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@Jack River Creation? I mean, after all, you are the one.

@The Mystical Man You’re amazing dude. 19? Gtfo. @Leo Gura ??

@Rilles Thank you for the inspiration. ?

@Rilles The practices are not adding anything, or ‘increasing consciousness’, but relinquishing filters of cognitive dissonance. Practices are periods of time spent without all of the sensory content in typical day to day living, and with attention to the “contentless / emptiness”. If general misunderstandings of duality / nonduality have not been rooted out, then after ‘practice time’, upon returning to ‘the rest of the day’, misunderstanding is retriggered via mental reactions, the “separate I” is mentally reconstructed, and the giddy is gone. Stomach breathing can bridge the practice time into the rest of the day because attention is kept to the breath, allowing thought to come and freely go, revealing thought’s ‘just things’ (Maya / Illusionary) nature. Mental processes resolved, new ‘frequencies of observation’ (access of self) are revealed as being incomprehensible, which is why thinking was preventing access. An example would be the all too easily overlooked simplicity in the power of your attention, prior to focus, prior to thought, prior to verbalization, prior to reaction, etc. Just, attention. Easier to see with love first, and then literal creation of your own reality. So consider there is not a ‘withdrawal’ at play, but the opposite, the ‘adding of things’ (thoughts).

@Christer Awareness uninterupted by thought, electricity without resistors, wind without the forest, inevitable with 24/7 stomach breath focus, it becomes the default as it already was.

Trump’s obviously a wild orange spiral. Wait, sorry, that was just his hair, nvmd.

Thank you everyone for the input, very helpful and much appreciated! ❤️

@Mikael89 Challenge accepted! Thank you. ❤️?

@XYZ The perfect stressball is a fantastic idea. I could totally see it taking off like the fidget spinners. Email people from websites who are already selling a handful of items online, ask for help & contact info. Here’s some info on producing a product from conception to sales. https://www.marthastewart.com/264329/how-to-get-your-product-made-finding-and

@Courtney When there is sadness or anger, even frustration - attempt to justify it. It’ll sound like “well yeah, I’m mad because I.....” That will always reveal it’s just thoughts, relative to a thought about “I”. Thoughts are things, like clouds and birds. All there is, is awareness / consciousness / Love / God / You. (All the same) That is the I. We all have the same I. That awareness hasn’t “always been with you”, it is you. That other you is a thought. It’s good to laugh about how serious your prior life was. It’s good to see there’s no such thing as a grown up. Remember that? That kid? Betcha do.

@Courtney Right on. You are the awareness, and it has never changed, has it? Aware of thoughts...do the thoughts hold any power? Can you justify believing the thoughts anymore?

@Courtney Skip the ‘disorder’, that gets too much focus already, instead describe this “I” being referred to which has it. Can you share a detail or two about this “I”?

@Arkandeus Took my breath away. Beautiful. ??

@danton Possibly the greatest post I’ve seen. ??

@MiracleMan ❤️

@Cortex I know exactly what you mean. God is innocent. Not an easy one to explain, but I think you’re about to kick some path ass. I heard Jim Carrey once say in an interview, that was his big secret. He saw that no one really wanted to be grown up and serious. So he just said he wasn’t going to be serious. Ever. Can’t justify seriousness. Can’t be done. ❤️

@RashadJevon Welcome to the forum Rashad! Here’s what I see.. Watched a lot of videos and did a lot of reflection and maybe some contemplation on the nature of matter, reality, and self. Outcome: Beauty revealed, synchronicity experienced. Even nature’s little “evil stingers” are not seen as ‘other’. That’s really precious and it was nice of you to share it. You referred to this with the word “growth”, and identified with it, “my growth”. Furthermore, you are conveying a ‘big’ experience. “Merging with the world around me” - I hear that. I am feelin you there man. But the financial adventure, your journey to independence and freedom, that get coined “career”, “stagnant”, reasonable work”, “safe” “often do very poorly”, “large part of my issue”, “huge hurdle”, “fact”, “issues gaining work”,”serious difficulties”... I gotta be honest, I’m not feelin you there, and more honestly, I don’t want to feel like that. I bet you don’t want to either. So why do you feel like that about work? Because of what has transpired, what you’ve experienced? Well, getting stung by a bee is no picnic, but look at you now. Maybe there’s no such thing as failure. Maybe that’s growth. Perhaps, if you took that inspiration going outward to those around you, and redirected it inward, you’d develop yourself in that manor too, you’d start a little fire of vision in you, and you’d start to see the relativity in the world lining up with your focus, your desire - your vision. Opportunities might just come out of the woodwork. The interesting jobs, the exciting fulfilling career paths, your life purpose - might be just like the bees and the hornets. Maybe there is beauty to be revealed yet in that journey too. “I used to fear bees and hornets, and now I have a connection with them”. ”I used to fear jobs and careers, and now I have a connection with them”. ? Leo’s got some great videos about such things. You’ve in the right place. Keep in mind, you are the creator. Writing what you want on a piece of paper, is manifesting, it’s the begining of great things. Every thing was first an idea, and every blaze was first a tiny flame. One of the most powerful practices, is to simply sit, and do absolutely nothing. What arises is moving.

@MrDmitriiV lol. The map is the territory, too. (Nondual humor in hopes of a nondual laugh)

@Stoica Doru There’s no paradox. It hinges on you. If you are not enlightened, no one is. If “you” are enlightened, it is immediately revealed to you that everyone else already was, always has been, and always will be.

@ExodiaGearCEO ? Love your posts man.

@NoSelfSelf It’s peace.

@Elisabeth So great! ?

@Sashaj

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@Recursoinominado Have you written down your dream life?