WelcometoReality

@Ulax I would call it noting and can be used for feeling or other sensory inputs aswell.

Why is this plant growing here and why are it so ugly. Why couldn't it grow anywhere else. Why did it choose to grow right here besides the entrance of my house. Can you see how futile these questions are?

Do yourself a favor and discard all this and start from scratch with your own direct experience.

He could. But they aren't true for him until he has realized them for himself. So there are no absolute truths. Only half measures into conveying your own.

I see. Nice to meet you God. ?

How does it matter what you and me see to someone who haven't realized what you're talking about? Should he believe what you're saying?

Care to elaborate? Yeah that's what I'm saying. Only this momenent exist. So whether you experience infinity or not that's it. If you didn't care so much about infininity wouldn't it be even more freedom?

But in your experience of finiteness aren't that the first hand experience that you finite and the belief that you are infinite? ?

I wonder if he even was God in the first place or if it was just a dream.

If he forgets he is God then he isn't God. He's a human being. ?

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So you assume he's not awake based on videos he posted, what, 3-4 years ago?

What's the rush? ? Meditation, Mindfulness. There are many ways but it's not from here to there. It's from here to HERE. A deepening into HERE.

For me there was a desire to leave my family too and go live in the woods somewhere but I did stay. That's something I'm very grateful for today because they do give me great joy to be around. I think that for a time after an awakening I tended to get very easily triggered and it hurt so much. As I worked through those triggers they weren't much of an issue. I had the tendency to try to "protect" myself from triggers but what I really protected was the part of me that hadn't already awakened.

@Holykael The jesus story is a map to awakening. The crucifixion is the death of the separate self and what follows is total unity with god.

Yeah I like that. I'm not a christian myself but I have found great advice about life and about finding truth within the bible.

Great! How has that changed your life?

I don't know if this applies to you but from my experience with people that talk loud is that they are feeling insecure about themselves and are overcompensating for that by talking loud and very willfully directing the conversation to where they feel most secure.

@OBEler Are you afraid of being questioned and wrong?

@Vajra What is your practice or practices?

You recognize that your mind has been wandering after you've become present again. With 'time' it will get easier to remain present. ?

@Someone here what do you need to know? You do what you do and learn on the way. ?

@Someone here There can be a fear of not knowing what's going to happen, which is an egoic projection. It creates an event somewhere in the future and needs to know the outcome. That is an illusion. Once the illusion is seen through there is no longer any fear and then there's a freedom in not knowing. You can do whatever you want to do without needing to know the answer to every question that might come up.

I've tried it but not as a routine practice. ? Great for developing some equinimity to uncomfortable feelings I reckon.