mandyjw

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The only way to let go of something is fall in love with it. It's already meaningless. Write the same word multiple times, the meaning is lost. How does communication occur? Can a thought communicate with a thought? Can a mind communicate with a mind? Or is a mind just a thought? So communication is only possible because of awareness. I discovered whenever I express something that's bothering me, there will be some sort of trigger word I use to describe it. And often when I go into the etymology of that word, the meaning totally falls apart. The same sort of thing happens as when you write the word "fork" 50 times. Language might have gotten you into this mess, but it's innocent, and it can help get you out.

Mind cannot communicate with mind.

You are so bad.

There's a kind of reality in an illusion. Something has to have some sort of inherent reality in order to be truly disproved. Maybe less hope in the methods and more sheer curiosity and enjoyment of whatever magic is unfolding right now is enough in and of itself.

Ok, so what people have done with the Bible is similar to what the hedonist does with sugar, drugs, or sex. It is attributing an outside object to have a power over you. This object, the Bible is given the power both for salvation and damnation. This is what thought does, it spins itself into objects, causation, past and future, fear and desire. The person who seeks happiness in the afterlife only does so to get happiness now. Think about it. Having this framework and knowing that they are doing what's right to secure something good in the future relieves them of suffering... now. It gives them a sense of security... now. They just aren't conscious of this, so they don't fully enjoy it. Learning to enjoy the present moment won't make you happy either, it's just already what's happening. Great if you do, great if you don't. Once you realize you can't ever lose no matter what, you can't lose.

Either of those words can be used in a positive light or negative light. It's all in how it feels to you in the moment.

Things do not actually make you happy or not make you happy. When you get something nice that you want, there are no thoughts saying "this isn't how I want it". The lack of sense of discontent when you get what you like is actually the reason for the happiness, so happiness itself is a lack of anything imposed on it. But because the mind can only remember objects and things within a timeline, it attributes happiness to things. At first when we are innocent kids we think "sugar makes me happy!" And it does. Then we get older and we don't want to be fat and we start to have a better sense of cause and effect and realize sugar makes us feel bad. So we say "sugar makes me feel bad." Neither of these things is actually true. However the wisdom to be able to enjoy sugar in a moderate way is most available when you realize that neither of those statements is true, that there is no effect whatsoever of sugar on happiness. If I was advising someone I would not hesitate to say that sugar can cause depression. This is both wisdom, and also convoluted thinking, if it's taken to be a rule. If you look around you'll find plenty of people who develop far worse health problems on strict diets in order to avoid health problems. Happiness ultimately cannot be caused or controlled. Coincidently, neither can health.

It's not shame, it's lack of ability to connect on their part, so they may try to shame you as a way to continue to avoid their own feelings. Don't ever feel made to feel wrong for what's going right with you.

I think you have to be pretty much married (marriage is just a piece of paper) to even have casual sex. Otherwise you're just pretending it's casual. Just my opinion.

Disclaimer, I am not an expert on this so please see a doctor or another expert to confirm that you don't have a more serious problem or something different going on. Knee problems are common with runners and can be caused by many different things. Look into tight hip flexor issues and hip flexor stretches online. Tight hips are likely the cause of the knee issue, but my guess is that because of the break are now causing pain closer to where the source problem is. I'm also a runner and pretty sure I have the same hip pain you're talking about, child's pose can be really intense and painful at times when it's flaring up. I found a gentle lunge, hip flexor stretch, as well as pigeon pose and fire log held for a generous amount of time to be game changers. I do them right after running and also a modification of pigeon and fire log again in the morning. You may have to modify to get into those poses, and of course your problem might be different. At age 30 I suddenly went from not having to stretch much after runs to having a ton of pain until I figured out this routine. I also shorten my mileage, run on trails and swim more and do more dance/yoga stuff. I have found that a short run with stretching is far better than no run without stretching as the pain continues even if I totally stop running.

Oh, it IS really weird. Happiness is just the absence of anything saying otherwise. No thing. No thing cannot have a state. Universe got your back. I mean, you don't have a back, so it doesn't have to have got it, it is it, so it so profoundly got your back that there's no chance of it messing up. You as a thought thing can never have lasting happiness. The only reason why Jeff being honest about his suffering with Lyme disease bothers anyone is that they think this is a realization they can have to bring security from some outside imposed threat. Self development and spiritual teachings for the mind acts as a sort of vaccine against suffering, but the ultimate reality is that there is no suffering and no arm or mind to inject any outside understanding into. There is no inside or outside.

Possibly low iron and vitamin B?

God's creation = nature Man's creation = technology Man's creation = God God's creation = Man Man's creation = Man

@Raphael ? Good luck!

I figure if I survived and thrived through a childhood of weekly fluoride overdose treatments, whatever shots they gave me back then, all those hydrogenated fat filled Little Debbie snacks, riding my tricycle down the steps and an untreated concussion then I can survive a COVID shot from Walmart. I like to throw caution to the wind, even when I'm being extra cautious.

The reason we feel the need to withdraw from the world is that we feel separate from it, what we don't see is that the same reason that people chase money and success is also because they feel separate from them. The difference is that the person seeking success thinks their happiness is missing now because of what is NOT present and the person looking to withdraw from it all thinks their happiness is missing because of what IS present. Ultimately happiness is no thing, and it is always present. Both strategies fail. A strategy to do what is already done will be a failure. The key is just to start to be open to see this. Start cultivating appreciation. My husband's family is much more well off than mine and for years I HATED going to their house, I HATED Christmas there and I would sit in discomfort and judge them the entire time. Their level of comfort made me very uncomfortable. It wasn't until I stopped attaching money with morality that I was able to go there and enjoy them as people and everything around me as well as the nice dinners and the expensive gifts they give my kids. I was judging myself for being unworthy of it the entire time, and in doing so gave it a power it didn't have. In my resistance to materialism I became materialistic. It wasn't until I just surrendered to it and let it be that I realized that non-attachment looks like appreciation when something is present and appreciation when it's not.

@DrewNows Maybe! I tried to align with going without getting it and just couldn't. Felt a huge relief when I did get it. I support everyone's decision in doing what feels best for them. Also the lady at Walmart was really nice.

There's no actual separation between you and the world. So, what you see yourself to be will be reflected in the world and will be seen through that lens. So the belief and experience that "I am finite" makes for a finite world as well.

I was just thinking about the rise of Youtube. It's sort of like the new American Worldwide dream in a way. Everyone can have a bit of fame, everyone can be an expert and share what they know, and have the joy of sharing what they've discovered with the world. At first it was a place where just anyone had a chance to get seen, where the inequality of TV and having to getting discovered by someone before the "people" could find you went to die. Of course it's just a reflection of that, the inherent value of everyone to everyone. It's really about sharing, community, and knowledge. We wish to be discovered because we wish to discover our Self. ❤

@Shin I got the Pfizer too so we'll die together. I figure if everyone who got the vaccine dies cause it's some sort of conspiracy then the remainder of the population left to their own devices and trying to figure out how to run the world by themselves is totally gonna be like lord of the flies. Don't wanna be around for that anyway. So, it's a win, win. Just kidding. Sort of.

Have you considered that what you think is ultra selfish might somehow mysteriously be the best solution for everyone? Put how you feel first, no matter what the decision or outcome. That means dropping thoughts of being selfish. It also means that if you do stay and when you do help them, do it from love rather than obligation or stuckness. Parents think that they want their kids to do what they want, but they've just forgotten that at their core they really want their kids to be happy first and foremost. The energy to deal with what needs to be done comes when we drop resistant, reluctant, resentful thoughts. In other words, it's easier to do a task by yourself than to do it while you watch someone else you think should be helping instead refuse to help you and add on a layer of anger and resentfulness to the task itself. It's also easier to make a decision when we choose from inspiration rather than frustration. Expecting and being expected to help is a kind of attitudinal self-imposed slavery. If you stay do it because you really want to. There may be others ways to lessen their work load that you haven't thought of or that they haven't thought of, even if you leave.

Instead of worrying so much about how she feels, pay attention to how you feel. Change your focus to something other than worrying about it. Often when we start worrying about saying the wrong things it causes us to feel the tension that has a weird way of speaking through us AS the wrong things. Practice self care. Think of things that are fun for you, or if you feel like going there, things that are fun for both of you, a joke she might really appreciate, etc. As you allow yourself to feel more fun and ease you'll be inspired to things that bring fun and ease into the relationship as well.

Yep, ironically I realized that it really was my fault. `Not sure if that makes any sense, but I allowed those who wanted to protect me to overly instill fear in me, and therefore I felt the fear and harmed myself. I highly recommend this book for any spirituality inclined woman who wants to take her power back and learn to trust the Univere/herSelf. Trusting anyone else, even if they have your best interests and safety at heart is folly. https://www.amazon.com/Outrageous-Openness-Letting-Divine-Take-ebook/dp/B00J0YT4W2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=outrageous+openness&qid=1623778702&sr=8-1 Also Abraham Hicks.

Buy equal exchange, fair trade cashews and look for the label on multiple other products. It's not just cashews.