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Disabled Chat
Hi Admins and Moderators. Could you clarify what’s going on with the disabled chat feature? Right now it seems impossible to start new chats with anyone unless you’ve reached level 9. I can only message people I already had an open chat with. Is this intended? And is there any way to reverse this so we can message new people again? Thanks in advance.
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Probably it has something to do with the bots and scammers that occured here recently... the war against the robots. :)
Opinion about Eckhart Tolle?
I’m curious how others here see Eckhart Tolle. At first, for me, he has been one of the most influential spiritual teachers in my life. His work helped me move from a more superficial form of Christianity into a deeper spirituality and a taste of non-duality. His teachings on presence, the nature of thought, and the possibility of experiencing the infinite only in the Now were life-changing for me. I’ve read many of his books and they gave me profound insights. But the deeper I go on my spiritual path, the more I feel that Tolle’s teaching stops at a certain point. He emphasizes becoming empty, letting go, living entirely in the present — which is absolutely essential. It is the first step: turning inward, releasing identification with thought, detaching from the ego. However, what I experienced is this: If we stay only there, something is missing. In my experience, emptiness without aliveness becomes flat. Many spiritual traditions that focus exclusively on stillness and detachment end up lacking the other half of the dance — the movement, the energy, the joy, the creative expression of life (what you could call Yin and Yang, balance or the "dance of life" swinging between the poles). I practiced the “be empty, kill the ego, detach from everything” path very seriously. It gave me peace, yes — but also a kind of numbness, a loss of vitality. It felt incomplete. And reality becomes meaningless and neutral... Now I see it differently: We become empty so that we can be filled — with love, joy, abundance, presence, and creative life-force. Emptiness is the beginning, not the destination. That’s just my experience over the past weeks. How do you see Eckhart Tolle and his teaching? Do you feel the same, or something different?
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@Wojtek Gorecki I can fully agree with everything you wrote. I also believe that a lot depends on whether we are ready for certain teachings. Some lessons can only land when we’ve grown enough to integrate them. That’s why we can’t really “help” someone unless they actively ask for guidance. Unrequested advice often has the opposite effect, because everyone walks their own path and unfolds in their own timing. And I’ve noticed something similar on my journey: every time I think I finally “understand” something, it goes even deeper… and deeper again. I keep writing down my insights — I have a whole Miro board filled with them — and the list just keeps growing. There is no final insight, because wisdom has no bottom. The path continues for a lifetime.
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@Erhard H. I fully agree with all you said. There is a saying I love: "If you want to find peace - quiet your mind. If you want to find love - open your heart. If you want to find god - do both." I think it fits perfectly here.
Meditations
Hello rebels , I am about to embark on the meditations in the classroom . I would want to ask anyone who has been there to give me some insights if there are any . Or would yoy suggest that I just go there and get my own experience?
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I think when it comes to meditation, everyone responds differently. Some people meditate best lying down, others while walking, others with tuning forks or sound tools... The most important thing, in my opinion, is simply to find what helps you relax and drop into the state most easily. For me, meditation is just a tool to reduce the boundary between consciousness and the unconscious, shift the inner state from contraction to expansion — to connect with the divine and calm down the nervous system, to be able to enter that state. That’s the foundation for me. And since there are many ways to reach that state, prayer is also just another form of meditation in my eyes. In the end, I think all of these methods do one thing: They shift your inner state from contraction to expansion. I can only share what has personally worked well for me: I usually meditate right before going to sleep for about 20 minutes. In the morning my mind is already busy with the tasks of the day, but in the evening — right before bed — it works best. If you're a morning person, mornings might also work for you. One side effect for me is that my dreams become very vivid and easy to remember. I meditate sitting on a cushion, and I always use ANC headphones. The meditations on this platform are great — the binaural beats help shift the brainwaves into the right state more quickly, and the gong sound keeps my awareness on the breath. With other meditations, my breathing becomes too shallow, but here it naturally deepens, which relaxes the solar plexus a lot. I use Skullcandy Crusher ANC2 headphones (originally not bought for meditation). They have very strong bass and transfer vibration directly into the head, which surprisingly works very well — though any good headphones will do. That’s what works best for me personally. Try out what works for you and look closely when you have a feeling of inner expansion (warmth, openness, peace) - that is what might work for you.
Handling Lust Addiction
My current focus on my spiritual journey is becoming free of my lustful habits and addictions. It has proven to be hard to undo over a decade of sexual degeneracy in my mind. Who would have thought. I know I am making progress because usually when I try to quit it's like a pendulum where eventually I swing right back into the habit, and justify the habit as I could not handle both being addicted and being full of shame by knowing how wrong my actions were. But recently I have moved into a new space, free of shame and guilt, and full of awareness more and more. Where I am still sinning but instead of tearing myself down I am just watching how my actions are affecting my spirit. And I can feel myself becoming more and more convicted that this habit/addiction does not serve me. Every time I enter back into the habit I am one step closer to becoming free. Wondering what the others in the group have to say about their own journey. This has become the single most important part of my life!
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Thanks for your honesty at first.. I think at first it is important to understand that lust itself is not something bad. Lust is a natural part of our human nature (little monkey brain). What we do with it is what can become helpful or harmful and how we perceive it in our thoughts. What you’re describing is, in my eyes, the difference between morality and love. Morality comes from the ego — “I must not do this,” followed by shame, guilt, or fear. That creates inner resistance, and resistance always makes the pendulum swing back. Real transformation begins when you drop the shame and simply observe yourself without judgment. The moment you started watching your behavior instead of tearing yourself down, something in you already shifted. I also think addiction doesn't end by fighting the behavior. It ends when the heart turns toward God, toward love. When we stop see the addiction as something bad. When you choose love and abundance over fear and lack, your inner nature slowly changes — and the things that once pulled you lose their power. Not because you force yourself, but because they simply no longer match who you are becoming. I can see in your words that this shift has already begun.. but it is a process. You’re recognizing that the habit no longer serves you. At some point, you may simply stop — not through willpower, but because your inner nature has changed. There is also a video, Rey is talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TrHUw90v2c
Karma
Is Karma about morality or is it irrelevant to morality?
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@John Tettis I like this answer, and I see it the same way. Morality is something we do with the ego — it often carries shame, resistance, and fear. But when we turn ourselves toward God, toward love, and choose to act from love instead of fear, we automatically move away from the things that separate us from the divine.
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