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Agree with you that most are just living for tomorrow and thinking happiness is around the corner after problems have been taken care of. The work of awakening is where time doesn't matter. I own this dream and the dreamed contents; it is my beautiful video game for me to do with as I please. In particular to end it or keep on with it. Body is totally irrelevant. It is just an interface to peer out on my surroundings. I can set it down any moment. So the question then is why bother being here at all. For me it's a way to extend more love. There is bits of me that remain un-godlike. Namely I have moments of pain, lust, greed. I project these out into the Epsteins, the Trumps, the Musks. I do this so I feel that I am not such a bad man. I am decent innocent hardworking. I can deal with these fairy tales if I so please. And I enjoy shining love and remembering love on to dark shadows around me. I don't need to do it and could instead retire home but I do like my game and choose to see it through until I feel it's time to rest.

That is all your imagination right? Were you there and have the wounds? Why spin evil narratives when life is good no? You are untroubled day to day. You do the work and walk the walk. You can choose to highlight love or evil. Love simply means looking at evil and seeing it is fear, error and confusion. It is a call for love and acceptance. There but for the grace of God go I. I was once like that. There is hope, there is support, there is change. Everyone is on the journey home. Everyone is doing what they have to do. Yet God is good. Truth never fails. Love is patient, love is kind.

I sit all day too. What I do is, I ensure no sit session exceeds two hours. If I need to do a 4-hour project after 2 hours I do a minimum 5-minutes exercise and snack break. This works well. I basically carve up my day into two hour sits followed by other daily activities like exercise, cooking and going out. It has good balance.

Toastmasters. Book club. Walking group. If there isn't one start one. Better all 3.

To regular Joe me, truth which means the path to Truth, offers nothing. In fact it will upend your life, the work life and the family life. It will punish you for your choice. If this is such a big deal, why are seemingly none of my friends, my family and countrymen walking the walk. Why be a leper. Why waste a lifetime doing that when I have a sure plan in place for me and my children. I am happy like I am, I am doing well and to top it off I am a fantastic dancer.

When you awaken, everyone awakens with you and to the same extent. You rouse everyone from their slumber. They are you after all. Everyone I meet now for real is on their way home just like me. I appreciate that everyone here is doing optimal work, overcoming darkness and working miracles - even my convicted buddy, nemesis and outcast. All on track per their level of consciousness which is the amount of light they see around them. It is a marvel to be part of what I am. I heal and they heal whoever is willing. As long as is fitting. The scales on the sight is gone.

Time is finite, must end. God is endless. Time is God's playpen - with its accompanying exit plan. All are getting out of here alive.

True. But let's imagine time to go hand and hand with the changeful just to ensure I don't get myself stuck there in agony forever. Time means, universe comes stays and goes. Thus unlike the former Apprentice host, wherever I go, I always have an exit strategy.

Yes that is the ego's playbook there. Do you want to be in turmoil every day or at peace? This kind of peace will never see war again even if it were patrolling the Strait of Hormuz today. The world doesn't change but the way you see it does.

Ego's plan ends in despair, darkness and destruction. Ego's salvation is, you are guilty and I am innocent. Ego's mantra is, I am good and though imperfect God will reward my efforts. Ego projects grievance everywhere it goes and claims that grievance is due to you. Can't you see that ego does not have your interests at heart? The ego's interests are you spinning your wheels entrenched in suffering interspersed with a touch of pleasure. A better choice is possible. Undo ego each moment and enjoy the happiness that is your true nature.

Man is the ingenious device of conjuring up a mirror to look and inspect how glorious one's technicolor appearance is from a never again to be repeated perspective. Blink and you miss the whole show.

In the world, telling the truth isn't the highest value. You and your family and your country surviving is. If truth is your highest value, you will die for it unquestioningly. Note that Truth on the other hand doesn't care, doesn't mind and doesn't interfere. I suggest you not die for the truth however. Shine light for the greater good. See deception and call it out but cover your tracks and don't be a martyr. Concede the fact that liars are trying to live for the greater good and you yourself are trying to live for the greater good. We are the same. It's all Good. I will peace shine from you and back at you.

Once you have the peace that surpasses understanding then what happens here means nothing. Mission is accomplished. There is no going back. The body and mind cannot any longer help or advise. But love can still make plans and have goals and bid action. The work now becomes attuning to where grace guides.

Yes indeed wonderful. Salvation is the dropping of every grievance that was blocking the light. Most of us are wielding grievance every moment. Something is wrong here, there is someone bad present and I am suffering because of it. Grievance is my store-house of complaints ready to whip out and wield. It is about us and nothing to do with who we direct it to. Dropping grievance lets the light of true perception shine. Everything is flawless and so the one who sees is flawless too. Salvation is accomplished. What to do next is to implore ceaselessly: What would you have me do? Where would you have me go? What would you have me say? And proceed accordingly.

Yes. God is smart. He gives us lots of paths. The ancients discovered meditation from sex. That is how tantra was discovered. The peak gives a peek. Good meditation is not so different from good sex. The practice becomes to extend the bliss into every waking moment. Awareness, empathy and presence replacing selfishness, vulnerability and reactivity.

God's will is unimproveable. He even coins words out of thin air.

The reality underneath the hallucination. Take each first letter.

Survival and awakening are antithetical and exhaustive (meaning there is nothing else) - contraction and expansion, exclusion and inclusion. Truth accommodates, unifies and sees benefit in both. My claim is everyone is happy being evil to stay alive another day but let's just keep it quiet and uncontemplated - for example randomly blowing up schools in the name of might. To that end, another day could be my awakening. Oh happy day! Thus evil leads me to Truth. QED

Glad to see that you are amenable and gracious. The mind is awesomely powerful. What helped me learn to take change of the mind is A Course in Miracles. I commend it to you. For example one of its lessons is, I am not upset for the reason I think, I think people are upsetting me, right? No. I have decided I want to be upset and so I choose to project that and blame someone. My mind does it all. It fixes the whole world exactly as we want to see it. We have made it and likewise we can unmake it. So how to be a good. First gain control of the mind rather than being its slave as everyone is. The course has 365 lessons to help one per day. Once the mind is brought to heel, it will tell you what to do. This is called divine guidance. It is God pulling the strings and using you as his instrument. This is the only good there is.

This is because we believe actions make a difference. The only power in the universe is mind. You can't change anyone. You can heal everyone. Being social is licking each other's wounds. The sick contaminating the sick and all trying to feel better keeping each other in prison. We need to wake up.

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Meditation is to hang out with the unconditioned me and post-meditation bring that forgiving presence and healed perception to all I encounter.

I can't change the world. I can heal the world. They may not feel they are healed and thereby not change. So the world won't change. Or maybe they will. Not in my hands. I will heal no matter what. You first. Since that is how I heal me. How do I heal you? Simply change what I think about you. Mind is the only power. Action profits nothing or no one.

Peace is the truth. Everyone knows but buries it. Because ego says if I am peaceful people will slaughter me. I better stay on a war footing. Truth is, peace is best. Peace is ever present just needs to be remembered each moment. Only I disturb it with mad interpretations while going about my day.

Yes you are right. That's why Truth=Love is important. If you are not aligning with Love, you are off track. Love needs to be factored in every moment and that needs serious work as Leo always points out. God's Love is a higher love than ours.