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@zoey101 That's funny b-c I'm really no different than you. And let me tell you I tried to surrender a lot of times and chickened out at the last moment. And I beat myself up about it too. But each time I got a little closer to a full surrender. And then one time it happened really strong. Than I started to restrict, and I said to myself, "Oh no you don't! Your not bailing out this time!". And I surrendered. Like a huge weight was lifted off me. I realized what a foolish pack mule I've been all my life carrying this burden of a load for the ego. Liberation from the egoic self. It's so close!

@i am I AM I was really moved the first time watching it. All walls of separation dissolved. "It is gap-less. Meaning there is no separation. This is an "ushared" space. For it to be shared, there would have to be two."

@zoey101 No it is not the only way. I don't do them. But I hear it's a quick shortcut though. I do know this, when it's all you it's all you. No wondering whether it was the medicine doing it or not.

@zoey101 No rush to do anything. It's a real foundation shaker when/if it happens the first time. Heads up! haha But that's what I mean by "no slate". And the "slate" always seems to return after a while. For me anyway but to a lesser degree each time. But now I know the difference.

@zoey101 I'm going to say this without the sugar coating. Just putting this out there so we are on the same page. Ever have a full blown ego death where you fully accept every thought about yourself has been an illusion? Where everything you thought you were suddenly turned into a fictional story written by the ego to give the illusion that it is somehow real?

@zoey101 I don't know how much you've cleaned that slate (and it's a process) but I have found after a while the slate itself no longer exists. That is where the concealed truth really starts to reveal itself.

@zoey101 That makes perfect sense. Same way I got here. I'll be honest, originally it was the ego's desire to know that brought me here. But now I see there was something way more intelligent than the ego that is really at work here.

@Mikael89 Only the ego drives the need to know everything. It is that very need to know that separates from truth. "Noble wines shall not be tasted by drunkards". Drunk on ego that is.

@zoey101 What if you died and found there was never a reason to know anything?

@egolessHere is the middle way! We should all watch this one together in peace.

@egoless You are absolutely right and I was about to issue a warnings. That is totally uncalled for and not what we're about on this forum.@Salvijus

@egoless It's all cool. I feel the same. You've been around here for a while now and it's always been a pleasure. And I totally respect you sharing your new found peace with us here. But this is surely going to cause riffs at this level. Could you tone it down and maybe integrate the two?

@egoless You started a topic so you initiated it. Just speaking truth here.

@egoless That was never said. Of course you don't hate anyone here.

@egoless Nothing wrong with your beliefs per se but it seems they are now 180 deg. from what most ppl experiance and are sharing on a forum about consciousness/spirituality. Maybe you could find a nice christian forum to join where ppl share a similar view as yours. That way you talk the same language, so to speak and you won't have to convince anyone else why they should change their view to match yours.. Peace.

@brovakhiin I'll check that out. Love Shinzen

Great video here. It's a slightly different view from the way some of us may practice. But it's still worth a look.

@Highest What a coincidence! This just popped up as on youtube.

@WildeChilde Sounds like Goku has found true Wu-Wei (effortless action without attachment).

@Faceless I believe the average person on the street experiences time almost as walls that define their life. Everything is partitioned by time. Even their view of what "God" is.

The English word for �God� has become a source of confusion for Christians since at least the Anglo-Saxon era.� Webster�s New Collegiate Dictionary says that the origin of the word �god� comes from a Germanic word �gad,� pronounced as �gohdt.�� The following information on the origin of the word �god� will help to understand why we use it in our vernacular. GOD - The English word God is identical with the Anglo-Saxon word for �good,� and therefore it is believed that the name God refers to the divine goodness. (See Oehler's Theol. of Old Test.; Strong's and Young's concordances.)� (From New Unger's Bible Dictionary)� (Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois.� Copyright (C) 1988.) Further information on the source of our word for �God� is listed below: Word origin:� God - Our word god goes back via Germanic to Indo-European, in which a corresponding ancestor form meant �invoked one.�� The word�s only surviving non-Germanic relative is Sanskrit hu, invoke the gods, a form which appears in the Rig Veda, most ancient of Hindu scriptures:� puru-hutas,� �much invoked,� epithet of the rain-and-thunder god Indra.� (From READER�S DIGEST, Family Word Finder, page 351) (Originally published by The Reader�s Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville New York,��� Montreal;�� Copyright�� (C)� 1975) Now if the sources noted above are accurate, then the word that we use for the Supreme Being, God, comes from a very pagan origin.� Thus the word god is used generically by many different religions to refer to their deity or �invoked one.��

@Mikael89 I agree completely with what you said about the word "God" and it's religious overtones. That's just an idea of what God is. A conceptual God.

@Faceless Sure. The source of true creativity comes from beyond time and movement. But the expression of creativity happens within time and movement.

@Highest You can't put a name on something which has no attributes. You could just as well call it " The Big Booty" for all it matters.

@Faceless Yes it is cyclic. It ebbs and flows like the phases of the moon from waxing to waning or the changes of the seasons. So it is with creativity and everything in existence. When winter is here we know that spring is coming.