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  1. I watched it... awesome! I will send it to some friends.

  2. How Can I Get A Girlfriend?

    abrakamowse replied to HGGabrielF's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    He's an actor and director of a lot of movies, some of them funny. And his character most of the times was a shy guy who had big problems with girls. He's the kind of neurotic guy in most of his movies. Funny guy.

  3. How Can I Get A Girlfriend?

    abrakamowse replied to HGGabrielF's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    You never watched a Woody Allen's movie? hehehehe...
  4. @Natasha Yesterday I saw that video and I was tempted to watch it, I saved it to watch later! Now, I think I will watch it ASAP! hehehe... thanks!!!

  5. How Can I Get A Girlfriend?

    abrakamowse replied to HGGabrielF's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    I have to be honest, I was always shy and I never could overcome my shyness as a teen. I was always regretting about not acting or being more adventurous with women as a teen. But that's the past. Now I am married. But I can tell you that seeing that there's not a self has changed completely my life. If I knew that as a teen I would have had much more girlfriends that what I had. That's my advice for you guys. There's no self to be shy about anything.
  6. Now that @Galyna mentions it, on a second read @Salaam you are saying that: "There are 118 elements on the periodic table and they all have different reactions and chemistry with each other. How would the world work if there was only one element? What would it combine with to form blood, bone, organ, and muscle tissue?" You are talking there about physical world, and the "idea" that everything is one, is beyond physics. Imagine the "nothingness" that is consciousness or awareness, and can create matter of 118 elements, or anything from nothing. Because it is nothing and everything. I know what I am saying is a concept too, but it is not ONE "physically" that Buddhism and other philosophies refer to.
  7. But there's no person who wants something. That "person" doesn't exist.
  8. Perspective change

  9. My Path To Somewhere, I Hope...

    abrakamowse replied to abrakamowse's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    “The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.” ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
  10. Just knowing is good to begin, but I would recommend to meditate. It really helps to calm your thoughts that are one of the main creators of the illusion of the "self".
  11. Cool @Fishy

  12. "healthy" Mind

    abrakamowse replied to actualized1's topic in Mental Health, Serious Emotional Issues

    That's normal. When we accept the idea of no self there's always a shock. That's the ego response to what it was find out. I would recommend you to take a rest, relax. Go out, have fun and everything will be Ok. The mind just need to absorb the impact.
  13. @cetus56 That's why I like zen koans Zen Koan: Monk: “What is the true meaning of ch’an, (Zen) Master Joshu: “A cypress tree grows in the yard.” Monk: Master do not use objects to guide people.” Joshu: “I am not using objects to guide people.”
  14. @Light_Ray Maybe this books can be of your interest. http://www.holybooks.com/the-zen-of-advaita-the-teaching-mastery-of-nisargadatta-maharaj/ There's a link to both books in pdf format, the part 1 and part 2 The Zen of Advaita – The Teaching Mastery of Nisargadatta Maharaj
  15. @cetus56 Yeah, crazy stuff. hehehehe... I think the best option (and one that I am beginning to slowly adopt) is do what Mooji suggest, to say: "I don't know"... hehehehe...

  16. My Path To Somewhere, I Hope...

    abrakamowse replied to abrakamowse's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I just discovered that I enjoy a lot being in total darkness.
  17. And the "spooky action at a distance"??? hehehehehe... https://www.technologyreview.com/s/427174/einsteins-spooky-action-at-a-distance-paradox-older-than-thought/ "It involves a pair of particles linked by the strange quantum property of entanglement (a word coined much later). Entanglement occurs when two particles are so deeply linked that they share the same existence."
  18. Amazing.
  19. I think we can't comprehend from our dualistic point of view. We can say it exists and it doesn't exist, but that's just words.
  20. It's difficult to talk about it, it's better to experience it hehehehe... Our logic won't work there, we need to throw away the logic.
  21. Thanks @Natasha I was thinking in reading him as well, thanks for the heads up. Good stuff. :-)
  22. They are not separated, they are the same. It's us who separated them. In my opinion they begin to align more and more until they become one only with reality. They merge from our perspective, but they were never separated.
  23. True, the idea we have of a "self" is also a concept. We think a "self" is necessary to be "conscious" or to know something. But, who knows?
  24. @Natasha That woman is so awesome, she explains so clearly and you can see that she knows what she's talking about. I think she's the most enlightened person I have seen lately on youtube, more than a lot that are considered masters. Amazing!
  25. But consciousness itself is not a self, right? So it would be right to say there's no self. Consciousness = Vijnana is the fifth of the Five Skandhas. And The skandhas are collections of components that make up an individual.