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Pictures & videos. No. You’re labelling certain photos and videos as of you. You are the photos & videos as much as you are the person in them. Notice however, the photo’s & videos don’t think. So as you read this, and notice the tendency to think about this, do the counter intuitive thing, and notice the thoughts coming and going, without ‘latching onto them’. Allow them to go as effortlessly as they arose. Discover the non.

You can inspect the actuality. Point to the confusion in sensation specifically exactly where it is in the body, and you find it is not. Point to exactly where it is in perception, and you find it is not. The clarity sought then arises, that the confusion is a thought. Then, and this takes practice / experience, realizing it is a thought, let it go. Allow any revisiting of it, any question of it, etc, reveal to you that in fact you haven’t let it go, and let it go for realz. Gone. Never even arose. Couldn’t remember it if a gun was to your head. Then it is very clearly experienced that clarity is that which thoughts arise in, and what they are made of. What a joke! (*this joke gets funnier the more one practices the letting go of the thoughts)

@nexusoflife Awesome! I knew I knew you from somewhere! ?

@Aaron p ?? Yes, it’s the link below, in my posts. “One on One, etc”

If you look at any trap backwards you see that it is always a part.

Awesome.

@zeroISinfinity Hey now. This is applicable to your thoughts about VeganAwake too. It happens to be the heart of the very message ‘he’ shares. ‘We’ are a dule, a pitying, not a dual of pity. ?

@zeroISinfinity If we’re really splitting hairs...If there is the self recognition of prior to and appearing as understanding, there is no me & you to agree or disagree. One must take issue in either not understanding, or not being understood, in the veil of understanding ‘itself’ being number two in an actuality of not-two, and one must also concur with that being an issue. In that case, that which is spoken of is already missed. When the cat’s out of the bag so to speak, I can no longer honestly answer what was asked. Again, spitting the finest of hairs...it simply can not be said in truth “it is Love”, nor “I am Love”, nor “God is Love”, nor can I refute the very Love which appears to be asking. I am not saying it isn’t true, I am saying it can not be said.

@Aaron p A ‘piggy back’ insight...every person also “represents” or “exemplifies” a facet of your own true nature to be more readily seen / revealed / known / recognized.

Prior to and appearing as understanding.

It would be wise to prepare for such a flood with meditation, to be the Noah of the true nature.

@Moksha I’m dyin over here!!!

@Moksha Very, very funny indeed.

@Moksha I agree, I think we’re already on the same page. I see knowledge like any other thought, in that I’m just renting it really. It’s all ours / no one’s. Personally, I found the thought attachment, the claiming of the knowledge and identifying with it to be the suffering relative to the body mind. The knowledge in and of itself so to speak, of and in this world, is most beneficial for us and this world. And what an articulate quote! I think musicians are generally living in a certain surrendered recognition of these things from living / working in vibration, truth. They always seem to have that ‘inside scoop’ to what’s in the news. White Americans, what, nothin' better to do? Why don't you kick yourself out - you're an immigrant too! Who's usin' who, what should we do? Well you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too! (Jack White of The White Stripes)

@Tim R In staying with the biblical reference...to judge is to eat from the tree of the knowledge of “good & evil”. Seems we are all free to do that, yet to do so is often to create emotions in discord with the true nature, or ‘substance’ of the body mind, and of creation at large. So God hung a flaming sword on that tree, pointing to the tree of life. The “flaming” is the burn of suffering. The “sword” is The Truth. It is in us, and it is always pointing the way of creation, which perpetuates via humans experiencing and exercising preferences. To loath in judgement, to dwell in unwanted, does not create anything but suffering. To ‘go to the tree of life’, is to recognize what is, what is not wanted, or, not preferred, and in that recognition is found, intrinsically, what is wanted, what is preferred. Preference is realized. In that recognition, in that way of life our infinitude is alive and real, and we are filled with presence and Well Being as creators. We might say God has bestowed us with that which is not of this world, focus. The covenant is the recognition infinite can not know finite, and as such it is left to each of us in our freedom to experience creation, to focus in alignment with our source. This the greatest joy imo. This is what Joy is imo. Creator-creation-creating. Closing that “gap” of the covenant. Personally speaking, I abide in, or listen to the true nature of this message alive within me, and I do not dwell or loath. I experience pain, but I do not create suffering. Of course, this is effortless for me, because somehow, and don’t ask me to explain it, I yet again woke up this morning. This just seems to keep happening. I keep getting another day to align and share this nature some how. Very mysterious & magical. Your thread brought this oldie but goodie to mind... ”Oh life. It’s bigger, bigger than you, and you are not me. The lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes. Oh no, I’ve said too much. I set it up.” I often suspect this is all some kind of dream or lucid rem sleep too. Dunno. Always somewhere between “saying too much” and “haven’t said enough”.

@Tim R ?? Easy to appreciate in this experience. I spent years in the denial & delusion of this truth you so clearly speak of. I often wonder, and sometimes say, the entire Bible aims only to the recognition of how deep the error of judgment in & of “itself” can appear to be. Even Jesus was iconically put on a pedestal in spite of the very message he spoke of.

Very kind, much appreciated. ?? The finite mind is a lens of creation for our infinite being. Through it, infinite intelligence appears as one finite thought at a ‘time’. Boundless potentiality appears as concepts, limitless imagination appears as images. This makes the experience of communicating, creating, togetherness and the beauty & divinity of communion possible. This makes it possible to imagine, conceive and create that which we imagine, and to even do so together. The finite mind can wander in it’s own content, creating the false experience of leaving now, by giving to much focus to thoughts of a “past” or “future”. But feeling is ever present now, and the mind can abide in this feeling, in the compass of the heart. Feeling will never be in a past or future, and it is suffering to believe it could be, or to prolong any worry for it. But feeling is always here for you now. Always. Eternally. Unconditionally guiding you in your creating. This can be particularly perplexing in our youth. The ticket to ‘getting into’ this place is forgetting our own infinitude, forgoing the inherent knowing of who we really are, so that one can experience. As an intrinsically gifted infinite creator, you create effortlessly, and thus innocently weave (create) an idea of “who” you are. What resonates of that idea illuminates the facets of your true nature, what is felt as discord reveals conditioning, and the false identifications. The experience of your creation and the idea of a ‘my’ identity can seem so real in it’s separateness, that an unfortunate ‘claiming’ of this infinite potentiality occurs. Worries of ‘my’ potential. This suffering can only persist in the ignoring of discord between thoughts and feeling. A “worry” of “my potential”, or a “fear” for “my future”, is actually the very calling of intuition, the visceral echo of Home, of Truth, through the finite body mind. One never faces death, only the shedding of this identity, this idea, for the real.

? Crazy, crazy, does, does, does is crazy. Crazy make up for adjustment. Just like you, you jammin' on the verse. First one's planned, that you want to do. All I want is But I don't need you. (everybody gotta say) All I want is But I don't need you. Reggie Watts, “I just want to”, theme of the Key & Peel show. “Three things can not be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and the Truth”. Buddha

Is it getting better, or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you, now you got someone to blame? You say “one love, one life, when it's one need in the night. One love, and we get to share it. Leaves you baby if you don't care for it”. Did I disappoint you or leave a bad taste in your mouth? You act like you never had love and you want me to go without. Well, it's too late tonight to drag the past out into the light. We're one, but we're not the same. We get to carry each other, carry each other. One. Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head? Did I ask too much, more than a lot? You gave me Nothing, now it's all I got. We're One, but we're not the same. Well, we hurt each other, then we do it again. You say love is a temple, love’s a higher law, Love is a temple, Love’s the higher law. You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl, and I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt. One love, One blood, One life, you got to do what you should. One life with each other: sisters, brothers. One life, but we're not the same. We get to carry each other. Carry each other. One. You too.

Not to ‘pick on you’, but why stop the inspection at ‘terrifying’? This is like shopping restaurants and eating at the one that sucks for you. The relating you really want is with the source within you. Listen to it. It’s not excluding, and it never blames or attributes the feeling of discord to another as the source of it. It’s quite inclusive, non-judgmental, and ever-loving. If you are experiencing “sucked into mainstream society”, it’s as simple as you are still sucked into it. This is your thinking, not “theirs”. Own it to inspect it to see through it & release it, and feel how you much more truly want to feel. Attune more deeply & acutely in feeling than settling for ‘fear’ as well. If a thought doesn’t feel aligned to you, you don’t have to dine on it. Feel around a bit. Maybe the path is of relating by expanding your understanding and compassion, while not attaching to thoughts about others which don’t resonate with you. No one else has any hand in wether you’re attaching & identifying with thoughts or not. They have their whole gig going, you have yours. Feel your way to the best of both worlds. This is the orientation of ostracizing & isolating yourself. Unchecked, it can lead to nihilism and or solipsism, making your path exponentially more difficult than need be in the much longer term. If you don’t like liver, give it no mind ?. The buffet of this place is far bigger than this. You’ll never truly empower yourself in the focusing on and believing of thoughts oriented in empowering yourself by disempowering others. See their very best, set your own bar, and you will live, be, and feel your very best, free of these mental fetters. @Shunyata You are special. EVERY ONE is special. Existence is profoundly special. Earth is inexplicably special. We are walking talking impossible miracles, One, yet no two the same. When you align within you shine of within, and you self recognize creation.

@Muhammad Jawad @flume Interesting. I’ll look up that video. Thank you’s!

There is a paradox you’ve got to appreciate from a place of being lighthearted & humble in regard to what you’re thinking about, even though you can not understand what that paradox is right now. The more you focus on thinking about death, or existential thoughts, the more you’re heading to stress, if not already. The paradox is that you can’t “figure this stuff out” by thinking because that’s always just more thoughts. Your true nature, what “death” really is, is the right-now-awareness of the thoughts. Awareness is veiled by the very thoughts. More thinking equals more veiling, not more self realization. It’s like a flashlight looking for itself in the light on the wall, it’ll never “find” it, it has to realize what it is by not believing it will be found on the wall. When you adopt a practice like daily meditation you are slowly over time letting go of the attachment to thoughts, and your true nature automatically ‘rises’, as expression and conditioning empties from the body mind. If you are in a hurry to self realize, to know truth, and you are feeling any resistance of that hurry, do yourself the self loving favor and listen to that resistance, and slow down.

@Nate0068 Sounds rough, sendin good vibes your way. If it’s helpful or useful information...too much focus on conceptual & existential thinking for too long without a foundation of some body / awareness grounding practice, and some emotional expression, can lead to skewing everything perspectively for the worse. I wish you well, and the difficulty of this will pass. Do your best not to ‘dig in’, keep letting go. Relax into the body as much as you can, let thinking & concerns go. Take the day off from any ‘figuring out’, or ‘future ruminating’. Maybe a few days. Take a day or so off of any screens etc. You’ll feel better naturally, by default. Amazing but true. You’ll have a lot of insights from this when this passes. Just keep letting any troublesome thoughts go, you’ll feel better soon. Take grounding, body awareness to be first, most paramount on the path & in life in general, and you’ll be feeling better, much better perspectives will return, and the path & your future will be of joy. If that sounds impossible at all, please take my word for it to whatever extent you can. It is not only possible, it is your future and this is a part of it. When people say ‘life is amazing’, etc, etc...be most careful not to deflect that onto them, like ‘they’re just like that and I’m just not like that’. Let that message in a bit. Those people made it through rough stuff too, and the miracle is how life is beyond these challenges. Here that message. Gotta let thoughts that don’t resonate go - swiftly. Gotta be grounded in feeling. Rough to learn this way so young but you gotta know this to recognize these things do work. It’s not as tall of an order as it might seem today either. A little bit each day, and you feel better each day. And you got all of us here to help. Express, let anything you want to out. ? Also, on the dad / work front, I can really relate. My dad was very similar. What I learned in going through it was that the initial ‘sting’ I was feeling was the conditioning of this I unknowingly adapted, resonating when around him. Took a minute to humble down to recognizing that. I also was triggered by specific things he’d say in regard to work, stress, etc. In recognizing that, I was able to catch my reactions, and from conscious stomach breathing, slow down and take time to process the emotion. At first I’d not say anything, just basically looked at my ‘inner mess’ transpiring. Then it became less intense, and I could respond without it being influenced by the reaction. After a while it ‘flipped’, to where I recognized the trigger situation, and felt delight in noticing the emotional reaction was no longer there. Then I felt a lot of appreciation and compassion for him. Pain does reveal Beauty. In hindsight it was clear that’s how he interprets and experiences the world, and many insights as to how & why that is filled in. Here’s some meditations to consider if & when. Really, just reading them can bring about a pleasant change in mindset and outlook.

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This is happening in my experience, not a lot, but not rare. Not with countries, just buildings and houses. If you happen to have any insight arise in this regard please share. Appreciate it, thanks!