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@EvilAngel Maybe we can start saying "Nothingness is totally identified with the false sense of self in that body-mind" instead. Let's see how long it takes before we all get locked up in a padded room.

I want the truth! Wanting truth might lead you to search externally for truth and that can be a hindrance. You are truth itself so it is not about searching for it as much as a complete stopping the search and seeing through the illusion of the seeker/search.

@EvilAngel Like any tool it can be misused. A shovel is great to dig holes in the ground but please don't hit people in the head with it.

Both things are fine to do. Some times you'll do one and some times you'll do the other. The resistance to what is comes from the mind. Let's say you actually can't do much about your cold feet, then resistance might come up in the mind. Thoughts like "Why didn't I bring warmer shoes" "Why did I go outside in the first place". These are resistance to what is and if you believe them they will cause you to suffer.

@How to be wise @Nahm Extreme cases of course. 30+ years of meditation without a non dual experience probably won't happen to the average person but could it be that these people are not using the meditation techniques in the right way?

But only everything.

I don't know. It can't really be expressed in words.

@Emanyalpsid nothing

You've been to the moon so you can relate to what they are saying in experience rather than theory. Yes that is nice to be able to do. Well the envy is there as a reminder that there is still work to be done. I can clearly see through the illusion this time. Other times it is much harder.

A quick inquiry during lunch: 1, nothing and everything 2, everything

Letting go/surrender can be used as a way to awaken. It has been and still is the heart of my practice.

It could probably still be useful as a calculator if I forgot to bring my phone with me.

@theking00 It depends on how you define ego. It seems like there is alot if diffrent views on what ego is and I guess that's why it is so much debate going on in many of the threads about the ego. I define ego as the I-thought that arises. "I should do this""I should do that" "I am good" "I am bad" and then there is all the feelings based around the I-thought which also could be defined to be ego-based. Could you live without those? I probaböy could. And I wpuld probably have a life with less suffering without them.

@GeoLura That center is still there for me and it feels alittle envious of you.

Face it! It won't kill you.

All practices that anchor oneself into the awareness that is being aware are good practices. The practices that do that differs from person to person.

No need to complicate it. Just be the awareness being aware of objects, thought, feel, sight, sound, taste, smell

What you experienced is what you experienced.. Trust in that. Mind will create labels to put on it. No matter what label it tries to put on it mind is trying to make the infinite into something finite. The mind wants to know. It tries to dissect and analyze the experience and figure it out? Was it just my imagination or did something profound happen? How do I recreate it? In that way it tries to control the outcome of an experience.

@F A B If you are just an idea can you actually do anything?

Aren't those all thoughts? I would inquire more into these feelings. They seem to be based around a belief that's causing you to suffer.

@Bluebird Doing inquiry on these events will help you heal the emotional wounds you have.

@Tistepiste This is probably the best way. Let them become interested in it by showing how it will improve his life. If he's not interested, accept it. No reason to bang your head against the wall is it?

@VictorB02 I used cannabis for a couple of years and felt great while on it. The problem was that I was fleeing from/pushing away some "bad" feelings and was gravitating towards/grasping the "good" feelings I got while being high. The key was to start dealing with those "bad" feelings. Seeing that the movement from "bad" to "good" was actually not giving me any long lasting happiness.

@How to be wise Yes you don't know what's going to happen after enlightenment do you.. But you won't care which way life goes afterwards. You only care before.. And what is it that cares about this?

@GabeN Trying to get to or hold onto a high state of consciousness is not fruitful. Just let the states come and go. Accept what is here and now.