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@Deep Well, at least the ego is thankful right?

@Deep It goes full circle to living your life. If you aren't satisfied with your life, it will assist in opening up your mind, and therefore options. If you are satisfied with your life, what led you to ask the question / topic? Also, welcome to the fold. In regards to higher consciousness vs lower consciousness- lower consciousness conversation - "you're an idiot, no you're an idiot! I'm right, no I'm right! You're the reason I'm angry, no you're the reason I'm depressed!" higher consciousness conversation - "You are so beautiful, aw I love you. We are sooo lucky, yes, we are. It's really beautiful out today, yes, it is" What quality do you want for your life? All the big answers are found in leather bound books.

@aryberry finite expereinces are part of the infinite, but I can't grasp it ?

"Enlightenment. Don't you know what it is? It's up to you" Van Morrison

That's awesome stuff. I really agree with your Holmes quote too. Thanks. That all makes me wonder, what next? If I was enlightened, and I achieved my list, and am living my purpose, what would my perspective on all that be?

@Telepresent I really enjoyed that. Thanks. Would you also say this is similar to how our own resistant thinking is the thing to release, rather than to pursue the illusion of product of it?

@BobbyEmily lol!!!! I mean, I wanna be friends with it!!!!

Just keep up the daily practices and keep letting go deeper. It could be years between 'replies', but in my experience, if you keep letting go, you keep getting insights. Eventually, nonthinking being is an insight in itself, because it satisfies that itch for insights, as it is non-insight so to speak. After many years, insights / replies come to you as pure sensations, with no content. The last one I had left me somewhere between laughing and crying at every person I see because I experience they are all God. Also, milk was a bad choice.

This post reminds me that there is no objective reality, and that I love lamp.

I'm in a glass cage of emotion!

Congrats!!!!! Very happy for you!!

When you say you don't need it, your comparing your enlightenment to your enlightenment with psychedelics experience.

Sounds to me like you like him quite a bit, and that you need to slow down a little. Keep the PD going. Is he into or open to PD? What was the gift??

everything is behind the scenes

That seemed like a great epiphany. That's awesome! ?

Einstein imagined flying on a beem of light as a child. He references it as his inspiration to pursue science and the speed of light. He wondered if the beem would appear to be standing still.

Don't think about what other people think, they probably love you. You're losing energy thinking about some of the stuff you mentioned. Use all your energy for what you want. If your thoughts stray, meditate daily. Write what you want to accomplish on the wall, and write as many WHY's next to each as you can think of. Get your prefocus game going. Empty your room out, then make it an environment that primes you toward what you want. You get what you think about. Your thinking and how you feel are the most important thing, - choices are made from here. Attitude is everything, and yours is currently not pointed in the same direction as what you want to accomplish. Start making lists about why you want what you want. Focus on it. Hard work will also do all of this for you.

It is almost like you excercised your free will or even made a decision to stop adding to this thread. ??‍♂️ Almost. Just kidding!!!!!! I choose to learn about playing chess and the board. I could never fill the actual capacity of my brain, so there is no reason for me to limit my learning. More data = better decisions. I mean, what's the point of personal development if deep down you believe you have no choice? I honesty did not know you were upset by this. I really do think I have free will, so I assumed if you liked other subjects or posts you would simply choose them instead, like I do. I do apologize if I have made you upset. So even if you tell me you have experienced the everything, that you understand you are God, and God therefore has no free will, I would still be the @Neo Fun is more categorical for some than others. I respect your interest in talking and I respect @I_Like_Thing 's interest in not talking. @Vanish I think you have it backwards. Please feel free to respond and please feel free not to respond. If I have already offended you I apologize.

That is sooo funny!

@Steph1988 Sorry man. I was trying to be pushy in the color of 'wake up'. I've been wondering how you are doing? Have you written down anything you want? Any progress with the change at work you mentioned? Whatsup?

@Bodhi123 I hear that. I have lived that way before. What would you say to the idea that rather than proceed and do something you don't want to do, that you could change your perspective and want and enjoy the doing of it, or pick something else to do? Since everything is one connected causation, you don't have to connect too many dots to see the value or benefit in things. What if 'work' is just a concept? For a few years, I did dry wall and roofing. We had a great time. Crazy talk? What if your emotions have been telling you the truth all along?

@blazed Yes. Randomness is not free will.

@Neo It's not the free will proof that matters to me, nor what we believe, nor whether I am right or wrong. It's the learning experience itself that I enjoy. I like learning about the topic and people, whether they are loving, decent, kind, ignorant, genius, insane. The more variety the better. To me it's more experience and builds a larger frame of reference and capacity. When we reach our capacity of thought, we become aggressive and belittling. I like pushing the limits of my thinking as much as I like nonthinking meditation. Both result in more capacity to be connected and blissful. I don't find anything undesirable about a person who simply likes to play chess. I don't find anything undesirable about someone who wants to learn how the pieces are made. I'm interested. It's not the topic or subject matter. It's like fun. It's not found somewhere. We make fun. We make interest too. It does not behoove me to limit either. It feels awesome to expand either. For example, if you were talking with someone about quantum physics and they start using parables and analogies to elude the subject, there is something to be experienced and learned there as well. It's not good or bad, or right or wrong. It's not personal. I of course trust everything here is voluntary, no one is being held captive to having to read or comment on certain topics. It's all for fun, experience, and personal development.

@I_Like_Thing Probably hard to believe, but one man's skeeball is another man's free will inquiry.