Princess Arabia

Well, the ancients are dead. Since they know they're dead, ask them.

Ok. I won't take that away from you. Soothe the soul, my dear.

This is like saying "holy shit, I'm terrified of sleep". No one knows they're asleep, just as no one will know they're dead. The delusion is you thinking there's a you to die.

People are not denying Spirituality another choice was made. This in Infinity and all sorts of situations and circumstances and all sorts of people exists. There's doesn't have to be a true reason why such and such is happening. We make all that shit up to try and make sense of the world. Imagine if EVERYONE was into Spirituality, where would the diversity of the Absolute fit in. We tend to want everyone to be like us and when they're not, we concoct up some reason why they're not. Some people are not into Spirituality simply because they're not. It's that simple. No complications needed.

I think people perceive you according to the relationship you have with that person, the idea they have of you and what they want or don't want from you mostly in terms of expectation. The same person's mother will perceive them differently than say that person's friend or lover; not because the person is different, but because of the reasons I stated above. We even look at strangers in a way relative to the circumstances in which they appeared in our experience. For example, a female appearing before a man's eyes who is attracted to her will be seen differently by another guy who is not attracted to her. If she appeared in a bar, she'll also be perceived differently than if she were in a mall or library. Nothing changed about her appearance but where she appeared made the difference. That's usually how people perceive you. You need do nothing, just appear to them in situations and circumstances that they already formed an opinion about.

We do not choose to respond. Response happens. I know this sounds non-dual and woo woo and oh my God, not again, but it is the case. When you read that first sentence, were you blank. Did you not have an opinion about it. You happen to hit on this journal and read this post. Are you choosing how to respond to these writings or is it just happening. Reflect on that and be honest about it. If we're being mindful to not respond a certain way to what's happening in life, that's also not by our choosing. Try and respond a certain way to something and then choose another response right away to the same thing. Can you erase the first response from happening in the first place and can the second response automatically turn into the first response. No. If both were your choices, then you'd be able to undo the first response and turn the second response into a first. Both were spontaneous, both happened on their own, neither can be erased only follow. You can choose a pair of shoes and decide to return it for another, but you cannot undo the choosing of the first shoe. If you were doing the choosing, then you could undo the choosing. Everything is just in succession; one thing happening after the other, after the other, after the other, and we think we're doing it and choosing to do it. Erasing something doesn't mean that thing never existed, it just means something else happened, something else appeared. The first thing appeared, the eraser appeared, the erasing appeared and the new thing appeared. They all appeared in succession - one after the other. All those moves appeared independently from each other and without a chooser. A chooser would be able to "unchoose".

There's no silent watcher in immediacy. There's no "your life" that's being watched; that's duality. That suggests separation which is illusory. Actually, the statement "it's silently - watching- your- life - suggests 4 things happening. It's/watching/your/life. That's quadrality.

Nice!

There's no way around suffering if one identifies as a human. It comes with the territory. Trying to master the self in this aspect, only perpetrates the suffering and confirms that one suffers. Same as trying to find happiness. Only confirms that one is unhappy. The seeker seeks. That's what it does. Seeking the end of suffering is still living in the future via imagination, as you put it. Life does what it wants, when it wants. Stifling yourself to try and not feel emotions that are arising because of spontaneous responses is only perpetrating the suffering and keeping you from being present. Even though you're always present, the effects in the mind won't feel like that and will just create confusion. Confused as to why these feelings are arising. I suggest we just see suffering as another energetic spontaneous arising that may or may not prolong the effects depending on how one looks at the suffering. The person that sees it as them being human and that's a function of that energy will have a better relationship with that suffering than one who is trying to master and manipulate the spontaneity of feelings that are arising on their own and what we've identified with as a function of the perceived separate self. That self sees everything that arises within it's perception in relation to itself and it owns everything including that suffering - it cannot help it. Trying to master suffering is like trying to master the rain. It falls when the conditions arises for it do so. Changing your conditions and environment is what's needed, not trying to master feelings into being in the now. There's no other place to be, even via imagination, because that's also happening now.

They'll just be suffering NOW. Nothing is ever done "not in the now". There's no now to master. Now is all there is. Unacceptance is also done now. Living is always in the now, responding is always in the now. Let me see you live yesterday and respond yesterday to something that's happening now.

And why does Religion exist.

We're trying to save the world. We see the world as something that needs saving because we see ourselves as needing to be saved. Notice when we're happy, the world seems just, everything is great in the moment; then sadness arises, and the world is unjust again. Same world, different feeling. We live by our feelings. We become stoic and develop inner resilience to cope with life's uncertainties and what's uncontrollable. Then we lose the ability to connect with life and be compassionate and caring. We see life as something to defend and guard against. We are the gate-keepers of our world and we try to keep the enemies at bay; both sentient and not. Doesn't matter. Living or not. Anything that doesn't align with my world view and survival strategy is the enemy. We're constantly on guard. Always on the look out for harm. It's exhausting. It's energetically unbearable. We turn to drugs and substances to cope. It's so fucking unbearable being and identifying as a separate human being. We think we're happy when we feel happy but it's just a temporary relief from the unbearable. Like an orgasm for the mind. When the unbearable becomes extremely unbearable then we feel sad or depressed. When the unbearable becomes "I wonder when I'll get relief again" it becomes anxious. When the unbearable becomes noticeably unwanted and it realizes itself it becomes hateful. When it doesn't know how to transform itself it becomes envious. When it sees itself in others it becomes malicious. It reflects upon itself. Now, it wants to save the world in an attempt to save itself. When the world acts right, then I'll act right. It's them that's the problem. When I go to sleep and the world doesn't exist for me, then I'm cool. When I arise to face myself in the mirror, now the world is a problem again. How come the world isn't a problem when I'm asleep. I'm in lala land and I can travel and experience other worlds; but when I awake it's the world I awaken to that's the problem. What I see in the waking state is the problem but not when I'm asleep. Then we want to awaken and be more aware of the stinkin' problems we face. We want to magnify the problems and be more awake to them. Or we want to lose the self so the problems go away. THERE'S ONLY ONE DENOMINATOR HERE. Figure that out.

What people don't understand is that we're all going through the same underlying problem: LACK OF LOVE. An identity crises. Needing thing to be a certain way. Needing to know the unknown. Fear is what drives us. Complacency is what's crippling us. Fear and complacency both drives and cripples us simultaneously. We have both feet on the gas pedal. One foot in, one foot out. Not enough inner relaxation paired with enthusiasm. Relaxed enough to trust, but enthusiastic enough to have the zest for life. We were all dropped off by the "space-ship" on an island to fend for ourselves and we're all trying to figure this shit out. It's scary. We're unsure. We look to others for safety. We think we have it all figured out in the midst of uncertainty. We're unsure and uncertain but we think we know it all. We fight amongst ourselves. We disagree with others' way of looking at the world not realizing it's part of the make up. Part of the whole. Without contrast there's nothing to see. Nothing to experience. We want life to be on our terms. Then we suffer for it. We see the world as a threat. We see others as the enemy. We can't accept people for who they are and work from there. We need them to fit into our own constructs. Then we develop hatred for ourselves and others. I hate you because I hate myself. You hate me because all I see in you is hate. I can't see the love pouring from you, I can't see the little baby crying out. I can't see the fear and feelings of unworthiness in you. All I see is your hate. I feel unloved by others because they're not catering to my needs. My selfishness is what's in the way of me expressing love in it's purest form. It's limited because I feel limited. I'm only a petty little human in this world trying to survive and I have biases and judgements and I see other and I'm separated from life. It's all a mistake. Mistaken identity that creates problems for the individual. The individual that feels empty inside and needs to fill the void with other empty things. It's a never-ending cycle.

Thought contemplating itself.

It has to take it's course. Ginger tea w/lemon may help along with walking. Who wants to walk with a full stomach, though.

Celtic salt. Here's why.

If I learnt nothing else from life, I've learnt this: Don't focus so much on life's contents but on the will. Keep the focus on the end result of what you want to happen. If you want such and such, don't focus on the how, don't get caught up in the circumstances, the experiences keep the focus on what you would like for the end result to be. The contexts, circumstances and experiences won't always be what you want them to be; won't always FEEL good. Take yourself out the picture. Stay present. No matter what's happening, don't take it personal. It's not about you. Things will hurt, things will be frustrating, emotions will arise.....stay focused on the end result. IT WILL HAPPEN. Time and time again i've seen this to be the case. It'll only work when the brain has images to work with. When it has happened before. When you're comfortable with and are vibrating on the same frequency. When it's not up on a pedestal. When it's as sure as the sun coming up. When you're carrying on with your day as if it already has happened. Examples. Spending your last dollar as if it's not your last dollar. Expecting someone to be there for you without wondering if they will be. Seeing that illness as the norm but just needs treatment. Knowing that emergency is taken care of before the emergency arises. Knowing that the misfortune will take care of itself. Notice that that thing you've been worrying about came to pass with another worry right after that. Notice it's WORRY that's the common denominator not the thing being worried about. The contents change but worry is always there. Worry follows you but the contents change and even if they reoccur, the contents are slightly different but it always balances out and changes to another worry about another content. WORRY IS THE COMMON FACTOR. The worry is the problem. By essence worry is doing it's job. Worry is complete all by itself. Without worry, there's nothing to worry about. Worry is it's own being. Like I said, keep the focus on the end result, it might bring you heartache and worry but only if the person is there. The egoic mind. The force. The Source. None of these emotions and feelings have a place to live without it's SOURCE. They lie dormant until the person shines a light on them. They are potential. Waiting for a Source. They're not really waiting, but feelings need a Source and it's the circumstance that allows the feeling to be felt. Feel it but recognize it as just a feeling. Don't harp on it. Let it be there but stay calm and allow it to pass through. Previous occurrences of success will emerge and override the doubt that's why it's important to tap into those images and not the ones of failure. Focus on when it worked out, nit when it didn't. It has always worked out its just you see it as failures because of the limited mind. When the ego wanted to happen but didn't. What happened, was what was supposed to happen in order for the next thing to happen. It's all constructed. All responses. It responds to and aligns with the will. Keep the will alive and the contents dead. They mean nothing, Contents mean nothing. Only for the egoic mind that wants things in a particular way. The will is what's alive. The contents are the illusions. You want her, you lost her, you want a feeling, you'll feel it with something else. She wasn't real. She is you. She was never there. You've always been. She's not the main character, you are. You're all there is and your will is energy. Form is a manifestation of will. This was spontaneous writing and was automatic writing. Not from ego, but from life.

I guess he decided not to permanently stay.

😏😏😏Enough said.

Interesting too. You see metaphysics and epistemology as of more importance than materialism and seem to find materialism's bias as non-credible and not worthy of study. Seem to value fact over fiction and see the differences as highly important. Seem you have separated what you deem important VS not-so-important and use AI where you see or think it won't make a big difference in your conclusions' accuracy. The mind seem to have made a distinction as to what AI is capable of and what it's not or shouldn't be relied upon for but it still recognizes it's importance in what the mind deems as not as advanced or important. It will not, however, ask AI what topics it is most capable of dissecting and would rather decide that on it's own. Interesting.

I find this interesting. You use the word "my" as in ownership of thoughts and emotions but a robot can dissect them to deepen how they're processed. Also, "my inner beliefs", can be investigated to probably manipulate what one may believe in the future. #4 Seems, to me, what's already happening here in life. This list you made, I find it fascinating in terms of how we use AI and how similar the process of mind works already before AI. To me, seems like they are one of the same and no one actually owns a thought, idea or belief - that's what I got from my personal analysis.

You're not dancing to your feelings; you're feeling the dance, then using those feelings to guide you. Don't worry about the hours; just do what works for you. You're defeating the purpose with these details. Be spontaneous with it while still being purposeful and with intent.

Is he Greek..

Maybe just for sex but not for relationship wise, long-term or marriage. Sometimes just the fact that he likes her way more than she likes him will balance the dynamic out on it's own. SHOWING interest and HAVING interest are two different things and for a guy that's into you for the long haul, and as long as she's somewhat interested, the way he shows his interest will usually not be demanding, claustrophobic or a turnoff because he's not desperate.

It's impossible to know what one would be doing if.....if is not Reality and doesn't exist. All answers not in alignment with this truth, will be fantasy and a dream.