haha, great post
On Aug 21, 4:36 am, roomsearching <[email protected]> wrote: > More importantly, when we become adults, our ego starts growing > phenomenally. > > Sexual development causes us to believe that we have to become confident and > have to dominate the world. > > The ego automatically starts becoming bigger and bigger because of hormones > overflowing. > > Hot young blood of youth makes us angry and our minds are more alert, filled > with lots of desires and dreams. > > The animal nature in us comes to its fullest. > > Sexual hunger arises and we start looking for a girlfriend. > > We want to have sharper and more intelligent minds that can make loads of > money and control people. > > We look for status and prestige and social networks to support our sexual > life. > > So far, we identify only with our body and our mind. > > Our bodies have a lot of needs to survive in society. > > Being with a woman, our ego is boosted even more. She starts to make you > believe as if you are the most wonderful person in the world. > > The woman makes you feel on top of the world only to bring you down > repeatedly. > > This causes a lot of suffering and to question the system that society has > set for us to follow. > > This is when the question arises, what is reality. and how should i live my > life. > > Suffering arises with the identity with the body which continually changes. > > You are not the body. You knew this when you were a child of one year, just > wondering at the miracle of life. > > But when you grow up, your sense of "I am" ness develops. > > The ego grows naturally as a consequence of the genes and the hormonal > activity. > > It is all good. But the misidentification with this shitty pyshical chaos > called the body is what makes our life miserable. > > Our bodies are just disgusting sticky slimy smelly masses of meat and bones. > > But we love them so much. > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:23 AM, roomsearching > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > First we have to spend a long time of our life experiencing pleasure and > > pain. > > > We have to get our basics of life first to see any pattern to it. > > > You cannot do this meditation when you are 10 years old. You need to have a > > lot of life experience. > > > With pain and pleasure, with suffering, our personality develops. > > > First, the ego has to form. The awareness has to develop. > > > A child has no awareness. And it does not question anything. Children are > > in ignorance. > > > We grow up with the simple worldview of I and this world.There is a clear > > distinction between I and the world. > > > This seperation clearly creates suffering - duality. > > > Finally the world view changes and we realize that everything is one. > > > There is no world. There is only me. There are no others. > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:08 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Isn't it funny? We need suffering to be able to get rid of it. > > >> Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone > >> ------------------------------ > >> *From: * roomsearching <[email protected]> > >> *Date: *Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:46:01 +0100 > >> *To: *<[email protected]> > >> *Cc: *Advaita<[email protected]> > >> *Subject: *Re: Why suddenly one chooses to do the I am sense watching > > >> Why suddenly one chooses to do the "I am" sense watching ? > > >> It is not sudden. It happens after a lot of suffering. > > >> A search for truth finally starts. > > >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> I think one has to be deluded a 'million' times by entertaining thoughts > >>> in order to suddenly understand this always leads to delusion. I had to > >>> try > >>> all the shit before I convinced my mind that every field of thought leads > >>> to > >>> delusion. Nobody was able to convince me until I tried all the shit > >>> myself. > >>> After that once I've really tried the I am sense watching and I saw that > >>> is > >>> the only path which produces 'results', it was all finished. > >>> What I want to emphasise here is the importance of learning by one's own > >>> experience, the importance of suffering as the thing which tells you where > >>> not to go, the importance of getting burnt after touching fire, a million > >>> times, until you realize you won't touch it again. > >>> The imprtance of other people advice (even guru's advice) is limited in > >>> comparison to one's own try-fail-try- succeed exercise. > >>> Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone
