No.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
What does Yas Forums think about Eckhart Tolle?
William Mitchell
Daniel Morris
He should give that sweater away, too. It's too nice. Once he runs around in a potato sack, he's fully enlightened.
I don't know who has the wrong idea of enlightenment. The new age nonsense seems wrong. Maybe living like Diogenes, in a barrel, is wrong, too. Better commit suicide. That's the most minimal way one can exist.
What is enlightenment?
Jaxson Torres
It basically just goes into the nature of the "ego." It was my first step into...The Way.
Alan Watts "The Book" changed everything though. That's when shit got real.
4-5 years later and the transformation I've gone through is incredible.
Samuel Taylor
Yeah, stuff like that is why I haven't looked into Buddhism extensively for example. I keep getting bored of it too fast, it contradicts itself all the time which makes it tiresome to try to take seriously.
A question I had goes something like this (if this reads as confused, you're god damn right I'm confused): If I've got it right, Buddhism (or some schools, at least) teaches that all of existence only exists because/when you observe it [insert vague reference to science here], the goal being to meditate until you experience only the nothing (forgot the terminology, but you get it). All other individuals, for all intents and purposes, aren't real. Or they're you (because of the soul of creation or whatever - again, names). So if you're bad to another individual, that individual doesn't exist, but also he's you, and so you should be kind to everyone.. because.. karma?
But if this is all a dream projected much like what we would see a normal dream, as in, it exists only because we make it exist, then what is karma? If this is all just me making shit up, or us collectively, originally one soul/being/energy, making it up, then why shouldn't a Buddhist do whatever he wanted in this playground that we call "reality"? If we make it up, why not avoid the whole karma thing as well? I don't get it.
Too many contradictions, and all of the "teachers" are gatekeeping the fuck out of anything useful because it's all aimed at the intellectual level of some streetshitter, so the reasoning is that you can't know the secrets because they're secret, but also you wouldn't understand so they can't tell you, so that's why they can't tell you (for, again, no reason, because if you couldn't understand anyway, what's the harm)?
James Nguyen
I read one of his books about 10 years ago when I was locked up.
It was ego and why it's bad to identify with things... It made a really good case against identity politics even though it had nothing to do with politics.
William Young
con artist just like all the rest, but i can respect anyone who can run a good old scam and remove money from retards
Brody Thompson
how'd you end up with evola though
Easton Moore
Are you that guy with the telegram group? There's too much stuff, man. Got to zip that shit up, or it's just too much to take in in any structured manner. So should I read another Eckhart Tolle book, or go straight to "The Book"?
Also, can you describe any of your "transformation", as in how it has affected you?
Leo Thomas
Props. His book helped me through divorce.