Emptystickfigure

No, at least not on this earth, and until you die.

No, I didn't have troubles concentrating. In fact, everything (in the 3D world) was the same.

People say to just move on, but I respectfully disagree. If you want to interact with people more, you need to find a way to deal with your anger. Write angry journal/diary entries, no matter how gruesome they are, punch a pillow and curse it! As long as you don't live in an apartment, or anything like that. The first stage to getting better is admitting that those things in your youth affects you now. Your anger and issues won't go away in one day, but it will go away. Or at least decrease a lot. Depending on how angry you are, it may take awhile. Good luck!

A little fear is a good thing. Or else you'd jump into traffic without thinking.

I'm actually glad you pointed it out in the other thread, about existence and ego, and stuff. It's nice to see things from another perspective. Plus, it shocks my ego so that I'm not complacent!

It's not really 'nothing,' either. Nothing is a thought form and then we have to define it. "The dao that can be named is not the dao." As for the ego, there are two ways of looking at the ego. The ego as a separate, form, entity. It sees itself as separate. This is the ego that doesn't really exist. The ego as the great 'I', the formless 'self'. This 'ego', itself, neither exists, nor doesn't exists. Perhaps we can't call this 'ego', because ego has definition, thus form. If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. I'm just saying how I, myself, see it.

Surrender it. Let it go. Don't think about it. I'm half joking. But the half that is serious sees that if we were meant to know something, we would know it. I never thought about finding out my life purpose until I was told of it. I heard about it, then now I have a problem! What problem? It's only a problem if I thought it was a problem.

I think she's a nice and well-meaning lady, but her process isn't for me.

I love his movies in the 90's and 00's. I'm not shocked he's into spirituality, there was an interview where he talked about his spirituality and his manic depression.

Mine wasn't dreadful, or scary, but weirdly blissful.

I don't worry about worrying, though. That would be egoic of me, LOL.

Because of my own mental masturbation!

Now, now, be gentle. I'm new at all this.

It doesn't exist. But it feels real, doesn't it?

Quite a bold move! Don't forget the basics, though. Good luck!

I didn't do meditation at all. I just got really depressed. Tragic, but kind of pushed me into awakening.

Thank you for the reminder. I'll be more careful next time!

Take a Xanax. Just kidding.

Keep climbing on! Think positively; It won't happen in one day. I believe in the Law of attraction.

God is the ultimate, universal mind! Hallelujah!

Sounds like his karma is catching up to him. I mean, he's funny and has his good/nice side, but he did give someone STD's. Bad karma, Jim. Really, really, bad karma!

If I were to guess, I'd say in the 10,000s, like 40,000, or less. Sorry, I'm a numbers kind of guy.

If everything is consciousness, and the certain consciousness form still sees itself as separate and as a form, it's possible mind creates reality, and the self form goes into another body, or attracts another body, and the process begins again. Until it achieves enlightenment, that is.

That might be true, but I also believe that we ( our form) might hold subconscious imprints from our thousands, millions?? of other lives. Like if we drowned in two of our past lives, we might have a fear of water. In our present life, it might not make sense, but our subconscious self might still harbor that fear from 20 lives ago.

Personally, I don't know. I used to think I knew enough, but then life likes to throw unpredictability at you. I believe in reincarnation, but I think that we do it just for the fun of it. There's no meaning to it other than experience. I guess we choose to be an aborted baby in one lifetime, just for the heck of it. We choose to be beaten up and scarred in some lifetimes. And in some lifetimes we might choose to be rich, or famous, or both. This is just my idea. There is no inherent purpose to reincarnation other than experience, in my opinion. What happens if a person commits suicide? Some believe there's a karmic backlash against it, and some think there is no reincarnation. And some believe that suicide will have no karmic backlash. And some people don't believe in karma, period.