How Social Interactions Change After Awakening - Amoda Maa

[@Tuluum997]

It's becoming apparent that the more awakened you become the less you will have to say or feel the need to express. As Amoda infers, this isn't arrogance or antisocial, it's simply the result of divesting oneself from the egoic state.

[@Tuluum997]

@@TheWorldTeacher Hi Jagadguru. What I meant/mean by the 'egoic state', is the state of mind which identifies with the physical body, which believes itself to be separate from others and things, that believes it was born, will grow old and then die. A self that holds to a physical world and is acquisitive, envious, that believes the goal in life is to amass stuff in order to be happy etc..etc..As one relinquishes this view/belief , then the things aforementioned begin to lose their importance.

[@divinelight5623]

Thank God, someone is feeling same as i feel😮

[@macaroon147]

Maybe you just have depression. Just kidding,

[@coenterhaar9183]

I'm so glad I found Amoda on You Tube! She is one of few Non Duality teachers who really speaks in detail how it is to live after awakening. This talk resonates and is very helpful. The clarity and wisdom of stillness within will carry you through.

[@尺ムノ刀ノ丂]

Had a non-abiding awakening 1 month after 20th birthday. Ego was not dissolved, it was realized for what it was - an illusion. I continued with my life as if nothing happened, but lost interest after interest, until deep depression set in. This again turned me towards spirituality. Now at age 25, I had abiding realization. What you speak of resonates deeply, the "interest" to interact with beings is there, "problem" is finding one. I know not to seek, I enjoy the presence and life the way I have past 5 years - in solitude, while surrounded with other people. It seems that more and more people are experiencing awakening now, who knows, maybe I run into one.

[@SuketaPatel]

尺卂丨几丨丂 , you have run into one, happened to me in 2012... 😇Blessings of the awakening!

[@SuketaPatel]

@@TheWorldTeacher , when The butterfly came out of the caccoon in 2012 My taste buds could no longer touch meat. I started to be aware of finally about how animals are killed and the vibrations related to that killing. I started to look up videos about this. The resonance could no longer tolerate meat. The taste of it sickened me...and it went as far as milk products and leather goods etc...it happened automatically my truth an the nature of my new being, However, over time I learned many things.....as I continued to seek who I am I understood that weather I ate meat or milk or anything does not really matter since this world does not really exist. However, I understand my responsibility to all nature. I understood that my state of being was the most important understanding. I learned that beliefs, thoughts, perceptions, imagination dreams, feelings are all just qualities of a conditioned mind like a computer program, therefore, if we let go of those things that do not serve us, than we let go of the illusions and stay in our true being....which is awareness itself....not the qualities. Its that which we see. I bounce back and forth. In today’s world and with kids...,vegan is not my priority. However, I am vegetarian and take very little dairy products. I go with the flow of my body. I do not judge those that eat meat. I don not give meaning to such ideas...began...meat....because I understood that it was first the butterfly affect....that could have become a spiritual ego. Blessings of the heart of Christ to you! May you be blessed with awareness and true seeing😇🙏🇨🇦❤️🌈🌎🦋🌺🏄‍♀️

[@JohnnyCatFitz]

so happy the internet is there for people. when I was a similar age there was nobody to ask, I didn't really know what happened. the depression ame and went and was medicalized ect. Though I found 1 or 2 books there wasn't any way to communicate with therapists as to the nature of it/ this/ that. best regards~

[@elzechristinedun6387]

This moved me to tears. Totally familiar. Thank you.

[@richardlynch6927]

I observe social interactions and friendships , I now see the addictions that need to be fed for the friendship to remain .

[@pandzban4533]

If you can, start a garden. Plants teach patience. Animals show devotion. And so on, so on... I was rising stray cat my wife found in the bushes. I didn't like to have an another animal in the house. I already had three dogs and two cats but I wasn't able to reject it. Some inner force was telling me don't give up. I was rewarded instantly. I observed the cat grow and things started to align into a pattern. When I asked myself in my mind why this cat, something pushed me to look at cat's eyes. It was like looking into a mirror. I heard 'enjoy the moment'. Than I looked at the mirror myself and start asking who is behind those eyes? Thoughts seemed to be somewhere else than this guy in the mirror. Kinda like everywhere. Similar to sensation of sound.

[@whocares6218]

Beautiful ❤️🙏🏼 thank you for sharing..

[@vanessaannlocker388]

Thank you ❤️🙏🏻

[@joeyn9219]

Beautiful.

[@jakelerms1935]

Could you imagine having a mother like this? O_O that would be amazing lol.

[@ajsalonius8455]

Good

[@whocares6218]

I’m rewatching after 10 months. i am having trouble with social interactions. exactly as you have explained it, i feel there is really no meeting. what to do? just keep silent and just let the friendship die on its own? or continue talking with friends until i have learned to accept them as they are? Please help..

[@AmodaMaa]

Only follow what is true in your innermost. If silence is the truth, then be silent. If talking with friends arises out of silence, this also will be truth. But if it arises out the need or expectation to be friends, it will not be truth. Experiment, and you will feel what is true for you. Either your friends will meet you in a deeper place, or they will fall away and perhaps other friends will appear who can meet you in being not in need and expectation to conform. Or no friends will appear and you will be perfectly content. 🙏

[@whocares6218]

Amoda Maa Thank you so much 🙏🏼

[@waedjradi]

You will be fine. You are entering a very clear frequency. Enjoy it, brother. . .

[@Nflamed]

@@AmodaMaa I wonder if you're open to considering how your message to this person could unintentionally put them in harms way. Many people suffer a great deal when they're no longer able to relate to anyone after awakening, a time when we're often vulnerable and disoriented, and can become dangerously alienated even to the point of suicide, something that is more commonly reported than most realize during this stage of awakening 😔 Perhaps you would consider how the message that they will be perfectly happy whether or not they have any friendship in their lives is likely to be read as *should* be perfectly happy, and can lead someone to feel very ashamed and self-judgmental if they do not feel perfectly happy, and to stop themselves from actively exploring sources of new resonant friendship, through local spiritual communities for example, because they are led to believe by spiritual guides they've put their trust in that it is more spiritual to passively wait for it to possible show up one day. Many people report this - feeing encouraged to believe that it is awakened to feel as though they don't need or want intimacy in their lives. Many people on this path, like myself, grew up being taught to repress and feel guilty about having their healthy needs and desires, and instead of then learning to honor them and communicate them, our spiritual teachers can further stifle that, rather than helping us to cultivate a healthy balance of inter-dependency, where we are not over-dependent on relationships/externals for our wellbeing, while honoring having healthy psycho-spiritual-biological relational needs, and that it's not natural to expect ourselves to be *perfectly* happy without it. Perhaps some people feel that, but as a blanket message, it could be really risky. I wonder if this section from John Welwood on spiritual bypassing & relationships might shift your perspective in some way. In it he writes "It’s very painful to see someone maintaining a stance of detachment when underneath they are starving for positive experiences of bonding and connection." This may not be what's happening for everyone, including the person who wrote that comment, but that makes it seem even more important to know what someone's unique situational & psychological background is, and to consider how a one size fits all solution could encourage bypassing and even lead to extremely dangerous kinds of alienation that are too often reported on nondual paths, including the risk of people taking their own lives 🙏🏼 docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRB9ooSCzIq4PjzXvFb-ah9XYht8TcrwCWq_jWsbaDlTCJ10DtaNnm3pHyL8WrTU9ID8TW5KR2BycAM/pub

[@Nflamed]

@@waedjradi see my message below

[@thepolymathacademy4891]

The skill of revealment, is different to the skill of commucation, and both of these in Confluence, makes a full Poetinal of being, able to be non naive and act forthright, only then is there non compensation and wisdom or truth

[@mikerichter1694]

It would be interesting to see how Amoda interacts with people in the day to day. Does she ever take a position or voice an opinion?

[@bssitsmmsunrr]

When you know what consciousness and subconscious is, you also know exactly whether anything is just your unconscious programming or if it is an opinion based on deep and conscious thought.

[@Nflamed]

well her books and videos express positions and views..

[@AmodaMaa]

@@Nflamed actually they are written and spoken from direct experience, not opinion. There is s big difference.

[@moonglow6639]

If you talk about awakening you are not really awakened.. Live life, don't talk about it.

[@richardlynch6927]

There would a lot of unanswered questions if the teacher didn’t speak , just a thought .❤