This is about formulating an alternative and showing ways to implement it. And this alternative has a name: conscious wisdom.

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The concept of freedom in Buddhism is spiritual. This does not mean that worldly matters are negated, but political and individual freedom are secondary, similar to the Chinese view. In Buddhism, freedom is liberation from Samsara to end the cycle of suffering.

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Freedom is an idea, not reality itself. That’s why we have different understandings of freedom in different cultures.

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The integral consciousness is the radical shift where life becomes the centre of life, and not humans.

The highest form of human existence. Bliss. Cosmic Consciousness. Enlightenment.

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When we desire more than enough, we feed a system that creates poverty at all levels. Rethinking poverty requires us to relinquish the desire to become rich and to recognize that life itself is more than enough.

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Life is a multidimensional happening—a dynamic event unfolding simultaneously on all levels and states, and this in no time.

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When you recognise yourself in one single breath, you got a glimpse of your true nature. But in the moment of making it ours, it is lost.

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• Animal Awareness

• Pre-Personal

• Personal

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The key to ending this madness lies in elevating our awareness. It is the only way to stop the brutal cycle of "the strongest does whatever he wants.

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The experience of transcendence connects us with the timeless essence of life, allowing us to move beyond the ordinary flow of time and into a state of eternal presence.

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Unity is found / Perfection of unconditional love / Peace and serenity take over / The mysteries of life / Shinning bright in Selfknowledge

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We need all the intelligence we can get, doesn't matter what kind. Our fear is that AI will behave like HS (human stupidity).

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When we experience the love of life deeply in our hearts, doubt and confusion vanish like dew at dawn. This is the structure of reality: lower forms of existence have no power to withstand the higher ones.

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Questions only make sense when we are empty and open to learning. When we are full (of concepts, ideas, philosophies, attachments, memories, projections...), there is no room for the unknown, for the new.

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Doubt in itself is fine, it is a form of questioning reality, and when used in a healthy way for a specific task, it is a good tool, but as a basic approach to life it kills aliveness. It makes us a shadow of what we could be.

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The only change we have is / Taking our place / Stop thinking that humans are the center / Start thinking that life is the center / Stop believing we are the person only / Start knowing that we are life in a form of a human

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All nature is aware, not in the sense of “I am aware that I am aware”, but of being connected in an interconnected world. There is no such thing as unawareness because that would mean not being connected, and that is impossible by definition. There are no missing links. Awareness is at the beginning, during the journey, and at the end. Being aware of this is supreme knowledge.

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It is not about finding something that exists either outside or inside of us. Nor something that we are not yet and could be at some point in time. The idea of finding something new, sublime, or better is proverbial for the ignorance of the personal-based consciousness.

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My dear friend, I am the present moment.
What else can I be?
To carry out this consciously is my highest goal.
As long as I live.

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All is interconnected, nothing exists by itself. By deepening our understanding of reality, we realize that life does not happen to us and that we are not separate.

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