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Sounds heavy minded. How about less suffering...more ‘contrast’. Like the static of the radio, which is what allows the tuning into a particular channel. No good, no bad. No self, no no-self - just change the channel. It’s ust what you know you do not want, from which you can readily derive what you do want. In some ways, it sounds like you’ve got a bar set at suffering. Suffering is the greatest teacher, but..before you get there, at any given time, there is... a thought which didn’t feel good to you, the feeling of discord in continuing to focus on it, the repetition, annoyance, frustration (deeper discord), anger, and self referential thoughts which don’t feel good either. Lighten the path, by nipping it in the bud. Thought doesn’t feel good to you, no biggie, choose a better feeling thought.

@dimitri ☺️

@ivankiss I hear ya & agree. What discernible distinction is there between thought, and vision? With a source manifesting reflection, what need is there for thinking, when one has such vision? I feel like you’re about to light this whole place on fire. ? ? ♥️

Patterns of thought would unconsciously play out, and when this dream ends & you awaken, you’d have a hearty laugh. Not a thing right or wrong with that unconscious life, and that is precisely what would be so funny. Consciousness is infinite & whole, perfect & complete. There can not be a separate thing, a separate object, nor a separate self, because if there were, consciousness would not be infinite. If there is some thing which consciousness is not, then consciousness is not infinite. Consciousness Is infinite, and is infinitely, spontaneous & free. One who takes reality for granted has yet to realize the feelings they don’t like, is our source, the one-glish speaking voice of infinite reason, conveying the truth - that one is so free, one can impose limitation. The One has already amply done this however - to allow for this very experience. No more limitation is needed, source did a fine job. Add to limitation at your own emotional peril, as Truth is Unconditional Love, and conditions simply will not resonate. Practically speaking...one who is “stuck”, is over-emphasizing the intellectual method of - practically speaking. “Stuck” requires profound materialism, knowing one’s infinite all loving unconditional limitless eternal self - as a thing. An object, in a world. ?? What knows all that comes & goes, is already transcendent and does not come and go. What does not come and go, and does not have separate parts in truth, can never actually be “stuck”. The cosmos is an ever-transient vibrationally liquid creation of potentiality. What sustains you - your “living”, your “life”? Love, air, water, food. Are these “separate objects”, or are you...not separate from anything.. since the get go? Every thing is not always as it appears. This ever-changing-ness, this ‘appearance’, is known by thought, perception, & sensation, ‘themselves’ every-changing. Are you an object separate of this? Or is all known to you, as the consciousness of, the awareness of , the knowing of ? Were ‘you’ ‘here’ to know yourself...love, sensation - feeling, would not be so abundant, so easily & readily known in the sharing of our infinite being. You most absolutely know your absoluteness - you just forgot. Why would an infinite all knowing, all loving being - forget that it is? To experience. So you could create. Which is what you’re doing right now. It is all you have ever done. It is everything that you do. So much so, So totally & entirely, that a comparison can not be made, a duality can not be derived of it, and it can not in truth be said that you have ever done anything. Why you create what you do has a source which is always available. What you create and when you do, is always up to you. How it is created, is the same as how your heart is beating, your lungs are breathing, thoughts are arising, feeling is present, perception is abundant. “You”, you’re not really doing anything. You’re just unbelievable, unfathomably good, at making it appear as if you are. It is safe to surrender “how”.

@Ibn Sina My God I think you’ve got it!♥️

Thanks. I very much appreciate your posts as well. Always insight-full. ??

Thanks, I get were you’re coming from a little more now. Every one truly does create their own reality. So it is not that one ‘becomes a master’, or, ‘attains a level’ and now what they are wanting just ‘shows up’. One just notices this has been the case all along, and begins to discover the value of meditation, and choosing thoughts that feel good. The mindf is, you were born a master of creation. You’re ‘doing it’ right now. You’re so perfectly designed for it, you don’t even realize you’re doing it. The important question to consider, when you have thoughts about others being more talented or gifted, is that it is relative. It is all filtered by your perspective. So, how does a thought feel to you about this? Does it feel great, inspiring? Does it feel bad, is one downplaying one’s self in the thinking of it? In any case, what is the value of choosing a thought about what you want, which feels good to you? Immeasurable. “Realization of Truth, getting Awakended, seeing the Self (capital S) for what it is, not having attachments, being so unified with the divine that you just follow signs given to you. Like wishing for something a boom there it is” How much of that do you honestly believe you would need to ‘achieve’ or ‘attain’...to begin noticing that the correlation between what thoughts you are choosing, and what is ‘showing up’? My opinion, is you could notice this correlation right now. Take an honest look...are you putting other people on pedal-stools, pretending you are lessor than? You’re not. The Unconditional, is unconditional. I’m gonna call this meta-stooling from now on. ???

@Raptorsin7 Try it out. Whole new feelings.

@Raptorsin7 Have you ever ate vegetarian, or vegan for a month or so?

@Raptorsin7 I felt terrible when I ate fast food. Like ill-ish.

What is the answer(s) to this, which feels best to you?

@Raptorsin7 ”My instinct” is a write off. How do you know “the instinct” as other than a “random” story that flows through the mind? How are they random? If intuition & instinct are not a thought, how do you know them to be a phenomenon?

@Raptorsin7 How do you distinguish intuition & instinct, from thought? Is there any discernible difference?

No, not at all. Imo the only problem with questioning is that 99.99% of the population doesn’t. What does - makes sense to you - really mean? When you read 2 + 2 = 4, isn’t that logical, knowledge based, repetition of something learned, relative, memorized & recalled? Any actual sense there? If makes sense means creates feeling, or sensation (not thought...not dual) ...then where is “feeling, or sensation” coming from? What is the source of it?

If I said, “you should shove a toothpick under your fingernail”, how would you know that was terrible advice?

@Annonymous Meditate every morning, clean up your diet, and stop believing the thoughts that this is about “becoming everything”. On a very good note, it is not. So relax. Recognizing some unconscious habits is perfectly normal, and not that big of a deal. You can make changes gradually, slowly, and you’ll feel better and better the more you do. There’s only one matter at hand, only one thing you should be learning about, asking about, and practicing, and that is relaxation and not getting sucked into thinking. Thought wise, conditioning is very easy to spot in comparison to realizing nonduality, and that is simply that it does not feel good.

Could you share an example or two of this?

@moon777light What definitions have you created which we’re working with here, for ‘spiritual talent’ and ‘achieving spiritual success’? It would help the discussion imo. Also, what is your understanding, from the books you mentioned, of how they identify themselves?

There’d be a lot of laughter.

There’s a documentary on Netflix called Bikram in which this story plays out.

@Fede83 Think of it as if this was the very first thing, the first experience ever - that is only for you. As if you were the very first person ever, and this is the very first time you are choosing what to create. It can be anything you want. You can put anything you want on there, in any fashion or form you want. It’s only for you. If there is any pragmatic level resistance, grab a pad of paper and make a list of everything that you know (from all your life experience so far) that you do not want. Write anything & everything that you can, make it a long list. Then, look at that list, and flip the script. Flip to the other side of each duality, and write on your board what you do want. And Look at each thing you wrote on your pad of paper, that you don’t want...and catch yourself going to thoughts like “how could I ever do that”, “how could I ever get that position”, “how could I ever figure that out”, ”how could I ever _______” ? And flip that script to why. Why do I want that? Why do I want to do that? Why do I value this? Why is this important to me?

Fantastic. Happy for ya. ??♥️

You can call me a penguin if ya like.

@Matt23 I don’t mean to sound critical, but wouldn’t you want to first find out if it’s true?