Shad282

10 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

I saw a doco on some Arctic explorer , cant remember who , but he seemed a smart one . He was worried about his men if something went wrong on an upcoming trip, so he went to stay with some  local indigenous to learn the skills needed for survival if something bad happened .   The natives where very obliging , a bunch of them took him out for a trek  in the snow and ice ;  dig a hole in the ice to catch a fish ,  find the right spot to make a shelter , how to cut ice blocks and form an igloo .  By now its night time. All the men are in the igloo and they put waterproof skins down first, then  furs , then fold out this giant sewn skin of two  layers sewn together around the edges .... just like a sleeping bag .

 

The men strip naked, smear seal fat all other each other and  squash into the bed like sardines .    ... Man, the look on that explorers face  ! 

 

" Come on, get in . "

 

 Shaking head , no .

 

" We will keep you warm  .... you can sleep in the middle . "

 

" Uh - a "   ( he still could not get any words out  ) .

 

" Why won't you get in?. "

 

" Ahem .... I will be fine , I will just sit in the corner and sleep there . "

 

" You cant do that you will freeze to death . "

 

"I'll be fine . "

 

So he sat against the wall,  all  rugged up in all his clothes and freezing his butt off  .

 

 

-  If his expedition did end up in trouble  ....  " Sorry Men , it looks like we are all going to die .  "       

 

 

 

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OK ! I M GOING TO THE ARCTIC !

Any videos!?!?!?!  

4 minutes ago, ralis said:

I guess the OP is still not convinced. Best boiler money can buy.  

 

 

Don't be materialistic!

1 hour ago, Daniel said:

two bodies, one sleeping bag, zero-clothes

does it work if more than 2 bodies? and has to be alive?

2 hours ago, dwai said:

 Skip showers/baths for a few days -- that should keep you warmer. How people will react to you is a completely different story...

I don't believe in other people, they are all me and we are all one.

1 hour ago, Nungali said:

 

You would be safe with me .... my enlightenment is so strong that the light beaming out from my chakras will obscure any visions of  sagginess, wrinkles , warts. moles , scars, stretch marks  ......

are you single? I can use some of the beams. Will save  on electricity, clothes, creams,.... 

5 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

Have you told the Dalai Lama yet ?

why? he is old, and not sure if enlightened.

4 hours ago, Cleansox said:

I practice putting on appropriate clothes. 

It's an old trick handed down through generations in my family. 

hahaha, well clothes are for old people and not fashion anymore.

Moreover, Enlightened people shouldn't wear clothes, especially jackets.

Any practice, energy, thoughts that can keep you hot in super cold winter on streets?

6 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

'Energized enthusiasm ' !

 

It puts you in a 'higher vibration' , energy ,  more so than normal . It can keep you going and overpower the need to eat, sleep , etc .  Maybe work on something non stop for three days  even .  Of course , you still have a limit , but it is extended  you still need a recovery  but the time may be shorter than the  usual period.

On this reality level, I do have interest in things in life, and I work on creating stuff and such, but they are not something to exist for. I mean it is stuff I enjoy better than other things in this reality, but does this reality mean anything to me? Not really.

I m 29 yo

On 12/12/2020 at 5:09 AM, liminal_luke said:

Hi Shad282,

 

This thread reminds me very much of a similar thread you started some time back.  Do you know the one I mean?  Some Bums -- I think I was one of them -- speculated that you might be depressed.  Spotless, if I remember correctly, said what you were going through was not depression but awakening.  I mention this in case that old thread and the responses in it might have resonance for you now.

Wanted to say, that I m feeling this way at almost the same period of the year. hahaha, but all the year it was going good for me, but this occurred again now, when i tried to let go to one of the goals i have added to myself as i became too obsessed and attached to it and now i m going through the feeling of being lost and what to live for in this reality if I try and can let go of everything in this life?

As mentioned in a post on this thread, lacking a sense of direction, if you let go of what you averse and what you attach to, then where to go? what to achieve?

13 minutes ago, idiot_stimpy said:

In a previous post you said you meditate.

 

Can I ask why do you meditate and what is the end game goal you are hoping to achieve by undertaking this spiritual practice?

well it started when i was young around 10 yo, when my friend drew the shabda brahman symbol on sand, and i started learning more about it, and psi energy balls, and i worked on abilities to heal and i have my hands vibrating at time... then I learned more about spirituality and landed on meditation, which mostly was around vipassana, and scanning the body, and enhancing awareness focus and i felt a lot better and reached a high peak one time where everything around me felt so vibrating and food tasted so good, but got shot down by friends and family for being crazy. then got back but not as that high peak.

I meditate now to refine my focus and wake up from losing myself in the micro level of life, kind of like stabilize and restore harmony, especially that where i live it is a huge struggle every day.

I do wish to get back to that high peak i reached once, but no attachment to it anyways. but it is nice to live without worry and trust life and be at peace regardless of anything.

9 hours ago, liminal_luke said:

Hi Shad282,

 

This thread reminds me very much of a similar thread you started some time back.  Do you know the one I mean?  Some Bums -- I think I was one of them -- speculated that you might be depressed.  Spotless, if I remember correctly, said what you were going through was not depression but awakening.  I mention this in case that old thread and the responses in it might have resonance for you now.

Yes, forgot that I have posted similar topic 2 years ago. I m not sure if it is depression or this situation is leading to a depression while in itself is not? Like for example even at work, I find myself having interest in many things but also in nothing, and I can excel and do amazing stuff in most of fields, but yet this is not what i want, especially when it becomes fixed. I have changed many departments in 3 years and all departments want me to work with them, but yet I feel myself everywhere but also nowhere.

I feel sometimes that the issue might be between shifting the perspective between micro and macro level. for example, on a micro level, I do love people and their issues, Animals, and feel compassion and want to help, but when i think in a macro level as a whole, spiritual wise, like energy and oneness and all, the micro level become kind of pointless and useless... like rather than feeling compassion toward someone suffering, I feel like, why taking it seriously, it is just a reality without any real purpose, it is like a game, you are just believing it is real, if you die or suffer it does not really matter.

it is like the micro level render this reality exciting, while the macro renders it useless like void/nothingness/kind of nihilism. I m not sure if this a kind of consciousness fragmentation between myself before awakening and after, and struggle to find harmony between these two and maybe this conflict is causing indifference that's causing depression.

6 minutes ago, dmattwads said:

 

Having been someone that spends a great deal of my time contemplating and practicing detachment I thought I'd take a stab at this.

 

So first of all what you are dealing with sounds like depression. Depression is not the same thing as detachment, it is not the same thing as having no desires in the ultimate sense and this is why. If one truly lets go of something they are at peace, but the fact that this indifference seems to bother you, or at the very least you want "the next thing" shows that there actually still is desire, a desire to not feel how you are feeling now. 

 

What you seem to be lacking is not desire, but direction. You want, but you don't know what you want. A tough place to be in for sure. If you had no desire in the ultimate sense you would be totally content feeling this way, for what would there be to want something other than what you feel now? 

 

That being said I would venture to say what you need to find is what it is that you actually do want. One thing seems for certain. You seem to have outgrown whatever it is that you used to like and desire, but have as of yet not found what it is that you do want. This is something that no one else can answer other than yourself. Hopefully realizing what the problem isn't may help you to understand what the problem actually is and hopefully that will help you to find the answer that you are looking for. 

I agree with what you said, what i m looking for is direction, but I m not sure if it is going to be through a want/desire/need.

I need something to motivate me forward something more than the stuff that are eternal, like products or sensations...  something that is really meaningful that sets direction? but why do I need something? can't i just flow without a direction?

Hey, lately been feeling indifferent to everything in life. I have been working for a long time on solving my shadows/problems of course they will never end but I reached a state where I kind of feel I lost desires to many things in life. I mean tho things look interesting like tech, other subjects and forms, but I don't feel like this inner WOWness or want to have it and such. Life is more like fine not much excitement, I don't feel happy but not sad, more indifferent, like I m here what's next?

I also feel sometimes, that I have let go so much of what made me who I am, what made things exciting and now stuck in a void like kind of 70% identity-less, maybe just a feeling.

How to move forward? what keeps you moving forward?

21 hours ago, ilumairen said:

 

Perhaps because he believes it to be an indication that there is something for him to look more deeply into?

true

4 hours ago, rideforever said:

No answers.
Well, the fact is that many "great sages" after achieving awakening, did no further work on themselves and when they died they still had those voices and feelings arising inside themselves.  In fact some, like Mooji, during satsang notice there is a voice going in their head and ridicule it.  "There it is again, ha ha ha ha ha".
But isn't it dumb to carry on like this.   With voices in your head that you do not control.   Don't know where they come from.   And ridicule what occurs inside you every 5 minutes.
Even if you are "awakened", to carry on like this, to die like this is pretty poor.

 

I notice you use buzzwords of "experience" and "perspective" ... these are common for people who believe they don't exist. 
Well, if you don't exist then you can't repair anything.

If you do exist you can look for the origin and cause of such disharmony within yourself and take appropriate action.

This voice in your head that talks.   Do you not use this voice usefully every day ?
And so what does that tell you ?

 

I believe that I exist, but existence is a projection. and reality changes based on your perspective. Because the same situation is scene differently by different people, based on their past experience and different perspectives.

So essentially there is this subjective reality perceived by the mind. once you cannot touch, see, smell, hear objects. for you, nothing actually exist.

I don't resist the voice in my head and I don't see it as something to get rid off or wrong or right. At the end it is pointing to something. 

My main question is when you have different thoughts that are conflicting, the voices that are conflicting, how to integrate them.

On 5/3/2019 at 1:20 PM, Everything said:

Your true self is primarily non-physical, and it too is eternally in a process of ever becoming. However, to allow that to fully flow through you here and now, for the benefit and natural effortless re-alignment of your physical being's mind body and emotion's clarit and well-being, enjoyment, of natural healthy life experiences, you have to let go of resistance in your physical energy being, in order to allow the natural re-alignment that always happens naturally if you allow it to happen.

......

But isn't meditation a form of resistance ?

Hi, I have been wondering if you ever experienced the different personalities/perspectives that exists within you. 

did you notice how life triggers shift you from one to another ? Some consider it as a fragmentation in consciousness, that happens when we experience a strong situation in the past and mostly in our childhood and so your consciousness would escape in itself by creating another self with a specific perspective of for example: fear.

When I meditate, i do reach a stage of presence and awareness and also I feel that my mind is empty of thoughts but when I have to some work like create something or solve a problem..., I cannot remain in that perspective of nothingness and oneness and such and my answer would be allow it to be as it is and i will be fired from work hehehehe.

I m now more like shifting between different perspective of life (sometimes consciously and sometimes triggers), but my question would be how to integrate them? or do I need to integrate them?

What is your perspective about this perspective?

Hi,

I believe that everything in life exists in a neutral state. and its usage may lead to both positive or negative result upon intention.

I was wondering, what is the positive side of: Attachment, desire, resentment, judgement and escapism.

what is the negative side of: acceptance, forgiveness, letting go, authenticity, empathy, awareness, present moment.

Also, what is the positive and negative side of your current belief/practice ?

I believe the inability to find the positive in what we call negative or the negative in what we call positive reveals a lack in awareness and flexible perspective of life.

Thank you.

2 minutes ago, windwalker said:

Sounds like somebody should be looking for a better job.

the last time i did that, i got promoted to another department and better package and all.

but I guess I need to accept things at a certain point and not easy to find another job.

Hi All,

I would to ask you on how is it possible for you to accept futile situations where you have to follow or do everyday a task that you think it is useless or you can do it in a better and more efficient way ?

Example: being told that to go from A to B. but do that you should go from A to C then to B. 

So many times accepting such situation creates self hate since it feels like you are abusing yourself by accepting such tasks and abusing your intelligence.

My question is how do you accept doing something not logical and repeat it everyday without getting angry or sad for doing it ?

But also without feeling that by accepting and doing this, you are abusing yourself and your intelligence.

Thanks.

3 minutes ago, Fa Xin said:

Yes, but the very thing your asking about is of the heart, not the mind, in my view. 

then how to use the heart and not the mind?

1 hour ago, Fa Xin said:

 

I wouldn’t bother trying to understand it (although it’s tempting to try). Any mental concept would most likely get in the way, rather than help. Just let it be. 

it is hard as the mind is what we mostly use.

Hi all, hope you are having a great day ! 

So basically recently I have been feel in tune with a certain inner sense/intuition/feeling, i m not sure how to define it exactly, but i will try to describe it.

This sense feels like a sense of inner knowing that this is what is going to happen and this is what should happen. 

this sense feels like confidence combine with heart, connected with life.

I m struggling with understanding it mentally, and it is overwhelming me as it feels like it has a big scope and requires a big expansion of consciousness to realize it.

Recently many weird things happening suddenly out of nowhere and such, that never happened before.

did anyone go through such experience, if yes, can you please explain more this sense to me? and how did you cope with it?

Thanks.

8 minutes ago, Everything said:

It's simply the understanding that everything is energy. And energy have directions and momentum. You can shift your own energy in such a way that you align to a different stream of energy. It is not very different from how you lift your right arm up, or left arm up. Simply choice and intent. To simply choose a different energy stream and become of like vibration to it, by virtue of your ability to focus and thus then emmit that different vibrational state of being. The differences are slight and subtle thus then it requires sensitive and focus, and the ability to feel e-motion, energy in motion.

Also know that location is the property of an object. The object does not exist in a location, the very small subtle highly specific vibrational variable of the locational property of any given object is part of the overal vibrational key signature frequency of that object. Thus one can simple fine tune that locational variable of for example an entire spaceship, and cause it to simply pop out of location A and thus then continue to be in Location B, as the new location that the spaceship has not be offered or created to be in.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on this subject.

1) Though doing this for a bit time, it may result in a rise of desire to control and invincibility and thus lead to ego boost, ever encountered this ?

How to maintain balance ?

And can we help/support people using such tool?

2) Also, this makes me question, that when you shift reality, it means you are leaving a reality to another one, then what happens to your body in the other reality? Some described this as your body will be left on autopilot mode as your awareness shifts into different reality. Because it is perceived that you jump realities rather than you change what is. More like many possibilities are running together and you just jump from one to another.

And then opens up the question to what happens to the people you know...