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Another issue is that meditation is based on quieting the “monkey mind” and its constant chatter.. or at least being able to observe the mind from a third-person perspective ..as if there is literally a monkey blabbering inside your head..and you create distance between that monkey (the mind) and yourself as awareness. The problem is that we are so accustomed to identifying with the mind that we believe the voice in our head is important. But when you try to silence or calm the mind..it often grows a hundred times stronger and more chaotic. This is especially true for me because I’m addicted to stimulation ..constantly doing something like listening to music or playing video games in my spare time. Because of that I struggle with insomnia. It’s difficult for me to lie in bed in complete silence and darkness without being occupied by something. I need to cut certain habits from my life and start living more meditatively.

I think there are two sides to my answer to this question: the mental side and the physical and physiological side. Mentally… I understand that not a single atom in the universe is out of place. Everything is exactly as it should be :right ..okay and perfect in its own way ..no matter what is happening in my life or in the world. Physically the body will still experience pain if I am being tortured or harmed. The goal is not to physically tolerate everything that happens in life because that is impossible by design. For example ..if you ignore hunger your body will eventually die. Instead.. the goal is to lessen mental suffering by becoming more conscious of the neutrality..inevitability.. and indifference of life. This awareness can reduce suffering and eliminate the unnecessary layers of suffering we add on top of what we experience.

Obviously it has . If not the main factor then it plays a part no matter how trivial it is . I don’t see women bullying other women on the street .

Which is the whole problem.

@Natasha Tori Maru maybe it makes no sense to women . Some men are bullies. Some guys are edgy by design..maybe it’s in their genetics.

Life will teach you it’s a trap . You are already a hedonist . Are you happy ?

Ok cool. What’s next ? You just mentioned that you talked to her and found out that she was trans …what happened after that ?

So you sleeped with her already? How are you sure she is trans ? Did she tell you or you checked her genitals ? Be careful with STDs .

What confuses me about god is god’s substance or what is god in itself . By being infinite and all pervading he (it) must be nothing . that’s the truest and most essential nature of god. It has to be that way . It can’t be anything else because any formed substance would be limited and incomplete and therefore cannot be god . On the other hand when you look at the manifest world or all of creation .. the sun and earth and planets orbiting with consistent motion..the living creatures with consciousness and complex designs (it’s a design . Evolution can’t design a butterfly out of randomness) etc then you conclude that there is a designer or god but I don’t know how could god create when he was in the godhead (nothing ). It should remain nothing forever . The answer I hear is there is no ultimate difference between nothing and something but still there is something incomprehensible about a pure formlessness giving rise to intelligence and design .

@Mellowmarsh thanks . I’ve heard it here . Give this a listen as you meditate or fall asleep . Incredible pointers 🙏🏻

@Rafael Thundercat love you too.

The truth about immortality is as the Nisargadtta quote says “ the real can never die . The unreal never lived “ .

Nobody can relate that some toxic people purposely provoked you and left you choiceless but to engage in a fight ? nobody can relate that they were bullied by someone stronger ? nobody has ever got into a fight ? Never experienced anger and negative urge towards beating someone? very strange .

Are you enlightened? If yes why don’t you publish a book or start a YouTube channel or online guru business instead ? if you are not enlightened then what value does your judgment of other spiritual teachers has?