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@Razard86 The manic posting is quite something to observe.

I will start by saying I don't watch Leo's videos, maybe 2 or 3 ever, so I don't know what's in them but you wouldn't know that without me telling you. I do agree that there are many biases baked into human psychology over thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands of years with regard to sex, gender and associating traits with one or the other. I have made effort to transcend these and purge the biases as I come across them in my own mind, always even still, but I often forget that even if I don't recognize my words as reflecting them they still may trigger others because our society isn't free from them. So I really do apologize for not realizing how it could come across even if I didn't intend it that way. The dogma pile comment was a joke I was using with another poster, who I presume is male but this is the internet so I may be wrong in presuming it and that joke was just a theme I was using with them. It wasn't intended to be applied to sex or gender but used because I was already trying to discuss it with the initial person and they jumped in, hence 'dog piling'. Again, I will say my initial comment wasn't intended to be about sex or gender and I need to make more of an effort to realize the internet doesn't always communicate nuance well and my words can be taken in many different ways. I do make that effort already but as it appears I need to make MORE of an effort. I also agree that there is quite a bit of sex and gender bias that is found everywhere in society. Even in supposed 'awakened' spaces like this one and I hope not to contribute to it anywhere. Please accept my sincere well wishes to you and your partner.

@playdoh I don't mean ignore it, ignoring is like repressing so would be an acknowledgement of it and behaving in response to it. What I mean in have no reaction to it at all although if one were to have some action to take I would suggest using visualization and affirmations in times when not under duress of the spontaneous instances of the rage arising. If we can visualize ourselves as calm and at peace in the face of the rage that may appear then we have modeled behavior in the mind's imagination. The mind will use this visualized 'memory' of peace in the face of rage as a template for behavior. If we wait until the moment of facing rage it can be less effective than preparing for it with visualization. Affirmations may be a way to direct attention to something productive instead of contend with the rage in the moment. It doesn't really matter what the affirmation is but speaking to what you seek in behavior and not against the rage would create less tension and conflict within the mind. We hope to free ourselves of rage not fight it, the fight is what it wants. I don't even engage with trying to find out why or what it really is or if it's another emotion or any psychoanalysis because I prefer to use all my energy and intent on creating the behavior I want not trying to change what I don't want. Of course, some people may prefer to explore the why and some may need to explore it so do what you see fit. I speak from experience, this isn't just unused theories.

Well, you made the point, too...the one in your head but, oh no, it's not the nail, it's someone else who points at the nail in your head as the reason why you are suffering so much. You have been story telling about me from the moment you first laid eyes on a message from me and have been obsessed with telling what's wrong with me ever since. It's quite concerning the level of your fixation on it. It's too numerous to even remember all the things you've said about me and since you think you can read minds with all those voices in your head you mentioned it must be the others you are telling stories about not your own ego creating the narrative in your imagination. You've told me there's no reason to apologize when I did to you but then you want tell me how to apologize crafting a lengthy mea culpa with all the grievances you have against me included that you cannot let go of...but it's not the nail....no, definitely not the nail. While I admit I have taken liberties of humor in some of my replies to you it seems I'm living in your head and there are so many triggers in it I can't help but trip them no matter what I say or do. Though, I know why I trigger you so much but it does nothing for your or my well being for me to point it out...I'll just leave you be to attend to your nails in any way you see fit. Yet, I can't help but be aware of the reason for the criticisms of socializing being played out in this thread with how an innocuous comment can turn into a dubious dog pile. Or should I say dogma pile.

Well, if that means your the one with the nail in their head then...it's hammer time! Break it down... you can't touch this

That's what went wrong with communism....the answer is in that reply.

That's quite a stick you brought back there buddy...

I completely missed this message from you because of the way the notifications lumped two from two different together. I can truly say truth is not a requirement for well being. The rest of what you said is that very same ego archetypal thinking you imagine that is so often simply the ego referencing about the past just like you self professed in your recalling about your past. You initially came to me this time, you are begging for my attention and gleefully celebrating in it...like I'm playing fetch with a dogma.

Thank you for appearing when I needed evidence of my example....your synchronicity in the universe is amazing.

I'm living rent free and playing with your dogma.

Please quote yourself asking me to clarify what I meant I honestly never saw you ask anything like that. Clarify what though? My first comment about happy feeling social media influencers? I'm going to guess you think maybe I picked that example on purpose to slight women? No? Or maybe you are suggesting I have some unconscious bias because I picked the feelings example? I genuinely chose that example for brevity in an already lengthy message but I guess I'm not afraid of words so am I a secret sexist? hm Well, I have another example with the intellectual mumbo jumbo merchants. It may be tougher to sniff out because they appear intelligent but they have been peddling the same handful of simple archaic concepts that have been regurgitated mindlessly for millennia. That story would have required more meandering to finally get back home with the point but maybe not, who knows, apparently I don't. Actually, intellectualizing seems less genuine than feelings, at least feelings have a useful purpose in human socialization but that esoteric bullshitting is just self glorifying story telling acting like some enlightened guru wisdom. Hey, that kinda sounds like....nah, I couldn't mean him....or could I? hmmm So, if that isn't what you wanted clarity on my meaning then just indicate what it is and I'll do what I can.

Most aren't greedy but yea, everyone is a little selfish. Yet tribes lived cooperatively for hundreds of thousands of years before capitalism ever came along so greed was kept in check through close personal interactions. What really is the problem is that there are a small percentage of people that really are greedy, not just selfish actually do anything even at the expense of others greed. That is a trait which could be viewed as toxic to community and intolerant of it. That small percentage pollute the social interactions enough it inflames others that would be just casual selfish before the instigation happens then in turn empower the greed mindset in themselves after. One might consider it a viral impulse. Although, capitalism is the perfect environment for this to happen then just add in a unhealthy dose of influential media and the sense of community is toast. Capitalist greed feeds the sense of egoself more than community does, sure.

All I have done is attack? Ok, well pardon me for whatever it is you think I have done I intend no ill will. Peace

The rage that rises from out of nowhere spontaneously is only a suggestion from the past to believe and behave that one is angry about something....anything....everything. It wants us to believe it and if we do we are feeding the kindling of present being into the fire of past rage. I aint got time fo dat... Ghost the past

"Love is like oxygen You get too much you get too high Not enough and you're gonna die Love gets you high." Sweet!

Don't confuse the relative experience of mind with the absolute experience of mind. Transcend the relative experience of mind to expand awareness to the absolute and it will be aware of the moon existing when the relative doesn't.

@Matthew85 Yep, we could say that to the perspective of the relative things appear and disappear in awareness through attention directed but through the absolute attention is everywhere, all the time. Which is why expanding our awareness beyond the relative, transcending the limited relative perspective allows one to be aware of that absolute awareness, of the infinite perspective so to say.

One can believe it's absolute truth that the fast approaching train won't hurt even though they are standing on the tracks but I guess the train's belief that it will splatterfy the soft, fleshy creature in front of it is truer? Ah...ok, you are the train and the train is you so it's simply an exercise in the absolute unity of all one can experience in the relative....nevermind. This. The notion that things don't exist when not observing them is an inconsistency of this solipsistic ideology as expressed currently. How can the relative be in control of the manifest when it is a product of the absolute? This is why it would be more accurate to suggest that everything exists even though the relative isn't observing it because the absolute is always observing. The relative just may not be aware of the omnipresent absolute observation. I fully expect this reasoning to be adopted by the solipsists because it actually addresses a main criticism of the ideology.

After reading this top post I took a moment to contemplate the nature of group think and sought to break from the preconceived notions I may have about it. I had an insight that we may have an underlying acknowledgment of our oneness and since we are social animals that this oneness could be expressed in a collectivizing around ideas, concepts and beliefs. So in a way the sense of 'social self' is created from our intuitive knowing of oneness and is formed through the social nature of humans playing out in groups or in a previous incarnation of human socialization, in tribes. Although, as we are well aware the stronger the crystallization of self, even a social self, the more it forms an identity that will block the light-enment and cast a shadow. The shadow of social self can manifest all sorts of limited perspectives and unhealthy behavior. Ideally it would be preferable to cultivate the connected sense of oneness without it materializing as a social self that casts a shadow on the consciousness of those involved so creates a separation from others that may not aligned with the group of thinkers. Just a thought, not sure how helpful it is.

The notion that everything is only imaginary...is only imaginary. Our interaction with everything including our own self takes place in the field of awareness in the mind, we have no direct access to it other than it's appearance in our mind. People have used this to suggest that means everything is only imaginary. I myself have suggested that imaginary and imagination aren't the same thing for a lack of a more suitable word for the dynamic of our interaction with everything happening in the field of awareness. It seems to me that there is confusion created with the use of the words imaginary and imagination for what mystics and spiritualists use it for the our perception of the physical manifest. Materialists won't accept consciousness as anything more than a byproduct of physical matter no matter what word is used while many mystics view physical matter as a byproduct of consciousness. I don't know if this philosophical rift can ever be resolved so I would suggest just be at peace with whichever way you view it and try to avoid stirring conflict with those who view it differently.

As I understand it now I made some comments, the point of my comments were about society as a whole and with nothing to do about sex or gender. You interpreted one piece of my comments as sexist in some way lumping it in with other people's comments. I clarified my comment had nothing to do with sex or gender and your reply to it was about having a softer touch with a masculine mind....on a comment that was misinterpreted in a way I didn't intend it to be and it had no indications it even implied it to be that way. So I feel like you are continuing to engage me in a discussion about something I still don't quite understand what it is we are discussing and because I don't understand, you think I've been sexist, overly dismissive and avoiding 'service to well being'. I have made repeated efforts to ask for clarification and explanation so I can better understand and yes, serve well being but all I get is accusations of being disingenuous...my word not yours but that's what it seems like. It certainly is an eye opener. Genuinely, my apologies if I have offended.

I'm trying to understand what you meant by saying "Sometimes the softer touch is needed in conjunction with the masculine mind to have a fully well-rounded sense of "wellbeing" that you always talk about." and not having much success in connecting it to what I originally said that you have taken offense to. Maybe if you could explain this a little bit to help me understand instead of just continuing to accuse me of sexist behavior. I would appreciate a little help in understanding what it is you think I said and how your response applies to it because the short sentence towards it isn't enough for me to get it, I apologize for this.

Can you please explain it to me because for me to respond to the merits I would have to understand what you meant. I don't understand what you are talking about so please pardon me for being so dense, have patience with me.

I'm still not sure what you are talking about.

Actually Albert Einstein is quantum...he's only matter when you are looking at him but when you aren't he's in wave form.