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@Shin Well. Look what the wind blew in.

@Gligorije It’s unbelivable, in the sense, try as hard as you can, the brain is incapable of imaging nonduality. What a paradox, imagination is.

@Joseph Maynor ? “Returning”members pick spiteful code names. Just a theory I have going.

@zoey101 That. Is. Delightful.

@B_Naz There’s no question you’ve convinced yourself there is anything other than yourself. That’s inherent in the questioning of what the self is. Right now, pen & paper, write down what you don’t want. Look at it, and make a new list. A list of what you want. What you want in this life. Honestly. The variable isn’t what you do and don’t want, that is always playing itself out, the variable is how honest you will be with yourself. Wether you will let the influence of things you’ve made up, things you think are other-than-you, the religions, the philosophies, the Nahms, the Leos, the K-Mans - cause you doubt yourself, to over think and to fear, to such a degree, that you can’t even write down what you - really - want - while in a room, alone. You’re the only show in town. You can do anything.

Of course not. You are already enlightened, and thinking in an attempting to escape it. You’ll never escape because there is nothing to escape. It’s fruitless to try. Just stop, and take a look at yourself. I know it’s terrifying, but find out why. Sidenote, fuku too.

@perlita Awareness alone is curative. You’re not yet aware of the thoughts which trigger the emotions which are answered by the numbing of alcohol. You’re not aware of this, because the thoughts you don’t want to be aware of are conditioned, they get lumped together and pushed to the side, out of the ‘view’ of awareness. Reason operates in the ‘plain’ of duality. To fool yourself, you believe one side of the coin is true, and the other side is not true. Both sides are true, you are the coin. In this case, “genetics” is the side of the coin you are favoring. This allows you to justify drinking. This is what is sheltered, hidden, from the awareness. Become aware of the other side of the coin. Epigentics. Bruce Lipton. Psychologically, take a fun look at what your relatives who drink because of ‘genetics’ are “drinking from”, or, what they are not looking at, which enables them to drink. Then see this in yourself, this shared conditioned convenient perspective. Choose well being for yourself. You are worthy and deserving of well being. It is your true nature. Connect, unify - yourself. Make yourself whole again. Every second aligned is more delicious, and by far more intoxicating than any substance could ever be. The cure is in the pain. Awareness alone is curative. Limit is by thoughts, you are unlimited. You are potentiality, and you can do anything. The fact of this can at first glance be quite overwhelming, but the uncertainty, is the gift of the present. Acceptance of uncertainty, allows unlimited potentiality, as there is no fear in acceptance of uncertainty. Acceptance of what is, is intoxicating, though we’ll never be certain as to why. That’s just you.

@B_Naz You already know what you don’t want, you just aren’t confident enough to behonest with yourself in admitting it. When you stop bullshitting yourself about ego, spirituality, selfishness, selflessness, enlightenment, delusion, truth, etc - you’ll realize you have known what you want for a long time, because you identified what you don’t want a very long time ago. You are fully capable of having and doing anything you can dream up, and the only ‘thing’ that has ever, could ever, and will ever stop you - is your own thoughts that you can’t. The punchline is, everything you’re using to construct the thoughts that ‘maybe you can’t’, is also you. It’s not that you are manipulating yourself, it’s that you convinced yourself there is anything other than yourself.

@Revolutionary Think You are a miracle. Normal?

@Edogowa Conan I hear ya.

@Leo Gura That is brilliant.

@Zeldor Great work. It’s nice to relate to others on nonduality. ?

@Edogowa Conan When you are enlightened, or of no mind, then what? Just gonna sit on the couch and stare at the wall?

@Rich1 Maybe in attempting to be aware of the throats, you are getting sucked in to analyzing them? If so, just stay focused (and return to) stomach breathing. Total detachment from thoughts, and realizing some focus. Down the road be aware of the thoughts as they pass.

@Tistepiste I really appreciate your feedback. Thanks!

@Thanatos13 Just noticed your reply was split between me and @eleveneleven. Sorry for the confusion.

Very funny.

@Anna1 K-Fed comes to mind. Lol.

@cetus56 ? @Faceless Not a separate ‘you’, in possession of ‘it’. ??This is linguistical. How would naming it imply conformity and accordance, similar to how referencing “Self Inquiry” points one in a direction, rather than to a dogma? One can offer one assistance with Self Inquiry in terms of pointers, no? The lightening would be great, but no what is for most it seems. Sounds like you’d prefer it referred to as “Observing what is actually happening”, or “No Way As Way” maybe? Or maybe I misunderstand, and you’d prefer it is not referred to? What did the K-man refer to it as?

@Anna1 “K-Pro”....?

There is only you. No matter what you do, even in death, you arrive where you were, are now, only you. How does everything not work out? What is everything, but you?

@Thanatos13 Then you know you are talking to yourself? That “ I “, am your maya?

@Anna1 What’s the K-man call the process?

@Faceless Do you see where it could be helpful to call your process something? Like, name it, so we can refer to it, reference it, suggest it?