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@savingmylove Life is beautiful & painful indeed, yet, it is also an appearance without past or future. Experiencing pain isn’t quite the same as carrying it mentally as a view. I’d classify that more as suffering. I suggest that suffering isn’t so much to do with a past or pains therein, but a present clearer knowing of what you now want, and some carry over of views which are resistance to having it. I’d make a dreamboard, to fill yourself with even more certainty of your vision, & experience more clarity & inspiration, letting any arising views contrary to receiving what is on your board, go. I think the resonance between what is wanted & the allowing of it is more what’s presently felt, and all things painful, through you, become all things beautiful & desired. A lot can be said for keeping it simple, especially while world views are morphing. Simple as in, there is no randomness, no coincidences, no chance or happenstance… but very literal, very whole as in the entirety or whole of experience, guidance. Like when you get a text for example, it seems completely random & at the will or whim of someone else who texted you. But maybe it isn’t. Maybe life is a cosmic game for you afoot. Maybe it’s inherently fun. Maybe. I mean, if you were about to take a trek through thousands of acres of woods, and you knew you’d get lost at some points, you’d surely bring a compass.

@Bodhitree I can appreciate that. Also, the suggestion is inspection, uncovering beliefs (not adding more). Without beliefs, only truth could remain… which can’t be determined, as in thought or figured out.

@Bodhitree If unity is an experience, what then experiences unity, which is not, unity? If there are those two, how is there then, unity?

@SS10 Why do you say that?

@Matt23 All of what you’re experiencing is ‘on your part’, though it admittedly seems like the product of you & her, or the relationship. When you change the lens of the flashlight, all imagery on the wall miraculously changes.

Point to ‘them’, and there is no need to create distinctions. Those are already distinctions created which can be let go. Praying to Donald Trump isn’t wrong.

@SS10 Attempt to point to “consciousness within me”, “other egos”, “conscious egos”, “my ego” to realize the obvious, that these are just thoughts, believed, beliefs. “…before you get solipsistic on me” ?

“Your consciousness” is a thought. Literally attempt to point to it, to realize it’s an abstraction, a conceptualization, a thought. A belief doesn’t need to be denied, because it is, a belief. Simply allow the thought to arise and pass, rather than believing it. You can do this “attempt to point to it” with any thought, to distinguish beliefs and abstractions from actuality. You can also do this with authority, and you can also do this with authority. You can also do this with God.

Nonduality. Not-two. Try literally pointing at direct experience to realize that is not possible.

By not projecting powers onto the ring. Nothing is amorphous, nondual & unconditonal, and thus can not sleep & dream. When nothing is, you are not, when you are, nothing is not. If you’re looking for the light, consider that you might be projecting. If you are seeking wakefulness, consider inspecting the belief you slept. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.” - Rumi

Questioning free will requires glossing over the you.

@roopepa The truth is thought activity settles for those who adopt the practice of an hour of proper meditation every single morning. Think all you want. Argue all you want. Trip balls all you want. Learn all you want. Believe whatever you want. Say whatever you want. You’ll never get it. The thought activity is the veil. The thought activity is the petty game. No mind is not conceptual.

The way “it” is purged is via no longer believing “it”, and or the expression of “it”, the emptying of “it”. You may have been influenced, I don’t deny that. But now you are on the path, and there is no one to blame on the path. Your path is your own asphalt. @Zeroguy Sure. Just be sure to dig two graves.

‘Normal & human’ is projected delusion.

@Bodhitree ?? Infinite love.

Not-two. Not-two. Not-two. Not-two. There is no direct experience of “we know”. Not-two. Not-two. Not-two!

Truth is indeterminable. There is no such thing as a ‘personal experience’. There is no such thing as people! You are not a person! Believing ‘you’ ‘are’ = believing there is ‘a truth’, which ‘you’ could or could not, determine. There is no person believing!

The quote shared & the physical spinning both share that they are being used to spin the truth in ways that simply, feeling-evidently, don’t feel good. Perspective will change, that is not in question. No longer spinning perspectives to accommodate fear, or, thoughts & perspectives which don’t resonate, is the only variable. Thought will never resolve thought. More thinking will never help. Yet, in letting go, in no longer focusing on thoughts, beliefs & perspectives which neither feel good nor serve you in your life… there can be and it is revealed that there already is, no problem. The ‘problem’ is the (mental) spinning and the defense of the (mental) spinning. The focusing on what doesn’t feel good, and the justifying of doing so. But there is no problem, there is just, focus. Existence doesn’t, can not and isn’t, ‘doing’. Existence = being = love. “Fear” can not be truthfully attributed to existence. That is precisely, exactly why it feels ‘off’. All options are available. You are already free, evidenced by choosing to believe your options are limited. There is no effort in instead focusing on that all options are available. Thanks. Also, ‘it’ isn’t mine.

Fungi’s tend to unveil fun guys.

@Giulio Bevilacqua Great quote! So profound. Straight to the heart of “the one that is afraid”.

If ‘you’ can just get ‘your mind’ together, then come on across to Me. We'll hold hands an' then we'll watch the sun rise, from the bottom of the sea. But first… Are ‘you’ experienced? Ah! Have ‘you’ ever been experienced!? Well, I have. I know, I know, ‘you'll’ probably scream n' cry, that ‘your’ little world won't let ‘you’ go. But ‘who’ in ‘your’ measly little world are ‘you’ trying to prove that - ‘you're’ made out of gold and - can't be sold? So uh, are ‘you’ experienced? Ah! Have ‘you’ ever been experienced!? Well, I have. Let Me prove it to ‘you’’. Trumpets and violins, ‘I’ can hear ‘in the distance’, ‘I’ ‘think’ ‘they're’ calling ‘our’ names. Maybe now ‘you’ can't hear ‘them’, but You Will - If ‘you’ just take hold of My ‘hand’. Ah! But are ‘you’ experienced!? Have ‘you’ ever been experienced!? Not necessarily stoned, but…Beautiful. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” - Jesus How many Me’s are there, really.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi The ‘barrier’ there is the common egoic materialist paradigm. Bamboozlement via mugglry. The belief there is a you which “wakes up in the morning” in a “physical reality” & therefore could or might one day “awaken”. Intellect is an appearance, just like waking up in the morning is an appearance. Intellect hijacks feeling by claiming it as a possession… “I….feel”. The intellect can not ‘find’ reality while reality is appearing as “an intellect”, which does not belong to reality or to anyone or anything, because ‘it’ is already an appearance of reality. Reality can never be what reality is thought to be, because reality is that which is appearing as “the thoughts”. (Subject object thoughts) When you love your parents, your cat, your friends, security, nature, butterflies, birds, rainfall and lakes… notice… experience is changing… but is there parent-love, cat-love, friends-love, security-love, nature-love, butterfly-love, bird-love, rainfall-love, lake-love? That’s hilarious. Are you coming & going? Or is the the thought, “I” coming & going, appearing & disappearing? How can ‘an intellect’ ever find the reality it is already made of? The I which loves freedom (“freedom-love”) is the seeming bondage of freedom. Reality is, as it appears. Already free. The appearance is the very evidence of the freedom of reality. Pure potentiality, pure spontaneity. What else could? The “I”, the “intellect”, is a reoccurring thought, (one thought) and not a thing in time (“time” is a thought). Hope for freedom is the veil of freedom. (self referential thoughts).

@cookiemonster ‘A priori’ as in presumptive.

@Giulio Bevilacqua But what would you say, do, and focus on, if you advocated feeling better?

@Flim You intuitively put the word time in quotations. Listen to that intuition. @Zeroguy Nothing’s being sold.