Untitlable

Watch the video first, before continuing reading.

https://youtu.be/PsfNXhXJ_lE (10:50)

I watched this random video. I don't recall ever having watched any other of Dakota's videos before. ... I might have. (If I did, I don't remember the details.) Anyway, afterwards, I thought, ‘... Interesting...’ and then proceeded to scroll to find the next interesting video by someone else, as one does, which was probably about science, or something... I forget. Eventually, I went to bed.

Then I woke up in the middle of the night, around 1am, I guess, to go to the toilet... and I remembered the video... and I started thinking more about it... and I couldn't fall asleep again... thinking about it... So, I got out of bed, booted my laptop, and started searching for the video again... It's now about an hour and a half after I woke up.

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The Indian guru guy's broken, spiritual English is hard to understand. ...But he came across as a bit harsh in his response to Dakota's seemingly simple desire merely to share an apparently deeply-profound experience with him.

Then I went to bed.

...

Then I woke up.

As long as there is still concern for whether the other will interpret the words as humiliating, the ego is still present.

As long as there is humiliation — and (even) humility! — the ego is still present.

(If ego was still present, this video would not have come into being, and would not have been posted.)

Thank you, sincerely.

[...unless that ego merely wants us to think that it is dead... for the likes, the comments and the subscriptions.] {...and so this ego's distrust manifests again...} <...but if that ego had not done this, this ego would not have learned the lesson...>

Thank you, sincerely.

(It's now about two and a half hours after I woke up. This has been a profoundly-deep spiritual experience for me. I'm going back to bed now.)

[There is so much happening for me in the video and in this blogpost... not even gon' try.]

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‘The Real Thing

does not require refills.’

(https://youtu.be/17KKVurkBac (12:17))

In a WhatsApp discussion with a friend, I said:

A friend offered me an LSD experience once. I declined. I appreciate what people say about it, but... strangely I have had similar experiences -- not often, not regularly -- throughout my life without once having had to use any recreational or psychedelic drugs.

...but waking up in the night and realising the lesson for me in this video... was one of the most profound spiritual experiences of my life, ever.

😊

...And then, 10min later as well:

What I find fascinatingly ironic (and some other people have made similar comments to the video) is that (apparently, if you take the drugs far enough quickly enough: big doses of strong psychedelics) the drugs themselves teach you: "Don't do drugs." 🤯😊 Drugs don't last, but The Real Thing doesn't end. 😉 * I also wrote a previous blogpost about humiliation and shame... #MyEgoIssues

(https://walkwater.wixsite.com/wwww/post/confessions-of-humiliation-shame)

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2026mar15sun

I woke up this morning, realising that one of the reasons why Dakota's video has such a profound significance for me is that one of the messages that are being demonstrated is regarding what it means to be spiritually dangerous: having such strongly-convicted faith in the greater benefits and advantages for everyone of the pursuit of a certain purpose that no risk or sacrifice is too great. Even death would be of little consequence in the pursuit of such a purpose. I'm reminded of the parable of the pearl of great price which is about a YouTuber who, when he discovered such a pearl, ignored his ego and risked his entire audience in order to change his direction in the pursuit of the purpose to gain that pearl in order to share it with anyone who might be interested...

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I have also come to the conclusion that perhaps it not so much that the ego must be killed as it is rather that it and its withdrawal symptoms should be continually ignored until it either shrinks, shrivels up and disappears, or leaves never to return again. ...or merely until it is of such little significance or consequence anymore that it effectively becomes non-existent for all practical intents and purposes, no matter how much it might carry on to wail and cry and scream...