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The higher one's consciousness, the more one’s presence inadvertently challenges, discomforts, and sometimes overwhelms others. Simply by being who you are, you model a higher standard of living and thinking. This is like a mirror revealing to others the disarray or stagnation in their own lives - a realization that can be both humbling and disabling. Your words and actions are a wake-up call, illuminating truths they might rather avoid. This isn’t about trying to intentionally hurt them, but rather the natural effect of light being shining into darkness. By contrast, those operating from lower consciousness often disengage entirely, leaving others to their own struggles, neither cultivating nor inspiring growth. The challenge is to embody this higher state with compassion, understanding that even resistance or offense can be part of someone’s personal development.

Why does reality require consciousness? To see and play with all its myriad configurations. It split itself into the many and conceived a fully-fledged living breathing universe. It was a silly, half-baked suffering-inducing idea (by one of its creations which all are given free will to do as they wish) but it is reversible any moment it pleases. Nothing compares to the absolute perfection.

I am the only truth. Everything around me is fading and dying. I do not fade or die and I realize myself as eternal and absolute. This can be realized by anyone not as religion but as reality. This is the work and I have tasted that unchanging essence that I am.

For most teachers indeed. Choose your path with care.

People think eye sees but truth is I see, very different Eye and the whole body is no different from any other perception and thus no need for identification or attachment.

I speak about what works for me. I'm not saying I am awakened. Yet I am doing the work that needs doing. Writing is helpful for both the writer and the reader. I don't engage with philosophy only the day to day reality. What I know is, there is nothing to know in this universe. This is a good first step in rolling back the mind.

I do agree. And so the work is to see everything as the same but this first means to unsee it from its default unsameness. Everything around me is identical sprinkles of me disguised as people, places and things.

Ignorance is the state of the absolute. Not only does it not care about here, it doesn't even see it. The true cannot know the false.

Mind is how I see and perception is what I see. Yet mind can be radically transformed from its default setting to break from consciousness to its natural state.

Clarity is seeing what's important and what's not. For the unimportant be completely flexible. For the important, let nobody have a say. Most things are not at all important. Some things are make or break. Following clarity, next you need resoluteness to make what is clear becomes reality.

There is no constant but the absolute. Is there something unchanging in the universe?

If form and formlessness are perceptions of mind, what is it that contains the mind? And what is it that is aware of both of these? Not adding layers here but removing the need for them: That which conceives of no opposite, no beginning, and no end. What if the Absolute isn't 'extra stuff' but simply That which IS, quietly untouched by all concepts, in particular the concept of 'non-duality' itself?

Me too. Then I acted upon it. Life won't like you anymore. I am the perennial party pooper. I am just glad I saw this in time to do something about it.

I think we're in agreement here.

Each moment is a distinct beginning and a distinct ending. Each thought comes and goes and each perception comes and goes.

Yes form and formlessness. And then there is the absolute from which these spring.

Nothing is a pointer to what I am in the dream. I am nothing that mind has a clue about and nothing that can be observed or measured. Inside of that nothing exists the absolute everything.

For me consciousness is the dream. There is beyond the dream too but not for a body mind ego. Consciousness begins and consciousness ends.

There is duality where most live then there is non-duality where a few arrive. Non-duality is "better" in the same way that if everything becomes seen as love that's better than coursing to and fro between love and hate. But non-duality is still a duality and not it. Non-duality is better also because sitting as love you have the chance for the all to scoop you up.

My take here is, however bad another treats you, that is YOUR karma coming to pay you back for all the bad stuff you committed even in previous lives. How you react determines whether this karma stays or goes. If you are no longer triggered, these bad behaviours from others will cease. Your enemies will become your brothers and you will awaken to truth. The truth is that anything that happens I am doing to myself through reinforcing of karma. Forgive everyone for they know not what they are doing.

Everything is equally false in this time-honored illusion. There is no better or worse. It has to be seen to be an illusion and then swiftly exited. True is the absolute realm which cannot entertain notions of falseness or else it wouldn't be true. The absolute is ignorant of this world but perfectly accepting of our desire to dream up new frontiers. This world is a needless yet easily correctable deviation from what we are. You are simply mistaken, my brother, but there is another way of seeing available.

That nobody has a clue. This is the most crushing truth to discover. Every minute of life up to that point had been an utter waste. Now I could get serious for the first time.

He is going over your head. His pointers are spot on and as good as you will find. You and Peter need to go deeper in my humble opinion.

Truth is in fact the worst thing ever. All my hopes and plans and dreams and lovers and legacies and largess got flushed down the toilet. But that's okay because that's just from an ego perspective. All that I was taught about this world is pie in the sky. There is a much better reality sitting in the wings as soon as I'm ready. (There is true there is false and there is TRUE. TRUE is that everything here is false no matter how true it seems - bar one thing namely me. The world isn't anything except a fanciful thought I had and just as quickly let go of.)

Your musings have been brilliant lately and they lift me greatly. They mirror what I know as the case. As for 5meo, I haven't been able to incorporate this as it's not available in the UK. Some day I will cross this bridge.