mandyjw

I would just stare at the sun if I didn't know I wasn't supposed to.

I guess it's that either everything just is, or if everything has a "purpose" that purpose is to awaken us. Things that are scary but also fascinating to think about kind of pull you into exploring mystery and the unknown and the nature of fear itself.

Aliens are attractive to our culture because they make great stories and are well, terrifying. But we have still a lot of ideas about them, even the word alien congers up an image. We want to understand the bigger, greater infinite unknown and sometimes it helps to assign at least some qualities to it. Basically you made up the idea of aliens in your mind, and also in doing so created them in reality so that you could have a more graspable experience of the fear of the unknown. We all personally make up our own things and our experiences all with the same aim.

Think about it as if you were a wave on the ocean. You are the ocean in the entirety but you only know yourself as this one wave. Other waves could crash into you and destroy you so they appear threatening. You could compare your size and location with that of other waves and feel significant or insignificant. You could be afraid of how long you have until you crash into the shore and die. All those thoughts perpetuate the idea of you as a separate wave, even though all those problems dissolve as soon as you identify with being the ocean as a whole. We also have different kinds of thoughts, thoughts about how to create things, manipulate our world, improve our world, thoughts about how to interact with people and communicate with people. We have thoughts of gratitude and appreciate. It's all play. Thoughts bridge the gap between form and formless.The best way to align your thoughts with the formless, is to understand what thoughts are and where they are coming from. Aligning yourself with the energy of formless, (think meditation of all kinds) changes the thoughts you have and also trains you to recognize what kind of thoughts you are having by getting a feel for the energy of them. Not all thoughts are bad, not all thoughts are good. Ultimately and seemingly contradicting everything I just said, it is our judgement of which are bad and which are good that causes us to suffer.

Depression is as much a coach as bliss.

So believe nothing.

She wouldn't believe it.

I don't know. I thought that I had awakened to the fact that I had been repressing and demonizing thinking, I thought that I had freed myself of some duality but it was really not an awakening with great insights but equally a debauchery of self deception the likes of which I've never know. Is "trying" to see thoughts for what they really are trying to be a saint?

Needed this, thanks.

Have you given up on me?

Depression is a mystical state. All states are mystical.

Awesome, thank you for sharing this.

Can you please explain more about what you mean by dropping the saint? I feel like you're from house Slytherin so obviously I have this problem.

@Arhattobe Is it? Or is that the grace of God? Our demand for perfection is a defilement itself.

That's why we still need Jesus. I had a natural awakening at the start of April, I was sleeping generally about two hours or two two hour stretches. At the time I had no way of knowing if or when it would stop, it went on for well over a week and calmed down slowly. In a way it was terrifying because it was beyond my control but now I see the wisdom for living my life now is completely letting go of the experience. I still haven't fully let go, not at all. If I had a magic button to push, I would turn it on again. It makes me think that psychedelics have some powerful advantages and also some powerful drawbacks.

Hey Shin, Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? NOTHING we say EVER passes those requirements. Are we really supposed to shut up all the time? Or is Leo right, this is a mastrabatorium? I'm going down with the ship. Hopefully it's not actually sinking, because, that hasn't be confirmed yet.

@Joseph Maynor Pretty much. It's funny how I started out my spiritual journey as a fundamentalist Christian and now I'm here discussing God's mastrabatorium.

@Natasha There's one quote from one of his early videos that stuck in my head, it was something about masculinity and wanting to fuck the world. I guess he found through his journey starting with pick up that his desire to fuck the world was really a desire for enlightenment all along. But the metaphors stuck.

I'm enlightened, admittedly it's a low level of enlightenment but it happened on its own without the use of psychedelics. It really felt like I wasn't in control of it and didn't do it. I felt like I was on drugs for days, and I said things I would never normally say. I barely slept or ate while it was happening. The most important thing is to go about life, have an open mind, honestly love life and other people and be interested in growing and purifying that love. If that is your guiding star you will awaken. You can truly experience enlightenment now. There is a state of samadhi you reach when you awaken and it changes you and the world forever. But in the end, it's just a perspective and a story and those things are made for letting go of. And then, it's back to work we go.

The part you forgot is that she had left her first husband for another man, the man who later left her. So she had no choice to be the victim, she could only see herself in her own pain. It was a coming full circle of life events for her. I love Pema.

You are an author who is writing a story about an author who is writing a story about an author who is writing a story....

If the entire truth was that we are creating everything, and that was it period, then why do you get surprised so often? Even clairvoyant people are wrong, they only know things vaguely and can be wrong. No one would ever want to be right about everything. Everyone wants a surprise. It's much deeper and mysterious than you or me alone, creating everything. We are writing a story together, maybe but I don't know how it's going to end do you? What is 1 X 1? I'm one, you're one, together we amount to one.

@Shaun Don't talk about our Mom like that, you disrespectful brat.

I took my daughter to the pediatricians and followed a truck with the license plane onexone. 1 x 1 is one. That made me laugh. I also saw a white picket fence section painted as the American flag. I thought that was also funny.