowledge to the dedicated seeker; but if one bows to the authority of any path one is sure to come away with an aggrandized sense of understanding and accomplishment, so such a dabbler should always be wary of suspending scrutiny.

Thank you! I'm always a bit self-conscious about trying to put such things into words.

I had a lucid dream ~20 years ago, and my quest for answers about the nature of dreaming led me into a much deeper rabbit-hole than I was expecting when I first fell in!

>It's not just something Siddhartha Gautama came up with starving to death under a tree.

I love your phrasing here.

I clicked on your image expecting total shit. Pleasantly suprised.

Enlightenment comes in different paths, yet all paths lead to the same destination.

I could say to myself "I wish to change the opinions of others" yet in doing so I would have only changed myself. The truth is everything that has a beginning has an end. When you start the process or journey as some call it you always begin with "I am". Nothing is good or bad, not life nor death.

In conjunction with the right topics I would say true meditation alongside the betterment of humanity is congruent with good and therefore redpilled. However, as an abstraction, the opposite pursuits are wrong. Yet both results are the same, so to speak. Others will carry the banner of both forms of enlightenment, as an ideology of sorts. One could be of commercialism and consumerism, the other of nationalism and ethnic pride. In truth they are both cyclical and only last as long as the other does. In my opinion civilization is a spiral of which one can ride effortlessly in freedom while alive and enlightenment is achieved. In the end most (not everyone) seek happiness, being whole and complete. The removal of the self from systems and thoughts in general lead to a better life in every regard.

>The removal of the self from systems and thoughts in general lead to a better life in every regard.

This is what I have been battling with. /Pol Red Pilled the fuck out of me yet I wish to give up all ideologies as it just is ego. Its hard to balance both, or maybe I need to try harder in a sense

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>Its hard to balance both, or maybe I need to try harder in a sense

The truth is that it's meant to be easy mode, not harder. Many people earn a living doing what they love doing. If you are going hard it means you're probably fighting against doing something else or are in an envrionment where doing what you love is considered hard. You have to cut out whatever doesn't work for your pathing. As a microcosm, use Cred Forums's board list to see what really interests you and ignore the boards you dislike like the plague.

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Too true

You misunderstood me, m8. I was more warning against the watered down yoga-and-granola bullshit you see from some guy with crazier hair than Richard Stallman. It's definitely better to dabble as you put it.