Dodo

thats probably because you expect your twin flame to satisfy you, but it is there to awaken you.

I've also experienced strong heartbreak due to my 4-year girlfriend cheating on me with my university tutor. I understand man, its normal. But we live and we learn - and sometimes we do not see that perhaps we were also not so saintly and we deserved all that crap... Life is teaching us lessons and so there is always some magic in store... If we are open to it. Bro some girls are worth all the pain.... There are also those who get you on the right path... There are so many ways a twin flame can make your life better and that doesnt necessarily mean they will be with you. Only one touch with your flame is enough and your fire is refreshed. Its metaphorical, but it is so true as well. <3 This past month I have completely changed, seriously. This girl that the thread is about has completely turned my life and made me find the missing pieces to my spiritual practice. It's like God communicates and sends me events, people and situations to guide me. Seriously mad shit bro.

I attended without knowing. Seems legit

Yeah don't oversimplify. That's from the ultimate perspective. In the relative perspective you and me are humans on Earth and there are girls ? and there are guys. Evolve out of this nondual nazi attitude. It's not what nonduality is about. I am the same as you sometimes, but we have to be able to see the relative and appreciate it. The illusion is borrowing reality from the ultimate, but while borrowing that reality it is also true. Dont throw the Yang to your Ying.

I would say - All perspectives appear to the same self. I would tell them: "Yes and No both appear to You. You can verify you are real, you cannot verify the perspective is real. " Then the rationalist might say: " But there are some perspectives that can be proven - such as truths about the physical reality, matter etc" Then I would respond " These things are proven, but only based on assumptions that were themselves not proven. So the foundation of those physical truths lies on shaky ground. If you use one illusory thing to prove that another illusory thing is real and true, you are making a fundamental mistake. You have to start from something that you know is true, and build on that foundation."

The path of selfless action and the path of knowledge are the same thing. The Bhagavad Gita is written for situations like yours. That's exactly why it's written as a discussion between Krishna and Arjuna (a warrior who is about to fight a great war - your work) . The Bhagavad Gita is exactly spirituality for those who are in the world and have duties to perform. It's not for people who want to renounce everything and live in a cave. It's to show what right action is - action which is detached from the fruits, selfless action, conscious action - flowing action... So if you are 100% working and have no time to "go deep spiritually" you are actually performing selfless service and are 100% going deep. Stay true to yourself. Here's an excerpt:

ok well you didnt know there are nondual police around here? bruhman...

Well what if I told you Im not clinging to a perspective. Im talking in clear nonduality. Perspective comes in duality. That in which the perspective appears is the Absolute. And That Absolute is formless. And the form within it is imaginary. Illusory content. Real packaging. When you merge Real packaging and Illusory content you get: the appearance of Real Content - Because the real merges with the unreal content making it appear real. It's not a perspective, it's basically What Is. If you can see how clear it is. It's so simple. No awakening of the person is needed, because as you say the person is/was/always will be content and not That within which content appears.... Soooooo You are NOT waking up after all. The No-you (no self) is awake, in other words, you are not awake. There is YOU and then there is the APPEARANCE OF YOU WITHIN YOU. Its the appearance here talking to the appearance there. It's Dodo talking to "Someone here". Don't be ridiculous thinking its emptiness talking with emptiness. It's content talking with content about content and through content. The Real, no-self has no need to talk with itself. The No-self is already perfect and needs no change. Needs not to express any truth. It is the Truth within which all relative lies and truths exist. And those relative ones is Me and You. That's why you are able to even have an account on this forum. The Awareness does not have hands and it is not able to have a forum account. That's only something an illusion/something relative can have. Trust me, Awareness/God LOVES the human experience. Why else would there be so many of us.

Yeah but if you apply that what you're saying then why are you even saying it. You are implying you are correct by saying it ? why don't you transcend your own opinion. It's not how i imagine it is- it is as it is.

Don't be allergic to words like Should. Also you are saying Im imagining this and at the same time telling me there is no mind here to be imagining. Bro you are confused. Let that go and ommmm. Read some Bhagavad Gita, do some Brahmacharya. We need more wisdom. I've had the cocky attitude you present. It's easy when we get identified with the Noself to speak as Noself. But we must remember that we are speaking as a dream character not as the Noself beyond the dream who is imagining all this. The difference between you right now that I'm speaking with and the real you (God) is the same vast difference as the dream character at night and you ( God) But when i am talking to the character there on the other side of the monitor I am not talking to the one dreaming this, it's a character talking to a character. You are not God as the character so let it go. Be human and marinate in the Noself but stop claiming awakening. It's getting ridiculous! The ego is very sneaky. Now you tell me that im imagining the ego, that there is no ego to be tricky, but the me that is imagining is either the Ego (so you're wrong that it doesn't exist) or its God imagining (so if its God why are you against God's will?) Yes I am saying there are two yous. One is formless but real, the other is with form and illusory. These two selves dance in harmonY. Both are complementing each other perfectly. Perfect nonduality with no confusion. Don't throw your inner child with the bathwater.

Bro we should be on our knees right now praying to the Eternal Self. Not being arrogant and trying to claim the Ultimate truth for our own personal truth and tell people that we are awakening. Nope! As you say the mind doesnt exist but it is imagining. Well which one is it. It appears that you are a bit confused and thats ok! Because you are the small mind also, that appears inside God. Accept you are not the Absolute as a form identity. Now let's stop saying lies about being awakened and stuff! Awakeness is awake. I am awake. But not as anyone. Not as Dodo. You are not awake as the person typing. The person typing should lower his arrogance and start praying to the Self. We borrow our existence from the great Nameless. Trust me, you want to be a human. Otherwise you wouldn't be imagining it. When I find out I'm dreaming at night, I am interested in the dream, I don't want to remove it, just because its not real. And thats sort of what you are trying to say but I can feel that you are just well versed in these things and that you're still deluding yourself a little bit. Not to sound like I am higher and holier. I am not, we are one reality, we are one illusion. But let's be real, we are the illusion. The reality is God and that cannot be claimed as a personal Self, because the personal Self is in it also.

yeah. What if I told you your mind has not stopped, it is still operating fully and is now creating a persona around how awakened it is. Ego on steroids . Trully awakened means you know you are the Absolute, now is that body that appears to be typing on a PC claiming to be that Ultimate eternal one? Be honest.... Be HONEST with yourself, not with me. Is the human claiming to be the Eternal Self beyond form??? If not, then who is the "awakened" one - the eternal self or the human self?

Krishna is the real deal. Haha! This is like fighting with pokemons. Who's Sri will win? Ultimately there is only One x) <3 <3 <3

you speak the truth but still you are not waking up you are always awake. If you dont take yourself to be the appearances, but that space you are so masterfully referring to, then you are not waking up. On second read, you are saying something wrong imo.. The state of nothingness is the same as the state of empty awareness. It's not awareness happening in nothingness. There is no such thing beyond awareness. In deep sleep this is what it's like to be empty awareness, without objects. It's not the experience of nothingness without awareness. If you were not aware, how do you know you were in deep sleep? Bro stop doing this here, you aint waking up nobody ever wakes up. If truth is found you will know you're not waking up. The Truth is impersonal. Stop grasping

oh yeah I watched this interview few weeks ago. It's really good.

Well the version I have has like 50 pages of introduction and then a separate introduction before each chapter. So it makes it much easier to understand, rather than having to decipher it yourself.

I would urge you to read the Bhagavad Gita. It will help you out a lot imo. Here's a snippet. So here is said that action is not a problem on this path, as long as one is detatched from the fruit of that action. Selfless action gets us closer to liberation than selfish inaction. But I can relate deeply with what you're saying because I too was a programmer and i just couldn't take being in my head so much. And it didn't feel like my life purpose. It feels mechanical and dead to me. But just like Arjuna had to fight the war he didn't really want to fight, so too maybe I have made a selfish decision to not continue with programming. Maybe.

Thank you so much for this, I can't wait to have some progress with Kundalini. Although I am not the most eager for it, tho I hear good things. And bad ones. My chakras are mostly locked up I would assume due to addictions, but on the path of clearing now and brahmacharya, so it might be coming. But I am aware that this is not what "I" am looking for, ultimately. <3 love and light Oh, and the soundtracks are magical.

It's been said above, but yeah, for me a cushion works. Now if you want to be sure you remain with a straight back, just meditate next to the wall and put a cushion between your back and the wall and then lean back. But also I think this problem is similar to the one where people start thinking during meditation and completely stop being present because they go on many tangents.. Then they must notice this and return to breath or other thing that centers them in the now. Gently and lovingly so. SO do the same with your back. You may try to not lose awareness of your back during meditation and use that posture as the thing that centers you to this moment. That way if you slouch without noticing, you will know that you've become distracted. It's just something your body is used to and the more you get it out of that conditioned pattern the better.

Holy shit I can relate. Unfortunately I wont disclose what happened, cause one- it will be too long and two - its just too long, many small things glued together. Nobody else will understand through reading is what I mean,has to be experienced. Hehe you can probably relate to this also.

This is deep. I resonate with this. Thanks, as an advaitan and semi versed in the great dao, I see no fault with what you're saying

Ok I think I am preaching to the choir, I feel you're way ahead of me on this one and I look like a fool trying to force-teach his "theory" lmao soz I know how I would feel if someone started teaching me something I already know It's one of the worst.

yeah lol, there's nothing crazier than this life

But the Self is Here, there is nothing other than the formless Self right now. There is an object that APPEARS to be you, doing things in an apparent world. Both the character and the world are witnessed by the Self. All of the states are objects to the Self. The Self is the container, the prerequisite for anything to be there and be known. But it itself can never be known, it can only be "beinged". A good contemplation to see what I mean is to inspect your experience during a dream at night and to see how easily you can be fooled into believing that you are a different character - the character in your dream is different to your waking character. Both of which are not you. You are that which knows the states of Dreaming and Waking. You are that which remains in deep sleep when all objects are gone. Don't underestimate nothingness - it's not really nothing in the sense that it is not there, it's God, it is everything.