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The 40 hr week being slavery is conceptual & subjective. Get a job you want, parlay it to a job you want more, and so on, until you’ve freed yourself from work altogether, wether through passion or passive income or ideally, both. Otherwise, It’s kinda crazy, and I get it. At least get a van, sleep and stuff wise that’d be easier. Make a YouTube channel and film the ‘adventure’ and make some money. You can see from the posts that people are interested. Go somewhere the weather is good and the scenery is top notch, Oregon comes to mind. Eugene is an ideal area. People are so chill and the scenery is beautiful. Good luck man!

Yeah. That brain rewiring thing is literal. No joke. Wonderful.

@moon777light Teal? Doesn’t seem bad to me. Honestly, though, I don’t listen to her much. I was meaning more, that often, not always, what is ‘out there’ to someone might just unlock a whole new reality, or life, or experiences, depending on meanings. My comment was more about loa, not Teal.

@Elisabeth Circle back on that loa. It’s not out there, it’s in there. Lol. It’s like hay in a haystack. ❤️ In the sense, the teller (Teal) to you of loa, is a millionaire (or well on her way), happy, wise, fulfilled, and can travel the world without a care. Perhaps there is more to what she is communicating.

@moon777light You can sit in meditation, focus on breathe, and an understanding will arise. Allow it to pass, and a deeper understanding arises. This can go on forever. Choose to do it though. It’ll pop up, and you’ll be like holy shit! And free of it. You are stronger, wiser, and more powerful than you know.

@MarkusSweden Who says you can’t say whatever you want? Why would you want to focus and talk about what frustrates you?

@Mj Kumar Think about it in terms of regular density. Consider extremes like a huge traditional Thanksgiving meal vs a lighter vegetarian meal. How would you feel, think, do - how much clarity after eating each?

That’ll work wonders across the board. ❤️

@Feliks912 Make a conscious choice. Like if one is to eat pizza or vegetables for example, the vegetables require the making of a conscious choice. You’re 19, but still, to allow your mind to be at ease, you could make a choice. Stay with her, or don’t. This post, is what the practices are for. Time alone would do wonders for you. There’s little to no separation from thoughts. Your emotions are on the roller coaster of reaction to thoughts, leading to beliefs that you’re somehow responsible for anyone but you. Clarity for this comes from practices. You can’t lose either btw. You could fuck this all up, and learn quicker. All is well.

@TruthSeeker47 I struggled with this, I now find relationship synonymous with relativity. Can’t work on the consciousness of others, can work on yours, and I’ll be damned, it was relative all along.

@SirImprovement Could you post the reference of this?

@Frylock Entirely subjective. ❤️ It’s up to you. Self deception is at play either way, but, subjective.

@CroMagna @Kisame In case you didn’t see it... ❤️ This could be very helpful... Two main forms of meditation are usually taught in the West, and both are beneficial for different reasons. I personally switch between these two most of the time. They are: Concentration meditation. This develops concentration, i.e. your ability to focus on one specific thing for long periods of time. A common technique is focusing on the breath. You can focus on the feeling of your belly moving as you breathe, the feeling of the air passing in and out of your nostrils with each inhale and exhale, or any other aspect of the breath, but pick something about our breath and just focus on that. Let your breath be as natural as possible. When your mind inevitably wanders, and you suddenly remember that you're supposed to be focusing on the breath, just bring your focus back. If you wish, you may count ten breaths, and each time you lose count because of mind wandering, start from the beginning again. This will give you a general sense of how good your concentration is. Mindfulness meditation. This is "meta-cognition," being aware of thoughts as thoughts, and sensations as sensations. For example, usually what happens when you think of something that made you angry (e.g. someone cut you off in traffic, or your boss was acting like a dick), you just get lost in the memory and become angry. When you properly apply mindfulness, you are aware that you are becoming angry, rather than just becoming angry. You see the angry thought arising, rather than getting lost in the thought. Then, when you see the thought as just a thought, you deliberately observe it with detachment, and (insofar as you are able) just let it go. Don't pursue trains of thought. Some thoughts will be "stickier," like anxious or angry thoughts, and will want to hang around. This is fine, simply remember to observe them with detachment and let them come and go. When you get better at concentration meditation, you can enter really peaceful, relaxed, and stereotypically "blissed out" states of awareness. This is nice, but note that it's hard to bring this state of altered consciousness to everyday life, because rarely in real life do you get the opportunity to focus on one thing exclusively for long periods of time. This sort of meditation and super-concentrated absorption existed before the Buddha's time, but wasn't a particularly reliable path to radical alterations in consciousness (i.e. enlightenment), since as I mentioned, it's difficult to replicate in everyday life. The Buddha is usually credited with formalizing the second type of meditation, mindfulness, which is also called vipassana or insight meditation. That is, insight into the nature of reality. Theoretically, mindfulness meditation is a far more reliable path to awakening than concentration meditation. When you get really good at this type of meta-cognition, and detachedly recognizing all your thoughts and perceptions as nothing more than fleeting subjective phenomena, you begin to grasp the insight that your "true self" is not the things of which you are aware, but rather the consciousness that is aware of them. On 3/29/2018 at 3:33 AM, TruthSeeker47 said: Also do any of you experience pain in your back or legs after 20 - 30 mins of meditation? and if so what helps you cope with it? Yes, this happens to everyone, and it's actually a great opportunity to apply mindfulness meditation specifically. Many awakened individuals have apparently superhuman levels of pain tolerance. There are the marathon monks of Mount Hiei, Thich Quang Duc who burned himself alive in gasoline and didn't so much as flinch, or guys like Peter Ralston who can undergo a root canal with no anesthesia as though it's nothing. The reason they're capable of such things is that they have enormous sensory clarity, in that they can distinguish between physical sensations and negative thoughts, and the constant experiential awareness that they are not the sensations and they are not the thoughts. They can disidentify from both, and watch them detachedly as nothing more than sensory phenomena. Rupert Spira always uses the metaphor of a television screen. The screen is consciousness itself, and all things that the screen shows are thoughts and sensations. But no matter how negative or painful the images that appear, they can never fundamentally change or damage the screen. When you have true insight that you are the screen, and not the screen's images, the images lose their power. Hence the pain tolerance. So what I'm saying is, when you begin getting uncomfortable or bored, meditate on the discomfort. Try to tease out the differences between the physical pain and the negative thoughts that the pain provokes, and with mindful awareness explore how they interact, congeal together, and occasionally separate. Of course, don't push it to the point of actual injury or anything, but generally speaking, if you can get into your meditative position and hold it with no issues for the first couple of minutes, it's not going to permanently damage you if you hold it for another hour.

@Kisame Excellent post.

@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?”