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I think so too

I feel like it’s my brain doing this “ self sense”. But maybe I’m wrong.

Maybe they mean the regular reality as average human knows it. Reality of separation. Nothingness etc is beyond that

Just because something is internal doesn’t mean it’s your making. You might be identified with thoughts, the voice and the image, you identify as the thinker. But in the same way you are the breather, but you don’t control your breath as you go about your day, in same way you don’t control your thoughts when you go about your day. Stopping thought that arise with force is like a use of willpower. It’s possible to stop with will power, but the thoughts will keep arising with force over and over as long as you don’t resolve the deeper issue. Which is that your thoughts are arising secondary to your psyche, at the same time as your psyche contain your thoughts. You need to break down that aspect of your psyche related to the repetitive thoughts to stop them from arising, will power isn’t sustainable it’s a temporary solution for most. As long as the psyche is intact your thoughts will keep arising. By “your psyche” I also mean your sense of self It’s possible to overcome suffering even if not 100% your own making. So don’t be afraid of recognizing that

By dissolving the self

I can tell when my sense of self is still intact. But there have been moments when it has almost been absent. And it feels like you’re approaching a kind of nothingness. But it’s something you can’t really describe because it feels like the end of “something “. Then I wonder if there’s a different reality waiting on the other side of the self. If it would fully dissolve

I’ve heard similar stories. So far I’ve only been close to the emptiness rather than the full aliveness

How do you experience reality as full and alive rather than empty and lacking substance?

There’s more than just a lack of acceptance standing in between me and god.

If I’d like to have a nice self image and I am identified with my looks I might go to the gym and improve my body. That is internal motivation. And that is survival and it comes with its fair share of suffering

My reaction too 🤣🤣

I feel no different drinking coffe . Maybe twice I’ve had trouble sleeping if I drank it late but most of the time even if I drink late I have no problem. I usually drink 1 cup a day so maybe it’s not enough. I don’t get it. Gonna ask AI about it

I second this. I had to literally dissolve layers to my psyche to overcome most mental suffering

Being scared of your idea of truth is not the same as being actually scared of truth It’s like fear of death, you don’t know what death is actually and you haven’t experienced it so any fear is just fear of some mental idea you have of it . It is something your brain cannot imagine so any imagination will be faulty and disconnected from the actuality

How is it formed and maintained if you don’t mind elaborating? I feel my mind images a self image kinda, and maybe the mind is produced by the brain

She got blasted into infinity and never came back

You just created an account to casually debunk the entire forum #epic

I wonder the same about myself too. I know I have a sense of self. But I don’t really know what kind of state of consciousness I am in , in comparison to others. Someone on Reddit said “enlightenment is this moment, without the doubt about it” So it seems if there is doubt, then one isn’t enlightened. But maybe there are degrees to it, different kinds of awakening

Cool work It’s pretty wise if desperation leads you to enlightenment work out of all things lol I have done a kind of self inquiry of observing the self a lotttt and it has aided in dissolution of layers to my ego but it hasn’t led me to full blown enlightenment experience unfortunately so I’m interested in drugs

How you did for a week straight doesn’t that require like super human discipline? What kind of mindfulness practice? I guess key here is fanatic desire to awaken . Which I lack

I was joking a little but I remember you in a thread once mentioning how you got mystical experience quite shortly after some meditation or something : I think in the thread “genetic freaks megathread”. That’s what made me think of it I don’t get your second paragraph but it’s okay you don’t have to take time to explain

I don’t know what u mean

Stop flexing you’re naturally mystic

I have thought about this too. The mind creates context as an overlay for the present direct moment. What you’re directly experiencing is your senses, what you’re currently hearing, seeing etc. But the mind makes you feel like what you’re seeing is happening within something larger. But that’s only what the mind is doing. You don’t actually experience anything larger than the immediacy here.

You could also introduce someone to ideas of enlightenment and spirituality in case you spot they seem open, not everyone knows about it but it could open up a world for them and you’ll have something additional to connect over. I live in Europe too in Sweden it’s a quite introvert culture. So I see the struggle. We don’t really talk to strangers as much. Then it’s easier if you go to specific events where socializing is more accepted..