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@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.

@kieranperez i can relate to this. i used to imagine myself beating the shit outta people. the mental visualizations got really ugly. i felt so violent inside. i got over it by understanding that i was responsible for myself even when i was a little child. but i was too ignorant and vulnerable so i let too much shit in. as i grew up, i noticed that i really hated myself. the hatred was so big that it felt like i hated everyone around me. this is the key: you're responsible for yourself and you ALWAYS WERE and you ALWAYS WILL BE. the problem is not people. it doesn't matter what they do... it will always feel like they're doing whatever just to irritate you. but this is the true essence of the teachings of no-self/no-others: it's your fault. it may feel like you hate others, but you actually hate Life Itself. to be more precise, there isn't even an you to hate Life. there's just intense hatred being experienced. shut up. sit down, close your eyes and observe all that hatred. find it in your body. let go of its reasons and just stay with the emotional/physical sensation. this is important: let go of the reasons and just stay with the physical sensation. everytime you come up with a reason, you're feeding the hatred within you. feel it very deeply. make it very intimate. BECOME IT. and then you'll be free.

@egoless there you go keep it up until it starts to keep you up.

@The Monk go slowly. drop one bad habit and stay clean for at least 2 years. we come back to bad habits when we cannot connect deeply with the good ones. it takes time. the motivation is stronger if you understand that you're not doing it just for yourself. of course it's your life that will improve first, but by purifying ourselves we are building a better world as well.

no you haven't. you've never tasted freedom from future, otherwise you wouldn't be feeling the way you are right now. you have to learn how to love yourself regardless of the situation. nobody else will do it for you.

@K VIL the layer of lies usually contain a lot of things. that's why it's huge. the need to meet the expectations of the parents the need to hold the mask of the responsible human being when you're being responsible for a life that you don't really want the need to be admired by colleagues and professors the need to prove to someone else that you can do something when we act from those needs, we're fated to failure. and the kind of frustration that arises from lie-based failures can't be overcome by growth... only by stubbornness, which feeds the cycle of lies. when our motivation is genuine, we change drastically everytime we fail. we grow stronger and more brave. the fear of failure becomes smaller, not bigger.

@Joseph Maynor it is true. sleep dreams are just more instable. but the fabric of dreams is just as mystical as the fabric of what we call reality.