An young being

To me, death is nothing bad, but it isn't good either. It's just a part of the process, nothing is there to love or obsess over it. When it comes, enjoy the process, when it doesn't don't think about it. ( Unless what Sadhguru says is true about all those karma stuff )

Like making the disease a part of our day to day life to an extent that we forget that we have the disease? Or does the thoughts make the disease disappear from physical existence?

Spirit guide, that sounds interesting ! Now I am starting to love owls more!! I already face a lot of challenges, I think I better deal with them first and then think of the future. Well, I better start looking at it that way. Yeah, poor little creature is afraid of everything! The owl is definitely an enlightened one.

I am not into lucid dreaming or anything related to dreaming, but I am open minded about such things. I have heard that dreams can be interpreted and I want to share my dream I had yesterday and anybody could interpret anything out of it. Here is my dream, although I don't remember all the details: The dream was happening outside my home, close to the entrance doors. An owl was sitting near the door on the steps. There was a dog, a locust and something else. The owl first pecked at the dog and it ran away, then it again pecked at the other two creatures, they also ran away. There was a snake running near me but the owl didn't take action. I was there wondering why the owl was not trying to eat the snake. That's all I remember. What may it signify? The last time I saw an owl like creature was in a Star wars rebels cartoon a month ago. Any thoughts?

Would be fun if it happens! Life is a big school?

Is the love awakened people are describing everywhere is the same as the love all people experience everyday in our lives?

Are you able to recall your past lives?

@OmniYogaIsn't suicide itself a survival instinct? People attempting suicide die if they succeed in it in and it's unfortunate. But in most cases, they get saved and get a lot of mental aid, which may even prolong their life by getting help in fixing their problems with life or getting attention from people who are close. People may do it consciously or unconsciously but nature has its own ways . Coming to the question, awakening maybe the same as dying, but once you die, you will not be able to come back to experience life with the experience of dying. Isn't it a huge difference?

Resurrection can be easily proved if someone who claims can describe the life of past incarnations in detail and the people very close to the past Resurrection can verify those. Unfortunately, I haven't come across such cases.

Sure, our fearful thoughts can create mental diseases or boost physical diseases by having an effect on our immunity and functioning, but what about thoughts curing diseases? Do you think it's possible? If so, to what extent?

I am not sure. But when @Member was telling about illusion, I am just thinking it maybe related to my passion to differentiate reality from deception ( what I am currently doing now during most of my free time ), like the door in my dream may point to the door of truth and the owl ( illusion ) is trying to tell me something.

Thank you ! I don't know if I have a genuine soul or not, but I am sure I have a very open mind.

Yeah, I know most dreams are absurd and pointless, but now and then, few dreams come out which are very creative and has some kind of meaning. Why can't it be one part of my mind trying to explain me something good that I consciously choose to ignore? Wow! Freaking coincidence!!

I am the owl ! I am the dog ! I am the snake ! I am the dream as well. Yeah you are great! No, the owl didn't eat any of them, just drove them away. I can see that my mind is trying to tell me something or it may just be a mixture of random things, it's just a mystery! Yeah, you seem to be close, but as you said I must introspect how I consider these things to be personally, to have a more accurate prediction. You have given me great clues, though. Thank you!

If you are feeling too depressed and lonely, do things that you enjoy, like watching movies or hanging out with friends. Realize that everything around you is real and lively because you are experiencing it right now. Only when you are sure that you are happy with what is already present before you and your are able to have an open mind to explore things further, go with all the other stuffs. Even if you figure out your are all alone yourself, it doesn't mean you are alone, because it's also an illusion in the mind created by your genes to help you socialize and leads to a negative feeling in this egoic mind.

? Advice taken! But I think that heavy food doesn't lead to funny dreams but it causes us to awake from a dream and hence we tend to remember it better Yeah, in my conscious mind, I always consider them as a peaceful, lonely creature, although I don't know what was in my subconscious mind. Sounds interesting, but don't owls eat snakes? That's why in the dream I was thinking why it was not eating the snake, and I was kinda afraid of the snake a bit, although it was smaller like a big worm. Nice interpretation, will take the points! Although I don't blindly believe in dreams, I am starting to believe it's our deep buried unconscious mind trying to interact with the conscious mind and allow us to understand things we failed to understand consciously.

Ego death leads to awakening. Does awakening in turn leads to ego growth?

Thank you, sounds enlightening. Meanwhile, I stumbled upon something pretty interesting which is one of Sadhguru's recent videos, although he speaks about karma and not ego.

This happens in this forum a lot of times. In most cases, I am a dog.

Welcome ?.

Right, I am seeing these characteristics emerge from a lot of people who are 'enlightened'. By the way, what about you? ?

Is it a misery or mystery or both?

Yoga, they call it here

How did you experience all that you had mentioned just by watching the video ? Can you share the link of that video ? I will try to drop my ego and monkey mind to see if I am able to experience something.

We can only talk about such things and maybe take some inspiration from them, be it Christianity, Hinduism, Islam or anything else. There are infinite ways we can interpret those teachings, even if we are enlightened. If we want to know the truth behind the teachings of a particular person or religion in history, the best way is to invent a time machine and go back and see what happened. The best religion is something which adapts with time Currently we have none as such. To answer the question, maybe people think it's useless to have faith in the past when we have the present to check out the truth for ourself.