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@Applegarden8 @Applegarden8 What siddhi? I think the guy on the thumbnail of the video is a scammer-master manipulator.

@Sugarcoat Thank you! Even if there are infinite, some states are better than others.

@kavaris Thank you! Some states are better than others. I don't think than anyone would prefer a hysterical, suicidal state vs a calm, composed one. Meditation is Mind Training. It's like Lifting Weights for your Brain. That's how i view it. There is nothing woo-woo about this.

Solid advice , i like this That's why Spartacus's story is such an inspiration for me.

People don't really have the capacity for much love. Many will try to deny this bitter Truth but i've observed it first hand , many many times , over and over again. Shunyanurti, a spiritual master often says that : "the ego cannot love. The ego only loves it's own Interests" Most people don't really care about you. Few might care just for a few seconds , and even this won't probably lead to any meaningful action. What most people care about is just their House, their Business, their Sexual partner, their Children , meeting their Needs and that's it It's purely a survival operation. Like the jungle. Like animals. And that is one reason why the world is so insane and messed up . If you even attempt to talk about this obvious fact, people will think you are weird and some will even become aggressive because you suddenly woke them up from their dream and you sent their mind into a direction, that they don't wanna go. Most people only discuss things about how to survive better. Rarely i hear conversations that go any deeper than mere animalistic survival. This is the current state of the world, generally speaking. Maybe 2000 years from now, Enlightment, Love, etc will become mainstream.

@Leo Gura Beautiful image though.

Leo, how do you deal with the stress of Contemplating? When you contemplate about stuff all sorts of hell breaks loose. You face all kinds of fears, thoughts and stress. The most difficult for me is stress because i know that prolonged stress is not good for the human body. If there was zero stress i would be going a lot harder on many things. And when the stress levels are too high i get frightened and also have to over eat to bring the stress down. How do you cope with stress in your life? Any advice?

@Leo Gura How do you do that?

My question is , if Awareness is formless, how do you really know that it even exists? It is like trying to grasp the air. I experience sounds, thoughts, images, etc. That is valid. But then how do we go to the next step, that what is being Aware of All this, is Awareness itself. What if just thoughts , images, etc exist with no Awareness at all? How would we know? Personally i have experienced that there is a Pure Formless Consciousness that is Aware of Everything and Everything is housed "inside" of it. But in my current state , i have no access to this realization except for brief moments.

@integral You can almost never feel sure about anything. This uncertainty can drive anxiety. Especially if it threatens your survival. You make it sound like it's nothing. When the mind gets overwhelmed with data and possible negative ramifications, it gets stressed out. Let me ask you this, if you plan a trip abroad, won't you feel at least a little bit stressed out?

@Cred My mind everytime is gets a piece of data is like "What if this means that or the other? What if it means something negative?" And if it thinks it might mean something negative , stress comes up in the surface. Also, my mind almost never feels sure about anything.

@Leo Gura Good advice. When i Contemplate about deep stuff , my mind is like: "What if this means something bad? What if it means that or the other?" Also, when i contemplate about who i really am, not knowing or not being sure seems scary.. Lastly, yes survival is stressful but also thinking deeply about stuff is stressful. You are releasing glucocorticoids hormones in your bloodstream. It's not like you are sitting with no mind or no care in the world.

I experience homelessness for the past 8 months. I would like to share some insights about the whole learning experience: First of all , let's talk about people. As Leo has stated, we indeed live in the Dark Ages of Consciousness and Spiritual Development: I have not yet met a person in close, that i would regard as high quality. (Not to mention about Awake) People simply don't have the luxury to care about you. It would impair their ability to survive.. Also, most people will try to determine your worth, put it in a box, and then try to put you inside that box. You have to say no sometimes to their limitations and ideas about you. You have to constantly face their stupidity and lack of Consciousness. Also you realize that , death is natural. And it's okay to die. All your ideas about how life should be, or Unfold, or look like get demolished and Crushed.

@Spiritual Warrior You assume that i am in a rut, when i am already doing my best. Meditating, attending NA meetings, taking calculated risks, etc. But noone is really helping me. So it's a lot harder. Just to go out and find a job is a real challenge because you have to be clean , shaved , and with a belly full of food.

@JosephKnecht Lol . When did they teach you about Death, low consciousness and Survival in grade school mate? You are funny.

@JosephKnecht You are talking non sense. Born in Moldova. Poorest country of EU.

All the suffering i experience, is mostly located, in my throat area. Despite having practiced Meditation few years now, i found myself Suffering a lot.. At first i was like WTF : "This Eckhart Tolle guy must be full of crap. Because i don't actively think, but yet i still keep suffering" But lately, somehow i managed to relax the painful contractions (suffering) in my throat and now i feel much bettter. I realised that somehow, everytime i experienced something "negative", i was contracting in my throat area, despite having not many thoughts.. What has helped me also is Peter Ralston saying "Your mind doesn't have a Mind of its Own. You are DOING your Mind". This helped me because i was stuck in a victim mentality, because of the Truth of no free will..

@PenguinPablo Thank you

@Santiago Ram I like this. Remind of this great video:

@PenguinPablo Currently i don't have much time. Can you give me some technique though?

@Wilhelm44 Thank you brother

@Wilhelm44 That's actually pretty accurate. I suffer from mild stuttering. When i was younger, it was much much worse. Being told, you are worthless over and over again by parents & society didn't help much with my confidence growing up. But now, i am doing better

@Yimpa Inspire me for what purposes?

I remember Leo saying: "you assume, you can reach crazy levels of Consciousness, while mainting , your sanity". And i was WTF . This makes no sense. But in my recent LSA trip, i experienced a state of Consciousness, where my mind, began questioning things, that most humans never question.. Am i really gonna die? Is Pain and Suffering really that bad? Do others really exist? Am i all alone? Am i fooling myself into believing others exist separate from me? And many more such questions.. The mind doesn't wanna go there.. Thankfully, i didn't react negatively to these difficult thoughts, and it was quite pleasurable too (besides a little bit disturbing). This is where true Spirituality begins. When you finally see clearly, that you don't know what the crap is going on, but yet insist on believing a bunch of crap for comfort purposes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2u5M6tDc5TE&t=6109s&pp=ygUiYWN0dWFsaXplZCBzdGF0ZXMgb2YgY29uc2Npb3VzbmVzcw%3D%3D

@Yimpa Thanks