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Damn, I was going to post this! But, seriously, OP stop giving in to your every wim or you won't get far. Fake it until you make it! This means act "as if" you aren't needy and clinging. Don't give in to these insecurities and get a hobby to occupy your time, so a GF isn't your "everything" or she will run away from you.

Hehe, happens to the best of us, it's okay Humor is a good!

@Beginner Mind Yes, ok, I made an edit to my post. You must not have seen it.

He wasn't booted, he left. He wasn't banned I mean. At least, in his last post he said he was leaving. Edit: I just went back to read the exchange, guess the disagreement was such that he really couldn't have stuck around.

Oh no, what's that supposed to mean? Hope it's not what it sounds like.... Hey, I'm game for some hot tubbing and salsa dancing... well, I don't know how to salsa dance, you will have to lead. https://tenor.com/view/dancing-dog-gif-3985063

Hahaha! Gurrllll, yes, love em' ?

@Beginner Mind You're welcome

Hi @Beginner Mind, I'd advise you to not put it in your profile, once you are chatting with someone and if they already like you, then bring it up, if you still want too. Give yourself a chance first though, putting it in the profile would be like shooting yourself in the foot. Ppl are more apt to be understanding once they already like you/are interested in you. It won't be dishonest not to say that upfront, that's personal information and one isn't privy to that sorta info, until they earn the right to be...or that's my opinion.?

"Now" is all there ever is. When ppl refer to "no time", they are referring to the "psychological sense of time" that we create in our minds. We imagine the past (show me the past right now?) and imagine a future. We do this to solidify ourselves (small self, little me) in the mind as a separate entity.

Thanks and your welcome!

?❤? Awesome!

Contracted awareness, as the finite body, dissolves. The finite mind disperses, then awareness is aware of just infinite awareness. At some point, awareness may once again "contract" into a finite mind ( some may say even "aspects" of the same mind), then it imagines a finite body and an illusion of a person is born once again.

No, you keep your human-ness. Perhaps you generally won't have fear, but yes, you can still have it. You can have any feeling, thought or emotion as you did prior to Self-realization. You just know its something that comes and goes, so can not be your true nature, awareness.

Well said, @Serotoninluv ?

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So did Ramana Maharshi during his lifetime, as well as the men in his ashram.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that you have benefited from any of the #66 posts in this thread. So, I'm going to lock it now.

I agree. If Im upset about something and don't yet want to let it go (ie, I'm not done being pissed!), it takes so much thought and effort to keep it up, lol. As soon as I relax into the moment...whoosh, it's gone. @yangmilun Maybe stop telling yourself that you are lazy, unless of course, you aren't done holding onto that belief yet.

@Schahin This is the video. ^^^ I like this one ^^^ also.

I've linked it for ppl before, several times actually, it never has had the same effect for them and the sound quality isn't good on it either, but I'll look for it on youtube. I don't have it saved.

Yup! My first awakening was during a video when the guru was doing self-inquiry with a man. Leading him step by step through her own process and she got to the mind blowing part... and wow. ....There was no-mind here... just gone. When it came back, it was like-"whhaaaatttttt just happened"...lololol.

I can't function without appt reminder cards, a calendar, to do list and most important....post-it notes...love em'

Hello, My comment you quoted was meant to be more of practical advice for the poster, not only because of what he said here, but another thread he had started. My response more so about the video is here- Maybe you missed it. ?

You already are and what you are calling "I" here is just an appearance in you. The real "I", is you as your true nature, awareness/consciousness. As awareness you dont need a mind to know yourself or know that you are aware, but you do need a mind and body to experience. Experience is intimate to the experiencer, hence why you can't experience through multiple ppl, it's just not set up that way.