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@Consept Yes. It’s not a blanket statement, it’s direct experience. It’s your perspective. Notice, you’re not experiencing “outside perspectives”, just words which you’re attributing meaning to, even if the meaning is agreed upon, you’re agreeing....with your own meaning. What is the motive, the intention behind the thread? And why does that motive or intention of yours, not quite resonate, with you?

Likewise, “adhd people”.

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Making money isn’t seen as bad by spiritual people.

Drop the “nothing seems to work” narrative. Start telling the story of what you want experience to be, and it indeed be’s. Notice this is already the case. Drop the story of “rejected” and “cheated”. That’s a narrative, a version, a story that is about you. If what you desire is more good feeling... don’t tell stories about yourself that don’t feel good. Not “drop” to get laid, but simply because of how it feels. Care about how you feel. It’s very attractive. It’ll be freeing, helpful and contributing to what you want to experience ... to recognize you don’t experience or have any idea what anyone else is thinking. It’s what you’re thinking about what someone else is thinking. If you’re not experiencing success, it’s what you’re thinking, not what they’re thinking. Notice the hypocrisy of believing females are for filling your needs, while also believing “other men are manipulating them and not having their best interest in mind”. Choose to have their best interest in mind. It’s the same as yours... feeling amazing everyday. Without the story that you are ‘making yourself fully understood’, there is ‘space’ for actually hearing what females are saying and understanding. Regarding the not being touched and that being a need... recognize it’s a want. To want to be with a female is a very different vibe and sends a very different signal that need. Try simple meditations, feel. Put yourself in those shoes... are you interested in females who want to be with you... or are you looking for a female who needs to be with you? Can you see how that’s not about to be very fun, as you are reduced to an object basically, something which fulfills a need she has. It’s basically “all about her” in such a scenario. I suspect you would not find that attractive. The strategy of “leveraging the problem” is not going to work. There isn’t a problem. You’re believing and saying there is. That is not attractive. First it must be recognized that there is no problem, you’re opinion is that there is a problem. You can not look to your left and to your right at the same time. You must let go of looking to your left, to be able to look to your right. You must let the “problem” thinking and focus go, so that there can be the experience of solution, or, experiencing what you want.

Definition of insight 1: the power or act of seeing into a situation : PENETRATION 2: the act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively Maybe it wasn’t so much an insight, but a thought about yourself, which didn’t feel good. Who’s looking? It a lesson in thoughts that don’t resonate aren’t insights. Stop digesting material, start consciously creating. Make a dreamboard. Focus on what you want, and thoughts that do feel good to you. Digest material about what you want to do, be, have, create and experience. You’re believing the thought which doesn’t resonate is an insight, as in it’s true or truthful. That doesn’t feel good, so you label the feeling “fear” instead of the thought, “not true”. The “fear” is thinking you’re in a future. If that’s psychosis, relax, 99.9% of the population is psychotic. Meditation is “letting” thoughts come and go (or really, just noticing they do) while relaxing and focusing on breathing from the stomach and feeling... which is presence, or, the opposite of believing thoughts about yourself, in a future.

@SQAAD Why does the sun shine? Why does a human think?

@mandyjw What a quote!

@mandyjw I meant for the listener. That’s what was meant by ‘product’, or video / recording, output. You might be taking it like I was talking about the experience of (teaching). ‘Product’ wise, the listener is listening to a conceptualization, and then it’s on the listener to realize the actuality pointed to. With a song, there’s the song. No concept, pointing, nothing to be realized, etc. We can make up purpose and intention any which way, but it’s not inherent.

@mandyjw How so?

No self is actual, it’s not a state. Love isn’t killing you, it’s relinquishing it’s own idea.

@seeking_brilliance Why do I have a feeling the punchline is ‘it’s this’..?

That wasn’t going on in childhood. It’s not actually going on now either. It’s just a self referential thought. It’s a mirage. You - create that thought - by being it. There is no need to believe it. It is you. It is not about you. A thought about what to create is worth more than a million about oneself. You are not creative. That does not define or actually describe you. You are creator creating creation, and you are indescribable and undefinable. Why are you talking about yourself when you could be kicking a soccer ball right now. ? Keep in mind... one could be experiencing the creating of the conceptual, and very much experiencing creativity...but the product or outcome, to another, would be conceptual. In such a case it would behoove you to do as they do, yet not to listen to what they say. An example would be when I make a actuality of being video, it’s conceptual with the hope the concepts conveyed are realized in actuality...but when I create & produce a song, the ‘product’ is not conceptual. Ever notice how few enlightened teachers there are, compared to enlightened musicians? It’s like 1 to 1 million.

In the vein of bringing the ocd to a rest...this one points to the ‘inner world’ of experience. Focusing upon what one has, one is creating having. Focusing upon what one does not have, one is creating not having. You are the creator, and creation is an apparent continuum either way, and there is no experiential difference between having but focusing on not having, and not having and focusing on not having. And this one points to the ‘outer world’ experience... “As it acts in the world” could be said “the appearance of the Tao”. Holding an ice cube for example, one doesn’t necessarily need photomultiplier tubes & an optical microscope to experience the true nature of unconditionality in / as photons.

Maybe forget animals... perhaps the question is why can’t it be determined wether anything of perception is enlightened, said the flashlight.

@Holygrail Could also contemplate, why, without any intervening, are bubbles round. We take stuff like that for granted. But when you blow bubbles, why aren’t they rectangular? How is it that anything can appear round in the first place.

@ardacigin Great work & great share. ??

Might’ve been mentioned, but Disney’s “Soul” is pretty good. Love that they noted the ‘heaven scenes’ were all “illusory & hypothetical”.

@Tim R Not sure why, and sorry @Someone here for the tangent... but reminds me of a trip with a friend who for around thirty minutes kept shifting back & fourth between historical laughter, and then a very expressionless straight face asking (yet again) “yeah, but seriously dude, which one am I?”. I just replied each time, “I’m being honest here man, I don’t know”. Whenever it comes up we refer to it as the “Dude Where’s Myself” trip.

It’s as if the lack of evidence is the evidence that there is no evidence.

Where is the yourself you speak of? Wouldn’t you first need to find it, and then think about wether to force it or not? And what’s this “force” you’re talking about in the first place? Giant magnet under your house? Sup?

@4201 Infinite mind. I feel I’d recognize you anywhere. ? ? ?

Touché.

Great insights. Can the ‘why’ be as dream stuff as ‘the brain’? That’d make you unthinkably brilliant.