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Who you think 'you are' is just mental conditioning.

Good one, a very subtle one. When there is a let go, you can feel the body get lighter.

Right/Wrong is subjective. It is depended on your own beliefs of what is right or wrong.

True, the good thing about the electronic information age is, its going to be a lot harder for them now.

It comes from an inner sense to fight. To fight for your view of what you think the world should be. Ultimately this is an attachment that may be given up later on. Otherwise the dissatisfaction with the world can be used as a powerful drive for self cultivation.

Depending on your past actions and thoughts. Mental conditioning carries on until you make a change. Making a change means to stop paying attention to certain ideas or not believing in them.

Tulku does have some valid points in most topics. Tulku I think you need to let this all out of your system. Realize its much better to work on yourself for enlightenment than trying to change the outside world first. Although you're probably already doing this. Yes criminals control the world. The only answer is to rise above it.

What is 'me', 'myself' or 'I' as it arises inside the mind?

I guess so. Firstly to remove your own suffering and then to remove the suffering of all others. It is still grasping after something. But it is better to grasp after something that doesn't generate as much suffering than something else that does. Especially since that grasping for enlightenment will eventually destroy itself, when it is seen to be fictitious and a creation of the mind.

Think back, way back, to a time just after you were born and hadn't learnt any language. Where was the mental thinker then? How could there be thoughts if language was not there to facilitate them. Therefore who are you? The thoughts came after, a learned and conditioned phenomena.

From a security point of view, I cannot use my real name sorry.

Isn't any effort towards anything an ego trip?

I did hold this view once.

That which is never born, can never die.

Emptiness destroys itself.

It only exists if you 'think' it exists. Time is a concept.

That depends on what belief you hold onto. If you believe all creatures with flesh are your mothers/fathers/children, then yes. If you don't believe this, then in your world, it does not hold true. It is subjective and therefore a conditioned viewpoint.

Thinking that there is something wrong with you, is just an idea in the mind that is conditioned. Moving beyond ideas, see the truth.

The void is depthless

I have a normal light as my bedside light as the salt lamp is no where near bright enough to be able to read a book.

I have a salt lamp. Its quite nice.

Willingtolisten its time to wake up. Truth or bust.

Is not having these things now upsetting you? If so, can not you see it is your desire of these things that is causing the unhappiness? Wouldn't it be better to just be happy and not need anything, than be unhappy wanting everything? The more you hold onto things, the more painful its going to be.

Desire is the root of all suffering. So give up those desires...