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@nahtanoj What a great read and writer. Thanks for sharing. Very insight-full. It brought this jem to mind... “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” - Corinthians

@mandyjw ?

@Michael569 ?

?‍♂️ ?...☺️? Deeply contemplated that. Thank you for the laugh. Can’t stop.

@preventingdiabetes Thank God you ‘received it’. I was flirtin with guidelines there. ? It’s 100% up to you. Just be wise enough to make the distinction between your own direct experience, perspectives and attitude, and what someone else says about theirs. Don’t put anyone on an authority pedestal. Nobody has anything on the actuality of being you, and direct experience. One man’s “dark stuff to deal with”, is another mans’ release & relief. All the trouble starts when we contextualize feeling. It’s the most common hijack in the world. If you desire to be free of monkey mind, be mindful when you’re resonating with it in regard to someone else. Having said that....it is my opinion that not a single word can actually be said about what meditation is. So IMO, guided meditations are not meditation, but rather soothing, which is fine. I choose to hold that distinction. What works for you, what heals (assists in release), is paramount to ‘where you are’ wherever you are. Guided meditations are a nice segway perhaps, only you could connect the dots as to if guided meditations perpetuate monkey mind. I will say from direct experience relatively for a few years now - no mind is most worthwhile. There is much to be said for “pure” meditation, focusing on stomach breathing and feeling, letting all thoughts appear and disappear, as is natural. But again, the words don’t really say anything about meditation, just pointings. You have to ‘go see’. Practically speaking, if interested, it may go something like this. One begins meditation by focusing on breathing from the stomach, relaxing, and feeling. One notices how much the focus routinely goes right back to thinking. One gently, with no self judgement, brings focus back to the stomach breathing and feeling. As this transpires, there are really only two courses: getting frustrated and quitting, or, returning focus to stomach breathing, relaxing, and feeling. It is that simple. What is not simple, only appears to not be simple...because of continuing to believe the thoughts, about it not being simple, rather than returning focus to breathing from the stomach, feeling, and relaxing the entire body. I trust you can see that the choice, in essence, is ending monkey mind or not. The monkey mind “itself” is only thoughts. There is no mind ‘there’. Analogously, there is no traffic, without cars. Traffic, is only the cars. “Traffic” has no actuality. ‘That there is a mind’ is a thought. (Unless you directly experience being outside of it, and literally get to see what it is). I would do that meditation (non guided) twice a day, for 20 minutes, and I would slowly work up to 1 hr in the morning. It is incredibly counter intuitive - initially - that everything you want in your life is going to actually come from the doing nothing that meditation is. But what you’ll likely find, is that the reason you utilize guided meditation instead of what I am calling “pure” meditation, is because of fear of feeling. Drop that. Feeling is desire, is love, is self, is creation. Not-feeling is avoidance, suppression, delusional, and suffering. Certainty is feeling (love), uncertainty is thinking (choice, creation). The human condition, when successful, is ‘riding that wave’ in between, which is why meditation is literally The Middle Way. Buy tissues or handkerchiefs. Expect emotional misunderstanding and misidentification to come up - and let it out. Focus on stomach breathing, relaxing, and feeling - while a million thought stories about feeling bubble up and are emptied out. Do not be afraid, whenever you find yourself being afraid - recognize there is a thought story you are getting sucked into. Do no be afraid to feel. Write what you really want on your dreamboard - and it is already so. “It” is not “coming”, and “it” is not going to “instantly manifest in front of you”, this , reality, is already unfolding in perfect alignment with your vibration. Reality appears solid, but is actually you (love) vibrating to create “expereince”. You do not have to think about the “how”. Reality is unconditional love, “you” are designed to experience, which inherently create preferences, and to express those preferences as the creating of this reality - just for the experience. Are You Experienced? I. MF’ing. AM.

@mandyjw Typing that felt like this...

@zeroISinfinity Light worker.

“Thoughts arrive like butterflies...but he don’t know, and so he chases them away”.

@Michael569 Ya. Don’t go ‘Randy Marsh’ on the situation.

Uh...what was the awakening, exactly?

Laws are a lot like reservations...it’s not enough to make them. It’s not enough to pretend there’s a separate self in there. Just gotta investigate and “hold the laws”.

@B_HAZ That’s terrible to hear. Sorry you had to experience that. Why’d she do that? Curiosity, exploration, maybe she was molested?

“Loser”, “stupid normies”, “luck”, “what most people do”, “they are too dumb”, “identifying yourself with an attitude, habits, and disorders”, “what I don’t have”.. If I was judging myself & others, and holding perspectives of lack, shortage, etc, I would be suffering exactly as you are, as that is what suffering is, and that is how you’re recreating it over & over. That is what is “so hard”. It is exhausting, and you want to quit. But that means you’re going to feel. Stop being afraid to feel. It is love. You learned all that garbage. Let it go. Unlearn it. Recognize the suffering in feeling not ‘going there’ when you do think & share the ‘garbage’. That is what feels terrible. Stop doing it, and you’ll stop suffering. You can do anything you focus on. Stop focusing on garbage. Start focusing on what you already know you want. Write it on a dreamboard to make it foolproof and easy. It is not your past nor future which you care about, nor your perspectives. It is only how you feel, right now, that matters to you. Be honest with yourself about this, and clarity and inspiration are yours. There is truly only this present moment precisely as it appears. All else is the ruminating mind. That is what meditation is for. Stop being the slave to a mind, and get behind it, where it is directed. Change your environment to what feels good to you. Change your words to those which feel good to you. Talk slower, deliberately, as if - when you speak, it is so. Notice this is already the case. Be willing to be brutally honest with yourself.

@LfcCharlie4 Yep. It’s just a link to a resource, more or less. Not self promoting, or sharing copyrighted material.

A dreamboard! (To be as specific & literal as possible...) My advice would be to build the foundation: Get enough sleep, and get up early. Exercise every morning, followed by meditation every morning & a second meditation again in the afternoon around 5pm. Eat / drink a clean healthy diet. Dreamboard: Write what you really want, unabashedly. Do not give a fuck what anyone thinks of you or of what you want. Nobody is gonna die for you, and ain’t nobody living for you either. Live for you, so to speak. This is your life. This is not a rehearsal, this is ‘it’. It is, and will continue to be, what you make it - what you create it to be. When you write what you really want on your board...some limiting beliefs are gonna come up. (A belief is just a thought you’ve been repeating, that’s all). You’re going to learn that suffering is focusing on perspectives rooted in these limiting beliefs about yourself and what you’re capable of. You’ll release them from the body, and in doing so you will learn never to fear feeling, but to allow it to guide you. That is spirituality. It’s never found on a page, video, practice, or trip. The “real deal” as @LfcCharlie4 is pointing out, is this living of life, this desire, this creating, this purifying yourself of your own bullshit and any negative self talk & beliefs. When you do this... inner being, Source, God, The True Self... is more and more known in feeling, and viscerally known in yourself and your living. Feel the source within loving you, and encouraging you to dream big and live the life you wanna live. That’s fearing you’re own feeling, as it is thinking / ruminating, and it is not making a dreamboard and seeing that the universe does indeed deliver. Stop being afraid by recognizing thinking is chalked full of uncertainty...feeling however is certainty. You think way to much and meditation twice a day will change this. Thinking is to choose. That’s it. It evolved as communication for humans. That’s it. The world’s addicted to thinking & conceptualizing. Break that addiction with meditation. You’ll feel amazing. Stick to it, never be afraid to feel, never be afraid to dream big. It’s all castles made of sand, you aren’t taking anything with you when you go. Don’t die with regrets, die fucking amazed at the life you lived. Start right now. Again, sort through your own ruminating to hear the love in this statement - nobody cares dude. Live your life right now. Make a dreamboard right now. Notice excuses, pause, feel, let em go, and make a dreamboard. Hold out your hands and look and see what’s in em. Nothin. Cause it’s just more thinking and it doesn’t amount to anything. Make a dreamboard. I love you, hope you feel that in this attempt to slap your face so you start life. Go splash some cold water on your face, go outside and breathe! Enough thinking! You’ve got to come to terms with that you are currently scared shitless of living your life. When you choose to stop all this ruminating about desire, life purpose, enlightenment, etc, and simple begin by writing what you want on your dreamboard, your body is going to release pent up emotions and limiting beliefs, and the outcome is going to be ACTUAL passion and clarity. Not more thinking. You have more than enough time in your days to do everything you want to do. Enough with your bullshit my friend. Wake yourself the fuck up. I love you, I really, really do. When I need the wake up slap in the face, I expect you to help me too.

@cetus Gotcha. Yes I agree. That could give folks the wrong idea. The hero of the day....@Eren Eeager ? ?

@Javfly33 True. I think my anarchist archetype is surfacing. (...slowly back steps away from thread).

You may have come across some questionable teachers. Imo, that is loa. @Thestarguitarist14 https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/

@LastThursday Also, you can just stand up, and while maintaining full attention on them, verrry slowly take baby steps walking backwards until you’re out of the room. I like that one because it’s so funny there’s no apparent rude factor.

A dosage aimed at breaking through the ego to Truth. ‘Being your own hero’. Here’s a helpful calculator. And a ‘level’s / dosage reference guide.

@molosku I agree...Matt Kahn...and then Abraham Hicks...then psychedelics....then Rupert Spira.

@Javfly33 Just hold up your finger and say “wait!”...and after they all pause, say “.....nobody cares”.

@Conscious life Two is not, not-two.

Focus on what you want. They say what they say, you talk about what you want. Stop waiting for them to. ?