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Thanks for sharing bro, excellent resources.🙏

I've just googled 'v.v meaning', and apparently in emoji form it expresses sadness or great dismay. Though maybe MuadDid just leant on their keyboard, Christ knows.

@Keryo Koffa I hear you. Don't mind me, I'm just feeling a bit cranky at the moment.

It's asking too much of people to expect them to read a giant wall of text like that, you need to have some consideration for the reader and break it down into digestible paragraphs.

That's nice of you to say, thanks.

@gettoefl Love it.

'Surrender isn't about having a certain experience. It's about simple, open vulnerability to whatever is, right now.' - Jon Bernie

What do I desire the most?

@Leo Gura In the past, you'd get an error message after a few seconds sometimes (I forget what the exact message was, it's been a while since it happened), seemed like it was terminal at that point. Maybe it would have embedded if I'd waited a bit longer, I don't know.

I know, I said I had to delete the link before refreshing the page if it didn't embed because it wouldn't work on the second attempt if I didn't. Anyway, seems to be working fine at the moment, thank goodness.

Works fine for me. Embedding links could be problematic even before the crash, sometimes I'd have to delete the link, refresh the page, and try again. It would usually embed on the second attempt.

The browser you're using could be a factor, going off what others have said, which one are you using? I'm on Microsoft Edge which mostly works fine for this forum (though I still can't embed links).

I tend to believe it due to the testimony of people whose opinions I respect (the Buddha and Adyashanti both saw their past lives when they became enlightened, for example), and also because of what I've been told about my own past lives by people I consider credible. But it's only a belief, so I don't see much value in dwelling on it. I'm really only interested in what I know for sure.

No sense in trying to force yourself to feel a certain way, far better to simply acknowledge how you actually are feeling and then sit with what you're feeling and feel into it - there's often a lot going on underneath the surface feeling of, say, jealousy or depression, but we tend to get caught on that surface level. See if you can feel what's going on at a deeper, more vulnerable level, and allow those deeper feelings to be felt, and expressed if necessary.

Are you ticking the 'Remember Me' box when you log in?

It can do, because awakened energy is inevitably going to bump up against any blockages in your energy system (and pretty much everyone has blockages) and reveal everything in you that's unresolved - beliefs, traumas, repressed emotions, and so on. And working through these unresolved issues is a big part of spiritual growth, I've found, though people usually don't want to do this sort of inner work.

Really? Didn't know he had all these health issues, poor guy.?

I was wondering if it was connected in some way to his cycling, I know that he was pushing himself so hard at one point that he ended up laid up in bed for six months on a couple of occasions, completely debilitated.

When I was suffering with severe, debilitating anxiety and depression, I was all too aware of what I could and couldn't handle, believe me. And anyone trying to cajole me into doing something I couldn't handle would have been given very short shrift.

@Yimpa If there's one thing I've learnt during my own very difficult process, it's the importance of having compassion for myself and honouring my needs, rather than forcing myself to do things that I can't currently handle. Best of luck overcoming your issues, brother.?

It's a question I've asked myself many times. In the end, though, I know that there's no going back, I can't un-see what I've seen. It can feel both incredibly frustrating, and also utterly terrifying when you start to get a sense of what full awakening entails, but deep down I just feel like it's unavoidable. The awakening process is incredibly challenging for lots of people, because it means waking up to everything that's out of alignment in your life, and it means you have to work through all the unresolved fear, grief, anger, etc., within yourself. People often try to figure out ways around it, but in the end you see that there isn't a way around it.

It's no great mystery, the Buddha wasn't proclaiming himself the saviour of humanity. The Jesus story is the egotist's wet dream.

Certainly can do, it sure did for me. Maybe more of an issue for men, we do tend to bottle things up more than women.