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That’s cool you’re able to spot the difference. I don’t really feel much difference between different foods, I suppose it’s because my baseline health is very good, good digestion and I eat healthy in general so I maintain a baseline level of feeling good (or neutral) all the time.

Exactly

Exactly, consciousness in the way OP writes means duality. I heard Rupert Spira say if I remember correctly something along the lines of there being two steps in awakening. First consciousness awakens to itself, but that’s still duality, then it merges with everything, something like that. Don’t know what that’s all about. How can there be a “nothing” (consciousness) separate from everything

Yea

Just be polite and don’t contribute to the conflict. Not much more you can do

Once during sleep paralysis vibrational state a female voice told me suffering is love so I believe it . Nature of reality is love it’s said .

thanks

Ok thanks

I’d say I agree

My mind is quite quiet a lot of the time, there are large gaps between my thoughts. I don’t feel more present because of it though. It’s a bit unclear what it means to “become here and now with absolute focus”. What do I do? Where do I direct my attention? For example during my meditation today I focused my attention on my breath. That is an action I can take, directing my attention. How do I “become here and now?

Many people haven’t even been presented the idea that the self could be “illusion” so it’s hard to say how they would respond to it. More people should hear about it so that they can make a choice whether to pursue enlightenment or not.

You don’t see others and the world in an objective way, you see your own mental projections as an overlay on the world, as a lens, as a judgement of everything , so in that sense you’re living inside your own mind. But your mind is part of the collective mind, so it’s also shared with others, you have similar mental projections like others do. So you are in a sense alone with your mind, your mental projections. Doesn’t mean other people are mental projections, but it acts like an overlay on them, on the “objective” world. Dissolving this means dissolving yourself

What did you write I don’t know which one it is

Is that the essence of his teaching?

So if I wanna find out I should consume his content again

How would one practice simply being?

It was such a long time ago I read his book so I don’t remember exactly how he preached it. I did do this thing though of putting like ridiculously large amounts of alarms throughout the day and stopping to breathe deeply and close my eyes at every one of them. Also trying to take moments to breathe deeper in general so you could say yes

I did practice spiritually in the past so yes. The 2d sense is due to extreme degrees of self dissolution but it sounds too weird to talk about

Did I say that a long time ago? Because I did do some practices in the past. For example his body scanning before bed. Then I also used to meditate every day. Present is a little tricky word, I would say I’m okay at being present

Okay I see.

What do you mean? Like how your loved ones progress determines yours

I suppose this will be a loooong road. I’m steadily increasing my meditation time. My goal is to eventually do something like 4-5 hours a day. How about you?

I just did that lol😂 I don’t know if I would call that boredom, maybe it is now you say it. It’s so hard to not look at the phone from time to time

Same.

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