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It’s like when you post something insightful but no one is interested. Or maybe when everyone is interested but the content isn’t insightful. Not sure

Watching violent film to achieve detachment I’ve found this can be a means of detachment as in emotional suppression, or a means of expansion via connection more prior to emotions. You could watch some disturbing movies, and right when it’s really ‘getttin ya’… pause it and feel the deep ‘off ness’. Might make you angry for seeing the injustices, or deeply sad and disturbed, but you’ll be feeling being, and odds are, releasing and thus experiencing clarity & understanding. If interested, you could watch a whole list of disturbing movies, or you could imo just watch Handmaid’s Tale all the way through. If you can make it.

@ivankiss I employ this mindset at the office by seeing the ‘stuff’ (products, processes) etc, through the lens of ‘only people & experiences’. It feels ‘right in the pocket’ of only what matters. (2 Cents ??)

@Fearey Really nice! Well done.

How to stay aware that you are aware? By not staying.

@BipolarGrowth ??

Why do Buddhists say there can be freedom from the cycle of birth and death? It is freedom from the carrousel of thoughts, which no one ever exits. It is a reference to thought activity, not a reincarnation of separate selves. The ‘wheel’: Subject object thoughts. Self referential thoughts.

So they don’t get hurt again. Which unfortunately is the creating of suffering, the defense of ‘the separate self’, as there aren’t actually arrogant, ignorant, egotistical or delusional people. @allislove ?

I do that. 28 years familying experience. Link below if interested.

Something else isn’t more important to you yet. When it is, you’ll naturally change the way you’re thinking, or rather, what thoughts you’re focusing on and why. Might question ‘when did fear & feeling bad become the priority?’. ‘What did I experience which led me to even start thinking this way?’. Much more so ‘what can I let go of, what can I set free, what can I unfetter of?’ When how you feel is more important to you than even what you think, do, or say, everything changes in accordance with good feeling, and everything in your life flows of the goodness accordingly. Whatever it is / was, it is not your fault. Moving on = healing. “The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it” - Omar Khayyam

In your direct experience there is only the present, and a thought arises about there being twenty eight years. Attempt to point to that which you’re claiming, that there is or are ‘twenty eight years’, and it will be noticed that is exactly as it appears… a thought. It seems true if you keep saying & believing it. It’s clear it’s a thought, when you no longer say & believe it. If you don’t feel you are attracting what you desire, tell the story of having it. Then you will. There is no other possibility.

@Gabith When it is said, “my house”, something is pointed to. When it is said, “my consciousness”, nothing is actually pointed to. What if you are what if.

Actually unconditional.

The ‘my ego’ thinking is twice removed, or, the adding of layers of abstraction which are not (imo) necessary or helpful. ‘Go back’, or, recenter, or, re-ground as awareness aware of the thoughts. Inspect the ‘why’ as to why some thoughts don’t resonate. Inspect self referential thoughts as Well. “The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it. -- Omar Khayyam

That dog doesn’t have ‘parts’.

@Loving Radiance I know right? Sensationalize the fixing of the windows! ??‍♀️??‍♀️.

"We do not know why. It is a kind of social contagion. If a shooting takes place, another usually takes place close in time and space," said Hradilova Selin loa.

Truth can not lie, but can appear as a lie by appearing as a human talking.

@EmptyVase ?? ??

@EmptyVase Awesome. Have a video recorded ‘in the hopper’ that touches on this.

@integral I appreciate what you’re saying, and it’s entirely possible I am holding a bias which I am not seeing, and projecting onto or misinterpreting what you are saying. If so, my apologies.

Psychedelics are somewhat analogous to sodium pentothal (‘truth serum’), which is also sometimes used to treat phobias. Someone used to experiencing through a lens of belief, specifically separate self thought patterns which induce fear / discord, experiences truth / alignment / relief of conscience. Someone already without said patterns would experience little to no dissonance, while someone experiencing these patterns might experience confusion resulting in inflation or over embellishing the truth experienced relative to the patterns. Then of course with psychedelics infinity just takes the ‘someone’ factor out of the picture. What if someone took sodium penthothal and was asked if there are enlightened people? Would be similar to…. What if someone took a psychedelic and was asked to explain the truth? ?

@SamC Great list from @flowboy I second that. Keep in mind also, the somewhat counterintuitive nature of loving yourself by default, via letting any beliefs about yourself which don’t feel amazing, go. Anything in the vicinity of ‘something’s wrong with me’, ‘I need (vs want) to change’, ‘I should be like a, y or z’,, etc. Like an onion that let’s it’s own layers go. (An onion with love in the center. ) There’s a lot of truth in the perspective that one will continue to attract significant others to balance themself out, or ‘fill the hole’, without being aware one is doing so, as we attract (create) effortlessly. I don’t think it’s a black & white matter though, as in no relationships or dating until you’re at X self-love. Experience helps us see things we can let go of that we might otherwise not see, not to mention of dating etc interaction is an opportunity to be the love that you are.

@Adam101 Meditation is letting everything go, namely, thinking. One can’t ‘stop the thoughts’, but when one focuses on feeling breathing from the stomach, thought activity settles, quiets, ceases. While meditating if you notice you’re giving attention to thoughts / thinking, simply return attention to feeling breathing from / in the stomach. That’s it. That is not true. That is an example of thought activity, which is let go in meditation, simply by focusing on breathing from the stomach. That is another example of thinking / a thought, which is let go in meditation. That is another great, really great example of thinking / thoughts, which are let go in meditation. Another great example of thinking which isn’t in meditation, which has literally absolutely nothing to do with meditation because it was let go, in meditation. That thought, that one… that is an outstanding, just an outstanding example of a thought which is not in meditation because it was let go in meditation.