VeganAwake

@fridjonk it was just a generalized statement... There of course can still be cases where an individual needs to eat animal products or from Direction by a doctor.. Ultimately all nutrients come from plants... so usually with enough exploration most can get plenty of nutrients being vegan or vegetarian.. Some of the biggest and strongest animals in the world are plant eaters... Elephants hippos rhinos Gorillas.

It doesn't mean things will or will not happen a certain way... It's pointing to the 'YOU' that thinks it's upset, is actually just an identification with a thought as the 'ME'.

Yeah most people don't know how to get the proper nutrition out of a whole food plant-based vegan diet... or vegetarian diet.. You can't switch to a vegan diet and just eat salads and oatmeal and expect to be fine. I like the g-bombs: Greens beans onions mushrooms berries and seeds...is a good start... If you're low in protein or iron most doctors would tell you to go back to eating meat but if you haven't put a bean nut or seed on your plate... well that's just your own ignorance.

The Mind likes to label things place them in boxes and pretend like it understands what is in the box. Its just what the Mind does to sort through the overwhelming amount of data coming in. Knowing is a trap.... Unknowing is to be free...

That's an interesting label... lots of labeling on the forum these days. Good label or bad label in your opinion?

Hmmm assumptions that God has anything to do with the ego.. The ego is a survival mechanism that has outlived its usefulness... Now it's like a runaway train... it's become an entity unto itself. We thank you ego for your evolutionary advantage in survival... but now we live in the comfort of our own homes and do not need to be paranoid and looking over our shoulders for animals or others to attack. You have now become a dysfunctional survival mechanism...we no longer need that kind of separation, paranoia and greed. The pendulum can swing back more towards the center...

@Billy Shears ❤ Definitely make sure you're getting enough B12 one in six Americans vegan or not are low in B12. Also D3... you can get enough D3 by going out into the direct sunlight for about 20 to 25 minutes a day. Also another nutrient of concern is potassium 96% of Americans are deficient in potassium. Check out nutritionfacts.org ... Dr. Michael Gregor is amazing

“To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” — Eckhart Tolle

This message is not saying that anything should or should not be done. If an apparent 'ME' wants to dedicate their whole life to making the world a better place... awesome... or if an apparent 'I' wants to share deep unconditional love with the entire universe.. wonderful. It was recognized by No One that the sense of 'I' or the 'ME' wasn't a real entity inside the body... it was an illusion of the self that never existed. In that sense, things do not matter because there's no real 'I' for them to actually matter for. There is also no end result of sharing love or not, or making the world a better place or not, because again there are no actual individuals for the results to matter for. Things mattering only exist within the dream of the separate 'ME' character. There is also no bearded man in the clouds casting judgement on our behaviors... you looked at that girl's butt... I'm casting you in the Lake of Fire for eternity lol.... that's also all within the dream of the separate individual. There isn't anything that's better than anything else because only a mind would make that distinction... It's a freedom message for No One pointing to the fact that whatever path is taken is the correct path because no one path is better than the other. I probably won't post much more about it, as it seems to cause more confusion than anything else which is not the purpose of this forum.

I like to describe the ego as the dysfunctional survival mechanism that's outlived its usefulness. It's a compilation of different things tied together...Ego is separation...ego is lack... ego is the unfulfillable seeking energy... the ego always wants more. More money more power more sex more love more enlightenment.. it's never satisfied. It's my belief that the ego somehow knows it isn't real and has to perpetuate it's illusory existence by continuing to seek something that is always just out of its grasp... that's how it stays alive. The egos favorite quote would then be: " seek but do not find" --Ego ?

Sure.. a lot of it really depends on how crappy your diet was before also...? I switched from a standard American diet(SAD) to a whole food plant-based vegan diet, so the effects were super noticeable within a few months. I actually lost 14 pounds in the first year. After a few years though we started eating more processed vegan junk food because of the convenience. I recently started going back to mostly Whole plant Foods. The thing about a whole plant-based vegan diet, is your body starts getting all of this nutrition that it wasn't getting before and It can actually strengthen your cells and increase energy greatly. Here's a cool guy to check out if you're interested:

Lol I totally believe you ? so funny.. I started off doing it because I believed it was better for my health the environment and the animals... My whole family is used to it now and we're kind of somewhat intrigued that we can live a healthy life without eating animal products... it turns into kind of a game ..what can we eat instead of meat.. I made a Cheesy tofu eggless scramble this morning with nutritional yeast apple cider vinegar onion powder garlic powder salt turmeric and black pepper.....Yummo...?

What could you escape from and why would you all there is is THIS... Whole complete and perfect as it is..

Yeah but posting is happening at this time... other things can happen also like sandwiching and coffeeing ❤ None of which is more important than the other ?

Its freedom from the belief that one type of behavior is better than the other...❤ You sound like you've done your fair share of external seeking ..maybe it's time to turn Within and recognize Maya illusion of the self... it's time to awaken..

You guys know they have tofurky for Thanksgiving and mushroom jerky lol.... it's actually pretty good haha ?

Because if nothing matters then you're free to post whatever you want also!! ?

Bud honestly this topic has been discussed on this forum several times... Awakening does not have to occur from Hardcore practices or deep self inquiry. Some people have Awakenings walking down the street, others from traumatic events... homeless can awaken on the street after a long night of drinking and a belly full of beer. Osho described himself as the rich man's Guru and told a story of how people that have a lot of money simply get bored and stumble on Enlightenment because they recognize material possessions will never bring true happiness. Your ego is simply playing a trick on you...by labeling me a threat. If you shoot the messenger you don't have to take seriously the implications of the message... By labeling me a Neo Advaitist you give yourself the allowance to go ahead an attempt to discredit anything I say that threatens your paradigm... and putting it into a box saying that's all Neo advaita there's nothing good here at all.. I harnessed my anxious energy and spent hundreds of hours studying spirituality non-duality taoism Hinduism Buddhism... guess what they were all just different parts of the elephant... There isn't one path because there's nowhere to actually get to... I don't follow a belief system at all I'm completely free ❤

Aren't Ego's the darndest thing... They make disrespectful comments to inflate their illusory existence... And then forgive to put their illusory existence at peace. ❤ Good luck to you as well my friend!!

Oh okay a trap for an illusion... super concerned now ?

"The greatest obstacle to Discovery is not ignorance, it's the illusion of knowledge" There isn't a 'I' or a 'YOU'... Damn it is anybody listening( simulation of me pulling my hair out and crying lol) oh yeah there isn't anyone hehe This is what awakening reveals... it's literally the freedom from being afraid of falling into a trap because it's recognized there isn't anyone that could fall into a trap.

BOOM ....Hammer fist strike Annihilation improbable... ego too strong... searching for additional strategies as required...

Labels like Neo Advaita Absolutists... are just silly... I would say those ridiculous negative labels do more confusion than anything.... What Jim Tony and Andreas are saying is there cannot be a path for the separate individual to follow to awaken because quite literally the separate individual is the illusion itself... can you get rid of a group of flies by waving a piece of s*** around in the air at them... The belief that there is a separate individual that can do something to attain something called enlightenment is a fallacy... any path followed for the separate individual simply perpetuates the belief in its reality. What apparently seems to happen is the seeking energy collapses or the Seeker dies.... it's really as simple as that. I found this perfectly true in my own experience when I stopped seeking turned within and started dropping everything instead of gaining knowledge Awakening occurred... There was a dropping of the entire egoic self agenda and a disentangling from social conditioning or a snapping out of The Matrix... It's not that their message is right or wrong it's that the self can't grasp it because the self is the illusion...❤

Gracias my friend definitely will ❤ ?