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1) watch this from 13:20. understand that relatively speaking now is maybe the best the world has ever seen. 2) make sure the ego is not bullshitting you again. I don't think intuition can predict the future, it's just a hunch you have based and all the stuff you are exposed to, something that rationally escapes you. If what you are exposed to is false or very partially true, your intuition will be "false" as well. 3) Even if such event happens so fucking what, why would it change anything in your life? today you may die by the infinite amount of ways, does it change the way you live? Still, the best thing you can do is live moment to moment, mindful, present, happy, not caught up in the stories of your mind like this one. Like you can be caught up in it all you want just see that it brings you suffering in the end, then you will have the motivation to give up on stories.

@Principium Nexus the battle is not outside, it's inside you. hate happens when you resist the sensations in your body. more resistance = more ego. I am not sure you can really help people from a place of ego. Buy you can accept what is, stop resisting, then compassion will flow in you and you will naturally do what you can to decrease the suffering of people. And you will also not suffer anymore because suffering is resisting.

@Principium Nexus Keep in mind that hating seeing other people suffer will only generate more hate. If instead you accept and stop resisting will will develop compassion instead of hate and from it you can help others.

Don't you see that the only way to get out of the illusion is to suffer? Why will you otherwise want to get out? Embrace your suffering because it is your motivation to get out. Every suffering begin with a story Of course there are many exceptions, but In general, Christians are stuck In a lower development stage. They suffer less because they are gullible and believe in all the lies they are told, and it protect them, their monkey mind doesn't have to struggle with uncertainties, they have answers so the mind is quieter. But one day they will realise it doesn't make any sense, their paradigm doesn't fit reality, and they will get out of their sheltered prison... Then they will be free and their mind will go crazy like ours, and they will create stories, and they will believe those stories and those stories will crumble and they will suffer like us. And when they will suffer enough they may decide that it is enough, time to get out of it. Time to wake up. Time to enjoy reality, the present moment, the only thing we truly have. So I say, bless the suffering in your life, this is your way out. back home.

@schmitzy you should strive for authenticity and openness. That is don't tell him he is a coward but you can imply/ask him about this, why does he behaves in such a way? Maybe he is not aware of it and would like to improve? Maybe he has a past trauma regarding this? If you manage to talk about this with him it can help the relationship - you will understand better if you want it or not.

@abgespaced @abgespaced I think that as one develop his/her consciousness he/she becomes much less effected by biological mechanisms, you gain so much more control of your life and what you want consciously is reflected more and more in your actual behaviour.

@Whywolf oh may I can attempt a very bad explanation: It's traditional Indian medicine. its beauty is understanding that everyone one is different and needs a different diet/way of life that fits his body-mind characteristics. So meat, for example, may be very bad for your health but very healthy for someone else. They view the world through the elements and their qualities, and by identifying what are the dominant elements in you and the imbalances you are prone to go through you can engineer a diet and a way of life that will keep you balanced. It's quite complicated and often counter-intuitive system. They also use herbs and massages and tonnes of other stuff. What I cook/eat depends on the weather, if it's a cold damp day, or a warm dry one, certain food will be better than others. I have dominance of the Pita Dosha (Fire and water elements) so for me in general food that warms or blocks is not recommended. So I eat less such foods like brown rice, white flour, Nightshade veggies. And it helps my emotional balance and heat waves I tend to suffer from in the summer, as well as clears my skin etc.

@Prabhaker Truth is not always wise, and untruth is not always foolish

@Anna1 its not like he is hiding that's those are Osho quotes. He gives good and relevant answers,doing the research and helping people. What does he gain, internet points and fame? But it's a dishonest towards people who don't know, I agree. @Prabhaker so tell us, why won't you put a citing source, do you enjoy people thinking it's your material?

@Anna1 @Prabhaker I listened to many Osho Discourses when I was younger So I recognise his writing immediately and At first, when I read Prabhakar Osho answers it bothered me as well that he doesn't cite the source, That some people think it's his wisdom when It's in fact not his. But now I think that it's kinda nice that there in no source, after all, what does it matters who said it, as long as it helps people? Maybe Prabhakar ego benefits from it but that's his problem. And some people resent Osho so when they see it's his words they will resist the words and won't profit from them, so maybe it's better this way? I dunno

reading this sentence made me feel a strong rush of Love for you and the universe. So I love Peace and Love and all the people on this site oh and beautiful music and nature. one the most love inducing music pieces for me:

you try to solve this with thinking "what is the best thing to do?", I say the thinking is what is creating the problem. why not act spontaneously, as you wish, without caring how the other will respond?

@100rockets you can't force acceptance, you can't really think your way into acceptance (although I admit I tried this a lot and it seems to work sometimes, for me stuff like asking myself "maybe this is what I deserve?" "I don't need to worry the universe will take of me" "what's happening right now the universe created just for me, what can I learn from this?","everyone is doing the best he can according to his understanding and circumstances in the world" "remember others are just drops of consciousness like me" helps sometimes). But my experience is that trying to solve this in the thinking level is usually just more resistance hence the importance of working with the sensations. Just be with your body sensations, pass your attention on your body and find where there is a pain, where there are contractions. When you find yourself back in the thoughts and the story just bring your attention back to the sensations, if you find yourself thinking how "I don't manage to be with the sensation, it's not working" just bring your attention back to the sensation (to bypass our tendency to see meta thoughts as not just other thoughts). see it like an algorithm, every time you are aware your attention is not on the sensations bring it back to the sensations.

@Whywolf I agree with you as well, the truth is I'm super picky about what I eat and health and nutrition are one of my top values. My father is an Ayurvedic doctor and I see that adjusting what I eat and what I do to my type of mind and body according to Ayurveda really help in balancing my emotions and physical discomforts like heat waves. So I totally agree, in fact, I forgot how important it is as I take it almost for granted, thanks for reminding me

You have to understand that the fast road to enlightenment goes through our daily obstacles. it's true that they are an illusion bus as long as you are not free from them, not having any resistance and negative emotions towards those things, you are living in fear and resistance towards what you wanna do, you suppressing your need so you are getting far from enlightenment. It's true that if you will now meditate for ten years all the subconscious stuff will surface and you could deal with it and finally maybe get your enlightenment, but the much faster route is to confront all your demons directly: feeling and dealing with all the negative emotions, watching them and conquering them. So even if all those obstacles are "imaginary" to the mind, body and unconscious they are very real and contain the energy to make us whole again. So don't the mistake of dividing the world into spiritual and "illusory" mundane, they go together. All in all, I'm saying that this realisation should boost your motivation because mastering the domains of life you have problems with will also advance you the most spiritually, if mastered correctly

@Annie ah ok I understand thanks! it's plausible

@Annie How do you connect epigenetics to it? I'm not familiar with it so much.

@Mondsee you're welcome, hope it will help you. I suffered a lot from my parents arguing too so I feel for you.

@Peace and Love I see what You mean I completely agree, It's not something you are likely to force by willpower.

@Peace and Love DO you mean not to look for something specific, for "love", "girlfriend", "relationship" and just be open and spontaneous with what happens and from this position I have good chances to attract the right person?

@Peace and Love well nice to see creatures from Absolute infinity hanging around with us here thanks, so far I had limited luck in (acro)yoga and meditation group, but to be fair I just started searching recently.

1) focus your attention on your bodily sensations, see that you resist those sensations by trying to solve the situation and by contraction of muscles in your body. The pain and suffering you feel are not caused by the external situation nor by the sensation. Rather, your thoughts about the situation is the resistance to the sensations and it's what is causing the suffering. 2) share what is happening to you, don't "hold it inside you", describe objectively (without blaming) what is happening to you - "when you shout like that it creates a heavy burning sensation in my throat, my breathing becomes short." when you say it you might think that you become more vulnerable but actually when you don't hold it inside you lessen the resistance and it weakens the sensations and you are freer from the emotions thus less vulnerable. Your parents may also acknowledge what you are going through and take it into consideration in their fight.

I don't know why I'm here but I notice that when I'm happy I don't care. So my goal is to become happy. I tried for years to discover the "truth of lif"e but came to the conclusion that you can't understand it conceptually. Now I'm going through the spiritual path that supposedly can bring you to the experience of understanding life and beeing happy at the same time maybe this video can give you a different perspective:

After years of bothering me, this simple Alan watts explanation satisfied my inquiry on the topic.

@Whywolf my view is that all are negative emotions, even depression, are not the sensations we are sensing but rather the resistance to it. So people may have chemical imbalances and strong unpleasant sensations but they still have the control - they can accept the sensations and observe them with equanimity or they can resist them. The "Irony" is that by resisting them we also perpetuate them. That's why My opinion is that meditation on the sensations of the body (Vipassana) can solve maybe all of our emotional problems.