mandyjw

Is it really true, as opposed to false? Or by what standards and from what perspective? Interesting that "know" and "no" sound the same. "Know" just has two useless letters on either end. Forget the tree. Through the screen I can project anything I want on anyone here. I can imagine them thinking or feeling any particular way based on my objectives and how I want them to reflect or reinforce the idea I have of myself and my understanding. Will I ever be correct? Will my approximations and lazy imagination ever come close to the actuality? Or is love and real respect interaction letting go of the belief that I know them or myself or even understand the subject we're talking about?

You don't take into account that "you" and "time" don't actually exist. "You" spend more time and energy wanting and imagining you as you are than you do with wings. Wings are likely a hindrance to the expression of life that is wanted from "you". However if you drop the you idea and look at a bird in the sky, there you go. "You're" already flying. That's the beginning of the open door of open-mindedness. Next might come the literal out of body experience of flying. Who knows? Anything could happen. What I'm talking about is already what's already happening anyway, but it's so obvious we don't give it attention. There are no things until thought says so. It's the old, "if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it does it make a sound?" thing. No it doesn't make a sound. No there's no thing until there's a thought of a thing. There's no bird flying until there's a thought of you and bird as two separate "things". What came first, thought or thing? "You" are already winged and flying. It all hinges on how you define you. That's the ultimate thought/thing.

You're not annoying me. Belief and confusion are codependent, like light and dark you cannot have one without the other. So, we create a system out of belief to dispel confusion, but instead it creates confusion. I think that's what you're experiencing. Beyond beliefs you are reborn every "moment", we aren't born when we think we are. So, Happy Birthday!!! Fresh clean slate, right here, right now.

There's no where to go, movement and body are the illusion of "life". Nothing "has" consciousness. It cannot be possessed or possess.

It's a famous Lewis Caroll riddle, "How is a raven like a writing desk?" There's no real answer.

How is a @Raven1998 like a writing desk?

Thing and thought arise together. One is material and one is not material. One says one is a thing, but is not a thing itself. So how would it know?

Yes, in fact no thought or sense of "body" is quite the same as the last, it's pure imagination because there's no reality it's based on. A thought of it is like a photographic frame taken of something that is past, except there are no frames actually just seamless motion. @VeganAwake I can't keep that state of mind because it's not a state of mind. In fact whenever I get hurt and really think about it, I pass out. I have no control over my state of mind. I don't have a state of mind.

Can it? Have you read/heard reports of out of body experiences? The body is a thought. It does not posses consciousness, there's no hierarchy.

Isn't it interesting how similar yet vastly different narcissism and self inquiry is? Narcissus ignores all others to stare back at himself only. Good or bad? I guess we can see ourSelves. I find this both beautiful and incredibly obnoxious sometimes. It's like throwing a boomerang in order to hit someone else and then smack, hits you right in the head. All you can do is laugh at yourself.

In my experience you can't be happy for that long if you insist on constantly rating and labeling yourself and people, no. There's an important difference here, we rate people based on the factors we've been conditioned by society and peers to think are valuable. Then there's inherent attraction that doesn't really stand up to logic that well and doesn't give a damn what anyone else thinks. We muddle and mix up the two and wonder why we aren't satisfied with our partners or can't find anyone who really attracts us. If what we really want is to be swept away with attraction, it's important to respond and be open to what really attracts you, and not what you've been taught by others or think should attract you. This is equally true if you have a partner or are looking for one. That honesty and authenticity takes a lot of courage and requires dropping the rating system which is only there to keep us safe from judgment. We seek to judge potential partners critically first so that judgement can't be turned on us by others later. Hope that makes sense?

Focus on suffering makes more suffering. Focus on what you want, health, happiness, community, love, etc gets more of it. If there is suffering in your own life, family, or your community or if something that happens elsewhere moves you to do something to help you empathize fully and take appropriate action, if there is appropriate action to take. An old classmate messaged me that her daughter was sick and they didn't have money to heat their home, so I sent her money. I am aware that girls in Africa don't get access to education like I have, so I have sponsored a girl from Kenya for the past decade. But thinking about these things and concepts outside of our experience is not actual and is actually just focus on our own suffering. The actual money I give to these things comes from having followed my inspiration and having started a business that brings in money. We have to get out of that place of suffering in order to act in a way that actually constructively improves these things. Change comes from inspiration not suffering. Act if you're inspired to do so. This is actualized.org for a reason.

A lot of the heart emojis used here feel just like the smiles you get from people when you wear a skirt that's too short to a Baptist church service.

@VeganAwake Nahm played a part in my awakening and was a complete life line after it when it came to the understanding part. I did not seek him out, it just plain happened that way before he started offering sessions. Still just assumed he was a lady back then. If anyone has any questions I'm happy to answer them. Sometimes I think we get all muddled up because we want to plot how we're doing on a map or know what level we're on. We think over and over in our heads, "Is this adventure over already FOR FUCKS SAKES?" But the whole point IS that this is an adventure, it's sheer freedom, exploration and the key ingredient of adventure is that we don't know what will happen next. We don't know what we are, where we are. It's way stranger (and more wonderful) than we could ever imagine. And you've got friends you never knew you had, who love you more than you'll ever know.

Awesome! I've found that art has a weird way of healing, it can even point out stuff about ourselves that we never saw before. Everything comes full circle.

No. We are prior to moon, light or same. We are prior to unification.

Explore, dream, go for those dreams, follow your heart and go with the flow of your inspiration. Anything in the way of THAT gets burned up. It has to.

I have a job where I don't interact with people either. What I have found is that your brain has to learn and wire itself for speaking and conversation. It also needs time to warm up and go into conversation mode and nerves and infrequent use make that time period even longer. Find a way to practice speaking on your own. Make videos, even if you don't post them anywhere. Speak until you get into the flow of speaking and get comfortable in that flow. With practice it takes less and less time to get there. Listen to yourself back. Note how when you watch a tape of yourself back with an open mind, things look and sound a lot better and smoother than we thought they did when we were saying them. Then find more opportunities for conversations. By circumstance some of us just haven't had a lot of chances to develop good people skills and conversation. This is not your fault, and nothing to be ashamed about. On the positive side, you haven't amassed a bunch of inauthentic ways of speaking and communicating and so when you learn to speak authentically, it's powerful and unique.

Fear and trying to outsmart the devil drives fundamentalism. It looks ridiculous from the outside looking in cause it's like a dog barking and growling at itself in a mirror. But your view from the outside looking in is not really a view at all. If we react to a reaction out of fear and misunderstanding, we are the fear and misunderstanding. We are the dog in the mirror.

Trees, birds and rocks (crystals, etc) are really powerful pointers. They exist in several myths, fairytales and religious stories and symbolism and you can experience that they have a certain kind of power to point beyond form from form. No idea why. Maybe just because we're just especially drawn to them? That whole the universe is built of love thing? I don't know.

By trying to save ourselves from threats we create them. Thinking that our life can be preserved is death. Like Voldemort we split our soul into pieces and hide them for the sake of our own preservation. Surrender to what is completely whole, beyond life and death is already the stuff that we actually are, and so we have found our life.

@abrakamowse I just read that the inspiration for the Rolling Stones logo originally came from a drawing of Kali.

Pay attention to how your thoughts feel. An epiphany is often sudden and seems completely random like it came from nowhere, but it feels amazing. Judging our own thoughts after they have happened is more thinking and judging ourselves. Being curious about our thoughts is being aware and questioning them. The best thing you can do is pay attention to how you feel. Generally curiosity feels great, judgement feels bad.