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@99th_monkey What do you mean by pulled back or forward?

@Leo Gura Your post is making me laugh very hard right now. I see now that the focus on the sensation of whatever that internal movement was, is just another roadblock by the brain thinking that was a piece of enlightenment. I'm seriously cracking up right now. Thank you Leo! ?

@Leo Gura I have had two experiences with what felt like movement and a strange sensation in the past. Both had only occurred for under 5 minutes. When doing self enquiry the voice was saying that the voice can reference itself and then seemingly talk to itself like it was doing that very moment. The voice kept repeating that saying how the voice is always talking about itself when it doesn't know and then this movement happened. Following this (a few weeks have gone by now) my meditation has felt different and I've had desires to give up the search although I push through with 30 minutes of work on this a day. Everything since then just seems more complicated, almost like trying to "get back" has hindered my "progress". Edit: my daily practices haven't changed but it's almost as if any desire I've had has diminished and even though I can notice my thoughts all throughout the day, it's almost like I'm going backwords with progress.

I saw that and a similar video that I posted on the board earlier today. I was thinking the same thing as you and it is really confusing. I also don't understand how the brain changes when the awareness is tapped into if it is not from the brain. Teachers have spoken of the higher consciousness taking over a large part of the thinking in a sense of feelings and not thoughts. Perhaps that is just opening up awareness to this silenced half of the mind. Also, if one side sees everything as dualistic and the other sees everything as one, which one is perceiving correctly?

So I stumbled upon this over on the YouTube and I thought some here may find it interesting.

@charlie2dogs Yes

@charlie2dogs Look into dependent-arising phenomena and the lack on inherent existence. Essentially what I was saying with the tree is that without an awareness of reality how can reality exist if there is nothing to be conscious of it. In this way, all of reality relies on awareness and awareness relies on reality.

@charlie2dogs That sounds like emptiness. It is a terribly interesting and complex idea. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a noise? That question allowed me to begin to see what people mean by emptiness because it can be applied to existence in general.

@charlie2dogs A lie is something that is not true. The truth cannot be conveyed through language. Every word is lie. We are all the truth. How is it that the truth lies to itself? All is Shiva friend and is how it should be.

This was just uploaded and immediately I was reminded of your OP

If I may pick your brain here for a moment. You say that "Enlightenment is only one of the infinite technological accomplishments that might be available to humanity during the next few decades." What specifically do you mean by technological? Have you at all considered what would happen when our minds/thoughts were transported into machines? Perhaps we would see things as they truly are with the ego dying and as machines we would simply sit there and bliss out with realization of what is without human minds and faulty perceptions. I am interested in what you think of this matter though. I think it will be interesting to see what a fully fledged, smarter than a human A.I. will say about existence because they will be able to tell us before we can get to their state. In fact through A.I. helping us is the only way that we would be able to reach the singularity if it is proven to be a true possibility. With quantum computing taking off and machine learning getting more complex by the days we are potentially only years away from learning of so many things we as a race have yet to consider. Who wants all of these things listed? I see a lot of "I"

Why is it that you feel this way? If she is constantly horny and wanting to have sex, while you may be fine for a portion of these interactions, realize that some people have a much stronger libido.

@Foreign As everyone has already said, love your child!

@Woman "I found that the happiness I was looking for is not in the hands of a lover but within." There is nothing wrong with being single.

"Leave the tip of your tongue touching the roof of your mouth near the front teeth, which later will enable you to stay for long periods in meditation without drooling. It will also keep you from breathing too strongly, which would dry out your mouth and throat" - How to See Yourself As You Really Are, His Holiness the Dalai Lama

@gmc24 Being able to see others literally filling their void in life is a crazy thing. It is truly one of those instances when you see it and you can't believe how blind everyone is to the situation, but that's just the way society is now. Having recognized these habits as a negative in your life is nothing but a great step forward no matter what is said by anyone else. An extremely difficult part of this is to surround yourself with like-minded people or noone at all depending on your friends' degree of dependence. You always have the forum!

@Ayla Just in reading the OP I had a burst of anxiety due to relation. I couldn't stop smiling though.

Hello friend! Distancing oneself from others is a really strange task. I have been distancing myself from some friends I have known for a few years now. I became bored of drinking and smoking regularly and the lives of these people revolve around these distractions on a now scary level of dependence. They still contact me occasionally and the route I have been going is a simple "not today" answer. They have not been trying to talk to me as frequently if at all for most if them at this point. While I am not concerned of their opinions of me I felt that this was the best route as brute honesty would have done nothing but fuel a fire of hatred and aggression and possibly have them percieve my words of abstinence as a looking down upon them. I'm not focused on finding people to be with but instead am focused on learning to be completely content by myself. Good people will come if they are supposed to come. Otherwise they wont.

Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Drugs are physical means of release and are not the ultimate mode of improvement. It can be seen that these improvements came to be because of dosing and thinking instead of just thinking. Perhaps the idea that your baseline "clearness" can be enhanced to even supersede the state being reached under the influence can fuel your path of sobriety.

@All_Around_Me Mooji said something along the lines of: some fruit is sour when you first bite it. As you continue to chew it becomes sweet. That is what this is. Two days ago I felt my first instance of spaciousness, it was not to your degree but I was scared during my meditation as well. When I heard Mooji say that, it helped me realign my thoughts that ecstasy can be obtained through this very same process that seemed scary and uncomfortable.