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@Sen Thanks! I wasn't sure about the difference between awakening and enlightenment, now I know. Thanks!!!

Ok Ayla, I want to tell you how you helped me. I was always a big admirer of Christ, and still am. I began to meditate as a teen, but then I stopped. And I always had conflicts about the view of Christianity by the church and my views. So, one day I considered that I could be wrong and I began to go to church, I began to believe everything they believe and I become a "Christian" so committed that I almost get divorced. I was on my way to convert me into a Bible thumper Lol. Then I left the church and I am coming back in circle to meditation, but I am still like with doubts. So, I am becoming more confident with the experience. So, I was at work and I went to the bathroom and I took a short break to ask to God (like I used to do before when I saw God as separated of us) I asked why the Bible is so distorted in their meanings? And I felt something clearly in my guts saying "you already know why". Anyway, because I am a bit stubborn, I asked him to show me something, to give me a hint more specific. That was when I came to the forum and I saw the first post you published. Where everything is explained, clearly as water but we can't see a simple truth. GOD is I AM

After I began doing mindful meditation is like I don't need to fap anymore. I used to do if a bit frequently, now Im not needing it. Much better to have sex with your partner.

@Sigma

Is Leo Buddha???

I explain you what happened later.

@Ayla !!! Thank you!!! You are awesome!!!

That's awesome, it gives me pointers to where to go with my meditation. I am actually trying not to conceptualize anything, but is really hard. Thanks for sharing!

Very cool information, thanks all!

I have a daughter, and sometimes she has those outburst of anger, I know kids are like that but sometimes when she doesn't get what she wants she gets so frustrated, so I thought that maybe what we are learning can be helpful for kids. Any advice about showing them something about meditation??? Anyone had experience with kids about meditation??? Thanks!!!!

Thanks for your comments, very helpful indeed!!!

This is interesting I think, I just wanted to share it... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html "A disturbance in the cosmos could cause space-time to stretch, collapse and even jiggle, like a mattress shaking when that sleeper rolls over, producing ripples of gravity: gravitational waves."

This is really helpful, thanks @Locooig

@Emilio @DW You can't stop your thoughts, only understand they are not you. So, not so important.

I have a problem, I want to sit and meditate non-stop LOL But I can't, I have to work... or is it my ego??? Oh my god!!!

Thanks for sharing, I am working on creating a routine.

This was weird, I had an Epiphany some time ago. I think it was all done by my mind, not a really "true" epiphany because at that moment I was beginning to became aware, but I felt that meditation wasn't working as I expected and I quit everything and I began to look for enlightenment (unconsciously) on traditional religion, in a non-denominational Christian church. I know it sounds crazy but at that moment I needed that, and believe or not, it was through this that I accepted we have no free will and I understood things about the Bible that I didn't know well at that moment. But the thing was that I was very confused, a big crisis in my life. I felt like nothing made sense, I felt like lost and I was going through life really in a chaos. So I was like looking to have some kind of sign that I was "saved" etc... I was under so much pressure at work, I was living my life accelerated and in disorder, very chaotic. And when I was at the subway, going to my work. I began to feel something not natural, I felt like a great love in my heart in a way I never felt before. It was like I loved everyone there on the train, i really never felt something like that before. Then I got off the train, I have to take another train to go to work, so I went into the second train. I was still shocked about what I felt. And when I was arriving to my train station, I began to see everything like different. I looked at the people and I saw something that I can't explain with words. I saw that everyone are connected, and that everything I do affects everyone. There was like a kind of light that went through everyone connecting everyone, that's not the proper description of what I saw but it was something like that. I knew that everyone was connected. Then I looked at my hands and I saw my skin like a bit transparent and I saw like light running inside, but it was like water really. It made me remember at that moment what Jesus said, that we will see rivers of living water. That's what it came to my mind at that moment. "Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them." John 7:38 And everything looked more alive to me, I remember thinking "I was dead, now I'm alive". It was a difference between how I saw the world before and at that moment, I saw everything more clearly, like if what I was seeing was foggy or blurry and now I saw everything more clearly defined. Then I went out of the train, and the station is a bit high, the train goes on top of everything on that part. So I saw the city, and when I saw the sky it was like the sky was alive. Like if God was there and I felt the earth like breathing. I remember me thinking, "oh my god, the whole earth is a living thing". I felt like to fall on my knees and adoring everything, god, nature, earth, life. I didn't do it because everybody would think I was crazy. But I was really close to do that hehehehe... Then I told some of my closes friend about it, that made me believe more in Jesus but in a dogmatic way. So, I began to go to church after that, not a good idea but that was what happened. I had to pass to all that experience (going to church, etc) to understand what Jesus was really saying, and that's not taught on churches, pitifully. But I will write about that on a different post someday. Let me know what you think, I'm not sure if it was delusional or if there's some truth on that Epiphany I had.

I hope it's something helpful for all, on our way to being enlightened. :-)

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.” ― Albert Einstein

The problem we have is that we think we are our mind, or our ego. We don't know who we are, that's the confusion. We learn to associate ourselves with the mind or the ego, and we are not really that. Our ego doesn't like that, because we feel that if we don't associate with our ego, we will lose our identity. And there it begins the chatter... One of the best tools that I used to stop the chatter (in fact you don't stop it, you just see it like nonsense, and you realize is not you so you don't pay attention to it) is the mindfulness meditation. Here you have the video.

For me it was really helpful. I'm listening to and audiobook and it's very enlightening.

@Nick Lol

Goodbye Sarper. I hope u can find the answers you are looking for. Hope to see u back some day.

I tend to think too much too, and I want to find the logic and reasoning. But It's not possible, just relax and observe your thoughts. Those are reactions of your ego, you are scaring the shit out of him. Lol. The mindful meditation helped me a lot to stop the monkey mind and worry less.