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@Princess Arabia death is the ultimate existential fear . Anything might happen when you die . Anything. All you can do is becoming religious /spiritual. Meditation to find what is it that dies and what is it that does not die. It seem possible this question is coming from a deeper source to stir your soul to a new search. A search for meaning and truth. It is all contained within you.. look inward

Spot on .

@Carl-Richard reality is not a dream .dreams are parts of reality . You can't define the whole with the part .

@Carl-Richard dreams are strange . might be off topic but what exactly is a dream existentially?

Suffering exist because you are biased .(judging good and bad ). Watch Leo's video on bias .

@Vibes you know that you gonna go to hell

@Jac067 You might want to first define "purified "..for unless you are naturally motivated from the inside to go in the direction of greater awareness..wisdom..compassion.. etc. no amount of learning and “practice” will make you “pure.” If you want to become more purified..I recommend practicing daily Meditation plus prayer for it removes the sludge that blocks your innate vision..and the act of transcending (going beyond) keeps awakening you to the larger and more spiritual world.

@StarStruck Ramadan Mubarak. Do the dry fast . Nothing enters your body from sunrise to sunset . go to Masjed. Recite the quran. Islamic rituals are very powerful .

Great ! The body dies .but what is eternal and is never touched by the blazing fires of death ? That is the whole point of the spiritual path

I am not trying to write a negative thread.. but my perception is that so much is going wrong in the world and after so many centuries with so little being learned from mistakes. Of course... I am aware that my own and other people's outlook is filtered through the news..controlled by the media and political powers behind the scenes. It is also dependent on where one lives in the world and personal circumstances. Etc ...but the world Is pretty fucked up . Like goddamn we can land on the moon and do heart transplantation surgery and talk to each others globally etc ..but we still cannot fucking stop killing each other lol After so much history and knowledge what has gone wrong? Can philosophy help in the dire times? I am also open to more positive interpretations and ways of trying to see beyond the bleakness rather than collapse into pessimism and nihilism. Any thoughts?

And is there anything else behind or beyond what you call the absolute? The big bang is in the past ..the entire past is nothing but memory and mental imagination..so how could you say the big bang actually happened ? If there is no time then there is no beginning automatically. And even if there is an illusion of time then still..nothing began because time is endless in both directions (past and future).

Love is sexual energy.

Nothing has ever began . If you move back in time infinitely you will not find a beginning. Just as if you move ahead in time there is no end to creation . It's beginning-less endless mystery.

@Buck Edwards & @OBEler @@Javfly33 I will share the experience that I had and have withholded from sharing in the past because it was the worst thing in my entire life and I was literally a millimetres away from killing myself. I joined so many online support communities and said that I'm suicidal and I experience suicidal thoughts 24/7 . I also visited a therapist and took SSRI’S and all that ...it didn't work back then .. but thank goodness I'm well now . So ..basically what happened is I experienced a very intense OCD . Out of the blue . I became obsessed with EVERYTHING. Will the sun shine tomorrow? If I go to bed is there a garuntee that I will wake up tomorrow? What if I go to hell when I die ? Is the world still there when I close my eyes ?etc and those kind of thoughts . They were very very disturbing. I could not sleep nor remain awake . I was like a drunk zombie. Nothing made sense anymore . That was in 2020. Fortunately by surrendering my ego and taking medicine and praying every single day im healed . The lesson i learned is that Psychotic illness (speaking from experience ) is when that physical avatar changes..or when the perspective in which the present moment is looking through (or looking at infinity through the finite mind) changes..so much that consciousness seems to disrupt itself. In other words synchronicities which we all take for granted..like the fact that we miraculously find a job..the planets are miraculously holding themselves together.. the graceful flow of consciousness breaks down and devolves into a disruptive stream. I'm not entirely sure though what exactly causes this . Does it all boil down to chemical unbalance in the brain? No idea .

I don't need subtitles but you guys do .

Actually by looking at direct experience it turns out that there is no source . There is only me .

Yup I wish someone smashed me in the face with this simple fact back when I experienced those discordant thoughts . Would've saved me days and week of insomnia and hellish nightmares of suffering. Thanks.

How to define any mental illness clearly? I did some research but it's mostly referring to the "person ". For example split personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder (DID) is described as "a mental disorder where a person has two or more distinct personalities. The thoughts, actions, and behaviors of each personality may be completely different.". Now I have had some no-self and nondual experiences recently and can see clearly through the "person". Or the self that is separate from the traits of the conditioned body-mind.. And to this " self" is the reference of being " disordered". The body-mind is simply programmed or conditioned to behave in a certain way and think in a certain way. Everything "you" do all day is simply a program that has been implemented in your mind over the years.. By your parents.. By your culture.. Society etc. Also genetics play a huge role. this conditioning is what is called the "personality".. The personality is simply the conditioning of the program that you are operating under. If you fly over to the other side of the world.. And you are forced to live under radically new circumstances.. Your conditioning will change.. Which will result in a different personality..slightly or to a radically different degree depending on the degree of the change in the new conditioning. My point is.. the personality is just a program. It's not in the slightest little bit who you really are. That's why you can act. That's why you can fake a personality that is not yours. Cuz it's just a mask. The fact that you can fake a 1000 different personalities in one day means you already have 1000 personalities inside of you. Potentially . Accurately they are just different characters that the empty self can take. I wonder how do we define the authentic self? Or what should people behave like? Or what is a personality disorder? If your kid suddenly started to act in a totally different way then he used to .. Does that mean he has a personality disorder? Did he have a personality in the first place? Why do we expect human creatures to act under a certain personality when just by one look inside ourselves we can see that we have hundred personalities(. Cuz ultimately we are none of them and all of them) ?.

Is there a two of me ? The one who is listening to the voice and the voice ? Schizophonia stuff .

We all know that one of the core pillars to spirituality is reducing your egoic tendencies..and it is necessary to adopt a serious spiritual practice to get there. I know because thats a trap ive fallen into . You cannot achieve awakening through theory alone. a practice That constantly trains you to drop your sense of ego is mandatory. I like the sufi /Islamic mysticism practices. The constant chanting and prayers and uncontrolled body movements (including rotation) is supposed to give you an experience of losing your sense of self and oneness with your environment. So you are no longer the one who is chanting.. You become the chant itself. You are no longer the body that rotates.. You become the rotating itself. You become one with Allah. La ilaha illallah =there is no deity but Allah. This gave me a sense of ego death and melting with the universe and becoming one with Allah.

There's a wrinkle of wisdom and truth in all religions. The Bible and the Vedas also are interesting. I didn't study comparative religions so I can't judge which holy book is the best .

Not the entire thing . But I've read hundreds of pages . It's interesting.

Those are great . But at the end of the day Islam is a fixed or limited religion (just like all religions) ..and God is Absolute Infinity so you cannot expect a 600+ pages book (the Qur’an) to capture Infinity. That's just the nature of God. It's endless. So you cannot expect Islam to have a monopoly over God. That for me Is the only thing or barrier that prevents me from accepting Islam. Same with Buddhism and Hindu traditions. They are limited . The Truth is unlimited. A piece of dog shit in the street is equally God as the Bible or the Qur’an.

I am currently researching islam . I actually made a thread here before your unban that I want to become a muslim . But people here made fun of me and thought I'm a nutcase. I think the Islamic tradition is one of the most potent forms of spirituality. Especially the Sufi sect . But unfortunately it's not trendy in the west because of Islam being portrayed as an evil religion that allows violence (ya know 11/9 and the rest of the story ).

May him rest in peace . Dead people know the truth .because the veil has been lifted . BTW it's ironic your profile picture is of sufi dervishes rotation 😂