mandyjw

Something wrong with the human form? Sounds just like religion. Sins of the flesh. None of those worldviews are built on anything true though. There's no difference. Atheists are very susceptible to the same kind of traps of religion itself (just framed in new beliefs about enlightenment) because they don't have the experience of having watched people around them fall into them their whole life. It's like being the younger sibling, you know what makes your older sibling get into trouble and you know to avoid it. Maybe letting go of language means expressing yourself with it utterly completely and honestly. Maybe it means silence. I mean, who knows?

I really respect that, but there are subtle ways in which we hold ourselves apart from the things we want. The journey is an inherent component of the destination. Humans can't access it. It's not accessible by anyone, it's access itself. It's the force, the source that drives life. It's an ongoing quest of the human to align with it. There are some spectacular breakthroughs along the way. But you can't say the force that drives life is ultimately not accessible to anyone alive. It precedes it. So you have a belief in beliefs then? Such fixation on specific people here! There already aren't specific people, starting with yourself.

I once had a really warm goose down winter jacket and comforter. Then I realized I had been sick for weeks because I was actually allergic to goose down. It was not at all hard to let go of those things I'd previously loved once I saw the connection with suffering.

Can you imagine if you were like.. up in heaven somewhere disembodied, and God was like "ok, well I want you to go do some awesome shit but the thing is, you can't do that stuff unless you have a body and the problem with having as body is that it can get hurt or killed, so you'll feel fear sometimes. In fact you might even forget that ultimately, you're not a body." Can you imagine how much courage it would take to say yes to THAT? You're already courageous AF. You just forgot there's no such thing as courage, cause there's no such thing as you.

Open-mindedness is the same as truly being honest with yourself, and love. I was raised Christian but as a kid I realized that the belief in hell was impossible to continue with if I believed in a loving God. The two beliefs would not align, so I chose love and dropped the hell belief. That was just part of a string of letting go of more beliefs from religion in order to chose love. But religion left huge openings and questions in my psyche as well. It was neither help nor hindrance when compared with an atheist belief structure. I had different fears. The worst thing as a devout Christian is not physical death at all, it's the Devil that we psychologically equate as the driving force behind suffering itself. Your mind is already completely open. You don't have a mind, you are awareness. No one can tell you what will happen the openness is the question and the answer itself.

Yes! Can also manifest as attraction to people. Any strong emotional reaction really.

Does it though? Factor is a limitation, so when you say infinite factors, you're not talking about infinity anymore. Every single word or concept is limitation. Even infinite as a concept itself. I don't have manners though. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. You already have your cake and eat it too. It's that damn Good. @Shin

See, I didn't just create the story, I had to create language too. And do I get so much as a "thanks, Mom!"? No, I get called a devil with my own words.

@electroBeam Just look at the world "devil" in the mirror. Backwards it spells lived.

@electroBeam I the author, am a dramatic little bitch, I have to throw you away from home if I want to write a story about how you find the way back. You call this your birth. But you were always home in my mind and heart the whole time. Never born, never apart.

Suffering is a call to come Home. But you sit in the dirt and sing along with it instead of getting up and running home. it's not your fault. Maybe no one told you home isn't a physical place and that you're not a physical thing that can ever be apart from it. But feeling is. That's why suffering feels bad. Come home.

For the purpose of creation. I was so inspired to write this story. I know my characters aren't real, but I sure love them anyway. I'm not here really. I'm another character. I'm more intimately you than you can know me as anything other than. Mind IS separation. There's no "right" mind. Mind is left AND right. Madness, utter madness, so mad, it creates madness out of perfect wholeness. Did you ever experience anything other than now?

@Shin It's an illusion. What women really want is a man who can really focus her mind. But since you see her mind is scattered you're actually scattered yourself, so. Fail.

Your awareness is always not split. There's no 100% unification, there's just not separate. Since all experience and creation begins in consciousness or awareness it's already always the case that you are not separate. You try to get happier and happier because you yourself are looking at yourself as an objective thing. You had to first separate yourself in order to look back at yourself and then after that first separation you make further separations in judging yourself. You are not separate, you can't do that. The first separation is "I". I is the owning of awareness, the hijacking of it. Awareness loves everything it sees. Mind creates and separates. But awareness precedes mind. In consciousness work you train the mind to always return to what precedes it, you return to home when it projects itself out somewhere that feels bad. You're like the prodigal son. It doesn't. It never did. It only seems that way to the mind you've separated yourself from enough to be able to call your mind. It's a superpower, (although sort of a lame one compared with awareness, but no one gets to OWN that.) Use it for good, use it wisely. Feeling is your guide.

In my opinion there's something energetically off with Mooji, but it's hard to separate rumors from intuition sometimes. I've absolutely hated tons of spiritual teachers in the past and then later completely come around to them. It's really hard to separate actual intuition that someone wants to cause you harm from the ego's fear of being confronted. I think that itself is why scandals can be so devastating and destructive.

@Nahm No, because focus and scattered attention is duality and not what's actually happening and masculine feminine energy is likewise, BS. But also very intriguing cause it has to be in order to perpetuate itself, in more ways than one .

Well, they are all men. We project the qualities we want and think will make us secure in the having of them onto our teachers and role models. This is both absolutely good and also really self deceptive. Don't worship idols. I-dolls. The "I" makes them and imagines them into real characters for its own play.

I don't quite follow, you mean switch roles as parents? No, I don't think it would shift much, but there's definitely a lot of role belief on my part and what I often assume is complete blissful ignoreance on his. Was this for me? I am a man, duh! I just spell it Amanda sometimes.

I've run since I was 10. Absolutely love everything about it. Now that I'm in my 30's I find light trail running to be a huge boost physically and mentally but high mileage on pavement not so great for my body, although the runner's highs from long runs, OMG. If you're getting shin splints watch increasing mileage too fast and make an effort to really watch and train your form.

Transcend, sweep under the rug, whatever, didn't much care at the time.

OMG. Yep. See? You do not understand your incredible privilege of not being primarily responsible for every little detail, mess, drama, and thing that goes missing. Being a mom makes you want alone time and focus more than anything. Like, you'll suddenly appreciate it everywhere. Dental cleanings become paradise on earth. For 20 glorious minutes no one will ask you to get up and go do something for them. Sigh... How did this thread become about dental care?

Sure, I brush my teeth every night while I scream at my kids to put on their pajamas and plan the next day. Multi-tasking.

Who in your house do you kids go to first when they lose something? Thought I was gonna transcend emotions with enlightenment, instead they just get more intense.

@Nahm Yep, that's absolutely hilarious but I also really want to slap you.

@The Lucid Dreamer @Someone here That's weird... and awesome!