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@star ark There is no “we” in knowing. You know what you know, and you don’t know what anyone else knows, and in actuality there is nothing to know, because there isn’t even a knower. But, you have to keep looking into it. There’s no substitute for direct experience. It’s supposed to be fun!

“tripping balls”... Instantly gripping and relatable. Leo showed up at my funeral in a trip last summer. He looked at my body over there in the casket and said “That’s still not it!”....I was like, “But Leo!!!!”

@star ark So what is that .0000000000001 made of? My point was, if you keep looking into it, keep inquiring, it’s all made of nothing. The words are just the cover story.

@star ark What percentage of an atom is not empty, and what is that part made of? And what is that made of? Same with your brain. You wouldn’t rely on the microscope either, they’re pointer devices, relative to your topic. Meditation and self inquiry practices are much better tools. Didn’t realize you were a .00000000000001%ter! Atom inquiry lol was just a suggestion of direction for you to inquire to find more about where thoughts come from. It’s the same place your brain comes from.

@playdoh Is it helpful to you to consider that your brain is made of atoms, which are empty nothingness appearing as something?

We aren’t ever complete, or finished, or done, and we’ll never have all the awareness. On one side you’re thinking you’re completely aware of the thinking, on the opposing side you lack the awareness to change the habit. That’s a stress producing situation, a mind arguing with it’s self, and stress feeds into unwanted outlooks. Awareness isn’t a ‘lucky matter of time’ thing for most of us. You gotta think different if you want to feel different. The right book at the right time can be a game changer for this. Listening to positive speakers can help build our library of positive words & thoughts. Meditation every morning will help slow your thinking down and give you lots of ‘space’. Twice a day is better. You’ll become free from habitual thinking, making it downright fun picking better thoughts, and seeing the moment as it is, without projection of the past or future added, without the monkey mind. The joy of working through this habit, is you’ll simultaneously discover much more of yourself, and that’s a beautiful thing. The way we word things, the way we talk, what we talk about, it matters a whole lot if we’re trying to become more aware of positive thinking habits. It’s looking in a mirror. Just observe these things without judging yourself. You’ve got to keep elevating your thinking. It won’t just happen. Things in life will change, but you will be you, and it will always be now. The biggest slice of time you’ll ever have to deal with, is the exact same size as right now. Just this moment. That’s as big as it gets. Right now, we can always pick a little bit better thought, and then another. You are not a professional negative thinker, you’re anything you want to be!

@Omario Awareness cures. Become more aware of your thinking and talking (and typing). The effect isn’t as rewarding as the feeling of positivity. The effects are the icing on the cake. Do you notice, in your previous comment, you started with a double negative, positive in the middle, then negative ‘downhill’, then specifically noting your awareness of negative, “100%” even, then justifying continuing the habit based on your past?

We have fun talking to ourself.

@Omario Practicing awareness will certainly ‘cure’ negative thinking. You are on the right track! (IMO) You’re openness is commendable. I am really curious, do you find mostly negative outcomes in the ongoings of your life?

@star ark Consider why you threw pie in a particular person’s face. Perhaps it would be related to something they did. Think of everyone you know. Someone might come to mind as a person you would most throw a pie in their face, and another as the least. Why?

@star ark It all serves you in the honing of your distinctions resulting in of course youlessness.

@Nexeternity I am so happy for you. Thanks for sharing!

@Charlotte It’s because thinking about not eating sweets is still thinking about sweets. Instead, write down what you want, example, eat more fruits. Then think about fruits. Don’t think about cake.

Well said. Ime, that path leads to the experience of nonduality, which is incommunicable, in any literal sense. When we see the truth in this regard and are then living without the suffering....we tend to want to know the whole truth.

@alyra I had a little trouble isolating the points in the rest, but I love this.... “I see often people talk about ego and it just all seems a little misguided. sure it makes sense that people want to "shed their ego" or however it is that's popular to say it. but you do not destroy what is ego and make it leave, you simply find a way to stop seeing the illusion of ego - the belief of it - you cease from being slave to it.” Poetic and beautiful imo. Thanks.

@sarapr The I preceeds the mind. The I never changes for the mind. The mind can change the dream of the I. “Me” is directly of the mind, and directly of the I. Alignment is alignment.

@Faceless You.

“Reality” (Illusion/Maya) is so completely and wholly deceptive that it gets referred to as reality, as real, as ‘without deception’. Only absolute could be absolutely deceiving. We are maya, you and I are the One. The question imo is, is the undefinable One self conscious / self aware? And as no thing isn’t it, we are all it, so can we experience our true self, the One?

@egoless What was the most plain & ordinary becomes the most magical, radical & extraordinary. Balance of pragmatic vs mystical thinking also ‘flips’, and one is now within the other, fully reversed, inside out. Being in the world with willingness to be open minded to mystical becomes being mystical with open mindedness to meet in a “world”. Expansion, balance. Expansion, balance. Expansion, balance.

@egoless hellz yeah man. A thought on the original post as to requiring belief, Abeism states we can understand our vibration by how we feel (difference in proximity to source), and or by what we’re experiencing in life (manifesting). Neither observation requires any belief. Perception is convoluted by beliefs. Maybe step 1 is a no-belief game? Belief would be step 2, as in, believing we can actually do what we want about how we feel / what we manifest. Quite useful, and exceptionally useful in helping realizations of present being filtered through the past. Love that present being.

@Afonso lol. Thank you.

@saint_charming7 Working out is your new most favorite thing. The best part of your day! When you go to bed, you can barely even wait until you can get up and work out!

Make a habit of sitting quietly in a room alone, no matter what arises in the mind. Get ‘below’ no pain no gain. All suffering is self inflicted. If & then reinforce the if to someone who has yet to see any ‘then’. It’s their own ‘if’ they need to become aware of.

@Joseph Maynor What are “enlightenment beliefs”?

There’s no objective reality. It’s all belief. It’s ALL you. Loa is working on that level. Pure allowing. No resistance of the mind. No “other”. No “thing”.