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@Bauer1977 (op) Great stuff. But if it’s really an illusion, it’s really an illusion. Then there’s nothing. But that would mean you are nothing. That would mean I am nothing! Which would mean definitions of nothing, are actually nothing. What would that mean? Nothing. Meaning would be illusory too. Why and how could nothing need something to realize - NOTHING! ? In realizing nothing, something is illusory. “Why & how” are some thing. Slippery slope. Very sneaky. Wait though, this would mean that even nothing is illusory - that death itself, was never something, and was never nothing. How could that be though, given you’re alive, right now? ???

?? Give it a go again, while consciously breathing from your stomach - all day. Perhaps a line known all too well between hilarity and seriousness will be experienced in a new way, as in, no such line. Maybe without that line, things start to appear to be a little different than usual. Those who enforce that line are seen more clearly for who they aren’t, made from what they’ve decided to take seriously. But alas, we’re all just tripping over our toys.

Same thing’s going on. Kid was used to perspectiveless perfection (infinite...infant). Then the grown up is sizably intimidating. But then they trip on a toy like an idiot. The veil is funny at first, as long s someone else has it on. Later, as “grown ups”, it’s “suffering”.

@Tony 845 Sounds great man. I don’t want to be pushy. Good luck! ??

@Serotoninluv They say he is a Master baiter.

Did you hear that from “The Naked Guru” guy from India? On Youtube? He’s got it down to a science.

@Tony 845 It’s not a pleasant question for an individual to be asked is it?

@Tony 845 What percentage of the day would say you are breathing from your stomach?

@Charlotte ❤️

@Pat Pagano A surprise change in perspective. Try it today. No commitment to any perspective. Flow from any one, to any one. People engrained in one perspective will be thinking you’re very funny. Just make sure you are taking your humor seriously, and don’t mess up. It’s not a game.

Panic attacks will not be resolved with thinking, evidenced by the lack of any person to do so scientifically speaking, and also evidenced by the sheer debilitating power of a panic attack. It’s simple, but a big recontextualization: What does the panic attack say? It says, “I don’t care what important things you have to do, I don’t care about your obligations to others, I don’t care about your bills, or your job - I don’t care about any of that. You have not been putting your experience first, you have not been putting you first. You’ve been trying to “solve problems” for a long time, you will acknowledge the only way to happiness, is putting how you feel first, then proceeding. You will learn this now. I love you so deeply, I can not watch this go on for another minute.” Sit. Bawl. Release. Care about how you feel. It is unwise, proceeding without love / being. What would even be the point? That is the point. You. Happy. That’s it. That’s all. How much love is there for you, that unseen powers can drop you to your knees until you acknowledge this? Infinite.

@Tony 845 Are you conscious? And are you conscious, that you are conscious? (Consciousness knows consciousness) (aka) Are you aware? And are you aware, that you are aware? (Awareness knows awareness) How many “Self Aware’s”, are there? One In direct experience, has there ever been two? Of course not. This is known so simply, obviously, and deeply - that you are missing that you are it (consciousness, awareness) And so you keep thinking. But you should know a couple things: 1. There is no absolute word. The definition of every word is more words. 2. There is no absolute thought. The meaning of every thought is more thoughts. It is a ‘three cups and a peanut” situation, until you realize there’s no peanut. Just the three cups game. An illusion, entirely. A game.

@Anirban657 Nah, from dancin.

Hi!! Welcome to the dance floor!

@Matt23 I used to “bring me & my past” into this moment too. So much so that I didn’t know what people even meant by ‘seeing reality as it is’. I also started the practices, I’ve also hit myself. Literally hit my head so hard I barfed, and had to go to the hospital, had a mild concussion. Not a fan of you hitting yourself, but loving what comes next. It comes out, clears out, with creative expression too. Journaling, singing, sketching, painting, creating your own well being / alignment - all powerful. Therapy, talking to a good listener, also more powerful than you may know yet. These are things you can do, which ultimately, no matter your path, reveal the present. Past & future thinking, “what I am” thinking - just gift wrap. Can you pin point how it is that anyone is giving you these negative experiences? That hard to face, that it’s your perspective. You’ve gta lot of conditioning, repetitive negative thinking, about yourself. A moment will come when the mood changes. When you just get so ick f the rollercoaster, the bullshit, the suffering, that you will literally do anything to make it stop. Even create who you’re gonna be. That tight feeling in your chest is You, The Higher Self, The Inner Being, Truth. It is because it is the Truth that it can not go there with you, when you choose to think ill of yourself. When you feel that, listen to the message. You are The One. It’s admittedly obvious and easy to miss, but consider, you’ve not ever been two. That would not actually be possible.

Wow!

@Leo Gura Finished the video. I don’t know what to say. So beautiful. Ya ?

@WindInTheLeaf ?

@purerogue (op) Awareness of the deeper currents is in addition to awareness of the surface waters. It’s not like you don’t know what’s going on or can’t see who anybody is, it’s that you see what’s going on and know who everybody is. Intelligence, love, consciousness, were never a product of the brain.

@How to be wise Nice! ?. and....subscribed. Thanks!

@Bauer1977 In about a month my kids will get showered with gifts. It will be awesome. It will be magically awesome, because they have no idea where the presence come from. They will just enjoy the gifts, and have fun. They don’t think about the past and present. They don’t know anything. They’re just kids.

You are happiness, it is true nature. "Higher consciousness" = Happiness. You are free. You are so free, you can choose to deny, or reject yourself - (happiness). That takes a lot of work though. It's exhausting.

Koans are wet furniture for bird cages.

@Enizeo I hear that. I had the same problem in meditation as well as lower back issues for years, sciatic, etc. Tried Dr’s, chiropractors, shots of cortisone , changes in diet, etc. It has been a nonissue, 100% for a few years now. What I found: An exercise which basically looks like laying on your stomach, and raising each foot, one at a time, up into the air, as far as possible, without straining. Takes five minutes a day, and the benefit accumulates over time. I do this standing, using a Bowflex, with 100 pounds of resistance. (Start with laying on the floor, with no added resistance.) Specific foods like carbonated beverages, and sugar caused inflation, making the issue far worse. So relative to meditation, it’s an issue because the back muscles are not as strong as the rest of the muscles in the body. Once there are stronger, it’s a nonissue. You’ll forget it. Paradoxically (always right?) you’ll eventually be able to relax every muscle, all the way down the back, hips, legs, while effortlessly sitting up straight, for having put in the effort. I sit on a meditation cushion, made for meditation, not a misc pillow. This is important so as to be sitting up straight without flexing any tiny muscles in the hips, back or otherwise unnecessarily. It’s tricky too, because it can take 30 minutes of meditation just to feel a tiny muscle finally relax / inflexible. Also, head slightly tilted forward/down is important too. I’d think of it as the opposite of the initial point of drifting off towards falling asleep.

Absolutely ? Also, such is earth, and such was your means of transcendence.