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@BartekD Just a perspective to consider. The energy is actually what you ultimately want. The mind assigns context to it which can be convincing, and before you know it you’re ‘solving a problem’ which was not ever a problem. Feeling inside the body, move energy in waves, from the ground or bottoms of your feet, slowly up all the way, out of the top of the head. Do this over and over. To start, feel that there is sensation in the bottoms of your feet, and feel that sensation in the ankles, calves, knees, and so on all the way up, and out. If you experience intention emotions, fully relax the entire body in the same manor, each muscle area, feet up through body to head and out. Do breath counts. Count to 4 (seconds) of inhale, and then exhale twice as slow, counting to 8. Pay special attention to the entire stomach & waistline fully relaxing and remaining relaxed through the entire ‘practice‘ breath work session. At first, you will probably notice it tensing in a habitual automatic way. That noticing is progress. No ‘beating up on yourself’ (ever!). Noticing this is step one, relaxing this is step two. You are are essentially retraining the body how to breath, and emptying out the effects it has accumulated from previously unnoticed subtle tensions. The more you enjoy the practice of this experience, the more the inner body awareness connection is felt. Inevitably, a ‘flip’ happens, and this presence & feeling of awareness becomes the new default, without any practice or inner attention needed.

That there is always a place for calm nonviolent civil discourse, and that place be earth.

That is actually not true on both accounts.

@StateOfMind One easy way to ‘pull the rug out from under’ one’s own attachments is to acknowledge anything attributed to the ego. Then physically point to the ego it is being attributed to.

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I’d begin a deep dive (online) into the distinction(s) between pain & suffering. I wouldn’t lump them together whatsoever.

Life is short. The best of both worlds (No thing ‘&’ every thing) is where it’s at, imo. Take advantage of every resource available, on every avenue of life ‘&’ spirituality. Be careful of pigeonholing any resource, and also of putting any one or any thing on a pedestal. The resource one is reluctant or refuses to experience stands to be (of course) the most beneficial. Also be mindful not to label, as there is only grey and the whole of experience (and thus everything within it) is an ongoing ‘teacher’ / ‘lesson’. One day Leo schools me, and insights arise. The next day it’s my nine year old kid. The next day a neighbor. The next day an ant hill. Stay curious (as if there were another possibility )

I recommend it.

Happiness can not be or become, nor not be happiness. This is not a “problem” for Happiness.

Ya, sorry about that. Electronic stuff seems to be getting less reliable lately. An ‘entry point’ would be to write on paper (not a screen, not ‘in your head’) in front of you... What are the differences between water & the Holy Ghost? Whatever comes to mind in this regard is ‘right’, whatever comes up, write than down. Don’t judge, scrutinize, make mental comparisons , or second guess, just flow. Essentially, this is not ‘thinking about it’, this is seeing in front of you whatever arose in mind. To the extent possible, look at this like turning the mind off, and a hand just writing of it’s own spontaneous accord. Then, in the same manor write down what properties are the same with water & the Holy Ghost? Which lends to some google searches in regard to the miraculous properties that are unique to water. As an example, water unbinds other substances without binding itself to those substances. It rinses away without attaching to that which is rinsed away. Do just go on that though. Experience your googling of it. One note, and this can not be said to be more than opinion / interpretation, because words / communication... nonetheless....sin IS NOT ego. Sin is to speak ill against the self / Self. Also, you can directly experience the ‘laying on of the hands’ for yourself. People refer to it as Reiki. Given your path / background / trips / experiences, I am highly confident you would have “sober” mystical experiences that are even more “real” in the sense they are deeply moving, life changing, eye opening as to what is possible being renewed or made anew yet again, than previous experiences. That is what Jesus & Paul spoke of. Siddhis, Infinite mind in communion with ‘finite mind’. There is only actually the ‘speaking in tongues’, but we normalize it such that it seems significant relative to reality, specifically the human body, was not already free / spontaneously ‘happening’.

@Raze All sounds right on imo. Aka fragmentation.

It could be taken as a pointing to the limitation of duality, or if you like, the finite (this or that) mind. Existence, nonexistence, inner space, outer space, dimensions, dimensionless. Perhaps a pointing that “it” can’t be thought. Paradoxically, “it” is all there is to “thought”. Awareness is a more unique pointing, as it lends itself to direct experience, or rather that one has no reference point in their own direct experience of no-awareness. Great user name btw.

Might just order that on a t-shirt now.

@Loving Radiance Ya just got me. Lol.

Challenge yourself so to speak. I believe Leo has a video on doing the emotionally difficult thing. I’d watch that. Also, got a dream on a dreamboard that is impossible for one, maybe more, lifetimes? The excitement and eagerness of having the desire to expereince far more than what is possible in this go round will definitely involve some waterworks purification. One of the great joys of reality imo is imagining way outside what is possible for you now, and experiencing / living the closing of that gap. The journey is the brilliance, the emotional experience, much more so than the actual experiencing of the ‘thing’. If & when that ‘lands’, or perhaps is experienced / realized, you be on the floor thankin God for this existence. TLDR, dream bigger. Reach through hell into your soul for that dream. You’ll wake up cryin everyday.

@Aaron p ? Three times I have typed a somewhat lengthy explanation of dot connecting here, and three times this tab on the iPad , when pushing submit on the comment, says “can not connect to server because iPad is not connected to wifi / internet”, while all other tabs function as normal. So, good luck and Godspeed with this one!

@Willie Nice, and indeed. “Trapa” just didn’t work word wise. T r a p p a r T

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.