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@SoothedByRain Great post. Welcome to the forum.

Double check your practice techniques, consider what practices to add. Isolate what you’re holding on to so you can let it go. Self inquire as to the suffering. It is persistent, but there is not an external factor, that’s for sure. Lots of practices. Takes a while. Enjoy making the foundation, then take a trip.

Don’t throw in the towel because you haven’t yet. Open mindedness will take you there. RADICAL open mindedness.

@perlita Imo, it’s a glimpse of relativity, like if you were sleeping, and a tiny noise woke you up a tiny bit - and you’re like ‘was that a noise or was that in my head?’. The negative thoughts are relative to your perspective, and they’re perpetuating the ‘complicated’ facet. It doesn’t need to be that way. In the ‘bigger picture’, it wouldn’t.

@Omario What is it you want to do? What is it you want to stop doing?

@Nexeternity Haven’t read em. I was referring to the quote. Speculating.

The answer to that is far outside the consciousness which asks the question. The answer is actually being kept at bay, directly from your assumption of no self. No self is the pinnacle of thinking. That’s how tricky thinking can be. The pinnacle of thought, is in actuality, still thought. Only the realized can spot this, and even understand this. No self is a very comfy place to stop. I suggest you discover your assumption.

@LiakosN That You may experience the love that you are more deeply.

@Malelekakis Pratices, psychadelics, honesty.

@Omario Could you describe what you mean by your neuroticism? What are you experiencing which you’re calling that? Break it down with some clarity. I think it will help to reveal the facets of how it was created, and allow for more specific advice on it’s undoing & healing.

@LiakosN In your thinking, you have split your consciousness into two, the higher, and therefore, lower, selves. Tell me, what is your experience of being two like? I am very curious, as I have only experienced being one. Allow the simplicity & clarity of direct experience. There is no need to add to it with thinking.

Yes. Mind is illusion too. The clock is also illusion. What I’m saying now, also.

Sit down and love yourself. (Actually) You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. -Buddha ❤️

@littleBIG Feels bad cause you’re focused on what other people think, which on all levels, is falsity. Instead, focus on how you feel, what you think, and study the relationship between the two. Ask yourself, why do I struggle to love them, when they say such things? What thinking do I hold about myself which can be triggered so easily? Why do I hold such thinking when I could simply love myself, and love them? What prevents me? It’s impossible to believe, but the emotions are a truth compass. Look for a steady increase of awareness on your emotions. They are telling you what is false and what is not. Enlightenment is the most selfish scenario possible. Selfish just doesn’t mean what you think it means. Like the conscious choice of healthy eating over pizza, make a conscious choice of where to point your awareness. If you’re going to embody the truth, you’ll have to “forgive them”, it is true “they know not what they do”. The increased consciousness, is of self. The forgiveness, is for the self. Little bit of a paradoxical mind F, but the love too, is for the self.

@Markus Ditto. I read some of his writings. He seems stuck at no self. Good writer. Would be an amazing inspiration without the fear.

@egoless “My depression which I never could get rid of is completely gone” That is just awesome. ❤️

@Truth Addict Awesome.

Write em down, and get back to it, also do deep dives and let them go, a deeper one always comes.

@InfinitePotential That’s beautiful. Thank you for dummying it down for me.

@Ether nice. (I was that some guy on the internet lol). Another of my favorites.. ”Anger is like eating Taco Bell at 3am and expecting someone else to be shitting at 6am.” - Unknown

@phoenix666 Just freakin YEAH DUDE! I had a huge feelin reading some misc post of yours just the other day, and I almost said something. I feel like I’m tripping just reading this. Great report, so happy for you! LOL! It’s YOU!❤️

@Matt8800 ? wow! That’s a HUGE full circle!

@InfinitePotential what’s the five-year-old with ADD version?

@egoless Awesomesauce!!!! Thanks for sharing!

@Matt8800 maybe they should! I hear you man. At one point I was suicidal and basically just an ignorant materialist. I know that I was but I honestly can’t actually remember it. Can’t invoke those emotions anymore. What a ride brutha. What a ride.