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@Leo Gura the same applies to every teaching. They are paths and Buddhism is a proven one.

See how you just created fear, anxiety and suffering through thought? Let thoughts arise but don’t follow them. Thoughts will lead you to suffering as you have demonstrated above. Does this make sense?

I don’t see the value of these concepts. How can a mind be a parent in any sense? Unless you are saying that the mind gave birth to the idea of the body?

That’s how my personality has been described. I suspect this has to do with masculine energy (no research in this really, just pure speculation and feeling) and strong ego structures that are still hanging around like persistent ghosts. Maybe I’m deluded and not as “turquoise” as my ego thinks it is. Would like to explore this further with the people of this forum. Good humour and strong personal attacks are welcome provided they are for the purposes of learning and growth

@WelcometoReality Hi, I didn’t see your post What do you mean by “act on the egoic energy when it arises in the body”?

@Emerald ok but what do you think it is? I don’t see anything particularly unusual in what you have said. It’s quite a typical experience for “spiritual” folks. No meaning of significance to be honest And don’t take this the wrong way but what do you expect from a non duality forum? Maybe more of a personal development question?

@yawning_ @Gabriel Antonio @Nahm @John Iverson All is now good in the hood

@Misagh was this process gradual or sudden for you? For me there were steps or leaps and now a gradual unfolding and a snowballing effect as @Shin described. The home run sans seeker sans course craving Also do you feel deepening. When did you stop seeking?

@Ingit this is all part of the process just go with it as others have said. You are sowing the seeds of awareness. YOU don’t have to do anything. The process is already in full swing

Without lsd and ganja I don’t think he would have been as successful and influential as he was

@Emerald Next time let go of thought. Even now you are clinging to this experience. Ego wants buy in letting go of fear is good. Negative entities are only real In the mind world

@John Iverson

@John Iverson your laughter is infectious

@Gabriel Antonio you any be into something. I want to help people and my current career doesn’t facilitate that. Cheers

@John Iverson I don’t understand what you are trying to convey

@Gabriel Antonio I have done all of these orange things; successful career, financially stable, nice material possessions and personal relationships etc. Life purpose is a fake notion but perhaps something worth looking at from this new perspective

@John Iverson it’s just a description of the many facets of personality, not a real demonic shadow villain of substance

@Artaemis I am not negative towards these labels in any way. However if others are seeing this it may be a useful pointer to some lurking shadows. Something to explore

They are just labels of course though others have ascribed them to my personality. It is worth exploring these notions I guess, what else is there to do?

No goals, no dreams to chase anymore. Just content and wholly satisfied with normality. Ego, what’s to say, it is still there but not in the same way

Hehe semantics is nothing and everything

@Hellspeed pointing to the truth is a different shade of manipulation than pointing to mistruth

Oh, movies. Anything by Andrei Tarkovsky

The Wire https://philosophynow.org/issues/70/The_Wire

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