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@nataliemkch YES!!!! To all that. ? Best 1st post of all time.

Don’t be too sure.

You are a beautiful writer sir, all the best in your adventures.

Sooo true!

?? Grounding Don’t fret, that’s right on. You’re not a person... Nothing...relax!...and let it go. By it, I mean these thoughts. Let go of the thought, that something needs to be done. It is most common for seekers to spend years on the ‘need to do’, only to eventually recognize it was avoiding feelings all along. Expressive writing, and talking with someone, ideally someone who understands or at least can hold space while you express is ideal. In expressing how we feel (right now) we gain much understanding and release much baggage. Relaxing the body, focusing on seeing, hearing & feeling, and breathing consciously from the stomach. (All other-than buying into the thought stories). Laugh about anything and everything as much as you can to take the seriousness out of it. Easier said than done...yet an introduction via direct experience to recognizing the importance of non-doing. The story of I is mental illness btw. I wouldn’t spend much time, energy or focus on thinking about it. Do stuff you like. The more the better.

Mantra Meditation ??

You think he’s trying to convince you, I suggest he’s pointing to you finding out beyond a shadow of a doubt for yourself. That kind of doubt, or, shadow. Those are thoughts.

Congrats ‘Vlad’! ??? “Meaning of existence...deep...shocking...living”, these are still meaning. The meaning is being derived at light speed, by believing the thoughts, which simply reference X is not all else which is not X, and X magically seems to have meaning. We also have “meaninglessness of non-existence...shallow...boring...and dead”. Also thoughts. Stop thinking about ‘why’, and see it for yourself in front of you on a dreamboard. Everything you could ever want, from every experience you ever had, will show itself to you. But not in your head, “literally” in front of you, in your dream. Simply get back to what you were ‘doing’ in the first place, and create. Beautify this place along the way. Influence it, make it better, you might be back, and you might have forgotten the love you really are.

I discovered I was delightfully wrong about there not being ‘spirit guides’. I’d say they are not real ‘things’, and not areal experience, but are as real experience as real experience can be, more so in a sense. Not of this world, but even this world is not really of this world. If you clear the mind and intend, welcome, & focus, weird awesomeness ensues. What can not be understood is not always per se misunderstanding.

We each interpret differently, no one is fundamentally right or wrong, all communication is just perspectives, appearance, appearing & disappearing. All perspectives are indicative of “where we’re at” on the path. Is there compassion, yes, readily abundantly available & feels great too, yes? The last thing imo one should do, is ignore and suppress suffering. When you fly on a plane, every time without exception you are told to put your oxygen mask on first and then help your kids. This is because the reaction to help your kids is unconditional love driven. Though, it is not wise in the world. It is not practical. It backfires without exception, and not on the kids, and not on the flight attendant. One’s “backfiring” is one’s business, not anyone else’s. Another perspective is that liberation is not selfish, just inevitable, but mistaking thoughts about yourself, to be your actual self, is selfish, as in self-ish thinking, thinking about a self, which there isn’t...the very recognition of which is the very liberation of it. Imagine if you’d been truck-ish thinking as far back as you could remember, and suddenly noticed, you’re not a truck at all. Never were. Not even truckish, now that this is contemplated. This self-ish thinking is how you are creating “fear”. Your idea of you is not you, but is made of You, and all your ideas will die. Death is an idea, You can not die. You are the very awareness, aware of, the idea. Ideas of you are exactly as experienced, nothing...appearing & disappearing. The self referential “fear” creating thoughts, is the activity of the mind, which is made of Mind, which awareness is appearing as. Think about it, and it remains ever beyond your grasp. Let thoughts about yourself go, those which do not resonate with that which is appearing as them, and you are oriented home, and it is simply a “matter” of “time”...which you inevitably realize, awareness could never be in, as it is appearing as & is already the awareness of the thoughts,....”matter” and “time”. “Logically I know this life/ego will die but I'm so attached.” Attachment is not to life or ego. It’s to thoughts. Thoughts which don’t feel good to you, but it seems you continue to focus on them. Choose better feeling thoughts.

@allislove ?? Ride my bike down the old dirt hill, first time without my training wheels. First time I kissed you I lost my legs, bring that beat back to me again! I hear, scream and shout out loud of innocence and days when all we did would never end. Bring that beat back to me again! Take me back, can't catch me, bring that beat back to me again! Take me back! Take me there! Smoking under the railroad bridge, I used to ride my bike down that old dirt hill. Scream and shout out loud of innocence & days when all we did would never end. Screaming down that old dirt hill ! Bring that beat back to me again ! You know, that's when the days I remember seem so far away. That's just a kid. And that's what I miss. Just a kid, but it’s what ‘I’ miss!

@Rilles I get what you mean, but we aren’t really colors...which that book so elegantly & poignantly articulates. SD’s is a great pointer, but a poor identifier. ? (don’t forget to laugh).

Do Something Beautiful For God, The Essential Teachings Of Mother Teresa.

Only one awakening, “only” One awakening.

Coherent, resonates. “I”. The bridge to the secondary story. Only no mind, no less and no more, will do. Hankies and barf bags are inexpensive and available in bulk on amazon. Your life will happen perfectly without you.

Yes. But also, simply put “I feel this way because of someone or something else, because of who I am or how I am, because of a past, or because of a future”. Our “me” stories are interpretations which are present only in thought, and are inseparable from untamable & un-nameable inner compass which is not of this world and immeasurably more intelligent than our this or that thinking. That which is prior to choice, prior to focus. We can let what is already leading, lead in every way. That which can’t be found as it is already present & in communication with each of us & all things, which we know, feel, as sensation in the body. In relaxation of the body mind, wether at rest or active, the body is indeed the temple, and is our antenna receiving the undying under-lying signal of our most common sense. Always there for us, always available to be heard, always there to listen to our expressions and questions, already knowing of the dream within each of us and being our biggest supporter & fan. We can loosen up & rather entertain ourselves with varying perspectives, new interpretations and fresh understanding, bringing sensational guidance that is not of this world most intimately into our lives & ways, and essentially closing the gap individually & collectively of it and what is truly & rightfully it’s world, and yet your world, your reality, your living. Maybe ‘nondualing’, as in, always present & in action, wether listened to or not. Ignore & suffer, yet listen closely, and purify much. What if the greatest challenge of mankind, is letting a single thought of discord go, by employing some trust & faith that our source will fill us with ten fold the clarity, insight & joy? Then and only then, post letting interpretation which is not serving go, new interpretations can ‘fill the cup’. If ‘keep noticing’ refers to a thought, interpretation, or perspective which is felt as discord, then...no. I would not keep noticing. I would hear the message, acknowledge the burn, and let it go. If it doesn’t resonate, I am creating the discord. The greatest game possible is my inspection of how I’m creating it. There is no bigger reward or discovery than the holy grail found within this game. It’s the activity of thought, and it is up to you wether a book you read resonates with your being, and wether you continue on reading it or simply put it down. The cover story (no offense I hope) is always ‘not me’. A subconscious, a past, genes, a parent or two, the alignment of the moon & stars, a scientist, something I need to know to feel better but don’t yet, a truer theory, a more powerful psychedelic, a more efficient practice... but never, just...me...now....letting it go. It’s hide & seek at it’s most fundamental, and we all know all the best places, we all know how to fool everyone & ourselves, while we pretend we don’t feel it. But we do, because it’s always there, rather here, for us. Yes. You create your own reality, and I for one want your vibe. Not an echo of a “past”, not an implied apparent parent, the real. ?

@ivankiss Yes and no.

Heaven & hell are only connotations. Heaven is not a state, it’s an idea. Important to recognize imo, in direct experience, that it is only your idea. And there are no enlightened individuals, also your idea. There are no laws surrounding our existence, that rules out the possibility you are the “laws”, and it implies we exist. There is not that separate line drawer. Only the thought that there is. God does by not doing, plans by not planning, know things by not knowing things, leads lives by not leading lives. What’s an ego, and how is it that you can not feel outside of it? What is a permanent state? Experienced that directly? ?

Earth is a thought, not perception. Become conscious is a thought, not direct experience. What was it like, when you “became conscious”? ? Up means not down. Down means not up. Left means not right, right means not left. Me means not you, you means not me. Thought won’t do. I would let all thinking in this regard go, and put some experiences on the calendar, intended to reveal the nature of ‘experiences’. No thinky, no feary. Schedule experience, experience experience. Thought matters not, only get’s in the way.

@Flyboy You are, and you are, aware. Only awareness, is aware. (This is self evident, but check if need be). (Confirm now in direct experience. Notice, you can not honestly say anything else, or anyone else, is aware. That would be a thought, not direct experience.) Awareness is directly aware of: thought, perception, and sensation (aka “experience”, or, that which awareness is experiencing). (Confirm now, by looking for anything other than: thought, perception, and sensation. If you do find something else, notice the direct experience is actually of a thought). Awareness is only aware of awareness. Awareness is appearing as: “thoughts”, “perception”, “sensation”. Why doesn’t awareness readily know itself is appearing as thought, perception, and sensation? Awareness is infinite. There isn’t “something else”, for awareness to know...or to compare to itself, by which to derive a distinction, about itself. Thus awareness intrinsically = “not knowing”. There isn’t any thing for awareness to know, because awareness is infinite / not “a thing”. Awareness ‘forgets’ that it is infinite, by appearing as: thought, perception, and sensation. Awareness already didn’t know anything, because there is no “second thing”, to know. Veiling itself of it’s knowing of it’s own infinitude, with it’s own appearance, awareness believes “thoughts”, and creates an idea of itself. Awareness experiences the discord (suffering) of this experience of believing it’s own idea, about itself. It intuitively feels “off” because it is itself, but doesn’t know it’s true infinitude. Awareness relinquishes attachment to thoughts, namely, about itself. (Itself = not only awareness, but also awareness which is appearing as: thoughts, perception, sensation) Awareness is again knowing it’s own infinitude (aka “enlightenment”). Awareness is again knowing that it is infinite, and appearing as... “thoughts”, “perception”, “sensation”. Thus awareness is “recognizing itself”, which could be said to be a “fundamental change” of how awareness is experiencing, itself. Awareness’s own infinitude is “knowable” by awareness, yet, there is nothing to know. Awareness is not a “thing”, awareness believes in “things”, via thought, perception, and sensation, which awareness is appearing as. The “ultimate truth of reality” is known in awareness knowing it’s own infinitude, though at the same time, nothing is actually known because there isn’t anything other than awareness, to know. Realizing it’s own infinitude, awareness is not atheist, as awareness knows itself to be the infinitude. As infinity is knowing that it is infinity, infinity is knowing there is nothing to know, and could rightfully be said to be “ontologically agnostic". This post has equal chances of being clarifying, as it does unclear or confusing. There is no way for me to know. Just sharing because you asked, and I love the experience of sharing.

@Eren Eeager I do, and I’d love to help. The link is below, in all my posts.

What is it which you are focusing upon, honestly? Focus upon non-pink elephant.

@Megan Alecia Excellent! ? ??

@caveman Beautiful. Just beautiful. ?

By ‘connecting the dots’. Life, experience, can only show you how to know yourself more deeply, by showing you what you are not, so you can realize that indeed you are that. Look for unifying perspectives where there are presently divisive perspectives, interpretations, and behaviors. The guidelines of the forum are actually a stellar resource for this. Behaviors like name calling for example. First the gross is noticed, and personal responsibility employed in regard to reaction. Then the more subtle can be noticed, and the deliciousness and inherent grounded ness of response is being.