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@Key Elements I don’t know what you’re saying.

@Pernani Godspeed bro! @cetus56 You forever changed my meaning of that word. Nicely done sir.

@Shroomdoctor Thanks for the help on the Notebook IOS / PC issue btw. We got that figured out ?? Yeah. You can do anything. I think you’re right on, that it is the nagging, resistant thoughts which we must practice being without. 2 sides of the coin sort of. Can’t just sweep em under the rug, and pretend they aren’t there. You really gotta look in the mirror and say that ain’t me. Those are eyes to see, and hands to do, but it ain’t me. I’m a little reluctant to like, list the events of “my” life. It’d surely appear as one big humble-brag. I respect the place you’re going with a mega thread on this. “Success” gets a bad wrap. IMO, there is nothing at all wrong with wanting to be massively successful, and expecting happiness to come from it. How else can one go full circle, and know the deeper truth than from direct experience? We’re ‘here’ for such a short ‘time’. Do it all, have it all, be it all, see it all, imo. It honestly is weird to me that you’re mentioning me in this way, because I don’t feel like ‘that guy’ in terms of success. To think that I have, or could inspire someone is what really keeps me going, keeps me focused. And I really really appreciate it right now. I’ve been working on a book for a very long time and I’m making great progress lately, and working on it now. So again, thanks a lot for mentioning me this way. Super nice of you. Having a nice nonduality moment, as I checked into the forum to zoom out from the writing for a few and saw your post..this was the last paragraph I wrote. It’s really two in the same I think, and I hope it’s taken as reciprocating the love... “Allow the realization to begin, that this illusion is not being done to you, it is being done by you, for you. If it is still hard to understand that indeed you are behind the whole thing, the earth, the sky, your person, the entire universe, all of it - this is simply because you are still identifying with beliefs. In your own experience, you were not born, you do not die, you are not “alive”, you are not separate from “God”, you are not, in actuality, separate from anything. There is only the perception of separation. There is a personal definition, a meaning you have assigned, to the word “God”. That connotation, that meaning and idea, is the very thing which prevents you from directly knowing “God”. You, through your illusion, present infinite opportunities to your person, limitless potential, endless imagination, unconditional love always- accessible incrementally - the problem - is worry, is doubt, is fear. To be rid of these limiting emotions, you must be rid of your limiting beliefs. To be rid of beliefs, you must make the distinctions between a belief, and your own experience. You must allow yourself to become aware that a belief has never been more than a thought you have been repeating. It is your beliefs, your having identified with “your person” as you, that is the root of your fears & doubts. Of course you would doubt yourself, of course you would create fear. You didn’t know. That was your intention, to veil yourself, and experience yourself as “other” - as separate & individual. As you have identified “you” with your body, you have mistaken your body, and all that is around it, as reality. It is not. You are reality, You are what is real. You are eternal. All your thinking & beliefs are not what you are, they do not define you, that is your illusion.” Everything we think and do parlays into the next experience so seamlessly, we don’t notice. A play on that old path saying....Consciousness work doesn’t really exist, but only a fool doesn’t do it. One person might work at a job, and sleep through their life, while another with the same job is doing consciousness work, doing the shadow work, doing the practices, taking the trips - they begin to become free and awaken, their mood is lifted, their attitude is lifted, their ego is understood and is being deconstructed. Others gravitate to this liberation, promotions are offered, partnerships with others who are driven are offered and....what dreams may come.

@Key Elements I totally agree. I bet when he saw lack of this, he brought it.

@Deepu The problem is that the Truth in not believable. For example, you are the only one who could ever know it. Does that sound believable, or not believable? See what I’m sayin? It’s true though. ?

It’s not your body, (brain too) in the sense you think it is, that’s a thought. It’s not alive or dead. The body & brain are like goggles that make you forget who you are, and make one thing (no-thing, for the type A’s) appear as a shload of two-things. If it changes, if it’s relative, it’s an illusion in appearance, until it’s no longer illusory. You’ve done all of this, your brain and body, the earth, the Milky Way, etc, by yourself, without a single resource or any help from anyone or anything, and yet, nothing has been done. That’s no house of cards dude.

@Faceless Hells. Yes.

@SgtPepper Ya. The ego does not go with out a fight.

The cleverest thing in ‘existence’.

Lol. My bad - Sorry about that and thanks for the grace about it. “Not from a dualistic point of view”....awesome.?❤️

@Okaythen I’m gonna go meditate. Lol. ❤️

@Okaythen No need to remove it. What’s the question?

@Okaythen I can only imagine this sounds really crude, but start a journal in the journal section. If there’s something I can help with, ask a question outside of the journal. Human’s appreciate brevity. Forming what’s in your head into a 1 or 2 entente statement / question is a huge practice which will organize your thoughts and perspective, which is really the only challenge you actually have right now. ❤️

Nice to finally see you. Welcome to the forum. Keep shaking off that Maya.

@noeggs4brunch https://m.wikihow.com/Cry-and-Let-It-All-Out

@zoey101 ?

@joej Replace yourself, become more impactful through delegation. Start another company. Appreciate the growth. Learn to be joyful with or without being impactful.

@Pernani What’s on the wall comes from the practices of exercise & meditation. Use any affirmations you want. They’re unique to the individual. Sometimes general, sometimes specific.

@zunnyman That is the payoff, but nobody gets it. Really gotta hear how the words are not the experience on this. Turn around and start taking a really good look at the snake. It might only be a stick. It might be a fuckin snake though! ? You might have an epistemological foundation that you are alive without having inquired.

That’s a good thing. Confusion is deepening / growth. Like the static between radio stations while you’re turning up the dial. (Radios are these things people used to use that played music received from radio wave towers, and had knobs & stuff on em) Think about it this way, if you just watched yet another episode of Friends, and didn’t even consider personal development - you’d understand everything! There’d be no confusion at all!

@PernaniJust one guy’s testimony, but if you’re ‘doubting it even works’, then you haven’t actually done it yet. I painted a couple walls with chalk paint, where I exercise & meditate. The exercise (and earbuds turned up to 11) inspire action & expansion, so I get it all laid out and planned effortlessly on a wall (business ideas, projections, etc). Tons of space compared to a dry erase board or computer screen. After meditation, I write insights, about how to go about some things I’m into, etc, on the other wall. I also have a section for manifesting, usually 5 - 10 things I want to come into my life. When they do, I erase them and write new ones. Been doing this for about 2 years and it changed ‘my’ life, and ‘reality’. Doing ten times what I ever was without effort. That all started from trying affirmations and ‘getting it’, that how I perceive & interpret...

@egoless

Nailed it. That’s so funny-cause-it’s-true.

@Rohit N There is no drudgery, you need to redo your perspective on this. That drudgery is on you brutha. It’s neg projection. Never dis the music, the music is sound. Lol Training yourself to sing properly involves intense ab workouts, stretching your diaphragm, and breathe control... as well as vibrationally finding your registers; chest, throat and head. This enhances the practices of meditation and breathe work like cookies go with milk. You’ll develop your breath control, focus, confidence, concentration, abs, attitude, and “talent” all with one crazy fun practice. Not to mention, you’ll soon be able to ‘move’ your awareness through each part of your body from playing and singing. And OMG Rohit, soon enough, you’ll be ‘zoning’ - ‘flowin’. Get good at both, and you’ll be doing it with zero thought. This, along with daily meditation, is a sweet little recipe for samadhi. Consider writing songs too, it’ll draw creativity out of you and deepen your connection to the creator you were born to be. Apparently, it doesn’t hurt in the ‘getting the ladies’ dept either. And then, further down the road, between the practicing, and the practices, every song will suddenly reveal itself to you. Songs you’ve heard a hundred times - you’ll hear for the first time.