Shaun

If suffering is a misconception, is the same also true about peace, joy and other pleasureable sensations?

I went on a 4 day camping trip and loved it. On arriving home, I was basically curled up on the floor overwhelmed with misery, mainly due to the experience being over and coming back to my usual mundane life. I find it almost impossible to cope with the impermanence aspect of reality. The misery it causes me is utterly immense and I find it impossible to hold space and presence for now. I don't have any way to cope with it. I just want experience to end before I go totally insane.

Again, so many people here claiming to be god. There can only be one, so who is it?

I was thinking about this at work today actually, while the numbers 66 and 666 kept showing up on nearly everything I handled. As you said, I think it's inter related. Reality can affect one's attitude but one's attitude can also affect reality.

It is often said that our attitude and mindset shapes our reality. How is this so? Is it not the other way around?

The Tesla model S is sexuality.

How can it be animating every cell in my body? Brains do not exist, remember? Also, other humans do not exist either.

My strategy is to not do it until the desparation overwhelms me. This usually takes 5 weeks.

Honestly, I am just sick of all the hassle to work on myself to eventually attain full enlightenment or nirvana just to fragment myself again and start the cycle of misery all over again from the beginning ad infinitum.

Hello all, I live in Scotland and have never encountered a woman who is interested in spirituality, mindfulness or meditation. I value these traits above all else because I feel that they are very important, especially for creating a really meaningful connection with someone as opposed to the average relationships I observe where people tend to shout and swear at each other and don't seem to connect at a deeper level. I have tried a spiritual dating site and there were no users in Scotland. I've also tried mainstream dating sites too such as Tinder and Plenty of Fish and on my profile I explained that I was interested in the things mentioned above. No matches there either apart from a small amount of women just wanting a shag, but I wasn't on the site for that. I don't consider myself a particularly ugly person, maybe 5/10 usually and 6/10 on a good day. I am really in a state of confusion here. Should I drop these requirements completely and just go with someone who maybe just likes nature and photography and maybe I can introduce them to all of this stuff?

The way I see it, nonbeing isn't possible. There can be only existence as consciousness can't be destroyed. I totally agree with you though. I don't want to come back ever again either because the whole thing is a silly farce and I wish it would just stop forever. God is so damn stupid. it has all this power and then limits itself into a wage slave called Shaun and lives a shitty life. Just stop.

I just pictured the following scenario. I get into a relationship with someone I like, she catches me meditating one day, thinks it's a load of shite, calls me crazy and walks out. Or, she just will simply not understand and we won't really connect properly. I would like to avoid that if possible. I must admit that I'm lost and confused in life at the moment with no idea what I want anymore and I don't properly understand relationships either. My last one was in 2006.

If it was so obvious, I would have understood.

Read some Rupert Spira. Yes, you and them are all dream stuff but that does not mean that they aren't having their own unique experiences like you.

What do you mean?

I find this story tragic. Reality really is an infinite torture chamber.

Good, I'll do that for eternity.

Surely I can just go totally empty without experience then.

I hugely appreciate this, thank you. I will definitely keep the meditation going. That and listening to Channel Higher Self is really relaxing. Those three urgent issues will be written down and taken to my meeting with the mental health nurse as my mind may go a bit blank. To be honest, I find reality terrifying at times. I don't know what the fuck it wants from me or what will happen in future lives.

I just bought it just now. Should be a good read.

Because if I'm really alone here, there is no point in reality and as such I would much rather destroy myself and stop dreaming up all of this stupid shit. Today I had to watch my dog being euthanised, I'd rather just access my full power and shut the whole thing down as it's totally out of control.

Sound advice, thank you. I'm definitely not after a 10/10 woman as I'm not a 10/10 guy. I will be taking action soon to get my head sorted out after taking in too much nonduality teachings from Leo and then I will try and get out a bit more.

That's my intention. I can't be arsed chasing after women who I have to dumb myself down for.

No, you're not being an asshole, it's a valid perspective based on how it looks from the outside. I read into some of those threads and there is a guy there who didn't even bother with pickup and ended up in a happy relationship. All the stuff I have learned about nonduality over the past few months has damaged me probably beyond repair for the rest of my life. I don't have the creativity or drive any more for a life purpose. The best I can come up with is winning the lottery or installing/servicing electric vehicle charge points. I am going to get the proper help for these issues but I just keep getting haunted by the idea that reality is just an illusion of my making and i'm totally alone. That's the general consensus here anyway.