mandyjw

If you were talking to yourself, you'd have been one and in tune with that colleague. You weren't talking to yourself, were you?

@tsuki How do you know just what I need/already knew? Oh. Gotcha.

Don't you know that more people are reading your comment than just the OP?

@Shaun Then is not now silly. Do you enjoy thinking so much? Or does it make you miserable?

@Shaun So when I had my first baby I didn't know about any of this stuff and they really scared me in the hospital about SIDS. I didn't enjoy him almost at all. I couldn't connect with my baby because I kept imagining him as if he were dead. But he wasn't. He was my beautiful perfect baby in that moment and I couldn't see him clearly. He has autism. I know that I didn't cause it but I also know that I did. With my second baby I had read Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now and applied it before, during my pregnancy and after. She gave me such joy. Just holding her and smelling her head was wonderful. When I saw her face my brain lit like a Christmas tree with joy. That is the difference between being in the now and imagining horrors in your mind. Your experience. Right now. Right fucking now. Is the ONLY thing you are asked to accept.

@Shaun "Imagine" that it's "very real"? How on earth do I do that?

@Shaun But how do those things feel if you take away time and your judgments? How do they feel when you are actually doing them in the present moment? Go find out.

@Shaun You've never just started to get frostbite in your hands or feet and felt what it was like to warm them up again? What about scratching an itch? What about eating past being full? What about telling someone you love them and not knowing if they love you back? What about plunging into a slightly too cold pool on a hot day?

It's when you see beauty and don't call it beautiful.

@Leo Gura Those deaf ears you're perceiving are your own.

The words are just a pointer. "There's only now", is the shortest clearest pointer for most people. It's like yoda, do or do not, there's no try. Don't let the concept of thousands of hours come into your mind at all or you'll miss the now.

@Leo Gura There are no thousands of hours. Only now.

Next week. I was ranting on that exact point in a thread a few days ago. Do you see how you have to teach in order to learn? But you can't teach with any separation between you and your student. Because if there is any authority in your teachings you'll miss the message. Like I did.

Have you ever experienced times in your life where you couldn't really tell what the line was between pleasure and pain?

You have to live life as if it's real. All the while knowing that it's not. This is why enlightenment is really about bringing space in between the times you lose yourself in form. Then you find that you're losing yourself in form less and less. You can't physically try to push the forms away and evolve. Keep coming back to now.

@now is forever left side, bellybutton level, slightly lower sometimes, moves around a bit. It doesn't hurt on the right if I push on it and release.

It's only on one side. What does that mean? I only know what chakras are, I haven't done anything with them.

@tsuki I feel like I'm dying. I still can't sleep or eat. I thought it would be over by now. Those are my two favorite things. What gives? I've had a strange stomach ache since December and I've tried all methods of healing it myself and figuring it out myself. So one of the things i realized yesterday was that i just needed to call and make a doctor's appointment so I did. I feel like I'm on track to fulfilling a purpose that I saw as more important than my life and i don't know how I can be alive after that. Maybe I really am dying. Afraid of the future. Afraid of death.

In all honesty my focus isn't great and I'm suffering a lot too.

Don't lose your focus. Don't lose the present moment. It's all paradise.

It's all paradise until you believe that God is different from the snake.

You create pain when you create duality.

@tsuki A week ago I didn't know I was a sadist. You showed me that too.

Not goals. Desires. I'm a goddess of desire. Reflect my light. So a woman wants a man to fuck with her pysche but a man doesn't want a woman to fuck with his?

"The other question is: will your future wife really be happy with a man that can't fuck with her psyche properly? How are you going to keep being attractive to her through 40 years of marriage/relationship? You need to get this experience somewhere." Do you see why you felt the addition of this sentence was wrong now? Did you have an unexpressed desire that the law of attraction responded to?