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I personally wouldn’t get too excited about that, at least from my own experience. Perhaps I simply was not ready to experience that yet.

I have the opposite issue. I struggle with losing weight and have difficulty gaining weight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m at this stage right now. Why is this deeper suffering necessary? Love? I find myself connecting to others who seem to also suffering. Edit: Thank you @Moksha for this reply from another thread. It answers my above question:

Ah, yes. This is the a core skill I’m working on in therapy. I’m working on living my life while being mindful when intrusive thoughts and judgements arise; not getting hooked by their stories.

Yes - to be fair I’ve only followed Neo-Advaita teachers. It‘a frustrating, because whenever a student would ask the guru for help and tell them about their personal struggles, the guru immediately is like, “nah don’t focus on that, that’s coming from the mind, blah blah blah. Empty yourself from that”. How does that help anybody?

I’m starting to realize little by little that we ultimately create the meaning for our lives. In the beginning, we let others dictate that for us. Eventually you’ll get tired of that and you’ll discover a deeper power within yourself. Edit: also, if it makes you feel any better, I’ve lived with all kinds of physical and mental problems, yet I’m still here. No doctor will be able to explain that comprehensively; it’s a miracle.

Haha, love it!

Nice, I love music! Very inspiring that you put yourself out there

Nice try, I’m allergic to Snickers

I’ve had experiences (unplanned) where I’ve directly realized that death is imaginary. I’ll also be literally talking to someone or seeing someone move through a room and realize that they are me. It’s very frustrating that that’s not my default position in life; that these experiences are so rare. If someone can enlighten me on why that is, I’d love to know.

It was a necessary trap to have gone through I think, based on my life circumstances. I was born into a Roman Catholic upbringing, but left religion at 14. Nonduality filled the void from 16-25. I won’t even get into how difficult it was to leave my extended family members a few years ago (I still speak with my immediately family since they are more open-minded). Now I’ve been building my life these past few years (I’m 26 now). Ketamine and cannabis helped open up that possibility. I’ve made lots of progress with my relationships and learning to live independently; I’ve also had to face fear head on many times (I still will, of course). I’ve still got a looooong ways to go, but I’m in a much better place than I was before. — Thank you all for the guidance, I’ll contemplate what is being said. I’m excited for this new chapter of my life. If you’d ask me to question nonduality just a year ago, I would have thought you were foolish. Little did I know that I’m the fool. And I pity the fool

One of my most profound experiences a couple years ago… it literally felt like I felt the pain of millions of people all at once. It was an extremely painful, but also amazing experience of my life.

What would we all be doing if we never heard about enlightenment?

The downside is this: “GPT-4 currently has a cap of 25 messages every 3 hours. Expect significantly lower caps, as we adjust for demand”. GPTPlus still has other benefits, though. - Available even when demand is high - Faster response speed - Priority access to new features I hope that the GPT-4 cap goes away soon.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/africa/uganda-lgbtq-law-passes-intl/index.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/21/bill-gates-openai-gpt-most-important-advance-in-technology-since-1980.html ”Bill Gates says OpenAI’s GPT is the most important advance in technology since 1980”

An insight I had today. It’s amazing when you follow your intuition and not just listen to teachers or professionals without question. Even they have blind spots that you are able to see (and vice versa). Great teachers will provoke you to doubt yourself not because you are entirely wrong. It’s so that the opportunity for something even better can present itself - something both you and the teacher would not have been able to discover otherwise. Of course, if you’re closed to feedback it’ll perpetuate the suffering you experience and keep you stuck. However, being open does not mean allowing anyone to dictate how you should live your life. It’s about being able to take another’s perspective and seeing how it fits in with your own life, like puzzle pieces fitting together perfectly. And, ultimately, only you can determine when and how these pieces fit. Has anyone else experienced this? What great teachers have you had in your life?

These past couple weeks have unfolded better than any movie I’ve ever seen. Who is the director? The screenwriters? The actors? I’d love to thank all of them

OCD is scary, in that it’s a bully that you cannot physically see.

Leo’s blog post from today does a great job expanding on this idea of suffering: https://www.actualized.org/insights/what-is-empathy

Agree. I’ve had experienced where I was communicating with my mom and dad, but they were no longer separate from me. It became profoundly obvious that they are me.

A few weeks ago (as some of you might know), I was in a car accident; no major injuries. I was going 35 mph during that crash. Last night, I did some contemplation after I took cannabis. What happened about an hour later was fascinating. I imagined myself in another car crash - this time crashing while I was driving at a much faster speed. This experience felt as real as real gets. It was extremely frightening, yet immediately after the crash I imagined a game of Super Mario Kart on the SNES with my character spinning out of control (like what happens when you run over the bananas). The Pac-Man death sound effect played in sync. Imagination is fascinating.

@r0ckyreed haha! You know, I was really obsessed with Rocky as a teen. That whole series got me through really tough times. At a Thanksgiving dinner, my parents mentioned the Rocky steps and how it inspired a lot of people. My uncle was like, “Who cares? Rocky is just an imaginary character.” That comment really tore me apart inside, yet I pretended like I didn’t care and I said nothing. 10 years later that comment has a different meaning for me. I’m starting to see that not only is Rocky imaginary, but also my uncle.