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@Leo Gura yeah! Why are you so silent on all this? LoL ?

@egoless you are the mediator of the truth. Just in the sense, no one else could get it for you or give it to you, cause it is you.

@Edvard i love the Dawkins ref, me too! Awesome. I hear you on letting the definitions and thinking go. I can’t see where it would make sense for anyone to not say what they want to.

@Edvard you’re already God, doing this. Your idea of God is the stumbling block, because it’s just an idea. The only source to refer to is you. This is the purpose of the practices.

A picture of a horse is not a horse, and the appearance of physical is not physical. We can’t point to things and deduce what’s real or not when what we’re pointing to is an illusion, nothing.

@ahmad ibdah do you know what you are?

@mp22 do you know what you are?

@Ilya don’t trick yourself with the “without any reason” & “spontaneous anxiety” script. Write what you want on paper and tape it to the wall. Your “life” is far from being “filled with unconsciousness”. That’s an idea of you you’re talking about, not your circumstances or “life”. Your actual circumstances are that everything you’re experiencing “around you” is your own consciousness and it’s infinite. There’s certainly no shortage, only an idea of shortage based in a misperception of self. You keep tricking yourself into seeing through lack & shortage. Chronically, that is anxiety. Let your past go with meditation. Let your “realistic view of reality”, the “reality” where anxiety is spontaneous, let that go in meditation. Through the days, breath from your stomach, and be aware of the subtle contractions in your body which seam to respond to your thinking and the situations of your day. Relax your whole body every time you notice a contraction. Let what’s happening flow. Choose thoughts that align with your ‘wanted path’, your stuff on the wall.

Not “at the same time”. Pick one or the other. I would pick letting go. “Anxieties and neuroses” don’t need attention.

@Ilya what is your meaning for backsliding?

@sleeperstakes if you make this relative to what you want, and use either example, it clears up.

There is a being, and it is just being. Within it, it is ‘imagining’ being Afonso, and within Afonso is a thought about what it is to be only the being, which isn’t being experienced, because it is being Afonso, thinking, and asking the question. This Being, being Afonso, minus the thinking, minus the question, is the actual answer - because then there is no answer, because there no longer is a question, no duality happening within the Being. Also, Being, no longer being Afonso, is the actual answer, because then Being is not being Afonso, so there is no Afonso thinking about this. When we are only being, such as ‘on a trip’, or in meditation, this gets real funny real fast, because we see that we were already this Being all along, which was being Afonso. Then we tend to come ‘out of’ the trip, and resume thinking, and eventually we say, (because this is the nature of thinking, of duality) “wait...what was...how did that...was I?....etc”.

Meditation makes it a lot easier to see more of what’s going on and to be more aware of what the hell I’m doing.

@How to be wise that’s the materialist paradigm. You would not be able to lose enlightenment because there wasn’t anything gained to begin with. The brain, and the person it’s in, are a dream within what is permanent. Ultimately, that’s you. There would only be the illusion of something gained and something lost. No one could know what the experience is without experiencing it.

@Angelo John Gage i’ve watched a lot of debates as well. Even though he’s really limited to the science paradigm, don’t you kind of come to love Richard Dawkins? Or is it just me?

@How to be wise just breath into your stomach & diaphragm as much air as you can, then breath out as slow as you can, keep repeating. It takes around 10 minutes to expand it to 15. Singers do this to warm up.

@Ilya There is the experience of someone who has never asked themselves what they are. Then there’s the view of Godhead / Absolute / “outside of everything that is”. We’re all somewhere inbetween. The greatest adventure that never happened.

@Max_V I love it. You’re made of atoms. Atoms are empty. Yet here you are. Is that “alive”, is that “dead”. An illusion is when something appears to be something other than what it is, or when something appears to be happening, which in actuality isn’t happening. Another route is using a pen and paper, and writing everything that comes to mind about your experience being born, dying, not being God. When you’re done, scribble out any beliefs - things which you honestly have no experience with. Without white, there’s no black, without black, there’s no white. When you see one, you know the other. “This was just a complete illusion” he says. I’m very excited for you. ❤️

there is as much nothing in something as anything and everything.

@LiakosN well yeah. Sorry. Please let us know how that goes.

@Blackjohn great revelation. All there is, is what you’re aware of. No one knows what anyone else is thinking, even if they tell you. Over thinking is negative thinking. Practice flipping the coin. The post about technique of letting go could be a life changer for you. We can let go mental or physical resistence.

@LiakosN put wipes in the bathroom. when you finish a call with your buddy, you’re laughing, she asks why, and you tell her what he said about a girl with that issue, and you’re like yeah, that’s why I bought those wipes, I don’t wanna be that person. Lol. Excellent post man. Really drilling down to the shit.

@Dsteller BRUUUUUCE I love it Johnny 99...huh...right...? I love Nebraska. I got to meet Bruce a while back, maybe 15 years ago. I had a few minutes with him. Could’ve asked him anything. Instead I stared at him, 2 feet in front of him, like a moron. Lol. ”Let em shave of my hair, and put me on that killin line” Get’s me every time. I think meaningful art triggers a “me too” reaction, wether it’s from suffering or from joy, and also sometimes, it says “there’s something here you haven’t seen yet, or something you’ve missed”. You might like this one. I feel like he’s describing a typical ‘man’ situation in the verses, and then being and expressing the unspeakable in the chorus. And her little laugh at the end,

@cirkussmile ?❤️

@Slade if you want to understand depression, research the physical manifestations that it can bring, and how the body can heal itself. Uncertainty - choice - is a powerful gift we have. Also, psychedelics can take you right to the brink of uncertainty, the isness. That would be a helpful perspective in your tool box. Best of luck to you. That’s a noble lp imo. I think you have a unique gift. I often think, though it is an enormous generality, that depression is life without spirituality, without stopping to say “what am I”.