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@Mikael89 I had a brother who had exactly the same mindset as you. To a "T". He thought he was above the other "fools" that want to support themselves by working. He milked it for as long as he could living for free at the expense of others. All the while was told many times in his best intrest to get a job- but he wouldn't. Than one day life changed and ppl moved on and the free support he had was no longer there. And he asked "What about me? How am i going to survive?". The answer he got: We've already warned you many times for your own good but you didn't heed to our warning. So now you have no choice. He stayed with different friends for a while. But that got old and one by one they all told him not to come back. So he lived on the street for about 5 years moving from one place to another. Often getting his head kicked in by others surviving on the mean streets. He was dead in 5 years. And that was that. Kind of sad really. He had so much to offer too. A naturally talented artist. But he waisted all of it by doing nothing at all.

In the timeless realm where god dwells, which is also your home, the beginning and end, the Alpha and Omega are one, and the essence of everything that has ever been and ever will be is eternally present in an unmanifested state of oneness and perfection-totally beyond anything the human mind can ever imagine or comprehend. -Eckhart Tolle

@Baotrader Forget about your friend, Osho and enlightenment and put your focus on mastering self actualization for now.

No conspiracy theories please.

@Strikr I love what Will Smith says at the end: "God placed all the best things in life on the other side of fear" Wow is that true. I'm sure you'd learn more about yourself in one jump than 1000's of hours of meditation could show you.

@Tony 845 Here's something different. How about learning skydiving? Jumping out of a plane @ 2000 ft every so often would certainly make all your other life situations seem relatively stress free in compairison.

@Tony 845 I was in the same situation as you some years ago with a young family to support. I decided to put enlightenment on the back burner and just intergrated what I had experienced already which was not enlightenment but cosmic consciousness (oneness with the universe). Than about 5 years ago came back to enlightenment after the kids were well out on their own and all was well established on the physical plane. That's just my story for whatever it's worth.

@Tony 845 I was in the same situation as you some years ago with a young family to support. I decided to put enlightenment on the back burner and just intergrated what I had experienced already which was not enlightenment but cosmic consciousness (oneness with the universe). Than about 5 years ago came back to enlightenment after the kids were well out on their own and all was well established on the physical plane. That's just my story for whatever it's worth.

@Paul5480 It can feel like you have each foot in a different world at first glance of no self. Totally common. Ego is resisting and holding to it's familliar ground state of matter.

@Annoynymous Relative truth is exactly that. Always relative to something else that is relative to something else. That's not truth. It means nothing. Ego backlash happens when someone resists real truth. Absolute truth. For instance if they suddenly realized for themself they have been playing a game of naiveism to avoid absolute truth. That realization could cause an ego backlash.

@Annoynymous Ego backlash happens when there is resistance to what is true.

@WelcometoReality When you don't exist there is no ego death. There is no one there to have an experience of ego death.

@fewrocker Don't kid yourself. Do the shadow work first while your in control. Search honestly in every nook and cranny. When was the last time you allowed yourself to have a good cry?

@Lauritz Because you saw there was no "you" in it and that scared the S&*T out of you. It tends to do that at first glimpse. But cheer up. Something positive did happen. Conscionseness awoken to conscionseness for a moment or two.

The question itself is part of the illusion. The illusion investigating itself when there is nothing there to find. And by whom could it be found by?. Stay in the emptiness. Put all love into no-knowing. There is no one who needs to know anything.

@kieranperez You too? The not knowing is really prevelent today for some reason. The undescribable depth of absolute emptiness is all pervasive. The unreality of reality. The unreality of self. The "dream" world. All this a dream we dreamed one afternoon. -The Greatful Dead

Could everything have popped into existance last Thursday? Or even a second ago? Complete and intact with all the information that creates the illusion of a past?

@kieranperez Thinking about it only makes it worse. Like you may not notice the ringing in your ears until you put attention on it.

@TheAvatarState So your a laughing Buddha are you? Yes that's just his foot!

* It's safe living inside the box. It probally shook his world.

@Jack River Funny you should say that. I just explained Last Thursdayism to the G-F and she said; That's scary!" lol I'll tell you what's scary............ -It's safe living inside "The Box" lol

Nicely said!

But would'nt that be the illusion itself? The illusion of time, space, location?

@LastThursday The whole universe may be just a thought or perception generated by mind. *Good name!

@Nahm I thought you didn't mean it that way but that was the definition I found. You are quite right about the spontanous now. It is complete.