purerogue

I think his point was that sometimes you need to strengthen personality, because it can be very difficult to progress in spirituality, I think he gave good enough explanation at the beginning of video what he means by it, because people get confused why you would want to build on top of personality , if your goal is to transcend it, which is very confusing for most , theoretically it is true that you job is to transcend attachment, not personality itself, but sometimes it can be extremely hard if you do not posses certain traits that can loosen up your attachment to other trait.

Problem is that there is no thought to look at , it is just observable conclusion, as I said, I do not know if it is true , or what is exact cause, it is just my observation and would still happen even if I did not make observation of it.

It is all just matter of perspective, I can see both points of view and they both make sense in their own way, you are picking on his way of delivering message, when you both mean the same.

Maybe it is, but not believing alone has not set me free from changes that happen in my state of mind based on state of mind of people around me, It probably is some kind of mind mechanic, even though often without any noticeable reason at first, but simply not believing will not be enough to stop it.

My main point is if you can't handle failure, fact that you might never achieve your goals, or that things might turn out not to be as you thought they will be, you will have set yourself to have sad life.Now you have all these fairy tail stories in your head of what it will be like, they are nothing more then stories in your head, nothing of this has happened and nothing of this is said to be as you imagined it. Take care, I hope you can be happy one day.

I think my logic was very rational, not average persons mentality, I did not say that you must work 9-5 and that having business, or some other form of job is impossible, what I said was you are going for option that has way to many variables that are not in your control, also that having good income , does not = having good income that you enjoy doing, or leaves with lots of free time, Tell your story to 9/10 people who thought same as you and did not make it, if you think that you can't live proper life without having your perfect settings go for it, but your odds are rather small my friend, better luck next life.

How I see it, you can not escape karma as everything is interconnected and you will still get consequences from people around you, only thing you can do is not get effected by it in mind level, which again begs the question is there even karma to dissolve, or it is simply process of letting go till there is nothing that can effect you in mind level.

I mean that there is probably more chance to earn by gambling in casino then FOREX trading and I would rather work on something that has better odds if I was you, something that you are interested in, being interested in money does not = having enjoyable income.

Sure everything involves risk, but if you have vision I would rather take your vision , instead of play gamble in hope of earning, you probably have higher hopes to get something out of Casino.

I guess it all depends on how you define word client , but they all need people to buy your product which is client to me, I guess you could say that stocks do not require clients , kinda , but your whole stock prices are based on how company is doing with clients, well you are not so much involved in it yourself , so I guess last is fair point, but risky one.

Nice video Reminds me of my awaking and laughing about my mind getting angry at someone, so funny from such POV.

Which business model does not require clients are you planting trees that have money on them?

I am actually happy that you finally saw more positive side of you.

Stop it!

I find this video way more entertaining Also I think it pretty much answers your concerns about Ralston.

I am no expert in martial arts, but I would not say that it is completely useless, it is just that it only focuses on taking person out of balance, but lacks in offense and seems way to situational to work against people who know what they are doing.

You can strive for whatever you want, as long as you are fine with it and any consequence that comes with it, just want you to understand striving does not = success in doing so, you might find yourself in same problems, or worse then before, because it all is relative to what you make out of it

You are talking as if having, building business does not require you to bend your time in order for it to work, or often take way more time and stress then regular job. I think you live in pipe dream, either you find job that you are k with , or find something that you like to do for income , all of them require time and almost always time that you can just pick as you please, it is just matter of if you are k with it , or no. Ofc you can go for your plans of getting your perfect settings, but do not forget that life can go any direction, your business can fail, your business might never grow enough and you are stuck in endless problems of keeping it afloat, your profession is not as needed as it used to be, you can't find clients , anything can happen, or it all might as well go just fine.

What you say would be all good if you would actually be able to let go of I and accept everything as it is, have complete fate in life itself, then I would say you truly came into being your true self and everything aligned, but it clearly is not your case, as you are still in the mind.

Exactly , ups and downs are part of process, when you have thous downs you actually get to engrave some good lessons in your empty skull.

No it was more of an existential crisis, life is meaningless and stuff like that.

How would you feel when all your world shatters and you have no clue what you got yourself into. I want to add that I did not fell much when it happened, my non-dual experience itself was not that bad, but when I got pulled back was when it started to go crazy, mind starts to play with your experiences.

It did not take me that long,about 2 years, but I was completely green(not in spiral dynamic sense), it was rather heavy experience that I was not ready for, so I took different approach from there, I guess it took me about one and a half year after that to get to next one. I have always put effort to bring meditation,self inquiry,just observing and lots of experimental stuff to daily life, sitting mediation was more of a side thing, There are quite few topics already about how to get there in forum, if you think that you are ready I would suggest too look them up and try in practice, it is really not hard, just need correct approach that suits you and you have to be able to let go of "I" resistance that will hold you away from it.

Take some time to appreciate this video This is good way to show some common traps in perspectives, mind,thoughts.

Good luck to you! I think some break is exactly what you need now to balance things out.