WelcometoReality

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  1. I too had a depression. From when I was in my early teens until I was 28. The best thing that could have happened to me.
  2. and thank you God!
  3. You're welcome
  4. It is consciousness (thank god for the spell check) working through this body.
  5. To me there is a trade off between being vague, mysterious, new age sounding (the words does better describing the truth than the direct way) or being direct (worse at describing the truth). I prefer being more direct/short, which you may have noticed .
  6. This is just a smoke screen of the mind. You don't have to dissolve your sense of self. You just need to transcend yourself. Dissolving will happen by itself once you're grounded in what you really are. Yes I do. How about right where your sitting now.
  7. It is very easy, Find out what you really are and let that be your grounding. Accept everything that comes up. The rest will take care of itself. What hinders many is that mind will create smoke screens of fears and doubts and doing.
  8. Have you tried self-inquiry? If not try it out.
  9. It's because the ego structure is all about survival. Holding on to that piece of food or that fur or whatever was really important to survive. Now it is not that important. The answer to the second question I think you already know since your asking it on this subforum.
  10. A great insight. Now when "struggle" arises, accept that it's there, don't try and resist it, but also don't bite onto it.
  11. It is progress. The fear, anxiety and doubt is egos attempt to get back in control. Meet it with total acceptance of all these emotions coming up.
  12. Because it's the truth.
  13. It is mind trying to get back in to the drivers seat. Don't fight it, just be with the scaryness.
  14. And since ego is thought, no wonder it freaked out.
  15. Sure I understand that your curious about it. And there is nothing wrong with discussing it. If you think it's fascinating it must be because you want to know the truth and you will never know the truth by discussing it, because discussion will only lead you to believe you know the truth. Investigate inside yourself and draw conclusions from direct experience.
  16. When I had my first realization I said It's not important, I have to become something. Because unconsciously I understood that I didn't exist. Afterwards I realized that I had identified with that thought of wanting to become successful and the next time I was better prepared to see that it was not true. With experiencing you will easier see the smoke screens you put up for yourself, like that you needed to study to find yourself. I say keep poking on that same spot that lead you to flip out, because it's these reactions that show you you're on to the truth.
  17. Why is it scaring you? What's the belief?
  18. It might be the way you think it is or it might be not the way you think it is. Trust your own experiences and accept that you don't know how things you haven't experienced is.
  20. It does give joy, calm, silence. No efforts to achieve or drive from unsatisfactory. Just being is enough to be happy. The egoic drive is based on not having enough or being enough. When you reach certain goals, sure you will be happy for a while but the happiness will come and go. That is the way the ego structure works, great for surviving in the wilds. Awful for finding everlasting happiness.

  21. Intuition

    WelcometoReality replied to ZenMonkey's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God

    And it is when we have this natural flow of life we see that choice only is resistance to what is.
  22. Well it's more of a poke than a smash, but poke at someones shoulder enough times and you'll get a big reaction. It might be at war with you, but you will meet it with acceptance.
  23. Through inquiry. Ask yourself is this thought true, why is it true etc. Watch for egoic reactions in thought and feelings.
  24. Yes exactly. A light bulb behind a tinted window which darkness we can control with the dimmers. The light bulb will always be on full light, the amount that shines through is depending on how much we have turned the dimmers.
  25. An even more fitting analogy would be two dimmer switches. one is turned and turned until the light goes on, you then start to turn the other one to brighten the light.