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What actually happened?

How do you integrate the past?

@lmfao What’s an illusion, as in, what does that word mean to you?

??❤️How could you trade this moment for a past or future moment?

@Mihael Keehl ??? Thanks for sharing!

If you’re either, they’re the same. If they’re different, you’re neither.

Lot’s of perspectives, no perceivers.

@Trinity No, that’s a thought. Let it go.

@Roman Edouard There is no concept to grasp.

You already are.

Peace.

This is monkey mind, worrisome overthinking. You are at the helm, there is no assertion. Do relaxing things. Then don’t. Take a break, relax. It’s a thought, let it go. Yes I understand exactly what you’re saying. That you are giving anything up, is a thought. Relax, let it go. “So why not try to emerge yourself into the illusion everybody is living” Let this thought go. That’s not actually a thing. The illusion is already your default. “Instead of walking the long, lonely, detached and suffering road of enlightenment?” So you can see for yourself what that fear really is. Just slow down, make time for some peace. ??❤️ Honesty, humility, not easy at 19, but that’s the peace catching net, if you will. Take solace there. You’ll be surprised as you start noticing there are actually many who are awake, have been through this, and are loving life. “First time you feel it might make you sad Next time you feel it might make you mad But you'll be glad, when you've found That's the power that makes the world go round” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkgYhtz64U “Would it be a disaster for me to do this, knowing within myself what life really is?” If you knew what life really is, you wouldn’t be asking about disaster. Relax.

@TheAvatarState OMG man. Still laughing. Not sure it’s the right term, but it’s like there’s an infinite regress to it...? Every time you approach “it”, it only gets funnier?

@Pat Pagano Thanks❣️

We all need to be hoodwinked (thank you conditioning!). If you tell someone what nonduality is, they won't believe you. . If you ask someone what they really want, they don't know that they don't know. If you tell someone what's really involved, they'd never do it. We gotta wake em up or they'll sleep through the whole thing! @karkaore Your approach could be helpful on college forums too. "Just drop out!" "It's not worth it!" "You're fooling yourself!" "Stop fighting homeostasis! Just get a job at your dad's place!"" ...maybe dating sights too? "It will never work out!" "Listen to the fear! STAY HOME!" "THERE IS NO MR. RIGHT! HE DOESN'T EXIST!!!!" "She'll be just like your mom no matter which girl you pick!!"

@Serotoninluv Love it! Don't fear the Reaper!

@Serotoninluv You’re tapping into Last Fridayism right there man, be careful with that stuff. Hope you know a young priest and an old priest.

Sorry - I meant are you trolling me, as in are you even kidding me because I can’t even believe someone else is in the infinite humor! 100% with ya man! I was taken back because it’s been a while, and have not come accross anyone who resonates / relates! Yes! A million times yes! ??? Love, Intelligence, humor...Yes!

@TheAvatarState Ok, seriously now, - you trolling me?

@TheAvatarState Damn dude. I am totally wth you on all that. Try Love as a super power. Just focus intensely on pumping tons of love into you, fire off successions of great feel good thoughts one after another - and then fully relax head to toe, just die you’re relaxed so much, fall over on the floor if it feels right. Lol. Sounds simple and stupid, but love is the most powerful. It is a superpower. This leads to what I don’t share on the forum, cause, well, you know. If it’s get’s to be too much, knowing what people are thinking, the synchronicity & your capacity for joy, etc, I’ve found eating something mildly heavier than I typically do “dials it down”.

@Matteo You’ve been going along in an acquiring manor. You never ‘emptied your cup’. The path is deconstruction, less and less meaning empties the mind, reduces thinking, and realization can arise in this space. The final dissapointment, is the teachings. There is a full circle, completed in renouncing all ‘spirituality’. Without the fore mentioned emptiness, with a head full of teachings, one teacher after another - where can nondual realization arise? Suffering is thinking, over thinking. There’s no such thing as gurus. That is a deeply rooted thought, a projection. Again, it must be emptied, surrendered. Where can nonduality arise? That is the “problem”. That statement is NOT TRUE. You don’t know what you are. “I don’t know what I am”, is true for you. Don’t blow it off as semantical. This is the false belief you are repeating in different ways, which is the root of your seeking and suffering. Trade thinking for stomach breathing, for good, never look back. If you have a deeper trauma, from 12 or younger, get therapy. If not, you may just be experiencing the power of overthinking and having identified such. How will you realize what you are, while you’re claiming you already know? RIght, why would you have that thought, when it feels bad? Not trying to poke at you, just trying to help you see what you’ve missed. The ego, thinking, is one notch, one degree more cleaver than you. You will never beat the ego. You must surrender - from this moment on, stomach breathing. Notice when you consciously do it, you go unconscious in seconds and are mentally distracted, and you forgot. Practice it all day everyday, every minute no matter what you’re doing. (If what you want, is consciousness) Thinking will reduce more every day, until it literally stops one day. Good! Why are you thinking you need to trust someone, some person, some maya? What is nonduality? No more looking for shortcuts. You can not over think and breathe from your stomach at the same time. See this in your direct experience. None of those teachers mentioned this, or you did not commit to this? Stop looking for thinking to resolve thinking. Stop looking for clear ideas. “Hopeless” is also a thought. Surrender yourself to that voice within you, the unthinking, un-figuring-out, un-idea-maker. Surrender the finite (thinking) mind. What comes is the realization of infinity, nothing, Samadhi. It’s waiting, patiently, until you’ve done. It will never infringe. You must surrender to it. Trust me, what you really want, is not to hear any thoughts. There is. Can’t blow past it and go right into thinking, or you’ve already missed it. Breath / Awareness - do you see, in your own experience, these are prior to thinking? If not, pm me and I can quickly help you realize this in your own experience. It’s literally been right under your nose this entire time, you are looking once you’re already past what you are really looking for. It’s like you’ve been playing that Headbands game for 12 years, and your word is, “ineffable”.

@Shin Yes. We can always just go to the love.

@Charlotte ?? ....uh, you might be suffering from not suffering and forgetting folks are still in egotown, actually suffering. Such an easily provoked ego is probably a sign of suppressed suffering.

@cetus56 It is. ?