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Did he die or something. Connor?

When you see separation, you see Ralston and this teenager as exceptions to the rule. It's all one mind doing everything. They are simply a part of what this mind is doing. They appear to have extraordinary capabilities but it's not the persons doing anything it's the Absolute appearing as such. There are no limits to what Universal mind can do. You have taken yourself to be an individual separate from Ralston and you believe he is special and smarter and more of a genius than you are. Nature didn't limit our spiritual capabilities, it's all one. That's the person asking these questions because it sees itself as separate from nature.

You are already awake. The ego, I, illusions, dream etc are all within the scope of the imaginary. Consciousness is all there is and it is exploring itself, this exploration is Mind. There is no you doing anything on your own in the Absolute sense. Consciousness is doing you and is imagining you as human that has an identity with thoughts, emotions etc. The I that wants to awaken is the illusion. Nothing else is. Everything is really happening. No one needs to awaken because there's no one to awaken. It's consciousness's activity of the mind that's doing that. It is also what's asking the questions and what's answering. It's all one eternal motion happening in the now. The senses perceive it linearly because that's how we make sense of reality. Thoughts is what allows for time and space to be. When we sleep that disappears. There's no mind. When we awaken time and space appears and the mind's activity emerges. Dreams are dreams within a dream. So, it's all real and unreal simultaneously. There's really no one to say awaken or get enlightened or not because that's all still an activity consciousness is doing. There's no you to stop that activity. That's death. Which is also imaginary. It's all imaginary.

Yes, some can get caught up in the non-duality aspect not realizing there's also other sides to the coin - so-to-speak. It wasn't after I started to see how certain things were unfolding because of my mindset, imagination and way of thinking when I truly started understanding (my way) that just because such and such is the case (no one, no separation, illusion etc) doesn't mean we're not doing anything on our own to make this life work. Hard to put into words but what I'm saying is, the logical mind will try to bring it's reasoning and logic and what makes sense to it into the illogical Universe and treat non-duality the same. Someone may ask a practical question, we don't say, "there's no one or it's all illusion" as a response - that's a misunderstanding of how it works or what's happening. I pretty much only say those things when it's in line with the discussion, trying to point at something specifically or it's within the lines of the topic at hand. Some misunderstand me when I speak like that but it's because they themselves have not integrated both sides, I think. Anyway, good to have you on board. Check out my journal (potpourri of thoughts) from time to time where I'll be posting things of this nature, videos that might interest you and you're welcome to share your thoughts.

I used to think like you do until I realized it's still the dream world of illusions and thoughts and beliefs and identity can change your reality because it's all encompassing. Just like lucid dreaming. There's no changing the one true reality but the illusion of experience is changeable.

You don't know that. As consciousness maybe he did. On the subconscious level maybe he did. Things are manifested in form. What they are is energetic. You see a body with gut issues, maybe the energy formed itself into a gut issue but there really isn't a gut issue only appears that way. You don't know what his thought patterns are like, what subconscious beliefs there are deep into his psyche and what he has indirectly chosen to become.

Don't misinterpret non-duality within the illusion of separation because things are still happening within the confinements of limitation and they have rules.

You have control over what you put in the body but not how it processes it. You have control over the environment you subject it to, but not on how it grows within that environment. When you plant a seed, you don't have control over the growth process only where you plant it, what environment it's in and how you water it - same as the body. Why have a hard time with something that takes the stress from you to oversee it's every move. Be thankful you're not operating it's organs and the mechanics of how they work. That's a relief. How you think controls what the body does because of how that thought makes you feel, and we do have control over how we think. The thought patterns, not necessarily the thoughts themselves. They go by the frequency you're on and your vibratory rate. If you're attracting negative thought patterns, the body will sense and read that through your feelings and the cells will listen to which frequency you're on and communicate with each other to shape your body's response mechanism. This is why we experience dis-ease that manifests within the body.

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This isn't a simple process and it will determine how much you want to change. You've realized how hurting others have also hurt you in the process. "Hurt people, hurt people". Find out what is it that you haven't come to grips with from the past and how you're still holding on to that pain. You were hurt and now you project that hurt unto the world. That doesn't help. What helps is to truly forgive yourself for allowing yourself to hold unto the pain by not seeing it as a part of an experience of life and not recognizing who they truly are and who you truly are. They were in a position you are in now and they projected the hurt unto you and you kept the chain going instead of breaking it. It was their ego talking and you responded with ego for not rising above the egoic mind identity. Forgive yourself for that and not them. No need to try and forgive them because that's only reinforcing that they actually hurt you and that it wasn't just how you felt and thought about the situation - which was actually the case. You were hurt by your own mind, not what they did. Now see yourself as forgiven, and move on. Don't look back and reminisce about past circumstances. See that tree as a dead tree and you're planting a new one and see everyone that comes your way anew. If you slip and fall, wipe your feet off and continue on what you know to be the right track without judging yourself for the slip up.

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I've seen this before. Not sure if it's from the same article but something similar. I really don't have any strong opinions on it either way. I like to observe before forming strong opinions on stuff. However, I've heard on this forum where people have asked about their panic attacks during or after meditation. I've seen where people have had adverse effects from it. Saying I've seen where it has benefits, would be like saying water is good for you and has benefits but neglect to say that too much can also be harmful. So just giving the benefits of meditation is not really addressing the issue at hand. Saying to not meditate because it has shown to have negative effects, is also like saying don't drink water. So, approaching it from the mindset of "proceed with caution" and to inquire into the different types, why you're doing it and maybe how much you're doing is probably the best approach. Maybe the bad effects are there because, one is using thought to silence thought. If we really investigate what we really are in the sense that the egoic structure is just a thought anyway, it would be like suffocating yourself but not on the biological or physical sense, but on the mental level. It's all mental anyway so I could see how this could be possible. Observing the breath is not the same as just breathing. It's like the natural process of the body interfering with another process. Breathing is a natural process and the appearance of thoughts another. What are we using to observe the breath, thoughts. So, it's like thoughts trying to control thoughts. Sounds like a battle to me. You would have to really sink deep with this one because it's not obvious. If the body naturally goes into a meditative state on it's own then that's not the same as putting it there. It's the same as trying to Jumpstart a car. The car was dead and needed to be shocked back into it's normal state. Also, trying to shock someone that's dying back to life using those medical devices. So, meditation falls into this category by shocking the normal functions of the body that's already alive and kicking by stopping the natural process and attacking itself. Thoughts produce feelings and feelings produce emotions. If we're trying to force a feeling(serenity, peace etc) by observing thoughts, then that's like saying to the body I want you to feel this way but without the thought process which allows for that feeling. Observing thoughts in this respect, is like one thought battling the other for it's territory. That's my take and I'm not advocating for one to not meditate but to proceed with caution and to also choose the type of meditation that's more suited for the systems of the body/mind coherence. Afterall Sadhguru did suffer a brain aneurism. Just saying.

What you've described is what you're seeing on the outside. It's alive and is an activity. Hence my latest post. You are seeing the contents of your mind. Including yourself. Everything you're aware of NOW. There's no mind inside of you. The outside is mind in form.

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When I say you, i mean the individual person you think you are. Yeah, yeah. I know. Hear me out. Reality is Mind. Mind is something Consciousness is doing. Just as if you were dancing or walking. Consciousness is MINDING. All of Reality is an activity. It is NOT an activity of Mind; Mind is the activity itself - just as dancing is the activity itself. Dancing, as an activity, cannot do anything; it is being done. In this case, MIND, as an activity, cannot do anything, it is being done - by Consciousness which is a current in motion that is self aware. We call this energy. You, as the human, is being imagined by consciousness within this activity called Mind. Imagine you doing a dance and moving around and forming different moves. This is what form is. Imagine one of those moves being called the "human move" and this move, which is consciousness, is imagining that move to be a real person with thoughts, emotions, perceptions, feelings etcetc. This is all within the dance moves and all a part of this activity called Mind. They are all a part of the one dance, but within the dance, comes this move called the I. That's the illusion. There is no I standing alone. It is only one movement of activity which the I is a part of. This "I" isn't really doing anything, it is still just the activity called mind that consciousness is doing. It's like a dance move that thinks it's separate from the dance. That I is analogous to a dance move within the dance. That I is mind the activity being done by consciousness and within that activity, consciousness is imagining a person with it's own identity. It is all within the one activity and all one movement. Nothing else is happening and no mind is doing anything. What you see in Reality is an activity called Mind. All of it. Nothing excluded. All the same activity being done by consciousness and this activity is all form and everything else including you. This is not the mind of consciousness, It is an act of Consciousness called Mind. This is real, what you see is the activity happening, but the I is the illusion and is being imagined by consciousness to be an actual person that Is doing things on it's own. It's impossible for there to be a person doing anything. Why? How? You are consciousness, everything is consciousness. How can an activity separate itself and do something different than what it is. How can walking or a dancing become skiing or boating. A walk is a walk, and a dance is a dance. Same with Mind. Mind is the activity itself and cannot be separated. Where is this person at doing anything. It's all one activity called Mind, just as a walk is a walk and a run is a run. The person didn't turn itself illusory, it isn't being misled into thinking it's a person. No. There's nothing there to say "oops, I'm acting as a person when I'm not, so let me not act this way". Nooooo. It is a part of the activity called mind. The difference is that within this activity consciousness is imagining the person. The person isn't imagining itself. There's nothing that can be done about it, until the whole activity ends....in death....however that comes. That will be consciousness that stops doing that activity and mind no long is. Consciousness will always remain as it is eternal. Reality is really happening, what you see is all happening. It is an activity called Mind-ing. One activity. The illusion is the I that consciousness is imagining but it doesn't know it's not real, it thinks it's separate from the activity and got lost in it's imagination. Inspired by @A Fellow Lighter

Emotions is the language of God. Silence is how one gets access to God.

Thank you for your kind remarks. Marcus's quote is on point - just a matter of perspectives.

The mind always comparing notes. Tcht, shame on you, don't you know we're all in our own world's and paying attention to someone's stats is like you peeping at the neighbors and gossiping to the other neighbors. Look, he's got more posts than you. No way, I'll have to work on my game. Hehe...just messing around.

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This sounds like a statement directed personally at someone. I didn't say you were attacking my character, but you were addressing me personally.

This is why I don't get into political debates, along with the fact that I don't know enough of the inside workings to. Nothing in my comment mentioned anything about legitimacy or the lack thereof. All this stuff is a matter of subjectivity, and no one has the right to tell another that their grievances aren't legitimate. I said nothing of the sort and any implications that that's the case in solely coming from your ideas and analysis of what was said and not what was actually said.

I personally know a few Trump supporters. They're all white men with issues and think the illegals are taking away from them. They're all personally struggling in their lives in every aspect and believe it's others that caused them to be in the position they're in. So it seems they're voting for him to solve their problems of which Trump couldn't care less about. They all say too, to excuse his devilry, that he's human and they don't necessarily agree with who he is personally, but they love his policies. They all seem angry at the world and are easily agitated. They're the average blue collar worker that thinks life is unfair and they should be doing better because this is America and they are white. That part is just me saying. I just listen and ignore. From my comment, you can see what the devil can cater to and what it uses to sell.