mandyjw

As you start to see the world as an outside projection, or rather that there's really no inner or outer, you see how you create your own obstacles, often by labeling events as obstacles and feeling resistance to them. We become aware of how inner resistance creates outer obstacles. Inner resistance reflects our outer obstacles, our obstacles reflect our inner resistance and they appear to arise together and seem to require each other. When we see that while they are one and the same, one does not create the other in a cause and effect manner, there are new ways of seeing and relating with the world. Nothing changes/everything changes.

Sigh.

Hey Leo did you know that bald eagles mate for life? That's probably why you see them alone so much.

Enlightenment is woven throughout art, creative works, kids books, literally everything is "speaking" it. Get more creative in your use of language and stop feeling responsible for whether someone "gets" what they already are or not. There's inherent joy in creative expression. That's all teaching really is.

Not being you dead unfeeling zombie unicorn, feeling. It's not A feeling, it's feeling itself. Ya feel me?

Well that's the fun of duality. There's no experience or desire for light without dark. Why do you strive for it, out of discomfort of the opposite or passion for it?

Love is feeling itself and not a feeling. There are no feelings outside of thought or judgement (nouns) just feeling (verb). Feelings (nouns) are labels for something dead and gone.

Oh. My. God. My mind just cannot. CANNOT. All you can do is laugh.

Is your name actually Leo Gura?

Your own body has intelligence and intuition that science doesn't have yet, especially not tailored to you. When you start cutting out and demonizing huge categories of food (like carbs for example ) you not only cut yourself off from your bodies intuition, but you basically cripple your ability to eat a varied diet and eat food in moderation. Go to the super market with beginner's eyes every once in a while, don't get stuck in a food rut and you likely won't accumulate high amounts of any one toxin to cause issues.

Uh oh. Better get tested for the Rona.

@Nahm Don't make me sing.

Thinking of a country that actually is so fluid, complex and changing as we speak, no concept we can have it of it is anything short of completely ridiculous. And that lesson applies to individuals also. You can't conceptualize them because everything you conceptualize is dead and past. Don't hafta wait for anyone to die or get voted out of office cause the concept is all there is, and it can be dropped. Even if you still hold on to it, that doesn't make it real. So it just doesn't make any sense to suffer because there's a President you don't like, vote, campaign, yell, scream, swear, whatever, but you don't have to suffer for it. Don't use people and circumstances you have no control over to perpetuate feeling bad. Just reach for feeling better. Strangely enough that's how real change is made anyway.

No at the time, I only watched Leo and was also really into Eckhart Tolle's stuff, I hadn't expanded much beyond that. Terrence McKenna talks about "Moby Dick" too. Also at that time I read "Through the Looking Glass" and "Peter Pan" and had a similar realization. Then I reread "The Scarlet Letter" which I had read in high school but it was an entirely different book. @Nahm

It's hard to have empathy for a person who pays taxes to a government that ever dropped an atomic bomb on a city and still has means of doing so. This all ends up flying back in one's own face. It's really hard not to have empathy for others.

A trick to loving Trump (or oneself) is in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, I think. Calvin is a selfish devil, and Hobbes is his imaginary companion who is wise and knows better but loves him anyway. In the strip Hobbes' character only exists in Calvin's imagination. And Calvin and Hobbes only exist in our imagination. Similarly, Trump and oneself only exist in one's own imagination.

Well that's neither here nor there.

I was raised Christian and we used to sometimes differentiate between "Old Testament God" and "New Testament God". The gnostics call the "Old Testament God" Demiurge. Demiurge, demi meaning half, urge "I have half a mind to do something about this shithole I created. Aww, fuck it, I'll stay up here on my golden throne and judge it all." It's sort of a good pointer to the separate mind I guess. Most gnostics seem to believe they are sort of stuck in creation, subject to it, creation is evil. That's my perception anyway. Of course evil spelled backwards is live and devil spelled backwards is lived.

If you project the devil outward you can keep fearing it. If you love the devil you have to intimately accept that the devil is you.

The Devil is a powerful placeholder for fear in the Christian psyche. This helps to understand what's really going on there.

The moon effects nature in profound ways, the tide is run by it, women's fertility and cycles are run by it. Nature is a cyclical thing, it's all about the circle of life, the death/life cycle. So the moon is an incredibly powerful symbol beyond symbols of this. We don't honor cycles in our culture very much because rest and death cycles aren't seen as so convenient for businesses. There's a disconnect from nature. Emotional changes and fluctuation in moods is often seen as undesirable, but this is nature, this is how change, growth, death and birth manifest. Likewise on one's spiritual journey there is death and rebirth. Old parts of us die and new parts are reborn. It's all about alignment, releasing resistance to the flow and cycles of life. The moon is always whole and yet, its reflection and effect on nature... what we perceive, is what changes.

Says the guy whose name means "lion". God is funny.

The flu can have very strong mind-altering effects. Maybe he comes out of it awake.

Oh no, we all create it. Why, though? Another 4 years will just indicate that we need our master's degree in Trump, a bachelor's just wasn't enough.

One thing I've noticed is that I really like to do what the opposite of the teacher is supposedly about. Jim Newman made me incredibly excited about my life and work again. Now I'm reading this book about how the present moment is a bunch of shit, and all that's "real" is what's next and I've never been so present in the now. I highly recommend this book based on what you said you want in the first paragraph. It's hilarious, light-hearted and full of stories, but a lot of them sent a chill right up my spine and really helped me to reframe some stuff. The author is deeply into astrology, which I am not and know nothing about, but still, her playful way or writing it makes that sort of thing not matter at all. https://www.amazon.com/Outrageous-Openness-Letting-Divine-Take/dp/1476793484/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=outrageous+open&qid=1601636940&sr=8-1