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This is like saying Santa is real. It is ultimately imagination and illusion, and it would be misleading to not articulate it as such. "Your birth is imaginary" is meant to be taken very literally. Look for yourself. You are imagining it right now, are you not? Otherwise, where is your birth?

Very nicely articulated

Believing the fearful stories of the mind is akin to imagining a boogie-man that lives under your bed. It is fear-mongering and delusional. Believe what is in front of you, not the delusions of your mind.

"Thought business" is already the case Someone has a thought about making a book, and then he materializes that thought Someone has a thought about making electric cars, and then he materializes that thought Someone has a thought about making a painting, and then he materializes that thought And so on.

Start with some of his older videos and work your way up to the new ones, otherwise yes it can be hard to understand Here is a really foundational one:

Very true, mental masturbation is a prevalent problem here Lol it was a wild ride from start to finish

Absolute and relative is being conflated here. Consciousness is perfectly capable of imagining a "past lives" mechanism. Although, if such a thing did exist, it would only be a relative feature of reality and not an absolute one.

Yes, the ego hates change. Its entire game is to prevent change. What your ego is doing right now is that it is imagining a story in your mind which is causing anxiety. "Fear" and "anxiety" is not present anywhere in your direct experience, until you begin to entertain the fantasies of your ego. Look for yourself. Try to find the object which is causing "fear" in your direct experience right now. You won't find it, because "fear" is in relation to the story your ego imagines. The ego will make something like an upcoming change seem "monstrous" and "scary", simply through the medium of imagination. Have you ever heard someone say "that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be"? It's good at highlighting how the ego makes things seem worse than they actually are, that is actually one of its main skills. Because of this dynamic between fear and imagination, grounding yourself in the present moment can be a very effective way of keeping the ego in check. Notice that the change is "upcoming", meaning it is not in your present experience. So, how are you scared of something which isn't even present? Because you are only scared of the thought of that thing, not the thing itself. No thing in reality truly emanates "fear", so keep your eye on reality and not imagination. Also, wherever there is change, there is growth. Uncomfortable situations are good. Actively seek out uncomfortable situations, they will teach you lessons and make you grow.

Most of the salt people consume comes from the processed foods they eat. It's fine to be generous with high quality salt when adding it to your own dishes. Too much salt can cause headaches, drink water to balance it out. Although, a headache from over-salting a dish seems like a strong reaction. Could be low potassium as @Opo pointed out.

Non-Player Character, it's a video game term referring to characters that are not controlled by players. If someone is calling you an NPC, they are basically saying that you are dumb and act like a robot.

These both sound like immersive or maladaptive daydreaming, I have it as well.

Comparing life to dreams will give you good insights. Their fundamental structure is very similar, if not the same. What you've done is you've taken certain parts of your mind and labelled them "physical" and "not a part of my mind". Sneaky ego.

Animals are simply more intuitive and less in the mind, like human babies. Their minds are significantly less sophisticated.

Yeah holy shit. I see this insight talked about all the time but I never really understood it fully till now. Your judging of others is the exact same criteria you judge yourself for. It's also the case that the more you love others the more you will love yourself, and vice versa. There seems to be this pattern of reciprocation in reality.

I have similar thoughts when going for a walk

lol no problem

lol he wants the answer to be within his own personal criteria of being 25 000 words and "scientific". That's funny. Also it has to be filtered through a group of "specialist judges" too haha

It happened to me by accident, I somehow managed to enter an experience of nothingness when I was waking up from sleep. I heard there are meditation techniques you can try. They call the state "turiya" in Hindu philosophy, if that helps. Like you said before, nothing = something. So something coming out of nothing is the same as nothing coming out of something. I think you've slightly misunderstood. The source of everything is not a state of nothingness, or turiya. The source of everything is actually itself, which is what is meant by "nothing is the source of everything". Things don't need a source. It's a strange loop. What is stopping consciousness from creating without a source? Nothing is, lol. It creates out of nothing, like magic. No method or mechanism needed. It just is itself. When you're eating a pizza, that pizza actually came from nowhere, you're just imagining that it came from some pizza place. The problem with looking for a "source" is that it turns into an infinite regression. What created that source? and what created the source that created that source? And so on forever.

I assume you're talking about the experience of pure consciousness (AKA turiya or nothingness as people like to call it) Yes, it is possible to experience nothing, as paradoxical as it sounds. The experience is a paradox because the finite mind cannot comprehend "experience" and "nothing" co-existing, since it has created a duality between the two. It is a state of consciousness where there is no object for the finite mind to grasp at, an absence of objects. It is completely impossible to imagine BTW, because your mind is finite and can only know finite things, whereas nothingness is infinite and without end. It's like trying to imagine what having no eyesight is like, it's just absent. There is the experience of it being absent. You don't see black, you don't see any colors, it's just completely gone. That's what nothingness is like, but your entire reality is gone along with your eyesight, and you just exist there. You are actually experiencing nothingness right now, to a certain degree, but you just don't realize it since you're so fixated on the finite portion of reality. Try to focus on the fact that you cannot see what is behind your head. You are having the experience of being unable to see what is behind your head. This is actually an experience of nothingness. You are experiencing the lack or non-existence of a certain sensation, which is sight. You can't see anything behind you. There is essentially nothing there until you turn around and look at it. Try to feel into that. This is probably the closest you can get to understanding nothingness without going into a full state of nothingness.

Haha yeah I was surprised too, just searching "Leo Gura" on Google brings up all types of slander. It makes sense though, no one likes having their paradigm torn apart.

What is it in your life that reflects the emotions you feel in that dream? Is there something in your life that makes you feel like you're being chased or that you have to escape from it? I used to have reoccurring dreams about angry bees being everywhere and then I would have to try and avoid them, but they would be everywhere that I would try to escape to. It made me feel very anxious and claustrophobic, perhaps reflective of my life situation at the time. This video is pretty good:

Cause you're imagining that it isn't Here is a meditation: Sit down and let everything be. Remove your desire to manipulate reality. Allow everything that happens to happen. Welcome it. Your job is to let reality be exactly as it is without changing it. And then bask in that.

I've always found it to be creepy/unsettling. It's like looking at yourself from a third person perspective, like in a video game. Your sense of self becomes less coherent.

"You" and "other" only exist as imagination. Ego is identifying with imagination. Even if another is experiencing it, the experience of another experiencing it will always be imaginary, because "other" is always imagination no matter what. If "other" wasn't imaginary it wouldn't be "other" anymore. Smart. God tends to dislike putting itself into dualistic categories.

That's a really good one