mandyjw

Who says? You already pointed out that this is the only way we get to communicate, and now you're just giving your own crappy feeling thoughts and beliefs more power over mine. These thoughts and beliefs feel better than yours, and since feeling good is love and truth=love, I'm right and you're wrong, and I love you very much. I mean, it's Christmas! You got a bunch of other stuff you do like, so stop focusing on the one orange you got that you didn't want.

If you remove time from your equation you're left with nothin', not even facts. You got nothin' for Christmas. What is time in your direct experience? A thought. You've made thought your King, and named him Fact and he's a ruthless dictator. Overthrow that asshole. There's no substance there. When you seek his source and go to kill him, you'll find Nothing there.

But if we're siblings and our mom gives us oranges for Christmas and I love oranges and you hate them, we have two different emotions from the same fact of having been given an orange. So your interpretation of the fact is all there is to the fact in your experience. Your interpretation of the fact is not a fact. All you have is interpretation. In your saying that fact is prior to emotion, you actually have given thought the power over emotion, when you just told me that you think emotion is leading. So you have given thought power by mistaking it for fact, when in your direct experience, fact is nothing but your interpretation, fact is nothing but thought.

Also agree with starting with Eckhart Tolle I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj is incredible but you must learn some religious vocabulary to understand parts of it. Anything Rupert Spira. Most importantly anything that you really resonate with or are excited about reading. Some of the strangest books and even novels that aren't necessarily directly written about enlightenment can change your life and cause shifts, cause the teacher appears when the student is ready.

Why though, which follows which, the thought or the emotion?

Hear me out. When you think "I'm worthless" when you're in a deep depression it hurts, you believe it. It echoes the feeling and the feeling echoes the thought. If you remember to think the thought "I'm worthless" when you're in a fantastic mood and doing what you love, you'll be very unlikely to believe the thought at all. It's like thinking about a pink elephant. You understand the meaning of the thought "pink" and "elephant", but the belief, and therefore the feeling that goes along with it, isn't there.

I had not heard of phenomenology but after looking up it up just now I'd say the both explore the same thing. There are no real borders between the categories or spirituality, science, medicine, art, literature, etc. Rupert Spira's book "The Nature of Consciousness" explores subjectivity, objectivity and how it relates to science really well. "The Transparency of Things" is another really good one too.

Thoughts are meaningless in themselves, it's only the belief behind them that gives them any power.

It's popular to tell people the world is ending in religious groups. My dad went to a Christian highschool and was told the rapture was coming any day, so instead of doing his schoolwork he put on a suit and went door to door trying to save people in time. He bought it and honestly didn't think to plan out his life outside of religion. I think it's more like Adyanshanti's book title "The End of Your World" and is a personal revelation. The world you are projecting is the only one that exists and the only one you should be concerned with.

I wouldn't trust anything thought says about what thought is. It'll probably be horribly self-biased.

There's no separation between mind and body, so you don't necessarily have to hack your body or ingest a substance to get the same effect. Breathwork is good. I'd focus on eating a good diet, getting outside more and generally falling in love with life. Just follow your heart above anything else, it'll take you for a trip.

@Eren Eeager By OCD, what sort of thoughts for example. I ask because I had OCD and a child and it returned right before awakening and I realized it was inseparable with intuition.

Focusing on the problem gets more of the problem. People often trick themselves that focusing on the problem is focusing on the solution when really what they are thinking about it how flawed they are, and not giving focus to the way they want to feel. So while it's good to use self help, you have to use it wisely. It's a tool that can be used destructively or constructively. Sometimes finding a creative pursuit or a new hobby or project you're passionate about is the best way to actually embody lessons from self help. If you don't have anything to build with the hammer you just bought, you might mistakenly think hitting yourself in the head with it is actually constructive.

I really don't think they are uncommon. I do think they are commonly misinterpreted. Following becoming very interested in the forum and talking and fighting with a lot of members here I had an intense purge of shadow stuff followed by a realization of oneness, synchronicity and intuition. I would sleep for short bursts at a time and wake up with revelations and write them out. Felt like channeling, like I couldn't rip myself away if I tried. My biggest judgments, fears and traumatic moments were seen in an entirely new light and Understanding of Love. Things I had always loved and were drawn to and never knew why were also included in this Understanding. I realized that this was just a story, brilliantly, creatively un"written". There was a moment after a big realization where it seemed like "something" popped, but it was something and nothing at the same time, just like... awareness. Then just bliss, and more experiences of realization for days. People glowed. Everything glowed. People's faces seemed bathed in a light of love. I had no sense of time, it sped away. I'd observe my parents lamenting over something in their fridge that spoiled and intensely knew in my heart that it was the most ridiculous thing, of course nothing could be wasted. I had almost perfect balance, I had an intuition to turn a rock over and it was covered with fossils. I knew I couldn't die, it was laughable. The bliss lasted for a few weeks. Then hedonic adaptation ensued, some old thought patterns snaked their way back in, I had to stop being a blissed out asshole and come back to earth, but I knew that I had been given the most priceless non-map I ever could have been given. I've since had smaller minor purges of shadow stuff. @Delis Have you looked into reiki or any similar kind of healing therapies?

You can actually tell by how it feels. True help comes out of sheer love and inspiration, not a sense of duty or responsibility. It is good to give someone a fish sometimes, but the purpose is to fend of their hunger for a time only so they have the energy to continue to work and focus on learning to fish. If you yourself get hooked on the good feeling of giving someone a fish, that's codependency. You really have to watch your thoughts and feelings closely with self love to see through to what's really going on.

A reflection in a mirror can't see itself back. It is mistaken for the one that sees it by the one that sees it.

Sure, but how could you blame them? They never got a chance to be a kid and freely explore, or haven't yet had the chance anyway.

Kids don't know anything about the world. You encourage them to ask questions, to be curious and you teach them how to feed their curiosity, you model a love of learning, and exploring for them. You don't shame them for being ignorant fools. If you do maybe they'll pretend to know while they just feed their fear of inadequacy rather than their love of knowledge and discovery. There's no point in time that one magically stops being a kid.

It's not just the Walmart employees you actually see and interact with, what about all the employees in factories in China and other countries that are producing almost all the goods being sold there?

Oh look, a squirrel!!!

Find ways to practice even if you just make recordings or videos. In my experience it takes time to warm up to getting into the flow of speaking, like 10 or 15 minutes. This is normal in the flow of everyday conversation. My point is, do not judge your speaking abilities too quickly.

This is where meditation and mindfulness practices combine beautifully with the understanding of LOA. It's always been thoughts that say "no I can't enjoy this now I must think about my survival later" that have clouded the sheer beauty of "reality" just as it is now. What we call reality is in our thoughts and perceptions, so yes, it's too good to be true but it is True. It also helps to discover or ask why we really want anything, which we ultimately get to the answer of which is to feel good. I highly suggest Abraham Hicks if you want to go further with LOA. LOA is really about aligning our lives with Love, the ultimate "feeling good."

DUDE, you're giving yourself credit and solidity over me. You are are using the thought "there are no others" to other yourself further. Or you could flip it, and give me credit over you, it wouldn't matter. Hasn't that what you've been doing all your life with everyone? Trying to find out how you rate, where you stack up? There aren't two Gods, or two Universes and you need two to compare one with another. You don't need two to love however.

@Javfly33 Nonduality. Learning and teaching is duality, a false separation. A desire to teach is a desire to learn, both student and teacher are one. Teacher learns from student, student teaches teacher. You can't cause anyone to learn or understand anything, they ask and because there are no separate minds, another can be in tune with the answer to receive it. We're all learners and teachers, and Awareness/Love is the ultimate Knowing, and also the ultimate Openness and Curiosity and Desire to know. It's what we're already made up of. I mean... isn't it brilliant?

Nice!