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@RossE Everyone wants peace and the higher your consciousness is, the more peaceful you become. I don't think you need to pursue enlightenment, raise your consciousness to feel good and to enjoy life better, but if you happen to get there, it may present a new challenge as you may need to relearn how to live your life. It's scary, but after you do learn, you'll suffer much less if at all.

As a parent in the journey of self actualization, I am facing many challenges and questions when raising my 2.5 years old child. Especially knowing that the beliefs embedding window is so short (age 1 to ~5), finding the right thing to do without infecting my child with my own flawed beliefs is not an easy task. So in case you haven't heard about her, I wanted to let you know about Shefali Tsabary, her world perception matches the one we're trying to obtain and she has great insights about parenting. Here's one video, you can see more on YouTube and on her website. http://www.oprah.com/video_embed.html?article_id=63313

@pluto that may be true on the first few months, but I think a baby quickly learns the distinction between "him" (his body) and what's not, just by looking at his hands, seeing he's controlling them and learning what things he can't control. It's only reasonable since we were designed by evolution to have an ego, just like animals have an ego, helping them survive and not get eaten or jump off a cliff. But still, a newly born baby may not have a perception of self, but does he has an awareness? It seems that he is reacting to input from his body (cold, hot, hungry, tired), not choosing consciously to cry, for instance.

If this is true, maybe it's like bear's hibernation, only they have a unique mechanism that takes urine and recycles it. Maybe he has a mutation of some sort that allows this.

Indeed, self example in many cases proves as the only way to "teach". True, toddlers are very present, which is a result of clean mind, no beliefs and a very small ego. But they're little chimps, very reactive and mostly motivated by the low self. But that presence is good enough to make an impact on me as a parent, inspiring me to be more present as well and less worried about time, which is probably the main challenge every parent is facing -- the conflict between being present and the parent's will (it's not really a need) to get to work on time, have some rest or to avoid making a mess, because toddlers like to play with their food. So at least at this age it's not yet possible to explain complex things, but as she's learning to communicate, we talk with our daughter about emotions -- transcribing her feelings, letting her know what we felt and basically helping her understand herself and giving her tools to manage her emotions, probably the first step towards self awareness and emotion management. It's also the easiest thing to start with, because they deal with many conflicts between their will and reality, which causes them to be agitated many times during the day. So each time is an opportunity to let her experience these feeling and to guide her through it. Reading Marshall Rosenberg's book Nonviolent Communication really helped us to communicate more effectively (with everyone, but especially) with our daughter.

@werlight thank you for the explanation, but this sound like an idea, not something real, according to the Truth Leo describes, or is it something else? How does what you describe different than any other religious belief?

Why is it so important to separate the awareness that is me, from the ego inhibited in the same body?

Thank you for sharing this, I enjoyed both videos. There's one thing I don't understand though, about the "divine", why would it exist? Isn't that like god? Why am I a perspective of the universe? Couldn't I be just an awareness, isn't that the only thing that's real?