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Ok now I feel your just pushing your agenda and assumptions with a bit of pushiness. I think that falls into the truth off being a know it all ?. Anyways thanks for your insights, it’s my new mantra.

That’s very profound. I like it’s implications and the way you said it. Thank you for sharing, I’m glad I asked No I’m just asking what you felt was false since that’s what I thought you were implying in your first comment of the thread. If not then I was mistaken why you wrote what you did.

This can quickly turn into a tit for tat competition. So I’ll just bow out. Have a nice one, sincerely.

What’s taking place for you now

What exactly in the video would you say is false. Soul seemed to incline something about the video being true false duality and it’s not what I got from it so I’m trying to see what he meant.

Can you elaborate I’m genuinely curious on what you mean and the subtleties of what your talking about.

A lot of juiciness in such a short video, bravo. So is there a difference in one who finds this out and one who has never encountered this view your sharing, or denies this is the case. Also what do you say to someone who has a different view on awakening and see's order and purpose with a clear direction of life/Self/God itself? Do you disagree, let them be, have proof to show them that your understanding is more correct, or do you leave room in yourself that you may be incorrect or have more to see and discover? Just curious of your thoughts and answers to these questions and encounters (because I'm sure you've realized that there are a few different enlightened teachers out there who share different views and are accepted as enlightened, and that don't all agree).

You may of missed my point because its somewhat what I am eluding to as well. First of all, do you realize that your having your own opinion on what the word enlightenment is? Second do you realize that your taking an others word, the word of a (so called, may or may not be) enlightened master says is enlightenment. What your saying is right in line with my views and articulation of it, but its still a view, still a labeling (and its also not kinda, haha). If you get this and live this, then great, but what you said is a deeper eluding to what I was getting at. P.S. I also never said enlightenment has grades or is linear in any way either, I think you may of thought I was siding or agreeing with sgtpepper, but I wasn't, I was trying to steer you away from wasting your energy proving your point and instead focus your energy on your "enlightenment".

@Jkris it’s true what you say along with all knowledge and recollections if the past. This is almost a noble truth of itself and can show you just how open and known so much is. Your last paragraph might be true if human action followed laws written in stone but does a person who’s a Buddhist have to follow all interpretations of Buddhism?

@WHO IS thanks for sharing. I’ve found 1, 3,4,5 to be very illuminating, both the original intents of the messages and the highlighting of these misunderstandings and the traps of the mind that come from them. Learned and learning from these still.

@tecladocasio enlightenment is just a concept. A marker meaning different things to different people. There is no agreed definition on it and there for it is not anything on can say they are except for their own definition. Why not go after what your definition is instead of trying to tell others what it is or prove others wrong.

@ajasatya I think what ajasatya may be eluding to (dont want to put words in his mouth) and what I feel and see in your words is your coming at this with a lot of in your hands/control point of view and theres a equal understanding, where its something that consumes you and expresses these aspects that you call human, better, good as a result. I believe you've tasted this and seen this before both are important, and I think its healthy that your seeing what you are and not rejecting this aspect of "life/god/Self". But to get back to your original question, yes demonetization in general is what you said....

I’d do to what you feel to do in relation to what happened. If your Interested in what that was keep, exploring. But that was a taste of what you ultimately are and always have been. You just woke up to a taste of your/original face. Your living as this particular occurance in what seems to be a body on this planet ? atm. go ahead and see where you find yourself pulled and live it.

I would say repetitive thoughts in and of themselves are not dangerous. Them being there means nothing in particular. Now if your afraid liked you asked or getting emotionally out of wack because of their presence or tensing your stomach or body over time because of a belief/thought pattern continuously over time it can have ill effects on the body/emotions/well being. But again, if your relaxed and fairly happy with tons of thoughts always happening and lots of thinking in a job, I dont see any issue. You may have a little more head stress and tension, but not really a big deal.

Ive experienced a tad bit of reiki and do energy work myself. Energy work can have no effect on some and others its just what is needed to help shift something stuck so that we get out of pain or it helps us see whats causing us pain so we can making active choices to prevent it from happening.

Why not just change the habit that causes the discomfort, rather then ponder if its just conditioning/illusion from being raised in a conservative family or what ever? Do you really want to put a lot of effort going down the road of unwiring this plausible conditioning (perhaps its not conditioning and its your soul and greater sense of good) so that your reward is you can steal without feeling guilty? hahahahaha.......... Imagine I stole from your house a few items every day, that were very small, no big deal right, and it made me feel a little guilty. Instead of changing I rang your doorbell and said hey I'm stealing your stuff and its making me feel guilty, but will you please tell me its just a illusion and no big deal so I can continue doing it. Hahaha, how would you respond......

Hey Tom, I liked your video, although your first notion that you choose to suffer being a good thing seemed odd at first, but as I listened, it seemed like you were pointing to something along the same lines as I am and eluding to some aspects that I didn't touch on in this video (I may of in my yet to be released part 2 on suffering video, I don't remember atm). I think you nailed it when you said that theres something in autonomous/making it easier when we choose our suffering, it makes it easier. I recognized this side of the personality/mind/ego/self when I saw that when I was choosing to do this one type of Mixed Martial Art training it was fun, easy and enjoyable (but from the outside, it was pushing one to the limits a lot of the time). The moment I did not want to choose this activity/lost interest, it was the most unenjoyable thing in the world. And as you eluded to and I think your right, a person/individual perhaps by current conditioning suffers less (im adding this part in) is impacted less by making the choice (or at least feel like they are making the choice). You also eluded to the suffering as something that its more then what it appears to be, but one only starts to see this when they face themselves/suffering and continue down the spiritual path. This is deep and in my experience only gets deeper. Is this something you learned from somewhere in particular, like Buddhism, just curious.

A fan favorite, Suffering! I hope in this video you walk away with a little bit more understanding of suffering, the normalness of it and how accepting it can in fact lessen it.

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It’s super subtle. You know how you have an experience of oneness and then you start to come back from it. Then you generally find yourself in a experience of what you call duality or the body and mind. Later you talk about it or reflect on it and onesness/god/being/emptiness feels like or you describe as something that is it’s own thing that is different then what you are normally going through. Most spiritual systems will enforce this this kinda thinking by putting stages and hierarchies in the picture and talk about the body and the mind/ego, the soul, spirit, super mind, infinity. And often all these are seen in orders of difference and progression and create an idea that your closer or farther to ‘god/enlightenment/infinity’. Now heres what I’m talking about and the big kicker. These experiences/happenings are experienced and interpreted as different types of qualities and experiences, BUT even the experience and interpretations themselves are itself ‘god/oneness’. There is never a moment in which what you call your experience that is not oneness happening, including the ones you say your out of touch with god or going into or out of or being oneness.

Pretty cool man. It’s all one from the most mudane to the highest concieveable. It’s the meta and the body and difference in appearance is ‘that’ to ‘oneness’. Let that sink in for a while, even the apparent differences is oneness itself.

@Shin (thought you may want to hear this one shin) This may be not completely related to this particular video but made me think of it when you mentioned focus. Something I realized a 4-5 years ago about focus is it magnifies what your experiencing. So if you have discomfort in the body and you focus on it with attention, talking about it, complaining in your own head, try to shift away from it or push it away (sure stretching may feel nice with muscle tightness), it just brings it more to light which can increase it. This is also true with pleasant feelings/stuff, in which you can bring it more into focus and experience. I played around with this for a few years and its really amazing how you can shift comfort/experience/situations internally just by where you focus your attention inwardly and outwardly. I know for myself one dogma I adopted years before this was that one must rest in all their experience, sometimes even just focusing on it and letting it melt. However due to mind conditionings such as focusing on our dislikes, discomforts, whats wrong, we often are making what seems to be going on more then it is and in this we are actually creating more of the suffering we think "just is". And when I was adopting this just sit in the experience and focus on it so it melts, I was actually just sitting in my dogshit creation of my own mind, letting it just stink up my own body and mind, when in fact I should of been cleaning house (putting my attention else where and not creating shitty beliefs). This is kinda a flipside and paradox on suffering that my video didn't address because they are almost opposite commits you have to explore, but thought maybe you could relate or benifit (I may make a video on it).

Hey man first of all great job so with the efforts and discipline you’ve put in so far. Don’t beat yourself up over not meeting your expectations just yet. These things take time. I read that your doing psychoanalysis, how long you been putting time into this. Tackling the intimacy issue sounds important but also let in it may or may not be the time for this to resolve, so don’t force it or get frustrated it remains. just surrender some of the belief and control you have that it’s ALL in your control, this is really important in my experience. Put effort in to some degree with what you do but leave room for the unknown/god/the mystery of life and growth to help. Your putting seeds in the garden and not letting nature rain on you ? allowing it’s grace to nurture the seed/you. The fact that your feeling stale may also be a sign that it’s time to explore and experiment with some new areas of life or spiritual practices. Maybe volunteer some of your time to those less fortunate then you if you have the means or look into new spiritual teachers wisdom. Youve got s good heart and yearning, I can feel it. Keep your head up and let in the love that’s out there for you.

Your question presumes a lot of things that may be false to begin with. Is all fear terror and worry linked to the ego? does fear only arise in relation to a someone? What is the ego even and where is it if it is actually there. Whats your main desire in wanting to know the answer to your questions? are you looking for confirmation about how much you’ve let go of the ego or not?

Like discovering new life forms under a rock simply because you were curious to explore nature, I hope you find this video to spark a curiosity to see with freshly inspired eyes a new possibility of living. The subject matter is meaning and purpose, but the answer may not found in them. Enjoy. Feel free to ask me any questions on the subject or feedback you may have.