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@roopepa Pretty sure I got what you’re saying. It’s not just “called vibration”, it is vibration. What is vibration… vibration. What is vibrating… well, it’s not this ‘other being’. Vibration doesn’t per se have up & down, it seems to. Those are thoughts about vibration, which are of course ‘themselves’, vibration. This is the basis of the first video I made. Link’s below if you’re interested.

@roopepa Space is just vibration too.

Overspending is simply spending more than you have / are making. The ‘over’ is relative to the money on hand or income. Common sense advice isn’t bitching, and money does not actually have the property or possibility of being manipulated or not. Manipulating or manipulated is a human characteristic, behavior, action, experience. A debt is a debt , and is not an ideology. Credit card debt is among the highest interest rates, and is least ideal, and is (imo) far from wise, baring any extreme situations. Absorbent credit card debt is a you sized problem, no one else will owe that money. But if you advise as you do, you’re likely to end up with a situation on your hands that you might not enjoy. If you advise opposite of as you do, you’re likely to end up with a situation on your hands that you might not enjoy. The Buddha advised equanimity, the middle way. To spot our highs & lows, to deconstruct & understand them (ourselves), to experience reaction - but not react, as to liberate the mind of causation, via liberation of reactionary thought, behaviors, and actions. And one more time for the cheap seats… there are no levels of awakening. This is like saying “there are levels of me”. There aren’t brother. You’re just super duper good at appearing. My momma don’t like debt, and she likes everything.

@RMQualtrough Not to encourage, but I’ve passed out a number of times and a couple have been insightful. Learned ice wine isn’t for people who don’t eat sugar the hard way, and just before my face hit the kitchen floor a thought narrative appeared to the tune of I actually wanted to be passing out. When I came to my friends were worried, but I couldn’t stop laughing. I was astounded at the level of sneakiness of thought. Was (is) shocking just how sneaky you are (aren’t).

It doesn’t. Infinite can never know finite. Or if you like, it does…as the falling away of the overlay or interpretation of perceiver & perceived by which ‘human perspective’ is derived. Ever notice there’s no perspectives in a dream? Just, the dreaming. By ‘knowing thy self’. How do you even know they’re aware? Have you ever actually experienced any thing, or any one, as, being aware? Have you ever experienced those as anything other than ‘your’ thoughts?

@AminB501 Awesome. Sounds like an incredibly insightful experience indeed, good for you man. Undefinable, but ‘collapse of the knower & the known’ comes to mind. Keep rockin that path.

@BipolarGrowth Yes, I suspect & intuit the same. The verbiage, or context of the joke on you about being abducted by aliens… on the underlying energetic level… might have been an expression of resentment from your brother… getting back at you for you having it better….which might have left an imprint of guilt upon you. You might not see that you had it better at all, and that would be key - to see what he sees or saw. This might play itself out in your life as never-nesting. As in, whenever there is peace, comfort, ease, when you are embraced & welcomed somewhere, or in a relationship… a subconscious pattern might rear it’s head and take over and disrupt it. The root of this could be innocently, yet inappropriately internalizing a reasoning that you don’t deserve it.

@BipolarGrowth Kids don’t really think in terms of malice like adults. If neglected, abandoned, alienated, etc, they act it out unknowingly. Maybe from his shoes, you had the better parental living situation, or attention.

@BipolarGrowth What was his life like such that he would deflect onto you and be so cruel? Why was he envious, jealous, and spiteful toward you?

@BipolarGrowth Before that…?

What happened when you were eight?

@Someone here Feel for ya brother. Keep your head up, things will get easier.

@Someone here Some people meditate daily for the benefits. Some have to hit rock bottom. Apparently. Don’t try to change anxiety, listen to it and change your perspectives.

Locked due to chimp comments spiraling out of control.

@taotemu Oh they’re imaginary alright. You’re funnier and sneakier than you’ve yet imagined.

That “state of consciousness” is not a state at all, it’s unpracticed unmeditative mind. Just like all the other muggles. A tree is just a tree. A cloud is just a cloud. A man is just a man. A thought is just a thought. No thing belongs to any one. The thought, belief, in ‘there’, is piggybacking the belief in ‘states’, being ‘there’. Thoughts are thoughts. In direct experience, ‘here’ & ‘now’. The unmeditative mind believes them though, and focus leaves here & now, and ‘goes into’ abstraction. You can keep doing what doesn’t work. Some people meditate every morning, and see through those beliefs effortlessly. Drop the whole ‘states of consciousness’ & ‘survival game’ paradigm. Unless of course it’s feeling great and you’re thriving. Take note how you’re spinning everything into a problem. Someone tries to help you, and you use that as problem ammo.

@Someone here Maybe talk out / through the problem, rather than about meditation or praying. Expression has a way of unraveling problems and allowing some space for solutions and different perspectives.

Not so this can be realized, so the thought activity which is all it actually is, settles as this peace which is appearing as, that thought activity. Agree, is a thought. Disagree, is a thought. Awareness, is not a thought. Those are thoughts. Someone else is saying there are solutions in my life. Someone else isn’t experiencing any thought activity at all. Someone else is well aware there is no my life, and no problems. That distinction, all distinctions, are just thoughts. I’m not right, & I don’t meditate. When you believe you know things, you enslave yourself to the belief others know things which you don’t, but need to. That’s a thought. Find the truth of that in perception & feeling.

@Someone here You gonna do what you gonna do, but for the point of clear communication, what’s being suggested is the opposite.

@Someone here No. lol. Listen to what’s being said for once my good man.

@Javfly33 The underlying assumption is there is a you and a reality. A knower and a that which can be known. Discordant self referential beliefs keep the hamster wheel & frame of spirituality as a solution, a means of solving this, or any problem going. No self, no problem. The ‘self’ is just the thoughts about there being, a self. Your problems, are just thoughts, about you and problems. The curiosity is the zest for life. Focus is on anything else, from self ref thoughts, self doubt. Your life is and will be what and how you focus. Thoughts & solutions aren’t needed. When it’s believed they are, it is compensation for beliefs about yourself which aren’t true. Notice you put the story of you even before the inquiry of interest. A you which is disappointed, a you which is in time, four years, doing. Let the story go. It limits, albeit apparently, yet effectively.

@Someone here Thinking about meditation isn’t meditation. In meditation, it’s all exactly the same ‘thing’. Mind says problem. Mind says God fix my problem. Meditation, no problems. All is well.

Thoughts are appearing & disappearing, yes? One of those thoughts, is that you have the content of those thoughts… but that is of course, just another appearing, and disappearing thought. If you don’t have it, how can there be instability from it, how can there be karma problems from it. Perhaps, the discord you’re experiencing isn’t from knowledge at all, but from ‘being the one who has it’. That’s like claiming you’re the one who has too much air. Of course it’s going to feel off, it’s ridiculous.

Understanding / misunderstanding someone else is the wrong lens, and you’re thinking in double negatives. You’re also assuming someone else does understand and you don’t. Focus instead on what you actually want to understand, until you do. It might, and might not, have anything at all to do with anyone else.

Meditation.