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1) Pain still arises but the thought stories about the pain seem to disappear. 2) There still is an ego here. Maybe the experience of ego death will come who knows? 3) Agreed 4) To me the interest in non-dual vs materialist concepts and concepts in general seem to have dallen away. 5) The personality has changed. More accepting of people. I don't think it touches such disorders if they are physical. 6) Anxiety, fear and worries seem to have disappeared. There was fear when I was on a roller coaster last summer but not before or after.

It will come with more practice. Surrender to what is. If you feel lost and can't sense the awareness that is fine.

Mindfulness or surrender.

@MsNobody I'm a gemini. So what are my traits?

Do you have any practice that you use daytime? If not consider getting one. Formal meditation is good but having a non formal practice that continues after meditation can help carry over the effects of meditation throughout the day.

@Ingit Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable when negative feelings arises. Rather than trying to feel comfortable when you feel uncomfortable. Accept that there is uncomfortability. Don't try to alter what arises, simply accept it for what it is. These are thoughts that is occuring. What if these thoughts didn't arise, how would you feel then?

@Aakash You are awakening, concepts will start to fade away. You'll fall more and more into the unknown. The mind wants to explain things in a cause and effect manner but in reality they just happen. They appear and disappear without any need to justify and explain. The short answer: It's all good. Totally normal when you start to awaken.

@EvilAngel They are probably acting against parts of your belief system and that's why you react negatively towards them. If you want to investigate more into it you can look up byron katie's "the work". You can download the worksheet here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://thework.com/sites/thework/downloads/worksheets/JudgeYourNeighbor_Worksheet.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwibn6Xa8pjgAhVCGCwKHf49DWwQFjAAegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw3g_xC0ozsZPrxVGm0ASfWy A video on how it's used:

Yeah the techniques are more doing. The revelation is beyond doing. The absence of doing. Be still and watch everything arise and pass away.

Do you mean that you need to let go of a meditation technique, to for example silence the mind, at a certain point on the journey?

Everything is the self and everything is right here in this moment.

Yeah that's what I said when it happened.

@traveler Maybe he means people who has started to awaken but are not "fully" awakened yet. I got very sensitive to peoples energies at first. I got very emotional and it was just a tough time to deal with people in general. I wouldn't be surprised if people that is dealing with the same thing might use alcohol or other drugs to dampen the senses.

@Joseph Maynor SDS-meditation is very effective. All it took was one 3 hour sitting to put me in a state of deep surrender. So don't count it out.

Thank you @Wisebaxter I'm looking forward to see what insights you'll have. One of my biggest insights came from surrendering to the present moment. Allowing everything to be as it is.

@Wisebaxter Glad to hear that you found it useful. To some this intuitive knowing or small voice can be quite hard to hear or feel in the beginning so it can feel alittle bit abstract. If that is the case you can start to listen to your feelings as they to are good indicators. What makes you happy, unhappy, content or joyful. I guess adyashanti talked alittle about it in the previous video but here is another one. A heartbased practice will connect you to this better. Nice notes by the way. Mind if I steal them?

Yeah he's really great. I've got so much guidance from his teachings.

Yes there is no objective truth in what career to pursue. If there were then we would all be chasing the same career wouldn't we? It's relative, meaning that it depends on what you feel is challenging, fun, and whatever you feel is important. So you can't really google the answer. You have to find the answer within yourself. Maybe one career path is right for you now and later you'll change that path. Who knows?

@EvilAngel Maybe we can start saying "Nothingness is totally identified with the false sense of self in that body-mind" instead. Let's see how long it takes before we all get locked up in a padded room.

I want the truth! Wanting truth might lead you to search externally for truth and that can be a hindrance. You are truth itself so it is not about searching for it as much as a complete stopping the search and seeing through the illusion of the seeker/search.

@EvilAngel Like any tool it can be misused. A shovel is great to dig holes in the ground but please don't hit people in the head with it.

Both things are fine to do. Some times you'll do one and some times you'll do the other. The resistance to what is comes from the mind. Let's say you actually can't do much about your cold feet, then resistance might come up in the mind. Thoughts like "Why didn't I bring warmer shoes" "Why did I go outside in the first place". These are resistance to what is and if you believe them they will cause you to suffer.

@How to be wise @Nahm Extreme cases of course. 30+ years of meditation without a non dual experience probably won't happen to the average person but could it be that these people are not using the meditation techniques in the right way?

But only everything.

I don't know. It can't really be expressed in words.