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It's the only thing you can't be addicted to. Ask instead, what problems it is visiting on you. For example, time management or relationship boundaries. Remember that ego and meditation are sworn enemies.

We are denying the absolute each moment in favor of a stunted existence right? Yes we need to admit the absolute. It's our nature and destiny. And we don't deny the relative. This creates resistance and reinforcement. All one need do is give up judging and reacting. This creates the opening for the absolute.

Suffering is being what you're not. Why suffer this indignity? Is there any joy or benefit in relativity? You strayed in to this realm needlessly.

Ego can't stop suffering. Ego IS suffering. Ego IS thought. Can a thought stop being a thought? So when thought arises, undo the thought. The opening is created. Ego is impotent. Power can arise.

For me illusions cast a veil upon reality. We want the veil while we believe we are a person living as best we know. Realizing we are not and dropping the veil and returning to where we never left are one and the same event.

I regard you as fiend or friend as thus my life flows in suffering or in joy. I need you and you need me.

Previously the world tortured me. Now I torture me. More devilishly, I blame them as being the cause of my self-inflicted torture.

All illusions are completely real within the illusion. Only stepping outside them are they seen to be nothing - never real, never true, never anything at all.

One who asks whether God is just another illusion is asking this within the illusory split consciousness. Truth cannot be proven in limitation; it comes when illusion is let go. To do this look through the world you see, to feel a presence that cannot be doubted, because it is what you are. Until then, all ‘realizations’ of nothingness, fullness, emptiness etc. are shadows dancing on a wall. Beyond them is a light that you did not invent and cannot deny. That is the experience of God, and always call to you.

He's one of the few to make a lick of sense. If he's gone I'm out of here too.

I blame Leo. We all want to ride the Leo coattails and say we too know. But me I agree with you all the way.

Do it. Don't worry what others do or say. They are your forgiveness lessons. Go into the lion's den and beckon the lion come at you. You made the lion and your fear of it.

me an i ngl!

But do I want to be changed? Nah I don't thanks. And nor does the world want changing. When I wake in the morning, my one mission is to not change. I plead with the world at large to corroborate me, validate me, love me as I am. Reason is I am doing good as I am, right? And I definitely don't want to confront the nagging existential terror of confronting who I actually might be thanks. Please continue to dig me deeper into this ever more mind-blowing reality and whatever you do, don't change one thing. I'll do likewise for you. Deal!

My take on this if I may is as follows. The journey is, to put it in basic terms most have some inkling of, Jesus to Christ to HS to God. Jesus is you as word made flesh, Christ is doing the change of identity work, HS is then becoming the whole manifest reality that you see through forgiveness, and God is having done this opening up and merging with the unmanifest reality. And forgiveness means, to walk around and notice whenever not at peace - to withdraw interpretation and ask HS for a better one knowing well I am never unhappy for the reason I think.

Form is the same as finitude is the same as flawed is the same as fearful and that to me is about as incongruous to the absolute perfection as can be. Certainly the absolute is happy to yield to such suffering states but seems this would not be the norm but an anomaly, a hypothetical hallucination or a bad nightmare if you will. Everything is possible but happiness is the default in contrast to what one gets here.

Would you not agree from the absolute perspective that form is a distinct choice? And of course a choice needs a chooser right? The absolute need not opt for form since to deny it such power would place a limit. Form is suffering, a most ill-advised choice no? So dance all you please but one day you will have had enough.

I suggest you to consider that God has no interest in the corruptible and the decaying. Why would it? Form is an attempt at escape. Separation is impossible except in a wild imagination. Why prefer a lower state to a higher state? Death is not real. So embrace life. And let's skip out of this silliness.

Form is one-massive-eff-up, in case you have not yet noticed in your lifetimes of suffering! Consciousness likewise is a descent into madness and badness, a wholly retarded hamstrung state. Suffering is God's mess-up, God's mulligan, God's misadventure. God doesn't want you here in this hell and you can exit any time. That's why we term it an illusion; it is nothing compared to what's available right now and God long since washed its hands of this insanity even if you are still clinging to the prospect of a nice dream. God is certainly allowed this mistake and I am that bless me. The difference between me and the omniscient God is its mistakes are one and done while mine are stubbornness to the bone. One day I will definitely be a contender as the famous movie line reminds. For sure God is allowed an egregious experiment since God is indeed every avenue and every outcome. However unlike me, it tries stuff and then lives by once bitten twice shy. 1st law of God: All fuck-ups are finite and fixable and forever forsaken. Which is why - news flash - the universe is a huge ticking time bomb careening towards annihilation. So best to wake tf up and get real. (The book The Disappearance of the Universe echoes these musings for those who have read it.)

Most people will do anything they feel they can get away with, ethics or no ethics. Spiritual work involves learning that you only ever hurt yourself.

I'm a landlord among other things and people use any excuse in the book to not pay rent. I have to be a hard-arse.

Def agree when it comes to personal relations. In the impersonal sphere, it's each man for himself. If I can get a leg up, I will. There are no friends in business.

Distribution of wealth is arbitrary, destructive, capricious. On the other hand, personal enrichment, while not directly causing harm, in order to make oneself invulnerable is virtue. For the first time you are no man's slave. This is the ideal start point for spirituality. You seem to be making a case for a belief in karma. Isn't that self deception?

Most of us if we could have a million right now, victimless crime no consequences, would take it. I wouldn't. All my needs are accounted for until I breathe my last, shower sheets shelter. I'd return the loot since they need it more. I am the incorruptible outlier in every million. However if I needed it, of course I will consider today a day god heard my prayer. No qualms, no regrets. Dog is allowed to eat dog but can't get near god.