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@Shin Now you just need to find the YES to the no. Simple isn't it? ?

@khalifa The answer is within you my friend. Noone can help you make your decisions. Trust yourself and feel deep within for the answer, it will come in time.

@Memeito Why do you want to get enlightened and why are you in such a hurry?

You want to get there quick. You want to accelerate your way to enlightenment. But those are just illusions you need to see through. It's not something you attain or get to, it's rather losing everything and stopping. How do you get to right here, right now? You see through the beliefs that there is a future and a past. That there is something wrong with reality. That it should be something that it ain't.

@Seraph It doesn't matter how big your ego is because you transcend ego. When you see ego for what it really is how can that matter. That your ego is to big is just an excuse not to do the work. There are lots of excuses to either do or don't isn't there? Some personal development is about raising your motivation and ambitions, that is ego work. Other personal development work, like the power of routines, is just techniques to get things done.

Beautiful post! Thanks for sharing. My view of it is that the thoughts occur. There is no control over how much or little thoughts occur. If we give attention to the senses instead the thoughts will lessen in quantity.

Here I say the thoughts come and go but is there really a thinker, a creator of the thoughts or is that also a thought? ? Relax into the observing rather than force it.

It just perceives. It is possible to transcend the mind. Then the constant labeling of the mind will disappear and reality will start to blend together. The tree and ground will be one.

As we said before the thought appears in reality but the content is not real. So don't attach to the thoughts. Don't hold any truth. Detach yourself from the thoughts for a day and see what happens.

Is the tree really a tree? Is the ground really the ground? Is there really any separation between them without mind labelling them tree and ground?

Warms my heart to see that you don't take my word for it, but try to anchor it within your own experience. ? The thought appears in reality right? But the content of the thought is never real? If that is the case what is a tree without thought and words? What separates the tree from the ground it stands on?

Let's start with how reality is. It is the way it is right? I'm sure you will agree. ? How can it not be? What is it that wants it to be something it is not? And what is it that puts a label that says that something is good or bad or unfair or evil? It is the mind that does that. So what is real? Reality or your mind?

@Dodoster Is anything better or worse than anything else? What does it take for it to be better or worse?

@dice Look for any other teacher saying the same thing. You probably won't find many.. Because it's bullshit.

What happens after a genuine awakening experience? Adya explains it here.

@Stoica Doru Yes it's funny. ?And I get the same thoughts about people from time to time. A long walk in the woods is usually enough to realease those thoughts.

@Stoica Doru So what's the belief? This is not about them. It's about you. ? Is it about the importance to know about non-duality? That they should be in another way than they are?

@Stoica Doru So what is the belief that triggers?

@Annetta You are not going to like this answer but.. meet the fear/anxiety of being alone head on. There is no shortcuts to bypass or transcend fear "negative" emotions. The funny thing about fear and anxiety is that when you avoid what you are fearful of, the fear will increase. You will get more and more afraid of it. But if you gradually expose yourself to it the fear will lessen.

@Shin Yes. If something is trying to define itself through past or future experiences, characterics like enlightenment or being good, bad, smart, dumb it's not empty. It can be seen so it can't be "you".

@Barna Enjoy it! And if you feel ego come back in trying to get control again please read this. And also here is some wise words from mooji.

@LRyan These troubling times is a great opportunity to detach yourself from mind. Mind has no problem being still when everything goes the way it "should". But now survival mode is ON. It "needs" to struggle it's way back into the safe zone. Can you just observe the mind doing it's thing without attachment? @SLICKHAWK Yes in one way there is control over the body, but have you ever had the intention to pick up a glass of water just to knock it over and having water all over the table? If you had any control over the outcome would that really happen?

It does seem like it. But whatever you choose to call the absolute it will still be absolute and all concepts of it are just a play with words. Whether you choose to call it God, Consciousness or Spirit it all points to the same absolute.

@jasonjp1016 Religion is a belief that God exist. Atheism is a belief that God don't exist. They are on opposite sides on the same spectrum. Are one more true than the other?

@Shin I've had a similar dream about death. I was sitting in a car parked at a parking lot outside a store. And a big SUV came up behind the car. For no reason it started drive into the back of my car, pushing it against the brick wall in front of the store. My car got pressed together and at one point I had the choice of throwing myself out of the car or sit still. I chose to sit still. Suddenly everything got black. The dream stopped there and I was conscious of the body again. There was a big energetic release from the gut that lasted for several minutes.