Nahm

You are attributing how you feel to everything else but your present perspective, and apparently suffering dearly in doing so. You’re essentially claiming the stake of hand on stove, and then asking for people to help you with the refrigerator, kitchen sink, dining room table, toilet in the bathroom, etc. If a thought doesn’t feel good, doesn’t resonate, focus elsewhere. Focusing on it for three months would seem ‘haunting’, but you would be the “ghost”.

? This is it. No one is coming.

Best of ‘both worlds’. ??

@Thought Art ???

@Vadiminator The mind is hijacking what is otherwise not a problem. This can be cleared up. What was the catalyst to this occurring, and what was your foundation like prior to it?

What exactly would consciousness remember?

What does nonduality point to, in relation to the word consciousness?

@Javfly33 In what scenario would it not be? Your title is very specific. Are you talking about direct experience, or another belief / assumption? I’ll leave it to that.

Well, not two. Yet on one hand you seem to be asking if it can be deduced, realized, or assumed that there is one observer and many points of view so to speak, or if it is possible to literally experience the looking through a discernibly experientially second point of you / point of view, aware that this is the case as the same awareness. Like you as awareness knowing the experience of looking through Javfly33 and in the same apparent lifetime, aware as awareness through the “Nahm” / or another point of view.

@Cammy You are the awareness of the thought “I”. This can be double checked by claiming you are not aware of the thought “I”, and laughing.

@SamC But how is that working out?

@Javfly33 Do you believe in nouns & pronouns, or do you recognize these are just thoughts, words learned for communicating? Do words really identify anything? If you had a lucid dream, and everything was really you (the ‘dream substance of youness’) in that dream, there’d still be a use for words, communication, nouns & pronouns, etc. Though since there would be no separate things (all dream substance) this would only be for communicating, and of course, creating & co-creating. This would be the case for a non-lucid dream as well, it just would be missed.

Cause you are always, amazing.

Good Love Is On The Way. (just gonna leave this here)

@Someone here Never. Allegedly I was when I was some body. Woke folk have written of this you know. Who Did You Think I Was? I got half a smile and zero shame I got a reflection with a different name Got a brand new blues I can't explain Who did you think I was Every mornin when the day begins I make up my mind but change it back again I'm a shifter of the shape I'm in Who did you think I was You got my number but I always knew the score Who did you think I was Am I the one who plays the quiet songs Is He the one who turns the ladies on Will I keep shinin til my light is gone? Who did you think I was You got my number but I always knew the score Who did you think I was Here is a line that you won't understand I'm half of the boy but twice the man Carry the weight of the world in the palm of my hand Who did you think I was John Mayer

@outlandish ?

How’s that working out?

If I am hearing you accurately, due to your understanding of why she did that you are no longer creating your anxiety & unhappiness. So there essentially must be understanding, or you will continue to create anxiety & unhappiness...?

Indeed...but...you know...apparently....and we’re off on another story! “Body” is a thought. A body is never actually perceived or felt. Like other thoughts, “air”, “birth”, etc, it does not have to be believed. You can notice this by noticing the phrasing we use to cover this up, like “taking a pee”. Obviously no one goes in the bathroom and takes a pee. Sounds silly at first, then existential / introspective...then extremely silly.

@wavydude Maybe give some specific examples if you have some and are interested.

@Rajneeshpuram That’s a good point. How are you creating anxiety & unhappiness then?

Yep & and...that ‘ still kinda scary though ‘ is meat of understanding on the bone of samadhi. Understanding is not a distraction to being, understanding is quite literally being. Like the apparent words in a book are literally the book and there is no book, understanding is your own illusion of yourself, and there is no self. Meditation is for letting monkey mind go, not for quitting and making a life out of intellectualizing. Unless of course, that is the life you most desire & dream of. Peace & understanding are two sides of the same coin, like intelligence & creativity. Thus your identity & meaning making can not have been shredded, because they only stood on the illusory foundation of understanding, and so there is no cause to fret, sans contextualizing the monkey mind such that it feeds separation via superiority. You were never not you, and you were never not creating of you. If today is of woe, that is still the story, but in any given being you can create the story you want.

@electroBeam Yes but the line is getting long.

@Gesundheit Cause you don’t have one.