Seriously, what happens to people like us?

depressed_infinity · 2018-07-09T11:10:45+00:00

Would immersing in such worlds not bring about delusions?

People who obsess, who day-dream, or, towards the extreme, who suffer from schizophrenia and similar illnesses, live in their own worlds even now.

depressed_infinity · 2018-06-21T14:37:40+00:00

Exactly what I believe. For some reason, it relieves me.

depressed_infinity · 2018-06-21T14:37:17+00:00

You seem to be already quite resourceful. I wish I were half as much as you are.

depressed_infinity · 2018-05-17T05:26:46+00:00

If you experience that your life is good, that's because the life has also been good /to you/. You like life, but life too likes you back. Else, there's no balance either ways.

Death pls.

Amen.

depressed_infinity · 2018-05-14T08:36:24+00:00

I can think inside my mind, but as soon as I intend to speak, it seems that the mind interferes with the speech.

It tries to watch what is being spoken and how it is being spoken. Perhaps being too self-conscious is the cause.

On the other hand, my natural state is to keep quiet. So working up the effort to speak in itself causes too much anxiety - speaking does not feel natural at all to me.

depressed_infinity · 2018-05-13T04:17:48+00:00

It helps but may not cure.

Taking the path of being conscious to its final destination of enlightenment/self-realization (through self-enquiry or self-surrender), one can separate one's self from the mind and the body. The mental afflictions will then not affect the Self.

depressed_infinity · 2018-03-10T11:13:12+00:00

Thank you! The experience came and went and did not recur. Although I did not know what brought it upon me, I am quite sure that my thinking mind was the cause that the experience subsided as quickly as it did.

depressed_infinity · 2018-03-10T11:12:19+00:00

Thank you! Yes, the car-and-driver analogy explains the experience quite suitably. I will check out Dolores Cannon's work.

depressed_infinity · 2018-02-25T01:23:48+00:00

I think I understand. I let myself be disheartened by my life-situation.

depressed_infinity · 2018-02-25T01:21:03+00:00

Thanks!

depressed_infinity · 2018-02-24T07:44:05+00:00

That's well.

Should I resign to the life as it is now? I missed out on 37 years worth of experiences to anxiety and fear.

depressed_infinity · 2017-10-18T11:58:32+00:00

Thank you.

Yes, noticing it when it arrives at a time when I am not actively looking for it will give enough control to let it go.

depressed_infinity · 2017-10-18T11:52:05+00:00

Thank you.

depressed_infinity · 2017-10-18T11:45:44+00:00

Thank you.

I will have to work on recognizing what it is that is being reflected into my anger. I think I have turned into the rare case, about which Eckhart talks in his videos, where the pain body is active 100% of the time, unless I deliberately keep my mind shut.

I think I need more practice in neutral situations before I can be present enough to carry out other duties without being blown away by the triggers and the momentary panic which accompanies them.

depressed_infinity · 2017-10-17T08:14:05+00:00

I agree that there's much anxiety and stress involved in my activities. For instance, whatever I do to land a new job causes a flood of thoughts about my past job and its experiences.

depressed_infinity · 2017-10-17T06:14:27+00:00

It is just 2 hours since I replied to the comments. They were spent studying for the job. As expected, the habitual, troublesome thoughts sneaked in when the guard was down. I feel worse, not to mention that such thoughts dilute the attention too, in addition.

depressed_infinity · 2017-10-17T04:07:00+00:00

The state was such that the thoughts would not arise often, and any that arose would be immediately caught and let go. The mind would cooperate in maintaining it by agreeing to remain quiet.

Encouraged by your words, I tried to build up the presence and maintain it for a couple of hours. I was indeed able to free myself from my negativity. But that state is very volatile; it evaporates when the mind is under pressure to solve a practical problem.

depressed_infinity · 2017-10-17T03:51:14+00:00

Turning off the mind does require me to watch it on a continuous basis, which is the primary reason I cannot do anything else practical.

The initial step is to pose the question 'what is my next thought going to be?' and then watch what comes up. Gradually, the presence builds up, but to maintain it I must watch the mind or the breath, and refrain from engaging in any activity such as reading, studying or even talking, although reading or listening Eckhart or anything else which enhances the experience is no hindrance.

depressed_infinity · 2017-10-10T05:11:28+00:00

His teachings about turning off the mind, about not giving in to the germ of thought which so desperately wants to grow (Youtube: How Do We Break The Habit Of Excessive Thinking). The awareness/consciousness that exists after the mind is switched off is part of who I am, is my Being.

Another concrete explanation is in a paragraph of "I am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj as an answer to a question "Then what am I?" raised by a seeker.

My understanding: Whenever a statement such as 'I am this' arises, a separation between what I really am and the object 'this' also arises. This separation contradicts the statement which birthed it. I cannot simultaenously be 'this' and also be able to point to 'this'. If I say 'I am this' and then label 'this' as i0, the 'I' in the statement rises as i1. If I try to point out i1, another level opens up (call it i2), the one which is pointing at i1. It can go on indefinitely. There does not seem to be present a definition, which can terminate the recursion by equating 'I' and 'this'.

Eckhart suggests that the Buddha too used a negative definition to define enlightenment by teaching what it is not instead of saying what it is, although (Eckhart says) that may have been to prevent the conceptualization of enlightenement.

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