Nahm

@Pouya Experience appears to be separate things changing. In believing there are separate things changing, you believe you are a separate thing changing. In believing you are a separate thing changing, you believe in a physical you, and you believe this ‘you’ is experiencing time. In believing ‘you’ are separate & experiencing ‘time’, you believe in life and death. In believing in time & life & death & that you are a separate self - you believe in past lives and future lives. When do thoughts arise, when do you believe thoughts? Only now.

There is a past & future only in believing a thought “past”, a thought “future”. Thought arises now - about a past or future. Notice the only “time” a thought is ever experienced, is now. “Time” - is a thought about time, which arises, now. There is a self, only in believing a thought about “my self”, which arises now - a thought about “me, myself, I, mine”, etc. Notice the thought is experienced now. Notice a thought about your self is not a self - it is a thought, arising now. Will a thought ever articulate now? A thought arises within now. There is a thought about now, which is a thought, arising within now. Can a self ever be in now? A thought about a self in a now, also arises, within now, and is only a thought.

@EnlightenmentBlog Sweet. What color’s my shirt?

A beautiful story of courage & insight, a documented lotus, perpetually mistaken for a unilateral book.

Desperation and speed, to be part of the 5%, needing & wanting to know where I’m headed, getting back on track.... So many thoughts, let them go effortlessly, like blowing a dandelion. You can’t “start” the journey. This is it. Now. It, you, - never started, nor end. The LP course, and this life, are merely apparent things to do. You, have always been enough. Thought says otherwise, but you know thoughts. So you are not a thought. Relax. Breathe deeply. And don’t confuse for a dandy lion. Perspective is key.

For a long time I was learning & practicing yoga and tai chi but it was always difficult because of a bone spur on the back of my neck, and a chronically enflamed sciatic nerve. I would have given anything for these to be cured, healed, whatever - I just wanted em gone so I could do the practices correctly. One day I was just really fed up. Sick of the unfairness. I mean, really, who gets whiplash and a bone spur from a water park slide? Why did I have to have the bad sciatic? What the actual hell ya know? Was just done. Fuck all this. Sat and cried in my own unfair misery. Hard to explain, but, some thing arose within me that just started stretching my neck, really far, to each side, front & back, looking straight up, straight down, directly into the pain - through it you might say. Then I just stood up, and stretched each of my legs as far back as I could. Again, directty through the pain of the sciatic. It seemed as if the more pain I felt, the less I was frustrated with it. So I just basically keep going into the pain as directly as I could with the stretching and balancing. And of course it then occurred to me, that the body is infinite intelligence - and thinking is finite. “I” was thinking. Thinking was in the way, reducing, limiting - downright preventing the healing that is otherwise everpresent loving & acceptance. All is well now.

That is “it”. Let that be enough. Crown chakra open = no need to know anything. “Open minded”. Needing to know = back to thinking.

Hmm...What was that like? Why do you think parents tell kids there is a Santa?

@Pouya Why do adults tells kids there is a Santa?

What, who, do you think you are?

@Sven There no kids bro.

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@Simke What is it exactly you’ve been saying to ‘them’?

Realize the fallacy of “famous”. It is only because one pedestals one, that there is “famous”, and therefore a problem. You are enough. Notice, you are actually you, an inexplicable miracle. There is no problem already.

He’s not talking about your idea of death & your idea of you. That confusion arises because you think you are an idea, a ‘cluster’ of thoughts. That dies. You, actual you (not the idea in your mind “you”), can not reincarnate, you are already all that is.

@theking00 Wise words man. It is me, or it is not me.

@SriBhagwanYogi Alignment is effortless.

@Dumb Enlightened Interested to know how it goes. Just relax, let go, and propose a yes or no question. Notice the deeper (“more personal”) the question, the more resounding a ‘yes’ ( “That’s True” ) is, via the tingling.

And what is is whating.

Excellent. That one phrase, priceless. The brain loves to suggest otherwise - “this or that”.

“It” is not a need, you’re believing a thought “it is a need”, “I am not enough, I need something”. “It” - Is a thought & sensation, which you are aware of. You belong, simply because, you are. What anyone else thinks, does not change that you are. You are love, because you are. Where else in your own experience has love ever been, but here, now, arising within you? You are “it”! ”I have been understood, I have not been understood” - YOU understand that is a thought. YOU ARE the understanding itself. You are “it”! You can interpret Maslow, Leo, Nahm, anyone - how you want to, because you are you. You can say “I need to get the feeling of belonging, love and being understood - from someone else.” You can also say “I belong, I am love. So there is no need to understand, nor to be understood”.

Welcome to bravery. Very nice! You will likely “sneakily be focusing” on a variety of thoughts, sensations and perceptions, swept up in the distractions. This is doing the work, so to speak, and you’re doing it. Persist with... who is aware of that thought? What is aware of that sensation? Who knows that perception? Just keep letting go of every answer, every thought, sensation and perception. Be ridiculously generous - by being willing to - let each go. Be sure notice how, right no, you did some self inquiry - and you’re fine. Look, right now - how uneventful it actually was. Nothing hurt you, nothing changed you, you’re fine. Much like the relief upon waking from a nightmare and realizing, “It was just a dream, I’m totally fine!”. You can now say, “It was just thoughts, sensations and perceptions - “I’m fine!”. Knowing that , keep going!!