mandyjw

No one is afraid of death. They are afraid of being afraid of dying. It's easier to tackle it if you think of it that way.

I think people are too hard on themselves sometimes. Your mind is a liar, all thoughts are lies. We are always trying to understand with the mind more and more how both sides of a paradox can be true. This understanding is necessary but the real understanding is in the space between the words, the space between the thoughts. Solipsism is like being conservative in politics. I DID THIS THING, I don't need teachers, I AM my teacher. Then you can be liberal and way too reliant and trusting and worshipful of teachers or too caught in other people's shortcomings to make progress yourself. The thing is, we are going to have to have some wobble, some wavering between the two in order to balance out. The mind can never truly hold this paradox. A teaching will almost always be skewed one way or another. Ground yourself in thoughtless awareness, then get back on the roller coaster of the mind and try to understand it. The mind will always make you feel like you're being thrown off your center a bit. When we see other people thrown off their center, we try to balance them by going in the opposite direction. That's because we inherently know that they are us.

Your parents are just starting to learn that their role is changing and they can't keep you safe anymore. No matter what you do with your life this is a painful process for most parents, just because of your age and the fact that it's really hard to let go after your main concern has been keeping your child safe for 19 years . Be patient with them but be true to your inner guide. As for staying safe, my own theory is that since the law of attraction brought me this far, it can also help me through. Know the things that raise your spirits is really important, even make a list of them, make a vision board of things that make you happy and raise your spirits, come here for support, try to have other real life people in your life you can go to if you can. Remember that as serious as this journey is, it's really just play. This is fun, it's the adventure of a lifetime. What's an adventure without some really scary, low times?

@hariseldon74 That's AMAZING!!!

@The Blind Sage Hugs. @Inliytened1 Spiritually gifted or cray cray?

Oh. @Truth Addict We need to have a talk.

Ok, I'm even starting to really annoy myself now.

I believe that he knows exactly what he is doing. Being older and getting a bit senile might play into it some, but don't be fooled, he is a genius when it comes to making the common man think that he has their best interests at heart. What we need to someone who can make them believe it and who actually DOES have their interests at heart. That's a major challenge. Sometimes you have to appear at just the right moment when they realize that what worked for generations isn't going to cut it anymore. Timing is everything.

@tsuki You're as blind as a bat my love. So was Grammie, by the end.

@tsuki I did tonglen for my Grandmother, the night she died. It bounced back and I received a feeling of peace and well being stronger than I was able to give. An hour later my mom told me that she was gone. Everyone wanted her to hurry up and die. She was inconveniencing everyone, she stopped sleeping and started seeing dead people and she got mad at people for not understanding her reality. Grammie just needed to finish her vision quest. All in good time.

@jbram2002 No, you missed the point. It's about enlightenment. There's a reason that she continued to call the old man boy, even when he is too old do nothing but sit upon her stump.

@winterknight Excellent points. I believe that someone is always going to find weak people to take advantage of, and no matter how much regulation you put into place there will always be a loophole. Regulation is needed, but I would also love the uneducated to receive financial education, especially poor communities. The kind of people who don't understand how interest accumulates, the kind of people who regularly take pay day loans those are the ones who need it most. Teach kids in highschool or earlier to be conservative and intelligent with their own finances. Teach them that their freedom and their time and life is worth more than money and possessions. I don't care if you have to get rid of algebra and English class, drill it into their heads. The reason that politicians make these mistakes, the reason Alan Greenspan was deluded is that he doesn't understand the mindset of those who are getting preyed on. When you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth, when you are blessed with a high quality education, it's easy to think that everyone can have the same opportunities. They simply do not, they have different motives, they live in the present moment. It's the very same present moment that we are trying to go back to having spent so long engineering our futures and slaving away towards them. They never left the present moment. It's beautiful and it's also really dangerous. Why are the people who need Democratic policies THE MOST resistant to them? Because Democrat leader STILL don't really understand them. Instead of seeing wealth as a status symbol, they see their intellect and education as it. That's their self worth, that's where they have a lot of ego. Education and intellect is the same as material success. It feeds, you it clothes you, you need it. But do not attach your ego to it. We know nothing. This is a democracy, it's as beautiful as it is inconvenient. We are only as strong as our weakest link, we are in this together. You can't shortcut and cheat your way to a better world and leave people behind in the process.

@Shin My kid is sick so I can do this ALL day long. You guys are all so nihilistic, black holes and melting and nothingness.

@Shin Face what, there's nothing here. No face to face.

@Preetom You must be both a rebel and a devotee simultaneously. The Civil war in your mind will free you from slavery, even though the slave isn't the one who is fighting in the war.

I agree, I'm not sure why it shouldn't be worthy of youtube.

@Etherial Cat For some reason I had assumed you were American. Why are there so few Americans on this forum??? It's seriously destroying my skewed American centric world view. Hey Leo, I was born in the US, so if you want, I'll run for President for you, I'll be the face, and you can do all the hard work. As a bonus, I'm really good at saying stupid things out of the blue, just like George W Bush. The American people really seem to appreciate that kind of thing.

I'm already dead, I gave up my faith already, the war has already been fought. You stand over me with a knife but I'm not afraid.

The server is infinite, silly.

Itchy nose meanings. https://www.ryanhart.org/itchy-nose-meaning/ @tsuki I am in love with myself.

@tsuki othership sounds too much like mothership for me not to make a wordplay joke that ended up being really funny and nondual because I was talking to Leo, about the leaders of our country. Then I started playing his video exactly where he was talking about aliens. It was great.

@Leo Gura If so many people weren't idiots who continually take on mortgages for home they can't afford, get themselves into credit card debt and take our massive student loans the Great Recession wouldn't have happened. There are many different defenses against evil and misfortune and teaching personal responsibility is YOUR forte. It's also the conservative highest value. I'm not saying that who shouldn't be so interested in politics, you should I just hope that you fully understand your potential here. There's something to learn from everyone, every racist country bumpkin redneck knows something about the universe that you don't know. It's all pure potential, don't overlook anyone because in doing so you only underestimate yourself.

I came into this world KNOWING I was both the Devil and God. Other people have confused me all my life. tsuki calls me a repressed saint and Leo calls me the Devil. Why do I create other people? Why is confusion better than being alone? I think the only kind of people who pursue nonduality are the type that HATE surprise parties. Then you get rewarded with the realization that life is just ONE BIG SURPRISE PARTY THAT YOU'RE THROWING FOR YOURSELF. At least there's cake.

othership, mothership? take me to your leader. now i sound like nowisforever.