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@Jack River I need the raft or I’ll drown in the river of my thoughts before I reach my destination which was me all along.

No Self-Inquiry - finding out your true nature by looking at awareness or the I feeling/thought/sense, thoughts are allowed but you still need massive concentration and some experienece in meditation Meditation - calming down the mind, thoughts should be in the background, focus can be on breath,sound,inner visual experience etc. As you can see they are similar but also very different in outcome

Theres nothing wrong with those thougts or any thought for that matter as long as you keep an eye (oh the paradox) on the awareness watching the thoughts.

LOL Spiral Dynamics Clickbait. You got me good.

@Hero in progress Peace! ❤️

@Hero in progress Thats for you to figure out. If you care enough youll bleed for it or you could do nothing and let evolution take care of it. You dont know what kind of change you can bring to the world. You think you do but you dont. Look at the change that has occured in the last hundred years, who did that? Not some grand spectular wizard who came down from the clouds. People like yourself did that. Regular old Joes with ideas and passion (and sometimes anger) ;]

Make it your Life Purpose to help the poor animals! Passion + planning + purpose Just passion itself wont get you far but combined with the above-mentioned you may have a purpose.

This is the kind overemotional thinking that leads to MORE suffering and bloodshed, round and round we go, humans never learn.

Think about, Its IMPOSSIBLE to experience without having a subject, even if you were as big as the universe you would still need something to experience from, in this particular limit you experience your limit from a body.

@FredFred That sounds very interesting, I’ll try that next time if I have the balls. @Recursoinominado No way... how is that possible with a ”soft” drug @TylerJ Yeah, I agree, I think I am a HSP so that may be why I react as if my experiences are some psychedelic mindbomb LOL, thats what they feel lile to me, without the visuals of course, but then again Ive never tried psychs LOL im blabbering @Salcedoop I had a horrible synthetic weed experience many many years that left me pretty fucked up for a few months so I always take precaution when I smoke, I dont go balls to the wall as I used to when I was a young (dumb) grasshopper

@Nahm Ding Ding! Congratulations! Youve reached ENLIGHTENMENT! You have the right be to a self-righteous douche to everyone on the forum!

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@invinciblelight We usually say ”I am experiencing”. Without focusing on anything in particular, try to find where this experience is taking place. Is it a point? Or is it everywhere? Its supposed to be a bit Koan-like, get yourself to quiet down and look.

seems alot of people on the forum especially have totally misunderstood enlightenment and are freaking out when they awaken, a video on how to deal with this is needed.

@Shin It was the potency of the statement, not so much the statement itself that made me go BRUH!

@Scholar

@Outer Incredible book, I should read more Jed.

You focused on the negative instead of the positive and you created a story, youre still creating the story. Drop the story, your happiness is not contingent on anybody else than you. https://m.youtube.com/user/NoahElkrief/videos?flow=list&sort=p&view=0 check this guy out, he deals with these issues in a clear manner

No, there are infinite midpoints in between all those distinctions, hot , less hot, lukewarm, cool, colder, cold, frigid, freezing etc etc.

Feel your emotions deeply, find out where they are located, “when Im ashamed and anxious I will feel it in my heart area and stomach area” Let your emotions be as they are, dont judge them, dont judge anything. Just. Be. Also notice how your ego created a problem out of thin air, you didnt say that he/she said that you were ugly, you said she didnt say anything about YOU and you created a little story in your head that her/his comment is supposed to MEAN anything more than it did. Contemplate that.

This aint prison ,boi!

@Setty Wow that sounds very interesting... I didnt know you could go that deep with it. I agree with the frustration part, it doesnt really give you much insight, its just a mind-bending experience, guess it can be used for fun once in a while.

@isabel Yeah I had a few of those ”what if it was laced” thoughts last night but I used my meditation skills to see through it as just good ol weed paranoia. From what I’ve read online I cant really say ”just weed” anymore, so many people have had intensely sometimes bad ”trips” on it.

@Nahm Nahm stop im dying of laughter haha

The Divine Dump!