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1. Purpose can be anything that gives value to the individual and something very personal, and shouldn't be based on or compared to what other's purpose are our what others think our purpose should be. 2. Finance is necessary especially if the individual is struggling to meet basic survival needs. Although there is nothing wrong in earning more than necessary, making it as a life goal and utilising all time towards it only adds the stress. 3. Social life forms an important part in happiness. But limiting the definition of social life to a fixed set of family and friends means a limited world view and experiences. Even if there is no family, you can find the same pleasure by socialising with others ( including pets or animals) with an open mind.

The present condition is worse than actual mainly due to weather conditions such as winter climate and absence of rain. But Delhi and many Indian cities always have some of the worst pollution levels in the world due to the following reasons: 1. Farmers in nearby states burning farm wastes 2. Excessive vehicle traffic, especially diesel ones and private transports. 3. Excessive construction activities 4. Firecrackers

They sure can ruin us, especially if we believe that what others do to be happy will also make us happy.

The next step in knowing " I don't know" is to believe that " I don't need to know". This simply means you don't need the truth to survive or become happier or don't have to enforce what you believe as truth, especially if you are pursuing it out of curiosity. Although the desire for truth is what pushes many towards Spirituality, once you are in, you have to reduce the desire to know and instead focus on the tools that helps you to know without any expectations.

When you are in an understanding of the connected and united state of the universe, either through direct experience or through insights, you realise that you can never miss out on anything because you are experiencing the entirety of humanity and beyond. That means what every human experiences, you have already experienced or experiencing or will experience. Imagine that you are a guy who forgets things after a year, and takes on new adventures every year. No matter whether you forget or not, you are still the same guy. Awakening helps to strengthen this insight. So, there is no worry of missing out. Coming to engagement with universe as an individual human, it depends on the individual's desires. Do you want excitement out of life? Then you have to engage constantly with the universe, but you will have to face suffering too. Do you want a peaceful life? Then you have to spend lots of time alone, and work towards reducing your desires. You will find enormous peace, but you will have very few new experiences. If you are already suffering, you have to come into acceptance with what you have and adjust your mind to it. If you want a balanced life, then you have to make your mind equanimous and open minded and seek out new experiences. You won't be as excited / happy /pleasurable as you were, but still you will be able to enjoy new experiences.Mindfulness and meditation will help the last two causes tremendously. No matter what kind of person you are, there are universal habits which can increase your baseline state of happiness. Such characters are based on expanding your ego, like compassion, gratitude, forgiveness and Unconditional love. Practicing these qualities in daily life along with meditation becomes a great tool in increasing your baseline state of happiness and peace.

Practicing meditation for long to very long duration ( the time depends on skill or how good you are in freeing mind of thoughts ) has permanent effects on your state of mind and makes you eqanimous or non reactive. It would be easier to stay in a state of no thoughts and hence the connected state is achievable within a few minutes of meditative sitting. Apart from this long term meditation also raises your baseline state of happiness or consciousness, hence even though we would be non reactive, we would still not be a robot.

The first one itself was terrific! I don't have the pc power to play the second one though. I think I would try it maybe after ten years.

That's interesting indeed.

Sounds like a fun open world game! Here are some duplicate but funnier ones: Psychonauts series Overlord series Rise of Nations Warcraft 3 Bioshock series Tomb raider ( especially the older ones) Lego series ( Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Batman etc.) Elder scrolls series Spore Minecraft

He maybe extraordinary but he has never crossed the rules as far as I know.

God gave us the desire to know everything by awakening to realise that we don't need everything.

And God loves you too, and maybe he loves you more because you didn't direct the anger towards the loved ones who react to your anger, God either doesn't react at all or reacts with love.

Interesting. Can you point out some people who did that? I can find claims of many such people, but I am never able to find some solid evidence like a videograph. Even if they did imagine and had some proof of that, they are never able to break much of the rules that the universe seem to have, including some spiritual rules.

Plant too seems to fits well in the statement. Maybe that's what your intuition intended to type.

Glad that you believe the dreams are crazy. The subconscious mind could very well be the creator, but the subconscious mind in itself may or may not be limited to our brain. Have you ever tried to question who is the creator within the dream? If not, try to do the same, interact with it and share if you found something interesting.

But risking life in the physical reality is different from risking life in something else.

So they seem to have good level of confidence, and if there is any level for being confident, let's slot some of their body parts there.

Did you risk your life to find the truth?

Coming back to the curious questions, @Dodo, have you ever been curious what constructs the dream so beautifully with specific stories and illusions (such as making you think you are not dreaming), do you think your sub conscious mind is capable of doing all the work of creating a three dimensional location with perfectly designed atmosphere close to reality, with creative stories and rules (such as you forgetting some memories needed to live the dream fully). Comparatively, it takes hundreds of people to create such creative things in reality.

Yes, for @Dodo I thought it would be a better description since he is an expert in dreams.

Actually, a better word to describe reality will be illusion instead of dream.

What do you think creates those limiting rules in the dream? How do you think it is trying to adapt to what you wish to do inside your dream?

Yes. But how do you know awakening proves that this is the final dream, and you can escape it by your own will? What if you are pushed further into the dream by trying to escape this dream or by risking yourself or your loved ones?