Echoes

@Sven I was not suggesting that, but I don't think it's necessarily stupid either. I was just trying to figure out the weird puzzle of being in a specific relative situation that I did not chose to be in, yet having to act because of a primal desire that too I did not chose to have. I think there is still a resistance in me to embrace life fully. And the resistance has taken the form of having to know everything to "be ready". The strangeness of life is paralyzing for me sometimes.

@Ampresus

@YaNanNallari Yes exactly - It's one continous stream of change. So maybe there are no situations at all but just wanting different things in different apparent surroundings.

@Sven I'm not sure what he means with "resolving your entire life situation, finding your place in life". Is that not going from situation A (not having a place in life) to situation B (having a place in life)? Maybe he meant being in a situation that I perceive as valuable, good, true to myself. But it would still be a situation. And I will still need things to survive even if I have "found a place in life". Ultimately there is no situation A and situation B, because no clear, sharp line of when situation B has begun and situation A has ended can really ever be drawn @YaNanNallari But the mere fact that there is a thing that can have a concept of a moment is already a very specific happening that could be described as a situation

I was just watching this interview with Bob Proctor and he said that he is reading "Think And Grow Rich" everyday for 55 years now. Seems crazy to me, but he is rich and I am not. Would you consider this a viable option for you? Which book would you choose?

@CreamCat (It's in english, only hungarian subtitles)

Waking Life (2001) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/

Paderborn, Germany

@gilded_honour Either way nothing is permanent.

@gilded_honour What is the difference if it's a hallucination or not? If it would not be a hallucination, but a "real, material world" you could ask the exact same question.

@MM1988 If you feel/accept/surrender to the emotion in order to get rid of it, it's not a real acceptance. That's still resistance and avoidance. You have to surrender to it to the extend that you feel the emotion for all of eternity and be ok with it.

Look at how peaceful and silent they are, abiding in eternal bliss. May we all enter the stage of corals

@Mikael89 That's just an inverted form of narcissism. "I'm so special, what works for other people doesn't work for me". You are not that special. If you can write, talk, have hands and legs, can work, can walk - you can overcome yourself. All suffering is just "I don't have what I want". There is nothing inherently wrong with you, you just may not have what you want (yet). You are like the kid at the supermarket who wants what it wants and throws a tantrum if the mother refuses to buy it. Only in your case the "mother" is the universe/existence/nature.

@GafaRassaDaba there is. the 9 place from top/left column

@GafaRassaDaba meditation/yoga section?

Laziness is fear of failure/fear of success. There is also the thing that some people are not lazy at all in and of themselves, but are perceived that way by industrial society or in comparison to people with a different lifestyle.

@Scholar He is way to dismissive, arrogant and certain of his "final, new understanding". But that is exactly the attitude many so called truth seekers also have. Of course always in the name of truth. It's the samy energy bouncing at each other so to speak - the same arrogance and sense of certainty. Both are blind to the fact of having emotions invested in identity. To be careful and not blindly believe Leo's position is something that is easily being said, but sometimes the mind does this only as lip service and is not actually doing it.

In my experience videos like this and people like him are quite valuable to see to what extend your mind has made nonduality and the stuff that is being said by leo into just another worldview. Notice if you instantly try to categorize/demonize this person to dismiss what he is saying. Can we try to see if there is some truth in his perspective? After all, the truth doesn't care if it's questioned to death.

@MM1988 A way to ease up a little might be: feel the "or else". For example: I have to get a girlfriend and sex as soon as possible, or else [I die as a pathethic loser who wasted his life] Or else [I have all reason to regret my life when I am older] Questioning the solidity and seriousness of those "or elses" can relief a lot of tension and anxiety. Find your own "or else" beliefs.

@Slifon Ego means I in latin. YOU drop, not "your ego"

@Robi Steel People will answer you with great certainty and argue for their case, but how will it actually help you? This question can't be answered to your satisfaction by some text that appears on a monitor

@Shin I would not introduce words like "Spirituality" or "Nonduality" or "The Path". They just become a virus of the ego. I would start with the simple question of "what do you want?". If he/she doesn't want anything there is no need for teaching in the first place. And if he/she wants something, then the teaching and style of teaching is relative to that wanting something.

@123456789 The desire to see the truth comes only when you have enough of suffering your lies. When you realize that the suffering of lying to yourself is far greater than the pain of realizing that you were a selfish liar. It's like with toothaches: better go see a dentist and be done with the pain instead of having toothaches for the rest of your life.

@MM1988 There is a good book about this called "How Yoga Works" by Geshe Michael Roach. It's not a classical nonfiction book though, as it explains yoga embedded in a fictional story with fictional characters.

@Shadowraix What does nonduality actually mean? doesn't it just mean "not two"? So how is "not two" true? And if "not two" is the actual reality, there is no such thing as "not two" because in comparison to what would it exist? In comparison to two/duality, which does not exist if not two/nonduality is true? You can not compare reality with something else. Or to simplify: If nonduality would be reality, "nonduality" is already redudant, because then it is just reality. Reality != Nonduality. Reality = Reality Reality can not be another topic like math, demonology, philosophy, etc. If you approach nonduality with the question if it can be true or not, you just made another topic out of it. Reality is already self evident and doesn't care if it's questioned. Trust your self evident being