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And post the reasons of your happiness or unhappiness.

@Ima Freeman I'm 25

The most thing that annoyed me about islam is that almost 60% of the Quran is talking about the hell fire wherein the unbelievers will be burned for eternity.

I hope things are going well soon. I take antidepressants as well.

Last night I had a dream that a lion was chasing after me. It was very vivid. More vivid than "real life". I made several threads in the past about this topic of dreams but I still don't understand how dreams work. How are they even possible. And life is not less weird than dreams.. That's mindwarping. When we die are we aware of being in the void? Then we all just born into the world as something and then we forget where we come from? I always wondered where we came from. It just seems so strange that all of sudden we're all just here. Almost like we all just spawned out of nowhere. We all are just born from nowhere and then we live 80 years and then dissapear. It's so mysterious

Interesting. So both the waking state and the dream state are dreams?

@Nahm love ya

@puporing I'm Interested in understanding dreams metaphysically not psychologically.

@Khan 0 what's your opinion on dreams?

Silence is the highest teaching.. They say.

@Khan 0 are you the old user james?

OI'm not. I'm simply stating a fact. Happiness is our real nature. All enlightened teachers say that. Maybe do the work to realize that. Do you meditate?

LOL. How do you calculate it?

@Blackhawk don't project your negativity onto ohers. Just because you are miserable in life doesn't mean everyone should or are miserable as well.

In your opinion.. What are the characteristics of a mentally healthy person?

True happiness is effortless. It's our real nature.

So this is a new (or new old) way to try to conceptualize reality and make sense of it. The distinctions here are arbitrary and completely relative but nevertheless here we go. There is basically only two things in all of existence.. Forms and formlessness. That's it. There isn't and never was and never will be anything else. The forms ALWAYS are limited and impermanent. The formless ONLY is unlimited and permanent. The two Are actually identical but it's hard for the mind to make sense of that (how could these forms be formless?). Instead try to think of it this way.. The formless is the container of forms. You might ask "where are all these forms taking place"? "where does existence happening"? And the answer is really nowhere.. Reality is happening inside of nothingness. If we erase all forms from existence.. What's left? Only pure formlessness. Pure nothingness. So that's like what's underneath all forms. Or the container of all forms.. The original state that then comes different forms and appear inside of it. So this present moment that's happening right now is 50 % forms and 50 % formlessness. We usually don't think of it this way.. We think "it's just forms it's just reality where is this formlessness?". Lol ofcourse you can't see it because it's not a form. It has no qualities whatsoever and that's precisely why and how it is present everywhere and every when yet you can't see it.. Because you can only see forms. But how come forms are present without a container? There must be a container that contains all these forms and it can't be anything else but formlessness. Think about an empty glass that is necessary to have some water or any substance inside of it. But instead what we have here is not an empty "glass".. But rather pure emptiness. Now you might ask.."where did all these forms come from then"? Here there is really no answer. It's pure magic. But the trick is that ultimately all forms appear and disappear.. They are just like dreams or hallucinations.. Forever appearing and disappearing. There is no rational explanation whatsoever why forms are here (the answer is actually that form is formlessness but it's near impossible to make sense of it rationally without a mystical experience). But the only way to relate to it is by understanding that all forms are ultimately a temporary passing show that means absolutely nothing and was never ought to be anything substantial or to form a "reality". The only full realness is to the all mighty nothingness.

@gettoefl what else matters but happiness?

Let's not take our blissings for granted.. I will start... I'm grateful for : - a roof over my head. -my family -having access to food and water. - my health. -warm house. -this awesome platform. What are you grateful for?

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The mystery of mysteries

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@Nahm You said "not believing thoughts" as an Indication of mental health .. Can I know what does it have to do with mental health?

I mean in a negative sense. Negative importance you can say. That we should not believe them and such.

@Thought Art meta-grateful