Key Elements

Ooo la la! Two Osho fans. Folks, this is gonna get interesting.

Yes, I agree. Be prepared to meet a master suitable for you. You may want to be deeper in your own path before meeting one. Otherwise, you might be disappointed. You might say something, and when the master happens to give an advice, you might get disappointed because you may feel that the master is shedding the wrong light. Or, we accidentally realize our mistakes and it set us straight, and we finally turn inwards.

Oh.....what's inside me? What??? What??? Look inside! Look inside! Look inside this black hole and the whole world appears, which is just YOU!

@Shin It appears that you want to know something.

Dust??? Sounds kinda 'scary.' I hope no one has to 'bite the dust' to reach enlightenment. Reminds me of this song:

Every little step counts. The hints are spread everywhere. It's up to you to realize it as an ah-ha moment and move on to the next. Hints lead you in the right direction if you realize them. You can't understand the next step if you skip a step. If we all became enlightened masters now, we won't be enlightened masters in the same way.

@Natasha When a person is in an 'enlightenment experience,' it's 'normal.' The person is it. The person is everything. The person has no doubts and doesn’t think it's 'abnormal.' It's just pure infinite peace. However, there is a revert back to the ego 'self,' and the person awakes from that infinite peace with a huge hint of 'bliss' and remembers it. Many times the person wishes to be back to that infinite nature, the true nature, because that's what we are. We are not the ego. It's all a fiction. So what happens when we wish we were back to our true nature? This: "Oh my god! It's absolutely infinite!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" "It's absolutely infinite!!!!!" -Leo We get too excited. But, that's ok. It'll pass. What we can do from that moment on is to realize that our true nature can be applied to real life, the illusional life. So, for example, the next time you feel lonely, or get an emotion other than peace, you could say to yourself that it's just an emotion (ego). It's not our infinite nature - which is peace. And, we could teach this to others in our own ways so that they will get a chance to become aware of it.

That's the disadvanage of being famous. It's like living in a house made of glass, and they splash false news about you. Don't worry; things will fall into place.

Teal and Ralph talking about their journeys, pitfalls of being YouTubers, and how they manage:

Let bed? You mean go to sleep? It's late?

Yoga police: "You have the right to remain silent!" ------- Kundalini Yogi sharpshooter: "Ready, aim, fire!" ------- Two men meet on the street. One asks the other: "Hi, how are you?" The other one replies: "I'm fine, thanks." "And how's your son? Is he still unemployed?" "Yes, he is. But he is meditating now." "Meditating? What's that?" "I don't know. But it's better than sitting around and doing nothing!" ------- Don't just do something -- Sit there! ------- Albert Einstein: "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." ------- A student went to his meditation teacher and said, "My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs ache, or I'm constantly falling asleep. It's just horrible!" "It will pass," the teacher said matter-of-factly. A week later, the student came back to his teacher. "My meditation is wonderful! I feel so aware, so peaceful, so alive! It's just wonderful!" "It will pass," the teacher replied matter-of-factly. ------- Warning! Dates on the calendar may be closer than they appear!

Just trying to be clear here. This thread was actually a good exchange of info. I didn't feel like it was a debate. The topic is on spirituality with life purpose.

This is a very small summary of an explanation of spirituality with life purpose. What do you think?

I get your point, but I'm also talking about the global society living like this, not just an individual. I'm also talking about an individual making a gradual transition and not just sudden - also it's very unlikely society making a sudden transition.

I think life purpose doesn't have to mean earning money. It can, but doesn't have to be. It's broad. It's a good way to transition lifestyles.

Why is life purpose non-spiritual? What concludes this? Everything is interconnected. Try living a life purely based on love and peace (and not money). How would that look like? This? They still need hospitals and security if they don't have them already. We are not at that stage where everyone is of that mindset - purely living on happiness. There has to be a transition toward it. Someone told me that people in Bhutan still have to come to India for health / hospital service.

This info sounds useful. Thanks. Ethics is sometimes on my mind. I'm a bilingual teacher - wrote a book already - got it copyrighted. However, I don't like the idea of actually going out, networking, and finding a publishing house. Why not put everything on my website and make some of the contents free and eventually some of the contents won't be free? It saves paper too. I love the idea of the "paperless office," but that concept never caught on in society. I use my book in the school I teach - printed by a print shop. Later, I will incorporate non-duality in teaching language in the form of a third person story. I know in marketing, the startup would have to get really popular first before charging anything or selling any products. If you have any other insights, please let me and others know. Thanks.

It's just something funny to watch and remember the next time we make our food choices...

Relative truth: like attracts like. Work on yourself. Commit to the fullest. Change for the better. Then you could tell who's who.

Fearless Soul

Wow, well said! My plan is to write a book in third person, in two languages. There are always ways to express it. Things start to come up as you go along. That's how the person discovers things. When another person is not ready to hear what you have to say, they are just not ready. Your comment here reminds me of this clip:

So far, this is what I got. I have a life purpose (bilingual education) and later, I will incorporate non-duality in it. I will keep going on this journey. Sometimes this question comes up: am I still missing something? From my experience so far, I just say to myself: keep going at it and things will fall into place.

I feel very lucky. The first Chinese person I met here in India became my good friend - almost immediately - born and raised in China, first time in India - very nice guy. We were able to go deep and share our personal spiritual experiences without any misunderstandings. So is this lady I met who is from New Delhi. We learned a lot from each other. I was totally able to open up to them. Government is different from ppl. There is hope though. I'm in touch with this popular investor on fb (India) who complained openly on fb that he wasn't satisfied with just making money. Then, tons of ppl who are connected to him gave him links to non-duality suggestions. So, yes, it shows that some ppl are interested in non-duality. So, there is hope that ppl are going higher in consciousness on Spiral Dynamics. Take a look at the generation gap - parents are not the same as their children. Children seem more aware. (I'm not saying all.) Also, the guy who designed my website, a local Telugu guy, told me about Eckhart Tolle after I told him that my main objective in my life purpose is about bilingual teaching and non-duality. He also told me that he had an awakening. There's always two sides to the same coin.

Ok..cool. Are you sure it's a lotus? I don't know if we are talking about the same flower. This is the plant I'm talking about: It comes out in the night, only for 2 hrs (on average). Blooms once in 14 yrs. Yes, it's a very rare sight.