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by nota_bene 3931 days ago
> That is exactly why I don't share it.

I think the best way to handle this dilemma is to try to sense which of your friends and family members are most open-minded and to start with those. (Personally, I feel like once you've experienced it, it becomes some sort of responsibility to create awareness about it, because the benefit for everybody is just to big to keep quiet.)
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jwdunne 3931 days ago
This is something I do amongst very close friends and family. It's still difficult without making their eyes gloss over but I do think that this insight could bring major positive changes to them and even the world as a whole.
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selimthegrim 3931 days ago
What would it fix about the world?
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jwdunne 3931 days ago
If every one truly believed that what affects others is actually affecting themselves, I couldn't describe the all of benefits. One is a massive reduction of wars, violence and suffering.

It is a process though. I get angry, upset and do, on occasion, cause suffering in response to those emotions. What I am able to do is realise that I can observe this emotions as I do the universe, as it's all the same. By disconnecting from thoughts and emotions and observing them, they have much less effect. I can then use my thoughts as tool to analyse the situation and choose the appropriate path that will lead to a peaceful, beneficial resolution for me and others.

This does not happen every time, I still fall and slip. With repeated application, it will become a solid habit.

It's obvious and 'trivial' that negatively responding to negative emotional states will produce a negative outcome for myself, increasing my own suffering. This obvious fact fits within my insights, which is most important to me.

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benevol 3931 days ago
> One is a massive reduction of wars, violence and suffering.

My experience and thoughts exactly.

Now remember the fact that the US military budget is bigger that the sum of the budgets of the 10 next biggest nations, then look up what "military industrial complex" means and you know why LSD was wiped under the carpet. If you take away so much cash flow, you take away extreme amounts of power. And those in power have no interest whatsoever to ever see that happen.

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