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Go on with your meditation. Genuine meditation will result in the arising of the state of awareness. Remaining in awareness, in full acceptance with whatever comes up, letting it arise and then return to silence while maintaining focus on the object of the meditation...
Topic: Ego
I feel super stressed and I’ve once had an amazing Kundalini Kriya spontaneous movements but couldn’t get it to happen again. What can I do?
Practice meditation and staying meditative throughout the day as best as you can. As the mind comes to relative peace, the energy will start to come into your awareness again. Do not try to increase or decrease the energies during meditation. Treat them just as you...
Advice please. How do you deal with a narcissistic boss/supervisor in the work place? Leaving is not an option so are there any tactics I can use to stay on the right side of a narcissistic boss?
Truth is the tactic. Your life is not just about that job as you would like to believe. Whatever you do straying from truth, will drag you more into suffering whether you keep the job or not. Whatever you do living with truth, will lead you out of suffering more...
What is the cause and solution for motivation loss?
If you are ready for a deep answer that can change the way you look at reality, read on. Stay with the answer, and your question will have been most completely answered in the end. Are you experiencing a loss of motivation? See.. what you are experiencing right now is...
How do you cope with stress and pressure?
Are you ready for a deep dive? I have dived deep for many years, so my answer about my approach will also reflect my experiences over the years. Here comes the answer: I take full responsibility for everything I experience. This does not mean I am personally in...
How has meditation brought you peace?
Meditation is a state of focused awareness. Where we focus our attention, our energy flows towards. We create more of that in our experience. When we focus on specific objects in meditation such as the breath or the energy of love, or the formless awareness itself, we...
How can I learn to accept compliments better?
The lesser your ego, the lesser it’s reactions will be able to pull you around, when it is triggered by the environment/compliments. The more awakened you are, the less you will be empowering the ego. Are compliments that different than chastisements? Perhaps...
What tips do you have for being better at motivational speaking?
Be authentic. Speak from experience and (live) from your heart. If nobody happens to be around, perfect. Be alone, but be happy from your own presence. One person can come and listen, and this is fine. A crowd is listening.. all the same.. Just take care to be...
How do I figure out what my true subconscious needs are, that I’m failing to fulfill, because I’m substituting bad habits and unhealthy desires in place of those true needs?
Your subconscious needs are whatever you are creating them to be in this moment. You are the creative consciousness. See? The dilemma begins when you believe that you are not the creative consciousness, and that some other force is partially responsible for whatever...
What does it say about a person when they are dependent on persecutory delusions in order to sustain their self-worth and ego-validation?
I wouldn’t say anything or form an opinion about them looking at this information. They are what they are. This video can help you discern the difference between living from the ego and from our divine self: Personal Power: Creating From the Divine Self Within vs the...
I need some help reducing stress, can you please give me some advice?
We suffer because of our resistance to what is. The more we resist, the greater the suffering. We resist, because we want to uphold an identity, a separate sense of self that we think we are. This identity is called the ego. Deep inside we know that we are one with...
Liberation from All Addictions – The Case of Smoking
Hello friends, In this article, I will tell you how we can be free from our addictions in general and how we can quit smoking in particular. I felt the need to add this sentence when I was in the middle of writing the article: Since this is an article that touches on...
How does one stay motivated when there’s no hope?
No hope suggests that no path to peace/happiness seen by the person and the reality of the situation has not been accepted as it is. The primary reason of feeling hopeless is not the situation itself, it is the subjective reality of the person. Another usage of no...
What should I do to reduce my shyness?
Wikipedia contains this sentence inside the definition of shyness: `The primary defining characteristic of shyness is a largely ego-driven fear of what other people will think of a person's behavior.` Your question feels sensible, because you don’t want to destroy...
There is a saying, “Don’t react, but respond.” What does that mean and how can one practice it in daily life?
A part of ourselves serves as an autopilot, until we are conscious enough to live our life moment to moment with awareness. The greater we are in the moment, the less the autopilot is required. This autopilot is based on our past experience and our understanding based...
Contemplation About a New Mode of Living
Here is what I shared with a friend today, I am also sharing this raw and unedited here: [2:43:39 AM] Erdal Bora: i am at a dilemma.. just wanted to share .. [2:43:47 AM] Erdal Bora: so that you can see the whole picture of me [2:44:47 AM] Erdal Bora: now.. today.. i...
The Solution to All of Humanity’s Problems
Making Peace With Mental Confusion and Transforming the Mind
On Patience, Forgiveness, Trust
How to Solve ALL Your Problems -2
In the first article of this series, which I didn't know was to be a series :), I made an energetic entry to the topic, but did not elaborate intellectually on it for those who desire to understand what I am talking about more at an intellectual level. Some...
You Are Free
The Secret to Unshakable Confidence
How to Come Back from the Dark Side of the Force?
Remember: The Force Will Be With You, Always.
Now. I had to write this article. It has been getting into shape within my mind, not the contents, but just the picture at the start, and just the title. The rest is energy that is asking to be let into this world. And now is the time. The Force.. Jedi.. The Dark...
On the Importance of Unconditional Love in Helping People and Building Relationships
On Being Honest and Being Rejected
What Does a Happy Man Do?
This Will be My Last Message Until I Achieve a Great Breakthrough in Awakening
I now see that I need to completely drop identification with my thinking mind to reach enlightenment and practice this state until I reach enlightenment. I cannot control myself while opting to remain a person with a personality. This way my past never leaves me, I am...
Towards Enlightenment (11): To Surrender One Hundred Percent or Not to Surrender One Hundred Percent, That is the Question on this Path.
Towards Enlightenment (9): Downward Spiral Accompanied by Vivaldi
Towards Enlightenment (8): Continuity in Focus. What Do You Really Want?
Towards Enlightenment (7): The Ego Strikes Back… And Then…
Towards Enlightenment (6): From Morning Thought Soup to Clear Mind / Some People I’ve Learned From
Towards Enlightenment (5): Waking up While Drifting Off / An Introduction to Energy Capacity
Towards Enlightenment (4): About Moving Beyond the Understanding: “It’s not happening. I cannot focus, I am distracted by desires, by life. I feel very sad.”
Towards Enlightenment (3): What Can Be Done About Losing Focus/Getting Distracted?
Towards Enlightenment (2): The Ground Floor of Heaven is All Well and Good, but How Do We Get In?
Towards Enlightenment (1): The Ground Floor of Heaven and the Slowly Boiled Frog Syndrome
Freedom! – How to Free Oneself from the System and Sow the Seeds of Leaving a Beautiful World for the Future?
A Blog Post at the Bottom of the Night. It Fits the Occasion. Appearing as You Are/Being as You Appear
Question to My Guru and Answer, Which Comes Right After I Myself am Able to Discern a Similar Answer
Some days ago I had asked the following question (a few emotional lines have been omitted by my guru to make it more clear for the public) and today I received the answer. Below the answer of my guru, I am giving a link to a blog post I wrote a few days ago, which I...
More Info About My Life and Making the Blog Public
As I wrote in the previous post.. I have experienced both great despair and negative emotions and also peace and joy.. I just now realized that I want to focus on Love more while writing this article.. Now I am about to go public with this blog.. It was private...
Back from the Spiraling Downward into the Ego and the Vow
How did it start? Perhaps it started when I started to go the ego's way in small things. Perhaps, when I did not deliberately focus on God but focused on the ego instead. It is so subtle. You try to make yourself believe that you can both focus on the desire of the...
Celibacy, and Another Question: What Now?
It has been slightly more than 1 month and I have been celibate. I haven't been focusing on being celibate. I am just giving effort to sustain meditativeness and refraining from diving into the ego. And what now? Questions such as these start to arise when I am losing...
Hurting, Healing and Helping
Today I hurt the little dog that I had adopted. It kept biting me and when I am hurt I get angry. I tried to stop it by putting it a little distance away, telling it to stop, yelling in pain. But it came and bit me to play again and again. I got angrier and took it...
Reawakening the Blog
Hello, The previous blog entry introduces me, from my perspective in 2011. Much has passed since until today (2014). I went through really difficult times. I learned a lot of spiritual knowledge, and started to apply it throughout those times. About a month ago, I was...