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I don’t know if you’ll see what I’m trying to point out, because the nature of it isn’t “dualable” or “wordable”. Also, relatively speaking, there are teachers who experience infinity directly, and know it can’t be explained or thought. Can’t be conceptualized. So to try to ‘reach’ the seeker, they use analogies like infinity many worlds. It’s as helpful as it gets, but when ‘you’ ‘experience’ ‘infinity’, it’s very clear that they are doing this, and why. Sean Carroll is about as great of a living example of this as you’ll find imo. He seems to have made that all important leap from science to actuality. I believe years ago Sean’s sentiment would’ve been, “if you think you’ve understood quantum mechanics, you haven’t”....today, I believe his sentiment might be more like “oh ya, you can understand quantum mechanics’. I’m speculating on all of this, but, he might be inclined to nonetheless limit what he is now aware of, in what he’s saying. (Hope this is taken as a helpful attempt, rather than taking a ‘jab’ at you or anything) ??

Create three more, but with how you feel as the absolute basis, rather than what you think about ‘free will’ in terms of something ‘in the world’ / ‘something about people’. Essentially, look at it relative to you. It will start to make a new, different kind, of sense.

@aclokay Yes indeed. Your post brings the ‘path of least resistance’ philosophy to mind. Maybe a permission slip isn’t needed at all, because it’s just a permission slip, and maybe it’s just easier to write whatever permission slips you want to write. It is ‘of the Truth’ though, very much so. This can lead nicely into the realization the finite mind is not actual, but self imposed imitation as well. But don’t go losing your mind over it.

Those questions are too broad, could you be more specific? Thanks

The entirety, the whole of, experience, is for “you”. There is not actually a “you” though, which must detach, concentrate, take action...one in need of discipline, one giving effort, one being attentive, one who remembers, or has a memory, one who possesses and uses an intellect, nor one who rests. Another way to put it is ‘getting there’ is ‘gotten there’ when all the beliefs of ‘getting there’ are let go of. Memory is not what the popular opinion believes it is. Notice there’s no ‘pulling a file out’ of somewhere, no actual retrieval transpires. (Or probably too simply put, ‘who requires’.)

“Not necessarily stoned but, beautiful.”

@ROOBIO Yes, of course. This is and always has been the default actuality. “A thought” is nothing, so paradoxically, to ‘get there’, can you understand (first) that thoughts are indeed, things? (Not a Riddler thing here. Need to see where you’re at currently). Also, how practices / experienced are you with ‘sitting with it’ - sitting without distraction, letting emotion wash out, and then realizing the after-arising understanding?

In the vein of neti neti being an ‘outward to inward’ practice by deduction, and breath meditation being a surrender, or ‘inward to outward’ nothing into everything venture...if you’re not quite ready for a true to form do nothing practice, just do it uber casually through the day. The momentum of ‘doing’ slowly fades, at a comfortable pace. Notice everything you are not doing. Notice no commands, no process, no ‘ceo’ director of the brain or mind in the typing / reading of these words now for example. No effort in understanding what these words are saying, right? While driving, for example, say aloud, I’m not driving - this is an experience, “driving”, “in the car”, then notice the “doer” did not say anything aloud. Similar to self inquiry, ‘you’re’ going behind the doer, behind the thoughts. Most thinking is of the doer, in the doer’s future or past, potential situations, etc. None of which is actual, it’s all overthinking. So the ‘ambilical cord’, what keeps the doer “alive”, is being cut at the root, thought ‘itself’ & belief, and the believing in “I am the thinker”. Notice talking ‘happening’, disengage of the belief that I am talking, and notice the experience of “talking” continues just the same, without “doing it”. This is in itself all doing, pointed towards “witnessing”, to reveal there’s no witness. You might also spend days saying the absolute minimum which ‘needs’ be said. This can reveal how much thinking was being spoken, and how much overspeaking feeds back into overthinking. ‘Witnessing that’ can reshape the entirety of the experience of thought, and speaking, and the simplicity, the ‘plainness’ that you are not separate from this moment arises. But, before the unification is seen, it’s highly likely (not certain though) that feelings are going to bubble up. Don’t think about them, and don’t allow them to involve someone else in the ‘their fault’ sense. Just relax, breath, feel breathing, and let the feelings do their feeling thing. Understanding inevitably follows, as the feeling signified a discord of thought self and awareness. More of this ‘understanding which arises’ = ‘more’ being & wonderful feeling, and less overthinking, and judging one’s self / misunderstanding feelings. And...there might be one, two, a few things...that if you were to fully aware of ‘what you are doing’, you wouldn’t be able to stop doing it. Write the opposite of those things up on your board. Get what you really actually want out in the wide open.

Be disciplined in not being disciplined. Rather, if you are currently seeing a self duality of conscious / subconscious, meditate every morning, doing nothing, letting go of the “conscious” end of that stick, finding there are not two consciousnesses. It a sort of double paradox, but in giving up doing anything, giving up trying to get disciplined, you free yourself of any need or inclination for discipline, and see that there are no memories, just this magical just-when-you-need-it adventure.

@herghly They’re in constant use more or less. I use them at home and at each office. Nothing ‘wrong’ with a pc board, but give a big dry erase board in the middle of the room a try. @Angelite Kind of a vague comment. Elaborate?

Imo, 20 - 25 is absolutely the roughest. “Come, come again. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, come, come again!” -Rumi It used to seem to me that in this quote Rumi was speaking on behalf of a group, or an organization, saying “all are welcome here, no matter what you’ve done”. That perhaps the point is we shouldn’t judge each other, we should forgive one another, love one another - do our best to be understanding and tolerant. That maybe if you “sinned”, he wanted you to know you are welcome back at the “church” nonetheless. Maybe it was a message of leadership and acceptance. That was when I was 20 - 25. Later in life, I started seeing it differently. I believe the true message he intends, is more Halloween-ish. That there is only The One, wearing so many different personalities, so many masks, tricking & treating, loving & retreating. I feel his words reach a truth very deep within us, that we are The One, wearing so many costumes. I believe he is saying this for you ice princess. You might have a bit of a mess on your hands with your parents, but, I believe his message is just for you. It’s not ok to lie, or cheat or steal, And our feelings and the ramifications of these actions tell us so. But this, I believe he says this only for you. I hope you can hear him.

@Serotoninluv Or become Antman.

@zeroISinfinity Meh. I just remember writing it.

@arlin Yes! Letting go of everything, getting down to nothing. Another “angle” to consider...what is absolute could not be known of, because that would make it relative.

The ‘trouble’ here is the belief there is some thing to understand and one who understands things; one which is ‘separate of intelligence / understanding’ itself. Consciousness / awareness is being / self, aware of thoughts, and the thoughts are consciousness-awareness-being-self. The feeling of understanding is knowing, knowing is being, being is knowing. One thought, implies what is aware of the thoughts, is someone other than the awareness which is also the thought - someone who understands things (and thoughts are ‘things’). It’s a funny ‘thing’, the understanding of understanding (not really a ‘thing’). One is either seeking to be understood, or is understanding of this, knowing of Self / Truth. Similarly, one is looking for love, or loving. They’re interchangeable, as they are one, being. You can readily see the ‘facets’ ‘in the movie’, in people. Someone you know, ‘knows’ being best (feels the love) in loving. Someone you know, ‘knows’ being best in understanding (feels the knowing). Someone you know, ‘knows’ being best (feels the peace) in peaceful presence (might have dubbed them ‘laid back’). Look for the facets of being in the essence of people, unseeable & unhearable, but felt, prior to personality, and yet constructive of personality (movie / screen) etc. Understanding, peace, & love are natures of being, and are inseparable, interchangeably actual and relative, or, ‘movie & screen’. Every one is either looking for love, or being / loving, and every one is either looking to be understood, or is being / understanding. One can feel love, simply in understanding, or in appreciation of being understood, and one who gives love, is readily understood by any one. You could look up the definition of understanding, and notice that isn’t actually understanding, the actual understanding is occurring ‘within you’. Also, that actually is understanding. Understanding is so sneaky, because there’s no sneakery going on there.

Yes and no. Yes, as in don’t dis-trust sensation, don’t believe there is such a thing as ‘wrong’ or ‘negative’ or ‘bad’ sensation / feelings. That would be a resistant thought of judgement of the feeling - rather than just the feeling. No, as in... because sensation is ‘directly wired within you’ (is you) trust is not even coming into play, outside of thoughts. The sensations are not other people, whom you must trust or not. It’s listening to the true self within. But that means being accountable, realizing that you are causing your own feelings. The amazing thing is you’ll feel amazing. The “catch” is, you won’t be able to judge or blame people for how you feel anymore. You’ll realize it’s your own view which is the suffering, not what anyone else says. But it’s not a catch at all, because you’ll be feeling so amazing, that those thoughts & perspectives of judgement won’t even occur to you anymore. Ultimately, you’ll just be in love, all the time, for no reason.

@LfcCharlie4 I did what you’re describing. You’re in a win or win position. I’d suggest doing both the LP course and continuing to build your income sources. They’ll culminate & coalesce like magic either way. A dream board speeds up the coming of that vantage point greatly.

You might also consider that you yourself, do not have an opposite. That what is absolute is ‘magical’, even to the extent it can appear as that which genuinely unknowingly asks about itself.

You might find clarity in considering there truly is no right and wrong. That would mean you don’t ‘know it’s not right’, but that you believe it’s not ‘right’, which reveals judgement (you believing you ‘know’ right and wrong in an absolute sense). With the belief illuminated and therefore ‘out of the way’, you can intuit directly of the feeling. In knowing the feeling, when the feeling is bad, it’s readily seen that there is a belief being held, which is not true. “It's obvious that this feeling depends upon survival instincts, right?” Soon, it will become more obvious that the feeling is relative, that there is thinking involved, and the relative “bad” feeling is relative to your true nature being so good.

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@oMarcos Make a dream board. It will change your life. Reality will change right before your eyes. You’re not a passenger, you’re a creator. It’s quite a discovery. In aligning thoughts with sensation, intuition is discovered. In determining intention, and following intuition, unexplainable coincidences and synchronicities become the norm as all that you are wanting comes out of the woodwork. Desires, opportunities, and confidence you never would have imagined before become everyday living, and it is magical indeed.

@Fede83 Yes, that is what I am describing here. It will change your life. Reality will change right before your eyes. You’re not a passenger, you’re a creator. It’s quite a discovery. In aligning thoughts with sensation, intuition is discovered. In determining intention, and following intuition, unexplainable coincidences and synchronicities become the norm as all that you are wanting comes out of the woodwork. Desires, opportunities, and confidence you never would have imagined before become everyday living, and it is magical indeed.

How do you feel about this reinterpretation.... Why not just be straight up? I’m imagining this, cool, I’ll make something beautiful. Why paint myself in such twisted and dark corners? Is my trickery so deep that I am actually the mechanism of creation? I mean it is I, and I am nothing. I am awake, sometimes I believe thoughts of identification. I’m afraid I could disappear. If I know who I really am, will I stop existing?