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It's entrapment. Promises much, delivers junk. We choose this, we engineer this, we defend this. It's the ego's bill of rights. I will chase life liberty and the pursuit of happiness so help me god. I will try to become immortal and give holy god the proverbial finger. This is nothing but a second-rate am-dram and can never be more.

This is the peril of being caught up in dreamland. You are only doing this to yourself. You are the only one who suffers now and going forward. Yes you should protect your assets but if you didn't protect them good enough that's your fault so bite the bullet and move on. Forgive all incursions by others since you are the one who precipitated them. From this approach, the worst thing that happens is the best lesson that liberates. You are here to finish the dream not complicate it. The dream is rubbish. I don't think you understand that there is a much better reality in the wings and that is your true nature and only happiness.

Beautiful. Don't get too riled up by it though. They are doing nothing and harming no one. They are evil parts of me gone astray and needing of a loving touch and smiling gaze. My presence is the only solution there is. Good luck and thanks for the reminder.

To deal with judgments or negativity toward others, you should start by recognizing that these feelings arise from within you, and are less to do with that person and their behaviour. Hate signifies inner turmoil and unhealed wounds. You need to understand this and then detach from the idea that your peace depends on anyone else’s actions. When you no longer rely on others for validation or satisfaction, you will then reclaim your power and free yourself to respond with clarity and calm. Hate is a signal and not a solution. It points to a story or grievance you are holding onto about the other person. Instead of focusing on their actions, ask yourself can you temporarily drop the story in order to feel peace and bring peace. Remember, everyone you meet acts from their own pain and conditioning. Shifting from judgment to compassion can soften your outlook, helping you see them through a lens of greater clarity. Healthy boundaries are very important too - step away if needed, but do so out of love, not avoidance or blame. When you are free of resentment, you free yourself to experience the peace that has been within you all along.

Illusion points to fact that there is something more real than that. Here is drifting fog in the wind but it veils what is behind it, the unchanging reality. Just like in dream at night, when you wake up you say no matter how real the dream seemed that was an illusion compared to what is the reality now. Likewise now is an illusion compared to what one sees when inner vision replaces outward sight if you will. How to do this is called spiritual work.

This whole panorama sits on my pupils each and every moment rather than extends out into space and time. All the sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and touches are me creating what the world is. The world isn’t separate from me - it’s a canvas painted by my perception, reflecting the vastness of my mind projected outward. Reality, then, was never “out there” but was always within, an ever-shifting interplay of senses and thoughts.

Words profit much. They got us stuck. Yet without them, we don't get unstuck. Blissful ignorance would be the only life. Everyone knew god then everyone forgot god. Someone has to speak else life is in vain. Thoughts shape reality and words share reality. Keep sharing the wealth with us.

I say solipsism is god being infinitely creative making a blockbuster and opting to make itself the only real character. Why? This is how to experience as much variety and artistry as possible. Everything else and everyone else is but an illusion for my own purposes. Everything acts according to their script except me. My mission is to make myself king of the world and have the best time possible. After all, nobody else matters so I will do what I please. Perhaps I also look after my family, my friends, and my fellow countrymen since if I want a decent life, this is likely necessary. Solipsism is how people live. I am the most important person alive and I will take down anyone who stands in my way. You are not as real as me so no big deal. I am a spoiled entitled unregulated mini army patrolling my turf saying don't you mess with this one or else. No ego can escape this mindset and life is lived blissfully unconscious. To break free is first to see this and then begin the work. Absolute solipsism is an improvement on the above but still not the full truth.

I exist as I exist now as an ego because I as god imagined myself into a finite existence.

I would say that god became ego and then alas ego became god. I will rule planet earth with an iron grip or if not that then just eat drink and fornicate myself into blissfulness. Ego contrives to be god but does so in the material world instead of dropping into its true nature in the spiritual world. I just want the best life ever and when I'm dead I'm dead, right? We got god very wrong. But god is fine with that since it gets to live the dream over and over as the pun goes. The kingdom of god is within. Yet hardly anyone explains the meaning of this. One day awakening will occur since everything here is finite.

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.