Nahm

If there is a ‘you’, and a ‘movie / doing’, there is meaning (relativity / maya), but meaning is movie stuff, not screen stuff (consciousness). Screen stuff is ineffably meaningless because it’s infinite, but not what the brain thinks meaningless means, because that is meaning (relativity). Your inquiry draws out the value of direct experience, but if you’re reading this and thinking about what I’m saying, that value is a thought and not what I’m wishing I could actually convey, if I were a who. ❤️

It’s a dream. There isn’t a timeline.

17/18.

The present is just an appearance. ? The tree is the seed, the seed is the tree, both are nothing. ❤️ You’d have to be very intelligent to pull that off.

@Quanty Hey! I’m reliable. Lol

@Revolutionary Think Right on man. Let em be past traumas and angers. You learned. You’re the better for it now. Now you get to have fun. I started with a job counting empty bottle returns, and separating them into bins to be returned to each company. Those bottles all still had beer residue in them and so did most of the customers. I flipped those empties over my shoulders & into the bins like Tom freakin Cruise in Cocktail. $3.35 an hour. I loved it. Got a second job too (paper route), subcontracted it to another kid. I was 13 and I needed to buy clothes. Attitude is everything.

The seed might be two hour shifts. The tree might be owning your own business doing exactly what you want. How lucky are you to find the folks doing this work are overworked and disheveled. I would be elated that my competition is minimal and the demand is high. You are projecting the entire universe, maybe start with looking at attitude and perspective. if God gives you lemons, sell lemonade.

@DoubleYou ❤️??

@DocHoliday Yeah. I was really into fitness, meditation, qm’s, neurology, biology, and Loa for years, then had my first taste of nonduality a year ago...so Joe is like some adjective I don’t have a word for other than nondual. Listening to him, I feel like I’m in the crowd, listening to myself put it all together for myself. Awesomely weirdly cool. And funny af. I love your signature lines btw. The revolution is well underway!

@RendHeaven I can relate. I went through a dynamic roller coaster a while back with sugar & poor diet, call of duty, terrible sleep durations, etc (major backlash without the luxury of knowing what backlash was). I tried a lot of things. What ended up “working” like a charm was some form of exercise followed by meditation first thing in the morning. I read that we wake up (disclaimer; with a proper night’s sleep) with 100% will power, and “spend” it through the day, which is why most people drink, do drugs, overeat etc... at night. I needed to get up for work around 7, but I got up at 4am everyday to do those practices. Never went back. It sounds to me like you’re aware of this already, and that is enough. That and a little patience. I think you got this man. Not trying to be a hypocritical ball buster but I’m over twice your age and if I have a glimpse of what’s down the road for you it’s how inner self talk matters a lot. Read some NLP info online if interested for some exposure, Loa (Hicks) is useful for this too. That inner talk is steering the ship man. It’s like the real steering wheel in the basement, while you’re holding the steering wheel on the first floor (the one not attached to anything so to speak) You can do major consciousness work and awaken a more direct awareness to this, or be diligent and vigilant with it now and just reap the benefits. I’m hoping to save you some time & headaches. Godspeed man, keep kickin ass. You’re not beneath a damn thing. No one is better or worse than you. You are perfect no matter what you do. Thinking you’re not is just adding more “work” to undo. You are perfect simply because you are. You don’t have to beat up on yourself to get motivated. Life is much easier if you don’t.

Was just reading his book. You heard his own story? Getting hit by a truck, spinal injury’s, rejected surgery & healed ‘himself’ etc?

@Viking Maybe you can express / talk about these “ugly” things you say are hard to love about yourself and then start to have some relief as folks here help you to realize that’s just habitual thinking. (cause you’re totally lovable already)

@martin_malin Really feel for you bro. That is a rough. Just a suggestion, try to swap perspectives; ‘psychedelics scare the shit out of me’ for ‘psychedelics shit the scare out of me’. Check this clip out...even MIchael who wrote a book on the subject shares your experience. Might feel good to relate. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ASm3EJAFjYQ

Nonduality is the way.

I worked a full time job, went to college full-time, and had two part time jobs for years. i’m not trying to brag, I’m saying that so you know that I hear you loud and clear. This is a consciousness question in my opinion. The answer begins with, what do you want? I’m not trying to be the Ridler, you can’t give somebody else consciousness, best you can do is help them discover what they are and what they’re capable of.

You’re not stuck, nor on the outside, nor actually interacting with people, nor feeling love for them, nor trying, nor are they bad and need to be made good. The universe in it’s entirety is your projection. That is what you are. Keeping thinking you are less, and it’s going to keep feeling lousy. When you’re by yourself and you feel that “hate”, it’s the actual love that you are, meeting the contrary thoughts you’ve been thinking. Stay alone longer. The love will always purify. The ego will use every thought possible to get you to stop sitting alone, up to and including thoughts which can convince you that you will die. There is only you. Judgements are not an event in which you are judging someone else. You’re only judging yourself, judging what you’ve created with yourself. Why it doesn’t feel good is obvious, right? As an actionable analogy, look at your foot and say “you piece of shit foot, I hate you”. Hilarious right? Cause it’s your foot. Same with everything. Acceptance, surrender...love, what is. Can you make a distinction between the human emotion referred to as love (contrived), and the actuality of the fabric of the universe - love? If not, be alone, it naturally arises, there is nothing else which could arise because there is nothing else.

Awesome!

@cetus56 Love it. Simple way for a simple matter.❤️

Behind / prior to / within (awareness)....... the thinking & understanding. Without an a priori “I”, it is. And yes, most definitly. Have some Kleenex handy.

8 billion meanings.

@Onecirrus Yes, and going to the dentist is as spiritual as anything else. Try the gas. ?

@cetus56

@Nagma You can’t both realize meaninglessness and be bummed. That doesn’t even make sense. It is you which is adding the gloom & doom. Take some responsibility for your outlook. It’s conditioning you can let go of. Read what you wrote above....meditation works but you’re blaming the world and that keeps you from being disciplined with your practice. Meditate everyday, twice, cause fuck that victim mentality. Meditation is the way to freedom from thoughts. Slows everything down so you can live your life, for you. Stop thinking about what other people think.

@Knock Relativly speaking (job, work) there is no true, no right or wrong, no good or bad, no “knowing” of these. The situation (reality) is your subjective projection. Freedom is you...creating a scenario in which you are appearing other than free. Tap into you and bring freedom into your life (projection). Perhaps your employer knows this.