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Turns out that what is actually seeking isn't an entity or an individual. The very thing seeking is just seeking energy itself. This seeking energy feels separate and lacking and believes it needs to find something to complete itself. The tricky thing about this energy is it actually isn't real, and there was never anything missing. So this energy will keep running on the hamster wheel forever constantly seeking for something that was never missing to begin with. This energy is called Maya the illusion of the self. So the Paradox ends up being that the very thing that is seeking to become enlightened was never real in the first place... So when it's recognized by no one that the Seeker is an illusion and there was never anything missing that needed to be found... all that's left is everything for no one AKA Liberation/Enlightenment.. ❤

Definitely will for sure...excited to meet her in person...Skype is nice but gets a little old after a while ?

I'm going to speak with her on Friday in Ojai California... I didn't realize she lived only 40 minutes away and I hit her up on email and she agreed to meet up... she seems great... we're having coffee lol

Although these words seem simple... there is a powerful message behind them and I've seen it transform people's life: There's less resistance to negative stuff now than there was before, I'm not depressed because I have absolutely no idea of what is going on so I can't create long stories about why these things are happening to ME anymore. Whatever is happening is what is happening. I love how it's nothing special I agree it's very humble though ?

Empty from the start

@traveler It really sounds like you have recognized some of the highest teachings emptiness within emptiness.. it doesn't get more complete than that... I'm happy for you ❤

@traveler oh good I'm glad you're doing better I didn't read the follow on posts or notice how old they were... It sounds like you stopped resisting the situation and the feelings that were arising..❤ Would you mind listing maybe the top three things that helped you the most with your depression and anxiety... I have social anxiety as well I was just wondering what worked the best for you. ?

You are not your stories... if you look close enough you realize there isn't a YOU. The idea of YOU is a compilation of stories ideas and beliefs that YOU hold about yourself... true freedom is freedom from the self which is already the case it just needs to be recognized.❤

"Everything is it including nothing"

@Kshantivadin it's good that you're really exploring this... so many just go with the popular belief.

@traveler Some antidepressants like Lexapro can temporarily help with social anxiety but you might want to think about some cognitive behavioral health therapy. Yes the way you feel is most likely your own mind and the effects of the social anxiety... Remember you can never control how people think about you... but you can control the way you think they think about you... Unconditional love helps so much with social anxiety... No matter what anybody says or does to you just love them love them love them. This doesn't mean you let them walk all over you still need to set healthy boundaries and defend yourself as needed ... you can still love them while doing all of this. Social anxiety makes us think so many things that aren't true and when you actually talk to these individuals you find out that they really sometimes like you even though you might have thought they hated you or disliked you or thought you were weird... So much of it is in our own minds... best thing you can do really is stay out of the mind and just love love love..? Social anxiety is tough I have it to so totally understand... It's not the show stopper it seems to be though... it's best just to accept that you have it... and try to get some help and work on love..

The ego is a dysfunctional survival mechanism... it's endlessly needy and never satisfied more money more power more Love more Enlightenment more of everything. Feeding it any attention whether positive or negative only reinforces its existence... Best thing to do with the Ego is recognize its unreality. When the steam has been taken out of the egos ego's sail it's slowly deflates and is rendered harmless...

Due to there being so much confusion about what was actually being pointed to, I found this video where Jim describes this pinnacle of Liberation fairly well. Watch from 16:00 - 20:00 if interested ☺

What are the benefits in believing / becoming directly aware that I am God? You can also list the benefits of just believing in god or not believing in god. Bump...

Nobody wants to hear we are just evolutionary byproducts of the Big Bang, but really once you relinquish hope and fear, and start really paying close attention to what's going on, all the evidence is simply pointing to this hard Truth. I think everyone actually subconsciously knows this fact but habitually avoids thinking about it due to the high level of fear and anxiety it creates. I've heard it said.. yeah but how come the earth is perfectly positioned from the sun in a way that life can thrive... there must be some kind of higher power in control of everything... The problem with that statement is, there is nothing to compare it to. If the universe has been here for an infinite amount of time, we would not be alive and aware of anything until the perfect situation took place that allowed for life to be created.... Well Here We Are... possibly the only life that has ever existed or will ever exist in this ungraspable and marvelous creation of Absolute Perfection. The simple hard fact of reality is that when we die it's probably lights out for good. People claim that near-death experiences prove that there is something or some kind of spirit that exists after death, but these experiences are most likely energy and chemicals in the body and brain going into overdrive trying to keep the organism alive as it oscillates in and out of consciousness and in some cases death. It's incredible what the human mind will conceptualize when the fear of death is silently in the background whispering it's Eerie reminders of the inevitable Darkness to come. In a certain sense this can be an amazing message because it's your ticket to get out there and enjoy your life because you only have one.

The claim is "Nothing Matters" Nothing in the universe has any meaning, purpose or value whatsoever.(this doesn't mean there won't be consequences for your actions... what it means are those consequences don't mean anything either) I don't mean this just Absolutely speaking, I mean it in every possible way that anything could mean anything(which it doesn't)....including relative. It doesn't matter whether you sit on your couch and eat cookies until your age 42 and die of a heart attack or you become the President of the United States and save the planet from the third world war nuclear attack. There is no one here for it to matter for... This isn't bad news... this is pure unconditional freedom for No One. Nothing you do has any significance. You are just one individual among a species of primate with billions of relatives living on a tiny rock in the middle of nowhere. So why do you worry all the time? Why do you fret over what other insignificant primates think about your own insignificance? Who cares what they think? The rest of the Universe certainly doesn’t. Why do you panic about deadlines and let that panic paralyze you? Trust me, your work is not worth the panic. Your work doesn’t matter. There’s no point in getting all worked up about work. Why do you care so much about getting money? So that you can buy things that don’t matter? If you have enough food to eat, what’s more money going to do anyway? Why do you hold on to the hurt from when others have wronged you? What they did has no significance at all. Let it go: set it adrift among the stars and all the empty blackness. There is a certain usefulness to the nihilistic vertigo that comes from casting your gaze across a cosmic scale. We silly apes spend so much time fretting and worrying about our imagined importance that we miss out on The Thing. The Thing is life is a remarkable and unlikely gift. It doesn’t matter if you are religious or anti-religious, or some more reasonable perspective in between–life is a gift. Some of the power of the Universe coalesced into a little bit of matter and energy that can know it’s here: you. You can see a sunset, climb a tree, kiss another living fragment of the Universe, and laugh. Even more powerful is your ability to extend grace, friendship, and kindness to other bits of the Universe. You can’t do a single thing of cosmic importance. So tell someone to have an amazing day. Tell a stranger that their shoes look awesome. Embrace your smallness when you think about your problems and stress, but own your incredible power when dealing with other living things. You are small, but you are very big to other small things. Enjoy the freedom that comes with being alive. Don’t let the grind of all our imaginary importance take away The Thing. " Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, herein lies the peace of God" - A Course in Miracles

The claim is: There is no truth to be found or not found... The exploration for the truth turns out to be just another sneaky tactic of the ego to perpetuate the belief in itself...SURPRISE!! Now it could be argued that recognizing there is no truth is the truth... but again that's the ego trying to sneak in the back door and claim that it found something. It turns out finding nothing is something is nothing is something is nothing is something Do you see a pattern everything just circles around back to itself. It's 0...

I love this nicely put... if I may.... let me just tweak it a bit because to me transcending feels like a word describing a different state somewhere else... I will try to make you proud: The very nature of seeking is a distraction from recognizing what is already perfect and complete. Like a character in a game focusing on details instead of playing.

@Inliytened1 yes part 2 is even funnier because he is starting to understand what Jim is saying but the dualistic nature of language has him tripping over his own words for like 10 minutes straight... it's freaking hilarious and they both are cracking up the whole time ❤

@Consilience The current belief that there was an individual ME stuck in Maya is the misunderstanding. There was never a ME to be stuck in Maya because the ME is the illusion... it's a mind-f*** from Hell basically. ? There is no YOU that could say anything to Maya because YOU is Maya....ahhh it's complete Anarchy run for your life hehe.

This is true... Yes...there isn't a you to have control of your thoughts or not... Desired and undesired thoughts will arise regardless do to human conditioning. The identification with these thoughts will cause the future undesired thoughts(which were the ones being mentioned)

@The Lucid Dreamer Thanks for sharing.... there's definitely a resonation with a lot of those. Embodiment of unconditional love is so powerful..

If you are saying it's the recognition that there was never a suffer to have suffered and that suffering was caused by identification with undesired thoughts as the self, then you are spot on ? It sounded like that's what was being said..

What's recognized by no one after liberation is that, there never was a you that was on a path seeking, and there never was a you to be stuck or unstuck in Maya. The belief that there is someone here that didn't fall into the no truth trap early on the path...shows that Maya the illusion of the self is still being believed in. The reason Liberation is called the pathless path is because there's no actual distance between what is being looked for and what is already the case. Its a lifting of the veil so that what is already the case is seen clearly for the first time. There was no one ever actually here to find anything that was the illusion itself...its to radical ?