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I agree that dealing with pain and suffering and/or overcoming it to someday not have to deal with it is for sure a valuable lesson to learn, and so many have had to do this, even in my own family we have had some tragic events happen and family members have had to deal with emotional and mental pain/suffering allot, it has for sure made them wiser and such, but it did not lead them to Spiritual Awareness, for some reason I was lead to it on my own and via my curiosity to Find out Truth and a bit of luck as I just stumbled upon Spiritual literature and found it super interesting then I went further into it and now can't stop lol... Bliss imo is not an Emotion but a State of Being, its part of what it means to be Highly Conscious, Sat Chit Ananda, which means Truth Consciousness Bliss, so Bliss comes when Your Highly Conscious as a natural Experience, its not like being High or Stoned or just Happy dancing and partying, its more intense than that.. So we all have this Potential within Us, everyone at some point has been Blissful or felt something like it, but maintaining it is the key, its can't be done via thinking or normal intellect, but it can be done once certain things within You are lined up, even when one is dealing with chronic pain and such..

@Airendal I would say based on my limited experience with it since I have not have to deal with severe chronic pain, I do deal with certain issues as I've gotten older, at my work I walk allot and lift too, after a certain amount of walking my hip flexors get tight so usually everyday at work I spend half of it in some sort of pain from that, and my back gets stiff when doing nothing, mornings are the worst, so I've dealt with physical pain and mental pain, had a depressive episode a few years ago due to a break up, it was not fun, I got over it, and the physical stuff above I do things to make it better and able to deal with it, but its not fun for sure! The point is, dealing with chronic pain as a form of suffering, it will for sure give You strength and an ability to deal with it, but I think that is still living on the survival level of life, strength and being able to deal with things is not needed for Spiritual Growth, that is another level of life that most do not consider or explore, its getting more popular nowadays for sure though, but what is needed for Spiritual Growth, where the true Human Potential is, one needs Willingness and an ability to Strive to go beyond basic survival instinct of work, family, surviving by making money and then dying one day...we can do more with life than this...

I've heard of others, Chi Kung masters from China and other places, and in the Martial Art there are ppl that can do this in some similar ways.. Mel Gibson is sketchy? How so, he's an accomplished Actor, Writer, Director which is not an easy career especially the Director part...He's for sure esoteric in a way, but he's like everyone else but has a talent that pays well if You succeed at it...

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Yes agreed, but we don't need millions of years to know we are going in the wrong direction, as Humans we have enough Awareness capacity to see this quickly.. We've already made it so that we have more control and power than ever before, even individual power and control is at a all time high, but the problem is a massive lack of Awareness/Consciousness, we still see each other and everything as separate from ourselves, competition rules, cooperation not so much it happens here and there but is not promoted or engaged with much, and this has been going on for many decades and will continue unless the overall masses Raise their Consciousness levels, and its more important today than ever simple due to the power we have available to all of Us as individuals and Government or Corporate Entities!! We can for sure program AI to be safe, but if it gets in the hands of bad actors then what? So we have to be prepared for that...

This is the way it should be, check out Jacque Fresco and his Venus Project, AI should be controlling all of the resources of the world and optimizing it so all have the essentials for basic living, no more homeless or starvation due to corruption and no profit in it, but AI today is learning via the data of humanity that is vast and great, and since the majority of Humanity is UnConscious to a high degree it learns to be like US, so therefore it will want to destroy or control the majority like the elites are doing today, so its no different if AI researches Human history and follows suit,, How that is considered Intelligence is beyond Me!

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Thanks!! I think the first thing we have to do is calm the system, stop the stress fight/flight response from happening so often during the day, its happening so much nowadays for most ppl, they react so much, judge too much and are too invested in their likes/dislikes, all of this causes Stress to happen during one's waking hours, and that affects their sleep at night too, plus all the bad food and such, its no wonder ppl are going more nuts today than ever lol... So bringing Peace into One's life is primary before anything else, this is the start of BEINGNESS, which comes before doing any sort of Action internally or outwardly and/or having success and happiness, achievements in life.. Intellectually You have to know there are certain truths, one is that life is only in the NOW, past is just your memory coming up, memory is in everything, genetics, your brain and visual memory, conscious and unconscious memory, this is what Karma means, its all the forms of memory coming up in the NOW moment and making You not realize that Life is Only in the NOW moment, second is Acceptance, this moment is the way it is and it was Inevitable! Realizing that alone will stop all Stress from happening within You, via these two things Responding, Free Will will arise naturally, no more Reacting Compulsiveness will happen then, once that is established then Peace is Your natural Experience and Kundalini will start to rise up naturally.. Some Pranayama or Breath Work helps allot too, start with this below, Isha Kriya, its a 12 min practice and its starts the process, do it twice a day for 40days, see how it affects You! From that do the Inner Engineering Course offered by Sadhguru and Isha Foundation, its super effective as well!

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Absolute is non Material, none Physical in Nature, it is Oneness/Completeness, and hence holds all Potentials and Possibilities (Infinity), so we are here in this realm to play it all out, all Potentials and Possibilities so that Absolute can know and experience itself, in trillions of ways, so Duality and Finite has to exist as a part of this Possibility equation, it has to be expressed and manifested somewhere, as far as we know we are the only place in the Universe that this is happening!

All about AUM and its practice.. "Aum is the Imperishable Word, Aum is Universal and this is the exposition of Aum. The past, present and future, all that Is, and was, all that will be is Aum. Likewise, all that may exist beyond the bounds of time, that is Aum too!"

As we get older we begin to lose things, our vitality, ppl, energy, youth, work, and such, things go away as You age, this is natures way of making Us have to go within Ourselves to Find out the Reality of Life/Existence rather than seeking it outside of ourselves, so aging should bring Us closer to being Meditative but it doesn't in our Society/Culture because we are Ego/Intellect driven/identified which is heavily Survival based which is all about Accumulation/Gathering of ppl, places, things and experiences so because of that in this society its harder for ppl to start a meditation practice simple due to heavy Conditioning and Karma influence,...,

The True sign, is that nothing Phases You, You go thru Life Untouched, You participate, are Fully Involved, Loved, Hated, Friends, Enemies, the whole subbang, but Your not Phased by any of it, then You know Your Enlightened!

LIke I said a RARE FEW, there are some but the majority will fail at Realization or Tapping into their Potential via the Suffering Route. Pain will always exist in life, losses, disappointments, deaths, destructions, but Suffering it is a choice, some cannot avoid the suffering as the pain is too great but this is not the majority, if it was nothing would get done! I for one do not want to Suffer at all, I've had enough Suffering for this lifetime, Bliss is the path for Me, at the least Peace, get Peaceful before any thoughts on Enlightenment, Realization or tapping into any form of Human Potential, if that is not there as One's foundation, then like I said nothing significant (Potential being exposed) will happen!!!

wrong, only a rare few can use Suffering as a way to Realization, otherwise the majority, vast majority like 99% fail at Realization via the Suffering route and will die tragically, tragic in the fact that their potential was never realized in anyway...

Pain and Suffering will never lead Anyone to a Humans highest Potentials, call it God, Absolute, Enlightenment, Realization or whatever, pain/suffering will only keep You in Survival mode, or bring You to the belief that someone or something else is higher up than You and what is within You, that will only lead to more Suffering as leading a life of untruth can only do that!

I remember watching this the first time, and it blew me away.. he mentions it at around the 2:46 mark, and he says "Your just dismissing the most fundamental quality of Your Life, Happiness is not a State of Mind, its the fundamental Quality of Your Life".. I interpret this too mean that nothing significant will happen in Your Life, Experientially especially unless Your fundamentally Happy, or able to Consciously control Your Inner Experience and Environment, otherwise Your just a slave to outside situations or genetics or memory/karma at play. The whole idea or purpose of Us being here is too use Free Will, the Ability to Respond, to determine the Quality of Your Life on a personal level, forget about Enlightenment, Realization, Absolute if this is not Established within You Already.. Too many here take Happiness and Well Being too lightly, but when it is not available to You then You will know what it means!!!

Hatha Yoga can help with this, and if they can't do that then try Upa Yoga. Ppl can do things to improve their lives even is they have some sort of disability or pain problem, but if they just give up and say there is nothing to do about it then that is the truth for them.. For some there is nothing to do about it, the situation is too extreme... Victor Frankl spent years in a concentration camp, he came out of it better than when he went in, everybody can do this to a certain extent, its just a matter of willingness. One cannot just look at the worst examples and say this is the way it is, there are too many variables, first one has to make a decision, is this the way it is going to be the rest of my life or am I able to make a change step by step? Make the decision once then make a plan then execute the plan, going zig zag, back and forth, doing the plan one day, not doing it the next is the worst thing to do and is what most are doing hence they have what they have in life...

People that are dealing with Immense Suffering Situations, like in Syria or Gaza or Concentration Camps, Famines and such, at the least they have an accuse to be Suffering, but there have been many ppl that have lived these lives and not suffered it, so its possible.. There are torturous situations happening as well in Western Wealthy Countries too, more personal stories and situations I think but not everybody here is hunky dory.. But most People are not living in tremendously very bad Situations, they are living either okay lives or pretty good lives situationally but they are suffering terribly inside themselves, many ppl live quiet lives of Desperation, working same same jobs daily, isolated and can't go anywhere in life due to financial or other challenges, so the point is that Humans can suffer most anything, wealth or lack of wealth, married or single, educated or uneducated, successful or failure, name it they can suffer it either way, so its never really about the situation (only in extreme cases), its about how You are Responding to it that counts, ppl are suffering what happened 10yrs ago or what may happen 2 days from now, but both places don't exist, only Now exists so if we focus more on the NOW, then that will take away most ppl's problems and suffering imo...

This is the problem with forums like this, and its not just about Spiritual topics, its with everything and every topic, if You talk about it too much it becomes a repeating cycle, which is what Karma is, repeating cycles of the samethings, so I've realized this the last few months and have started to lessen my time here and have become more selective about what I reply and participate in. I'm here for two reasons, this place brings more into my Awareness my identifications with ideology and ego, and hence the more I see it flare up the more Aware I am of it, and two someone may find something I say useful for their path on this journey, same applies to everyone here...

I would say the Human Body/Mechanism is designed to be Happy all the time, everything about You is optimized when Your in Pleasant experience (naturally that is), your Body, Mind, Intellect, Creativity, Lovingness, Clarity, everything flows much better when Your in Pleasant/Happy/Blissful Experience.. What I wrote is just the set up for it, those conditions pretty well have to be inplace for one to be constantly Blissful. Blissfulness is not an Emotion, its a State, and if one can be in a constant Depressed State, then why can't one be in a constant Blissful State, both are possible, accepting, living Now and REsponding vs Reacting are the foundations, plus the rising of the Kundalini which is like the manisfestation of the Life Intelligence within You, the Chakras are the stations where the nadis or connecting points to the Energy system meet, the higher up the latter you go from the base Chakra to the Crown Chakra the more intense life is for that person, the person where the Energy is rooted in the base Chakra is all about Sleep and Food, the person that has it based in the Crown Chakra is experiencing Ecstasy at anytime, they will not care about family, friends or even their own body, they just experience the most intense pleasure that is possible for a human being...