WelcometoReality

@Billy Shears No the desire to drink fell away at some point and I was a whisky collector and loved that stuff. No it just sits in my basement. I can't even remember when I drank the last time. Maybe 5 years ago?

@Jay Ray You don't need anyone else on the path and your family and friends are not holding you back. You will feel isolated, alone and like no one understands you on this journey because they don't understand. There comes a point where that doesn't matter though and things will be easier.

@deso it's hard to see clearly during these times when we arein alot of pain. You can always turn things around. It might feel like it's to late and that you missed an important step earlier in life but if you want that step can be right now. I was 25years old when things finally turned around. It always begins with a small first step.

Feeling lost is good, that means you are going in the right direction.

Noone. But one might believe that the one wants something else.

It takes a judgment to decide whether someone has earned or not earned the wisdom.

@Shiva99 well put.

Yes, Assuming that he wants enlightenment.

I never found that balance so I'm afraid I can't help you with this. I guess you have to find that balance yourself. I'm not saying that it's good or bad just that they are linked. The same energy. If the shadow energy is the fear of being a failure (pushing away) then it is also the desire to become a success (grasping). When one side of that energy force dissolves so does the other because they are the same energy. So you don't feel inspired or motivated to do the things you have been doing?

@billiesimon the shadow propells you through life. The drive to succed and become has become weaker because the shadow is becoming weaker.

Falling into the abyss

? less than three An awakening can really shift this point of view, discard the old one and get a new one. The new one is still just another view though. A view of an infinite number of views.

^^ And who is pointing the finger now? ? The is no point of view that's absolutely true not even the absolute one.

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@Aratrok Have you tried eating an inflammatory diet with lots of berries fruit and vegetables for treating the meningitis?

@Raptorsin7 Everything occurs now in this moment and the seeker seeks something in the future and by doing that it denies this present moment. Ask yourself what your seeking and what are you running away from. Both can be accessed in the present moment. Stop seeking and stop run away. Just STOP. And let everything collapse into THIS.

Alan watts drank alcohol and supposedly had alcoholism. Nisargadatta Maharj smoked alot and died of lung cancer.

Can you talk alittle more about this derealization. And what does suffering from solipsism mean?

It's always. A perfume of the divine.

First time I heard someone define it that way. I like it.

@James123 An ever deepening into THE ONE. lovely. What is love?

Only a thought will make the claim that it is awakened. We can use such language the question is if we know that it isn't true.

@Zec it's like shooting an arrow through the empty space in a room.

It's all direct experience whether you are looking at the dials or your looking out of the window it's your sense of sight. What is determining where your looking? It's your beliefs! If you were to believe that the dials are not to be trusted then you probably looking out the window and vice versa. Experience is experience and that gets filtered through your belief structure which then determines what's true or false.

Questions are to be answered in your direct experience. thought might hold the question and the answer is to look into your direct experience.