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I was going to edit my post to say that it’s also in a way an interpretation, so yes I agree!

@DavinoLet’s say a severe case you get bullied in school by several people. I do believe that what they say can only hurt you if you somehow are insecure in it yourself, so for example if they point out your physical appearance, if you have no problem with how you look it won’t hurt you. But what can happen though is you can get very angry and irritated at the mistreatment and feel sad and exhausted because your boundaries are being overstepped and you feel unsafe and not respected. But that’s not really a matter of taking what they say personally, you’re just reacting at the mistreatment as a whole, not feeling hurt by particular things they say. That is reasonable and human.

It was very clear. I agree for the most part. I don’t know how to counter the first part of what you said, so I’ll let it be

Solid post In my experience one thing to help not to feel offended by others is to have your own standard in your mind for yourself that you follow. So you asses yourself and you are the one who has the most important opinion, not what someone else thinks And self awareness ties to this. So if you’re self aware enough nobody can surprise you with saying something they noticed about you, because you’re already aware of it. They can only feed the self image you already have . Or not, because you already feed it yourself

Yea but think like this. Okay maybe there isn’t something that “passes on” . But if this life could appear from my perspective, why , in ETERNITY wouldn’t another kind of life appear again from my perspective? Makes no sense that one life would be all there is all of eternity

I sometimes think to myself ok maybe my life is bad and occasionally I get suicidal thoughts but imagine how much more worse another reincarnation can be in the next lifetime (if there’s such a thing), like medieval torture chamber victim. Who knows what can happen so better not speed it up. Infinity is creative 😂

I can relate. I deal with suicidal thoughts too sometimes. What I try to do to combat that is develop my mindset, to calm my internal world down and deal with my problem better. It seems extremely hard to awaken. You could do extreme practice or psychedelic but the first can be very taxing and requires discipline I think everyone has the right to end their life sometimes life can be unbearable. But we can try to make life better to our best capacity . What happens after death we don’t know, so can’t count on that.

Is reincarnation true? Let’s look at it. When we think of infinite mind/consciousness (reality) dreaming, we think of it in the context of this one life, as in reality is dreaming “my life”. But what if reality can dream several lives, connected to each other through reincarnation, so reality is dreaming a reality of reincarnation, but reality isn’t bound to reincarnation, it’s a dream WITHIN reality. So basically what I’m saying is that reincarnation might be true, but it’s a RELATIVE truth, it’s a dream within reality, just like “my life”, it’s a dream out of the infinite dreams reality can dream, so it’s not an absolute truth. Basically this idea of reality being a dream is not limited to “your life” it can apply across lifetimes. Maybe I’m sounding obvious lol

I don’t know how meaning is when you’re from the absolute pov..

Ok Thats discipline

Haha who knows…

So pain stopped being suffering? A long time ago, in teenage years when exercising I found the opposite, by focusing intensely on the bodily sensation it made me deal with it better. Also during meditation it happened my ass would hurt from sitting , and by placing my attention intensely on the sensation the pain kinda dissolved. Which one is it? Is running about resistance to pain what u mean?

Spot on. Acknowledging the relative doesn’t trap you in it more than you’re already trapped in it.

I’ve been in weird states where it was like I understood no meaning, so I can see the value of it. Isn’t this like being a witness, thoughts are seen for what they are, just appearances , instead of buying into their meaning

That’s how it is for me. Just mental. But I recognize it’s mental. I could not possibly fool myself into thinking I got the real deal. As I said duality is so obvious to me

Maybe she seeks that intensity from running You think that could help deal with the pain?

He meditates so maybe he is a bit spiritual

I don’t lift anymore but I might start doing it a little again. I do intense cardio though . Im working on the weight loss part hehe

It’s very extreme. It can cause distress. There’s only one David Goggins for a reason, it’s not very realistic and achievable for most people. He has a special mind and perhaps even a special brain to be able to be that way. He speaks of how it builds something great mentally, all that grind, that must be a great reward

Thanks

When I was in my teens, I used to lift and could squat and deadlift slightly over 100 kg each at like the age of 16. #flex Its a cool activity

What is fallen energy ? I love her Id have to disagree there speaking from my experience of intense exercise . So Courtney has the ability to go very deep into the so called “pain cave”. What I notice when you exercise is that you get to a certain point of intensity where every single step forward is a struggle. And you require a very strong ~conscious focus~ to be moving yourself forward . So dissociating is not possible there, you need ultra focus. Dissociation I would say is possible when it feels easier to run, when it’s more effortless. Not when it gets REALLY intense

You write very beautifully it was a nice read. I have a guess that the self for the average person is not this constant thing, there can be moment of no self when immersed in something, in flow state, but maybe it’s not recognized that it’s no self, it’s not noticed, it returns to often and too quick . I don’t know Ive experienced partial openings, softening to the ego, and maybe the full once, but I’d like to experience it more like you talk about

What’s it about ?*asks you instead of reading it*

@Nemra I want😋