abrakamowse
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abrakamowse replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Lol... @Sarah_Flagg will go crazy with so much students to coach :-P I can send you my e-mail Sarah (via PM) with what I want to improve and you respond whenever you can or you have time. I don't know if that's the way you were thinking in working with all this stuff. You will need help, I think, hehehe...
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@Jesper thanks! I will add it to my "must watch" list on youtube!
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abrakamowse replied to Deutsche22's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
What I do is I tell them subtle things, like.... "we are nothing" when someone dies or some bad news, hehehe... people say it mindlessly without knowing is actually true. Or saying, "it's god willing" , we know is always god willing, so someday they could realize how true that was, more than what they were taught on a church or religion. And so on... -
I really don't have still clear all that myself, but I found an interesting article that my shed some light on the " real self - no self " debate. :-) "No-self teachings directly counter the sense that there is a separate watcher, and that this watcher is an “I” that is in control, observing reality or subject to the tribulations of the world. Truly, this is a useful illusion to counter. However, if misunderstood, this teaching can produce a shadow side that reeks of nihilism, disengagement with life and denial. People can get all fixated on eliminating a “self,” when the emphasis is supposed to be on the words “separate” and “permanent,” as well as on the illusion that is being creating. A better way to say this would be, “stopping the process of mentally creating the illusion of a separate self from sensations that are inherently non-dual, utterly transient and thus empty of any separate, permanent self.” Even if you get extremely enlightened, you will still be here from a conventional point of view, but you will also be just an interdependent and intimate part of this utterly transient universe, just as you actually always have been. The huge and yet subtle difference is that this will be known directly and clearly. The language “eliminating your ego” is similarly misunderstood most of the time." More here: http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dharma-wiki/-/wiki/Main/MCTB+No-self+vs.+True+Self/en
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Any tips about good affiliate programs? What are the best options to generate revenue? I am thinking in creating a website to offer graphic design work, my idea is also to make illustrations. I was thinking in having the website working with the regular stuff about design and illustration and having a blog where I will teach how to draw to those who are beginning and share WIP of comics I am doing and children books I am designing and illustrating, to generate content and traffic. Then I will be adding more stuff little by little, probably I will create a youtube channel with tips about illustration and design. Probably I will take @Leo Gura life purpose program, but I need to generate some income first, hehehe.. Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
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Thanks, I have an account there. I want to use it to promote comics. Thanks again!!!
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Thanks @ZenBlue !!!
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Eastern time here too, I think @Sarah_Flagg is going to be busy.
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That's awesome @alimay that music is really like for expanding our consciousness, sounds great!
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Thanks @Natasha for sharing. They won't understand, it was hard for me to accept it, imagine them that they are still completely in the illusion, I think they didn't even questioned these kind of things. I have a similar problem with some friends that we talked a lot about spirituality. But we did it before, when I was searching in my beginnings about spiritual things without knowing well, so I had some experiences that I think (now) they were more at a mental level. Until that kind of experiences mostly "pleasant" it was all good. But when I'm finding out the real thing, and it really is a bit scary from our perspective of our ego and our identity. It was like a shock to them, I didn't tell them about no self and more, because they will think I am crazy hehehe... and my wife is also changed. She gets very angry if I mention Jesus or any religious thing, and I associate a lot of the things that are happening with the teachings of Jesus, but the difference is that now, my interpretation is much different and more deep. But they can't see that. It's like they still see me through the lens of the "christian church guy". And now I realized that the Christian church, is not really christian. I feel very identified with what you are telling me, thanks again for sharing!!!
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@MartineF Thanks, that guy is good! I didn't know about him. My grandparents were from Spain, my native language is spanish. Thanks!
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Maybe you are right. I don't know why I need to understand everything. Maybe I have to work on that.
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True, that's what I felt, like I was letting it go. About the religious dogma, I was in church some time ago and since I discovered all this experiences (not beliefs anymore) my perspective changed radically,, and although I have an idea now of what "heaven" represents for me at this moment, I try not to make any idea about it. It is hard, but I think to keep an open mind is very important in this process. And I think it was listening to Alan Watts who said that in the bible it says "You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea." He opened my mind to another interpretation, the image is also a mental image. We don't have to do any mental image of god, heaven, etc. Because it will be our concept of god.
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Probably is that BHL_20, it is weird because it's like from the ego point of view we try to be enlightened. So I think that generates different reactions in our body, some of them at an unconscious level. Anyway I feel it like something good, in the sense that I feel that sadness like an acceptation of who I really are. That's what we all are, the I AM, or the higher self or whatever we wanna call our true self.
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Enjoy life?
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Cool @Jesper thanks for the info, I'm gonna try it. I am in New Jersey but I found one in New York. Sounds cool.
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abrakamowse replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. -
abrakamowse replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Always remember you' re unique. Just like everyone else. -
One thing it helped me a lot to overcome negativity was to understand the thoughts are not ours. The thoughts that tells you "I am tired" "I can't do it" "This is not good", etc... you can ignore them. Mindful meditation helped me a lot and now I have much more energy and better and more positive thoughts than before. Believe me, you attract the thoughts and you can reject those which are not good.
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abrakamowse replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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I am taking the course and the book is on my way, thanks for sharing!!! @Woody
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Do you have to pay some membership? How does it works?
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abrakamowse replied to Olly's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
No, it doesn't mean that.