Hi everyone I posted here sometime ago (last year) and I have just come to accept my new state of being. I am not saying Eckhart Tolle is good or bad and in fact I only heard of him since I went through a similar (ego death) like he claims he did. I do believe Enlightenment is very real and one can be without thought at all and function normally and I am proof of this. I never followed any teache
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Hi everyone. I have been thinking lately and I don't honestly know if this apathy state is normal for me. In someways I believe I have always been like this. I mean recently my Grandfather died but I didn't feel sad at all I wanted to because he was a nice man and he did a lot for me and my family. I was at his furneral and I couldn't feel much at all. My Grandmother also died the
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Some weeks ago upon trying to find some clear explanation about what I am experiencing I came across one the best articles describing this "emotionally blank" state. The following article sums up pretty much what I believe is exactly what I am going through and have been experiencing for almost a year now. Basically the emotional energy behind my thoughts and feelings seems like it has
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Thanks for everyone for the advice especially Brynhild Tudor. I am also glad that I am not the only one going through the samething. What concerns me is many gurus say "Enlightenment" is a permanant state. Once you reach this state it's forever or it's hard to get out of. I also wonder if this "high" like state I experience where I go around in a daze is some sort
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I have some problems like people here as well especially the "blank mind". I took up meditation a few times, I listened to some New Age "gurus" and bought into this idea that "the ego is bad", "silence the mind", "watch your thoughts but don't react to them" etc. I am constantly going though each day apathetic to pretty much everything. I hav
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Hi everyone I am new to this forum. The main reason I joined is because I am having some issues from praticising meditation techniques and listening to various "New Age" gurus. To try and explain things briefly here, through out my youth I often experinced depression and negative thoughts often ruled my mind. As I got older I wanted to try and build up my self confidence because I ha
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