Nahm

The word for the illusion is maya. Maya is constantly tricking you. Maya is all around you, and everywhere inside you. Everywhere. You will trick yourself, unaware it is maya.

@Faceless Same root as everything else. ❤️

@StrangerWatch Sweet movie. Gnosticism & Buddhism, what’s not to love! Lol. Matrix wise, in terms of you, and your life....who is the architect? What is attempted to be conveyed with his role in the movie? And much more pertinent to this post... what is the Oracle? ?

@Barbarian Number 8 I like your analogy. All is illusion, so overclocking an illusionary cpu follows the illusionary laws of physics. Speaking directly about consciousness, there is nothing being overclocked. So, yes, “overclocking” it is possbile and can be extremely beneficial, but in terms of what the outcome experience is, it’s relative to the rest of the illusionary mind, not just the event of “overclocking”.

This is a great post. Doesn’t it, like all the other derailments, boil down to experiencing for one’s self? If someone experienced it, they would no longer have axes to grind. Isn’t that obvious? Logic and making it to age 25, maybe 30, should be enough experience to see that for someone who has never even heard of or considered personal development. Haven’t we all experienced that the problem we have with others, or with the world, always turns out to be our own issue, that we hold against our ‘self’, that we were projecting? If you yourself have directly experienced that there is only you, it would no longer be so murky. Obviously, self deception is the root of all suffering, so without self deception, there would be no suffering.

Sometimes thinking prevents us from being aware of what is already so obvious to our deepest core. Only one way to experience the truth though! I hope you do one day, I really do. ❤️ IMO, it’s worth every bit of the intense dedication and discipline it takes to experience. There’s no supplement for self inquiry.

@StrangerWatch I hear what you’re sayin, and I feel I understand, but man, I’m saying a lot of suffering is rooted in the objective thinking, 1st hand, 2nd hand, 3rd hand, etc. There is nothing that could be objective, because there is nothing other than you. I’m not tryin to argue or anything. My intention is good. (Lol, objective humor there) Rock on man.

Reality is perfect. What you’re calling reality is your own illusion in the most literal sense. The “ego” is what “says” otherwise, but the ego is fictitious. In a nutshell, that’s the consciousness work to be done. Not sure why you reference what Leo thinks. You may have him on a pedestal. Understandable. Kind of unbelievable how he makes videos to help you and runs a forum to help you, all at no cost to you. Even when people here dump on him in a personal sense, he continues to maintain an interest in helping everyone with their consciousness work. Morality is completely subjective. There is no objective anything. All of science, religion, spirituality, etc etc are telling you this. Check out the ‘brains don’t exist video’. Your own suffering is not objectively bad, or objectively anything. It is being experienced first hand. If you were objective about anything about you, that implies there are two you’s. How many you’s are there? Obviously, One. You can’t use “everyone else” as a reference point. Everyone else is maya, illusionary. The way to be free of suffering, is to decipher what perspectives are causing it. Then to learn the truth about the situation. Then to allow what you’ve learned to change your behavior that is causing the suffering. I’m not saying it’s easy at all. That’s the inner work. It’s 100% of the game. Maya would have you believe otherwise, but without the beliefs, all that’s left is the truth. It’s a tough one to swallow, but when we become aware we are judging, we start to transcend it. (Your idea of objective morality is actually you projecting your own subjective morality) Have you tried isolating one or two practices that are designed for specifically what you need and making the time to do them? All of actualized.org serves (imo) solely to convince you to do the inner work. Eventually it is revealed to you that inner is all there is, and you are free of all this.

@Joseph Maynor That’s the thing though, both are not here. Reality is here. Maya is an illusion.

@StrangerWatch That’s not at all what I’m saying.

@Joseph Maynor It doesn’t. Obviously. If you’re holding the thought that it does, then let go of what you added.

@StrangerWatch Shocking to me. Shocking.

@StrangerWatch You’re missing the entire boat. Can’t transcend what you’re stuck in without serious determination in the practices. Given where you’re at, have you considered doing anything about your suffering for those less fortunate? You really do create your own reality. How you think is paramount to getting any further with the life you want. Resistant thinking like that, blame, commiserating - not headed anywhere.

@Charlotte Thanks! Sorry to hear! ?

@Heart of Space Very moving man. So happy for you. Seriously. Any good jokes lately?

@sarapr Great breakthrough! Keep going, of course. That distinction / detachment feels pretty nice I’m betting...? Not believing the thoughts too?

@carlos flores My opinion, raising consciousness is an intimate, personal, inner game only. What we do derives from consciousness work. If you’re in the ring, and he’s in the ring, and you guys love the mental chess game, the thrill of endurance, etc, then ??. Punchin someone in the face who’s just minding their business, walking down the street - that’s violence. It comes down to that place only you are in. The inside game. Only you know your intentions, and how it resonates. You’re probably already familiar with the life story of Ali, but if not, read up on him. IMO, he put self conscience before boxing and made it work, not that I could really know, ultimately. ?

@lens And yet...enlightened masters often use phrases like “you could cut my arm off and I wouldn’t care”.

@Shin I’m trying!!! It’s just keeps resolving into masterbation.

@cetus56 ??❤️

It’s that time God fucked with itself.

The answer, imo, is always both, but only in terms of thought, because - that’s where all the duality comes from. If there’s fear, or doubt, then the quality of our thinking is diminished. Suffering is not necessary to experience pleasure. The illusion is just much more obvious, and much more personal. We think,...this creates and filters duality, so there is a common default of choosing one of two, or trying to reconcile two. Without fear or doubt, we naturally choose preferred. If two options are preferred, without fear or doubt, we’d naturally choose both. Maya is playing it’s best game when, in a split second, it has already convinced you to so easily forget it is illusionary, and it is you. Forgetting that, we start to incorporate, justify, and accommodate what we ourselves - do not even prefer. It is the obviousness of the situation that stings us. That the focus, the attention, was ours all along.

@Leo Gura ❤️

@Vipassana You are freeing yourself with your honesty and it’s a beautiful thing. Stay steadfast in your morning daily meditation. Stop eating junk. Junk food fucks the clarity. When the awareness expands, we get pretty frustrated about the hibats we’ve picked up to ease suffering. It’s th rough part, but stay open and honest, be willing to go through the pains. It’s worth it. Meditation, honesty - two steps forward. Junk food, negative self talk - one step back.