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the first videos I contributed to this thread were of Sadhguru and Osho. Love those guys.
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TYE_The Time Traveler
this is what I struggled with in the beginning. I got really into reading about nihilism and I think it made me appreciate just the opportunity to be able to learn what we're learning. But I had to get to the point through many steps. At first, I would play devils advocate against enlightenment and spirituality because the idea that there could be nothing when you die, no reincarnation, no heaven, no interstellar travel through the universe as an energy source, is very possible. All of this could be bull ****. These are all thoughts of a lucky man. "We're born in the balls of the **** that's ******* the world" - Joe Rogan.
Then I asked myself, "well then, what is real? What is so undeniably and universally known as being real? Feelings!" We know how it feels to be angry, to be sad, to be arrogant, lu****l, gluttonous, greedy, resentful. We also know how it feels to be happy, to receive good complements, to be loved, to love, to be compassionate, empathetic, excited, disciplined etc. We knows these things are real because we've all felt this things. So why not be a beacon of positive feelings? Seems real enough to me that everyone can relate and can strive to achieve this. And at the end of the day, to me, that's all enlightenment is, is love.
I say all of that to say this. There are people around the world that are suffering in a way where they can't do anything about it. They have it way worse than we could ever imagine. Our oppression is subtle, but it's still oppression. I don't think being oppressed from the truth can be measured in terms of who is more oppressed than others. Most beings are under oppression. It's just in most cultures you can see it right in front of your eyes and in ours it's hidden in plain sight.
But because we have an opportunity in this "self made American" culture to learn the truth and actually use capitalism and the internet to make changes, we have a duty to act. A duty to change. Because our material way of living is causing the suffering in these other countries. It's our governments fault, but it's our fault too because we participate in the game.
Just because we have a bunch of material goods doesn't mean we should be grateful to our masters. They put all that there to blind you from the truth. They created this world wide culture of division, greed, hate.
Be grateful to the universe. Be grateful to chance. The lucky roll of the dice we got to be born where we were born, in this time period, being alive at this moment. We're the lucky ones. So let's apply what we are learning and do something that is going to effect everyone in a positive way.
