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@TruthSeeker47 Here’s another resource, might be helpful. https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/17747-nonduality-meditations/#comment-181291 Sit comfortably, spine straight, slight tight forward, head tilted slightly down, and alert, not comfy enough to be sleepy. ? I’d keep with cross legged for a while.

@SpaceCowboy Great idea. There’d be a line around the block though.

@TruthSeeker47 Thanks. I’m glad if I helped. Some people just live a bummer life, but never even try meditation or anything for their consciousness, and they Suffering through problems they’re creating. You’re on it though. Becoming conscious is rough at first, but very worthwhile. You’re gonna be great man. You’re pointed in th right direction.

@Jacobsrw Thanks. Exploration of the inner world changes the outer world. Hard to believe that could do it.

Call it a substance, superposition, God, whatever ya like, but it appears now. Papers are appearing now. “Yesterday” was not somewhere or sometime, it’s the now you’re in, now. The now is changing like a freakin constantly perfect magic trick. With the direct experience of seeing this, it’s easy and funny. Without the direct experience, it’s pretty dang hard to grasp mentally, because it seems to never miss a detail, never buffers. Quite amazing. After initial direct experience, reality does not follow the consistency. But tell that to someone who has not experienced it directly, and you sound like a fool, or a liar. What a mindfuck we’re in. (I’m in)

@NoSelfSelf If you can tell me how I can tell you that, I’ll tell you that. My gps is workin, so’s yours. ?

@spicy_pickles Congrats!!!

@Timotheus Absolutely, maybe. ?

@Jacobsrw As a “ householder” ❤️ I appreciate the guru’s oh so much, Leo, Tolle, Sadhguru, Rumi, Buddha, etc, but, these are not direct in terms of realizations. My (more) direct masters are my wife and kids. Nature, time alone, there you can get it. Then, with ‘others’, you get to see what you got, and what there must be yet to get. The more intimate, the more immediate, the more mingled the relationship to other, the deeper is what can be realized of self. A brilliant guy could write a brilliant book on The Path of The Householder. If my intuition is so, one already is. When you can see infinity in a plastic miniature toy spoon, while a six year is screaming at you that you are using the wrong spoon for that tea cup AGAIN!!!, well, that’s just delicious, no matter what you’re “eating”.

@Neo I believe I do know just what you mean and it’s freaking awesome. To piggy back that and expand a little... sometimes it’s appropriate to tell someone - hey, lighten up, nothing so serious here, this would all carry on just fine without you, no pressure to life. That’s not true though. (The carry on part) Similar, maybe to rephrasing the tree in the woods question - if you asked the projector (movie projector device) if the tree on the screen falls would it make a sound, the projector would be like “ummmmm....huh?”

@Timotheus Lovely, though psychologically bound. Superposition, God, Infinity, whatever word, IS YOU. Not a day, not history, these are still psychological and other. For example, he is ‘applying’ in assessing “Brad” and Brad’s theory’s as if Brad is other, and as if theory could be right or wrong. As if ‘his’ presence where a human alive, as if the past led to it, mistaking the un-existence of now for a culmination of something to be realized or understood, or outside of. “Connecting this and other person’s this”, reminds me of verbiage like fragmentation, movement and whole, which reveal psychological understanding & separation of awareness without direct experience. If the direct experience where ‘present’, he would be laughing to hard to finish a lot of the sentences he is saying. An enlightened master could not walk in the ‘the woods’ nor ‘hear a tree fall’. That’s impossible. God is not something which connects one’s this and another’s this. He’s God. “If you can’t even explain this, how can you explain that which goes beyond this?” - in Truth, how could he keep a straight face there? He seems aware of meaninglessness while unaware he attaches meaning to God. Of course, everything I just said here is a lie. It also brings to mind, that he would be likely to see psychadelics as a substance which cause an experience, rather than the truth that psychadelics don’t exist, other than as a punchline to a joke with a very, very long set up.

@Staples Could you post some material with specifics about the thought experiments he did?

@NoSelfSelf You have a compass, a GPS, right inside you. Align with it. If it feels bad, stop and deduce before proceeding. The world, through that trust of inner guidance, through the clarity that it is how you choose to see it - it quite beautiful. When you say “yeah, but this bullshit here - that ain’t me! THAT is you, and that’s when you pause and realize it’s how you’re looking at it. You are creating the whole damn thing, there is no assertion. The game is how you see it, not what you are seeing - and the game has been afoot since you fell out of a vagina - get going!

@pluto Hell. Yes. You reached right into me with that post. Thanks for that! - “You silly egoistical fool, i am infinite intelligence” - that! ❤️ I swear I heard Zack Dela Rocha whisper into my soul - “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me”. Kick some ass today Source.

@TruthSeeker47 Have you considered an attitude of accountability for how you feel, and your outlook? Sometimes it seems like gloomy days are due to a video we watched, or something someone said, etc. But, in truth, it’s always our interpretation of what others say, and events we witness, which leave us feeling whatever way we do. I am wondering what the intricacies of your meditation practice is like. 40 minutes a day should be bringing you peace of mind and some mental space, at the least. There is a certain ‘depth’, that when reached, the actual psychological and physiological all pervading ‘substance’ of love begins to be real-I-zed. It comes from within, not without, and needs no interpretation. It is freeing, and connecting at the same time, in a most wonderful way, if you let go of perspectives. When you next sit down to meditate, make a point to be decisive - acknowledge this is your time to simply and only be you. You’ll drop all the roles (worker, student, parent, son, daughter, human, alive, etc). Commit that you will let every last aspect of everything just go. Keep relaxing every single muscle deeper and deeper all the way down to the tiny little muscles in your spine from top to bottom. Repeatedly ‘sink’ down into relaxation, and then relax more with every out breath. That is your time to be, to be yourself. When I sit to meditate every morning, I leave ‘all this’ in the most literal sense. Another way to look at this, is you can use practices like meditation etc to let it all go, to allow detachment from thoughts, reaching true peace of mind, and or, you can do positive things for yourself - exercise, clean up your eating, drop bad habits, give to others in unconditional love, donate, volunteer, help someone with anything, read an uplifting book, listen to Uber positive stuff like Abe Hicks, Tony Robbins, Mooji. Way down the road, your gonna see there is only you, and your person is a freaking miracle within a miracle made of love. So for now, consider that, and try to realize, if you’re not feeling the way you want to feel, if you’re not seeing life the way you want to - you are behind it - no one else, it has always been you behind this. There must be things you want to do but aren’t, and or things you want to stop doing, but aren’t. Make a list, and wake up, and start living your life.

Sounds like your building conceptually, unaware you’re adding a gloom & doom aspect. Practices?

@Patang right. ?

@Krishna Siva 20 minutes a day is enough to get you where you are. Do longer, deeper meditations, let the thoughts pass exactly like cars on the road, or waves on the water. A ‘space’, or separation develops from this allowing and it is a wonderful freedom. Eventually, you will not have thoughts in the way you do.

@TruthSeeker47 How does it feel? And did you see a therapist for this, or for other things?

I want a wireless pair of earbuds that play 2 sources, allowing me to put one in the center and the other source panned fully left and right, so i can listen to a video like Leo’s, with AC/DC playing full boar while I run.

That’s a very interesting question. The word faith has always been in flux, always in change. 20 years ago - a word someone uses because they don’t understand the word dogma yet. 10 years ago - a strong character trait for someone digging deep and making a better life, pushing through the adversity of their hardships. Nowadays, it seems like a deep knowing that people have forgotten, but sense it is there - and some seek the truth, and some keep the faith. Maybe it’s following the root of Self / self, aware of it, but without information or theory. I want to answer your question, - faith relative to creating, - but it keeps looping and making me laugh.

@Patang Sound kinda, lost.

@beaucoup I’ve taken many shroom / shroom tea trips, and energetically, only positives which expanded or culminated over time. I discovered that I had an aura on a trip. Real-ized / feel it, would be more accurate. It has a ‘just there’ ness, like reality has ‘is’ ness. Godspeed on your journeys man.

@Leo Gura A video on human emotion, from asleep in the dream, to awoke in the _________, would be really sweet. Maybe cover this crying thing too. ❤️? @MM1988 Just another perspective, in hopes it’s helpful - Something that worked well for me years ago, was to ‘go to’ perception mode. Shift focus to sensory; eyes, ears, smell, feeling the air on my skin, aiming to sense all the senses as one whole sense. It seemed that shifting focus / awareness to sensing ‘outside’, then left room and clarity on what was going on ‘inside’. I made a lot of progress doing that, and I found pretty much exactly what Leo said, that the emotions were from thoughts, and the thoughts boiled down to “me” “survival” & what I was potentially getting or not getting. I was really introverted when I was younger, so that might have had something to do with the effectiveness.