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Wonderful. Thank you.

@Aaron p In the spiritual realm it's good to see knowledge as pointers that you have to verify within your own experience. And this kind of everyday knowledge that you don't want to verify yourself.

@outlandish Yes I think we all can agree with that. @Shin What is your current experience on this journey. I sense from what you posted earlier that you are currently awakening? Is there a sense of being nothingness, oneness or how would you describe it?

@outlandish Have you watched the video I posted? It explains what is happening.

Lucky you! You're going to die. The last stand of the ego. Existential fear of death.

That sounds like me a couple of years ago. I was very curious and wanted to learn about stuff and see how EVERYTHING fit together. It was like reality was one big puzzle that I was working on solving. I can see that they can be hard to figure out. I was really reserved to exposing myself. I was only relaxed while being myself or with my closest friends.

It's fine because that's what is happening. That is what how surrender practice is used. Every moment is perfect no matter if you are conscious or unconscious it is only by a judging thought about the present moment that it may appear to be imperfect. If you use the practice though it will lead to you being more present/aware.

Could it be that you're dealing with a similiar issue as:

1) Pain still arises but the thought stories about the pain seem to disappear. 2) There still is an ego here. Maybe the experience of ego death will come who knows? 3) Agreed 4) To me the interest in non-dual vs materialist concepts and concepts in general seem to have dallen away. 5) The personality has changed. More accepting of people. I don't think it touches such disorders if they are physical. 6) Anxiety, fear and worries seem to have disappeared. There was fear when I was on a roller coaster last summer but not before or after.

It will come with more practice. Surrender to what is. If you feel lost and can't sense the awareness that is fine.

Mindfulness or surrender.

@MsNobody I'm a gemini. So what are my traits?

Do you have any practice that you use daytime? If not consider getting one. Formal meditation is good but having a non formal practice that continues after meditation can help carry over the effects of meditation throughout the day.

@Ingit Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable when negative feelings arises. Rather than trying to feel comfortable when you feel uncomfortable. Accept that there is uncomfortability. Don't try to alter what arises, simply accept it for what it is. These are thoughts that is occuring. What if these thoughts didn't arise, how would you feel then?

@Aakash You are awakening, concepts will start to fade away. You'll fall more and more into the unknown. The mind wants to explain things in a cause and effect manner but in reality they just happen. They appear and disappear without any need to justify and explain. The short answer: It's all good. Totally normal when you start to awaken.

@EvilAngel They are probably acting against parts of your belief system and that's why you react negatively towards them. If you want to investigate more into it you can look up byron katie's "the work". You can download the worksheet here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://thework.com/sites/thework/downloads/worksheets/JudgeYourNeighbor_Worksheet.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwibn6Xa8pjgAhVCGCwKHf49DWwQFjAAegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw3g_xC0ozsZPrxVGm0ASfWy A video on how it's used:

Yeah the techniques are more doing. The revelation is beyond doing. The absence of doing. Be still and watch everything arise and pass away.

Do you mean that you need to let go of a meditation technique, to for example silence the mind, at a certain point on the journey?

Everything is the self and everything is right here in this moment.

Yeah that's what I said when it happened.

@traveler Maybe he means people who has started to awaken but are not "fully" awakened yet. I got very sensitive to peoples energies at first. I got very emotional and it was just a tough time to deal with people in general. I wouldn't be surprised if people that is dealing with the same thing might use alcohol or other drugs to dampen the senses.

@Joseph Maynor SDS-meditation is very effective. All it took was one 3 hour sitting to put me in a state of deep surrender. So don't count it out.

Thank you @Wisebaxter I'm looking forward to see what insights you'll have. One of my biggest insights came from surrendering to the present moment. Allowing everything to be as it is.

@Wisebaxter Glad to hear that you found it useful. To some this intuitive knowing or small voice can be quite hard to hear or feel in the beginning so it can feel alittle bit abstract. If that is the case you can start to listen to your feelings as they to are good indicators. What makes you happy, unhappy, content or joyful. I guess adyashanti talked alittle about it in the previous video but here is another one. A heartbased practice will connect you to this better. Nice notes by the way. Mind if I steal them?

Yeah he's really great. I've got so much guidance from his teachings.