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@Cody_Atzori If you want to put all your ducks in a row from the get-go as far as your life purpose goes without wasting lots of time and money on random resources out there, the Life Purpose Course would be your best bet. It's a compilation of just about everything you'd need to know in order to move forward in life confidently to get where you want to be. It gives you a step-by-step direction and encourages/inspires you to push through hurdles and setbacks that will inevitably come up on your journey. You'll be also engaged in self-exploration and self-actualization. It's a wonderful and practical tool. So, I'd say start saving money to buy one.

@Mu_ I agree, reality is not moralistic and there is no shame/blame in Being. Thanks for another great video

And the post spiritual practitioners know they embody enlightenment I have faith in you

Sounds like @Aakash needs some good loving here And no, you don't have to have the goods either or be any particular way. God is love and you are God

Authentic love is unconditional agape love. It's the very essence of Being.

'I' Loves 'You'

@Psyche_92 Could be a couple of things - you see them as 'fake', it triggers your own feminine, the 'mother' issues.

@Aldo I love to go out in nature, meditate, exercise, do my art, and hang out with my dog. These activities don't require much thinking - perfect escapism from the mind

Some happy hippy music for you. They live, they laugh, they love @zeroISinfinity

@Diane It's nice to have your presence on this forum. You're an inspiration Hugs

This topic bears no relevance to self-actualizing. Please focus on the issues at hand.

@Neorez Direct experience puts you in the here in the now and it allows you to be in the present moment. Whether you're investigating the Relative or the Absolute, it can be used for both. However, the Relative being the illusion, direct experience can be rendered false from the Absolute perspective. You can look at the pipe and still attach labels to it as being an object, heavy/light, big/small, brown/black, etc. This is your direct experience of the 'pipe' from the Relative perspective. But you can also see the same 'pipe' as manifestation of the formless. And in that case all the previous labels would fall away and all you have is just what is, pure Being. "This is not a pipe" - Rene Magritte

Locking this. MGTOW has been discussed in the Relationship sub-forum.

@fridjonk That's a great advice

@Peo Keep experimenting to see what works for you. There is no one blanket formula for everyone.

@Pouya That's what Jim Carey talks about as an actor who has played/changed many roles. He was even the leading actor in the movie The Mask. He WAS the mask haha Well, now after having awoken, he seems to be done with silly roles, masks, and all those fake identities. Even the 'Jim Carey' persona has been dropped. Love that man

You need ego for survival, it's connected to your subconscious mind. And also it was designed to lean more about contrast, without contrast we would never know about Oneness.

There is such thing as conscious dying, though.

You don't have to destroy the ego, it has got you this far. Integrate it in a healthy way and use it as tool

Yeah a strange loop mindfuck

@Aakash No, you don't have to stop posting, just work on the shadows and integrate

Haha From fucking the world to fucking oneself... significant evolution in consciousness

Those who've had a glance into the Absolute or are enlightened and have awareness of the illusory nature of the false self, and yet go on to unleash the ego. Like a self-realized Buddhist monk who would molest a younger student, for example. Or in your case, would inflate the ego with a sense of superiority/importance. Cultivating love and compassion and deepening awareness are ways to counter one's Zen devilry. Any self-realized is capable of being a Zen devil.

No, they are just devils. Only the awakened can be true Zen devils.