Truth Addict

@assx95 Go with it. Do whatever you feel like doing. You will stay thirsty until you drink water. Just be mindful as you're drinking. Because the water you're used to is not 100% pure water, it usually comes with lots of unnecessary damaging stains/blots. You will develop a taste for detecting those stains/blots with mindfulness. The key is just to be present and accepting of whatever is happening, be it meditation, video games, or masturbation. The key is to observe. Learning = Observation

Are you sure? Sounds like Materialism. How do you know?

That's precisely correct! This is the direct non-mediated type of resistance. It comes from the same place as everything else, nowhere. It emerges from nothing. The only difference is that now you've uncovered the thoughts that used to be the medium where resistance used to occur. So, now you're facing resistance head-on as the 'final boss' kind of thing. What works for me is not trying to do anything at all, not even trying to change the situation, and then fully embracing the resistance until I merge with it and turn it into flow. Remember that the final boss is, after all, you.

@Nahm @Serotoninluv You're my favourite kind of flowers! @seeking_brilliance Huh? Try LoA.

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Haha! ?? You little dawg! You don't know. You can't. This "knowledge" is standing right between you and the truth. Throw it in the trash. Be free. This "knowledge" is what's keeping you stuck in life.

Truth is not a concept that you can search for and find. The quest is meant to get your mind exhausted so you can see that, not to make you cling to a certain perspective. Truth-realisation is just seeing things as they actually are without any layers of interpretation. Such in: a thought is just a thought, a chair is just a chair, etc... Waking up requires a realisation that there's nothing to get or to be understood. That's why it's called the gateless gate. So yeah, it is a contradiction, you gotta be able to deal with paradoxes. How to find the absolute truth if it's absolute and cannot be absent? It's already here, without labels, without a single layer of interpretation, not love, not awareness, not truth, not even nothing. Saying anything at all about it is already saying too much.

Assuming that that's true, so what? Assuming that that's true, so what? . . . I hope you can see the point that I'm trying to make, which is that all perspectives are just perspectives, no need for the tug of war. Saying this is true or that is true is just a survival strategy, favouring/clinging to one perspective over all others. Wake up!

@Hsinav @pluto Evolution is literally just the process of moving away from Source. But, there's nothing but Source, so there's no moving away from It, only expansion. Expansion is inclusion of more forms and possibilities, which is pure Love. Therefore, evolution is pure Love.

That does not seem like delusion to me. It seems like a try at expansion, a sign of growth. The world is at a constant change. Being still and refusing to change is not the best strategy. On the other hand, embracing change and being receptive to it, probably is. Let change sink in as part of your identity

@tatsumaru Ahhh, I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Anyway, as obvious and direct as it might sound, have you ever looked into why you're suffering? Like just sitting for a couple of hours/days trying to capture the real cause of suffering. What is the essence of suffering? What is the root that is causing all the symptoms? Like real, tangible, clear answer, without speculation, without hitting around the bush. Once you have the answer, it will be all downhill from there. The methods I suggested can be of different values to different people. If you're the skeptical type, then self-inquiry and contemplation are the simplest and most-rewarding techniques. Just make sure you practice them with a calm mind, that's what 10-15 minutes pre-session of meditation is ideal for. That'll save you hours of monkey-mind and hitting around the bush. So, here's the plan: Make a list of questions that you want to answer, or maybe just one question, it doesn't matter. Calm down the mind through meditation or deep breathing or going out in nature, or all of them. Start asking questions and looking for actual answers. Once you've arrived at the desired answers, start working on them. For example: the root cause of my suffering is my attachment to outcomes. Questions that arise at first: Do I really want outcomes? Or do I want happiness? Can't I have both of them? (of course you can). Is attachment necessary for success? (no, of course not). Who in the world that I know is detached and successful at the same time? What can I do to learn from them? etc... After that mindstorming session, you return back to the root cause: How do I detach myself from outcomes? Hmmm, let's dive into the nature of outcomes: Outcome is a concept of a future possible gain. Okay, let's dive into the nature of future, possibilities, and gains. And here I will leave it for you to contemplate for yourself at your own pace, because it gets a little bit abstract and biased to my subjective experience, and because as you might have noticed, it gets diverse as you dive in more, because every question begs more questions. (so here I recommend using a pen and paper to create a tree model for your main question, and then divide it into many branches of sub-questions, and then sub-sub-questions, and so forth). At certain point, every question will hit rock-bottom. And you will have a map for why you suffer. Those final answers that you've found will probably point you towards the same direction. Here, resolution will start to become tangible and you will start to see the light. You might need meditation as the monkey mind might start making noises and distractions. Go hard or go home. Quite interesting, huh?

Define delusion.

??? Oh boy!

Stay alive, and don't suffer. That's one of the most challenging things to do, but it's still relatively easy compared to mastering survival and being happy at the same time. That's one of a hell thing to do.

@mandyjw This topic is very valuable for teachers. If you're serious about becoming a teacher of non-duality, then the student approach, in my opinion, is ideal for you, and integration of all perspectives if you will. Feminine vs. Masculine is just one way to categorize the many and different qualities of the human psyche. Our psyches are very complex and different. A really knowledgeable teacher can estimate the psyches of their students and give them specific pointers at their exact level of cognitive development. You are one of those teachers Mandy, and sometimes it can be very rewarding to go out of your own path to study other paths, that's where most growth happens. I think you already know all that from experience, but just sharing my thoughts. Good luck Mandy! You have all my support ?

? You all got it backwards. There's nothing to be realised. A Truth-realised person and a completely unrealised person are identical, except that the Truth-realised person has experience with delusions. A human being is born unrealised=Truth-realised, and then it gets indoctrinated with delusions since it's not aware, and then it either grows/develops more awareness/love and breaks free (in which case we call them enlightened) or not (we call them deluded).

for it to have a real effect on society. Isn't that the missing part?

You don't understand. Everything is an illusion. There does not need that much degree of illusion, because all there is is illusion. There's no difference between illusion and reality. God is an illusion. From a dualistic point of view, illusion and reality seem separate, when in fact, they're not. 'Delusion' in my vocabulary is not the same thing as 'illusion', delusion refers to a part of the whole (illusion), and it is mostly accompanied with suffering.

The reason why this is the case is because you can't get to stage Orange unless you've gone through stage Blue. It's almost like a reaction against rules and rigidity, both of which don't really exist before stage Blue. Tier two ideas are viewed as tier one from a tier one person's perspective. The difference between tier two and tier one is like the difference between a teacher and a student, probably a great teacher and a stubborn student.

@tatsumaru Why do you ignore my posts? Are they really that irrelevant? Or do I sound stupid? Is the problem in the structure of my writings? Or the the over-confident/absolutist-sounding language that I use? Please reply to this, and be blunt if you want to, I need your feedback on my communication skills so I can become a better communicator.

If life has only one bug, it's most definitely me ?

Define delusion.

We aren't. Not me, not you, not anyone at all. There is no delusion. You merely think there is, and so you create delusion with your thinking.

@tatsumaru Carefully observe your thoughts until you're disidentified from them. When I watch the sunset, I just see a beautiful sunset! Something magical and delightful that was created for me to experience and enjoy. Of course, these thoughts don't necessarily appear while watching, but you can use them as means to arrive there. There are two ways for silencing the mind: Carefully observing them and questioning them to death. Meditation/self-inquiry/contemplation are great for that purpose. This will lead to a painful ego death for most people, for me it was a pleasant and freeing process, accompanied with a practical life failure. I have no experience with psychedelics, but they say they're better than all of the above. Replacing negative thoughts with positive thoughts and believing them. This is known as the Law of Attraction, or traditionally as prayer. A practical use of those methods is the positive affirmations method. Eventually, and after months of practising, the positive thoughts will sink into the subconscious mind and become as evident and clear as the negative ones you're experiencing right now. In my experience, both ways are legit and will lead you to the same place, and that is peace of mind, which will develop into happiness and then total bliss. It's really simple, all you have to lose is your 'self'.