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The stress & anxiety are being triggered by what you’re seeing, not created by what you’re seeing, Look into yourself, embrace the suffering, don’t avoid it - that just expands & perpetuates it. Look out for these traps too... I’m suffering, but it’s so that one day I’ll no longer suffer. Which is just like... I’m not happy now, but it’s so that I’ll be happy one day. It may sound feel like a freight train is coming for you, but it’s not, it’s love, and it will clean you right out. You were already suffering Max, personal development did not start the suffering. You were wise to look, keep looking within. Keep coming back to yourself. You are not suffering, you are that which is aware of the entire experience. Everything is fine when you think it is, and everything is fine while you think it’s not. “All is well” is not a variable, it is the truth. You gonna relax and allow? That’s the variable.

@Eric Tarpall Quite insightful ??

@K VIL That’s it then. You haven’t experienced linear time. It’s conceptual. The concept was experienced. It’s always now. I think we so readily believe the false time perspective because everything seen changes, and the seen body changes, and we identify with it, and then believe we are experiencing the passage of time. Without a thought overlay, the belief in separate “objects” changing, the belief I’m a separate object changing, - then there is just the appearance of changing. That you are being, has never changed. What was it like, not being?

Start with the distinction between directly experiencing the past or future, and experiencing a thought in the present, about past and future. Try it now. What do you find?

@hikmatshiraliyev What is it? What’s on your mind?

?? ♥️ That is the better point I suppose. That simple truth is foreign.

@Preetom Beautiful. @Freyah You’re limiting to appear as knowledge and asking if you’re conceptual, like one might ask a mirror “does this hat look ok?”. Yes and no.

@Serotoninluv Me too btw. 20 years of practices was nothing with psychedelics.

Good to hear. Working nights is rough. That “blockage” you have with meditation.....notice that resistant thought about working nights, is just a thought, and let it go (awareness of breathing from your stomach). It’s just a thought, it is not actually ‘working nights’ preventing meditation - just a thought about working nights, reoccurring, triggering, etc, that is the point of meditation, so consider not giving up on it. See this difference and meditation would be renewed. Relief! With a catalyst like being out of whack with the circadian nature, you could really empty your mind in 4-6 months. Try meditating twice a day for a week. “I focus on my breath and if any thoughts come up then I try my best to pass them without any judgment. And then again divert my focus back on my breath”. (There’s no effort in breath awareness)

@Tony 845 Sounds like you’re overthinking 1/2 as much, and having 1/2 the anxiety. Great, but of course you want to be fully rid of overthinking & anxiety. Perhaps continuing practices such as meditation, along with getting an understanding of why you’re continuing to overthink, would be a good idea? That enlightenment is just going to suddenly happen and cause a problem in your life, is over thinking. That’s a thought. It’s not true, you don’t have to believe it.

@Tony 845 That makes a lot of sense, and it’s great to hear. What about thoughts like, enlightenment could jeopardize my security? Or, fully awakening could mean big changes which could negatively impact my happiness, and the well being and quality of life for me and my family? Are you beliving thoughts along that avenue, or no?

@Tony 845 Did the vacation question lead to the anxiety comment?

@Tony 845 How long, approximately, since you had a vacation?

@Tony 845 Are you only overseeing all 4, or are you the “opener / closer” at 1 or more? As in, are you doing the cooking, the cleaning, etc, for any one location, or are you doing just the multi location facets like marketing, staffing, training, etc?

@Tony 845 How much does the continuity depend on your hands on, day to day? Can you use a %, just to give an idea?

@Tony 845 Talk through it man. What specifically are you concerned about? That it would be like a blissed out psychedelic trip, and so you can’t focus and function? That people would be flocking to you, seeking divine answers from your radiance, thus making it hard to get work done? That you won’t care about your business remaining successful? That you won’t be perceived as successful? If you express deeply enough how you are feeling about this, you’ll have the clarity.

If there is only consciousness, then the I proposed as potentially losing a mind and being on track would be the same as the the mind and the track, so of course there could be no I, no mind, no track. Or, there is you; the I, the mind, & the track. But if that’s right, you’d be wrong in identifying any of it, and if that’s wrong you couldn’t ever possibly be right.

The rewiring, 3rd eye, pineal / dmt, all remain a materialistic impossibility / mystery until directly experienced metaphysically, or "outside of the illusion". Then, it's crystal clear, as it is then known that materialism was just a deep belief all along. The problem with thinking about this not having experienced it, is in not acknowledging one's belief that there is a physical universe in which magical things could happen. There is only magical, no physical.

@Dodo “Not two” Dodes. Just you buddy. ❤️ Don’t believe the hype.

@SBB4746 You’ll see eventually. ❤️

@Charlotte Knew you were gonna say that.

@fewrocker Samadhi is the other way.

@TheAvatarState Nice.

Would you rather not be working nights?

@Sven I was speaking lightly / humorously. Yes, get practicing! Shed the falsities, get to know yourself, push your limits, everyday. Understandable confusion. Drop “enlightened”, seriously. It’s bastardized in fad. Don’t internalize the implication that someone is, and you are not - taking responsibility for that understanding will help you greatly. There are ordinary people, no ‘special enlightened’ ones. It can be made to appear so, but you must see through that - this is a learning in itself. Your heart knows this truth, listen. Look into yourself, know yourself, like a new book, understand every word, every facet within, know the nature of the deepest messages which arise within you. Rupert Spira published a new video yesterday on YT about this (no one can claim enlightenment). Peter Ralston understands it clearly and has some videos on YT also. Check them out, and then watch Leo’s ox video again for a deeper understanding of ego depth / trickery. Blend intuition and counter-intuition. Fill your head with understanding, then empty your mind completely. Learn, understand, then politely return it to the universe. Soon, it is seen, that the knowledge which arises to ‘fill’, arises from the wisdom which is the emptiness itself - the space the stars can be in, the stillness which allows each thought. To know that emptiness, you must see what it is. Also, imo, certain teachers and certain approaches connect with certain people given the relativity of their life experiences. It sure seems like clarity on past / future thinking, and the now ‘popped’ for you. If you haven’t, give Eckhart Tolle a few listens. That’s really his bread & butter. Then let those teachings go, too.