ajasatya

Truth was not and will never be false in any sense. breathing from the depths of the heart is enough...

i'm not saying that you should describe it. please, do not! that's the mistake of religious people! i'm saying that you can completely let go of it as well

you talk about "Me" as if it's something frozen, permanent and separated from "material/ordinary" reality. watch a sunflower follow the sun!

nah, i'm just teasing you. dude, we're existence experiencing individuality. embrace it . if you've already seen enough, there's no reason to be attached to the absolute perspective and the nondualish language. relax i am saying this because it is directly related to your question. there's nothing wrong with embracing humanity and living a great human experience with an awesome job and building a loving family. the difference is that we don't seek from the place of discontentment, but from the place of exuberance!

@Patrick Lynam find the most boring place ever, where there's nothing much to do except for sitting and contemplating all day long.

omg you've forgotten how to speak properly

then show me a picture of tomorrow.

show me a picture of what you're scared of.

what's the root of loneliness? there's nothing but existence anyways. the Universe is "lonely" because it's all that exists. it's ONE.

you're still describing the process. give up and be free.

you're joking right? every awakening story that i've ever heard is extemely destructive.

@Shin when it happens, stand up, open your arms and your chest and then think of a big "YES, THANK YOU".

take a deep breath and exhale slowly

they're lying. they're too addicted to the easy way out of anxiety. growing up is a lot harder than ditching cigars.

@Michael569 chemical dependence is something else. smokers use cigarettes to relief anxiety.

@ShaharA because it's addictive. everyone that i know that start to drink coffee regularly report headaches when they skip it.

@Kazman you can organize small wins in a way that leads to a huge long-term win.

@Manjushri you need some deeper and more integral way of practice. you think you are practicing meditation but you're just diving into more mental struggles (i am god etc). work on your body strength and flexibility (asanas). work on your breathing capacity and efficiency (pranayamas). work on your way of speaking and acting more gently and gracefully (yamas and niyamas). make it a long term commitment (5+ years). here, see how you can integrate the first 4 steps of yoga in your life.

deep down, everyone is super crazy. but the vast majority of people are scared of themselves.

if there are no experiments to confirm the theory, it's just dogma/pseudo-science.

i was talking to @Aakash about it a few days ago. personally, i like to mix the buddhist noble eight-fold path and the 8 limbs of yoga (pay close attention to the yamas and the niyamas).

for sure. but you have to deeply inquire every single item of the list. it has to be very clear to you whether it's a healthy principle to follow or a toxic principle to follow. and it has to be even clearer why it's healthy or toxic. be very careful here because attached minds might deceive themselves into thinking that healthy is toxic or vice-versa.

no, that's what i said. there are many ethical codes. buddhism has its own and so does christianism and yoga. an example of self-punishment is staying on your knees for several hours, enduring pain for no reason.

how come what i mean? which part didn't you understand?