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@Shaun I appreciate you and what you’re saying. I think the suffering ends though when we take responsibility for the interpretation. People will always be saying some crazy stuff, myself included. If one try’s to find some truth by sorting through what others are saying, the carousel of confusion & stress just keeps going. I know you’re ‘doin the work’ though, and I have faith in you. As far as ‘being led into confusion & fear’, I can only speak for myself, that if I’m leading anyone to anything, it’s to no longer being led. Thanks for calling me out btw. There is always deeper compassion to discover. ??

@Cody_Atzori It’s literally everything, but only because it’s not.

@Shaun That’s just an opinion, and I sincerely apologize if I offended you. It seems like you and @Paul92 are blaming nonduality, or the forum, or some combination of them, for your suffering. That’s the very thing that you both stand to be liberated from, by letting your ideas about it go.

@Shaun No it hasn’t! I’m no fortune teller, but commiserating on a thought is still not doing the work. Total opposite direction.

I am not enlightened, I don’t claim you don’t exist, I don’t claim you have no free will. If the stove is hot, simply stop touching it. If this forum is causing you grief, simply don’t use it.

@Paul92 Are you aware you are pursing the thoughts by conversing here about them? You are focusing on a perspective which your sensations are telling you is not True. The issue is your refusal to either let it go, or do the work.

Great to hear you’re doing better! You don’t need to believe thoughts, nor be bothered by them. Make a choice to either do the work and self realize, or acknowledge thinking about it is simply not it, but rather, just thoughts. In either case you are free of mental burden. Simply stop pretending ‘they are me’.

If there is no assertion, you are alone.

What ever you focus on, whatever you put in front of you, you experience more of. That, imo, is the most simple, obvious, profound, powerful act. You focus, you believe, and infinite consciousness becomes. The common hurdle in loa, is “objective reality”. Go beyond relativity, and certainly, loa can enlighten. But by that point, you created it.

I’m happy being wrong here. Keep it up! ??♥️♥️♥️

@zeroISinfinity Love you! Thank you! ??????

@Javfly33 Have you noticed, deduced, concluded...that you are the unchanging, aware of the changing states? This “consciousness” thing folks are talking about? Your body is perfectly sized between an atom and the earth. Not even considering infinity, just the looking into the night sky, however far out you can see into that...what do you think the chances are of this? What are the odds?

@Justincredible76 What’s your daily practice currently?

@Shaun If the Buddha and Jesus appeared in front of you and told you to meditate twice a day, I imagine you’d still talk your way out of it.

@pluto Much Love my friend!♥️

@Onecirrus Perhaps start with formulating and expressing what you define as your most immediate problems. Then be open to other ways of interpreting those, and open to practices that have worked for millions of people for thousands of years.

The discomfort results from attachment to your thoughts. Your “worldview” is not right or wrong, it’s just thoughts you’re currently identified with. It’s stifling to hold on to it, it’s natural that it would otherwise be every changing. It’s the suffering from attachment that leads to avoiding so many things. Instill the discipline of daily practices in your life, let go of attachments. Be the peace you are anywhere with everyone. Also, might be wrong, but I get the feeling maybe it’s becoming time to support yourself.

@Scarecrow Sounds like you’ve gotten used to overthinking to the extent it’s the norm, and so hard to recognize.

@zeroISinfinity We’re the angels dude. ??

@zeroISinfinity ♥️ Save the practices, discard the rest. Thoughtlessly recognize yourself in everyone and everything. Live life in your Beauty. It is indeed yours. No thing needs accomplishment. Dry erase board, marker, honesty - what do I really, really, honestly want? The magic will occur, no question. It would seem a monumental change would be needed, but this is found only in the thought of doing this. In the experience though, in the actuality of doing this, magically what is found, is every single facet, every component, the entire culmination of your life, every single detail of it is already perfectly happening to the exact precise manor of exactly what you “discover” you want.

@Javfly33 Created is past tense, therefore so is such a why, and therefore only can it be in a past that the answer is found. In creating life now, there is no past, no why, and the true answer arises, be cause. You know what you don’t want, and it is passed. You now know what you do want, be the cause of it.

@zeroISinfinity Between you and I, inherently, Love already fulfilled. What is left is in the mind, to be emptied. You will never experience the thought of the future as it implies. All experience will arise and fall in you, just as this moment - exactly just as this moment. You simply can not get a thing wrong. You’re entirely innocent.

Your English is better than most. Each one is The One. Hone in to your experience of another person, what are you seeing? What are you hearing? Perhaps one of the most important fundamental questions one can ask is, do I know what is seen and heard - or do I know seeing and hearing? Your illusion is dependent upon this. Now hone into the experience of being you. Are the sensations, feelings, emotions of your experience anything like the perceptual interpretations of what appears to be seen & heard of another? They are nothing alike. The father the son and letter are One. And you have never experienced being Two.

@zeroISinfinity The suffering is the thought “needs”. Humanity is awakening. It matters not if you partake. You are self aware...sans a single thought implicating the knowing of yourself. But these are the stories we weave, adventures we create, to be experienced, not held. You’re awake, you are it, self aware, need for no thing. Only in believing & identifying with thought is “God need’s” created, only in thought is “I have to take” created. Create your life purpose, in the Truth of self awareness, do not pretend to inherent it. Let them go...”I do have”, “I do not wish”, “I know”, “I do see”, “It is about”, “I have to take”, “I get it”, “I just need”. The roller coaster admission price is assigning thoughts to Love, even ever so elusively in accreditation - even in gratitude. There is no need sans a thought, you are entirely free. Create in your freedom, not to gain it. What needs and shoulds suffers though needing and shoulding. Some would say it’s easier to awaken if one has created a life worth awakening to. Some would say awakening is the beginning of creating. What say you? That “matters”, that creates. If the path of the bodhisattva is what you desire to create, then create it. Let it be your love of this life, your creation. Breathe your Self into it. Do not “fuck” it. Create it. The pressures upon you are not from Love. Love is Love. The ultimate realization can not be shared. Wish or wish not upon it, and it slips away in the night like a dream into reality.

@Christian Jackson Have you taken that all important step back for a minute and contemplated, why you bring dogma and materialism to a place of dropping these veils and falsities of your self? Don’t you see your plight? Surely you are aware there are many gathering places intended on deepening one’s knowledge of the Bible & Christianity, via limit of belief. But you choose to come here instead. You choose again and again to come to this place of self discovery, of self actualization, of shedding the veils & beliefs. There’s a deep reason for this action, so far unseen. Much suffering derives from pretending “it” is yours. If you really want the McDonald’s of Truth, just be at peace, and go to McDonald’s already. Or, of course, actually see about these practices. See about consciousness work. And more practically speaking, there is a system in place showing when a user is banned and then creates a new account. Your ability to participate and contribute in this forum is an allowance, not something you are cleverly pulling off under the guise of another name.