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@Jonty For sure. Jesus was the funniest man of all time.

@This

@electroBeam “I was the current and the flow, the streaming and the waves, I arose and crashed as tides and fell as rain, and I was glorious.” - Water ?

@Igor82 ??

@Igor82 Too kind! Love you, thank you & Godbless! I’d love to chat, anytime. I can communicate (like anyone else) about 1% (at best) here through text. To your question....It might be that you find me to be less conditional and less judgmental, and feel safe to express to, because you see I express pretty freely. Not much polarity in terms of masculine or feminine, etc. (I think ??‍♂️). This (talking with me) could also be said to be easier, expression wise, than talking with your mom & sister, in the sense that we have no past, no history. There isn’t ‘someone’ I think you are or expect you to be. I’m going by only the now, your words, sentiment, expression, behavior, now and only now. You know I don’t know you, and thus you are free to be any which way, and when you be any which way, clearly, seen here, your true nature shines like a beacon. There is tons of space for you to either not project memories about me or onto me, or to fill that space with good feeling thoughts about me. This is the real beauty and intelligence of expression, right here. Not because I have anything “right” or “better” to say, but the questioner, the expresser, expands. New perspectives are entertained. I do not believe pain is required to be felt, nor to be respected and loved. I find it to be an occurrence, a part of life, and I eat it when it comes and smile. You might be talking about suffering though, ‘inner pain’, emotional pain perhaps? If so, this approach is in a way like cherishing the ego, or trying to embrace it or love it and make it our buddy. It will bend us over every gd time. That’s it’s whole gig, the only song it knows. I think presence, ‘being in the now’ might be what you’re looking for. Maybe, today, tomorrow, when you see your sister & mum, kinda pretend you literally don’t know them, never saw them before. Don’t even apply ‘human’. Like, you don’t even know what this is, let alone who they are. Might see em for the first time. Be mindful as well, your attention, that attention, that regular basic attention, that’s God’s attention.

I’m just gonna flat out level with ya brother, that is a sad, practically heartbreaking sentence to read. If it feels that way to you as well, at least consider you might be driving under a not-you influence, and going the wrong way. Maybe someone from your past, a parent, etc. If you were raised Catholic, this would make a lot of sense. Unknow it. Stop “learning” & “conceptualizing”. Start expressing, start living. Use the emotional scale on the daily. This whole place comes alive. When, exactly, is the truth of life not so? When is the sky not clear, clouds or no clouds? Why brings clouds? What could be said to force such a thing? I kinda figured. I feel for ya man. Path ain’t always easy I suppose, but that’s when we stop and listen to feeling. Feeling is always there, always there for you, without fail, without misdirection, without exception. I might be speaking from a certain drunkenness and intoxication admittedly, but I wouldn’t set a foot in this place without feeling. Maybe that’s just me though (solipsism call back pun.) Expression. ? Poetry. Relief. This. ? Dreamboard stat! I don’t know much about being human either. No one does really. I’m just me’in. Edit...also...these meditations...like grounding, body awareness, etc...once or twice a day, five or ten minutes each time...they’re game changers. The mind calms, voluntary thinking is spotted in it’s quieting...and insights naturally arise... and they don’t feel busied...they feel really good.

@Igor82 You are beautiful sir, and thank you.

If you don’t know who you are, how can you be authentic? If you are authentic, you will know who you really are. Who you really are, can be anyone.

@cetus You’re Killing me. ?

@cetus You sir are hilarious. Apparently.

The experiential contradiction is between the concept & the actuality. The bold is intended to help point to how the veil is perpetuated. “The devil is in the details.” There is no ‘you’. There is awareness of the experience of saying there is, but there is not, two.

@zeroISinfinity I can’t start.

Inspect assumptions, vs projecting meaning. “perspective of someone” is an assumption. Inspect. Don’t make a home of ignorance, stand for what is actual, what is True, or you’ll fall for everything! You’ll be be-lieving truth, just to assume there are enlightened people. The moment you stop being ‘the one who can see if someone else is enlightened’, you’re inspecting, scrutinizing, uncovering your assumptions about what you’re saying. Taking attention off someone’s, and returning it to yourself, seeing what you really are. Such as Self Inquiry. Inspecting assumptions & beliefs. Physical forms could be in a dream and without inspecting, you wouldn’t even notice. Up to the source of meaning. If that question is ever asked, the answer is always yes. Yes. To “enlightened people”. “Enlightened people” is like some kind of addiction round here! Rather ironic, isn’t it? What is the only “thing” you could never know the first iota about? Tell me something about yourself that is absolutely true... I’ll be here eating popcorn for eternity with George.

@zeroISinfinity What never began can never end. ??? @Intraplanetary ?? Headphones blaring synchronicity as I’m replying lol, “Turn me around and take me back to the start? I must be losing my mind! Are you blind?! ...I’ve seen it all a million times.”

@The Buddha Nice. Brought the question to mind, what is the difference between being awake & being lost in thinking? Hoping this overwhelming laughter finds you as well.

That there is no enlightened person.

I can’t get that there is no I. Awareness can be aware of the thought “I” though.

As you said, solipsism is context. Awareness believes that context, and forms a concept of truth / awakening. That concept is then a belief. The “believer” is “the knower”, of the concept of “truth” or “awakening”. Awareness sometimes bamboozles itself, apparently.

Ya. It doesn’t matter if it’s ‘your’ thought per se, or ‘your’ thought which is from hearing what someone says, about Nonduality. Every single thought about what is not two, without exception, is a step away from, not two. The thought is ‘itself’ the step away, the veil. The ‘path’ is not conceptual, the ‘path’ is a concept. Only deconstruction, uncovering assumptions and beliefs ‘works’. ‘Removing layers’, never adding more concepts.

Awareness & it = duality. Thinking. Concept. Awareness which thinks & says ‘it’ is imagining a ‘this’, is the awareness, expressing from a miscontextualization (any contextualization) of what is in-contextable. ‘How’ is a thought, a thought about causation. How is C? A + B. But this is... not, two. “Causation” is a only the thought...that there is...”causation”...which there isn’t. That’d be awareness and whatever else (causation). The ‘separate selves’ is only in thought, or, the activity of thinking. That is an illusion. (Thought attachment). This is not an illusion, “it’s” appearance. This is a mystery unto itself. The knower can never see beyond what the knower knows, because the knower & knowing is duality, or the illusion.

There’s no it.

Make a dreamboard. It works. It’ll come right out of you, and you’ll watch it unfold in front of you (not ‘in your head’). Use the emotional scale. Clarity is the natural result of expression, the ‘arriving back at your true nature’ of Emptiness, from clearing the emotions and thus your vibration naturally raises.

There is NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT. ♥️ Be. Cause.

One can not transcend what one is focusing on. Focus is effortless, not something one could need help with. Point it toward what you want, what feels good to you. Easy. Use the emotional scale to express, release and raise your vibration. Stop talking about & focusing on what is lame to you. ☺️ This is keeping your experience, lame. Doesn’t matter. Why still focusing on it? Because you’re not expressing and processing the lowest two emotional vibrations on the scale. It works. You will see. It works instantly, literally as you do it you feel the relief, and the goodness. You love. Unveil yourself, use the scale. Read this. You’ll feel Goodness instantly. Thoght stories, and narrative about yourself and others is ridiculous when you can go straight to feeling goodness. Notice what you’re thinking, and notice that’s how you feel. Using the emotional scale, you transcend samsara via emotional intelligence, and are no longer led around by seeking sex to feel better because you’re already feeling amazing! This enables you to know true mature discernment. You can know & experience the beauty and depth of an authentic relationship, if that’s what you find you want when you are not seeking outside yourself to feel better. It’s all love, all Goodness...and remaining ignorant of emotions you’re experiencing, attributing the goodness of feeling to anyone or anything outside ourself...we are like flies in vaseline. You’ll keep getting ‘stuck there all the time’. ‘Burn your wicked garden (samsara) to the ground’, and you’ll be ‘punch drunk and without bail’, in love, in goodness, and you’ll never go back. Relationships completely change and become experience, icing on the cake of the joy of simply being you. ☺️ You can be single, have a relationship, have an open relationship, whatever you want. In not looking to relationships for the goodness of feeling, you attract exactly what you want, whatever that is.

Awesome that you experienced that awakening. It’s like seeing what life can be like with clarity, with no dirt on your lens. Now do the emotional ‘work’, clean the lens by understanding your emotions. I use quotations on “work” because it’s effortless, it’s letting go of what does not resonate. The only relationship occurring is the one between you & You, you experiencing and You, the source of it all. Stop making how you feel about anyone else!! Five minutes of reading and you will see & feel This clearly. Having An Inner Smile Emotional Awareness. Equanimity Pay attention to what you’re thinking, and how it feels. ☺️ Awareness Of Thoughts Be aware of how thinking ‘pulls you back in’, and change the thinking! Thinking is The Hook! I ain’t tellin you no lie!