Nahm

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    1 hour ago, EmptyVase said:

    I still consider myself to be creative

    That wasn’t going on in childhood. It’s not actually going on now either. It’s just a self referential thought. It’s a mirage. 

    You - create that thought - by being it. There is no need to believe it. It is you. It is not about you. 

    A thought about what to create is worth more than a million about oneself. 

    You are not creative. That does not define or actually describe you. You are creator creating creation, and you are indescribable and undefinable. 

    Why are you talking about yourself when you could be kicking a soccer ball right now. ?

    Keep in mind... one could be experiencing the creating of the conceptual, and very much experiencing creativity...but the product or outcome, to another, would be conceptual. In such a case it would behoove you to do as they do, yet not to listen to what they say. An example would be when I make a actuality of being video, it’s conceptual with the hope the concepts conveyed are realized in actuality...but when I create & produce a song, the ‘product’ is not conceptual. Ever notice how few enlightened teachers there are, compared to enlightened musicians? It’s like 1 to 1 million.

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    2 hours ago, SolarWarden said:

     

    "For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away."

    — Matthew 25:29, 

    In the vein of bringing the ocd to a rest...this one points to the ‘inner world’ of experience. 

    Focusing upon what one has, one is creating having. Focusing upon what one does not have, one is creating not having. You are the creator, and creation is an apparent continuum either way, and there is no experiential difference between having but focusing on not having, and not having and focusing on not having. 

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    "As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance. It takes from what is too much and gives to what isn't enough.

    And this one points to the ‘outer world’ experience...

    “As it acts in the world” could be said “the appearance of the Tao”. Holding an ice cube for example, one doesn’t necessarily need photomultiplier tubes & an optical microscope to experience the true nature of unconditionality in / as photons. 

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    @Tim R

    Not sure why, and sorry @Someone here for the tangent... but reminds me of a trip with a friend who for around thirty minutes kept shifting back & fourth between historical laughter, and then a very expressionless straight face asking (yet again)  “yeah, but seriously dude, which one am I?”. I just replied each time, “I’m being honest here man, I don’t know”.  Whenever it comes up we refer to it as the “Dude Where’s Myself” trip. 

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    On 4/5/2021 at 7:41 AM, meow_meow said:

    Hey everyone, 

    I was wondering if there is any point to force yourself to meditate if you don't really feel like it?
    is there any point forcing yourself to meditate for longer periods of time when it starts to get boring? 

    Where is the yourself you speak of?

    Wouldn’t you first need to find it, and then think about wether to force it or not? 

    And what’s this “force” you’re talking about in the first place?  Giant magnet under your house? Sup?

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    On 4/16/2021 at 0:09 AM, machinegun said:

    Before anybody recommends it, I tried to watch the "what is goodness" video by Leo. I have no fucking idea what this man is saying.

    I feel like many people many people try to act nice to preserve an identity or because of culture, not out of genuine selflessness. Do you know what I'm saying?

    Sounds like you’re holding others to a standard of selflessness, while you’re defining that there are separate selves. 

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    They view themselves as a "nice person" (or so they have been told) and so they carry out actions that reflect this image of themselves: burdening themselves with other people's work, over complimenting, and sometimes being a flat out people pleaser. In any case of selflessness, I feel like people make it all about themselves: how they want to be viewed, what benefit they can get from it, etc. 

    “View themselves”.... or monkey mind / thought attachment to the belief one could actually view oneself. Comparisons are as they appear, thoughts. 

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    This is true for me. In actuality, I am a pretty selfish person; but, because I want to be like by others I act very agreeably. I have been pondering this question for a few weeks now with no avail.

    Wether or not you’re liked, is your thoughts. Seems like it’s other’s thoughts, but it isn’t. 

    What would the thoughts be about if they weren’t dualistic? 

     

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    @Raptorsin7

    Sounds like you’re understanding is pretty clear and solid. I agree meditation is the way. 

    I wouldn’t make it one or the other though... as far as meditation or choosing better feeling thoughts, and attitudes like appreciation. But that doesn’t mean you should or need to. 

    Sorry, I could’ve been more clear with “there are no states (as in / or stages)?”. Sometimes the word states and stages are uses as synonyms, but I see you aren’t using them that way. I also get what you’re saying, that there is the experience of stages, and kind of a stage one and stage two. Maybe stage two is post realizing the distinction of states and stages as thoughts, as labels, that can be believed to describe experience (as in perception) or define the self (as in happiness) but don’t, and only obscure. 

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    The pain is the moment of the punch, the suffering is the story about oneself. Maybe listen to feeling applicable to this occasion and apply it to the bigger picture of life, hearing the pain & the suffering, before it’s a roundhouse kick or something. You gotta care more about how you feel, listen at a whisper. 9_9 Bring the suffering to a rest, by bringing mind to a peaceful rest. Over and over, as needed. One not suffering isn’t too concerned over the occasional pain. All day everyday, the mind starts to wander to a not good feeling place, bring it back to rest. Notice these tendencies to go to bummer town, and breathe and relax. Being aware of these ‘movements’ of mind in these directions, is more than ample. The mind can not do this in the light, only in disregard. 

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    48 minutes ago, Mesopotamian said:

    I need help to start teaching my folks to become a bit more peaceful. Intellectual help. I need to shift the mentality of violence in Iraq towards the peaceful side.

     

    22 hours ago, Mesopotamian said:

     

    People who are engaged with family and relationships can't see the dark side of that.
    If you have time, my other post talks about the danger of letting family values go unnoticed, in some places, family values can cause unneeded suffering, no time or space for meditation, and total enslavement, which means low-consiousness population, which means faster global warming, and lots of new wars.

    Then focus on the peace full side. Don’t ‘forget about relationships’. Value them.