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@Visionary I wouldn't go as far as to say that empathy is egoic. It's the rest of the drama attached to it that is ego based. The excitement and drama that is created to revel in the emotions. Just watch how people exaggerate things when they tell you about something they experienced. They are creating a story and add drama to it just to make things alittle bit more interesting. Yes people love their drama else they wouldn't put so much time and effort on it.

@Stoica Doru When I created that username there was still alot of "identity" and there still is some left. Be mindful of that identity sneaking in. There is still alot of work to be made to "unhook" that identity. Mooji explains it well in this video.

@Stoica Doru What is 19 years old?

@Stoica Doru You might want read this if you haven't already.

I see. So it's more like embracing the moment, doing what the heart wants. Good. ? And about the dance class. Embrace the paradox man! ?

Yes I know the feeling. When you're just tired of it all. Like it doesn't make any sense to keep going. Let go.. Just let go.

@Shin Let the resistance arise and love it as much as the joy, crying and laughter.

Are there any fear coming up or what resistance is experienced?

It's about breaking the barriers one has built around ones heart. We build them to protect ourself from anything "bad" we might experiencing but it causes separation from that experience and hinders us to feel the love that is in any given moment. Can you let every experience hit you with full force?

@Leo Gura This one deserves a pinned tag imo.

@NotActualized Look at the thought "I have free will". It's a thought. That thought does not have any free will. It pops up and disappears. Now think of yourself, your name, your traits, your life, you future and past. Those are just a cluster of thoughts. Does those thoughts have free will? When I say that you have no free will I mean that what you identify with has no free will. The cluster of thoughts you believe is you including conditioning. When you awakening you will be free from that conditioning and one certainly "EXPERIENCE" free will. That feels really liberating. Like one is free to do anything. When the awakening deepens that sense of free will will start to diminish. One sees that everything is happening because it is happening without any cause. Mind is desperately trying to explain why. Just starting to scratch the surface on the last part

@TJM1959 People are the way they are and there is nothing really we can do about it. What we can do is look inside ourselves and find the beliefs that people should be in a certain way. It can be tricky to not to get sucked into there drama but it gets easier when we stop judging them.

@Alex90 After awakening the search is over and a new phase of the "journey" begins. So meditation won't be used for searching anymore. It might be used to ground yourself but also that must be let go of.

@RossE So those things are meaningless. What do you find meaningful?

@Scholar You are wondering what the next step is, but there is no next step. Things will unfold whenever it will unfold. Don't worry about it.

@JKG Here's what I would do. Create a schedule of your spiritual practices. Then let that schedule be your master. No matter what excuses your mind comes up with follow that schedule. Resistance comes up for everyone. That is just thoughts popping up and they are not a problem. It's the identification with those thoughts that are. Also notice that you don't only have resistance, but also resistance to resistance. That comes from the value that it is bad, you think that it is bad therefore you resist it. Ask yourself is it really bad? Why? Is there anything that is good/bad in the world?

@Samuel Garcia It is not easy to teach these subtle truths. Being a spiritual teacher is like being a comedian that tells jokes on a foreign language. The audience just do not get whats funny. How can they? They can't because it's in another language. Maybe a couple of the people in the audience knows the other language a little bit so the can kinda see the point of the joke. What's even worse for the spiritual teacher is that the audience thinks it knows the point. Thinks they understand what the teacher is saying. But in reality they don't have a clue. They laugh but miss the point completely or they don't laugh at all because they don't get what's funny.

@Martin123 The way i see it is that there are three types of awakenings. And all awakenings that are in between. A deep awakening. In this one the ego won't matter, it will mostly fall of without effort. A shallow awakening. Here ego will matter because one still have to unhook alot of attachments and a healthy ego will suffer less. A gradual awakening. This is without any awakening experiences. It will sort of sneak up on you and one day you realize that you lost yourself on the way. No suffering is created by the ego from this type of awakening so healthy and unhealthy ego won't matter. To clarify, healthy-unhealthy ego is not black and white but a gray scale. The different types of awakenings are not black and white but a gray scale. You can't choose which type of awakening you will get so work on your ego. It won't hurt and it will maybe make the awakening process easier. To seek enlightenment before one has a healthy ego? That is for each one to decide, there probably isn't a general rule.

@art Enlightenment is a subjective truth. It cannot be shown in science and that is why direct experience is key. Science does have it's uses but it is simply a tool, a tool one uses in ones direct experience. Everything one has experienced is within ones direct experience. So there is no science vs direct experience. Without direct experience there would be no science.

@Deepak sadhwani That is what minds do. No need to resist these thoughts, just let them come and go. The excitement comes from the attachment to the thought, believing that it's true. Just recognize this attachment. There must also be an attachment to the thought "there is somethong wrong with having thoughts about the future". Recognize the attachment to thought and meditate to practice letting them come and go. SDS is a good meditation technique to practice this.

@Emerald Wilkins @NutellaTC I don't have much experience of this myself so my knowledge is just theoretical, so excuse me for questioning you. Aren't you suppose to unlock blockages in the lower chakras first before moving up to the higher chakras?

@Empty Thank you for sharing this. @Aware It is isn't it. Up 'til the stage I am at, it is very on point.

You are talking about self development. And I agree with what your saying but that is not what I am talking about, I guess you would call it level of awareness. I agree with this except for the assumptions you seem to be making about me.

Well put, I always like to emphasize that it is best not to BELIEVE what any teacher says. Always ground it in your own experience. Be open minded about what is being said, meaning don't make any conclusions about it being 'true' or 'untrue'.

You are right. I misspoke, maybe human development is a better term. There is a time to remove ignorance, but the next step is to see through all knowledge based outside your own experience. And any "problem" is only an illusion.