Water by the River

"Because the worst possible outcome is if the monkey remains monkey, but thinks the monkey is God. That's the worst monkey. It's a monkey that will cause great destruction around it, and then will suffer." Déjà vu?

@Xonas Pitfall How to leave a door open on something one is not sure of? Declare that x% of your teachings are wrong and justify that with "to get the herd to think for itself." Infinity of Gods is indeed where the not-fully-empty psychedelic explorer ends up—still having an identification arising as being God/Reality/whatever. Plot twist: That Absolute Reality can do very well without any identification and concept. Such as... before the birth of your parents. "Absolutes" in the plural is a contradiction in itself. The real Absolute is that One (without a second) that is aware of all of those "Gods"/Void-Universes/Realms/Dimensions, which "It" manifests in its own Infinite Reality—the only Reality there is. One Absolute/God reaching out to another Absolute/God, but of course doing that voluntarily, because otherwise they could never really intersect- since each is sovereign and infinite and fundamentally separate (that is, with the exception that sometimes these two God - chaps reach out to each other)? If that is not a (just appearing) dualistic story, I don't know what is. Koan: Who or what is aware of that funny story/appearance? Selling Water by the River (without a second) PS: https://www.actualized.org/forum/search/?q=%22%20Infinity%20of%20Gods%22&author=Water%20by%20the%20River&sortby=relevancy

Not that any of use will achieve this fullly: ... here in our lifetime. Yet, it is my experience that a view oriented towards that makes it much easier to stay open in Awakened Awareness in daily life considering all survival (which I prefer as concept) / corruption (which can easily close ones sobre Awakening down, which is why I prefer survival since its easier to have compassion then) on our lovely little backwater planet Earth. Planet Earth, a playground which in our present time seems largely to be a Kindergarten of developing souls. Which, in itself, is also a precious learning and development opportunity for all those souls engaged in the survival/corruption of the lower Spiral Dynamic stages. I don't consider you as such. Honestly, I quite like you and your development over the last years, having Truth as uncompromising North Star and guidance. By definition, that North Star leads to the Summum Bonum of the Good, Truth and Beautiful ("Wikipedia, The transcendentals (Latin: transcendentalia, from transcendere "to exceed") are "properties of being", nowadays commonly considered to be truth, unity (oneness), beauty, and goodness" ), to becoming the Alien this life or the next. And then maybe, "like shepherds of consciousness, tending its evolution across vast expanses of life and energy.... as they do to millions and billions of other lives and consciousnesses within the field of their awareness—as if it were the brightest, most valuable flame in creation." So, Godspeed and bon voyage on/in/as the River!

Ever thought about how your Alien considers you? "I have encountered subtle beings in the higher-order realms in comparison to whom my consciousness is not much more evolved than the sentiency I find in my sofa. Their response to me is always loving, caring, considerate, and appropriate. They are like shepherds of consciousness, tending its evolution across vast expanses of life and energy. The light of my sentiency is like a shadow compared to theirs, yet they tend to it—as they do to millions and billions of other lives and consciousnesses within the field of their awareness—as if it were the brightest, most valuable flame in creation. This is the true implication of saying that everything is alive. We are each caretakers for the consciousnesses evolving around us, particularly those of lesser complexity and capacity than our own." - David Spangler, Subtle Worlds. An Explorer’s Field Note

Excellent. Allright! Singing along Allright with Freddy by the River...

Chapeau! And there is the love Singing along with the Black Eyed Peas by the River

Do you believe that all is calm, positive and enchanting in the subtle realms? Humanity has told a different story over the millenia concerning the darker entities in some of these realms. Hic sunt dracones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harada_Daiun_Sogaku Of course, Mr. Miyagi was way cooler, considering especially that Harada was a bit, um, nationalistic.

Maybe those who seem to be annoyed easily? Well, its a free country, so everyone can choose his/her own Koan de plaisir I guess. Godspeed!

For forty years I have been selling water by the bank of a river. Ho, ho! My labors have been wholly without merit. Forty years of selling water by the river, and about fifty years before that gathering water in a wicker basket. Ho, ho! - Sogaku Harada Selling wicker baskets for gathering water by the River, still posting job offerings for empty mirros in the signature, still getting snuggled by bears - and lovingly snuggling back, and still at the Infinity of appearing eddies in the River PS: Since voting for oneself lacks style, the vote has naturally been cast for Inliytened1. Since there is only... Infinity ... one ... One ... One without a second Inliytened1. And Selling Water by the River is its verb. An activity. An appearance. A mirage. A wicker basket magically just appearing and moving by itself.

"For example, there is a thought-form of Jesus held and maintained by the thoughts and devotion of millions of Christian believers. Jesus to them represents a sacred figure to whom they can turn in prayer for guidance and help. A being such as a discarnate human teacher from the higher-order worlds may respond to such prayers or seek to contact a believer but is either unnoticed or rejected because he doesn’t fit within that believer’s worldview. However, if he “slips into” the Jesus thought-form and uses it as a mode of communication and contact, then the believer may well respond and accept the help that is given. (It should be noted that the “Jesus thought-form” is a template that can be used simultaneously by many inner beings, much as many people might buy and wear a particular mask on Halloween.)" David Spangler- Subtle Worlds. An Explorer's Field Notes. Alien Wanchutakka on the third planet of the star system of Zeta Aurigae probably doesn't get to see Jesus, but another archetype of the Kosmic Christ Archetype. And he gets to see the same love/light/compassion archetype (maybe with 6 arms), a powerful defence against dark subtle forces/entities/tricksters. And for the its all imagined and hence nothing is really serious/evil/threatening aficionados: The battle between good and evil is as real as everything else. Or as imagined as everything else. In other words, for the non-24/7 awakened that battle is very real & very serious & very threatening and dangerous. And even the more 24/7 inclined ones tend to take these appearing manifestations very serious and as quite real. Makes one more efficient in daily life, since ones worldview better fits the appearing reality-manifestation. The invocation of the energy/being of Jesus Christ (or a similiar energy and/or beings of love light, often called the Kosmic Christ) dispells these dark subtle beings and energies, and is known in various forms since the beginning of time. The ones who dabble into subtle and/or psychic realms (including psychedelic journeys) without protection and not taking these possible dark aspects/beings serious, and at the same time claim "its all imagined, nothing serious, no "real" evil here for sure" have the high risk to come back with some forms of influences from darker energies/beings/tricksters in various forms attached to them as leeches, manipulating them and leeching off their resulting negative energy (Spangler, Subtle Worlds. Field Notes Seventeen – Here be Dragons) ranging from increased self-inflation/self-importance to less-than-loving and compassionate tendencies concerning all the fallen human flock/negativity towards other beings/humanity some worldviews that ignore all of these dynamics stated above, and influences towards subtly twisted world-views some tendencies that are not really beneficual towards achieving or stabilizing Awakening/Compassion/Boddhichitta because of the resulting negativity, to put it mildly. "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist". "That you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." Matthew 5:45 Rolling Stones & the Devil(s) & Kosmic Christs appearing in the eddies of the River while... Selling Water by the River

Beautiful drawing. A solitary boat is making its way without oars in the dim moonlight. When I turn my head, I see waterweed motionless on the ancient river bank. —Keizan Jokin.

Not so good for ones inner Feng Shui. Answering your questions is not for the faint of hearted considering the occasional, um, "tough love feedback" But, as in Dinner for One, I will do my very best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XKFoF8jWgE Lots of Love from the chap selling Water by the River!

Koans you can have from SWbtR. I assume that the gig with the cane you can get from other Sellers by the River. Too lazy for that... Koan: So who exactly is mumbling "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses" towards certain Water Sellers by the River? PS: Just let the Limitlessness you write about saturate and drench your life. Sounds like a good and potentially quite relaxing path to me. Godspeed!

"It is neither being nor nothingness": Madhyamaka: "Its character is neither existent, nor nonexistent, / Nor both existent and nonexistent, nor neither. / Centrists should know true reality / That is free from these four possibilities." in (Not quite) guilty as charged by the River