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Should’ve said “Yule in July”. Doesn’t look very wintry. Google: winter average 13 °C. Wow, positively balmy.

This imo is pivotal.

Maybe ask @stirling ?

Yes. But it wasn’t the UFC/MMA phenomenon in my case. After 50 years of exploring Eastern religions, I became disillusioned with the cultural history (things like the female foot mutilation, widow ‘suicides’ and marrying off/selling off little children).

Is individuation the opposite of non-dual? Individuation - selfhood. Non-dual - no-self.

I agree. I forged an integration of the two. Ime a balance is needed. Too little authenticity made me feel unreal but too much of it made me harsh.

Righto.

Sounds mighty ‘dual’ to me. What happened to:

Seems to me you have resorted to a ‘red herring’.

A TDB search of “non-dual” gives me 130 pages. Looking randomly at some of the posts, gave me the impression there are lots of different definitions being used.

Really? You changed your mind quickly, that’s not at all what you said. Exactly. Let’s hear it from our very own The Dao Bums’ master: Impressive.

Welcome to the forum. Some threads that came to mind reading your OP: Re. “internal alchemy”: Re. “retreat”: Re. “jumpstart”: Enjoy the forum.

“Hello” John. Welcome to the forum.

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I’m devout RC.

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Hi Healthynprosper. Welcome to the forum.

Reread the posts on page 1, all your questions were answered there already.

@ChiDragon should it not say if it’s “in” or “out” where I put […] in the following quote?

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It might be this post: