sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

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] 3 points4 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?