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Don't tell me you're my ex secretly pretending to be someone else on the internet ???

What do you mean? Like seeing a star in a meditation or through a telescope or what

Yes, I've been there, some things cannot be erased. There is one who takes in all the pain onto himself, so that the opposite can be in this universe. I used to be that one, existence of continuous pain, unable to escape, until another substitutes your position as the sacrifice. It has to be, or the balance is lost. The good cannot exist without the bad. Poor soul that is doing this job right now, so we can experience this blissful life. That one is the savior and that one doesn't get any credit at all. Simply because nobody knows of him, except him - all part of his hell.

I had an ex-coworker to whom I told that I've started meditating back in the day. She told me that meditation can be very harmful to people with mental illness. Also I heard somewhere that it is not healthy to deprive the brain too much, as this may cause someone to become mentally ill as well. Mind needs it's exercise and it's rest, we just need to find the middle ground.

The quote, sorry, not pic I must be seeing things. Does this mean im enlightened now? Pls pls pls approve

Tell them that it's like computer defragmentation. They'll come around. I see on my fb feed that some schools are incorporating meditation in place of detention, so the students are chilled out as fuck.

I didn't watch the video, because I was at work at the time. I was only referring to the pic below. Emerald knows her stuff.

Tbh, I ask myself the same question, but 2 years back I didn't even know what meditation is. I also wasn't suffering tho, I had not reached that stage of my life yet, so meditation found me when I was beginning to actually suffer 'sall good. (no time to suffer @ school and uni, suffering starts with adulthood )

Counter strike here I like this video

Sorry, if you want you can elaborate. If u got no time for that, isallgood mate

That's all fine and dandy, but what im saying here is that people who believe their belief is the truth, they will assert it with just as much conviction as you are asserting what you know to be truth. Notice that im not arguing with what you are saying, I am trying to show you why people might assert belief without needing to involve fear in the equation.

Also I want to metagame you and say: With this very comment you are asserting your view of the truth So you see how if someone believes that what they believe is the truth, they will assert it just like you are asserting your view of the truth. Btw your view of the truth and my view of the truth are the same, we're swimming in the same waters after all my brother Shin

What if someone else sees something else as true in addition to what you said. Like truth as a mathematical truth. Or scientific truth that if people learn would live better lives. Obviously Im not talking about the capital T Truth here.

@Shin What about the constant assertion of truth? Usually people believe that their belief is truth, and they assert it as such. It doesn't have to be fear, it could be simply that they don't know it's only a belief.

Forever to be watching a movie? I think I have the best seat in the house already, from which I'm also a part of the movie and watching it.

My post was not an answer, it was a buncha pixels on a screen ?

because mind wants concrete proof

Ofcourse no effort is made, that's the entire reason people always look for distractions. It is externalised awareness however, the sense of goodness of being is not being experienced if one is totally sucked in the doing. I myself enjoy watching movies or playing games, but sometimes I notice how I totally forget I am even alive. The goodness of being gone, because mind becomes completely externalised and absorbed by the stimulus and doing.

Every experience is equally infinite when seen from the absolute zero, the present moment

The Void would contain within it absolutely everything. That means the Void can be seen both as dark and empty and bright and full. In order to get to the Bright and Full, we need to see the Dark and Empty. Edit: In essence, to see the fullness of every experience one has to realize the empty nature of all experience.

I am not describing the void. If it is not clear, I already told you that emptiness, void, zero, etc are pointers. I know they are concepts. But what do they all point to? I say they point to who you are. How far in are you with your self enquiry? If you want results, you have to go for it. Void = Absence of anything Zero = Absence of anything Zeroth Dimension = Absence of anything Emptiness = Absence of anything Void = Zero = Zeroth Dimension = Emptiness = Pointers. Your true self =? Absence of anything If "Your true self" = Something, this is the current boat - This already we know is what is commonly called Ego. Therefore "Your True Self" = Void = Zero = Zeroth Dimension = Emptiness = Absence of anything. These are still just pointers, but that doesn't make the equation between them wrong. Non of them are IT. Only You are it. Go self enquire and find it out for yourself. Please don't be allergic to pointers and maths. Void, Zero, Zeroth Dimension, Emptiness, Absence of anything - They are ALL pointers, what do they point to? I say they point a finger directly at YOU.

Zero is also, in it's actual nature the absence of anything. What's your point, really? Just because we have a symbol for it, doesn't mean you are seeing zero or that it exists. 0 means the absence of anything, that's EXACTLY what it points to. Why are you against the pointer Zero and you are all for the pointer Void. You yourself mentioned that "the word void is still too much for it", this is absolutely obvious to me and everyone on the spiritual path. We know what pointers are. I don't understand how you got rep for your comment, it's obvious wtf moment from you, sorry Soul.

Don't you understand that you've never seen Zero? It Is the void, it is emptiness, all these words point to the same thing. They are synonymous. All words are pointers here as you might have guessed. Not my fault that your conditioning has made 0 into a concept for something trivial and void for something non-trivial. Did you watch the video?

Now, about this (I have copied a link with time stamp I want to talk about) I hope nobody on here gets doubts in Leo's words here. What he is talking about is literally finding less than a needle in a haystack, so for the rationalising mind it is going to sound fantastical and impossible of course. This Truth with a capital T cannot be perceived by the 5 senses, because the 5 senses originate and report to the one who can perceive this Truth, because the very one that can perceive this Truth is this Truth, it is You and it is the thing that is less than a needle in a haystack. You wouldn't be able to find this Truth if you weren't this Truth. That's how tiny it is. It is the null dimension. The haystack is all the delusion.

I laughed more at this intro than people claim to laugh at time of awakening