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first you look then you see first is perfect then mind intervenes one is god one is ego sights delight, words destroy

learn true concentration, for example sit and gaze at a flower for increasingly long periods this is the superpower for taking change of life, you have to tame the mind the book The Mind Illuminated focuses on this

i do 3-7am since lockdown, took some time to get the full 240 minutes ... i factored in 2-3 sleep in's per month haven't had awakening, enligtenment, breakthrough, altered states i am happy to sit quietly without a goal or agenda i am still a beginner, i swallow saliva and adjust hands every 60 minutes and still twitch a lot the last hour not pleasurable but does get easier i dont rely on a timer, i know how many breaths for the whole sit and count along

dogma is trying to put truth into words but this can't be done notice the word backwards spells amgod start with i am god and meditate on that that is the first pointer to truth

on the path, we embrace the difficult means we don't seek short cuts and quick fixes it doesn't mean we are dumb and torture ourselves without reason by taking the crappest job having some comfort is okay and in fact the path is treacherous enough so be kind be gentle be easy on yourself give yourself every advantage every benefit every convenience possible this is maturity

you might be a rare exception but women in the main want entertainment not enlightenment just be fun wise-cracking silly, she is bored by your siddhis oh and the straighter your teeth the hornier she will get according to kim kardashian's man list:

forget the truth, it is too abstract what is the lie is the initial question just contemplate i talked about this in this forum plenty so won't waste your time

do i want a good dream or do i want more god hmm thank you @Moksha ?

a time machine?

to raise the white flag is to entrust yourself into the victor's hand ... please don't kill me or torture me and in return i give you all i am and all i have i am nothing except what you will have me be i abandon my old life and i embrace being your subject with no expectations or demands old me is dead, new me trusts what you provide for my life i was lost and now i am found, was bruised and now i breathe, was blind and now i'm see

there are two dual things space and shape, awareness and thought, selflessness and self in all 3 cases you are the former for example if you think something, what happened is a thought arose by its own volition, you can be aware of that and that is you selfless is to bring your being to zero to nothing to emptiness ... how? meditation, neti neti, self enquiry, contemplation, prayer ...

there is the truth and there is the lie the lie is what the mind claims to be truth namely the two sides of the story, one is good one is bad the lie is duality note that duality and non-duality is also a duality thus truth is not non duality truth is beyond both this is absolute truth relative truth is what mind takes as good in the lie mentioned above what i call good, you may call bad, and vice versa relative truth is your level of consciousness, different for everyone death penalty may be fine for me, and barbaric for you so never interfere, just recognise how conscious someone is and follow them or dump them

you are successful in life to the extent you hire a good middle-man-person selling a house is one of life's most fraught episodes pay 5% for the best middle-man so you can sleep easy or try it person to person and see if you can pull it off i did both ways and so i recommend a middle man

the direct path of self enquiry is a lofty bar for many; here is what the 14th Dalai Lama says:

absolute is the middle way not the extreme, it programmed me to do everything for my own betterment except in one tiny instance and in that one tiny instance is my freedom to say yes or no if there wasn't that one tiny slither of free will, the absolute's dream would be predictibly uninteresting the absolute knows how every portion of the dream acts save one case, the machine gets to either fold or hold and most times i have held to meditate is me folding my hand and making my way home

it is the only thing that can be done in violation of self interest everything you do, you want to do because it keeps you in the game you are a self enjoyment maximiser in all you do even so called hardship and sacrifice you do it for your greater good and your long term legacy all except when it comes to meditation you don't want to meditate, you have a litany of prepared reasons not to and i am talking real meditation not the schlock that passes for it on phone apps you meditate hand in hand with the absolute when it tells you to start playing a different game from now on your free will is necessary but not sufficient, you need the absolute to enter which is what is termed grace psychedelics meanwhile is game enhancement 101

you do everything out of self interest namely you have no choice but to except for one thing meditation meditation sucks folks, it is the only thing you do with is NOT self interest, in fact it is the apparent self's death sentence nobody want to meditate no matter what people on the internet tell you, it is damn hard work, rewards are dubious, the pay is peanuts and besides mind has you firmly under its thumb telling you that you need more sleep not mat sitting meditation is the only free will everything else you do out of l.u.s.t., likes upvotes shares thanks thank you for listening

life is all about enjoying others, finding something interesting about them, marvelling in their uniqueness their talents their suffering their motivations you might practice doing that with boring dull unintelligent people you will discover there are no boring dull unintelligent people everyone has tons to teach me to show me to contribute to my journey it is fine of course to have preferences after one has discovered another's essence

when is indoctrination edification? which values are important and universal and which are traditional and arbitrary who arbitrates such matters

i know i am all i see but all i see doesn't know it is me and therein lies my task that my long lost limbs soar in unison with their fellow wings daniel brown is asked if he in enlightened in this vid in the q&a part, and in fact the whole thing worth a gander

opinion is the only sin, forming one and voicing one shows how low conscious one is, all politicians and all wars are equally good

every time i try to get someone to think what i think, myself is the total con man selling fake goods, no wait even worse i am a thief, i am stealing another's sovereignty from them, having them forgo their inner journey in place of my cheap commentary i need to stop telling others what to think pretty damn quick, from now i quit using the word you, i only speak of me, i implore others do the same i don't foist my opinions any more, i just state stuff that works for me not for you

i contend that better pointers than self realization are self recognition and self revelation to realize requires mind thinking / doing to recognize requires looking prior to seeing to reveal requires assumptions being dropped if you have no faith and receptivity, nothing will happen

desire absolutely anything in the cosmos should it come enjoy as best you can just don't pray it stays despise absolutely anything in the cosmos should it come endure as best you can just don't pray it goes you made this here, now live it in fully detached bliss as hereby described

daniel brown would echo your words: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=98A39B85ADEEDA1C!4108&ithint=file%2cdocx&authkey=!ALpq-rOsSXG_m0M