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@VeganAwake what if you’ve done tons of observing the self , self inquiry , observing thoughts but still the self hasn’t dropped? *cries in duality*😔

I want whatever you’re on

I guess this figment of infinite mind just wants to be dual so much 😔

I’m a very dual person I know

I’ve heard it and a presence said it to me once

Suffering being love is the part of infinity i can’t handle

On a practical level you could break down exactly what you wanna do with the money and figure out how much you need. Figure out what’s actually genuinely important to you, what you desire strongly and feel is earning of fulfillment. To travel the world, there are both cheap and expensive ways to travel. More or less luxurious. There are both simple and harder more complicated ways to earn money. You could work double jobs for a while to earn some money, that’s the simple way, but it maybe won’t make you so much, but with good budgeting you could come a long way with less money. Other things I’ve heard of is earning money online. But it seems you have to put serious time into learning the skill. There are things like drop shipping, stocks, etc I’ve heard of. It’s not very “high conscious” way to make money though. But a “high conscious” way is probably the hardest path to take. Also you say it’s fake and neurotic. It doesn’t have to be. There are different ways of going about the same things. More or less “conscious” ways. So question that judgement. Plus yes it won’t bring you permanent happiness, but it can bring you a temporary happiness, and a happiness long term if it’s done in balanced way that feels align to you. So you don’t have to think of those things as “lower”. Here I go again saying obvious things😂 But basically one of my points being that sometimes we can complicate things in our head because of beliefs we have adopted. So you might have desires but then you have ideas about considering them to be “lower conscious” so you’re doubting if you should pursue them. It’s reasonable to think it won’t give you lasting happiness, but temporary happiness is still good.

Do you know this directly ?

Study yourself when you feel sexual. I personally feel like there’s different types of sexual excitement, there’s the raw physical horniness that’s about the physical sensation, desiring the orgasmic release from the physical aspect of sex, then sexual attraction is a thing but it doesn’t have to be so major because you’re just horny. Then there’s more sexual attraction when you really desire the person (could be looks based). You find them sexy, they awaken sexually in you. The physical is major here too but it’s not all. Then there’s sexual excitement in the feeling of feeling sexy, mainly a female thing, can also be masculine as in a man enjoying himself feeling powerful and dominant, also admiring her, so here we have two self images involved, the one of themselves and the other person. It’s ego based. Here also the physical isn’t the main thing. You can have them all at once or separate, the first one is most common to have by itself. Then porn and masturbation can be enough. If I’m making any sense.

@Yimpa heh

When they’re bald you know they get it!

@Yimpa reminds me of this Buddhist joke or something that went something like , they asked the Buddhist how he wanted his pizza and he replied “one with everything” 🤣🤣🤣Buddhist has good taste

Sleep is the closest they’ll get to non duality, he’s bringing them to god!

Right

Dodo sounds like something a baby would say . Very non dual btw, babies are quite enlightened aren’t they

Rupert?

Good you’re aware of it atleast that you don’t know god and it’s just a bunch of concepts for you (same btw) rather than walking around talking about god thinking you got the real deal!

Yea everyone’s goal isn’t to dissolve their self. But yea when we get rid of old patterns it can include shedding a little of the ego (I’m not sure but I experienced it like that). But it sounds good what you’ve done! Very cool. There’s a lot of depth to ourselves so there’s a lot to become aware of and with greater awareness we can lessen our suffering through changing ourselves!

Yea if this is just non duality appearing dual then it’s doing a good frikking job at it!!

It sounds funny to me too. Like that’s how I sometimes wanna call people who’ve “lost “ their sense of self. But it’s a paradox because person means separate but non dual means not separate..

I see

Yea it seems absolutely real. I can’t even say if it’s real or not, all that is just words for me. Duality seems absolute . So there can be value in the silence, as Ramana said, in taking a break from trying to grasp reality which is a very “dual” activity. Maybe it can help

@Mellowmarsh So you’re saying duality is not illusion? I would agree that , only way to know is through duality, but it’s said non duality is not a knowing. And non duality is a concept , but it describing something beyond concepts, which is what all concepts do, although non duality is special in that it’s describing nothing at all and everything simultaneously

@Schizophonia