Lenny

What is "unconditional"? What is "love"? "Unconditional" = without condition "Love" = ? Let's work out the absolute definition of love and from there we can determine if only God can love unconditionally. Though, if you are God, and all others are God, then both you and other can love unconditionally. We can replace the word "love" with the word "blah" in this case. Since we all have a unique concept of love. We need to understand that the true love is not one that is determinable or one that can be decided upon. The true love is there before the idea of it is birthed in mind. It could be argued that true love is actually Beingness, or existence.. or consciousness (consciousness being the substratum of everything in existence).

You have some interesting ideas there. But, what happens when perspective is shifted, as the result of an awakening, and suffering is no longer experienced? Does that mean that when one is free of suffering that there is no longer meaning in life? Maybe some food for our thoughts.

@WokeBloke I've done some serious contemplation on this and thinking a lot about the "lifecycle of a thought". From what I can gather through meditation and focus, thoughts start as a notion or an energy (pre-conceptual) that then form into a thought (conceptual). In the energetic state (pre-thought) they exist and arise seemingly randomly from a deeper pre-conscious/sub-conscious space. Effectively, here they can be "caught" prior to evolving into a full-blown conceptual thought and they seem to be like pieces of a puzzle; some parts energy and emotion and some parts disjointed "incomplete" thought. So, based on this observation, my hypothesis is that thoughts come from/originate as energetic species in the pre-conscious/sub-conscious mind and it is highly likely that some thoughts originate as energy in the body (maybe even partially coming from food and the processes of digestion!), prior to reaching a conceptual state in the conscious part of the mind. So, to properly answer your question: What thinks? Well from an absolute sense, the answer is, the entire system of reality. Lenny

@Magnanimous I think that Eckhart Tolle's teachings are very powerful and helpful for noticing the mind's arisings for what they are: energetic, random, habitual, conceptual, story-like "happenings" that boil up from our subconscious mind structure. Without our conscious mind's "choice", "control" or "say in the matter". You are reality and pure "being". In other words, you are "what is", here and now and only here and now, without images, ideas, stories, imagination, thoughts. These exist within you. Though, they cannot define you. That would be like a painting defining the canvas. No matter what the painting, or how intricate or detail, it can never be the canvas. The canvas is "before" and "underneath" the painting and the painting cannot exist without the canvas. But, the canvas can exist without the painting. Also, there is an important thing to recognise here: Leo saying that suicidal thoughts are "impure" can also be taken on and understood as a deficiency of the "thinker" or person/mind having the thoughts. We need to realise that we are not deficient in reality, this is just a thought that has arisen from habit (which may have been set in place from the mind's interpretations of our life). I have come to learn that the mind is not sufficient enough as a tool to define reality (that which I am), so I let it do its thing and try not to get involved. I "let it run" with thoughts of it being "impure" (not give it attention/entertain the thoughts) and thus the subconscious and "inaccessible" structure of the mind is able to "purify" itself. Strangely enough, not doing the "work" to "purify" actually does the "work" to "purify". That is why talking about the Self and defining reality gets "in the way" of spiritual "work", because the real work is to notice the unreality of the mind's associations and meanings. To realise that the "motion" of mind/thoughts into a process to complete/achieve something is imagination. Now, to answer your question: how to purify the mind? The first step is to understand the implications of association. We can also break down the question to help us navigate the landscape of this thought: "How to" (possible associations: process, steps, desire to know, "I want/I need"): we can observe how the mind is engaging in a "desiring" of something. And most likely desiring that which is separate from itself. The mind says: "that which I desire/that which is desired cannot be found in here". But, it can only be found "out there" (through a searching or from the words of "someone else"). Notice also that this desiring to know can just fall away once attention has been diverted to something more immediate (your toast popping, a message from a friend or loved-one, etc.). If we always have something so immediate in front of us, then maybe these "impure thoughts" would never have a chance to arise. "Purify" (possible associations: to clean, to make "better", opposite of "unclean", opposite activity of a mind that is doing the "right thing"): this is an idea/concept, and one that is different for everyone (imagery, memory and subsequent association from/of unique and individual minds). How does it feel? Is it desired? Are "you" pure? Are you enough without having pure thoughts or a pure mind? Could the desiring of "purity" cause an "impure" mind? Can we get from here (association "impure") to there (association "pure")? These are powerful questions to ask ourselves. "The mind" (possible associations: me, I, thoughts, images, separate entity creating "my" experience): this is also a concept/idea, created by "itself". The true "mind" is reality and is not separate from the universe. "It".. The "mind"/a partition/part of "reality" tends to "dream up" its "separateness" if the thought/energy is entertained or habitually "created" by us, as reality, as mind. There needs to be a point where you lose interest in trying to "purify" and see that it is an illusion, a thought (enlightenment is obtained by going the "opposite way" of the mind/thoughts [not opposite in direction, but opposite in dimension]). If you feel any tension or strong feelings/emotions during this point/understanding of the illusory mind, you need to also see this as being based in illusion. Cannot see the illusion? Is the illusion "stopping you" from "seeing"? this is an illusion also. Try to have an attitude of "it's ok" and acceptance through this process. You are a loved child of God. A cool meditation practise that I have found that is helpful is a "no words" meditation I developed for myself. Sit in a quiet place (doesn't need to be) and try to empty your mind/clear your thoughts and get to a "quietness" of mind. Anytime a language-based thought arises say to yourself "no words" and cut the stream of thought. Use your own creative power of will to stop word-based thought. You can also do this with imagination/images. Use your own creative power of will to remove all imagery, imagination and words during your meditation. Enter a state/attitude of discovery and child-like curiosity and lightness. I hope that this helps. Sorry for the massive rant lol With love, Lenny

@Illusory Self I'd like to give you a simple thing you can employ. Also, if you have a sense of "running away from it all" or thoughts of "I want to change this" or "I can't do this, if I haven't first done this", then consider another idea/approach: turning toward your situation and meeting it will acceptance and love. From what you said, It seems that you are in a very loving home, this is a great opportunity to grow (not that growth equates to what you are, or that growth will get you closer to what you already are). As for the "simple thing" I mentioned that you can do: add some meditation to your routine. The type of meditation you can employ is awareness meditation, a.k.a observer meditation, a.k.a transcendental meditation. This is how you do it: sit quietly somewhere (doesn't matter how you sit, just sit comfortably), try your best to "watch" all thought forms that arise (all thoughts) without judgement or desire to change them. The stream of thoughts could be as follows (with action met): "I can't be here" (watch thought arise and leave), "I can hear everyone in the house" (watch thought arise and leave), "this isn't working" (watch thought arise and leave), "this arising and leaving thing I'm doing isn't working" (watch thought arise and leave), "no, but really, it won't work" (watch thought arise and leave), "maybe this could work" (watch thought arise and leave), "maybe I could stay, maybe I don't need to change anything" (watch thought arise and leave). Continue this for the time that you have allocated for the meditation in a "insert any thought here" fashion. I am 35 and I understand that it is alright to feel lost. If I entertain these types of concepts/thoughts/beliefs I can easily feel lost too. Feeling lost is a great opportunity in itself. It allows us to take a closer look at what's going on. Now, nothing may need to be done, but just having the awareness of feeling lost can be enough to get in touch with your Being. I hope this helps Love from Lenny.

@mo_v What type of inner work have you been doing? In my experience, we can reach states reported by people who have used psychedelics naturally through a number of techniques. Note that "letting go" or diverting attention from "inner work" can be a form of inner work, so we can be doing the wrong thing and still think that it is inner work. The concept of "inner work" isn't what inner work is in reality. Understand that what you think is "inner work" is not really inner work. Inner work could be equated to abiding in your absolute intelligence (before the thought "I need to do inner work" arrises as a product of this intelligence (that which you are)). Know that you are the intelligence that has created the idea of "inner work" (from collecting information and data about it). Your "inner work" is a synthesis of all the information that you have collected (thought limited understanding and perception - which we all have). Inner work is an "unfolding" that occurs outside/before/underneath the thought of "inner work". In a sense, the "you" that you think you are doesn't really have control over when the inner work happens. It is because the ideas and thoughts of "inner work" are artefacts of that which does not require "inner work". I hope this helps Love from Lenny.

@Jahmaine Ah. I don't know about this one. Did he mention it in an episode?

@Jahmaine Are you referring to his course based around the concepts of pickup? I recall him talking about this in his episode on getting layed.

@lizz_luna It's important to understand that you are creating everything (also the "path"), even if you are not aware of it yet. If you are invested in the thought/idea "I need to burn through karma" (outside of direct experience of the process), then you will be hypnotised by the thought/idea, and this will prevent you from seeing Truth. You see, the "idea" of burning through Karma is a product of intelligence, not intelligence itself. You are intelligence. Intelligence is then hypnotised by its product (by something it creates - by its own decision). Who said that Truth prevents you from enjoying life's delights? Being highly conscious helps you enjoy the reality of the delights, rather than the illusion (a limited creation/perspective) of the same delights. Understand what the delights are, in Truth. And maybe you can enjoy them more.. I have recently listened to Leo's "burning though karma" episode, and I can see that the message is very flawed (of low consciousness, in theory) (unless Leo has vetted his message to be understood by a certain consciousness level of listener, which is possible). My hypothesis that it is flawed comes from his continual reference to "I" and "me" and how there is a separate "he/I" that needs to "burn through karma". There is a created "I" that needs to do a "thing" to be closer to God. These ideas inhibit access to intelligence/God (or veil the truth that reality/intelligence/God is already here). I hope this info helps Love from Lenny.

A good question to contemplate is: Is there truth in charity? My answer is, yes. Why, because only giving is real/true. Taking/keeping for oneself (the finite ego-mind) is not real/true. In reality, in truth, there is only giving. But, from the perspective of the finite ego-self (self with a small "s") it creates/dreams stealing/taking/keeping from the one true giving. You can only give, because you are only one. How much is a finite part of the infinite microcosm of your body truly "taking" from that microcosm? If we look at every example of taking, we can see that it has been given by God/reality/life/the Self. For example, I want to take money/sex/belongings/earnings from someone (or from the "other"). In truth, if I succeed in my plans, these things were given to me by life and by reality. Even the instrument through which I take/keep were given to me. Reality/God gave me my hands. Reality/God gave me my cunning mind that can think up things and put value on them so I can get pleasure in taking them (how childish, hehe). Reality/God gave me the freedom to manifest the thought/dream that I could own something. As an ignorant finite-self, I am dreaming that I am keeping. I dream the concept of stealing/taking. I dream the idea of owning. Because it is all just giving. If I give for a personal satisfaction, it is taking for the finite self. But, it is giving for the Self/God/reality/life. When you realise that you are all of reality, you give for the purpose of giving alone. Giving is its own reward. You let the will of God decide on when you give. You do not need to feel guilty if you decide to keep, or if you do not get the chance to give. Reality/God will decide when it is your turn to truly give. Which in truth, is a becoming (or a removal of the veil of ignorance). But, if there was a purpose to giving. A pure form of the idea of purpose, before it is played with and taken beyond the will of God, we could say that to share with another is to share with oneself. Since you are all that there is. When you give to another, you are giving to your true self (the Self/reality). When you take/keep/steal, you as the Self has given it to you as the finite ego-self. "You" as the finite ego-self could not obtain something unless you as the Self gave it to you. So, there is only giving, wrapped up in a facade of taking/stealing/keeping. Giving is real. Stealing/taking/keeping/owning is unreal to the extent to which it is not understood/seen truly as a giving/allowance from life/God/reality/the Self. So, we can now see why those who take/keep/steal (for their small/limited self) end up where they do; because they are doing something that isn't real. Love from Lenny

Hahah classic Sith line. You know how I read this first time.

I think that love of a finite part of yourself, coupled with impermanence, creates an arising of suffering. The reason why we suffer is because we love. It's only that we are loving a finite part of ourselves (e.g. the other). Your love created the entire universe, it seems.

Rupert clearly said that you (as consciousness) are experiencing Rupert's thoughts, but cannot experience the thoughts through the lens of the finite mind of Lucian. This comment could still allow for the idea that you (as consciousness) is creating the finite mind of both Rupert and Lucian, therefore resolving any disparity between the ideas from Leo and Rupert. I believe that Rupert, not wanting to confuse Lucian, based on a quiet assessment of his spiritual level/consciousness level, wanted to approach Lucian's questions from a position that would be understood. Rupert is not speaking from the position of the Self here, he is speaking from the position of a finite person/mind. He may have noticed that Lucian's "mind" (Lucian's idea of the mind) is not the "mind of the Self". Rupert also started to use the term "finite mind" to differentiate between the one mind (consciousness/the mind of the Self) and the "mind" of "Lucian" and "Rupert". Also, Lucian could be speaking of the one mind, and there has been a miscommunication. But, I didn't hear Lucian say that he is Rupert. Now, I might be wrong. It is easy to come up with ideas that verify statements and give justifications. To expand; I know that I am all of existence/reality/consciousness, but the little me "Lenny" isn't. The little "Lenny" appears in me as reality. It might not help others for me to speak about myself as the fresh poop on the ground. Or that someone is imagining everything and nothing is real. From the position of the absolute, being real or not real doesn't hold any water and does not change the absolute/consciousness/reality/what is. "Real" and "unreal" are just ideas/thoughts/finite forms in reality and only veil itself from itself. Even my saying "just ideas" is a thought/energetic form in reality that veils reality. My thought "reality" is made up of reality, and made by reality, but isn't reality in it's entirety. Love from Lenny

@Danioover9000 Wow. That's amazing.

You are, because you love. Your love generates the entire universe, including yourself. The only thing holding the universe in place as it is, is your love.

@Muhammad Jawad So happy I could help man I hope you have a great day

There is this really interesting guy who does vidoes on Youtube and I think he knows lol here is a link: https://www.youtube.com/user/kathodosdotcom Gravity is a field modality perturbation.. I know. It's basically the "ether" coming in contact with the "ether" and creating a counter-space. It's like negative space pretty sure. And so space wants to move into it. Very interesting.

@Muhammad Jawad What if your ego get scared of ego death and panics every time you trip? Are you only going to be satisfied when your ego isn't afraid of dying? Is it you or your ego that panics and freaks out? What if your ego will always freak out? Are you ok with that? Sorry if this puts off a certain tone lol I hope these questions help Lenny

Hi @RoerAmit , I'm sorry to hear about what you're going through. I have done some meditations and investigations into dreams and how they work/arise. From what I can tell, dreams are a form of thought caused by the unconscious mind. The "registrar" or conscious part of the mind (normally part of what we call "me" or "I" is not there to pick up on what's going on). Essentially, our dreams are just us thinking and imagining, but we don't know we're doing it (ever wonder why dreams follow a set of rules? Loosely, but they still follow logical rules that are understandable to us in a personalised way, this is because it is us who are creating them. They are coming from the very structure of our own mind e.g. conditioning, experiences). The best way to alleviate nightmares (in my experience) is to practise awareness meditation in your waking state (watch thoughts and don't get pulled into them or interested in them - basically try to become uninterested in all thoughts during your meditation. This will transition over to your sleeping state and you will literally become fearless in dreams). You can also practise a loving meditation where you imagine giving love energy to others and the world, even those things that you are afraid of/hate. Open your arms up and pour your love energy over the serial killers of the world. Love them. Love the demons. For they know not what they do, really. I hope this helps. If you'd like to chat in more detail. Feel free to send me a chat messages here on Actualized. Lenny

@Flowerfaeiry I would maybe say it this way: that you are imagining (also believing) that they are separate from you and that you believe that you are that which is thinking: "I" (that which I think/believe I am) am imagining "them" (that which I believe/think "they" are). You believe that there is an individual "you" looking at a separate "them" saying "I am imagining them". Even as I say "you", this is something different to what you think (lol). My "you" and "your" "you" are two completely different things. What if one was an idea and one was real? Let's look at it this way: When I say "I am sad", "I am happy", "I am me", these are products of intelligence, of life, of mind, of the universe. The "I" here is also a product of intelligence because you (as intelligence/life/God/consciousness) believes that "you" are separate (to reality). This "I" (what you think you are) is not really what you are (e.g. we erroneously think that we are a person in the world and experiencing the world/reality). But, you are not "in" reality, you are reality imagining that you are an individual person in reality (your true self) and are separate to that reality. Reality/consciousness/God/Truth/"What is" believes that it is something separate inside itself. This error is supposed to happen. If we are not awakened, it is because we are meant to be asleep. This is why people say that it's not a choice that the individual person makes (to wake up). Also, our sleep (dream) is not real. So it's best that we do not reinforce it by beating ourselves up over it. If we still feel an emotion when we are told that we are not awake, this make us even more asleep. Because we believe it, we need to see it as just a belief. So the "I can tell you're not awake" comment doesn't hold water anymore, when you investigate the "I" and the "you're" here. Even the word "awake" is not really what the true awake means. We might even be able to say that you're already awake, but you don't know what awake means lol, in a way. I like to think of ego as a verb, not a noun. Ego is a doing-ness that happens when we believe that we are that which we are not. Ego "happens" when reality is tricked into thinking it's a product of itself. It starts when we "believe" the thoughts arising in our mind. We could equate "believing" to "having". Believing "happens" as a consequence of what you are. Who is believing? Who is imagining? and is this "who" separate from what is believed or imagined? That's why meditation works because it is a silencing of the mind. There is no ego in deep sleep. There is just you. Awareness works here too, because awareness (true awareness, not the idea of what it is) is real, and you are real. You are not anything that can be imagined. If it arises in your awareness, it's not the real you, it's a product of the real you. I hope this helps Peace and love, Lenny

@clouffy Enlightenment is when you find something that was always there and was never not that way, and so, it can't really be called a "thing". It is not a state. It's like waking up from a dream. When you wake from a dream do you say: "I hope this new awakened state stays with me"..? Also, what if what you experienced during enlightenment wasn't bliss? Would you still know that you had awoken? Could you become enlightened without feeling bliss? Are you feeling bliss right now, but just not conscious of it? Is there somewhere in you right now that is in bliss? Is all of you not in bliss? How much of your being are you representing right now when you say "I am not in bliss.. I wish I could feel bliss"? Is the you that you call you qualified to say that you are not already in bliss? Would you be interested to contemplate these questions? Even if they didn't lead to bliss? I just thought of another indicator.. Enlightenment is when you have no doubt that God exists. When God "is" before you had an opinion about it. Peace dude, Lenny

@zazed well said

@molosku Your awakening does not happen in time. The true "You" lies untouched and forever now beyond the idea of now. The habit to reach out for salvation, toward something other than yourself, takes you further from the Truth (that which you are - even if you think otherwise). I am not a pro in all of the areas that you have mentioned, but I will try and address the points which I feel that I can. I will try and convey the ideas as best that I can. Self-love We all know/have heard about the different levels/stages/modes/forms of consciousness. The "self" that is referred to in this "term" can take many forms/levels/modes (etc.) of "self" (which arises and manifests itself in the form of "I")... "I want self-love". Before your search or attempt to discover/grasp "self-love" for a sense of "me", what is here? What is there before the movement toward "self-love"? What is there before even the urge to want "self-love"? Watch all of this play of imagination (the movements of mind) and do not make it anything less or more than what it is. It is beautiful, but, it is not all that you are. The true you is not an object of your perception. These "objects" (thoughts, imaginations, ideas, etc.) are only an aspect of yourself as the whole of reality. If you define yourself as this body (feelings), this mind (thoughts), then you have already committed an error of mind. This is ok though, it's still so damn beautiful. You believe that you are the thought thinking "I am this thought". You believe that you are the "believer" in this thought "I am this thought", "I am this or that". On a more practical level, you mention that you have been practising for 10 years (or telling yourself that you are not good enough and beating yourself up). Do you need to fulfil a certain criteria before you can be loved? Do you need to become someone/something different than what you already are right now? Hey... Do you need to change from this one trying to find themselves? Will you only be loved if you "find" yourself? Does the one trying to find themselves, and fail, have any bearing on the one that is trying to find? In this case, we can replace the spiritual search with any other form of desire or searching, such as a romantic partner or a sense of family or home. All of it is an object of your imagination. An object of mind. Neither is wrong. Making it wrong would be another positionality of mind. Of which got us into this kafuffle in the first place lol. Self acceptance Same as self-love (for me). Feeling good in the body In my personal experience, "feeling good" is an idea/concept of mind. Does the body, without judgement (for me, the body without the judgement of mind is reality, or Truth), feel "bad" or "wrong". I think that the "issue" here (I have put this in quotation marks because there is no real issue or problem, only to the extent that we want to believe it) is that there is an attention on the "thought" that the body is not feeling good. Or possibly, there is attention on the "thought" that the body needs to "feel good". "Good" is subjective and a perspective of a conceptual "self". For example, do you wish that you "feel good" when you are in deep sleep? Is there anyone there to "wish"? But, are you there in deep sleep? What isn't there? Workaholism Workaholism is a word used to label the concept of "spending too much time on work and not enough time on the things that 'matter'". If your friends, family and loved ones worked with you all day, would you call it workaholism? See how if you put it into a different context the idea doesn't hold-up? On a different note, once you have recognised yourself as not separate from that one Truth, one reality. You will not be afraid to take some chances with your work. You will see that even if you were to lose everything, your house, your car, you would still be here. before your car, your house, your dreams, your family, what is here? YOU. So, what is more important. You get to choose where you place your importance. Tip: don't place it on anything that goes away or changes. Shadow I don't know much about the term "shadow". If I could do my best to try and understand it (without research), I think that it is the lower parts of the unconscious/sub-conscious. These parts act-out by themselves as a part of the one movement of reality. If no attention goes toward these movements they will go unnoticed, but, not unfelt by others. I imagine, that an enlightened person needs to work on this "shadow" so that it does not cause any harm for those around them. If the person is free from karma then the shadow will not worry them, at least, only to the extent that it worries them that it hurts the people around them. Tantra I am not sure as to what tantra is exactly. Childhood trauma Where is trauma? We cannot "see" it right? This is because trauma is starting from where we are looking from (an identified sense of self - in the case of an "identified" form of consciousness). The way that I see it, does my "identified" form of consciousness have the ability to "grasp" my trauma and then begin to sort through it? Probably not. Because, it in itself is acting from an identified (traumatised) form of consciousness. Even the "wanting" of the discernment to sort trauma (that which we label as being bad) comes from a form of consciousness interested to find that which is bad and "remove" it from its life. General emotional intelligence I would rephrase the term "emotional intelligence" with the term "emotional resilience". Can you experience emotions and then let them drop away? Don't try to make them drop away. You can even ask them to stay. How long will they keep? For me personally, the following practise really helped: Find somewhere quiet to sit (not necessary, but may help you to focus). Close your eyes and focus on the energy that is accompanying the emotion. From here, place your mind aside for the moment. It doesn't need to be long, just for a little while. By "the mind", I mean thoughts, notions, ideas, concepts (forms that can be held in your perception with your eyes closed). Now, just sit there with the feeling, without adding an interpretation of what it is. Don't wish it to go away. Here we are searching for Truth, so, if it stays then we may have found something important. If it goes itself, then we will let it go. The important thing here is to not add any interpretation on what is occurring in the body. You may even recognise this energy/feeling as something that is very familiar to you and takes many forms, whether that be frustration, confusion, sadness, etc. So, just watch. Once you have placed the mind aside for some time, you may even like to imagine pouring love over it and asking it to get bigger. Say: "it's ok, you can stay if you like. Show me what you've got" (something like this with a calmness/openness). Dealing with fears For me, I felt as though I didn't need to work explicitly on fears, they just left by themselves. The falling-away of fears seemingly accompanying my slow and progressive movement to higher states of consciousness. Keep a close eye on this. Are you scared to be fearful? Who told you that you are not allowed to feel fear? Who told you that you shouldn't? Who told you that the fear is yours? I hope that this has answered some of your questions, and that it helped. Please take everything I say with a grain or two of salt. These are just words. They are an attempt to conceptualise that which cannot be touched conceptually. Also, I am not the best person for advice as I am not full enlightened. I still hold a lot of identification and I swing between purer forms of consciousness and the more identified forms. A lot of what I am saying has come from my "seeings" and experiences, not necessarily what I have been experiencing lately. But, I have achieved self-love since the beginning of my journey (I have heard that this is the first of the big hurdles to get past [self-hate/need for self-love]). I know that I am all that God wishes me to be at this moment. I am that which he has created, not what I have created. I am that Truth and reality of which I cannot see or understand with thoughts. Actually now that I think about it, this is the biggest thing that helped me in the self-love department: Your lack of self-love is coming from a error in your perception (it is ok that this error is made, how beautiful is it that we even get to experience error!?). Think about it this way: yourself as pure and unmanifest awareness shines through your mind (field of thoughts), from here it becomes "stuck" into ideas, concepts and identifications. This identified form of consciousness then tries to judge itself (based on a story that it tells itself [it's also habit and conditioning that plays a part here]). It's basically ideas telling themselves about other ideas. The idea that you have of yourself (identified and conceptualised self) is being hurt by ideas that it has about itself. The true you is not concerned with self-love. The true you doesn't even get hurt by anything. It has never been touched. Your ego has never known your true self. The Self. Peace dude Lenny

@Mosess I think that in this case it is your responsibility (if you have the ability to respond) to find a more "non-intrusive" way to assist those who you care about around you. Normally we project own journey onto others and prescribe them the same methods to reach enlightenment/awakening. Try to find the best way to convey yourself as that one truth. Without "shaking-up" the other. Honestly, this will happen naturally without effort because you are that. If "shaking-up" happens, it happens. I would say that truth would convey much more powerfully by your actions, not by what you say. But, if what you say is unfolding out of truth, let it flow. I would say: don't make anything your job. Don't "try" to help. If help arises within you, in the form of your authenticity, out of reality, let it happen. Lol here I am giving prescriptions... Furthermore, if someone chooses not to awaken, this does not make them any more or less than you in the eyes of God. Ultimately, their spirit is untouched by the suffering, they just cannot see it. But I understand that once God enters our lives, we want to so badly help others see what they already have, and to wake them up from their dream. This can be taken as us trying to "change" them. And can be very hurtful. I've had to think a lot about this also as I have really pushed some people around me during my journey, even just by speaking and interacting naturally, and it can lead a lot of confusion. Ultimately, all I want is for others to feel love, be loved and feel free to be themselves without fear. Peace dude Lenny

@Flyboy I am sorry to hear about this and I hope that the issue heals. I think that you should visit a medical practitioner for what you are describing. Especially if you are feeling a physical sensation or "bulge". Have you arranged a meeting with a general practitioner (doctor)?