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“Mind” as being a word we use to define the brain and thought in relation to...thought-self ?

@Serotoninluvyes that’s quite fascinating to be able to notice. Do you feel this directly impacts your personal relationships? Like perhaps someone you are dating or of course family

To me it sounds exactly right when oberving thought. It’s like when people often first think of the worst possible scenario in a given situation, that’s the mind just looking out for you

@Anton Rogachevskithe ego being that which you identify as who you are...and mind creates its agenda. Actually mind looks out for the agenda of ego @Joseph Maynoris this about right? Edited

i have experienced similar appearance recontexualization phenomena (not sure what id call it) but your emotions get wrapped in the whole sensation of seeing. I might go as far to say this is the result of a disconnect from reality as we think we know it. For me it was a phase and not something I’d had recently. It was probably about 1 year after my first and only mushroom trip

@Joseph Maynorinteresting interpretation / perspective ?

I like how you explained this with belief system dynamics

This is actually a good question to sit with, but not a very good question to receive an answer for. What does it really mean to go "beyond one's mind"? Is it even possible to transcend the mind? To find out what this entails you will need to know exactly what it means to be "you" and when there is an awareness of this "you"can it create freedom to be without any of the mental boundaries distorting your reality Take this movie metaphor to a more personal level: We are actually watching this horror movie, during the movie we become engrossed in the contents of this movie right? Psychologically. We can actually feel everything the characters in the movie are experiencing other than actual physical pain (however sometimes even this seems real), at least how our minds interpret it. When we get distracted or look away for a second, maybe we are reminded, oh yeah "it's only a movie", something some of us keep in the back of our head while watching. This "knowing" (it's only a movie) in the back of our heads is what will begin to be show up as "insights" when we observe all the subtleties in the story of our life. How we create the very confusion, fear, limitations, and suffering we psychologically desire to avoid Isn't it amazing the power of our minds? It gets to the point where we just don't understand what problems it has created for us, because we become conditioned to keep returning to it in search for a way to escape

This is a good point. Not only can we observe how we judge others but to see how it relates to ourselves. It’s good to explore what sort of compassion we hold for ourselves @SOULhow to go about removing all references of good and bad? Whether they are vocalized or not is beside the point. Are they not thoughts and can we control these thoughts?

@isabelyou can ask yourself what makes a thing “not me” Explore how the mind could manipulate your reality. If someone tells you, “hey all is one, you are simply awareness” and you think hmm okay makes sense I’ll give it a try, And you start focusing as “being awareness” this as Jack River explains is still another mind-made movement

Your journey of the deconstruction process has begun! Congratulations! Do not be too hard on yourself. All and I mean ALL of your egoic tendencies are there to help you. When you have insights from these experiences without being the one who controls (judges, resists expects or criticizes) the “bad habits” will end on their own and blissful being will return when theres confusion suffering etc let it be and be present with it as much as possible

Love being perceived as simply acceptance. Does this make it unconditional? Is there a split second when all psychological conditions melt away? No more division in psychological interpretation

i don't mean to taunt you my friend. Your thread brings it out naturally. why do you refuse to clarify your purpose and make so many assumptions based off a few questions? Speak your truth or forever....hold your peace

@Leo Gurawell said! people so often attempt to turn the ego against themselves. It will always be there! Love it, learn from it, and eventually transcend it. Not done by choice, but through observation, insight and integration

Haha nice. Ultimately there’s the surrender (with no surrenderer) of our mind made experiences. Until this happens let the ego do its thing and watch all of its urges/reactions/patterns etc the quicker we can see the extent of our identity in play, the sooner it will vanish without a trace the state of being has no controller, identifier, judger or resistor If and when the ego returns continue with the insights through experience. The mind plays a vital role in life but it is so very liberating when put in its place

WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO, got to do with it..?

It could also be described as an expansion of perception how the mind interprets reality creates experience, therefore it is real to the mind but limited by the interpretation

Lovely content recently. Fears a driving force for change. Don’t resist! Investigate what exactly you desire. Observe all those thoughts and keep sitting with that fear

@Aakashmy bad. *Are you separate from this experience?

Who’s experiencing? Are you separate didn’t this experience?

Okay but who’s truth is it?

Understanding/discovering who or what you are, not by thinking but through insights

@isabelpeople get the idea that doing a certain amount of disciplined practices will get them closer to the truth however the practices have nothing to do with truth or enlightenment Now setting this aside, using practices to quite the monkey mind or for healthy body related therapy can benefit your life! @Aakashwho could be aware of a world with no meaning? I’d say only a nihilist

Yes It’s interesting to speculate. That’s a possibility. One thing to consider is what exactly was the stem of his passion for fighting and how it carried over into his training

Directly learn as much about it as you can possibly know. What feeds your story? Gives you an identity? What makes you, you? What aspects of yourself have you pushed away? What does your interpersonal relationships teach you about you? (Notice your resistances, fears, triggers, judgments, and feelings) its all about learning how the mind works so you can be completely whole also it shouldn’t be thought of as something to get rid of