Nak Khid

Thank you for giving us a personal experience I didn't want this to be a purely philosophical discussion because nothing can replace first hand experience. You say you were near death from being in a coma. I don't know so much about being in a coma but I have noticed when someone is in a life threatening accident or are near to freezing to death people around them will tell them not to sleep and fight to stay alive. They assume that when a person is having a severe health crisis that if they mentally give up they could die but if the mentally try to fight it will help them to stay alive. They say "stay with me" to the person. I wonder if this makes an actual difference. It's kind of the opposite to when somebody gets a finger chopped off and they are screaming and running around and somebody tells them "try to stay calm you are going to be o.k." Instead in this other situation they are saying that the person should not stay calm because if they relax and try to sleep they might die. Instead they say "stay with me, listen to me, you have to fight this, keep listening to me" So this is a situation where somebody "fights for their life" and sometimes they survive and sometimes they still die. Then we have the situation where a person is very old and has something like a very advanced cancer. So they will be dying at some point. Maybe it could be today or it could be in two weeks. One person in this situation says "it is my time" and they pass the next day But another person in the same situation says "hell no, I want to live" and then they die two weeks later fighting until the end which way do we want to go?

you realize that was an inside joke?

Leo, I tried

. . The calf, bull or ox is one of the earliest similes for meditation practice. It comes from the Maha Gopalaka Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 33) @LfcCharlie4 You didn't have a single Buddhist monk here, come on and several of these guys had self proclaimed enlightenment. Sadhguru for instance was a businessman in construction and poultry framing. He had no spiritual training and was not even doing meditation on his own nor knew anything about it. He simply sat on a hill, had a psychotic episode and called it enlightenment. So he gets 1000? And the parable of the ox. It's very poetic and metaphoric. This can't be compared to these sports-like ratings concocted by self proclaimed guru Ramaji And why isn't Ramana Maharshi on this list? That's where Ramaji copped his teachings from

Tis ? A Renaissance approach?

What you have done is numbed yourself. Your topics are mostly philosophical discourse rather than plan of action. That is a way of numbing. Staying in the intellectual realm and neglecting to do basic things because it's easier You can get out of it but in a step by stop process where you uncover your pain, little by little and take countermeasures to transform it into positive action. The way do get out of depression is to but your mind aside and start doing simple progressive "dumb" things to improve your life. this requires faith and faith takes routine practice. I challenge you to practice one 5 minute repeated affirmation about taking a very small positive action in your life and then do it. If you stick to this it will build and that 1000 will begin to go down by 100 each week and then start going in the opposite direction. Getting out of depression is doing what you say your will do and replacing negative affirmations with positive affirmations. And this should be start with very small steps that will be small enough for you subconscious to accept. gradually these step will become bigger and you won't have to use your numbing. It takes a plan

One will have to take back seat, trading or music even though you love them both. I say cap the lesser one at a level only to support your main focus. With music, if your dedicate to it as fully as possible (but not attach to it) it could led you beyond what you expect. Or not, that has to be time tested

You have it backwards non-attachment is what leads to removes the veil over awareness. non-attachment does not mean renunciation. It means you can hold money but it will bring suffering if you hold it too tightly and constantly seek more.

No more than dreams do

it's chaos thinking it's order

Worst Philosophy Ever: "Everything Happens for a Reason" Everything Happens "Reason" is a security blanket

finally, an honest person

Nobody has hit 1000 yet despite claims to the contrary The earliest accounts of Jesus were written decades after his death and they hyped him a little

No music is an attachment like money or love. These things are a part of life but know what their place is. And music is a great gift to the world I recommend this: asses the amount of time per day you need to maintain your survival with no frills add a couple of hours more for unpredictability The rest of your time full dedication to music until 2023 Then make an assessment as you how your want to balance your life. I've seen people but an intense one year into creativity, they over-exert, burn out and then quit One needs a few years to test this. Full commitment to music and the survival activity is only to support the music. Mark down a date to reassess your life and then forget about the date and dedicate completely but with basic survival needs accounted for Focusing on money will destroy the whole thing. Making music and surviving requires some money but money itself is not the focus. Great artists pay dues There is also a large luck and talent factor. Don't worry about that put the time in, a plan of a set number of years and stick to it

. check out this thread: It depends on if you feel like you are getting results. I But if you are not repetition is the key because it is believed that the subconscious is less responsive to reasoning but more responsive to repetition. So take just one affirmation at a time. Try this > take just one affirmation that is realistic but a little ambitious and that you want yourself to do and not too abstract and is about what you will do not one trying to get other people to do something. Start with question form "Will I ______________" and then the answer you want to happen "Yes I will____________" It's an affirmation with two parts, the question and answer. Before bed, with a timer for 5 minutes take just this one affirmation and write it down over an over to fill half or a whole sheet of paper, say the affirmation out loud at the same time and when you are finished writing continue to repeat it vocally until the alarm goes off. Do this for a week and if it's working keep doing it for a while

Notice that Barnaji doesn't only use "you" It's a balanced mix between "I", "you", "me". "we" , "family

a) Name a spiritual teacher who uses " I " statements more than " you" statements b) Name a spiritual teacher who uses "we" statements more than " you" statements I think the way certain ideas are expressed are absorbed in different ways by selection of which pronouns is used There is also the word "people" that can be used in a similar way If somebody is speaking and they say "you" dozens of times it begins to annoys me. Yet in advising other people I often use "you" myself.

interesting, good example

Don't worry about it, Jesus was 957

Your karma will only be bad if you maintain the relationship just for sex

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/30/18203811/marianne-williamson-2020-presidential-candidate-policies Who is Marianne Williamson? The daughter of an immigration lawyer and a homemaker, Williamson was born in Houston, Texas. She was raised Jewish, though she did not regularly attend synagogue as a child. (While her books and lectures quote a range of spiritual leaders from Jesus to Buddha, Williamson still identifies as a practicing Jew and does not see a conflict between her faith and much of the Christian-inflected language she uses in her work.) Like many self-help gurus, Williamson has often spoken about being aimless and adrift prior to her spiritual awakening. She spent two years at Pomona College, a liberal arts school in California, before dropping out to move to New Mexico, where she briefly lived in a geodesic dome on a commune. She then ping-ponged between the East and West coasts, spending her 20s temping and occasionally working as a cabaret singer. “I sank deeper and deeper into my neurotic patterns, seeking relief in food, drugs, people, or whatever else I could find to distract me from myself,” she later wrote in A Return to Love. It was around that time that Williamson discovered the book that would determine the path of her career: A Course in Miracles. Otherwise known as the Course, A Course in Miracles is a massive three-volume religious work that teaches that the only real thing in the world is God’s love, and surrendering to God’s plan can lead to inner peace and real-life miracles. Although A Course in Miracles is often marketed as a secular self-help text, it relies heavily on the language of Christianity; when it was published in 1976, the author, medical psychologist Helen Schucman, claimed Jesus had dictated it to her. Nonetheless, the teachings of the book resonated with Williamson. “I never realized you can’t find peace in your life without forgiving other people,” she told the LA Times in 1992. “I never knew how many of my problems stemmed from my fear of other people ______________________________________________________________________________________________ . MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ON THE ISSUES https://www.marianne2020.com/issues __________________________________________________________

wrong = right ( the equals sign solves all problems)

that's o.k. if you realize it it's the same thing

If someone says "I " and proceeds to talk about themselves you can learn about how they interact with the world and may relate it to your own life. But if someone says "you" it could be an audience where it's not personal to you but you are still assumed to be of a certain mentality. The speaker often tries to generalize about who they are speaking to, is this a group of children, is it a group of soldiers, is it a group of doctors, a group of Republicans, Democrats, a group of people who are familiar with my work and like it, a group of people who think I'm wrong They speak assuming things about who is in the audience. "We" communicates "you are like me" but "you" does not have that tinge

How did you go about ending suffering?