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 "Before you can learn a new way of doing things, you have to unlearn the old way. So beginnings depend on endings."

-- Rick Maurer

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The one thing that becomes so apparent after you turn 70, is just how short and fragile your precious life is.

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 retirees greatest concern is financial, not the amount of money, but of running out before passing on

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A woman wrote in a financial guide there are three stages of retirement:

1. Go-go years: travel, move, do all the things you never had time/money for

2. Slow-go years: travel to see grandkids, mostly county bound

3. No-go years: homebound.

My wife and I were in stage 2, until covid came along, now we are in three. Each phase lasts 10 years IMHO. Al

Update: Never take a mortgage into retirement, many things can happen and most are bad. My two cents.

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To retire, keep debt way down before retirement

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If the world is just a projection of the mind, why then does the world still appear when the mind is silent?

To answer this question, we have to radically invert how we understand reality.

We think our experiences are produced by the brain, a view called materialism.

In Advaita Vedanta, fluctuations in consciousness cause our world, and our sense of existing inside it.

According to Advaita, the world doesn't exist in deep sleep.

In the materialist view, deep sleep is the rest-state of the physical body.

The body isn't conscious then, but still exists, snoring away.

If we understand consciousness to be primary, deep sleep is the return to reality.

Reality is pure consciousness, without any fluctuations.

Why doesn’t going to bed seem like a metaphysical leap?

Because when you’re dreaming, everything “makes sense” within the dream.

When you return to reality - without any fanfare - the dream explains this away as “sleep.”

What the dream calls sleep is the door to reality.

The best analogy I can think of is a stage door.

Before the intermission, the characters in a play say they’ll go hiking in the mountains.

The stage door is painted with mountains.

But when the characters walk through it, they’re not in the mountains.

They’re backstage, chatting, as the actors they actually are.

If we return to reality every night, why don’t we wake up enlightened?

Because “waking up” is the return to dreaming.

Waking up to the world is the return of mental activity.

What the dream represents as sleep, death, and samadhi are all doors out of mental activity.

Eventually, we lose the tendency toward mental activity, as we realize this is not what we actually want.

The trick is to see that we’re happier when we have less mental activity.

The rest takes care of itself.

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