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Maybe the guy is not very confident around females, as you mentioned he has face deformation in some way. Maybe he is just awkward around women and what you would perceive as him being annoying and unreasonable is his attempt at spending some time with someone of the opposing sex? Feel bad for the dude. And that girl could have been more considerate, it's obvious from this story that the guy has way darker night of the soul than she has and he is having to experience it while sober, while she was hiding behind the drugs.

Sounds to me like you're seeing beyond the illusion of solid matter. Something like what this video talks about.

Lol yes!! ???

Self enquiry Practise Beginners in self enquiry were advised by Sri Ramana to put their attention on the inner feeling of i and to hold that feeling as long as possible. They would be told that if their attention was distracted by other thoughts they should revert to the awareness of the I thought, when ever they became aware that their attention had wondered. He suggested various aids to assist this process. One could ask ones self: Who am I? Or where does this I come from? But the ultimate aim was to be continuously aware of the I, which assumes that it is responsible for all the activities of the body and the mind. In the early stages of practice the attention to the feeling I is a mental activity, which takes the form of a thought or a perception as the practice develops the thought I gives way to a subjectively experienced feeling of I. When this feeling ceases to connect and identify with thoughts and objects it completely vanishes. What remains is an experience of being in which the Sense of individuality has temporarily ceased to operate. The experience may be intermittent at first but with repeated practice it becomes easier and easier to reach and maintain. When self enquiry reaches this level there is an effortless awareness of Being, in which individual effort is no longer possible since the I who makes the effort has temporarily ceased to exist. It is not self realisation, since the I thought periodically reasserts itself but is the highest level of practice. Repeated experience of this state of Being weakens and destroys the Vasana, mental tendencies which cause the I thought to rise and when their hold has been sufficiently weakened, the power of the Self destroys the residual tendencies so completely that the I thought never rises again. This is the final and irreversible state of Self realisation. This practice of self attention or awareness of the I thought is a gentle technique, which bypasses the usual repressive methods of controlling the mind. It is not an exercise in concentration nor does it aim at suppressing thoughts. It merely evokes the awareness of the source from which the mind springs. The method and goal of self enquiry is to abide in the source of the mind and to be aware of what one really is by withdrawing attention and interest from what one is not. In the early stages effort in the form of transferring the attention from the thoughts to the thinker is essential but once awareness of the I feeling has been firmly established further effort is counter productive from then on it is more a process of being than doing. Of effortless being rather than an effort to Be. Being what one already is is effortless since being ness is always present and always experienced. On the other hand Pretending to be what one is not, ie.the body and the mind requires continuous mental effort even though the effort is nearly always at a subconscious level. It therefore follows that in the higher stages of self enquiry, effort takes attention away from the experience of Being while cessation of mental effort reveals it. Ultimately the Self is not discovered as a result of doing anything but only by Being. Sri Ramana remarked:

If you really were enlightenment you woud say Our toe, our big fat TOE

But isn't he you? Im mega confused

Bcause you're maniac? And please don't use the word I, it's triggering my non duality

Woah that go at Someone!! Are you gonna take that @Someone here? This guy is just a wave in the ocean you can take him on! If he was entire ocean then tough luck, but he's just a wave you can do this. This forum is full of nobody arguing with nobody about nothing. We should replace the word I with O every time we speak. O think this is fair and makes more sense.

Sky news recently reported that drunk people can't keep social distancing. Have you heard about this? Do you know about this? I am getting goosebumps just thinking about it., I've never thought it could be, but it is!!

Not sure if you are taking a mickey, but what was quoted looks right. How can you awaken if there is no you to fall asleep in the first place? In that sense awakening is a fantasy of the non existent yet very annoying ego identity.

Eckhart Tolle is often talking about how it's better to make every day life the spiritual practice, rather than having a separate one. It's not about eating the cake or having it, but perhaps using this analogy, enlightenment would mean having the cake or eating it and being at peace with both and either of the choices

@Inliytened1 If one has no sense of self one cannot write in a forum. Even Eckhart Tolle has a sense of self. Also Buddha and Jesus did. Otherwise they would not make sense when they talked. If you have no sense of self, for you it would be the same if you say "bla bla bla" and if you say "ahsfsfskdf", if you say "Go f yourselves" and "Go love yourselves". Because there is nobody there to make distinction between the difference. For an enlightened being to be, there needs to be a sense of self. Even if that sense of self is not the body, there is a sense of self. Even if that sense of self is empty of content, it is there.

And after that if a zen master (or anyone else) slaps you, it still hurts right?

That's planning on a whole different level. 22 years from now! Wow. But enlightenment is about being present to the moment, why wait 22 years, get 'insane' now

You have to be asleep to wake up. Awakening is a business, you are always already awake.

Your avatar is absolutely beautiful. Would you share something from this experience?

you get to chop wood and carry water

I am aware of Leo's theory about this and I do not subscribe to anything that is not my experience / proven by my experience. For me it is only a way to explain something unexplainable so that we feel we understand.

I do not subscribe to this idea about "all possibilities must happen bla bla" simply because it's not my experience. If it were the case, then the almighty will be able to create me plus 1 billion dollars in the next 5 seconds. Im waiting 5 seconds to confirm I did not, in fact, get 1 billion dollars. The possibikity has failed to manifest. The God of all possibilities has already failed. Dont tell me that it will happen but probably in another iteration, because if it really was that allpowerful, then it not only could but it Must happen in this iteration, otherwise it's not possible for it to happen in this iteration, which makes this God limited. Its not that, I wouldnt subscribe to such a god.

@Someone here There is a difference between something being true and something proven to be true. I can assume something to be true, without any evidence and be correct. Evidence is not a requirement for something to be true. And I know, I can intuit you can say, that you have normal ordinary awareness, just as I do. And this can be absolutely true, even without any evidence. Example: I can assume, with a reasonable degree of certainty that your body that is typing on the forum has a nose ?. I have 0 evidence, yet something tells me I am right. Now you have a nose and I said im pretty sure you do. Then you send me a picture and show me evidence that you have a nose. Now I have evidence, but the statement that you have a nose has the same accuracy before and after the evidence. Evidence is just food for the mind. Let it grind for evidence while you and me have conscious awareness of the present moment. Solipsism is BS CONFIRMED

Hang on, but didn't you just prove solipsism is both true and false? Depending on the iteration that almighty one is doing? Sounds good to me. Nondual enuff

Case reopened cause u have the evidence and not giving it to the court.

@Someone here Funnily enough this is actually also something that I have had a glimpse into. There is something called the hypnagogic state, which happens right before you go into REM sleep. In this state colours begin to flash and you experience the dream creation process. It's fascinating and it feels like you are surfing on the waves of your imagination. But if you are not aware enough, you will fall unconscious as the dream starts and not realise you are dreaming. But if you surf well enough, you will get an epic lucid dream. If you've never had a lucid dream you have not lived! The freedom this gives. And the first thing most humans do when they have a lucid dream is to fly. You will do it as well I can almost bet. It feels like the best thing you can do, once you realise you're dreaming. You'll see! try it. Try lucid dreaming

@Someone here Look, I don't have evidence that you are aware, but you have evidence that you are aware. An AI robot even if taught the lango will not have evidence that they are aware. I know that I am aware and have a subjective experience. I see myself in the mirror. Then I notice you are a human as well, with a head, 2 hands and 2 feet. 5 fingers most likely, 5 on the leg (unless some abnormalities). Look how many things I can deduce about you just by knowing you typed on this forum? You most definitely have thumbs. And also, most definitely have awareness. How do I know? Call me a psychic. (but the trick is to view your experience and assume the obvious - it is outrageous and arrogant to believe that you have no awareness of your own and are merely there as an object in my consciousness)

@Someone here I will not answer to everything since it's better to focus on something specific. About this statement, I'm not sure if you know, but there is a way for you to realise you're dreaming while in a dream - Lucid dreaming. I have done this intuitively as a kid, and now as an adult I've taught myself to do it through Charlie Morley's book "Dreams of Awakening". There are many "reality checks" which one can perform in order to find out they are in a dream. For example one way to check if you're dreaming (yes I've done it with success) is to check your hand in the dream. Just flip your hand over a couple of times, first see the back of the hand then the palm and so on. Your mind will not be able to render a realistic version of this, since your hand is a very complex thing. Instead of a hand you will see some abnormality. My hand turned into an elephant or fish or some other crazy thing I don't even remember... But once a part of my dream body turns into this I know I'm dreaming. But only once you perform this check consciously you realise you're dreaming. Before that even if you see an elephant riding a bike, you will not notice it's not logical, simply because the logical part of your mind is turned off during REM sleep. I can verify that I am in a dream or waking reality by reading a text also. In a dream if you try to read something, the text will start moving around the screen and keep changing all the time. I've used this reality check also with success once, when I dreamt the screen of a tablet and realised I am in this strange ass dream, where I was just viewing a tablet, not even a human, just the tablet there, or was it a kindle? I have no clue! It was awesome tho. I can also do some math here and conclude this is not a dream. Absolutely impossible to do math in a dream. (Again, this is because your logical part of the brain is turned off or at least working at a minimum during REM) .