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@Visionary This doesn't make sense. Either you are God , or not. And since everything is God then i am God. Because i am everything.

I think the solution to suffering is to stop wanting a solution for suffering.

@Raptorsin7 It is pure perfection. Pure God.

I like your question.

I've heard people talk about the law of polarity, and that basically every drug you take will have some negative effects on you. Is that true? Do all drugs need to work this way? If yes , then why? I am doubtful. I think it is possible that there are drugs which do not have any negative effect. What do you think?

No, don't stop meditating. Think about What do you wanna be teaching your brain? You want to teach it to continue meditating or doing whatever else you care about while feeling anxiety and other feelings. Do not stop what you are doing just because you feel terrible. This will teach your brain a bad habit. I can relate with the anxiety. Sometimes i get bombarded with painful painful feelings that are very distressing. But i do not allow them to rule my life. Your goal is to build very good mental fitness. Keep that in mind. You are training your mind to push through difficult emotions and etc while at the same time doing what you care about.

@Tim R But if non-duality is true then i was that guy in that gore video and i personally lived through that horrendous experience..... This is terrifying...................therefore it's not all good.

@Tim R ahahaha we are so doomed...

@Tim R I don't want to be that guy in the funkytown gore video or any other gore video for that matter. I don't want that level of pain in my awareness.

@Tim R There is noone to suffer and there was never someone. I Agree. But the excruciating staggering pain remains.....

Nice post.

@Tim R Excruciating pain is inherently bad in the sense that we don't like it. If i were to torture 100 people, all 100 would find it a terrible traumatic experience. Yes that can happen. I've seen people who were in much pain when they were being chopped off by some Mexican cartel who didn't make a lot of noises. You can tell when someone has accepted it or not. Emotional suffering is a lot different than physical pain. It is true that you can learn to accept horrendous situations like a concentration camp. But i doubt you can accept some types of excruciating pain that is just too much.... Even if you surrender to it, i think you will still suffer a lot. You will wish that you were never even born. Just imagining this level of brutality and pain makes me terrified.

@Leo Gura I don't buy this... The difference in sensation would remain because the sensation of pain is not caused by selfishness. Maybe it would make no difference for your survival if you were not selfish. But that's something else. The sensation is caused by a knife slowly cutting your fingers.

@Tim R The problem is that you don't have a choice or any power to enjoy torture or not. You are programmed by God to fear this stuff. We have no choice other than to be terrified about excuciating pain. That is the problem. Maybe God doesn't care. But we certainly do.

@Jakuchu I don't think pain & pleasure is a matter of preference. It's more like something biological. If i torture you, you don't like it no matter how selfless you are or what preferences you have.

@Leo Gura I don't see how selfishness affects the difference between torture and an ice-cream. Even if i was completely selfless, the sensations would not change.

@Leo Gura Whether the difference is imaginary or not, the bottom line is that there is a massive difference between getting your head chopped off and eating an ice-cream. And i don't see a way out of unimagining this difference.

@Jakuchu That's the problem right there... Always a person experiences the torture. Not God. That's why it is so horrendous.

@Tim R Just take a look at stuff like funkytown gore and you understand why not to do that.

@Leo Gura Could someone like Ramana Maharshi enjoy torture the same as an ice-cream then?

I also eat many eggs. Like 3 whole eggs per day. But no more than that. The cholesterol could be a problem for some people longer term. It's good to check your cholesterol levels and see how it affects you.

@gettoefl This issue is a tough pill to swallow.....

@Breakingthewall The issue of torture is the one i am struggling to accept or integrate the most. It's just too shocking. And the levels of brutality and pain are just unimaginably horrendous.... Whatever your worst dreams are , God can be all those things it seems. Makes you depressed sometimes. Nihilistic. Especially if you ever watch some gore videos like funkytown (this is the worst, don't watch it. There are commentaries on youtube about it though). Stuff like that leaves you mental scars. I miss the old times when non-duality was all fun and games for me. Now it has become more serious and dark... Sometimes i get dreams about torture. And it leaves me with a weird feeling of dread.......I am like ''why does this sh*t need to exist, screw you God'' lol

@iboughtleosbooklist Check out this video. I think you'll like it. Basically if your expectations are too high you're gonna suffer enormously. I've come to terms that life is sh*tty (and beautiful) and things won't go my way most of the time. There is enormous suffering in this world. That we can't hide under the rag.

@Tim R I think Reality if it wanted to, it would not be able to reject any part of itself. Like a cup can't stop being a cup. But that doesn't make the cup Love.