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?? No reason at all @Wisebaxter Illusion: apparition; “delusion of the mind”... "a mocking, deceit, deception” "to play with", from assimilated form of in- "at, upon" or ludere: "to play" (see ludicrous). Sense of "deceptive appearance"..."full of illusions" All these things are not as they seem?

@SoonHei ?? @Joseph Maynor hello friend.hope all is well im just popping in from time to time. Been busy with family lately.

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And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name Such tricks hath strong imagination ...Shakespeare ??

The i with its personalized content will give vitality or movement to the name, to the word, its own influence with thought(the experiencer’s memory/experiences). Compassion is not an expression of ‘personal’ experience. Not one's own feeling, not what one feels about something, not a thought colored by, or proceeding from emotion. One who embraces not to be anything, to be nothing, completely nothing, then there is compassion. Its not empathy or sympathy. Compassion isn’t present when there is the continual endless cycle of conscious effort sustaining its own self centered continuity. Compassion isn’t the word, an image born of the past(not dead). Compassion is alive, dynamic. When the self feeding movement of thought-self at its root ends, compassion, love is.

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“Spirituality”...advancement, progress, results??? Those who are serious about the significance of spirituality, will you be willing to enter deep into the horror, the beauty, and the silence, without hesitation, aversion? It is only in this conditioned field of time that we seek results and resist the dynamic uncertainty of what-is. Is there not any difference between chasing spiritual/mystical experiences and chasing psychological-spiritual results, as both are a movement of time. We can spend years, decades, our entire life developing/advancing(resisting), or we can step out of that current of disorder now. To die to the past means to die to the future. To die to the self-TIME, which is love. To live means the willingness to die. No resistance, no attachment, freedom without the restraints of fear. Can we see that when it comes to spirituality, that advancement, progress, and looking for results, is actually one unitary movement of fear/resistance/the i? Can there be a stepping out of the field of time? Can we cease this time bound resistance? Can we willingly give up that which we mechanically think we have to rely on, {Time-thought}, which is resistance in essence? Or shall we spend what little time we have swimming in the muddled sea of psychological strife-conflict?

@DrewNows @Solace ??

LIVING IS DYING ??

Relationship is aloneness...?? I think it’s important to understand the difference between aloneness and isolation. One is a reaction and the other is absent any kind of positive/negative movement of choice. In most cases the monk ‘escapes’ to a cave to bring about a sense of “their own” connection with the whole. As in a motive born of time(self centered action). It’s like trying to bring about relationship/connection by reacting to the lack of connection/relationship, or moving positively towards connection/harmony by reacting to lack of silence/harmony. This action is actually born of isolation/alienation. One may soon see that true aloneness does not arise out of positive/negative action/reaction, but arises without conditioned response of self(choice), in either direction forward or backward. It is rather total and complete action that arises from seeing the true nature of WHAT IS , as in connection/relationship as an interdependent whole itself. Relationship/connection/communion is the essence of aloneness. Aloneness implies wholeness. Life is relationship, and relationship is life. Without relationship “enlightenment” means nothing, and there will be no enlightened consciousness. In order for an enlightened consciousness the conditioned reaction of resistance/attachment-identification and its tendency to seek refuge in escape/seclusion must end. It’s important to remember that being truly alone does not mean being secluded/isolated, but is found in connection itself...Yes there is a need physical/mental space and silence to explore, learn, to see clearly without distraction, but true understanding/leaning/SEEING comes with seeing the actuality of connection/relationship. As one starts to explore/understand themselves, they see that relationship reveals one’s true motives/intentions and shows the reality of what is the case in themselves. There reality of hidden resistance/attachment/identification can be a tool to see clearly in relationship. Relationship is the perhaps the greatest teacher. One soon comes to realize that running away to a cave is simply a reactionary response and expression/compulsion to disconnect/detach to self sustain the independent “i”. This action is ultimately born of fear/resistance. The hermit that escapes to the hills and resides in a cave is whether he thinks or not still related to what he/she calls the rat race/world of distraction. Such an action is still influenced by illusion. The question one can ask is what gives rise to the action we take? Is it a reactionary response born of alienation/isolation, resistance-fear, or is it intelligent action born of actual freedom? Or is it action born of wholeness/aloneness, and CREATIVE? Do we see the necessity of Freedom without reaction/attachment/resistance?

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@robdl sees the entirety of the self feeding thought loop already...and is kind enough to share this tremendous insight with others.

To accept advice is exactly what we are taking about. We are not giving advice...we are showing how taking advice is looking to thought to solve psychological problems(nourish the self).

Examples of the application of thought to solve psychological problems... The “i” that conforms to patterns such as; routined methods, systems, techniques...accumulates knowledge and then attempts to apply that knowledge to solve psychological problems. The above imply looking to thought(memory, knowledge, experience), to solve problems that thought has created. This is not advising others not to participate in the above, but to simply share how “the self” and the means that that self applies to end itself, are actually one unitary movement of self(psychological time). This is to understand the self/thought. To indicate all the subtle ways in which the self can and will sustain its own illusion by looking to thought to free itself from that false movement of psychological division.

This is how thought operates when it comes to practical-functional affairs; like learning how to speak a language, how to drive, how to work a computer, and so on. But the thing is the illusory self uses that same operation psychologically to solve “its” problems. But that operation nourishes those very problems(“the i”). To operate that way implies resistance to what-is.