Jack River

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  1. As an i is this succession of time (from one experience to another) and these experiences have there root in the past. “The past” modifies “it’s present”, projects it’s “end-future”. This is thought. Of the past. Limited to imitation/invention. Never new. That is what I meant by time/thought with its tendency to cultivate/modify/cultivate a pure perception(the creative - love). For there to be The New, must die the old. We need thought for practical-functional purpose, but in relationship this movement of time denies love/the creative. Maybe. Just depends on what we mean by action. There is psychological action and there is psychological non-action. In this case the psychological action is the action that arises from this evolutionary self with its psychological accumulated knowledge/experience-memory that meets the present being bound by that bias of the past. So every step made is limited to the past. This can be known as divided action. Then there is non-psychological action. Insight sees this whole system of thought at work and when this psychological evolution is in movement the holistic insight allows for a non reactionary/responding to that movement of psychological time. To not act psychologically we find is undivided action. To act wholly/totally without images/the past (emotions/thought) distorting/fragmentating the inevitable action that life implies. No matter what life is action. My point is, what influences this action?...the past, or freedom/INSIGHT, that has put the past in its right place? When it comes to relationship/love, does the past have any place? Awareness/attention to what is the barrier to love/relationship is the beginning fosho dude. This for me meant self-knowledge, which lead to holistic insight. And that sets the stage for non-psychological action, holistic action.
  2. Love IS the creative. And can creation be come upon gradually which implies thought(cultivation)? Can the old be progressively modified as The New?
  3. Love is action (undivided whole) If we ask how to are we looking for a means (thought) to cultivate love? If the self looks to thought to cultivate love(wholeness) isn’t that sustaining the notion as being a independent self that stands outside of thought(divided action)? If so, with that divison strengthened, can there be Love?
  4. Haha..no you are the fact and maybe more? How to? ?
  5. In the example of my earlier post.. Maybe awareness of the “negative emotion” without controlling the emotion, revealed the reaction itself as groundless... there is no past (thought) assigning meaning to an experience. To assign meaning gives birth to the reaction(emotion/thought) itself. Without the assignment of meaning(word/concept and its association to “me”) that experience never happens as such. Would that experience of anger even arise in the first place?
  6. Solitude/aloneness is relationship. To me resisting suffering and being rewarded are of a mind that plays in the realm of reward and punishment. The need to be rewarded is resistance. Such resistance prevents relationship.
  7. Maybe awareness of the “negative emotion” without controlling the emotion, revealed the reaction itself as groundless. This could cause one to step outside of the field of time. This is Love.
  8. The more desire seeks/pursues pleasure in experience (to add it’s the selfs continuity), the more of this up and down fluctuation of chemical composition in the body. Then there is more and more psychological reactions to those various feelings/emotions(sensations) that arise in that up and down cause and effect phenomena. As a result psychological reactions seem to breed yet more chemical fluctuations in the body, which again the psyche tries to word off by controlling, suppressing, indulgence, etc...then again more chemical fluctuation. Its an endless cycle of pleasure-pain(conflict/suffering). This manifest as a disconnect in awareness/presence in daily life and ultimately prevents communion with WHAT IS. I had the weed addiction as well. I ended that habit almost 5 months ago on the spot. Self knowledge was all it took. I explored the nature of fear/pleasure/desire(thought). Holistic insight was action that ended that habit. Along with various other habits. Good luck dude. Although luck is irrelevant?
  9. Sensitivity is essential. When I (experience) played with, depended upon experiences to seek a ‘higher state of consciousness’ (pleasure), this only paved the way for a less sensitive system. Sensitivity is a must. The up and down up experience seeking will get ya. Cause-effect like outcome limited to the field of time.
  10. It can be said that Life is nothing but relationships. Maybe the illusion is the resistance to life and its relationship based nature. It’s impossible to be related when illusion divides communion. The now/no-thing-ness/beauty IS to be in relationship. All else is of time/resistance.
  11. Are you sure your above conclusion is not going to change?
  12. Fosho. And that energy is what allows for awareness itself. You got it dude
  13. Maybe, maybe not. I noticed that the less psychological becoming in day to day makes for void like sleep. I know a lot of people see dreams as pleasurable, but I see them as a wastage of energy. When you can end an experience as it arises it’s a most beautiful way to live. Then to not project the past in place of the now. It’s an art dude. A beautiful art.
  14. What if holistic intelligence is using thought and saying, “ hey put some socks on dude”? Haha protecting the body is essential, it’s when the psyche/self comes first that causes the issues.
  15. No, within the last 4 months there are no dreams. I found that as the mind quieted more and more in day to day dreams also vanished. Sometimes I wake up meditating. And it seems there is awareness even during sleep, but no imagination/thoughts are rolling. It’s quite strange. But when I wake up I am exploding with energy. Much more than when dreams/thoughts were racing.
  16. I like this nahm? thanks dude. When I am looking for another means, or extra means, I will hit you up. Thanks for your generosity my good dude?
  17. That’s how it’s been here as well. Ending experiences as they happen in the day to day makes for dreamless sleep.
  18. I’m aware there are a lot of ways. But I personally like the way I live. A little extra money would never hurt ofcourse. But for now I am purely interested in putting all my energy in awareness/ground of being. I’m still fresh without a head. But if i am ready to put more time in earning some extra cash I will hit you up. That was an invitation, yes?
  19. The mind is memory/thought The ego is one fragment of that accumulated memory that responds as thought. Yet that ego sees itself as an entity that stands outside (independent) from the bundle of memory’s/thoughts in which “it” possesses, controls, utilizes for “its” agenda.