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All I am familiar with is the process of disintegration of the self and it ended up with me feeling like I was approaching nothingness. I guess I haven’t done the opening aspect so its hard to grapple what that is- maybe it’s only obvious when it actually happens Yea I would need the direct experience to make sense of this. Sometimes I don’t even know what state of consciousness I am in. Because I’ve been through profound permanent shifts but I barely even know what they were about. For me it definitely seems almost impossible to dissolve the self 😂 It’s like you need to do something significant to the brain to achieve it

I meant it might be wrong

That’s your view

I did solve some issues but other different issues appeared yes

No

Lol Weird occasion to say “thanks”

I still have trouble distinguishing judgment, labelling, identifying and assigning meaning. But it’s ok

I do agree to a certain degree because I found some of my stress used to be about having my own internal experience in the spot light all the time. But counterintuitively it was precisely this inward focus that led me to permanently solve those issues

It could also be the opposite. You pay attention to something scary because it aids your survival. You want to get rid of that scary thing. You could flip it upside down and say that means we have desire to survive. Then we could ask the question you said

That’s such a broad question. For example big difference between attention moving towards pain in the body and attention moving towards someone with a strange outfit walking past you

Cool you remember so much about your dream lol! Yea dream states are totally different states of mind so it’s definitely something to explore . I even believe it’s can be spiritual work, the subconscious, energies etc

Thank you too for the link!

I don’t even know if it’s possible to know

That might apply to the average person

I was being funny. Yea I don’t know but it’s what I believe

To deal with stress requires us to go inward. ‘

You have all of eternity to do that 😂😂 Enjoy your life now

It can be hard to distinguish meaning from labelling and identifying or even judging. For example if you say Oreo is a kind of cookie. You’re labelling/identifying Oreo as a cookie. You’re not saying that Oreo MEANS cookie. If you say war is bad, you’re not saying war MEANS bad, you’re labelling/identifying/judging war as bad. Meaning seems to be when something has to do with something that it is NOT. For example the sound of the alarm means I have to wake up. Meanwhile in these above examples they have to do with identifying things as they are There might be flaws in this point I’m open to that

Thanks! Id say yours is decent too because it sure guides a lot of our behaviors. I guess that’s kinda where the potential value lies in this contemplation, seeing how it connects to our lives

Meaning is something that is imposed on something for it to represent something else

Why sit for hours when you can just inhale some vapor and get BLASTED into infinity

I’m just being realistic

Awakening through pain:

Part of what spirituality is , is a mental construct that becomes part of your psyche and identity that you hold as a mental overlay on reality, contributing to the sense of distance between you and the external, and gives depth to the self.

Lowkey spot on