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@john23 Yup

What's bullshit is not self-actualizing, what everyone else is doing.

One/many is a duality.

@reves Good. That was a glimpse of the Ox's tail. A nice samadhi experience. It goes way deeper, so keep tripping keep exploring, keep questioning, keep trying to understand what Consciousness/God/Absolute/You are. Explore all the many facets of the Ox.

Horrible is a judgment coming from survival. Truthfully, horrible does not exist. Truth is "good" in that is totally frees you of all such judgments.

@kieranperez Thinking empowering thoughts is far better than worrying. Affirmations will of course not resolve the fundamental issue of duality or ego. But they can be a good intermediate technique. Not every technique has to be existential. This work requires nuance.

@chudders What I said was: if you constantly worry about getting cancer, that can actually create cancer in you. The mind is a very powerful thing. When it's misused it can create all sorts of problems, even physiological ones. Start a daily meditation habit which will teach you to let go of your thoughts and tame your monkey mind. Of course is you are doing something in your life which can cause cancer, like smoking or eating lots of processed meat, then you should also cut that out. But don't obsess over it.

I talk about a lot more than enlightenment. Be careful not to naively boil everything down to enlightenment. There's a lot more to this work than that.

@chudders Thoughts which are fear-based have a tendency to be self-fulfilling. What you worry about tends to become true simply because you obsess about it so much. It's hard to improve your life when you're constantly in fear. The solution is to change your thoughts to love-based thoughts and shift your state to a more positive, optimistic, empowered one. Research Law Of Attraction. You want to create a positive, exciting vision for your future. Stop focusing on what you don't want and start focusing on what you want to create. Negative stuff can always happen, but constantly worrying about it is not a solution.

You're just not getting it. You are like a donkey who is being told 1+1=2 but you're not getting it. It requires a leap in consciousness. You can't get it at your current state of consciousness. So maybe do the practices rather than arguing.

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Your question is thoroughly riddled with dualistic assumptions. Language is unavoidably dualistic. You are assuming Truth can be captured with language, but it can't because language is a small subset of Truth.

Absolute Truth cannot be spoken, thought, or imagined. It cannot be qualified in any way whatsoever. You cannot even say of it: "It cannot be qualified". What you're unwittingly trying to do here is capture the Truth in some framework, which cannot ever work because Truth is infinity and it escapes all attempts at capturing it. This is just the nature of Truth/Infinity/Absolute. Hence the Zen-like riddles and paradoxes.

@ColdFacts Finger pointing to the moon. Existence vs non-existence is a duality. Space vs not-space is a duality. This vs that is a duality. Within vs without is a duality. Until it isn't.

@jerrypua Yeah, it's hard to balance pickup with business. Pickup can take up a lot of mental energy, and so does business. Pickup also tends to screw your sleep schedule.

@Yahya I have video about that: How To Study

Mother's love can be extremely conditional, as many kids can attest. It is a myth that mothers automatically accept their children. If only that were true.

@kieranperez It's like surfing. Life is like surfing. You can't explain it to someone.

As my blog post shows you, I have not reconciled it. I don't embody unconditional love.

I can't really answer that. You just gonna have to walk your path and see where it leads. Part of the process is letting go of control or the need to plan it out or have a safety net. You gotta trust that you'll sort out the obstacles as you encounter them, not beforehand. That's life. Life's gotta be lived. It's a visceral experience. Get more comfortable with improving and letting things unfold organically. Experiment. Trial and error. Adventure.

Yeah.... fear is a bitch. The solution to fear is to be fearless.

Some do, some don't. At that point is hardly matters. And yet some of them still work to make an impact. That's the paradox of detachment.

Hawaii's a beautiful place. Lots of helicopters though which ruins the whole nature vibe. Helicopter noise is inescapable on the Big Island

Don't disagree. Sit down and observe what suffering actually is and why you create it. Suffering arises out of resistance. Resistance is pure survival. If you did not care about survival you would not resist or suffer. Death isn't a real thing. You imagine it to maintain your false identity.

What you have to understand is that those who reach such a radical degree of selflessness are not doing it out of a desire to have an impact. They are doing it because they seek the highest Truth, and everything else is just an organic consequence of that. To become that selfless would require that you drop all personal desires, including any desires to change the world. All attachments would have to be surrendered. The irony is, your ability to impact the world skyrockets when you come from a position of total detachment and selflessness. But the detachment has to be real. You have to surrender everything before you get it all back in the end.