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@cetus56 That’s what she said. @The Blind Sage The guru is your dream, you are the ‘real deal’. Careful projecting, scrutinize your direct experience above all else. Focus on breathing calms the mind, and it’s effect is cumulative. Introspection of self inquiry penetrates and a lot of mental baggage comes out - when it does, thought stories try to hijack the emotions. Being able to focus on breathing helps with not getting sucked into the thought stories and mixing the thought stories with the sensations. Separated, there is a massive ‘here now’ actuality / realization. Sensations begin to be realized as the Truth, or “always telling you the Truth / guiding you”. Each thought is like a train leaving you (grand central station), notice how you “get on” the trains, and end up mixing thought stories with direct experience - as if they were anymore than thoughts. You, as grand central, never actually get on a boat. You never move, and are never moved. Without “taking the rides”, the generalities of life; success, wonderful relationships, creativity, etc, all become incredibly easy without what becomes revealed as having been an incredible amount of overthinking - specifically trains about yourself, others, the past and the future. They are thoughts (trains), you never actually get on the trains. You most assuredly can ‘wake yourself up’, you are the only one involved in that. Never believe the thought derived from the sound (voice) about you can’t - it’s a sound, only a sound. it is not a “lightening” situation, though it can “strike” anyone anytime too. Try yogas, meditations, self inquiry, psychedelics, retreats (solo & group), reiki, etc - try all of it. See what works best for you. Godspeed?? Of course, I’m suggesting “not believing” what is heard, and what I’m saying (typing) is similarly, a sound (reading it). So, start right now. What do your sensations tell you is True? You can do anything and everything, and you still might not awaken... You can awaken, on your own accord, via your own sincerity in dedication to awakening.

@How to be wise You mentioned a while back, the appearance does not go on appearing forever. If you realized that...how did you? What led you to realize this? Just curious man, thanks!

@Whatever Was it helpful, and suddenly turned sour, or was it bad every time but you just keep taking them anyways?

@electroBeam Like the angle of the angles is an angle?

@Dylan Page Why do I have a hunch you actually know the true answer, and know it would really freak a lot of people out?

@mandyjw ♥️

@Paul92 It’s a bit like you’re saying “having run a marathon”... wasn’t as good as you figured it would be....never having run a 5k. You have an idea of what it feels like to have employed the discipline of training & diet control, increased your run each day, learned how to rejuvenate muscles so you can keep going, overcome the mental barriers to realize that second, third, fourth wind, etc. You have an idea of what having run a marathon is, and as long as you confuse your idea for the actuality, you suffer in your claims of having run a marathon. It doesn’t feel good because it’s not true. No need to blame the marathon, that only feels worse. You don’t have to suffer, you can admit you have not awakened, you have not had an enlightening experience, you have not implemented daily disciplines, and all the way back to when this started, you can honestly admit to yourself you never actually knew what you were talking about. I say this knowing the relief in honesty & transparency, the letting go & relaxation of “I don’t know”, the liberation of authenticity. You could run the marathon and see what it’s actually like. Until then, can you see that you are speculating, worrying yourself sick defending an idea? Have you noticed the tendency for others in that idea boat to commiserate? I believe you 100% that the joy is found in helping people, appreciating their uniqueness, etc - so why would you be spreading worry, doubt & fear? To the best of my estimation, you don’t think you are, because you believe your idea so intimately, you’ve identified with it and therefore feel the need to defend and validate it. Perhaps that is what does not resonate, does not feel good? Perhaps it is the absolute very best of you, which we all share. Maybe discovering more of your awesomeness, and sharing that, is a recipe for an even deeper joy as you recognize it in all of us. Ultimately, you are happiness, you are peace, you are love. Let the thinking & conceptualizing go, practice, so that you may feel Truth. Align with the entirety of you, via honesty & authenticity, and sticking with the actuality of direct experience. How can you be the Light, yet reduce us, something so amazing & beautiful, to “robots”, and expect that to feel good? It will never work. Surrender all that. Master letting go. Not conceptualizing.

@8Ball Nice. And have you yourself ever experienced, being two?

@Freakrik That man created his own suffering, from attachment to thoughts & believing he is a separate physical self. There is not a physical hell, as in place, or realm, you could “go to”. That man told you about this from the place of self denial & suffering, and an incredibly selfish egoic desire to cause you to suffer as well. Essentially, he’s a fool and if you listen to him, you join his foolery. Notice you are fearing something you heard about, not something you’ve experienced. It’s your own thought you’re believing.

What don’t you want in your life? What do you want want in your life? If you don’t want life to be mundane, why do you insist that it is? You’re driving yourself nuts going outward into conceptual false beliefs about yourself & reality...instead of going inward and reconnecting to the loving, beautiful, peaceful, intelligent, permanent self you actually are. Everything you blame for your suffering is the opposite of the truth about yourself. You know it’s not true, because it feels terrible. Who treated you this way? Who led you to believe you are not enough? What was their life situation? Do you see they saw themselves this way, and convinced you to see yourself that way also? What We’re they afraid of? Vulnerability? Independence? Hard work? Failure? Disappointing someone? What are you so afraid of?

I’m not actually an old lady.

@Aakash I’m only replying to it.

@Serotoninluv Heck ya. It’s such a slippery slope, even “my mind”, is like holding the back door of the night club “The Mine” open, and in walk the acts...The Conditions, The Others... Then “The Suffering” takes the stage, and suddenly outta nowhere yet right under the nose - cowbell guy stands up from the seat right next to ya and it’s like....ahhhhhh son of a bitch! I held the damn door open again! How’d I do that again exactly? And cowbell guy’s like........”like this!” (melts your face with horrible cowbell solo). He nods to your hands, you look down, and there’s a beer in one and a cigarette in the other and you’re like AAWWW COME ON?!?! What the hell!? I don’t even recall deciding to go to this club.

Awakening is a ‘self remembering’.....”prior to” the awakening was ‘self forgetting’. There is typically then an effort of trying to ‘remember the remembering’, an intention & effort to prolong the honeymoon, followed by an effortless forgetting of the remembering. The ‘higher self’ is creating the ‘lower self’ effortlessly, because in actuality there is no higher & lower self, only via thought, sensory & perception implications. This distinction is the difference between karma and not. What is has karma, what is not does not. The effort itself recreates a self, an unseen process of re-forgetting.

@winterknight Excellent!

@Aakash BULLSHIT. ♥️

Gurus are for your funeral, not your wedding.

@How to be wise If what is is negative for you, a “war”, you’re wrong, and you “win” by letting it go. What is is never known, the knowing is what can be surrendered. What is is spontaneous, dynamic, fluid, creation, inseparable from what you are creating. If what is is fixed, it’s your concept. Great for the trek from suffering to acceptance - and then discarded, les it becomes the scapegoat of what can be.

@Aakash The thoughts, decisions, analyzing, experiencing, seeing, hearing, assessing, scrutinizing, understanding, realizing, awakening and enlightenment - are Everything. The “other”, not-thing, Nothing, is meditation. Give Everything back and get Nothing. Then bring Nothing into your Everything.

@How to be wise Fuck what is.

@RendHeaven Nice.

@28 cm unbuffed Google / Amazon self esteem, abandonment, how to truly forgive, etc, look at reviews. The point is there is no philosophical point. A secondary point is - you do it. You’re free to think of these things any which way you want. Some sensations will arise, don’t resist them, embrace, explore, cry like a baby - let it out, let the healing in. The past is passed man, sans you recreating it. The misunderstanding of sensations perpetuates that recreation. You’re thinking the way you feel about it is because of what happened, what’s needed is the discovery you feel this way because of how you’re looking at yourself. Your sensations are saying “you’re way better than that” - you’re quite sensational.

@Angelo John Gage Cool.

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