ajasatya

@egoless do it! less worries, lighter mind, healthier life!

taking good care of your physical/mental/emotional health. exercise, meditate and forgive.

@egoless your past looks like mine. i'm slowly letting go of "my achievements" and migrating to a simpler lifestyle like ernest gotsch's.

@Psyche_92 you haven't lost anything. in fact, you've never gained anything in the first place. live each day for its own sake.

@jhmarrio you cannot comprehend what thoughts are with more thoughts. the intellect cannot go further than this intrinsic limitation of logic/language. if you truly want to "comprehend" it, you'll have to find another way. and it CERTAINLY will require a huge leap of courage.

@Max_V practically speaking, it comes down to your way of dealing with daily/mundane tasks. do you experience lack of patience? are you attached to the fruits of your work? are you possessive on your relationships? do you allow addictions to ruin your goals? do you experience fear of failure?

@Visionary practical example: yoga teacher A works very hard but gets frustrated because he's not the best yoga teacher around yoga teacher B works very hard but he is detached from comparisons of any kind result: A faces hard emotional frustrations and is more prone to quit. B will just go with the flow and allow himself time to perfect the quality of his work. clarifying what i mean: when your goals are authentic, you are unstoppable.

@Visionary contemplate how you would feel if your goals were achieved but nobody noticed who you are. if your goals are authentic, you should be free from needs for external approval.

right now i'm an academic researcher (computer science/artificial intelligence)

this question cannot be answered with words. go look by yourself if you have enough courage to experience true Nothingness. hypothesizing is almost useless for it can only expand your curiosity for true (un)knowing.

@Berjohansen Reality is fundamentally mystical and groundless. it's the highest hallucination ever. enjoy the trip.

no. only the optional suffering is caused by an untrained mind. but the optional suffering corresponds to at least 95% of our suffering anyway. the other 5% are intrinsic to the nature of Life. we age, get sick and then we experience the process of dying.

@Lorcan do it!

this is truly beautiful.

i am not a thing experiencing Earth. i am a fraction of Earth experiencing what it is like to BE consciously. i haven't come to Earth and i ain't going nowhere.

@john5170 there are many enjoyable meditative practices to achieve a mindful lifestyle. these are the ones that i've incorporated in my life so i can have a huge variability of possibilities without overdoing any of them: zazen kin'hin silent contemplation hatha yoga bhakti yoga biodance ayahuasca trips

@The Monk notice the alignment of your health with the planet's health and you'll be fine. right now, the production of beef and its convenience for consumption are raping this beautiful planet. so are the extensive practices of mono-agriculture. this is one of the causes of our diseases as a whole Living Being. we become ill as earth becomes ill.

then drop your laziness and train your mind to be present and accept Reality just the way it is already. we grow out of the mud by cultivating the attitude of fixing our posture a bazillion times in a day. open your chest and watch your breath. self destructive thoughts will arise. then you observe them and fix your posture once more. walk with dignity throughout the day. allow the top of your head to touch the blue sky. there is no freedom without discipline.

this is why Truth is so devastating. not being here is actually impossible. welcome to Eternity.

@AlldayLoop if you can bear your ignorance about your true nature, go ahead. i couldn't.

@LaucherJunge the needier you are, the more "others" will reject you. this happens because, very intimately, you're already rejecting yourself.

@Pristinemn you've probably been consistently living bad habits everyday, without skipping a single one. that's why they stick. good or bad habits. destructive or constructive habits. it doesn't matter. make good use of your brain's neuroplasticity.

how can you be so sure? be more assertive and sincere. if you choose to move your arm, you can do it right now unless you're quadriplegic. still, you'd be able to blink your eyes and communicate with them. this will sound silly. to the ground. 10 pushups right now. do it. seriously. do it. you want distance from Truth because you can't take it yet. and you're right. become healthy and functional first.

to men: there is no friendzone. you're just too needy. to women: there are no assholes. you're just too needy.

no @Wouter, he is right. you think that there's a deeper issue, but this is the very issue itself: you heal overthinking by doing something that completely breaks your pattern. and the body is a straightforward key. the mind goes with the flow of your daily activities. become free of mind agitating tasks like porn addiction, masturbation addiction, video games, animes, loud music and become friends with Silence. listen to the naturally beautiful sound of your breath touching your throat. go watch the sea and listen to it. do something completely different and keep on breaking your patterns.