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We aren't meant to be happy 24/7 are we?.. Isn't it natural to feel sad when you are supposed to? Like when losing a loved ones. How can you avoid sadness ? To me it seems like an inherent part of reality.

so enlightened people still feel sad and grief when things do not go their way?

@mandyjw @Natasha are you unconditionally happy in your life or do you believe that circumstances need to go your way in order for you to be happy?

@Judy2 is that possible for ordinary people? Or only for enlightened ones?

What distinguishes genuine inquiry and fruitful contemplation from mental masturbation??

But where do you draw the line?

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@Shin so there is no benefit to conceptualizing? All conceptualizing is mental masturbation?

The person who commits suicide thinks death is better than life.. So it's still boil down to what feels better for the oneself.

Life is about survival and nothing else.

If a complete lack of anything were the case, then there would not be anything; however, there is something and so a lack of anything could not have been the case, and so that notion is out and done with. Nothing’ cannot even be meant, much less have any properties or be productive, and so even any notion of it is forever squashed. So, Something had to ever be, it having no alternative, with no option not to be, with no opposite, and with no possibility of it coming from the impossible ‘Nothing’. The Something, then, is eternal, in that it is uncreated can never go away. It is Permanent as the Causeless Cause of what comes forth of it, which can only be temporaries. The Something cannot be still and unmoving, for then naught could have become as the temporary happenings that we take as something. ‘The impossible Stillness’ thus gains single quote marks, akin to its relative of ‘Nothing’, neither one able to be.

Happiness, fulfillment, satisfaction etc.

Yoo lost me there. I don't know what your talking about.

Lol

I don't know what cessation is.

No! Answer my question. Why can't the body be you ? Yes.

Why can't the body be "you '?

If there is no self then who typed that message?

Liberation from suffering.

Why not? I totally believe infinite self-understanding is possible.

What a nonsense answer.

As expected.

@Fearless_Bum what happens after death? Just a straightforward question.

Maybe. Could be the opposite too. Who really knows?

@Raptorsin7 Unknown. Death for me represents the unknown. And the unknown is scary.