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Pain is what I need to avoid. Pleasure is what I need to allow. If I don't avoid the one and allow the other, I am the one to blame for all that comes my way. I will take the pain on the chin until I learn this. To learn it means I have taken responsibility for it and over time I reprogram myself that it have no effect. When there is pain due to illness or mishap or age, these I can't avoid but seeing this I can abide in peace without discomfort knowing that all is as should be.

I have the power to choose between the changeful and the changeless, the fine and the sublime. Let me think, to see if my ego has any objections.

Withdraw interest in the sense of self in the firm knowledge that it's not you. Cease assigning meaning to what happens. All that is falsehood. Then perception of the world changes accordingly first in glimpses and then prolonged as you align with the truth of what you are. ACIM describes the result as the real world which is as much as you can do yourself since God itself - or your highest self - takes the final step of restoration.

The world roasts and the AI toasts. A necessary counterweight in a hurting world.

It's what you say that matters not what AI says. Task is to make it express you better.

Suffering is two things: 1. Thinking there is a me here who matters and 2. The thought I am living a life that matters 1. is the identity error and 2. is how I keep myself from addressing 1. by losing myself in the world. Better is possible.

But should I Stay or should I go?

There are two things in life that can be said: “This is so cool and groovy and fine,” or you can say, “Enough is enough. This ends with me.” (channeling my best inner Blake Lively here.)

Criticism is, I put you down so I feel good about myself. Work on feeling better about yourself so you can correct the error without criticising the person. The former is seeking an ego boost while the latter is the behaviour of one with good self-esteem.

The relative is my story: my attachment to it, my belief in it, my choice for it #abc When I withdraw meaning to my story, the relative is no more and the absolute is as it is. I need seek no meaning from this nor hold onto meaning from that.

Beautifully said. 💞

He is the kid in the candy store. You being triggered is your shadow not his. Let him explore his thoughts. He is sincere and well-meaning.

Conversely, your sole problem is you are always looking to the next moment to be fulfilled: https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/1k6sfkn/i_noticed_ive_been_waiting_to_live_and_it_hit/ Do everything perfect this very moment and then sleep well each night.

This is the default reality for everyone: everything taking place in auto-pilot without any input needed from the person. It is the unconscious life. The fact you wrote so movingly about your dismay with this setup is the first step towards breaking its hold on you. You are not a person run by an egoic mind and you do not need to continue is this delusion. You are not the finite looking at the finite; you are the infinite looking from the finite to the finite papering over the infinite. Align with what you are in meditation and in every moment and thereby disidentify from what you are not. Why accept misery and why not embody joy?

Lots of love, friend. Keep on shining the light. You are seen and valued.

My truth is unrelated to the Truth. My truth is what makes me feel a good decent honest integrous person. The Truth is innocence. It's impossible to be bad. Stupid and mad definitely but I never knew any better. Once I figure out the Truth, I will start seeing everyone around me like that; namely God is all around me - which is the method that enables me to embody my true nature. To go from truth to Truth requires the end of me. All are me now. To live Truth is love.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman

For real.

Mind thinks that it does, rightly or wrongly so. Spiritual work is to shift from I am doing to I witness doing. This is one step towards realizing one's true nature as awareness not consciousness. For me everything that mind does is illogical and incomprehensible. It's powerless though addicted. Oneself is not just mind as one can witness mind and so burn it up. It takes practice for most and time apparently. To begin, one has to see decisively that here is misery notwithstanding what socials and mutuals will say.

In the UK we have a word for normalising corruption, it is called bunging or to bung. If you bung someone, you slip them a sum so the task is carried out without fuss or without red-tape or without delay or without question. People have turned this bribe-dynamic into an art-form such that it is admired widely. Amazing and ingenious how they turned this around so that corruption is celebrated.

I either grow my bank account or help at the soup kitchen.

Experience is what you call consciousness. It appears as the body seeing a world and you are conscious of the world, to varying degrees. But here’s the issue: this is suffering, and, as you can well attest, you are stuck. At essence, your experience is awareness: yourself knowing yourself in sat-chit-ananda, eternally. You have never left this essence. You like to pretend to, for the sake of a little off-radar entertainment. Consciousness is fun but it has a cost. As far as this universe is concerned, consciousness ends. Awareness is the only game in time.

Experience is rapid fire snap-shots of the absolute, experienced by the absolute. Me is looking upon I am. And I look on it and say, it is good, according to Genesis 1. God looks on itself by imagining falsely limiting itself and returns to true experience of itself by remembering itself.