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My bad! Unsweetened is Acti leaf

I hate the almond Alpro however I started using the unsweetened and original types and have never looked back!

I'm on about week 3 of starting my meditation and today I feel I had an out of body experience which made me feel uncomfortable. Has this happened to anyone else?

I'm in this exact same position. I think it helps explain a lot.

Have your meditation sessions improved since you started?

Leo says something along the lines of : everything is infinite, reality is infinite, it's all one thing but what is it? You know it's never gonna be possible to know. Would that not just be objective reality, we don't know how life and the big bang etc were created but we just accept that everything is just as it is? (Self deception)

I'm having a slight brain melt down here. If you can follow and understand me please offer your thoughts. Am I asking you all to communicate the incommunicable experience that is enlightenment itself? If enlightenment is the destruction of the ego and 'realisation' that oneself is not a separate entity and is actually everything/nothingness/infinity then what are we doing living these 'lives' with these crazy egos. It seems the purpose of everything is to know that we are everything? Or in other words... If we all are this void/infinity/nothingness. What am I just now with this ego? Am I still the infinity? This is possibly the hardest thing I have ever tried to communicate to someone else.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. As a person, who's highest held beliefs are in loyalty and family is faced with this, it is heartbreaking to hear. More than heartbreaking, world shattering. I lose sense of everything I hold dear. You could say it's contradictory but solitude is commonplace for me. I endure it the majority of the time and enjoy it. I understand everyone has their lives to live. However, this solitude that I experience daily is nothing compared to the solitude that makes my heart sink when I know that I will experience death alone without my family and friends. To think that I will one day live in a world where my family and friends have passed away and I will never be with them again is the most incomprehensible, incommunicable experience that is. I constantly see people who are on their journeys of self actualisation as expressing death as the ultimate liberation meaning the end of suffering, unlimited freedom, unlimited choices, and eternal bliss. This brings me no comfort to hear this. Maybe I simply do not truly comprehend this definition. However, I would like to ask: Will the journey to self actualisation, as soul destroying it is to say, allow me to accept the eventuality of being without everyone and everything that I believe makes up my reality. I would love to hear all of your thoughts, opinions and experiences surrounding this 'topic'. In the end, probably to give me peace of mind and feed my ego.

@jimrich I am sorry to hear about this Jim but at the same time thank you for sharing. I am realising the reason for self actualisation bit by bit.

I better start practising then.

QUOTED BY USER SHANMUGAM "This is the result of trying to philosophizing too much... You are awareness but you are not the concept of awareness.. Anything that you think about awareness is a concept, and that concept is not you. And if you notice anything that seems like anything, it is not you either. Don't try to twist your head to look at your own eyes, you will end up mistaking something that you see for your eyes.. Anything that you see with your eyes cannot be your eyes. Any word to define who you really are is not the right word.. People have chosen the words awareness or nothingness because they are close in pointing out what it is.." I think this helps me understand things.

@Leo Gura Thank you very much for taking the time to reply with such a detailed description Leo. I appreciate it! I understand I need to experience this for myself. No one can validate it for me.

Ambient track. Solitude in nature.

I am on course to finish to my degree by April 2017. Now would be a great time for me to think about career opportunities and where they will lead me. However, the problem I am having is that I have no interest in pursuing a career in the field that I have studied. Even more, I don't have any direction in life after I finish. During my time of studying I have been saving money. The only thing that is driving me on is my yearning to travel and discover new things outside of my way of life. I feel like I could finally find something that I could do to contribute to this world if I traveled away from here. I want to ask anyone if they ever took the step and went on an adventure, if it changed you?

"Happiness = 1/ego." Having heard Leo talk about this before I want to ask others if they remember a moment in their lives when they experienced pure happiness (ego = 0) and why they think it happened?

21 years old! It's surprising to see as much people my age and even younger.