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Very good. It does not matter where you look, as long as you do. You can travel the world just to see that everywhere is the same and realize that everything is you. There is no path, but only a fool doesn't walk it. How would you see the world as not you, if you were to see that it is you? You are a perspective. To see yourself as a perspective is a perspective in itself. If you do that, then there is no you. There is only reality that watches itself. To arrive at that point is to see infinite beauty. Isn't life either beauty or utility? You can see that everything is beauty if there is nobody to benefit from utility.

Hahaha . You got it .

When you watch a good show, you feel the characters' suffering, and yet - this is precisely why you enjoy the show. Enlightenment in this context is to see that you are both the character and the spectator. That you enjoy your life precisely because you suffer. That suffering is irresistible to watch. Irresistibility is the hallmark of a great performance. The greatest performance is reality. It is so real, that you cannot help, but watch when the right time comes. When it comes to your question about animals: What is the difference between your suffering when you watch them, and them suffering? Before you read this sentence, did suffering of aliens concern you? Everything is as enlightened as you are, because you are everything. Are you perhaps questioning your own enlightenment here?

@Faceless Yes. Measurement implies gain/loss which relates the world to 'I'. There will always be 'enemy' to fight when one chooses to split himself from the world. To deny oneness is to blind yourself to yourself. To introduce the unknown/other to fight. This is why there is always an illusion of progress. You cannot defeat yourself. The insight of today for me is this: Paradox is the symmetry of reality.

Thank you nonetheless. Seeing your concern for whomever cheered me up. After all, I and @MarkusSweden are one. He's the capital letter and I am the full stop. @sarapr Just look at his post count! He posts in all threads, so no wonder that threads the posts in become hot! (Also kidding!)

@Faceless Haha, using measure as a measure of embodying immeasurable . Ego is so very very very sneaky. I'm alright friend Thanks for your concern

Sorry Markus. I just don't understand why you're using your intellect like this. I guess that we're reflecting each other too much to share one space. Crafting flawless posts, wondering if we're helping, or breaking. It is sometimes difficult to just dance.

Acknowledging your faults is easy. What about acknowledging faults of others? Isn't that a little faulty of you?

Also: lots of shoulds and shouldn'ts for the advocacy of spontaneity.

The impulse to make plans arises spontaneously. The impulse to go, or not to go through with your plans arises spontaneously as well. That constant spontaneity is spontaneous as well. This is what life looks through the lens of 'now'.

We all experience infinite love for the drama of our own life. It takes infinite compassion for yourself to wake up from that.

@zunnyman Fear of death is a powerful driving force of change. If it is an important part of your life, expect it to surface regardless of whether you pursue enlightenment or not. You may decide to stay clear of psychedelics because you may die 'because of' them and pursue meditation instead. After doing it for 5 years you may decide that it is not going anywhere and take 30 day meditation challenge just to realize that it may physically kill you. If fear of death is what stops you - it will always stop you from you stopping it. It is, after all, what stops ordinary people from asking what am I even doing this for? I will die, after all! Try asking yourself: who is going to be there to witness my death? Me? Physical death is the ultimate stop. If your life is so miserable now that you want to become enlightened, why do you fear it? It is what stops everything, including suffering. Try to find solace in it. Why don't you use it to propel yourself towards enlightenment? What if you die before you get enlightened? Did that question occur to you?

We are all enlightened, friend ❤️

@Mikael89 @Ether Oh man, you guys have no idea. Enlightenment is seeing stillness in ceaseless movement. To let go of 'I' is to get rid of the barrier that prevents the movement. It simply moves. By itself. Precisely because there is nobody to benefit from it. Infinite meaning in pure nothingness.

@deci belle Is there a difference between the term described as: going unnoticed, no one noticing , 'I am not the person' and simply not relating stealing potential to attain benefit/avoid losses? One cannot steal potential to gain something, as one steals it by discarding himself. There is no-one to gain anything and that's the point in my understanding. This part throws me off. In the first paragraph, you stress that there is no reason for going either way. Later however, you seem to point towards redirecting this saved energy towards self-refinement. What is the counterbalance for self-refinement for 'ordinary people' if there is no difference between going either way? Is it simply that enlightened beings consciously direct energy towards 'growing up' and circumstances change by themselves in response? Ordinary people direct energy towards changing circumstances and 'grow up' in response to them. Again: what is the difference between refinement and gratification from the point of view of spiritual alchemy? I'm still learning the language you express enlightenment in. We may misunderstand each other. My path manifested enlightenment firstly as the never-ending shift of perspective. I think that you refer to it as fire. This fire is sustained by effortless observation of symmetries of everyday situations. That one counterpart of a symmetry can be turned on itself to produce the other. This itself is such a violation of rules for 'ordinary people' that obvious solutions to everyday problems are unthinkable for them. Today I understood that one can 'sustain' fire as the never-ending breaking of rules only by perpetually 'burning' oneself. To be the fuel. To willingly die, to forget everything. That nothing matters anymore. This can be interpreted as only working with not-knowing by doing no one noticing of the shift of perspective. By not trying to change perspective to gain something. Then, this change is indistinguishable from seeing. You just know that it was the perfect moment. This shift of perspective in ordinary people is when they play the trick on themselves. They are reborn. To see the fire is to become its fuel. Is there any relationship with any of this to your spiritual practice?

@Maycol You are welcome friend.

@Applejuice Remember that this is the game of courage, not of fear. When you start to fear to lose this, it is precisely the moment to cast it away so thoroughly, that you even cast away hope that it will come back. It is to be cast away so deeply that you may never get it back. To return to your own self. If you try to grasp it and make it stick with you - you will lose it. This is the game of contradiction and paradox. Learn that it has no rules. It is only audacity that will get you there. Great sharing. Godspeed!

God, this is so beautiful! Thank you @cetus56!

@Faceless Great video! I really enjoyed it. If you don't play life, life will toy with you. It will always seem like there are problems to solve. The great hoax is that you are the one that introduces them by trying to fix things! You fix one thing and the other breaks precisely because of what you did. Unless you can find solace in your deficiencies, the world will always seem hostile by taking things away from you!

A subtle hint that in order to resist, you need to surrender to resistance.

@Muwuwei90 To be compassionate towards others is to suffer for their ignorance. If you were compassionate towards yourself, you would remain ignorant of other people's suffering. You have a gift of seeing other people's auras. Give yourself a gift of closing your eyes. It is sometimes easy to mistake others hurting themselves for hurting you when you become blind to your own pain.

Beautiful. You can only witness the dance when you stop dancing. You can only kill your enemy by making friends with him. You can only do that when you see them as one. When there is no you to make peace or fight. Only then your friend can dance with your enemy in communion. When there is no you. There's only dance.

@Charlotte I always liked to find solace in mother nature. She is a harsh, but loving mistress. The love of mother nature to you is unconditional through its divine, eternal and ever-present indifference. She loves you as much as any other rock and treats your problems equally. To see yourself as a rock is to get rid of all problems at once. Then, the only problem that's left is: I don't want to be a rock! I want to be important! I want to change the world! Then - we return home, reconnected. The real game changer is to see that cities are divinely natural by their indifference. Don't we run away from cities because we feel insignificant? To connect with our nature? Cities express their love to you in the same way that mother nature does. To them, you are just a brick. Isn't that the greatest problem? To be one with one's own nature is to see that our nature is to change. Not to fix or break. Mother nature does not fix you, nor breaks you, when you are born, or when you die. To break you means to feed a bear. To her, it is simply a change. To her, you are a rock. A bear is a rock. A wolf is a rock. She loves everything equally

Accept that both opposite halves of your personality have their respective roles to play. You can only dismiss your rabid half by pretending it's not there. There is no 'nice' way to pretend that somebody is not there. This 'ignoring' is not something the 'nice' does. It is the rabid turning on itself. This is why you feel regret and all of the 'bad' emotions. Anger, fear, regrets belong to rabidness. If you were to respect your rabidness though... you may find it useful if you let it express itself. Love your rabid personality so that you do not fear fear. Would you explain to a bear that you are not tasty? What if you treat other people as bears because you do not know what true, real, rabidness is? Simply because you haven't learned to use it? We really don't live among rabid people, so your rabidness could relax a little if it could only stop watching itself and could simply watch out.

@Moreira Try having conversations with yourself when you are alone. Whisper, or talk out loud. Talk as if you were talking to another person and listen as the same time. Take turns. Give advice to yourself. Comfort yourself. Get angry at yourself if you must. Be honest. There's nobody to judge. The key is to honestly play both roles. To forget that you are playing. Listen as if you were listening to another person. Talk as if you were talking to another person. See if you call yourself names. Would you call other people names in this situation? When you become comfortable, try mediating between the two of you. Try to understand your 'broken' half. It may very well turn out that your 'broken' half is resentful towards you 'good' half. Listen to him honestly. Try to have a relationship with yourself. It is the most important relationship in your life. No matter where you go, no matter who you meet - you will be there too! Love yourself.