Chris365

see where you are on this scale and try and move up the ladder: https://www.thelawofattraction.com/wp-content/uploads/LOA-Emotional-Scale.png

I'm sure you're aware, but watch out for those manic phase signs...

Direct experience

@James123, is that you? ??... Suppose its all James123 ?

Whatever you do, don't watch the Samadhi movie, Descartes' demon chased me the whole night while on 400ug ?

25mg snorted.... It's twisted.... The world continued to work normally, I was inverted in time.... Started to get cold... Had some realizations, one source, this/present/consciousness is the focus/ all that exists... And many others... But a bit too twisted, will stick to 5meo DMT, which is super clear and less body load also it lasts 5+hours, compared to 1hr for 5meodmt... Interesting substance all the same...

Who needs to do all that?

@Terell Kirbyyou're playing word and concept games, and yes, there appears to still be a 'you' there, that tries very hard to identify with any grand ole concept, call it god if you will. Looking down on 'others' as not enlightened that do not utter the same identification with this concept you have, is just another 'mind' game. 'I' am not enlightened, because there is no 'me' already, to be or not be enlightened... Don't call off the search prematurely, resting on the conceptual laurels.

You first ?

There's no 'why', there's no reason for anything. Except for the mind, which tries to keep itself in existence by asking these questions.. why, how.... In order to know, to understand, and so to keep its loop of knowing going. Try practices that may lead to no mind, give thoughts a break for a while...

Sounds like you're well on your way to equanimity... A little work on the so called perceived negative feelings, and you can start teaching ?. Note that the 'lack of positive feelings' is JUST a thought. You have a belief that we should experience these, conditioned into you by society/environment. Besides the conditioned response and belief in lack, is there any truth to it? Look now, what is actually missing? And try to not reply with beliefs, only with what's actual.

You are addicted to thought/thinking, like most people. Have you examined the nature of thought, where is it coming from, where does it appear, do 'you' control it? Once thought addiction is seen through, it loses its illusory power to create suffering.

At the same time, no matter what you do, you can't get it wrong

Sensory perceptions are Absolute Truth. They are pure consciousness. As such, they cannot be generated by such a thing as a ' body'. What is a 'body' anyway? A thought, a concept. What you think of as the body, is not separate from all-that-is. The 'body' is only known to you through perceptions, it is seen, it is sensed

7mg vaped? He's talking snorted

yep, 30mg next

Those people you're talking about are as real as the 'you' that's thinking about them. This cannot be understood through thinking.

I'm sure that wasn't the first use of that quote. A quick google search turns out Brazilian writer Fernando Sabino. No matter who came up with it first, it contains lots of truth. Lmao at 'your' suffering.

How can it be 'your' creation if you have no control over it? Same as you're beating your heart, maintaining your body temperature? And.... The same as you're shining the Sun, and rotating the galaxy. You are doing all of that, it's just not the 'you' you're mistaking yourself to be. Is it even a 'you'? YOU decide ?

Is there a difference between 'thoughts' and 'thinking'? Are there thoughts, without thinking? Is there thinking, without thoughts? It's obvious ' thoughts' and 'thinking' refer to the same thing, thinking. Just like colours and seeing are 2 words for the same thing, seeing. 'A thinker thinking thoughts' is just language for 'thinking'. Thinking happens, but there's nobody thinking. To see where thoughts come from, do this exercise: relax and let go of all thoughts. Then, wait like a cat ready to pounce on a bird, and wonder what thought is going to appear next. After some time, when that first thought appears, where is it appearing from? How come that thought appeared and not another? Did you have any control over that thought appearing and not another?

All is well in the end. If all is not well, it's not the end.

"But if I don't react, things won't go as well as they could, for me"

That's an assumption. Check your direct experience for the answers ?

Yes, as thoughts. Thinking happens, just like seeing, hearing etc... happens. And what are thoughts? Where do they appear? What are they made of?

Concepts and imagination