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@Faceless you can act in the accordance of the illusion of freewill, but even then there is no "you" acting. It's only the mind that gives it all meaning and creates the illusion of the doer. The doer is the doing the doing is the doer etc.

@lmfao yes, it's us humans that ruin the freedom of it all by giving meaning behind the game of tennis, when in actuality it's really simple. Form interacting with form because more form has been interacting with other form.

@Faceless Yes that makes sense but I don't think it proves free will

@Anna1 Once this is truely understood I feel like the importance of everything will just fall away

@Faceless But us seeking the security isn't actually us seeking the security it just feels as such.

@Anna1 You can never know what is determined and it is still always going to feel like you have free because it's just the way your designed. Your right

@Bobby I don't think believe that we have any free will to begin with. If free will does exist as you say and we both see the self to be an illusion then where do you think that this control lies?

@WindInTheLeaf couldn't of put it better myself!

@How to be wise Of course, because he knows that to be reborn that what mean that there would have to be someoene to be reborn. You are thinking seperately

@ADD There is no our concioussness, my concioussness there is just concioussness

@molosku no not at all am I implying that people are dumb and ignorant. What I am trying to say here is that because people are so sure of knowing truth they're afraid of opening themselves up enough to look for it because it can demenish their sense of self to even admit that they don't know the truth. You cannot simply pickup a book about non dualism if you are so adamant that you know the truth in the first place. You identify with the beliefs that you currently have and are therefore afraid to look anywhere else for them. Your right %90 is abit high ? But you would be surprised. I find that actually most people are not open minded enough to accept that that they don't know the truth and I think that this is why a lot of major religions have become corrupt over the years.

Scientists like to pretend that they care about truth when in actuality all they care about is protecting the idea of science itself and strengthening its collective ego. 90% of non religious people from western society take science to be absolute truth and anything that isn't covered in the realm of science to be mystical and wishy washy. But if there did lie a truth that was not talked about within the realm of science (which there is) then it could not be taken for truth anyway because they say it has nothing to do with science. Science has nothing to do with truth it's just another collective ego. Just the same as atheism and even religions if you are talking about them nowadays in the west (or what's left of them). People pretend they care about the truth even to them selves and don't see that the only thing stopping them from seeing it is their own identity. If you choose to become a scientist it immediately adds to your identity and you start to call yourself mark the scientist, the rationalist, the logical man etc, it's not about truth more than a way of adding to your own self identity and following the beliefs that you believe that your own collective ego has told was good for you. As a society if we really do want to search for truth we must stop the idea that we all belong to very particular collective identities and we must stop letting those collective identities we have chose for ourself dictate what we are aloud to say, think and believe. We need to think freely. There is nothing free about growing up in a family that forces you to believe what they believe. Or working in an as they claim "truth based" environment but really if you try to talk about anything that isn't covered in the realm of science you are shunned by your peers.

@Telepresent Maybe I put it wrong. What I mean is to put it in simple terms, everyone thinks they know the "right way" the truth and because none of the collective ego groups admit that they don't know they are incapable of finding it.

@Leo Gura Because they're operating under the old paradigm Leo!

@Sweetest As Leo said in his video all this proves is that an appearance is is changing another appearance inside experience

@cetus56 we can only hope.

@cetus56 Yeah I have it's one of my favourites I would say. I'm not familiar with David Bohm why was he shunned by the physics community?

@Arkandeus you already have surrendered control. You need to also surrender the illusion of control. You never had control to begin with

@billiesimon There is only suffering when you look at it through your narrow slice of the pie. You only see suffering because you still think you are a person. If you take the universal perspective you will see that there is no pain or pleasure or good or bad just form interacting with form.

I wouldn't say I have had a one huge life changing experience of ego death. However I am still able to see the ego now for what it really is and my view has changed over a rather long period of time. There has been a dramatic change in my perception now over the past year especially. I used to believe that I was a person going around making right and wrong decisions for what I call myself, but now I truely see no difference between what I call my body and the grass in my back garden as they both contribute just as much to the decisions that are made in my head and the words that come out of my mouth. I believe that "you" are in no more control of what you believe that you are making a decision to say then I am. Unfortunately I am still far from any degree of surrender and am still working towards it. @kateaaI think you can only achieve ego death when you realise that you never had any control over what you thought you were making conscious decisions to make and that free will is nothing more than a stubbornly persistent illusion

@tsuki The idea that you are a seperate entity writing this post is just an idea that exists in your mind. It's not reality. I am writing the post that your believe that you are writing just as much as you are

@WindInTheLeaf that all sounds like great advice to me, in particular the last part because recently I have been noticing the ego arising in me that wants to believe that whatever I believe is true.

Over the past year I have been gaining an increasingly bigger understanding of God and struggle to see as much of a difference between what I call "myself" and the "rest of the universe" anymore. However I still have massive room for improvement and would love to be able to get an even better understanding. My goal is to be able to realize these things throughout my day to day life and would like to become more conscious of this more often as they seem to bring me so much joy. I was wondering if anyone had any exercises/ tips and advice for people that are also struggling with this.

@YogiLogan I have watched all of Leo's videos on the topic multiple times I meditate daily as well as read daily. I have taken LSD one time.

@The Don It sounds to me like a lot of your suffering is coming from resisting these feelings. I know it might not be the easiest and I have no idea how hard that must be for you however I have gone through similar experiences in the past and I think the best thing for you do is accept these feelings as they come and allow yourself to feel them. Fighting what is, will only result in more frustration. "You cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf" - Jon Kabat-Zinn. Hope you find the help your looking for.