Nahm

It’s not an cognitive explanation one is looking for with self inquiry, but a feeling. Emotional labor is an adding of resistance, a pushing against, and or suppressing of emotion. The opposite of suppressing is expressing. Using the emotional scale is expressing the true nature and would be most effective before practicing self inquiry. Understanding emotion through the direct experience of expression, the true nature is revealed to always be arising effortlessly, like helium. To express is to align, and to know by feeling, the true effortless ‘helium’ like nature of being. Having a dreamboard. Being is the creator and you are not separate of this ‘dreamer’, so to speak. You didn’t come here to think incessantly, nor to figure anything out, but to relish in the experience of your creation.

@LfcCharlie4 It’s a dispelling of levels, rather than a distilling. Levels is the ego’s perspective. Subject object. Basic comparative thinking.

@ilja My pleasure man. Look to let go of the habit of ‘right & wrong’ thinking too. Reality is really all shades of grey. Loosen up, relax that a bit, have as much fun every moment as you can. I kinda said the same thing @m0hsen said. You’re going through some stuff right now, I get that, just thought I’d mention it. Keep healing my friend.

Check now for the chord. If it isn’t actually there then it isn’t actually there. Also check now (look around) for the parasitic friend which is said to be the cause, that which is ‘instilling’ upon you judgment and draining energy. If they aren’t actually there, then they aren’t actually there. Trust your own actual direct experience. Work with what is actually there. Your thoughts, and how they feel to you. Pick better feeling thoughts. Reading this might be just the thing to release this once and for all. If you click the link, don’t just read the title and first few lines, read the whole page. ?

@EmptyVase ? Not have, are. There’s nothing to know. That’s a belief, a condition.

@EmptyVase ? Priceless. Yes, peace, contentment, the reboot, the clean slate for the ‘mustard seed’, for what we do want to create.

Not tryin to get up in yo bizness, but contemplating skepticism with the OG of Only Goodness might be met with a silence responselessness easily misread. Expression though, getting it out of the body mind, Goodness naturally fills, like it does, and there’s no more what was it you were gonna contemplate slipped my mind talkin about all this goodness sorry.

@EmptyVase You’ll love it.

@allislove Allislove indeed. ?? @Natasha ??

@allislove Experience is unconditional, unbound, limitless. ? Lovely song about this... He’s shooting no one. ?

@EmptyVase For sure, then by all means, seek outside yourself until your ego is content. I mean this sincerely. It’s not like you’re goin anywhere, or there’s anything else more worthwhile for you to experience. The pointing was more toward not suppressing, not avoiding suffering, not believing the thought there is something else to find, not believing consciousness can arise from outside of yourself. A consideration one can instead eat that suffering for breakfast every day, thriving on it. It is literally the infinite intelligence, right under the noses so to speak. Like the danger & halfassedness, and the ‘you are already it’ ness, that’s deflection & projection. Eat it. Tastes like delusion, yet disappears in you like it was illusionary from the very first thought, like a mustard seed. Plant what you want in the soil of no mind, across the board, every aspect of your life, and it will indeed be so, but that’s just me, not tryin to be preachy on ya. @mandyjw That’s really beautiful. I wish every bit of that for you. ??

@mandyjw Uh, okey dokey I guess.

@Kundalini Cataclysm If there is thinking, concepts, beliefs, or interpretations what is sought is outside yourself, or beyond yourself, as you are right now, such as a state which is attainable, achievable, somewhere or something a you gets, something or somewhere a you accesses, has access to, gains access to, is difficult, or is something or somewhere someone else can get to, obtain access to or have, that ain’t it. If this is ‘disturbing’ or ‘triggering’ to read, go directly inward to that. See why, and what that is. ‘It’ works exactly like that. ? (of course, lol, right?)

@Arcangelo It’s about 6 & 1/2 months too long.

Ridiculous.

@tatsumaru Never mind.

@Mafortu This is just out of curiosity...are ‘you’ still believing in a past, death, separate selves / ego’s?

Start with the low hanging fruit. Get the assumptions out of the way.

Right on. Went with the book analogy since there aren’t really “thoughts”.

The knower never sees the dream, through what the knower knows, common is the sense unseen, yet just before the nose. From that which claims begins and ends; a middleman exposed, the failures, strifes, and Voldemort’s; were better left untold. In gridlocks of the webs my weaves; creators sit so still, resolve it seems, springs not of thee; if neither did this chill. ‘What can’t be claimed need not be tamed’, is such a bitter pill, the knower has such foolness; yet emptied, love would fill. Of days of credit running low; grow piles of what to do, of praise & blame create your game, not for who; for you. In dirt without condition, your seed will grow so true, fear not of conjecture; oops, I meant you-know-who.

The “future”, which is said to be when the mind is fit, and without fear, and when opportunity is - is a lie, now. Not a dishonest lie, a conditioned lie. The conditioning is the believing of these very thoughts, about a “future”. To escape one’s own thought attachment, to escape one’s own judgment of consciousness, is to escape the unconditional love which is ever present & abundant, now. There is a dog by the dumpster which eats what is thrown at him, but the human can choose what to throw. Nothing is veiled by “it”.

Who has arrived in this land of confusion? By what line did he come, and by what was forged before him, by who? There is the land of ease, of non-effort, of attraction.

Judging & evading are the endless paths of those who find fault in their creation. You create your reality without exception. It is as you say, middlemen or otherwise.

Nonduality is only surfaces, and not even. Each one is experiencing more of what each one focuses on. Comparison thinking can be a real joy (and friendships & relationships) zapper.

Pure, empty, highest, infinite, God, lowest...are thoughts, which are ( are “made of” ) consciousness. Thoughts are like words in a book, one is free to believe & enjoy the story, and one is free to recognize the story of thoughts also. Up to each one. ‘Your own free will’, ‘done’, etc, are thoughts, which actually are consciousness, and like the book analogy, one can believe and enjoy the story, or notice it’s a story. It’s really not a problem for Ben in either case (that I know of, so to speak).