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@DrewNows @Galyna We'll do it tomorrow. We have to think about a name, the nameless thread, or the thread with no purpose... the only problem is if that kind of thread is against the forum guidelines. Conversational thread? Lol I can find out with a moderator!

@Galyna @DrewNows A thread about astrology

Lol... we need a thread to talk about whatever hehehe... Maybe a non existent thread or something like that. The nothingness thread... where topics change all the time. Maybe @DrewNows agrees about that...

@Galyna

I agree. Let's go back to shooting ourselves in the head to become awakened Lol

Probably that was my problem too! Right now is getting interesting. Im reading page 247, he talks about how we create feelings. I never thought about that... I am investigating that because "my" feelings are getting out of control Lol...

That's a great analogy. I love it. Very true... Awesome. I began reading it long time ago and I stopped, I didn't want to reading it. Now I began to read it again and I am finding new things and more interest in what he says... Not sure why I stopped reading it in the first time. It's so eye opening... I think I wasn't ready to read it before... I hope I am now.

@Nahm Awesome!

True. The big problem here is the ego or the idea of someone separated from reality. When that "disappears" there's no right or wrong.

Peter Ralston book, "The Book of Not Knowing" is pretty good to unveil those thoughts, ideas and concepts. I am reading it, very eye opening.

Well done or medium rare?

SMH

Awesome website. Thanks!

Probably this dogma and ideology is what has helped you to be in the actual level of spirituality. Of course there's dogma, because all we say is dogma. Even to consider the idea that killing yourself will free you is also dogma. Even when someone has an enlightening experience, when he tries to explain it, it becomes dogma for us. Because we will never be able to experience the same thing as him. But, it's your choice if you don't want to listen to those sages and enlightened masters.

More here: https://www.andrewholecek.com/suicide-from-a-buddhist-perspective/

Nopes... Read about Karma...

Fake surrender in the case of self shooting.

My dog will learn faster than me, for sure. ?

First of all, the "merge" term is a concept to try to understand what is not understandable and that it cannot be explained. In reality we are always One with God but the idea of a separated person makes us think we are "separated". If those ideas continue after death, it is obvious that those ideas will take form again, human form or other forms to manifest until the idea of a "me" or a separated "I" goes away. Anyone needs to die to know that, if you jump from a skyscraper you know that you will fall into the ground and die. It is not necessary for you to jump to know it. Is just common sense. And all the wise people who came before us have written about it, the paths to enlightenment are all around us. Is weird that no one mentions suicide as a way to become enlightened. The idea is preposterous.

Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing your experience !!!!

Buddha and Jesus didn't know. Otherwise they would suggest you to kill yourself to become one with God. Cool. Edit: Suicide is obviously the ego who doesn't want to accept reality, so ego thinks it can take a shortcut to enlightenment.

But is a different way of dying. If you don't die (transcend the ego) killing yourself won't help. You won't merge with God if you are not mentally and spiritually ready. Killing yourself to become enlightened is like hitting your head against a wall to stop thinking.

Exactly ?

"I look at people’s face there is no mind, it is empty, including my body" This happens sometimes also, when I look people faces I feel their emptiness. Like the eyes are not really watching and no one knows what they are doing. Even though, a conversation happens. ?