Wondering how many egomaniacs are about to rage-comment under this video, calling it ‘Buddhist crap,’ insisting we’re all separate little snowflakes, and preaching that enlightenment is just a mood - all while polishing their sacred dogmas like they’re family heirlooms.
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u/Bitchywitchy__
6 points2025-09-30 09:57
Yeah, it is “Buddhist crap.”
In the sense that they call experiences the “result” of letting go of the self — when in fact, it’s just the effect of a small shift of the assemblage point.
And in the end, you still die like any regular person, only with a relatively calmer life.
When you “let go of the self,” the magic rushes into you!
And well, it’s kind of unnatural — once you’ve experienced magic at that level and then seen the sorcerers’ technology — not to jump with joy and embrace it.
From my view, the only reason you could witness sorcery and then just go back to fixing your own system or chasing something else, is that you never had such a sustained experience that shook you to your very core.
I mean, what you’re after has already been worked on by thousands of sorcerers for 10,000 years, and it’s all right here in front of you. So why bother starting from zero or running after something else?
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u/appleofdeus
1 points2025-09-30 10:14
The fact is, once you’ve actually been there (which, let’s be honest, almost nobody on this wonderful Reddit has), you realize there’s not much to chase anymore — everything already is as it should be. Then the natural question arises: why don’t you use magic for anything if it’s not just an AP shift? The answer is simple: you don’t need to, because while you’re there, you already have everything.
And the one asking ‘why this, why that’ - that voice isn’t brilliance, it’s the flyers’ mind with its endless ID-hooks. Maybe it’s not just a shift of the assemblage point, but an opportunity to fully ignite the cocoon, to finally shine once the flyer can’t latch onto the top anymore.
I get it - until you’ve been there at least once, it’s impossible to grasp. Because once you are, you can answer anything you want, and it feels like playing a game with cheats - powerful, but also kind of boring when you can do whatever you want - but you dont want anything anymore since there no wishes left (Silvio Manuels lvl or Don Juans).
For the moment its okay to argue but the moment will change...;)
And it's very true that y8ou'll reach some super advanced (from our point of view) states in the second attention and realize that to pass to the next one, which you can clearly see at that point, you have to "let go".
But I've seen that many times, and each time the next day, I realized that telling people to "let go" would just results in them pretending they're doing that, based on fake magical systems.
It just adds dirt to the link to intent.
despite being very true.
Why?
Because the "self" is composed of many parts, all beaten into your by your family.
There's shame if you disappoint mom, the urge to keep an eye on siblings to make sure they don't get "more" than you do, a need to do better than your cousin of the same age, how to deal with bullies in elementary school, and far too many more, to even begin to figure them out.
The Self is more like a spider web of seemingly unrelated phobias and concerns.
In truth, you can more quickly remove the "self" by exploring the second attention daily, and learning to just "look in a different direction" to see something very concrete, but indescribable.
Last night, I was using some very long sausages that looked more like fuzzy corn cobs. There were there, floating in the second attention, and when I tried to figure out what they were, my "self" fell off.
If you remove your internal dialogue, focusing on something far outside the "self", is kind of like using a hook and rope to grab a ride out of somewhere unpleasant.
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Wondering how many egomaniacs are about to rage-comment under this video, calling it ‘Buddhist crap,’ insisting we’re all separate little snowflakes, and preaching that enlightenment is just a mood - all while polishing their sacred dogmas like they’re family heirlooms.
Yeah, it is “Buddhist crap.”
In the sense that they call experiences the “result” of letting go of the self — when in fact, it’s just the effect of a small shift of the assemblage point.
And in the end, you still die like any regular person, only with a relatively calmer life.
When you “let go of the self,” the magic rushes into you!
And well, it’s kind of unnatural — once you’ve experienced magic at that level and then seen the sorcerers’ technology — not to jump with joy and embrace it.
From my view, the only reason you could witness sorcery and then just go back to fixing your own system or chasing something else, is that you never had such a sustained experience that shook you to your very core.
I mean, what you’re after has already been worked on by thousands of sorcerers for 10,000 years, and it’s all right here in front of you. So why bother starting from zero or running after something else?
The fact is, once you’ve actually been there (which, let’s be honest, almost nobody on this wonderful Reddit has), you realize there’s not much to chase anymore — everything already is as it should be. Then the natural question arises: why don’t you use magic for anything if it’s not just an AP shift? The answer is simple: you don’t need to, because while you’re there, you already have everything.
And the one asking ‘why this, why that’ - that voice isn’t brilliance, it’s the flyers’ mind with its endless ID-hooks. Maybe it’s not just a shift of the assemblage point, but an opportunity to fully ignite the cocoon, to finally shine once the flyer can’t latch onto the top anymore.
I get it - until you’ve been there at least once, it’s impossible to grasp. Because once you are, you can answer anything you want, and it feels like playing a game with cheats - powerful, but also kind of boring when you can do whatever you want - but you dont want anything anymore since there no wishes left (Silvio Manuels lvl or Don Juans).
For the moment its okay to argue but the moment will change...;)
A related post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/1e9r8g4/who_would_you_be_if_you_forgot_who_you_were/
"Be somebody" /= "self".
Just FYI.
And it's very true that y8ou'll reach some super advanced (from our point of view) states in the second attention and realize that to pass to the next one, which you can clearly see at that point, you have to "let go".
But I've seen that many times, and each time the next day, I realized that telling people to "let go" would just results in them pretending they're doing that, based on fake magical systems.
It just adds dirt to the link to intent.
despite being very true.
Why?
Because the "self" is composed of many parts, all beaten into your by your family.
There's shame if you disappoint mom, the urge to keep an eye on siblings to make sure they don't get "more" than you do, a need to do better than your cousin of the same age, how to deal with bullies in elementary school, and far too many more, to even begin to figure them out.
The Self is more like a spider web of seemingly unrelated phobias and concerns.
In truth, you can more quickly remove the "self" by exploring the second attention daily, and learning to just "look in a different direction" to see something very concrete, but indescribable.
Last night, I was using some very long sausages that looked more like fuzzy corn cobs. There were there, floating in the second attention, and when I tried to figure out what they were, my "self" fell off.
If you remove your internal dialogue, focusing on something far outside the "self", is kind of like using a hook and rope to grab a ride out of somewhere unpleasant.