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@Sugarcoat Forget all this Non Dual, Enlightenment, meaning/no meaning talk, it will confuse You. Right Now or maybe at certain times You feel a sense of Suffering Yes or No? If yes, disregard what anyone is telling You about what they think Reality is or isn't, deal with this sense of Suffering! Ask Yourself and come to Your own answers, Is Suffering healthy for You or not? Don't let anyone answer this for You! Then decided what You want to do about it, keep on experiencing what You are experiencing, or change it! If You want to change it then You must seek the way to change it, because obviously what Your doing now is not working right? If You don't want to change it keep on doing what Your doing.. My General sense when ppl come on here and ask for opinions on what to do about something, or what something is, at the end of the conversation they are more confused than when they first asked the question, which leads to endless questions and no transformation or even change in experience..

The Thing is the with the higher intensity Experiences like Bliss and Ecstasy, they don't allow one to function at times well in life situations, if Your a Householder and have a job and family, being Blissed out will make those things somewhat meaningless... I was watching some NDE ppl share their experiences, one Man after his heart stopped, he had 4 kids, a single father, and when he passed over to the "Other" side, he said the Bliss/Love he experienced made him forget his family, he said "At that moment I didn't care about them", so that is a bit of a danger to it, which is why Ashrams were build so ppl could go thru these experience in safe protected places... But saying that, it much better to be in Bliss than Depression or Anxiety, its just a matter of dealing with it using Clarity as a key aspect! This is why Guru's are so important!!

Find a quality Guru, You need assistance with this for sure, as we all do. If You Accept Everything as it is, Live Now Absolutely(Use past to become wise from), Respond rather than react, then suffering is not possible, work on these basic three, and they are not mental exercises, its goes deeper than that!

People want only what is lacking in their life, poor ppl want more money, weathly ppl want more power, stupid ppl want more knowing... Bliss is the grease that makes it all flow that much easier, Bliss is a by product of Enlightenment I would say. And Bliss is higher up on the scale of Intensity of Experiences, lets say compared to Peace, Peace is 0 on a scale of 10, anything below Peace is not really living the Human Potential in any way, Happiness is 4, Joy is 7, Bliss is 9 and Ecstasy is 10 on a scale of how Intense an Experience is (empowering Experiences)... Just be Peaceful first as a natural Experience, then for sure it will flow upwards!

@Sugarcoat First Your thinking way way to far ahead, for now Enlightenment is just a concept for You, for most of Us as well.. Take Baby Steps Okay, First regulate Your Daily Experience, if You are not Peaceful of Your own nature, no matter what is going on, if You are not Accepting What is as it is naturally, if You are not Living Now and are not being ruled by past or future, then Enlightenment is not in your future in any way shape or form, so work on the basics, if You get the basics it will naturally happen, the various Sadhanas are basically about the basics, taking the shit away that is preventing You from Realizing the Reality as it is, that is Enlightenment isn't it? Quit being trapped by Your Mind, being a Slave to every thought, ideology, egoic wanting or judging, be here Now truly!

Yes, and its our Willingness to make it so everyone is provided for in regards to basic needs, as You said we have all the resources for everyone to live healthy and safe/secure/comfortably, but it is not profitable to do this, so the willingness is not there.. Willingness is not there because we are not Conscious enough of Reality, we on a mass scale do not realize that Life is not outside of Ourselves but within Ourselves, and of course in nature, and we are heavily connected to nature on so many levels, we breath in the air from the trees and such, what we breath out they use that up, we eat from what the earth provides, we shit it out and the earth uses that as well, so its all connected on millions of levels, but we feel lonely, dis connected, and other BS stuff because we are so unconscious on a whole.. All our the systems we have created (Capitalism, Health care, Education, Government, etc.) in our society are corrupted because of this, its competition based, profit based, exclusivity based, all Egoic in nature, which is opposite of a Conscious, Inclusive perspective, so once that changes everything Transforms!

Yes, good training ground for how to deal with Yourself and others lol.. good for headaches too:)

That's good, Martial Arts is so much more than just about Fighting, of course that is one of its primary reasons for existence, but it goes way beyond this.. When I first started I researched so much about it, and Bruce Lee came up and I studied him very thoroughly, here is a good sharing of his, watch the Pierre Burton Interview, its the only English Interview of Bruce I believe in Existence, it was like a year or so before his death...Great Stuff!

Half the battle is finding a good Instructor, glad you found one, hope it stays that way, Martial Arts are a Wonderful creation, they are as complex as Spiritual Systems and intermix at times with them too, keep at it, it will stay with You for the rest of Your life if You give it enough attention and dedication, one really gets to know themselves on certain levels via Martial Arts and its various Training Methods:)

@Spiritual Warfare Your biggest problem is you've set up some beliefs systems, but they seem contrary to one another, you keep on saying things like "existence is supposed to be eternal" and similar sort of phrases, but in reality you know nothing, but You think you know a bit of something, and you want to know the truth of the matter, it doesn't work this way...half truth is not truth at all... First work on your basic experience, you seem pretty emotional, and uptight, fix that first, then go from there..

Already answered that, asking for more details is useless, how would the answer help You.. Life as we know it here has cycles, anything physical/material is cyclical in nature, on all sorts of levels. But as a Human You have more control or ability to be intouch with something beyond the physical/material than any other life form, get conscious of that then all Your questions are answered..

@Spiritual Warfare Just imagine Your Body/Mind didn't or couldn't die, that You were immortal, thinking and experiencing as You do now, You think that would be a healthy thing to have to put up with a mind like Yours for eternity? Be thankful that Your form will die one day, and the possibility of starting fresh is there, as well as the possibility for the cycle to end altogether!

If we don't raise our Consciousness to Reality on a mass scale we won't make it 100yrs from now, that is for sure, so we are in a critical time because our personal power and collective power is at a point where we can destroy ourselves in hundreds of ways easily today, and on a world scale, technology has given us that power like never before but we are not Conscious enough to use this power wisely.. If we make it, it will be a utopia for sure within a 1000yrs, and we will be like Star Trek Exploring the Universe, which can bring us harm as it is portrayed in all the tv series and such. And we won't need technology to make our lives more happy and such, we will know by then how to do it ourselves... Just think if You had total access/control over Your imagination, what would You do with that, You could vividly imagine any scenario in Your Mind and Live it out? Your Dreams would be under Your total control, what would You do with that, live other lives or just play with it? Yes for sure we will have transporter beam tech, and such..but nothing will by hidden anymore, all secrets will be widely known, most all disease gone too.. I wonder if it would end up like Krypton as portrayed in Man of Steel, a super society that goes 100K yrs flourishing then is destroyed by their own arrogance of sorts? At least we have projections and ways to look ahead and see what it may be like!

Because there are levels to forms, from Gross to Subtle, Your Basic Body is Food/Earth Body, but that comes from more Subtle things like Cells, Molecules and Atoms, which comes from more Subtle things like Energy and on and on it goes. The Gross things Come then Go, the Subtle things just transform, Energy doesn't really die it just goes on, but sooner or later everything dies in a sense, except "That Which is Not" referred to as Shi va, from what I can understand it was what was there before the supposed Big Bang, a Grand Intelligence of Sorts I describe it as, don't ask for more details, as its unknowable in the normal sense, but we can be InTouch with it since this is our essential nature, not Your Body/Mind complex, dis identify with that, and things start to open up!!

Oxymoron statements, we can't do whatever we want if there is no free will.. Isn't/Is indicates Free Will, there can't be a Isn't/Is without Free Will. Do, there is no DOING without Free Will, or if nobody is there then there is no DOING... All Statements contradict Non Dualism, the only way to prove Non Dualism is too make no Statements.. sry had to do so, nothing personal:)

Just to set things clear, Guru's are not meant to be "Followed", they are like anything the is helpful, like Fire, it can be very helpful, no Fire/Heat, no Life as we know it, but Fire can be dangerous too if abused or misunderstood (baby touching a flame..), but with Spirituality its a bit more intense, the Devotional aspect, Guru/Disciple relationship, its not about personalities, the Guru is the Fire, not the heat, we want to be the Fire as well, with a True Guru they are here too make it happen within a short period of time, without Guru it will still happen but more time.. No one would know anything, Spiritual or otherwise for the most part, without Guru's, Non Dualist have them too, the key is to use them as a tool to Enlightenment, I share Sadhguru's stuff because (since we are on a forum using language, logic, intellect) he brings forth the Reality more logically than anyone I have heard of, and what he has said the Non Dual Gurus say too, but Sadhguru has methods/sadhana for those that need it, tons of them, some don't need it, some do. One has to see the "Whole" picture, not just a slice of it! As a long time Martial Artist/Teacher too, if I had no Sifu (Father/Teacher in Chinese, a Guru in essence), I would not have develop the skills in any meaningful way, but sooner or later it is up to Me to learning, gain the skill, apply and be able to teach it too "others", so one has to go full circle, go with the Guru, abide by the Guru, dissolve into the Guru and become Your Own Guru..

Oh no we have lost it if You add the ism to it, no No NO NO NO NOOOONOOOONOOOO!

seemingly appearing via the nothingness of seem less appearances in a desire to have a "separate" forum. For reasons of nothingness sharing's thru the seemingly appearing of words that describing nothing as it goes on and on thru the vastness of seemingly endless loops of appearances disappearing as we scrolling endlessly sharing nothingness.Oh God I'm Lost!

Opps, forgot about them:)

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Yes, the problem with another sub forum is that it is Intellect further dividing things up, soon after that sub forum is created, then the Yoga ppl will ask for One, the Law of One ppl will ask for One, and on and on it goes, but Non Dual means One, Yoga means Union, Law of One is self explanatory lol.. We are losing the battle of Oneness via our identification with an Ideology of Being One, but disagreeing with others (Not One) and wanting to be separate (not One).. Its goes against everything Non Dualist, Yoga is, since we are just here sharing via this method of sharing, what happens here is not Non Duality, Yoga or Spirituality in any way shape or form, its just talking.. If something bothers You, use it as an indicator to look within this vehicle of Oneness to find out why am I feeling Bothered? Its a gift really when You are bothered because it should bring You back to Non Duality or ONE!

The Diversity and Differences we see on all levels of Life, physicality, expressions, ideologies, conclusions, and limitations, non limitations, all of this is a form of Intelligence and Potential isn't it? So that is the brilliance of Existence/Absolute IMO, its all One on the ultimate level of looking at it, Life is just Life, we are all Life, but go down a little bit and we start to see the diversity of everything, so its Brilliances being Expressed and Reflected.. As Humans we have the highest capability to be Aware of this Reality, if You not highly Aware, then we get into trouble, like Identification problems arise, what happens here on this forum, with all the little disagreements on little things about existence, it just shows it in a tiny way, but on the Global Forum which includes all of Us, its reflected in a much Larger way with dyer consequences, Life is at risk of dying is we don't change it..Humans need to focus on Awareness which leads to Consciousness and then Spiritual Enlightenment..

Thanks, it still brings me around in a loop, doesn't allow me to send a message to someone to actually get my FB account back up, maybe they are backed up and will get too it via the other methods I used, we'll see!

Hey, I need some help with this,, Came home from work yesterday, and can't log into my Facebook, it says its suspended ' Your Facebook account was suspended because your Instagram account georgelastrape7137 doesn't follow our rules. You have 180 days left to appeal. Log into your linked Instagram account to appeal our decision." When I go on my Instagram account, that was hacked too (my facebook account is attached to my main email, my instagram account is attached to a different email that I don't use often), lots of new follwings were added, no new content was added or deleted.. I find no way to contact FB about this, have researched it for hours now, and there is no link on my instagram to appeal that I can find.. Any suggestions? Just a side note, there was a virus on my computer a few days ago, microsoft defender found it and isolated it and I deleted it, have done many virus checks with different providers since then, everythings seems clear and good now.. Thanks in Advance!!

I would say on a relative level, since we are talking here and some of us have more experience in a certain field than others, that can make them a sort of expert, Deepak is a recognized Doctor, so he does have authority on some aspects of physicality and such, and since that interview he has done much more research and his own personal development.. The point is not too really see anyone as an authority or not, to believe them or not believe them, what one should do when they see or hear information is research it for themselves.. In the End, You have all that You need to find out Truth and Reality. We can use examples of ppl aged 80+ but look and feel like 40, if they can do it why can't we do somewhat the samething? It just shows a possibility that is all, we have to go out and make that possibility a Reality for ourselves!