mandyjw

Oh no, you revolve around nothing.

"But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows." -Luke 12:7 Sort of explains why so many enlightened people are bald. Less work for God I guess. ?

@fopylo How did it reduce envy? It makes sense but I'm interested in how and why you feel it had that effect. Were you envious because you were feeling left out in some way before, or for other reasons? I suspect that this is important because a lot of releasing resistance is about being able to determine what we want, and envy usually means we have desires we don't believe or aren't allowing. There's absolutely no resistance for me right now for not going to Antarctica, because I don't want to go to Antarctica. However, for example if I do REALLY want to go to Hawaii but I'm scared of a long plane ride and therefore try to convince myself that I'm thrilled to stay in the Northeast the entire rest of my life, THAT'S resistance. You gotta feel into it to know the difference.

I think what you discover is that it's fun to push your boundaries, and that's what you really want. Often something comes up that we want to do that sort of forces us to confront these boundaries. For some people it's finding a partner, for others it's a career thing, etc. That becomes the focus that gives us the will and direction to see through the boundaries. We get sort of tricked into facing these boundaries, not knowing that what we really wanted was to see through them and be free of them, or else we wouldn't feel it as a boundary or anxiety in the first place. If you can get curious about the boundary itself you can see what it's made of, thoughts that are holding some sort of belief that isn't true about you or others in place. If there's discomfort around being alone, practice solitude, if there's social anxiety, explore that. If there's a desire to go hike the Appalachian trail or meet somebody, listen to it. Ultimately it doesn't matter what you do, and what the external circumstances are, it's the curiosity(awareness) of our thoughts and assumptions that matters. "Awareness is the greatest agent for change." -Eckhart Tolle

You have, and are your own Source. If you follow someone who lacks understanding, that's reflected in yourself. All true teachings seek to connect the student with their own Source, the teacher is a means to an end, so is the student. If a teacher forgets that they are Source and believes or makes others believe that they need them it might be a harsh lesson that's unlikely to be forgotten. Source is still the only teacher.

Awww, thanks @allislove !

@soos_mite_ah Very cool! I find the Wim Hof breathing really intense but also really effective too.

If you take one thing and draw a line through it, you have two things. Duality, light and dark, self and other, past and future, etc, is present as object(s) and the space which allows the object(s) to be defined and have existence. Exist, means literally to stick out. You cannot exist if there's nothing for you to stand out from. And there isn't.

Don't. You made it into a checkbox on a checklist to check off. The pressure of that task is ruining the entire point of the interaction. The point is to enjoy each other's company. Who cares how that happens?

Don't draw lines between self and world, happiness and unhappiness, self and other, inside and outside and see what remains.

Rupert Spira was a ceramic artist before he got into teaching. http://www.rupertspira.com/home.aspx

Private video?

That would be a hard sell. An easier sell would be, "what problem do you have this very moment? What is your direct experience right now, outside of any thoughts that kill the aliveness of the present by gathering the moment up in a filter of past and future and claiming to know what it is and what it isn't?" The Peace we're talking about isn't a condition. Peace with a lower case p is a condition. Peace is the Awareness that never changes, the background of Peace in the midst of chaos. No condition is valid, and yet all are valid, on the background of awareness. "This too shall pass." What you really as is what does not pass, you are what is there before any beginning can be said to have begun, or any end can be said to have occurred.

I'm finding that I can handle coffee well less and less as time goes on. I get the anxiety sometimes and generally just a tension in my head. It is fun once in a while though. I really like white tea right now. it's high antioxidants, lower fluoride levels than other teas. Rather than demonizing anything, just be mindful and listen to your body. The point is to feel your best not to have the "ideal" diet as if there even was such a thing.

There's no boundary to your mind, cause you don't have a mind, in other words "you" IS the boundary you believe in and it's not really there. This sounds radical to the mind but in your direct experience right now, already is the boring, mundane, usually overlooked reality of your being. You, the real you, as in the light of Consciousness, Awareness, is completely open and borderless. Hence, the benefits of being open-minded, this makes you seemingly smarter, because you already are so open-minded that you don't have a mind. When you are relaxed and carefree, you are not thinking of these illusionary borders of you and your mind and so information that "you" should not have access to can enter in. It can enter in at any time actually, but thoughts are more likely to misinterpret it. The reptilian brain is what scientists call ancient, but there was Awareness before any sort of brain or thinking process whatsoever could have existed. It is the beginning without an end, the eternal now.

@Phyllis Wagner I saw this the other day and thought the entire thing was really, really good. I especially loved how he described the two extreme viewpoints on how to get awakened, that you can force it into being or that there's nothing you can do. The "suffering helps too a little bit *chuckle*" remark really got me. ? I immersed myself in his books and videos years ago. He had the deepest teachings I'd ever found that were making an enormous impact on my life but I had no spiritual community to speak of or any knowledge of other teachers. That was probably for the best at the time. Once you go back to listen you realize the depth of understanding was a limitation of the filter of "you" more than the teacher.

You're hyperventilating, and if you're not enjoying the results, it might not be for you. Have you tried the Wim Hoff method as an alternative? I really love how it goes from deep breathing to holding your breath. Remember to love your body first and foremost, it's a connecting exercise, not a beat yourself into submission exercise.

The resonate because they are true, and truth is love, and there is no doubt whatsoever in that realization. The doubt is something else, it's a separation from what you Know/feel to be true. Love itself never causes doubt.

Where and when exactly does the rubber meet the road? That's a lot of thoughts and judgements about the person you imagine to be behind the pixels of the screen, which are only reflections of the person you believe is behind the seeing the those pixels on a screen. I'm more intimately you than you think. You argue with yourself all the time, right? So here we are.

Is there a you that can bypass awareness? Awareness is the basis of not knowing and the basis of all knowing. Having been raised in religion and also having dealt with OCD, I experienced this intensely as well. The funny thing is that suffering and the fear of death IS the very mistake and misunderstanding. There's no future in them at all, that why you feel the fear now. Feel free to PM me if you want.

Yup. "Hugely underestimating", or not thinking about? "Nonsense", in other words, thought can't make sense of it?

If you believe that you're an object, then you believe that some things are objective and some things are subjective.

Fear without thought is just an amazing adrenaline rush kind of feeling. Ski slopes, roller coasters, sky diving, etc. Pretty awesome.

I've never encountered anything tangible.

My own thoughts. All other fears are thoughts, that boil down to my fear of my own future thoughts about it. Don't believe thoughts that don't feel good.