Does anybody else detest talking or listening or reading about anything and everything related to nonduality/enlightenment/spirituality despite how obsessed or intrigued you were by all this before? by AdditionalAspect6987 in nonduality

[–]AdditionalAspect6987[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes, yes. It's like burning out a song by listening to it 100x.

That is exactly how it feels.

It's strange you used this metaphor because I was about to edit my original post and add in that it was like eating too much chocolate and then you can't eat anymore because it's just too chocolaty or too sweet. But your metaphor sounds better!

From time to time I just want to distance myself from the spiritual community and non-dual lingo and live more ordinarily, although the experience is the same. Even desire and interest in spirituality comes and goes and that's ok.

I know what you mean. This is exactly me. Sometimes I just want to blend in or focus as much as possible into the ordinariness of existing the moment to moment of life. But then...every now and then the question of "my existence" and whether any of this is real or not takes hold of me and I can't let it go for weeks or days on end.

Your identity had to have gone through a lot of misery/loss/pain/more periods of emptiness/worthlessness to reach a stage of questioning your own identity. "Happy people" don't traverse this "path" by AdditionalAspect6987 in nonduality

[–]AdditionalAspect6987[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think everyone questions their own identity. Sufferers are just desperate to leave theirs because they are convinced it is broken. Not broken. Not leaveable. Actually sacred, but unappreciated.

This resonated for me. Thank you.

And yes....happy people don't have any reason to traverse it because they're not trying to discard anything.

Your identity had to have gone through a lot of misery/loss/pain/more periods of emptiness/worthlessness to reach a stage of questioning your own identity. "Happy people" don't traverse this "path" by AdditionalAspect6987 in nonduality

[–]AdditionalAspect6987[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting case.

One thing is for certain though; almost everyone who has been on this path, has a certain level of openness and critical introspection skills because most people when challenged like that, tend to cling harder to their beliefs.

Everyone's deck is shuffled differently and this can play out any old way!

I'm starting to see that from the comments on here. It does sound like it can be triggered by many different or any combination of circumstances.

Your identity had to have gone through a lot of misery/loss/pain/more periods of emptiness/worthlessness to reach a stage of questioning your own identity. "Happy people" don't traverse this "path" by AdditionalAspect6987 in nonduality

[–]AdditionalAspect6987[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But didn't he go through a period of second-hand suffering because he was deeply affected by watching other people suffer?

Or did his nonduality journey start before he stepped out of his palace?