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@Pilgrimage of Self Be in the middle, rather than one end to another and back again.

You’re a creator, not a musician. Do you see, the same is true for every one?

What’s left without that?

@Cocolove I was once in a realm without pants, and I had a dream of pants. I listened to the dreamer.

Relative to someone without judgement of ‘friend’ not ‘friend’, ya, you are. Two ways that can be heard. Up to you.

? Great post.

@EddieEddie1995 Kinda depends ‘where you’re at’. As you see it that you are ‘getting in trouble’, it might be best to report it to the police, and continue on your path. @Scholar “Only the cessation of Suffering will lead to the cessation of Suffering.” Bit of an unendable loop, isn’t it?

It’s your Shiva, your muse-ic. Kinda FUBU.

One person’s fear of death is another’s dropping of a belief. What would that look like? How could you both create a belief, and yet surrender to it?

@EddieEddie1995 It sounds like you’ve realized it is the thought which does not feel good. Now consider if you want to intervene in any way. What would be the intelligent, compassionate thing to do?

@EddieEddie1995 Are you talking about direct experience with a pedophile and or rapist, or are you talking about thoughts?

@lmfao Thanks for your views ??

@fridjonk Nailed it

@Derek White To communicate that regarding the depression, the intelligence of feeling is ‘saying’ the thought isn’t true. (The thought about him / her self) It’s also at the root of procrastination.

Locking per the guidelines regarding focusing on conspiracy theories. https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/

@livg7046 I share your sentiment. It is a terrible situation, I feel for everyone effected, and we are clearly in it together. I also can see ‘the good’. That the good. Nature works in mysterious ways.

@Bill W The more the mundane is inspected, the more mysterious it gets. Similarly, the more scrutinized “asleep” is, the more one is awakening. Same ‘coin’.

I’m suggesting the unwanted feeling is related to judging yourself, rather than the outcome of what you’re doing. Again it sounds like the demotivation is fueled by judging yourself. Without the thought - feeling relationship involving judgment, there is ample clarity and focus. We’re each right where we should be.

And yet, upon awakening it no longer makes sense. Wild.

@sleeperstakes Consider if you might be interested in yoga, energy work, massage, etc and pick meditation places which have those services you’d like to experience. Try three or so places, have fun with the adventure.

“Do Enlightened people think, or just act on their feelings?” The misnomer is a paradox that does not exist and is transcended with your realization, which is brought about via scrutinizing the thought. When a person becomes enlightened, what that ‘means’, is that person realized they are not a person, they never were a person, and there never was such a thing as people. Awareness stopped believing thoughts. Not in a theory, right now, only right now - or never at all. Likewise, there are no “enlightened people”, there is awareness. So when you ask “what do enlightened people_______” the question is already false. As such, there is not an individual ‘thinking’, nor ‘acting on their feelings’. There is awareness, aware of thought, perception & feeling, which is to say, awareness aware of awareness. No one can tell you the difference. Every answer is heard through a context of ‘individual people’, who are or are not “enlightened”. Consider (as an example of a thought) if you heard someone say.. “man...I get so mad at myself sometimes!” Clearly the “ I “ is a reference to awareness. So who is this “myself” which is being talked about? This is a very subtle self referential means of deflecting responsibility for the anger to a separate self, “myself”. This person will continue to get angry until they address that there is no “myself” involved. That might sound like...”ok. Alright. I’m going to take a look here....why am I getting angry?” This could be said to be the beginning of the discovery of how feeling, perception and thought are being mixed to create the previously mentioned diversion of feeling, via the creating of a “myself” to be angry at. If the statement or thought was simply...”I am angry”...then inspection continues...”why...am I angry?”. That inspection can then continue...”well...what am I anyways?” “What am I actually triggered by here?”...inevitably leading to the realization of a deluded perspective / belief (suffering). (Not implying you’re angry, just an example) In everyday conversation, this would be a very rude thing to say....with regard to what you are inquiring here, this is helpful (imo)...that ⬆️ is self referential thinking. There is no past, no future, and no “you” (“myself”). That, simply you saying that, is what perpetuates the “separate self” (mind ‘oxing’). There is still an accreditation to the separate self via I’ve been in days. Have you “been in days”? Or is that one single thought which arose? As a concession maybe, a memory. (Which is just a thought, a sexy one believability wise maybe, but a thought nonetheless) Similarly, ’I’ve had very little thoughts’ is actually one thought, now. It’s not ’true’. It’s self referential...saying that perpetuates a “you”, a “past”...the ox loves this, so to speak. You are awareness of thought, You are not imprisoned in any way by thought. The ox can not be bartered with. It will take, take, take. It will take your bartering without a care. With these thoughts, you recreate the ox, sustain it, give it “life”. Let the thought go... what is the feeling? There is no “my mind”, that is a thought which perpetuates a separate self, the haver of a mind. Control / no control, is a thought. Illusion / no illusion, is a thought. Easy / hard, is a thought. Future, is a thought. Free / not free, is a thought. Foreign / not foreign, is a thought. “Your mind”, is a thought. If you ‘reframe’ these simply as...- thoughts -. What does feeling tells you’ about this? It is Good, or it is not good? Feeling is decisive, especially when it is allowed to lead. That is already your actuality. A thought arises that it is not... and that thought is either believed, ...or not. Let thinking go - by awareness of perception, and feeling. Only thought tells the story of two. Perception (without thought) is always One. Feeling (without thought) is always One.

@Schahin What would you lose if you became enlightened? What is it you wouldn’t be able to do anymore? What would have to change about you? About your ongoings?

@RobertZ There’s some judgment and thoughts about psychedelics taking up the precious mental real estate of wanting, creating, living, loving and purpose. Bring feeling to the game. Bring the body to the game. Bring self-love to the game. You’ll be right as rain.

Yep.

@zeroISinfinity Bring it on. You’ve never met a punching bag like me.