An young being

I have experienced that everything can be an illusion created by the mind or something else ( not through meditation or enlightenment, but directly experiencing pain, suffering and sensations without a source to create them ( some educated people call them hallucinations). That doesn't mean we don't experience it. We experience the present, no matter if it is real or an illusion, just like we experience pain in our dreams.

After sleep, you don't remember you were aware during your sleep. After life, you are always aware, so you don't have to remember that you were.

Agreed that nobody can be a complete vegan or even vegetarian for that matter, but choosing to murder two people instead of one is always better, and murdering a guy to save your own life is better than murdering a guy to steal his fortunes, although all of them are technically bad. Nobody can decide what is right or wrong, what is justifiable and what is not, what is a need and what is a desire, but if your conscience tells that you are doing something bad, don't do it. Don't try to justify doing it by comparing with something or somebody else. If your heart feels that it is wrong, then it's wrong for you. If your mind does the 'wrong' thing, you will regret it later. ( I am not even talking about reincarnations, I am talking about this life).My heart says that I don't have to eat non vegetarian food, because there are many healthy and tasty alternatives available, so I don't eat it. I never try to convince others to be like me ( all my family members eat non veg), but if you choose to go in the direction of being a vegetarian or atleast reduce the consumption, I strongly encourage it.

I too can enjoy the physical pain caused by pinching myself hard, but can you enjoy the pain when your body is operated without anaesthesia? If you can, please teach it to others, so that we can save some money on anaesthesia. Pain is unavoidable and it definitely leads to greater appreciation of the times without pain but consciously killing an animal that can't even comprehend what is pain is avoidable. They might be concepts but in that case, you realizing that you are the only one who experiences the world is also a concept.

That's a big assumption, can't even be proven with direct experience.

You or I can, but those poor animals can't.

Pain is an extremely unpleasant feeling that causes suffering. It is bad because it leads to extreme suffering. It was created by nature knowingly or unknowingly to help animals to save their lives. There were animals that existed which are incapable of experiencing pain, but unfortunately they weren't able to survive. Yes, the current methods used to kill animals definitely cause pain.

Plants don't feel pain and has no emotions it can experience

Good bye. But I don't think it's so easy to leave this addiction.

Humans can survive and be healthy without eating meat. So, it is not a need. You took time to think how you are affecting other living beings' happiness and that itself is a good thing. If you love meat so much, you can reduce the frequency of eating meat. Then, when you realise you no longer need meat to be happy, you can entirely leave it. Or just wait for 10 more years and vegan meat will be available all around us. Then, everyone can enjoy meat without feeling guilty.

What I believe is that it is not possible for God to create a perfect life for everyone but it is possible for God to create a seed that evolves ultimately into that state and we are caught in between the transition

If everything is possible, it is also possible that everyone is happy without any negative emotions including boring.

Read this:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds Humans are not bad at all. Evolution made them bad making them egoistic selfish creatures just for the sake of survival. It was necessary in the long run to develop the conscious state we are capable of. Now we are questioning the atrocities committed by our ancestors and present leaders and that's what being conscious is all about. Do you realise why do we have the ability to know that we are everything? To be more compassionate when we realise that when we are everything we treat everything else as we treat ourselves.

I think the concept of reincarnation was created for two reasons; first to create the fear that our actions in this life will affect the quality of the next life and to not complain to God the limitations that exist in this life. Imagine if we don't have any memories of our past life, what is the use of worrying about reincarnation?

Matthieu Ricard, a French writer, residing in Nepal as a Buddhist monk. He was involved in a study of gamma waves in the brain and was found that his brain was the 'happiest' ever reported in scientific literature. But he never likes to be called as such.

The less memory you have, the easier it to leave attachments

Balance out the karma. Do good for the society. It can be as simple as making a child smile. You can never erase your actions but you can replace it. ( Atleast in your mind )

The happiest man in the world according to science tells us that the second most important thing for happiness is meditation. The first one is always not thinking about yourself

The question of whether we have free will or not doesn't matter. But assuming free will exists and if we believe that there is no free will, it is the most dangerous thing in the world. People will be committing all sort of crimes, because of the belief that if they are not responsible for what they do, why should they care?

Today morning, when I was sleeping in my bed, I had a very realistic dream. In that dream,I was meditating. Suddenly, when I became intense at meditation, my body started dissolving a bit. Then I kept focus on the breath and the body continued to dissolve and at one point I woke up. I didn't experience infinity i.e. I am everything but the experience was beautiful. It is difficult to explain my experience but it was like my body was a fluid and I was falling into infinity. I think I experienced something similar before two years in real meditation, but it was not so deep as in my dream. What has just happened?

Dreams are sometimes so complex that I wonder if they are not random thoughts but designed by some kind of intelligence within ourselves. What is your take on this?

During a certain period in my life, I experienced dreams where a certain character tried to talk to me in certain code language, denoting good characters as green and bad characters as red in colour. This is what intrigued me and dive in-depth into the nature of dreams.

Being alone drives people to meditate, thus increasing chances of knowing the truth beyond the walls.

Yep, if you enjoy the consequences of what you had done, the rebound will be fast intense. Otherwise it's just another day at office

Meditate more and more. Your impulse is your survival instinct which is not necessary right now. Don't allow the emotions to build up inside you. Instead meditate and let go of the unnecessary emotions like anger hated etc. Don't react and expect and you will be rewarded with peace.