Pouya

@Natasha I see that spirituallity gets in the way of my survival priorities. Both my future and spirituallity hurt each other. I'm planning to give up enligtenment work and self inquiry (which i didnt even do it dicsiplined enough) and I wanna go back to basic mindfulness with vipassana. Do you have any suggestions?

At least 70% of the people, all goverment and leadership (more like fucking dictatorship) and all cultural systems like family, ritual, and ect. Go check it out. See how retarded this is when they're fucking removing elections and going back to pre history. But as always, all is Good. All is Perfect. Dont get me wrong, Iran always had great thinkers and people, but the majority is doomed.

And no one needs to change their beliefs and there is no need to persuade others and convert their beliefs to help them. Everyone is perfect as they are right now. Or are they? Still we can change beliefs to improve Or eliminate them to realize truth.

I think this is pretty possible. Like, if someone has a extreme fear of hieght, instincts kicks in when they go to high places. Can enlightenment help with it or it's not related?

@cetus56 That's a realization

@theking00 Do a bit of mindfulness meditation like vipassana and surrender to being to relax. That's what I do.

@Leo Gura Saudi Arabia is getting much better economical growth and political sustainibility. Yeah, more dogmatic but they manage it much better. The more you limit people in the name of a fictinal religion, the more orange people get.

@SoonHei Many great resources and people are just being wasted in these countries. I hope this gets better. @outlandish Thank you a lot. There is a big backlash from people in here. This regime can't sustain it a lot.

@Truth Addict true.

@Apparation of Jack I wish there was no oil or gas in middle east. Just power games being played. Thank you btw

@Leo Gura Can deep nondual work be a science without language?

@Natasha @Anna1 @Jkris @Inliytened1 @Nahm Thank you for the explanaition. I had this idea and thought it might work. Back to self inquiry i guess.

I've seen how ego/self is very much like a mask or a role for an actor. My role Pouya has some specific qualities and traits. What if I work on creating radically different identities so I can break the illusion by illusion itself? Like, creating an extremely extrovert identity, where Pouya is introvert. Or, changing world views and values so drastically that it stops feeling like Pouya anymore. Having 3 4 different identities like this and changing them every few days. Can this work? Is it worth it?

Body and mind is calm; Who am I? I am a body. Who's aware of that? I am. "I am a body" is a thought, not me. Back to actuality. Who am I? ... I noticed that what I do here is self hypnotizing myself into un-believing that "I am a body". When I look at actuality, I can't say that I am a body, but I also can't say that I am not a body. What's the difference between a person believing in being a body and another one believing being beyond body and mind? How to trancend it?

It was wierd but I felt like this forum got attacked by the idea

@seeking_brilliance Clay is a common name for becoming God i guess

@Bill W That's why I posted this. And a reply for it here. I don't really care if this gets locked or something but I found that intresting to share.

@SQAAD once as Leo said, ACTUAL!

@Cody_Atzori believe me, my situation is not different that yours, but I felt love. But how to love is not something i can really explain. The heart must be openned. 2 years ago, I was extreamly sad and frustrated, I said "what if I sit down and meditate on it? Maybe it makes me feel better." I sat down with a binearal beat to get some focus on the breath. Out of NO WHERE, I felt a huge urge to surrender and my heart fucking exploded. Huge emotional relief with a lot of crying. And there I got my first ever insight: All there is to do in life is loving. If you don't have a significant love experience, focus on now maybe. Past can be a tool, don't use it if it doesn't work. Love = Absolute Acceptance = Less Ego

God damn, so that's why

Maybe they call it a "disorder" because people normally have a ego complex filled with self beliefs and reducing that beliefs makes the person not normal (not like other people in society) again. If we lived in a society where having an identity was a disorder, what could happen?? What if "always being in our heads" was a disorder? Context matters.

As they say, not knowing is a start for knowing more. The problem is your brain is physically here on the physical "dream". Maybe it goes beyond that. Even if actual physical universe is what is true and even if you were a brain in an organism this question comes up onces again, "it's just matter living through matter, why bother? I will die and decay anyway." Maybe life as it is, is just meaningless and purposeless. Now you're being a human, so be it. To live is to live. As in your dream, why bother running away from the imaginary monster? If you didnt it wouldn't be fun though The beauty of this dream is that it's systematic and has a natural order to it while being chaotic. Scientist are studying this part of reality, non duality is the whole of reality and Science is pretty neat at studying and modelizing physical world.

@Buba Lets say your brain is in a normal waking state without any substance. What is perception? of what you see, feel, hear, ect? What is the essence of it? What is it made out of? If you become very very present and reach a level of no-mind (less thoughts) and deeply question this, you will realize that the physical feeling of whatever you feel, has the same essence of your dream, of a substance's hallucinations, of deep dreamless sleep. It's something very very subtle and empty. Science likes to zoom in untill they reach a limit. Atoms, sub atomic particles, quarks, strings, whatever comes even after that. Maybe it never ends. Meybe everything is made of something lesser and also mades up something more. What if there was no end to "what's something made of" and "pure awareness/nothingness" be the ultimate substance? It really must be experienced. Materialism is right in physical domains. Yes if you shoot your brain this perception will be gone. But it's not ultimately true. Nonduality goes beyond it.

@Javfly33 You might just disolved the notion of human being. I did this with my body and for minutes, I couldn't find where I was, when there was no body to cling to. In my view, humans are very complex and creative machines.