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Is it possible to lead a double life?
    #26577520 - 04/04/20 03:31 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

For those who have gone far into the mystical plains… is it possible to balance psychedelics and white collar working? Or do I need to drop out of society?

Is it possible to lead a double life? Mystic on weekend / Friday night; worker on Monday-Friday. Or is that going to limit how far I "can see" into the higher plains?

(Disclaimer: People who have gone far into mysticism know how magical our existence / mind is... how far the mind can expand, what can be seen that can't be possibly imagined / meaningfully described in the ordinary state, the eternal alien-like messages, and what all that means to reality... so I'm being very serious when I say "higher plains", and my interest in exploring this is now an obsession--not just a casual interest--that is making me think about quitting a high-paying job to just fully drop out).

I took psychedelics during a gap year, so I don't know... but I’m just thinking that work keeps you anchored to this-worldly domain. I mean, if you have to report to work on Monday with maybe a tie to look important, doesn’t it kind of make transcending on Friday feel a bit ridiculous?

Hopefully, I'm wrong, and you don't need to be a hermit to fully transcend through psychedelics. Maybe the whole noise of work drifts into meaninglessness during ego death. Maybe you can / should have the best of both worlds, and I’m making too big of a deal of this. That’s what I’m hoping…

Please any honest, experienced / informed views about leading a double life?


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: EternalDreamer]
    #26577587 - 04/04/20 04:04 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

As above so below as they say.

Back in the days of yore a ton of people tried this in India with very few successes, and there have been many failures and people who drove themselves mad doing it, so I would suggest that it's probably best to just take it easy on yourself and take things as they come. Be careful with your mind and be good to yourself, the extremeties of the spiritual planes are mostly for those who it comes naturally to. I think finding a good teacher is very important (and difficult to find them and discern amongst) if you really want a vehicle there.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: EternalDreamer]
    #26578361 - 04/04/20 11:30 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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I mean, if you have to report to work on Monday with maybe a tie to look important, doesn’t it kind of make transcending on Friday feel a bit ridiculous?




Maybe it's the other way around.  ✌


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: Asclepius]
    #26578413 - 04/04/20 11:58 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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Asclepius said:
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I mean, if you have to report to work on Monday with maybe a tie to look important, doesn’t it kind of make transcending on Friday feel a bit ridiculous?




Maybe it's the other way around.  ✌




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The “2”. Lives aren’t mutually exclusive unless that’s how it plays out for you , it can be synergistic too. Nor are they actually 2 separate lives,  you distinguish them mentally and convey it as so via the limits of language and current imagination,  in reality it’s just your 1 life with myriad experiences .  Being attached to mystical experiences is a known fault in those who practice esoteric religious and spiritual traditions, and it’s actually a hinderance when the type of thinking or view your conveying as OP becomes set In stone. 

Those who want to live in peak experience 24-7 are deluded, it’s like wanting a flower 🌹 to not decay, and only stay at its most beautiful, it’s not realistic, not how things work, and shows a lack of insight into the understanding of reality.  They suffer the most, stuck in their view which sets anything not extraordinarily blatantly mystical in opposition to the mundane,  thus creating a loop of self defeating living.


Dropping out is overrated.  Being a part of it all, and connecting more deeply, is much better imho.  Breaks from it all are fine, but total disconnection is just running away from things and the opposite spectrum as fully selling out.  It’s one thing if you want to be a monk in a community which has occasional hermitages for personal contemplation,  but no one just starts doing that, they progressive in most cases,  the ones that run to it, usually run back because they didn’t think it through.


The way you act at home in private is likely different than how you are in the office or in public during certain formal occasions,  that doesn’t mean you have to drop out lmao.

Only thing limiting you here is your imagination, or rather a failure of imagination.

Ordinary life and its day to day round is just as mystical as the realms induced by mushrooms,  failure to acknowledge this simply more dualism at play. 

Immanent transcendency, recognizing all situations as illusory evanescence, from mystical plains to wearing ties.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26578745 - 04/05/20 04:57 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

"God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next.
Amen."


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: Grapefruit]
    #26578946 - 04/05/20 08:20 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Thanks - all really great comments. I still need more advice though.

I took a hiatus 5 years ago from psychedelics following a gap year for the sole, explicit purpose of taking a very high-paying job so I could retire as soon as possible. I saved a good amount at a young age, but not well enough to just retire and raise a family well.

Now, I'm starting to think this "hiatus" will never end.

I'm so peeved!

I know how great and incredible it all is "there", so it's so hard for me to bear here. I feel trapped in this world and its nonsense, and that I can never get back to what I glimpsed. I feel like I walked out on a really interesting movie and now can't get back in the theaters. I don't really have much recollection about the movie either... just that it was really interesting, and I want to go back. Sometimes, I get sparks of inspiration that taunt me about what I'm missing... so much so that it actually has me stomping around, kicking and screaming like a child as a young adult. I don't care that it's immature. It's what I feel.

It has me fuming.

I don't want to waste my life not seeing more on the other side. This is such a miracle. It's absolutely incredible. And to not be able to fully explore those higher plains with pure 24/7 obsession because of work, is a tragedy. I know how great it is there, but I have to be roped into this world and its stupid responsibilities. Instead of enjoying the magic of our existence and death, my mental attention needs to be distracted on, "rational", "productive" this-worldly matters Monday-Friday.

I want to raise a family, and you need recurring money. What I have is good but not sustainable.

How is it possible to balance being a worker and mystic? They just don't tango, in my view... like... at all.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: EternalDreamer]
    #26578957 - 04/05/20 08:28 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I think a lot of psychedelic users feel that way in some form. Same probably for anyone who has had a mystical experience by any rout. Shit fucks you up man. Kierkgaard I believe talked extensively on the dangers of ecstatic experiences for the psyche, I believe the term is ambivalence. You feel ripped in two directions.

I can't give you the answers because I don't have them, probably you gotta listen to yourself and figure out your own direction to some extent, then hopefully if it feels right stick to it whatever anybody else says IMO.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: EternalDreamer]
    #26578965 - 04/05/20 08:36 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

This book helped me shake the metastasizing tentacles of my own belief in a concrete dualistic world view that had me chasing my own tail, hence my name The Blind Ass.  I used to be a downright slave to the mystical experience, and Spent much foolish effort not seeing the true nature of things clearly, because of my own attachment to what was merely an experience.  Funny thing is, when I trained as a novice in a Rinzai temple in Jp,  my seniors there could almost immediately tell what my problem was, yet I couldn’t until it finally dawned on me that I had been so far from “it”, I might as well be at the beginning of any sense of understanding in that I knew I knew I was truly ignorant, and my beliefs that shaped my psychic life, and from that my worldly life, was based on a reality that was conceptually caged by my own making, and that reality itself is in reality, always already imminently transcendent, with or without ecstatic peak experiences,  which btw, are not the end All be all, and are really no more than last nights dream, a memory of an experience that will, like all  experience fade into unreality.

I hope, that maybe it might do the same for you.  Dzogchen classic-  My gift to you...

http://promienie.net/images/dharma/books/longchenpa_maya-yoga.pdf

Here’s an excerpt from another book that’s a Dzogchen classic”Natural Perfection”....


Homage to Glorious Samantabhadra, the All-Good!
To timeless buddhahood, basic total presence,
to unchanging spontaneity, the spacious vajra-heart, to the nature ofmind-natural perfection- constandy, simply being, we bow down.
This unutterable space that is the nature ofthings, the apogee ofview that is natural perfection- listen as I explain my understanding
ofthis sole immanent reality.
The conclusive meaning of Mind, Matrix, and Secret Precept lies in absence, openness, spontaneity, and unity.
These four are treated each in four aspects:
disclosure, assimilation, "the bind;' and resolution.
THE FIRST THEME: ABSENCE
Ihe Disclosure ofAbsence
First let me tell you about "absence;'
the absence that is essentially emptiness:
in the super-matrix ofpure mind that is like space whatever appears is absent in reality.

2.2. Natural Perfection
In the universal womb that is boundless space
all forms of matter and energy occur as flux of the four
elements,
but all are empty forms, absent in reality:
all phenomena, arising in pure mind, are like that.
Magical illusion, whatever its form,
lacks substance, empty in nature;
likewise, all experience of the world, arisen in the moment, unstirring from pure mind, is insubstantial evanescence.
Just as dream is a part ofsleep, unreal gossamer in its arising,
so all and everything is pure mind, never separated from it,
and without substance or attribute.
Experience may arise in the mind
but it is neither mind nor anything but mind;
it is a vivid display of absence, like magical illusion, in the very moment inconceivable and unutterable. All experience arising in the mind,
at its inception, know it as absence!
Just as the objective field is absent in reality, so "the knower"-in actuality pure mind, in essence an absence-is like the clear sky: know it in its ineffable reality!
In the heart-essence that is self-sprung awareness,
the absence ofcausalitycloses the abyss ofsamsara,
the absence ofdiscrimination integrates samsara and nirvana, and in the absence ofglitches and veils the triple world coalesces.
In total presence, the nature ofmind that is like the sky, where there is no duality, no distinction, no gradation,
there is no view nor meditation nor commitment to observe, no diligent ideal conduct, no pristine awareness to unveil,


no training in the stages and no path to tread,
no subtle level ofrealization, and no final union.
In the absence ofjudgment nothing is "sacred" or "profane," only a one-taste matrix, like the Golden Isle;
the self-sprung nature of mind is like the clear sky,
its nature an absence beyond all expression.
The actual essence, pristine rigpa,
cannot be improved upon, so virtue is profitless,
and it cannot be impaired, so vice is harmless;
in its absence ofkarma there is no ripening ofpleasure or pain;
in its absence ofjudgment, no preference for samsara or nirvana; · in its absence ofarticulation, it has no dimension;
in its absence ofpast and future, rebirth is an empty notion:
who is there to transmigrate? and how to wander?
what is karma and how can it mature?
Contemplate the reality that is like the clear sky!
Constantly deconstructing, investigating keenly,
not even the slightest substance can be found;
and in the undivided moment ofnondual perception we abide in the natural state ofperfection.
Absent when scrutinized, absent when ignored, not even an iota ofsolid matter is attested;
so all aspects ofexperience are always absent- know it as nothing but magical illusion!
During the empty enchantment ofdream ignorant babes are entranced,
while the wise, disillusioned, are undeceived; those unaware ofthe truth ofabsence, clinging to their identity, wander in circles, while the wise yogin, fully present,
knowing the zingofreality,
convinced of the absence in that very moment, is liberated in the noncontingent reality-matrix.

i.4 Natural Perfection
In total presence, the in,determinate nature ofmind,
lies the timeless pristine awareness ofnondual perception; in sheer naked, noncontingent rigpa,
lies the nondiscriminatory holistic seed;
in the holistic transparence ofzero-dimensional rigpa, lies the contemplation ofDharmakaya Samantabhadra; in essential absence, the intrinsic rigpa of total presence, nonreferential, immaculate contemplation is shining.
In the yoga ofenchanting illusion, the play ofrigpa,
empty experience arises as evanescent, uncrystallizing display, and convinced of absence in the moment of its inception, without the least urge to control, to cultivate or reject,
we remain open, at ease, carefree, and detached.
A fool deceived by magical illusion is like an animal pursuing a mirage in his thirst for water;
expecting his delusive hopes to be realized,
trusting in his dogma, he is trapped;
losing his way on the eightfold gradation ofintellect, he fails to see the real meaning.
The spaciousness within and beyond the atiyoga precepts
is a complete absence, nothing whatsoever, like the sky:
in the very moment, in the natural disposition ofpure being, as the original hyper-space that we cannot abandon,
the natural state ofpure pleasure is spontaneously arisen. ·
Ifsecret rigpa, the actual buddha-dynamic, eludes us, to attain release by any purposeful action is no option. "Everything is impermanent and bound to perish"- how can a tight mesh ofbody, speech, and mind reach out to touch its own indestructible core?
So ifwe aspire to the supreme state ofbeing
we should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech, and mind;
and stretching out in inconceivable nonaction,

in the unstructured matrix, the actuality ofabsence,
where the natural perfection of reality lies,
we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness ofevery experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.
In the absence ofoutside and inside, subject and object, intrinsic rigpa, being out of time and space,
supersedes all finite events that seemingly begin and end; pure as the sky, it is without signposts or means ofaccess. Any specific insight into rigpa is always deluded,
so that any spiritual identity, always delusive, is abandoned;
and convinced that the space ofundifferentiated Samantabhadra
is the all-encompassing super-emptiness ofall samsara and nirvana, the natural state obtains as the reality without transition or change. Breaking out ofthe brittle shell ofdiscursive view
into the hyper-spaciousness that is nowhere located,
in the experience ofabsence the crux ofthe matter is fully disclosed.

End of excerpt.


No drugs or mystical experience or peak experience can compare to the whole of it... that’s an ordinary mans word, with a profound understanding that doesn’t need psychedelics to artificially sustain such a view.  Reflect on that..


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26579029 - 04/05/20 09:12 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I think your post is a better insight into what a living teacher can do for you than it is so much about the value of the various forms of scripture there might be.

If you meet someone teaching an authentic spiritual path it's pretty obvious in some ways from the outset. They will blow holes in your thinking and point you toward the true self in a way that books will struggle to. They might use psychedelics as an aid to this and they might not depending on the tradition they are coming from, most traditions do not use them. It's valuable to recognise that even those teaching from the most authentic lineages will struggle with delusion in some form though, even the Buddha or Christ thereselves were just people at the end of the day so you have to be a little wary and trust yourself. A good teacher will point you toward that.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: Grapefruit]
    #26579047 - 04/05/20 09:24 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Perhaps that’s so.  I’m no teacher, but Ops view has me concerned for his well being, here’s to hoping I’m overly cautious.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26579060 - 04/05/20 09:31 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Yeah I can see why. That road lead me to ruin.

The originators of your own tradition (Rinzai), which is stemming from Linji and also other Chan buddhists like Bodhidharma, were very keen on emphasising the importance of finding a teacher in their scriptures. I can see why having finally met one that I consider authentic. She was just a Qigong teacher that teaches from an old shamanic lineage, but is still trading in currency for Qigong lessons. So it's not like I think you have to find some spiritual bigshot who is totally unnattached to money, finding one of those is basically winning the spiritual lottery, but there should be relatively ordinary folk out there who can help you around and about the place if you look hard enough. I still think money is the acid test, the ones really charging out and getting about the place are generally frauds to some extent IMO.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: Grapefruit]
    #26579128 - 04/05/20 10:03 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Spot on assessment, sounds like my exp.  I was lucky and I was spoiled, in a sense, by my time in the temple,  because I showed up without warning- waited overnight in the custom of the tradition, had a meeting with a monk in an administrative position, and was allowed to commence as a novice without any mention of $ whatsoever.  Just uphold the rules and discipline with spartan zeal.

  After I got back to the states, I found out how much of a gem it truly was.  respect to my spiritual brothers and sisters and roshi.

In the states... it was like navigating a jungle of illusion , behind every “great temple “ or enlightened teacher, was often a high high $ cost,  and big grift.
 


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26579465 - 04/05/20 12:56 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Some of this is helpful. Other bits, however, I'm very weary of... With all due respect, I am not a fan of books or teachers, because they are distorting and ruin credibility. I like things organic. And, in particular, I don't think anything so much as pales in comparison to direct experience. People who say otherwise probably haven't gone very far or have fooled themselves while they took a break from the "real stuff".

I just really want to drop out, but I don’t know how to do it feasibly while raising a family. Maybe it's not even necessary.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: EternalDreamer]
    #26582509 - 04/06/20 07:17 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I agree what has all been said you really can live to lives or three or 4 or 5, the mystical, the religious, the spiritual, the money making side, and eventually raising a family on your own providing you exclusive happiness, you asked for our opinions am i wrong?? Well my opinion is get out there! And live the best life you can live don’t drop out of everything for one thing, and don’t drop out of one thing, for everything thats what i got to say...


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: Connection]
    #26588174 - 04/09/20 07:17 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

AUTHENTICITY AND BALANCE. Everyone is different...Think about the mystics in the east most will go off on a solo retreat this is where they learn about not only the nature of the universe but their own nature. Yogi's and Buddhists that go off on these retreats do 1 of 2 things some will come back to teach and some will disappear into the mountains forever. That is because we are different. Being your authentic self will naturally bring you happiness!

Balance is always needed (i learned that lesson the hard way a few times) The world we live in today especially in the western mindset if you want to raise a family you need alot of money. Thats the bottom line. So If your authentic self wants to raise a family there will have to be some sacrifices made you need to have $$$ to raise a kid and feed the family. You need to find that balance. EVERYTHING needs balance. Maybe instead of dropping completely out you find another way to make money. My father always told me as a kid " Find something you love to do THEN find a way to make money doing that and you will have a happy life" Dont know what your job is but if your not happy there and you feel like your not yourself when your there. Find something new. If normally you sit on a computer all day but would rather be around people find a job you are around people. Even better find a hobby that is something you enjoy get good enough at that hobby that you can make some money from it and then transition from your current job into making that hobby your job. I know that its easier said than done but it IS possible


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    #26591647 - 04/10/20 05:38 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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EternalDreamer said:
Some of this is helpful. Other bits, however, I'm very weary of... With all due respect, I am not a fan of books or teachers, because they are distorting and ruin credibility. I like things organic. And, in particular, I don't think anything so much as pales in comparison to direct experience. People who say otherwise probably haven't gone very far or have fooled themselves while they took a break from the "real stuff".

I just really want to drop out, but I don’t know how to do it feasibly while raising a family. Maybe it's not even necessary.




Any fool can do that with drugs for an hour or two, same with meditation, any fool can spend a week in a vipassana retreat and come back with some petty spiritual experiences. The difficulty comes in maintaining the aware and awake state while sober. If a person can do that you are right that they would be in need of no teacher, but if that were you then you wouldn't be here asking these kind of questions.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: Grapefruit]
    #26592045 - 04/10/20 08:18 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Vipassana is said to be the hardest breathe exercise meditation breathing exercise program if your not Indian it is specifically designed for Indians and no one else... It is nearly impossible to maintain a steady practice if you yourself aren’t Indian Descent It is Kind of Like Buddhism it mostly consists of Chinese Buddhists some white yes nearly no blacks some asians yet but mostly Mongolians... Some programs work for different people but in all and all meditation programs are designed the way they are...


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: Connection]
    #26592813 - 04/11/20 06:33 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

That sounds a bit far fetched to me.

What I can say is that the Indian culture for a long time was built around many people using various different intensive structure and practices to attain moksha. It does not seem to have lead the culture into a good place and they are as fragmented and troubled now or more so as just about any society. From there you can really see the difficulty of utilising these practices for a favourable outcome and begin to question how much value these practices really have for the majority.

In europe we have a more pragmatic culture that stems mostly from the Christian tradition and the modern western enlightenment tradition that encourages us to question our value systems and beliefs, we also place more value on enjoyment, arts and education. I think we now stand largely in a better place as a cultural whole because of that in spite of our past being so chequered. I think the Indian culture's great failing was to become so obsessed with god, enlightenment and moksha as an emblem and means towards permanent pleasure that these thing became nothing more than wordly pleasures. The gurus are as much to blame for that as anyone.


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Re: Is it possible to lead a double life? [Re: Grapefruit]
    #26593610 - 04/11/20 02:07 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Your right that might be far fetched maybe these exercises can be used by all instead of just one culture. I say turn culture into a melting pot of soup and stir it all together embrace all of culture together with your human kind! That’s the right way to live honestly even though it was true in the past paradigms are definitely changing in this new age! Everything is folding and changing right before our eyes giving us endless lessons that we do not want... but that’s part of the journey your not going to get everything you want instantly you eventually get what you want but it takes time... there are no fast forward buttons to life or is there, who knows really!!? The truth is your average human being is just as lost and confused as anyone else we are just trying to express ourselves the best way we can. Who knows what is right and what is wrong in this life is straight up confusing.

Man... what is true in one moment is not true in the next moment life truly tests us to our highest limits we’ve all been through the worst suffering the worst pain the worst boredom!! But it seems like it is all leading to a better place the constant shifting of all the inner dimensions within the soul.. the soul should be highlighted the soul cannot live a double life it is just one life one divine masculine on divine feminine merging into the one soul... Greatness beloveds Greatness!! That’s what life is about that is why life tests us with hidden hints and facts and constant mirages and destructive temptations to temper us into pure black anvil!! Life is a constant test of failures successes tribulations one personality one life one life one life... Amen to that and spontaneousity right when you think it is over it presents new options telling you haha you don’t know anything about life...


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