VeganAwake

This randomness is scary and feels overwhelming/chaotic/disorganized So humans started creating endless stories about reality as a way to manage and cope. Endless stories created out of fear = Matrix

@Hojo Yes, it seems like thinking creates a storyline within or about reality. Almost like reality has to be given a story or its just random chaos. These stories are sometimes called the Matrix

Yes, in 2022

Mind or nothing Potatoes or pototoes

The body logs in but it's empty. Emptiness seems to argue with emptiness.

🤙well you're supposed to look 😂 Love u 2 brother

Who believes this?

For who? Who is having a hard time swallowing?

That which claims to be this identity is still the conditioned consumer or self illusion. It's just spiritual ego hanging on by a thread, but cutting this particular thread feels like certain death. But it doesn't matter because it's already not there. It's a trip 🤯

Accept anxious thoughts, don't push them away, but don't overly entertain/identity with them either. Recognize their usefulness, and also notice when they become overwhelming or ridiculous. Also getting enough rest, eating healthy and exercising is under-rated Imo

No escaping conceptual reality using the same conceptual framework that created it. The prison and prisoner are identical. The grass isn't greener on the other side, there never was another side. Removing a thorn with a thorn. Searching for the glasses on your head. Using the wrong map to explore the territory. Can't polish a turd.

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It also felt unsettling, like free floating or free falling, or being stuck between 2 realities for a while. But it became very clear, very fast, that there just never was a "me" from the start. There never was a VeganAwake character attached to all these conditioned concepts/beliefs......there seemed too be.....it was certainly assumed to be......but it wasn't really there. It was an attachment to self referential thinking or identification as the thinker. So it never was a certain way for "me" because "me" was an illusion.

Totally, That's what I refer to as conditioning. Jim's not trying to put forth additional concepts to believe in........he is pointing out that anarchy is the best word to describe the apparent reality when all these beliefs/concepts are recognized as BS. Liberation isn't a new concept or belief or paradigm for someone to live by. It's the end of the someone that seemed to identify and believe in those concepts altogether. Even the concept that there must be an ultimate creator/controller (god) of everything collapses. And that realization can be very unsettling.........Jim often talks about how terrifying it was initially.

Nonduality isn't saying that there isn't apparent separation between physical objects like, humans, trees, and rocks. It's referring to the internal self illusions which seem to suffer psychologically. That which seems to suffer when it's called an ass hole or that which seems to suffer when it believes it's not good enough. There are not 2 of these, there's not even 1