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No. I would inspect, question, what does that really even mean, that you are skeptical of the relationship? When one becomes skeptical of one’s religion for example, one is doubting the validity of the religion, doubting what one has been believing, one’s own dogma...because one is feeling one’s own intuition. The skeptical thoughts are on a carousel that intuition is not. ‘Normal’ is whatever your idea of ‘normal’ is. Skepticism can not ‘belong to’ a relationship, because relationship is a thought, not an entity. For sure. Not trying to be a party pooper here. I love you. That might sound odd, cause I don’t even know you. Well, I do know you, and I do love you. Doesn’t mean we have chemistry, doesn’t mean we’re in love with each-other. We can be love, and we can be literally in love, and we can be not in love with each-other. My previous comment was not the kind of ‘favor’ that gets or is deserving of a thank you, but it is a win for you in either case, whichever way you emotionally responded to it.

Experienced those same thoughts! Thoughts which are already appearing & disappearing, about perception which is already an appearance. Before enlightenment, chopping wood, carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood, carrying water. - Buddha Nothing changes. You, do not change. Consciousness, does not change. No ‘thing’ is lost. What is actual is of course already what is actual. Change is not the actual challenge, change is illusory. The actual “challenge”, is siddhis, bliss, clairvoyance, etc. Imagine trying to type your reply now while in the middle of a fourteen hour organism. Wonderful, not a “problem” or “challenge” per se, yet, the challenge becomes “dialing it” down a bit. @Javfly33 ?

@snowyowl By identity, I am pointing to the thoughts: ‘maleness’, ‘body/mind’, ‘free’, ‘forms’, ‘contain’, ‘masculinity’, ‘femininity’, ‘all’, ‘one’, ‘my’, ‘I’m’, ‘alive’, and ‘man’, and it might be helpful to add ‘air’. Awareness is directly aware of those thoughts. Awareness is directly aware of ‘perception’. But the so called experience of thinking perception, and of perceiving thoughts, is not an actual - as in has never and will never be, directly experienced, by awareness.

@Nicachi Chemistry’s not there, you’re not in love with him. That’s why you’re talkin about how nice & safe he is. You’re stalling, thinking. A women in love wouldn’t be thinking any of this. She’d have both middle fingers to the world saying “fuck y’all, I’m in love!”. Entirely different communications would be transpiring in the relationship.

Awareness is aware of the direct experience of the thoughts you & sleep. Awareness does not know a direct experience of you & sleep. Awareness can appear to underestimate thought attachment, and meditation.

@StateOfMind You don’t realize you’re going to die.

@StarStruck It can be a very tricky thing, so to speak. Some experience through a veil of self referential thinking. That is, believing a thought about themself could be true, missing they are themself the infinity the thought is made of, the awareness of the thought. Experience is reduced to a concept of reality as if it were something separate, as if they are a separate object in time, as if they are an object in a world. Suffering always points to the present transcendental truth of awareness. Suffering is perpetuated by missing this thought attachment, by one not recognizing how one is creating the suffering. And one Not. Two. What is this which is separate and knowing of meaning & understanding? Point to “it”.

No worries. My bad man. I often honestly can’t tell when people are looking for help or not. I don’t mean that flippantly, I honestly (obviously here) can not know, and in hindsight it seems I misunderstood. Godspeed, wishing the best for you both! ??

It’d be so funny in fact, no one could rightfully be expected to look directly at it. “Anything other than the woman on top is already too much.” - Osho He said that into a camera in front of a studio audience, with a perfectly straight face. There will never be another master like that one.

Nothing. (That’s the “point”). What meaning & understanding arises, is contingent the thought, “and”, and... love veils itself of itself with itself by itself.

“When I’m feelin stuck and need a buck I don’t rely on luck because the hook, brings ‘you’ back. I ain’t tellin you no lie!! The hook brings you back! On that you can rely!” - John Popper, Absolute Master Of Resonance & Harmonics

How do you feel about losing the “identity” (“female” / “male”), and being neither and both?

@OBEler This is uncanny. I recall you mentioning this before, and since then I had a session with a female who was also a victim of rape, bullying, and who also lost her groove, her LP mojo, and was years into suffering. She awakened in one session. If she is interested in talking, the link is in all my posts. Respect the inner kyra, and leave it to her (don’t request the session for her, let her decide, and take the action or not). Godspeed, take care of yourself. ?

Not if you wake up. ?

Might have that backwards brutha. The bald dude’s character is written as the very personification of fear. Specifically, nihilism. That is what is portrayed with disillusionment and bitterness. It’s not because of enlightenment. He knows the truth of the matrix “reality”, but does not feel the truth of actual reality. So he misinterprets himself & emotions and mistakenly derives “fear”. He acts from this outlook throughout the movie, undermining, manipulating, and throwing everyone he knows under the bus to get what he wants. His motive, or his method of avoiding inspecting, is inflation of self image. He desires to be “someone important” (and revered) “like an actor”. It is not that he is woke and disappointed, it is that he believes he is woke but isn’t, because he doesn’t inspect the fear. Rather than self reflect, he projects, defending the self image, because he believes that will fill the hole, so to speak. Which there isn’t, but he believes there is, because of the non-inspecting. In this light, it’s possible the dream found to be disturbing, is acting like a tuning fork. In your resonating with that frequency, you can be more aware as to how you are ‘holding a hot coal’. You can sort as you experience perspectives, see what ‘strikes that chord’, and entertain different, better feeling perspectives about that subject matter. Your friends would appreciate this. jk What if your entire non-resonating idea of enlightenment, literally every single thought you’ve had from every single thing you’ve heard and believed, which doesn’t resonate with you, which doesn’t feel good, simply ...isn’t true? Wouldn’t that be a really funny twist?

@aurum Makes much sense, I hadn’t heard of him in the fitness era. That could be a stark change to many. I do believe he’s gone crazy. First time I saw him, I think maybe some ‘dad role’ was kickin in lol. Wasn’t concerned per se, but conservative in well being mindfulness perhaps. Now I believe he’s definitely lost his mind like me, and is truly message oriented and having fun with it. If he is experiencing sex addiction (only have the video to reference) I could see how the yoga could help. Needing sex for happiness, vs sharing his ever present being with others would make sense to me. Who knows though. God’s business. ?

I hear ya. He seems like he’d be fun as hell to hang out with, but I don’t know him at all per se. It was really just the content, or sentiment of intention conveyed in the video that seemed to bring about the realization of a difference in comparison to the day to day of this section. He seemed authentic and carefree to me. Not ripping on the section at all, just adding to it in a way which resounds with me. So I thought I’d post it and share. And now ya got me thinking...... My youngest is nine, and my oldest is twenty six, and I believe I have a lens from that, which leaves me seeing his “shenanigans” differently. I don’t believe he has or is destroying his reputation, I think he has transcended the idea of himself, of his reputation. I have no idea obviously, but I don’t think that’s in his wheelhouse anymore. I don’t believe self image is really on his mind at all. (Just my belief or observation from speculating). I don’t think in the longer term, he is alienating. I think he will be the, or one of, the most successful you-tubers historically, and that it will lead to a much bigger platform. I could see him continuing to bring Nonduality to ground level duality, a fresh & sound approach amongst much bringing duality to nonduality, and regurgitation of nonduality from previous teachers, via books & old videos into youtube as “original”. His orientation strike me as actually original. Wether I agree with him or not on any points, honestly the approach is sort of intoxicating in a refreshing creatorship way, and I’d wager I’m not alone in that. Time will tell of course. He is so young, and it will be fun to see. On the sex & validation, idk man. I think he is in the true nature so to speak, sharing the message, and likes sex, like the rest (or most) of us. On the integration of experiences, your comment brought pause & contemplation (thank you for that sir). It left me open ended. I don’t know how perpetual experience can be fully integrated. And now the word integration has become...like “rooaaadds...rooads....rooooaads...”? Who knows, I may be bamboozling myself. It just resonated with experiences with women, and clicked as to why this subsection typically doesn’t. Not to imply it’s wrong, or that any perspective is right lol. I might just be old af and have no clue what y’all are up to these days. @Recursoinominado Holy shit that cat’s hilarious! ?

Just...if it’s useful...otherwise ignore, or open fire on the messenger. The inhale & intention creating a single thought has already over complicated the truth, long before the vibration of the word. The mind is the on & off switch of it’s own apparent complexity. Nothing is ‘permanent’, as in eternal. Human concept is nothing, the concept of human, is nothing. What is the true thought about awareness, which the awareness thought of, is other than the awareness aware, of the thought? What is a “you” which “has” awareness, which is not a thought, about awareness, which awareness is already aware, of? What can nothing include, what can nothing exclude, as what is, is nothing? How does awareness get awareness while awareness is already the awareness of the thought of what is gained & lost? What does nothing do to accept nothing, while nothing is nothing?

Exactly. It would also not be possible to translate uncountable unseen photons so quickly & efficiently that meaning arising in and of you is being attributed to arising from words on a screen. Not. Possible.

@dalink Focus is working perfectly. You’re focused on that you can’t comprehend, and that something is wrong with you, and experiencing it. You’re looking for others to diagnose, label & support this by joining you in your justification & rationalization, and you will find that too. That is easy, there are billions at the ready. You must understand that you were born into a world of emotional suppression, of war, of the violence of ignoring their own fraudulent focus diagnosis’s. A world of believers, ignoring their own nature, thus veiled to reality, sound asleep and dreaming the story of the “I” in their minds, and of rationalizations to support it. But you are The One, and you are not in a world at all. You can not fall back, but you can believe your thoughts. You can not fail, but you can believe your thoughts. You can not know fear, but you can believe your thoughts. You can not cover up this flow of creation, and you can not be separate of it, but you can believe your thoughts. The sleeper sleeps because it is the lesser of two evils; staying in the story of “I”, vs, feeling. Wakefulness does not know evils.

@SamC Then my ‘tip’ would be to inspect that bondage thoroughly until you are absolutely satisfied with your inspection, and to find the exact distinction which separates experience & life, and to be the vessel of what’s found regardless of what you do.

@roopepa ???

@Jaka Pirs Hanzic Just wiggle your fingers without imagining that you are wiggling your fingers. A magician can not accomplish this.

@allislove

You’re not a Karen, Brenda.