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Interesting

I don’t know much about asthma actually it could be your theory maybe. It could be several factors

I agree. It seems to me tho the self maintains itself automatically, not so much choice involved, I’m having a hard time seeing how one could make a choice to open oneself. It’s like the veil holds itself together without my choice in it. If I take a psychedelic that opens me I can’t help but close then afterwards as the effect is over

That’s why I say enlightenment seems to me when it’s permanent

I haven’t read much either. I’ll check him out. That’s cool he can do that, haven’t heard of it before

Maybe you are right I don’t know. Do you have an example of someone who seems truly enlightened to you?

Could it be asthma ? Or do you have postural issues ?

That’s such a good response it makes sense

We were just discussing an aspect of your post but to give an answer well I don’t really know much other than biology and societal conditioning making you attracted to femininity to put it simply

I don’t know what they are. “Empty their minds and see themselves as pure existence”, that seems a pretty big deal to me, nothing just about anyone could do easily. What is more radical than that? What’s enlightenment to you? For me it’s when it’s permanent and not just temporary. I don’t know tho because I’m not enlightened .

For sure most things are an ego thing in some way. I don’t think I really understand it intellectually even. And it doesn’t seem to be the opposite too, that women contempt masculinity yet are attracted to it simultaneously to the same degree, when its happens it’s usually as a response to female opression, so can’t really compare the two

School is your best bet it’s harder outside of school to make friends. Chat people up and if you have social anxiety challenge it. So I did in high school and I managed to get a few friends and people I could talk to

I don’t really understand why some men have this conflict within them when it comes to women. There are books about it for example the book “the second sex” by Simone de Beavoir that goes really deep into the roots of female oppression, these dynamics etc . I haven’t read too much from it but from what I read it was very juicy

Are you enlightened? How do you know this? I’ve been thinking the same tho, there being no real correlation between practice and enlightenment that it’s spontaneous, I don’t know that tho, just a guess

Thanks I will try this

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Ok I see. Since I am aware of thoughts it seems I am separate from them, in the same way with seeing , anything I’m aware of can’t be me, experientially. I don’t feel like I am my hand because I am aware of my hand it’s an object in my awareness like thoughts. But now that I think about it with thoughts it’s a bit different than the rest as you say, it seems I can imagine myself so in some way I feel I am in the thoughts. So it’s like both, I’m aware ~of~ thoughts so separate from them, but simultaneously it can seem I am in the thought. Or maybe my experience is unique or I’m not able to describe it the best

This applies too to physical exercise I find. Helps to be very present for the mind muscle connection etc

May I ask what a self referential thought is? I’ve heard it before. It means any thought referring to an I or? So could be anything like “I like ice cream”

On Wikipedia it says: “Self-enquiry, also spelled self-inquiry(Sanskrit vichara, also called jnana-vichara[1]or ātma-vichār), is the constant attention to the inner awareness of "I" or "I am" recommended by Ramana Maharshi as the most efficient and direct way of discovering the unreality of the "I"-thought.” when you say self inquiry do you mean this placing of attention on the “I “ sense or do you mean more of a questioning like asking yourself “who am I” “what am I” etc or maybe both?

Is there any example of someone becoming permanently enlightened from practice except Buddha?

Ok

Ok👍🏻

Hmm

What is a soul?