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@@rhondapelletier2141 and how are you now? ❤

How are you doing now?

@@tom_see I'm doing well. I have more tools to deal with most things that come up.

***** Well, in my case, I was struggling with an addiction, and I thought the psychological roller-coaster of the addiction was purifying me, when really it was just my out-of-control nervous system going haywire. All my meditation was having no effect, it was like pushing a boulder uphill only to have it roll down again. In my case, yes, removing the addiction allowed the underlying cause to be permanently cleansed, I have become much more emotionally stable and clear-headed since. So yes, I believe the treatment did reach places Adyashanti is going for. It is clear from what I have seen of spiritual teachers, including Adya, that a lot of them do not understand addiction, nor do they approach spirituality from a neurological or physiological perspective. Technological limitations made it impossible to do so until very recently, and the various spiritual paths suffered as a result.

@102435317555667828517 This is where skillful means come in. A central criticism of neo-Advaita teachers like Adyashanti is they don't really provide effective advice on what to actually DO. It's all well and good to say there is nothing to do and nobody to do it, but here we are, needing to do quite a lot to move forward. I myself work with energy healers to help dislodge the powerful mental and emotional knots in my mind, I do neurofeedback, I have a brainwave entrainment device to help me concentrate while meditating, and I do hot yoga, an intense form of workout that is both meditative and cleansing. As more technologies become available I will make use of them as well.

***** Have you looked at Shinzen Young's 'Five Ways to Know Yourself?' Very systematic approach and he even conducts conference call meditations. Also take a look at the Consciousness Hacking movement and Buddhist Geeks, I think they really are where all this is going. 20 years is too much time to spend and not have felt you made progress, I'm sorry to hear that.

i agree with you to an extent, if you followed adyas advice consistently it might work, but some people have too much stuff and will go too much back into their egos. i think a combination of some psychiatry/medical help, but simultaneously still being grounded in your spiritual practise, depending on the person, doing a combination of both whilst following you heart. this is from personal experience.

@@lilia2440 For most people, there is simply too much shit in the way to go Adya's path. Or many of us would be on his level, which is very far from the truth. Probably less than one percent of society as on his level. Look at all the shit that happened in the three+ years since you posted this comment. We are not advancing fast enough. Brain-computer interfaces like what Elon Musk is working on present exciting possibilites. What if we could switch on/turn off parts or patterns in the brain, like the Default Mode Network, which is responsible for the constant chattering mind? Deep brain stimulation has already had remarkable success in shutting off the chattering mind for terminally ill cancer patients, with the result that they often don't need any painkillers (!) until the last few weeks of their lives.

That's the thing with happiness it just comes...cherish the times when it does...just be the best you can be....understand yourself and just do the best that you can do...i also find that improving one's nutrition(get those vitamins in) and making sure you get adequate rest is important to being your best

Life has ups and downs...it is a journey...i tend not to put attachment on my feelings..if they come they come..if they go they go...pain and sorrow can be helpful...it can make you stronger...make you more aware...just be...don't force anything ..just be..who you are makes a difference

How did everything go?

Me too

Samuel RODRIGUEZ-PEREZ it can get to a point where only a movement of grace can resolve it.. Anything you do, doesn't help... The best thing I've found is the will gets widdled down to nothing, to the point you can't hold on anymore. That's my experience, some 16 years ago now i was overwhelmed by sheer terror. Over a period of a month or so, to the point where i was even afraid to close my eyes for fear of being sucked into the void haha. Well for some reason i then just walked up the stairs and lay on my bed and as soon as i closed my eyes i felt the subtle gasping onto existing itself fall away and there was just total void.. no objects object...no perception...nothing but consciousness, but not of anything. That then opened up into subtle states within the inconvenience i guess and then went back into nothingness... kind of demonstrating that consciousness isn't limited and is the source from which all states are modifications of itself.. then it was like being in the presence of this great and divine being and suddenly realizing or remembering 'oh this is Me!".. just then sensory perceptions returned, the sound of a bird...but the bird was singing in this Me i am, as a modification of itself. All perceptions were like that, like the world reborn as consciousness or something. One of the biggest insights that come of it was not to be afraid, the terror is really a call from ones true being to "give up all dharmas snd come to Me" as Krishna apparently said in the Gita. Its Grace but we project demons.. that's why we cling to existence.

​@@michaelmcclure3383 thank you Michaelmcclure3383, I did not see this mesage before, it could be helpful in that time, so after many years dealing with this immense fear, and being able to practice lot of things among them ACIM, Meditation, Yoga, I'm just seeing what you said and/or the sunlight at the end of the tunnel. I could have some experiences of my real conciesness, I could see that my terror was since I was completly identify with my little self, my ego or my little character so once I could be able to see my self as the place where everything was happening that was it, I could see I will never die, my story or little character will just go, the real awareness is a completly safe place. I can tell anybody being into this dreathful fear that it is all a trick of the mind, a joke, we are never in real danger, ever. this realization is freedom is salvation! .. sometimes (as in my case) it takes time, lot of self love, tears, tons hard work!.. but gonna make it, we are safe!

I hope she's better now. G-d bless.

How do you know she had a break down?

Countrychiddler that’s not correct. He’s not speaking about thoughts, what you are talking about are thoughts ABOUT the now, not the now itself. The now itself has nothing to do with the thinking mind. It is not an interpretation, it is BEFORE all of the interpreting that can happen.

Now is not vision of the past. Now is absence of the thought. Now is the only real thing. Past and future are just mental constructs of your mind. To get into illusion of the time you have to start thinking. Without thinking there is no future and there is no past. Without thinking there is no time at all. Only now.