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It’s so brutal right.

But when you are here you have attachments and aversions and don’t feel like you’re god..

Most people who think like that probably do in a dualistic way, like religious people Effortlessness can be paradoxical because I find thinking can be effortless but thinking tends to be tied to ego

It’s funny I have bought his book “can’t hurt me” but haven’t read it .

Takes more than a mere saying to turn the ego off. Maybe one could turn that saying into a mantra and it might be more effective. Beautiful post nevertheless. I think the hardest ownership is carrying an identity, existing as limited form, maybe because it’s ultimately untrue so it almost never can be fully relaxed and effortless

I feel this is the accurate interpretation of Christianity

I had a nightmare this week. I am a little weird in the way that I can kinda enjoy nightmares: because I find it interesting what my mind is able to imagine. I’m impressed sometimes by the complexity of my dreams. How my mind is able to imagine so vividly and structured without my conscious effort. I also tend to be somewhat aware while I dream that I’m dreaming: contributing to me not being very fearful of nightmares (although I can still be a little freaked out) I don’t remember that much but what stood out about the nightmare was that I imagined that I was about to get “stuck” in a kind of nothingness. Basically I dreamt that I was going to enter a state where my ego was still there, but all my senses were off, so no sight, no smell, no touch, no hearing etc. And I dreamt that I was being stuck in that nothingness and couldn’t escape, couldn’t move or nothing. I wonder how that would be. Would one go absolutely insane from that? Like imagine if all your senses would “turn off” but you still had your ego and was aware of that “nothingness”. Creepy right.

Good to know

Ah simple

I’m open to that as I don’t know enough

Cool you did that! I’ve been trying too, to push my limits lately, i notice I stop way before my body gives out

But dying I think includes end of self too Its not me pretending I’m here..reality is

Kinda hard to turn my senses off…

I find in my own journey that this has undid layers to the ego but I never got the entire thing

So my salted caramel lattes are of no use

I think it’s best to contemplate that while in discomfort

I’m not fully getting you but I think you’re pointing to something deep and might be coming from a different place than I am. I find you can do psychological/spiritual work to undo significant amount of societal conditioning. Some things will be left like for example the use of language in your brain. But undoing those things don’t guarantee awakening. Maybe one could awaken but still have societal conditioning

I don’t even know if awareness is possible in a state of no perception . But honestly I don’t really care. Sounds hypocritical since I wrote this thread. But sometimes there’s not much thought put into it

I know, it just sounded like you misunderstood my joke Nevermind 😂

I know you’d not reply directly

How do you know that?

Fear is pointing towards something Suffering could potentially lessen ego. But for most I think it just lets it stay in the same neurosis

Why? Because it puts you through suffering ?

Very good reply. I am indeed stuck in this dream for maybe 100 years if I don’t awaken. But for now I don’t dislike it so it’s fine Ego is something that is always afraid of something, so I don’t know if it would be afraid of loss of all senses. If someone goes blind and feel fear , what is the fear about?🧐