When did you abandon the world and started looking inwards

After reading the Tao te Ching.

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>>36393034

Because I am an empty vessel. There is no meaning to be found inside.

im empty so first i have to live before i find the answers in me

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>when people think you can learn profound truths with drugs

Why do people do this? Nothing seems to convince them otherwise either.

>>36393034
After masturbating in a Chinese restaurant, and finding nothing to fap to.

Eventually I saw a Bhudda on the toilet, and started fapping all over its folds.

Total enlightenment came when I let loose all over the statue, all the endorphins began rushing through my mind, filling my entire body.

The fuck was in those noodles?

Feel enlightened for another five minutes, before I go back and eat my meal again, by myself.

>>36393296
Certain drugs allow you to easily see yourself as a third person, to separate the observer with what is being observed, so you can look at yourself. Its pretty profound.
Eastern philosophers meditate for years to achieve it, a highschooler can do it with a few runs of LSD.

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Tao te Ching, huh?
Alan Watts follower??

>>36393217
>Because I am an empty vessel.
This is a good thing. Emptiness is the greatest trait of a human being.

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>>36393320
No, that's wrong. It's a false truth meant only to take you from the true path. You can't gain insight using things from this lower plane.

>>36393337
No. Found it in a used book store.

>>36393296
is not necessary to take drugs.
you can get alterate state of consciousness trough meditation and Yoga.

>>36393376
Your mind is from this lower plane, when you meditate you observe yourself with your mind.

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>>36393399
>using your mind and not your soul

You use your soul, which by nature is divine you elevate your mind to a level able to accept the profound truths. Drugs ruin your mind and make it unable to properly comprehend the truth in full. Thats where hippie come from, they only get a piece and not the full thing.

>>36393456
>Tfw you're a Bhuddist, so you have to spend your entire life looking for pleasure.

>Tfw you have to sit down for decades, meditating, looking for your own nirvana, when you could be helping people get food and stuff.

>>36393480
Helping people may give you more karmic merit and allow you to be reborn into a higher plane where it's easier to meditate.

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>>36393376
You seem sure about this.

Why?

>>36393698
I fell for the "drugs open your mind" meme only to find out later it's the opposite. Now I'm forever stuck only able to see bits and pieces of the truth. My soul can still understand them but my mind never can.

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The further you look inward the clearer the reflection will become of the outward.

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When I started reading Schopenhauer and the Bible.

>>36394195
>Schopenhauer and the Bible

Strange bedfellows.

>>36393308
Im going to try this in church

>>36393308
MSG was in the noodles and fried your brain.

>>36393762
Don't worry anon, your mind wouldn't be able to understand it even if you didn't do drugs.