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@Will If you did the practices, you would be able to put it all together for your self. You can't explain anything 'wrong'. Keep expressing yourself as honestly as possible in every moment. When you're barfing up words from a mediocre place, don't try to rationalize it. See the words for what they are. See the trajectory they are coming from and where they will be taking you to. Change that trajectory using you words, writing, thinking, running, meditating, eating better....whatever, just make sure to change the trajectory. You think you know what wake up means?

@Will Last night most of my friends had beers, etc, and celebrated 4th of July. We all had a good time. Not sure how they're feeling or what they might or might not get done / accomplished today. Today may be a day they continue on their path, or it might be a day of recovery, and perhaps tomorrow they get going again and pick up where they left off. Do you see how what we're doing / not doing is what matters and so heavily influences what we think and therefore how we feel, which loops back to what we are doing right now. You must interrupt the cycle you are in. The probability is that you will do things today most similar to what you've been doing in all the previous days. Don't do that. CHoose well being. CHoose your connection.Do different. It is possible. I'm running my 50 minutes right now and then meditating for 30 min, so I know how today will go for me. I'll be connected,creative, loving, open minded, energetic and in love & awe, even if for only today, with God, the Universe and everything that is possible. Thinking does not get us very far. You've mastered it. You're the smartest person in the entire fucking Multiverse. Now practice your way to non-thinking.

@alyra The mind is like the eyes. You are seeing what you are looking at.

@mia_lea They're not problems, they're the vehicle by which you grow & expand. See your friend in challenges.

@Preetom it already has. i wish the same you!! thanks!

@Joseph Maynor thanks

@nahtanoj Thoughts then emotions. If you want to feel differently about it, think differently about it.

@Preetom I gave my car to a stranger in need at Blockbusters and walked home. I have given guitars to just about anyone I know who is wanting to learn, as well as always offering free lessons. I helped a homeless guy literally get cleaned up and hired him. It worked out good. I road a bike 300 miles in 3 days and raised enough money on Facebook for a MakeaWish kid to go to Disneyworld. I hired a kid fresh out of college into a six figure job and offered him what limited PD I know. It was his very first job. I paid off my parents mortgage and bought them a car, so my dad could retire. Last month, I donated money to the local em elementary school so the kids could do a project where they made a big pyramid and learned about ancient practices. Last week, I made the down payment on a house for someone struggling. I point out to people that they have free will. When my son has night terrors, I hold on to him until it passes. When people talk, I listen and focus on the best them in hopes they see it to. This is the only post we really need. I hope it "trends". Giving can be infectious.

@nahtanoj Buddhism is about awakening your self. There's no such thing as a Buddhist follower, it's doing the practices or not doing the practices, right? (assuming their not asking you to donate money, or trying to molest you, save the world, open another 'campus', etc). You are going there and doing practices. Doing the work. Not worshiping, right? I don't see respect & acknowledgement as accepting dogma. "If you meet the Buddha in the road, kill him."

@TeamBills If you are doing what you enjoy then there really isn't anything to Solve. We can only check the validity of this within our selves. The point is be joy. To be without suffering. To live a life you would live again in a heartbeat.

@Socrates In meditation, let the thoughts pass. Don't react to them. This is a practice which develops the ability to focus on what you want & how you want to feel. Over time, with enough practice, you won't react to much, if anything at all. When you master that, now you're creating you & creating your life. Those unwanted thoughts won't even arise any more, no more monkey mind. It takes time, enjoy the process & celebrate the victories.

@Annetta Once you get the momentum going you will be feeling great. You simply got momentum going in the wrong way. You're smart, you're beautiful, you're hilarious when you're vulnerable enough to be silly, you have learned so much that you're just flat out better than this, you can do anything you want. (Thought I'd kick start the momentum a little)

@Mondsee Follow up question. What is your imagination? Also, just pondering through some cardio...For a paradox to exist, there has to be two true things that don't coalesce. We both know ultimately all is one thing. So it must be that you see a paradox here because you can't make sense of / see the correlation between the two points.

@harisankartj If there's no free will, can you explain to me why I am choosing such different things than those around me? (Food, health, etc) Also, am I understanding you correctly that sometimes you are not in "metaawareness" and are choosing, and sometimes you are in "metaawareness" and are not choosing? It seems that you are stating that free will is, like all things, relative.

@Prabhaker Good morning Prabs! Am I interpreting your (Osho's) sentiment correctly? You (Osho) are saying there is free will, but then it is limited by physics / gravity / source?

@bobbyward If you are the source and the source can do anything, why can't you do anything? What is the difference?

@Annetta Now write I AM ________ _______ ________ ________ ______ keep repeating do you notice anything

@Annetta writing down what you want is the beginning of creation. You're over thinking. Let it be simple. It's a one step at a time process, repetition, just like how you got to where you are now. You chose a victim perspective, and have been repeating it. Use the same process. Allow time. More repetition = less time.

@Annetta Have you done it yet?

@Josh2 It's up to you what happens.

@bobbyward Aren't you also made out of source, which can do anything? If not, how are you seperate?

@Mondsee My focus is on my health and state of mind, not controlling. I allow thoughts to pass right on through. Non-thinking is a blissful state, relative to the earlier years of my life when I suffered needlessly (in hindsight). Non-thinking gives me more clarity, to make better choices, and enjoy each moment as much as I can. There is ample research, studies & scientific evidence to support for or against free will. That is because that is the very nature of choice. It is up to you to continue with assumption causation reaction, or to begin making choices for your life. I am suprized to hear that you meditate but don't experience clearing your mind of that causation and choosing what you really want. There's a recent Big Think that touches on this. I'm happy to agree to disagree.

@bobbyward Are you saying you are the same as a charactor in a dream? You are not a person typing these word (those words rather)?