How to be wise

@Truth Addict Of course I test my progress with the real world. I live with my mom. And as Byron Katie likes to say: “Your mother will show you everything you need for self-realisation.” Meaning, any negative story that you're still running in your mind, your mother will show it to you (i.e. trigger you), and you can run that story through the four questions, and then you come back to your mother for the next piece. She won’t stop until you have no negative stories running in your mind (i.e. emotional mastery). And the same goes with your spouse and children. Though you only need one of them.

@Joseph Maynor I mean being non reactive internally. As in, not experiencing even the mildest forms of a negative emotion. @Jkris Technically I am a student of a university. I just don’t go there for any of the lessons. I only go there on August when the exams come. So when I finish I will get a degree. Plus, jobs are everywhere, if you don’t have an idea of how it should look like.

@OctagonOctopus definitely. If there’s anything in the whole of life that so much as irritates you, you haven’t achieved mastery. Consider this possiblity: you can be experiencing severe pain or hunger, and still be enjoying it. That’s what I found in myself more and more lately. Suffering and physical pain are independent.

@Truth Addict I don’t need to put my mastery to the test. I allow life to do that. Life will bring me all the trouble. And so far, it hasn’t brought much. Remember, I’m not 100% done yet. But I’m very close to there. I would say a few months more until I’m completely done. The way I measure my emotional mastery is through (1) how blissful I’m feeling. Usually the more emotional work I do, the more intense this bliss gets. And (2) how often I get triggered internally with any negative emotions. That rarely happens nowadays.

@Esoteric Loving What Is.

There are four questions in the work. Just answer them. That’s it.

19. I’m a college student, but I don’t actually go there. I spend my time at home doing inquiry.

@electroBeam The Work of Byron Katie.

I understand what you mean. The past is just our story there’s nothing true about it. With that said, what happened this week? Malfunction?

We seem to have missed this week’s video, am I wrong?

Is there some way I can directly verify this? Is there an enlightenment experience where you become conscious of reincarnation? Otherwise, surely this is just another belief.

@Inliytened1 Yes. I have had an experience of it. I’m semi-aware of it even now.

Over the past few months that I was doing The Work of Byron Katie, I noticed that sometimes I felt like meditating on the question, and other times to actually do self inquiry and answer the questions. So for example, after three months of doing self inquiry, I would be pulled towards not answering the question, but to just ‘sit in’ the question. And after two months, I would be pushed back towards answering the questions. Does this happen to you guys? Is this known? Or is it only unique to me?

@tsuki I’m more interested in the oscillation. I’ve never heard anybody else mentioning this.

@Cody_Atzori Silence.

A glorious time for us. An extremely famous person has joined the spiritual ark. Are we witnessing a move from Orange to Green?

I’m speaking from my direct experience. Although I’ve also heard this from other gurus.

All feelings have a voice, something that they are saying. It doesn’t take a genius to know that.

Feeling is always a product of mind. Perhaps not as thoughts, but as underlying stories or beliefs. There can be no feeling without a story.

One thing that I don’t understand about ‘helping people awaken’ is the fact that most people don’t want to awaken. I don’t very often see people asking me “please help me become enlightened” or “please help me reach stage turquoise”. If that were the case, I would gladly give them all my support. But when I look at the world, I mostly see people who are content with their unconscious life. Stage Orange and Blue people will very rarely ask to help them raise their awareness. So if that’s the case, why do we need to impose our standards of consciousness onto them? They are happy in their miserable lives, and don’t want to change. An authentic life purpose would never involve ‘forcing’ somebody to raise their consciousness when they just don’t want to. By ‘forcing’, I mean any tactic you use to try to raise their consciousness when they haven’t asked for it, nor do they want it. So, how do you create an authentic life purpose, when most people just don’t want their consciousness raised? I haven’t met anyone in my life who actually wants to become more aware. Stage Blue and Orange people in particular.

That’s all well and good, but there’s one problem with that. For example, I’m lecturing a bunch of rigid Christians about God and Love, and in the middle of the lecture, a stage Green woman asks me to confirm a stage Green notion that would anger the stage Blue audience if I confirmed it. So do I lie to that Green woman even though she’s right, or do I just say the truth and have those Christians turn on me and chase me out of the building. What to do?

But isn’t that manipulation? If for example, an Orange person asks me “do you believe God exists?” My truth would be to say yes, but as soon as I’ve said that, I’ve lost all of their credibility. It’s even harder with Blue people and their ridiculous beliefs. Demonstrate what? What did those people demonstrate?

@Key Elements @bejapuskas It seems that you don’t agree with the idea of ‘helping people awaken’, unless they themselves ask for it. Am I right? @Rigel @Truth Addict @Knock @Epiphany_Inspired It seems that you guys are for the approach of manipulating people into this work, either through your good character or music. That’s an unconscious way of living. You’ll be hugely disappointed when nobody asks for your enlightenment. @Leo Gura I’m pretty sure that ideas of spirituality will be very unwelcomed by Blue/Orange people, no matter how I frame it. What to do then?

@CreamCat Authentic humour comes from lack of fear.

@sgn It worked very well for me. Over twenty non-dual experiences in less than two years.