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For some people this happens when walking in nature—your sense of “you” diminishes, the volume of your thoughts is turned down, and it’s almost as if you’re melting into the forest. For some people, this can happen on a dance floor, or when marching with your fellow troops, or during really absorbing conversation, or sex. It’s a big part of what a “flow state” is. For many religious people, it’s a feeling that arrives during prayer.

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Anecdotally, though, people experienced in non-dual states tend to report:

• Less emotional activation
• A greater sense of sacredness
• More absorption in surroundings
• A heightened sense of interconnectedness
• Less preoccupation with neurotic thoughts
• More available feelings of meaning and purpose

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But a non-dualistic view can help you cut through overly simplistic views of your experience—black-and-white narratives that flatten the beauty and texture of your life, like “I’m a failure,” or “I regret that relationship,” or “I am definitely this variety of person.” Maybe such statements can be both true and not true: perhaps there is freedom in allowing that tension to exist.

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“Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea##

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BK- DISSOCIATION MODEL 

DH- CONSCIOUS AGENT MODEL 

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 AFRICAN DEEP KNWLEDGE /WISDOM TRADITION-ALSO USES 3RD EYE, AF, MEDULLA AXIS

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 “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

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SRM - LGTIOC 

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BEAST MODE

 Beast Mode is like running on full throttle all the time. It’s all about maximum effort, maximum speed, maximum output. It can be incredibly effective in the short-term but can also lead to burnout and loss of direction in the long run.

Best Mode is about finding a sustainable, balanced, and intentional way of living. It’s about setting mindful, meaningful goals and pursuing them at a thoughtful pace. It’s an approach that values self-care, reflection, and mindful action as much as achievement and productivity. In best mode, you’re not just achieving, you’re enjoying the journey. You’re living your best life, not just a busy one.

Now, I’m here to share my journey from beast mode to best mode, my transition from being a human-doing to a human-being. And let me tell you, it’s not only enriched my life,  it’s made it infinitely more fulfilling, and, dare I say, significantly more enjoyable.

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Embrace the Joy of Missing Out (JOMO).

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RBRTH PROCESS

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DTR CRSS QAIN X RLCTANT AND MSSD UP- RAMU- REACTV IED RIED

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According to OGIMET weather service data, Zabul in the north of Sistan and Baluchistan recorded the highest temperature among more than 8800 main synoptic weather stations with a temperature of 50.8 degrees Celsius.

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21 Brutal Life Lessons Nobody Teaches you 

1. Nobody Cares.

2. Take time to know who you are. 

3. The more you give,

the more you receive.

4. No work is beneath you.

5. Start Meditating.

6. Don't be afraid to take risks.

7. Don't make decisions when you're emotional.

8. Luck works if hard work runs.

9. Be patient and persistent.

10. You don't need to impress everyone. 

11. Listen to learn.

12. Don't take the easy road.

13. Start reading books.

14. Respect others as you would respect yourself. 

15. Narrow down your focus bit by bit.

16. You quit, you lose, you fail.

17. Put your best foot forward. 

18. Don't bother what other people think.

19. Learn something new every day.

20. Don't make assumptions.

21. Believe in yourself.

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Could the spirit or soul be the place that has no senses?

Irina Nola

Past Life Regression Therapist 10mo

Yes, I heard about this from my friend who is a medium, and she rescues souls who are stuck in a ‘grey place”. This happens when a soul does not realize that the body died, runs out of energy, and can’t cross over into spiritual reality. It also can happen with a die-hard atheist who believes in ‘nothing after death” and the Universe provides them with this experience, but eventually, they get rescued by their Guides or family members. It is a place of nothingness - no sounds, no visuals, no emotions, no other souls - NOTHING, but they still have self-awareness and can think, just do not have any senses or emotions. it is not painful, but terribly boring. They can spend centuries there, but they do not have a sense of passing time, so they do not know how long they were there. Usually, a shaman or a medium can contact them and help them to get out, or their own Guides find them. It is a temporary situation, but can be very long-lasting…

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MARTINI

If reincarnation is real, how come we don't remember our past life? What benefit is it to us if we cannot make changes consciously from our past lives?

Start with “is incarnation real?” How is it consciousness works, incarnation functions, then we can discuss why anyone might want to return.

Examine those who can recall past lifetimes. Some children up to the age of 8, some during a near death experience.

What scientists at UVA argue is that filters on the brain block our awareness. Dr. Greyson’s book AFTER has a chapter about them. The idea being, there are filters that block information “not conducive to survival.”

Think about what elements of previous lifetimes would be problematic in terms of survival. It’s not done for a reason - it’s just how the human brain works. Filters out the information. But we can bypass them via hypnotherapy, hallucinogens, mediumship or meditation. Dreams work too.

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WEIGHTING IN PAIN

 

What is the point of reincarnation when the sun expands into a red giant?

This isn’t the only rodeo.

We may think it is. This universe. This Earth. This time. This place. But that’s not what people report while under deep hypnosis. They claim that we can incarnate here, another universe, other planets. In terms of statistics, when I interviewed Michael Newton for “Flipside” he said that “10% of his clients” (he had 7000 over 30 years) claimed to have “off world” experiences.

When I interviewed the president of the Newton Institute, Pete Smith, for “It’s a Wonderful Afterlife” he said that “number has risen to 30%”. That means one out of three people who seek hypnotherapy as taught by Newton, claim that they can recall “lifetimes not here” (on this planet, or in this universe). That either means that more people are coming to the planet that have incarnated elsewhere, or for some reason more people that have an “inner voice” telling them to seek hypnotherapy recall such existences.

In a comment from another hypnotherapist (Bryn Blankenship) who works with the Institute, she said “that number has gone up since then”. That is, the Newton Institute has thousands of hypnotherapists they’ve trained worldwide, they keep statistics of what people say when they come in and report their “past life memories” (through interaction with the hypnotherapists that are members) and for some reason, the number of “people who recall previous lifetimes where they weren’t on this planet” has risen.

Having filmed 50 of these cases, and as of late interviewing people that while fully conscious can recall these lifetimes, I’ve come to the realization that we won’t have to “worry” about the sun destroying Earth. (We’d be long gone by then.) But it also gives me the impetus for writing this reply - if what these people say consistently is accurate - that we choose our lifetimes, that we choose to come to planet Earth because “it’s a great place” “more fun than some boring planet where nothing happens” or “you can learn more spiritually in one day of tragedy than you can in 5000 years on some other planet” - then it makes sense to advocate for leaving behind fresh water, air and earth - if not for our children, then our own possible return.

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Do those who are enlightened see much of the actions of others as ridiculously funny?

In paradise one evening, in its most famous café - Moksha - Krishna, Buddha and Lao Tzu are sitting and chatting. The waitress comes with a tray that holds three glasses of juice called “Life,” and offers them.

Buddha closes his eyes and refuses - “Life is suffering!” Krishna is watching Lao Tzu knowing well what is going to happen. Lao Tzu gulped - first glass and then second and Lao Tzu didn't even think for a second and gulped the last one.

Buddha looked at Krishna and when Lao Tzu looked at Krishna - Krishna started to play the flute - Lao Tzu started to dance and sing.

And Buddha enjoyed the meditation in soothing notes of Krishna's flute.

Little bit of craziness is needed to enjoy life and without humor, dance, music and meditation life will be bland and monotonous . Life is funny - a cosmic joke so there is nothing to ridicule about.

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"Living each day as it if were our last, rather than converting us into hedonists, will make us appreciate how wonderful it is that we are alive and have the opportunity to fill this day with activity. This in turn will make us less likely to squander our days. As we think about and plan for tomorrow, remember to appreciate today."

-- William B. Irvine

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WHY LT ALWAYS ANGRY 

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SCANS 

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1. Highly successful people decide what they want early in life. Success takes time; early commitment is the only way to compound time in your favour. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

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THE ROAD HOME

 People with diabetes and poor oral health often have other health problems, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, and cardiovascular disease, which are also risk factors for dementia

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If you talk too much, the universe begins to yawn.’

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Why does the mind struggle so much before spiritual enlightenment?

The meaning of mind is ‘attachment’.

When you pull a bandaid attached to your skin, it is going to hurt. The higher the stickiness the greater the hurt.

We are advised by our Sages to live our lives in a prudent way so that we need not impose additional attachments on ourselves, and at the same time we might carefully mitigate the existing attachments without childishly runnning away which only aggravates the attachment in some other way.

A mind with no attachments is no mind at all. It is pristine, spontaneous, and natural awareness. There is no struggle in this awareness.

Easier said but very difficult to directly tackle it. Hence we have great scriptures like the Bhagvad Gita following which we can carefully arrive at this awareness with minimum damage to ourselves and our beloved ones here.

The Shiva Siddhantha goes to the extreme in saying..

Arumin arumin Eesanodayinum Pattrai Arumin

meaning

Cut your attachments! Cut your attachments!
Even if it is with Lord Shiva, Cut your attachments!!

I agree it is too much though, and I may not succeed, hahaha!!

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KNDNSS OF STRNGRS X INDIFF OF NADO

 “Self education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

Isaac Asimov

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If there is no "self" according to Buddist teaching, then how can reincarnation occur?

This teaching on anātma or non-Self is complex and vexed and there are many views of what it actually means.

The Buddha himself spoke of “self” right up until the moment of his liberation - affirming the existence of an “I” - provisional as it may be.

He also made the following observation of one knowing that one is free - there is no “Self” what is it that knows it’s own freedom?

Buddha also affirms that he had many previous births and that the Bodhisattva (potential Buddha) had to wander through countless lives, four asankhyeyyas and one hundred thousand world-cycles (kalpa = 4,320,000,000 yrs) with the noble, determined performances of the Bodhisattva virtues to win full Enlightenment or Sammásambuddha ñana (Supreme Enlightenment).

The view that it was just a flow of ever-changing consciousness doesn’t explain detailed memory of past births.

Recollection of Past Lives - Digha Nikaya Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life

"With his mind thus concentrated, purified, and bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant, malleable, steady, and attained to imperturbability, he directs and inclines it to knowledge of the recollection of past lives (lit: previous homes). He recollects his manifold past lives, i.e., one birth, two births, three births, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, one hundred, one thousand, one hundred thousand, many aeons of cosmic contraction, many aeons of cosmic expansion, many aeons of cosmic contraction and expansion, [recollecting], 'There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance. Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose there. There too I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance. Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose here.' Thus he recollects his manifold past lives in their modes and details. Just as if a man were to go from his home village to another village, and then from that village to yet another village, and then from that village back to his home village. The thought would occur to him, 'I went from my home village to that village over there. There I stood in such a way, sat in such a way, talked in such a way, and remained silent in such a way. From that village I went to that village over there, and there I stood in such a way, sat in such a way, talked in such a way, and remained silent in such a way. From that village I came back home.' In the same way — with his mind thus concentrated, purified, and bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant, malleable, steady, and attained to imperturbability — the monk directs and inclines it to knowledge of the recollection of past lives. He recollects his manifold past lives... in their modes and details.

"This, too, great king, is a fruit of the contemplative life, visible here and now, more excellent than the previous ones and more sublime.

The Buddha describes Nirvāna in both positive and negative terms as a state of experience. So naturally the question arises - if there is no “Self” then who or what experiences Nirvāṇa? If Nirvāna is just negative state annihilation then why describe it at all?

The Buddha gives 30 metaphors for nirvāna – nibbana (SN 43.14)

asankhata – unconditioned,
antam – the end,
anasavam – disease free,
saccam – the truth,
param – the ultimate,
nipunam – the subtle,
sududdasam –very hard to perceive,
ajaram – imperishable,
dhuvam – the stable,
apalokitam – the taken leave of,
anidassanam – cannot be demonstrated,
nippapam – without impediment,
santam – the peace,
amatam – the deathless,
panitam – the excellent,
sivam – the auspicious
khemam – the secure,
tanhakkhaya – the destruction of craving,
acchariyam – the wonderful,
adbhutam – the astonishing,
anitikam – freedom from harm,
anitikadhammam – the state of freedom from harm,
nibbanam – extinction,
avyapājjho – the harmless,
virāgo – non-attachment,
suddhim – purity,
mutti – liberation
analayo – the done away with,
dīpam – the island,
lena – the cave,
tanam – the shelter,
saranam – the refuge,
parāyanam – the ultimate goal.

anasavam – disease free,
saccam – the truth,
param – the ultimate,

CHITTA VRITTI NIVRITTI

 "Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped."

-- Charles Duhigg

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UNITIVE STATE

The unitive way

The unitive way is the way of those who are in the state of the perfect, that is, those who have their minds so drawn away from all temporal things that they enjoy great peace, who are neither agitated by various desires nor moved by any great extent by passion, and who have their minds chiefly fixed on God and their attention turned, either always or very frequently, to Him.

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What was Ramana Maharshi's realisation?

It's important to first understand what triggered Sri Ramana Maharshi's realisation.

Room where Sri Ramana Maharshi had his death experience as a 16 year old boy…

Here is an account of what happened on that blessed day in August 1896 in Sri Ramana Maharshi's own words…

It was about six weeks before I left Madura for good that the great change in my life took place. It was quite sudden. I was sitting alone in a room on the first floor of my uncle’s house.

I seldom had any sickness, and on that day there was nothing wrong with my health, but a sudden violent fear of death overtook me.

There was nothing in my state of health to account for it, and I did not try to account for it or to find out whether there was any reason for the fear.

I just felt ‘I am going to die’ and began thinking what to do about it. It did not occur to me to consult a doctor or my elders or friends; I felt that I had to solve the problem myself, there and then.

The shock of the fear of death drove my mind inwards and I said to myself mentally, without actually framing the words: ‘Now death has come; what does it mean? What is it that is dying? This body dies.’

And I at once dramatised the occurrence of death. I lay with my limbs stretched out stiff as though rigor mortis had set in and imitated a corpse so as to give greater reality to the enquiry.

I held my breath and kept my lips tightly closed so that no sound could escape, so that neither the word ‘I’ nor any other word could be uttered. ‘Well then,’ I said to myself, ‘this body is dead. It will be carried stiff to the burning ground and there burnt and reduced to ashes.

But with the death of this body am I dead? Is the body ‘I’? It is silent and inert but I feel the full force of my personality and even the voice of the ‘I’ within me, apart from it.

So I am Spirit transcending the body. The body dies but the Spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. That means I am the deathless Spirit.’

All this was not dull thought; it flashed through me vividly as living truth which I perceived directly, almost without thought-process. ‘I’ was something very real, the only real thing about my present state, and all the conscious activity connected with my body was centred on that ‘I’.

From that moment onwards the ‘I’ or Self focused attention on itself by a powerful fascination. Fear of death had vanished once and for all. Absorption in the Self continued unbroken from that time on.

Other thoughts might come and go like the various notes of music, but the ‘I’ continued like the fundamental sruti note that underlies and blends with all the other notes (The monotone persisting through a Hindu piece of music, like the thread on which beads are strung, represents the Self persisting through all the forms of being.)

Whether the body was engaged in talking, reading or anything else, I was still centred on ‘I’. Previous to that crisis I had no clear perception of my Self and was not consciously attracted to it. I felt no perceptible or direct interest in it, much less any inclination to dwell permanently in it.

After this experience, the individual consciousness never again functioned in Sri Ramana Maharshi's life. He had realised himself to be that universal consciousness known as Brahman in the Upanishads. This was the most fundamental realisation of Ramana Maharshi.

On September 1st 1896, a young Venkataraman (future Ramana Maharshi) arrived in Tiruvannamalai and sat in the Patala Lingam, at the main temple of Sri Arunachala for many months absorbed in the Self totally oblivious of his body.

Later from 1899 onwards upto 1922, he spend his years at Virupaksha Cave and Skandashrama on the Arunachala Hill.

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