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You aren’t struggling to understand, you are struggling to see that this is already the case. Why? Be Cause. Destiny is just a thought, an idea of yours. No direct experience of it at all, you made it up. Consider looking into when you stopped wanting, when you stopped creating. That’s the path to passion, living. Today, you have the consciousness you have. You have the Truth you have. If you want more, get on the path. Great then, you’re all set, good to go! There is no struggle, no suffering.

@Western Buddha It just simply feels good, no?

Sounds like Purification. Let go. Notice the tendency to leave sigh & sound, and go into thought stories. Return in mindfulness, here & now. Allow the sensations to fill you, and clear out all the delusions. “ I “ notice “myself”. Impossible! Not-Two! everything that follow that word “sometimes”...is a thought story. You are here now, the Awareness of thoughts. Choose a better feeling thought, here now. Careful with discounting dreams, they’re messages of divination, keys to alignment. Allow the feeling of a dream to be a message, in the language of simplicity. Sounds like this one is saying “masturbation, relationship with body, is divine, is as spiritual as spiritual can be - no beating up on your self - that’s always a thought story”. You can not actually beat up on yourself. Not-two! You are awareness of thought. Reiki love comin your way my man. Let go ♥️?

Excellent! You wanted independence, freedom, autonomy, self sufficiency. The universe became it, you allowed it, received it. You learned to ‘chose the better thought’. No shift needed. Do more of what is already working for you. You created what you wanted - want more! Create that too! Expansion! Dream board. Dream BIGGER now! Deeper within yourself - truest desires. Everything you can dream up - put it on the board. Create the vision. The caterpillar makes his cocoon, from which the butterfly can emerge. You’re cocoonin, create the emergence! Trying, efforting...necessary, but it has a ceiling, it is ultimately - limiting. To go beyond, again, continue in the manor you have been, but - fine tune, bring more of you into the mix. Print out The Emotional Scale, and hang it next to your dream board. Proceed in the creation of this life of yours, when it gets a bit nuts - get some nature, do things you like, do what you love - just be a kid - shed ‘the seriousness of everything’. (That ain’t you ?) Shelve that crazy Everything for a bit, let it all go - get you some Nothing, some of that sweet inner peace, that ‘everything is ok-ness’ - meditate. Let that “seriousness”, that logic, that “practicality” - fall away. Then, bring that Nothing back into the Everything again - but this time - you’ll have a little more sensitivity, a little more confidence, a little more knowing, and you’ll find you can fine tune the allowing: the recognition of the sensations, the ‘message’ which essentially says - ‘that thought isn’t quite in alignment with your desire, your stated wants, your life dream - choose a better feeling, more aligned, thought”. Aligning: “This place is a dream, only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.” Rumi This place is a dream. Practicality will only get you so far. Gots to Dream. @Surfingthewave ?? Crazy but, it’s as if this wave is big enough for all of us.

@Surfingthewave is surfing The Wave! I like that for breakfast. You just made my Saturday! I challenge you to dream a bit further, to kick that dream up one more notch.

If you hold this belief: and then try to maintain this: you’ll keep ending up here: Buy a dry erase board. Establish what you want, feel deeper into what you really - actually - want. Add words, drawing, tape pictures to it - fill it with your life’s dream of your dream life. When a thought arises which does not feel good - it is because the thought is not aligned with what you established you wanted. Choose a better feeling, more aligned thought. Do not be the cell phone which claims the wifi. Rather, see that same wifi is reality, bringing everything you want. The cell phone questions the validity of the wifi, in ignorance - from a perspective of separation from the universe (wifi). The only feeling good, is in truth, the cell phone & wifi, are the universe, are One. You are not a separate person in an objective reality. You are “in” a vibrational universe, the sensations - “your sensations” - they are literally the universe. It only seems like you are “in” it. This is so you can create, and share. Welcome the magic of this as mind blowing infinitely intelligent synchronicities begin to fill your days with ease, and wonder. Do not question if or how what you want is coming - in such a busyness, you’ll miss that it is right in front of you, and more so, within you. One can not be happy. Happiness is Being.

Your insight here, expressed with acuities in before and after perspectives of this realization, combined with @Arhattobe ‘s potential thread on samsara would be very insightful & powerful. Imo that would trim the fat of this convo, and draw out the heart of this. @Leo Gura @winterknight If you guys added ‘one liner’ insights to that thread as it unfolds, in harmony, in friendship, that’d be crazy awesome.

@Paul92 I don’t know what you want. You have to do your own unique wanting. Get to, really.

@Paul92 Skinny it down for now to one question. You might be lookin at too big of a picture.

@Keyhole Sweet.

Acknowledging speculation, what is not at all in one’s direct experience, is equally valuable to the scrutiny of one’s own direct experience. Realizing the point is Joy, requires our attention to the inattention of how we feel. This is truly humbling, a process of putting how we feel first, and then proceeding. The burn of starting over again and again is the suffering which reminds us that Joy is within, and we skipped past it once again.

Yep.

@Pouya Right on. Check out Leo’s Enlightenment Exercises thread too. Any one of those could ‘pop’ for ya. And on the senses, there’s like a ton more. Shocking really. Keep diggin

@Keyhole Sweet. ...always loved that very last line...”I’ll tell you one time, you’re to blame”. So pungent!

@Pouya This can be a gateway to more QM’s which can be mind expanding, specifically as a bridge between material and not so material after all... THIS For all you know, the sensations are of the universe, like wifi, not of the body / tablet. Rupert Spira’s book and videos are really great in terms of breaking thought and sensation down. Neither, on it’s own, is an emotion. Also, give the senses a google. There’s a lot more than 5. Ultimately, as Leo said - Direct Experience is King! Scrutinize it. And of course @Faceless entire profile / catalog of posts...takes a bit to start clickin, but that’s only because the subject matter is how unbelievably sneaky we are....and it’s being read by the sneaky one.

@Keyhole Nice. Reminds me of this sneaky little gem.....

@khalifa So great to hear you’re feeling better and getting some sleep! I wonder about the dream you mentioned, sometimes there’s really helpful info there. I’d suggest letting go of the “reactivating the trip” line of thinking. It’s possible, but likely just a thought about it, which might be reoccurring from a minute suppression of sensation. Which begs, what is that then? It might be ‘connected’ to the lungs image you mentioned before, and just logically connected then to the breath. Then it makes sense to me that the ‘reactivated’ ‘lungs’ & ‘breath / meditation’ feelings would be related to the fear of death. So, if you’re feeling great, back to yourself so to speak, maybe do a little work on collapsing the duality of living and death. One of the most powerful ways of contemplating for the sake of clarity on the ‘deeper’ issues like that is asking the question within, and visualizing & feeling it sink down from the head to the heart, and letting it go. Then feeling for the insight / response / clarity. Let me know if I can help. Don’t work on that if you’re not feeling great yet though. Keep doin what you’re doin man, keep putting how you feel first. Raise your vibration.

@ActualizedDavid ??

Godspeed. Very inspirational. ??

Soooo sneaky!

Life is the point, it is self evident. Feeling is the point. If one suppresses their sensations, their feelings, it would seem there is no point. The ‘point’ is not found with thought. Suppressed sensation fuels overthinking. Let me know if you’d like to talk.

You’re directly aware of thoughts, there’s no middle man. Listen to your sensations, and pick a better feeling thought. Allow the simplicity of this. There is no need to accept that anything is nonexistent. That word means - doesn’t exist. You can not accept something that does not exist. It’s your idea, not anything true or actual. The path starts in acknowledgment of unawareness. The path within is to awareness, understanding. The path is of self discovery, to your Truth. Attempts to bring beliefs along is suffering. You chose to make this post, you chose the thoughts. No one is making you. The Message is the sensations. Make that all important choice to embrace sensations, and you are choosing home, purification ? and in doing so you find, thought was fueled by avoiding sensations the whole time - in misunderstanding. Meditation is not reactive thinking, is not reactive speaking, is not reactive sensation suppression. Meditation is chosen, and in doing so, one is on the way to action, creation.

Because you are under the spell of belief. The belief (in a nutshell) is that the revenge would feel better than the sensations. The sensations are being avoided because they are misunderstood. Write two letters. Mail them, or don’t. It doesn’t matter. The expression matters, for you. The raise in consciousness matters a lot, for you. The understanding matters, for you. The release, and the purification matters, for you. Do these things for your own healing my friend. You are worthy and deserving of healing. It is already within you. Allow it. ?♥️ Then you are in a position to help others do the same, and we’re on our way to days where these misunderstandings, these happenings, are ancient.

Meditation is The Way, indeed. This is a most powerful statement. For one to sit and remain silent, to empty of fear & of judgements, rather than continue to share them - to choose this, that is the pinnacle of wisdom as well as bravery. Taking full advantage of all resources available, that is courageous.

Relative to the question, the realization is that awareness is not a product of the human body. We tend to ‘claim it’, and linguistically, we are sort of forced to use I, my, you, his, hers,etc. Physically speaking, the body does not “die” or stop moving at all. It is in fact, in terms of feelings, quite the opposite. ♥️ Thus, the concept / duality of ‘alive & dead’ collapses, into a most beautiful being. Keep asking honest questions like these. ?