RendHeaven

Untrue.

pfft

@Megan Alecia Evil is necessarily finite

Yes, it's fascinating... Nothing stops us from letting go right now... other than the imagination of some inhibition, which, nothing is stopping us from letting go of right now... other than the imagination of some inhibition, which, nothing is stopping us from letting go of right now...

We've spent decades imagining ice. Of course it'll take a decade un/re-imagining it!

This sounds like a dumb question at first but on second thought it is brilliant. I encourage you to find your own answer. This is such a good question - don't let it go to waste by allowing someone else's answer cloud your personal intuition/realizations

Ah yes, the resident AESTHETIC SEX ICON has arrived --- If you upload without the intention to get any specific result, without self-doubts, I'd say that's pretty conscious.

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Yes, it hides your smile, so it restricts your nonverbal sharing of energy. Also makes you harder to hear. The absolute worst is when you say something flirty, and then she says "what?" And then you have to repeat yourself, but it comes out totally lame the second time. So speaking loud and clear is priority #1. Eye contact becomes x2 important as well, since you can't smile with your mouth... smile with your eyes I can relate Maybe you're not a "people person" in the sense of a dreamy extrovert making a hundred connections a night, but rather you're a "people person" in the sense that truer, deeper connections matter to you whenever you find them - and you've had these moments throughout your life enough to be able to say something intelligent about how to really connect. This is in sharp contrast to the "non-people person," who either disdains, is numb to, or lacks experience with connection altogether. Ironically, these are the people who crave connection the most, but they have a heavy social shadow, and hence they need "strategy" when asking someone out.

Why wouldn't it be both? Notice that "permanence" and "impermanence" are descriptors. Why would you think that reality could only accept one descriptor at the exclusion of the other? If you're seriously interested in how exactly reality is, beyond all descriptors - you'll have to let go of "permanence" and "impermanence" altogether, such that neither descriptor is nor is not. But insofar as the mind has crystalized "permanence" and "impermanence" as being, we find that reality must accept both

https://www.actualized.org/insights/hawaii-april-2018-late-night-insights @EntheogenTruthSeeker

Agree - but doesn't have to be! I mean fuck - we're all identifying with these human meatsuits and feeling attractions to one another, it's not rocket science to just calmly and simply suggest getting to know one another lol. The more of a people person you are - the more you can get away with anything. In that sense, strategy flies out the window. But if you're not a people person, strategy is good. I can tell that Roy is a people person.

Horrible idea. That has the energy of: "Hey, I have no spine. I'm waiting for your permission before expressing my desires, because I never graduated being a boy. Do I have your permission? Pretty please? Please please please?" And what do you expect her to say lol, "Oh yes, mister, I give you permission to court me because I'm interested in you." NO! As if she'd ever be so straightforward lol. Playing coy is her game. Your game is to cut through all the bullshit and LEAD. Pretend like the last time you met didn't even happen. Gently but confidently suggest spending time together: "Hey, let's hang out." No need to add any preface or disclaimers. Don't scramble to justify yourself. Just straight to the point and simple. Look her in the eye and smile. If she says "ok," you've already won. If she looks unsure and says something like "I'm busy..." just laugh and tease - something like: "That's what I say when I'm shy! [pause, smirk] Don't be shy. I'm harmless~" (I'm imagining this line with warm, but playfully poking energy, backed by a bulletproof titanium pillar of self-assurance. When saying words like "I'm harmless," that will only work if you're obviously witty, masculine, and sexually intimidating. If that's not you, then leave self-deprecation alone for now.) She might say something like, "I'm not shy" in which case you're free to fire back with "that's what a shy person would say~" If you're coming from the right place - congrats - you're now flirting. If something is off - that's fine. You can always reassure her that she gets to live her best life with or without you in the picture frame - and cheerfully send her on her way. See how we turned a simple indecision on her part into a cute back-and-forth tug of war? At the end of the day, you can win to varying degrees, but you can never lose! Short of her saying "leave me alone," you can turn anything into playful flirting. Key word, PLAYFUL. Don't sound like an overcompensating aggressor. Notice that we can say the line: "that's what a shy person would say" with expansive, connective energy, but we can also say it with dense, contracted energy. The former attracts women, the latter repels them. Man, the things I do for my bois I'll never graduate this subforum at this rate LOL

@Roy

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Yes - but I dare not describe it as it was in that moment - because language necessarily distorts and misrepresents. I find it easy for me to discuss Infinite Love in the abstract (as a representation of the real thing). Particularly, if I observe people limiting Infinite Love in their speech, I am good at using language to gently suggest that there is more. In a way - turning language against language to dismantle the whole charade. However, regarding raw experience and what I have personally undergone, words must fail. A silent smile is the most authentic expression of "my biggest awakening"

@GreenWoods It's both.

You're clutching to your thought-stories about Jesus, as though those stories are more real than what Is. There is only One Soul and YOU are it. When "you" - Mark, the character - "die," the whole world as it once was "dies" with you. The entire web of structure that previously bound and defined humanity (and all the suffering you observed) melts away. All that remains is Truth and Goodness. In that sense, it is wholly YOUR responsibility to die for the sake of all mankind (just as the story-character Jesus archetypically died). In that sense there is great wisdom and Truth in "wanting to be like Jesus." Just don't make the mistake of thinking that "Jesus" is some otherworldly being separate from & unreachable by you. (So long as you believe that, you are still roll-playing. You haven't really died until all of your stories die with you.)

Nope!

Don't wait for "Leo's imagination" to demonstrate "Leo," along with "Leo's imagination" is YOUR imagination, after all. It's up to you to unimagine Leo - or to reimagine the slew of other things you demand of him.

Each moment of being-understanding was Total and Whole in-and-of Itself. That does not preclude deeper being-understanding. Embrace paradox. You will NOT grasp this with thoughts.

I love your attitude. You've got what it takes to really surrender to God Ironically it's the people who think they've got God/infinity all figured out who have too much pride to surrender to what Is.

You take this for granted now from your vantage point, but even this is not so obvious to certain folks. "Direct experience" is hard to pin down. And by what right do we say that it is only this that "matters?" I think this is a helpful discussion

I "understand" Leo by being (rather than intellectualizing). I am talking about an entire different kind of knowing. Stay open to the possibility that knowing can arise in your life through different mediums This is a titanic task. We vastly, vastly, vastly underappreciate the challenge that Leo faces.

Insofar as you believe yourself to "be at the end of the rabbit hole" intellectually, yes. You imagined that, and hence it can be shown otherwise. When you "find" yourself magically being "the end of the rabbit hole" (as well as being at the beginning, simultaneously) - there are no longer "buts" "ifs" or "whats," and hence no alternatives.