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not to be a pedant but careful of apart and a part they are opposites, i think you meant the latter

so there is pause but how does it resume again @johnlocke18

unconditional happiness is an oxymoron if there's happiness there's sadness inescapably enlightenment is neither being stirred by happiness ror sadness, all as is is astonishing, when it is all god where is the need for duality

pain is the gateway, the teacher, the tool ... push awareness into now, take each 1st letter #pain ... work with the pain to dis-attach from this bag of bones in my experience there is no strong determination there is only strongly developed, don't boast of great determination, it's not the way to enlightenment, just sit every day

contemplate, how the sun loves the earth

a wise man said, fix you first then love me so yes is the answer to your question you cannot love until you awaken

So far, you took the mind for the knower, but it is just not so. The mind clogs you up with images and ideas, which leave scars in memory. You take remembering to be knowledge. True knowledge is ever fresh, new, unexpected. It wells up from within. When you know what you are, you also are what you know. Between knowing and being there is no gap. Nisargadatta

go look at your calendar is there something or someone tonight tomorrow this weekend next week next month next year that you are either eagerly looking forward to or sorely dreading the arrival of? if yes, you have work if no, then this present moment is serving you richly wondrously blissfully stupendously and nothing else is needed

when you express anger is it for their benefit or for yours you will likely say theirs but then contemplate what does your anger have to do with conveying information to a friend maybe anger is to tell you something ask yourself is anger necessary in relationships can we express ourselves forcefully and clearly without recourse to anger or is that impossible

and i forgive your liberal agenda, more or less everyone is a liberal in the first half of life go in peace to love and serve the lord

how can you be so self serving, consider other innocent victims, the world is not just about you, don't you dare release rapists to the world at large this will be your responsibility and your legacy forgiveness unleashes monsters and it will be on you

ask them what are their intention going forward and see what their attitude conveys

forgive = remove all consequences of perpetration rather than mental peace making exercise in your own head

experience without preference is the only happiness gimme your best shot it's all good

you can't forgive a person until you have stripped them of the ability to harm again otherwise you are perpetuating their continued devilry don't inflict trauma on others by forgiving wrongly and giving abusers the green light to go out and abuse

effort is mind effort is ego effort is me yet can i really do anything or is existence leaving no stone unturned to return me to its bosom have your way, this i pray

good post, might be better in the meditation section to get more feedback

cruelty has to be part of your arsenal else you are limiting yourself to one half of reality ... one man's cruelty is another man's kindness ... all is relative and arbitrary ... maybe there are some in the world who only understand through the lens of cruelty ... should i exclude these from my bubble? maybe not

posting is ego, all this woe is me wow is me type stuff, truth is you never did anything but come to the forum and claim that you did replying and connecting with folks is what god does

you are enlightened but prefer the party in dark end

survival is ig both the social media and the i-nstant g-ratification which is pretty ironic as truth is pretty gratifying too but not initially so social

i would say meditation is not a technique, it is a lifestyle a groundedness a sensitivity a dogged determination to be all i do is sit, i never think about meditation when not on the mat, can not recall a thing about even today's meditation, this skeleton just shows up

I: Reality and Subjectivity

love me for a reason and let the reason be love

what does DH say about love? Simply love all that exists ...