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I've experienced awakenings both before and after learning about enlightenment conceptually. In both cases, I didn't have any clue when it was happening. I didn't know it was God or no-self or anything like that, it was all just me. I was mostly lost in the experience and really only knew it was the same thing that people fuss about after someone told me that it is. Now I'm even remembering religious experiences when I was practicing hardcore Islam at 15 years old or something that I didn't notice until very recently that it was awakening. Words cannot really describe the experience, not because it's extraordinary per se, but mostly because the reference is not there to begin with, the context is just missing despite the pointers. So in my experience, experience is prior to thoughts, even though thoughts can hijack, color, and/or shape experience sometimes. An interesting thing happens after building a spiritual ego is that the experiences become, I don't know, but let's say polluted with ego. It's really not the same when you're trying to give labels to whatever you're experiencing, as opposed to being completely immersed within the experience. It's just not as potent, let's say. But probably there are pros and cons to each. I think in my case, it's because the traditional practices shift/build awareness gradually over the course of weeks and months, so the clear/sudden contrast that psychedelics create is missing, so it becomes hard to distinguish an awakened state from the ordinary state.

This can also happen passively. You don't necessarily have to be hitting on the woman. Just because she doesn't like your appearance or personality or whatever, she will likely act accordingly. I guess it's an instinctual thing. This can happen with men but less likely, ime.

You will turn into a frog.

To OP, in order to distinguish truth from delusion, first there must be an objective truth or reality that we can anchor our distinction in. It seems like the dude in the video is super immersed in materialism, so it's no surprise he has such views. On the flip side, a person who is super immersed in idealism like Leo have exactly opposite views, so of course to Leo this dude is stupid. From my detached perspective, I can see both perspectives and discard them at the same time. And I hope this posts will allow some people to have the same ability.

As far as I know, Tolle's awakening was not mystical, rather just a sudden radical shift in awareness that didn't include any visions or encrypted insights, kind of like mine. My point is that the label you suggested here seems like a misdiagnosis.

Religion is something that most "religious" people have only on their ID cards. Make sure you don't mistake ID situation for reality. It is printed "Muslim" on my ID card, but in reality I'm not Muslim (tomorrow is Ramadan and I'm not gonna fast). In practice, most religious people around me are pretty dumb and uneducated even about their own religion. Most of them don't take religion seriously, more like a fast-fix for their shadow problems. To them, religion is what the preacher says, and nothing else. And for many people, it's just a trend/theme/costume that you should wear without questioning. And *spolier*, even the preachers themselves are usually pretty dumb and have almost 0 self-awareness. It's the result of multi-generational dogma and brainwashing.

They have plenty of men to pick one from. [INCELLED]

You don't feel guilty, you just think you're guilty for some reason that you can find and remove. Semen is energy, so that's normal. Charge up on food and sleep and you'll feel normal again. Extra tip: exercise to get an energy boost. Same as guilty.

Just to add my two cents. In my view, women operate in life based on two basic emotions: Fear & Jealousy. Fear drives women in the dating market (outside league), and jealousy drives women between each other (same league). Both of these emotions are interconnected and they feedback into each other in a loop because there's no real separation between the two leagues. Women rank each other based on beauty and other values from the same league, but also on values from the outside league like landing a hot high value man. For men, there's a parallel model, but it's very similar (exact same structure).

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Overpopulation. The diminishing of the middle-class. The increasing life standards.

Huh?

Describing what?

Not always the case, but it happens, yes.

@Federico del pueblo ?

I've always been the first to criticize Leo, and still am. But my respect for him is only ever increasing.

@Loving Radiance It seems the tension that is arising in expecting/by imagining the real life scenario is too big to handle for now, so I would: Avoid looking at the wound when it's triggered. It's just pointless, maybe even harmful. Only examine at rest and when feeling ready. If it feels hard to examine the thoughts/emotions even at rest, then maybe consider taking a break from everything related to them (basically any triggers) for some time (going on a retreat is optimal, ime), then come back to this later and baby-step your progress.

Nobody's perfect, but some people are better than others.

@Preety_India Bye's.

@Cykaaaa That makes a lot of sense. Thank you.

@Bob Seeker @zurew Thanks guys. All clear and helpful.

Thank you, I really appreciate that you took the time to write this post. And yeah, I agree with you that I probably need more practice. But I'm kind of facing a handful of logistic problems that are slowing me down that I try to tell myself are not a big deal. For example, I have other commitments at the moment (mainly medical school and family obligations) so I'm not fully dedicated to programming. I also don't have access to my PC/internet all the time, as there are certain environmental limitations that are imposed on me because of where I live (shortage of electricity and internet). As well, winter was really cold this year and I had to endure it without any heating whatsoever, blankets are all I have, and I can't work from underneath a blanket. Those are the main obstacles that I'm facing right now, and even though I started learning web development one year ago, in real time (practice) I think it equals 3 or less months in better circumstances. I've already made a number of projects with the help of an instructor, but nothing on my own yet. Here are two of them: Guess My Number Pig Game I am noticing these effects as I'm practicing more. I think all I need is time.

Just got back from the hospital, it was raining, I got all wet. Bro asked me to go up to the roof and check the water storage, did that. Then on the way down I saw my cousin and her little baby daughter, 2 years old or something. I held her in my hands, lift her up the ground then made her stand on my thighs, best feeling in the world. I asked her what her name is, she sweetly mumbled Fatima. How cute and innocent!! Then I carried her up the stairs and delivered her to her grandma's.I will have as many kids as possible.