seeking_brilliance

They are a feedback loop.... And where do emotions happen? In the mind or in the body? There is a physical sensation with all emotions, but physical sensations are thoughts after all. Is there a thought of emotion?..... Or does emotion arise independently, which thought labels?

@Aldo I don't know much about Leonardo DaVinci, but I'm giving a bump because I'm interested in more answers...

This is something that was posted by someone on Facebook today... I guess they were making some public announcement lol.... -------------------------- If you’re having sex and you’re not married, you’re not dating, you’re fornicating. “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,” 1 Cor 6:9 I say this with ALL LOVE ------------------------- Wow the irony.... Although you have to admit the book they are given is way too flawed or heavily coded..... and they really do just want people to be happy.... Sad....

Do you practice kriya yoga?

@GabeN I actually sat and meditated yesterday and it felt pretty good. Body gets too stiff though so I end up stretching instead but mindfully

You are in all bodies. You (sausagehead) began with the same blank slate of consciousness as I (seeking_brilliance) did. Also the same as my dog Luna started with. Immediately through your (sausagehead) experiences, your blank state began to diverge and take on your (sausagehead) personality. You (GOD) forgot your divinity and became lost in the illusion that is called sausagehead. Now it feels like you (sausagehead) are an individual human who has thoughts and desires. You ask yourself how you came to be in this body instead of a dog or cat. You (GOD) is getting a good laugh at that.

Thanks... Guess I won't count reincarnation out then. And I'm perfectly fine with not understanding it ?

Yes this is what we told 'sinners' why they should be saved 'today'

@ivankiss don't worry... I don't want to be enlightened... I don't even know what that means. And I definitely don't care when this human body dies. The body just hopes it won't be painful ?But you are saying that an enlightened fellow understands reincarnation?

Me too! Shit!

Yes but they are so tasty... Although the milk leaves a sour stomach

@ivankiss who gets reincarnated as a fish? Or is this just sarcasm? Serious question now... Because lots of people talk about reincarnation and I used to buy into that, but I don't understand how an illusion pretending to be human can be reincarnated as something else.

@GabeN haha trust me... I've given up trying to answer that for myself. I realize it's part of the story for me to be lazy and not disciplined, and it will be part of the story if I get my ass in gear. I know that's full of spiritual bypassing but still, it is what it is. At the same time I am aware of my undisciplined nature and am aware of all the benefits it would bestow to me if I change. Sitting still and silent is my number one issue. There's even times when I'm SO EXHAUSTED from running in circles/thinking and I am CRAVING a chance to meditate and learn to be still. And I'll either ignore that craving or give into it. But when I give in, the meditation never lasts long. My mind is a wild monkey.

Not really ripped it off but just reminded me of it. Its an amazing book. We had to read it in school. Here's a short synopsis for anyone interested: The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. The society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotionaldepth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, as there may be times where one must draw upon the wisdom gained from history to aid the community's decision making. Jonas struggles with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him: whether they are inherently good, evil, or in between, and whether it is even possible to have one without the other. The Community lacks any color, memory, climate, or terrain, all in an effort to preserve structure, order, and a true sense of equality beyond personal individuality.[1]

@DrewNows Will there be "birthers" who's job is to have the babies, although not raise them? We could pick only the smartest and highest consciousness women for this role. Have you ever read The Giver? (theres a movie too)

@Nahm great answer thank you ?

Hmm.. Like 6-10

@Nahm ok i gotcha. Ok, let's say your kid is experiencing bullying at school. Do you : Teach the kid to love the bully, and how to not be traumatized by the experience. Teach the kid to fight back and stand up for themselves. 1 and 2 combined.

Yes, this is important of course. Lots of parents want to teach their kids this, but they don't even know how to do it. They are teaching conditional love

I can see the value in that... Yes I think you can leave out the non duality teachings and let them discover that. But I completely agree, meditating should be taught in schools, along with anxiety management and self improvement. One day hopefully

I would love a thread which explores the non dual teachings in the Bible and its extra-canon... @mandyjw @Kushu2000 'Why do people in the Christian faith deem everything that's not Christian demonic?' Because this is what they are taught in church. They truly love their God and truly believe they must accept Jesus christ as their savior in order to go to heaven. Some denominations believe you have to ask Jesus into your heart again every time you sin, in fear that they will not go to heaven. My denomination believed that once you are saved, you are always saved, but you should still ask for forgiveness of your sins. And all this neurotisism for those that already believe! On top of all this, they truly want to save the world and don't want to see anyone go to hell. Especially the people they love. So they spread their neurotisisms around the world like a Christian plague. Praying is good. Helps you focus your intent into something. As long as you realize that at the end of the road, you are praying to yourself.

@Schahin thoughts just appear. They appear inside the mind/body, but you are not the mind/body. (you are, but that does not define you. To say you are Schahin would be way too confining) You are aware of what is happening inside the mind/body of Schahin so much to the point of thinking that is you. Even if you no longer think it is you, you are still locked into this awareness of the mind /body in which the thoughts arise. You are appearing as the mind/body of Schahin, and you are appearing as the thoughts within this Schahin. But these can not define you because that would be too confining. Even if the thoughts were appearing as entities who are supplying you with these thoughts, you are appearing as these entities, and they are still you. Whether they are Schahin or not would be hard to define, everything really kind of blends together after a while....

Not my words.... Although I guess it depends on who you ask -------------------------------------- You are everything including the appearance of the void...but you are not the void...what you are is indescribable and never a thing and even the void is a thing. But that is how limitless you are that you even appear as the void. The mind needs some way of defining YOU and the only concept it can behold is the idea of a void where everything appears...but even the void is an appearance. So, there is the awareness of absence which thought calls a void...but that is impossible as you are appearing as the void...therefore you can never be absent. So the void is like any other appearance but thought says there is no thing there because there are no other appearances… but the void is the appearance which thought also labels as deep sleep or lack of consciousness/awareness. The realisation that the void is just another appearance in/as THIS hit me like a ton of bricks. I am never empty as I am the appearance of everything! There is no dark empty void! There is no thing I am not and yet I am none of those things...including the thing called a void. I am contained by nothing and no descriptions can contain me. See there is nowhere to return to or go. There is nothing to become. And no matter what you appear as, you always know yourself. What can I return to, when I am it all! Where can I go? Even to have that thought is now ludicrous. So to fear death is just as ludicrous. To be concerned at what you appear as is the joke of a lifetime. What would "everything" be one with when it is the appearance of every thing! You can't be one with yourself, there has never been anything but you, no matter if you appear as a billion separate things! You're not an appearance - seeing as you are all that is. What would you appear in, what would you appear to, and what would you be an appearance of? Consciousness is also a concept, as is awareness. I simply AM. ~ source unknown

@Preetom haha like I said later, they probably aren't too concerned about being cited. Just didn't want to upset the one who couldn't remember the author so they said it was probably best not to share it. It's all good though

I'm whatever THIS is... aware and conscious seem to be a good way to describe it