Inliytened1

As long as we don't end up like this:

There will always be life stuff happening, if that's what you mean. It wouldn't be interesting otherwise.

You have to find joy in what you do. Its there. For example i got burned out in my job recently - but then I found the joy again. You will go through those phases but the joy is still there sometimes it just masks itself.

Just noticed your signature. That too shall pass!

Indeed. Someone once said "we enjoy cosplaying as a human. And we don't want it to end"

I would think in the end spirituality does ease suffering. It delivers as promised - because once you do die and come back its much different. You might still suffer but it's not the same. The fear of the consequences of everything has been eased. It really comes down to how attached you wanna keep yourself to stuff after that.

Because I didn't understand at the time that relationships are going to have rocky times but you just don't walk away, even if sometimes you feel like it. I expected man and woman to get along all the time and always be on the same page. And when that didn't happen I didn't want to deal with it. Or her. But I didn't know what a relationship was. That's why its so important not to get into one until you are ready. No to the other question, once it was done it was done. Years later she saw me again somewhere and was willing to go on another date. But I was like a new person to her. We didn't end up getting back. I am with someone else now.

The crazy thing was that in the relationship she was deeply in love with me teetering on the point of obsession (we were together 3 years) and I completely took her for granted. I am the one who ended it. Then when I realized what I had lost everything completely switched. She shut me off like I was dead in an instant. What I was to her before had died for her, in fact.

Yeah. The one that really got me took 9 or 10 honestly.

You are talking apples to oranges here 😀.

Animals do not have a concept of past or present, living or dying -they exist purely in the moment. They also do not have the ability to self reflect. So yes they live more aligned with just Being but its not because of intelligence it's because they have less intelligence. We should be more like them in trying to live in the present moment. Us humans let the monkey mind run out of our control due to more intelligence. But this doesn't mean enlightenment doesn't exist.

Couldn't agree more i am living experience of it.

I had a breakup so bad I suffered for years but I believe it was a key factor in my enlightenment when I sat down to meditate. It was deep deep suffering for years. It is a form of spiritual growth. Go through it like Leo said. It will grow you. BTW it took me about 9 years or so to get over that person. Time helps.

If all you have is mind, then mind becomes real by default because there is no alternative. By mind just think not material.

Haha. Putin is indeed a little devil 😈