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Like Leo says "awareness alone is curative" Understanding this is the grace or unconditional love for humanity. We are born into conditioning plain and simple. Some move towards disentangling from the socially conditioned mind matrix known as the 'ME'. Others believe the answer is hidden in the tangle jungle up ahead. Either way it's all THIS and simply can't be missed ❤

? A nice steady underlying flow of peace regardless of external circumstance... but then again sometimes I like a little chaos lol.

Well it's kind of misleading. Enlightenment is beyond the typical ideas of happiness vs sadness. The constant grasping for pleasure and avoidance of pain is itself inner resistance. So in a sense it could be said Enlightenment is the acceptance of all emotions, and that acceptance is the peace of mind or the happiness which is longed for. Old Rupert would be better off just telling everybody it's the acceptance of all emotion not just happiness. And I'm sure he does somewhere ? ❤

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Absolutely and the resistance or internal struggle is what causes the suffering. When the resistance is dropped, the emotional response is greatly diminished. It's almost as if the thoughts themselves recognize the futility of judging situations as good or bad etc... The energy is diverted from its original habitual patterns. ❤

Be the Watcher of these emotions... no need to identify with them. Everything you said is completely normal.

Happy New Year brother, yes maybe some more of the me got out of the way. The love is unwavering and perfectly unconditional ❤

What's This All About? Starting at the beginning, what is advaita , Robert? "Advaita (Sankrit) means “not two”; it is the teaching we call nonduality. We all know what duality is—the idea that there are two or more things that exist, such as me and you. Nonduality is the realization, which occurs to some people, that beyond the appearance of separation all things are actually unified in an overarching actuality. This wholeness is called the Absolute, a condition which is infinite and eternal. All supposed separate things arise within it, because all things—not being eternal or infinite—are instead impermanent. So, the primal identity of both me and you is that our source is recognized to be the Absolute. When this realization is clearly held, our sense of being a separate individual dissolves into a deeper identity of Absolute wholeness. Getting to ajata, you’ve said that a person who’s had the realization of their identity as the Absolute is best in a position to understand ajata. What is ajata? Ajata (again Sanskrit) means “no origination,” or no creation. When something is said to have had no beginning (and thus no ending), we are getting into ajata. It is pointed to in a poem by Hui Neng: “When there is nothing from the start, where can dust alight?” It is a deeper look into advaita. In advaita, as a teaching tool, we speak of the relative (me and you) and the Absolute. Everyone knows what the relative is—me and you—but what exactly do we mean when we speak of the Absolute? Whatever we say about it boils down to concepts. These are appropriate for teaching Self-realization: but what actually goes beyond the concepts? Is this where sunyata comes in? Sunyata is another Sanskrit word; it means “emptiness.” Buddha’s teachings, over his lifetime, progressed from simple to sublime: the so-called wisdom teachings are principally the Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra. In the Heart Sutra are the six words, form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Emptiness is what ajata is talking about when it says that not anything has ever actually been created—or had existence—from the start. If not any thing has ever had actual existence, what do you have? Nothingness, or emptiness (though there would not be any thing to be empty of ). This is where ajata (there have been no real forms at all, from the beginning) and sunyata (emptiness is the only true or final condition, and even it does not “exist”) come together. In other words, as Nagarjuna has said, “Things do not arise, at any place, at any time.” Not even emptiness—which, being empty, is not a thing—exists alternative to forms: forms are emptiness; where there are no forms, emptiness is not something that “waits around.” Do forms arise in, or come from, emptiness? Forms generally are easy to understand. We are said to be forms. Because forms appear everywhere, our tendency is to think of emptiness as a form—another thing. Where the true condition is that emptiness is all there is, not anything exists as something called emptiness. In fact, since existence—“abiding” in some way—is not even in the equation, neither would the term nonexistence apply either. These—or any—designations are concepts about emptiness. But what is completely, utterly, totally empty is not the subject of description of any type. To emphasize the complete emptiness of emptiness, the writings on the subject point out that where emptiness is all that is, even emptiness would have to be empty of emptiness. So you must initially get that straight: emptiness is even empty of emptiness. Now, out of such a condition what could possibly come, or be arisen? Not anything can be generated by, or out of, 100% emptiness. Since emptiness is the “ultimate” condition, from the beginning, this is why it is said that there never has been origination or creation. So, the short answer is: forms are not forms, in reality: forms are emptiness. Forms do not exist, in truth. You said “we are forms.” Yes, to us creatures, forms do appear to exist. So, in the writings, forms are said to appear to exist, and in this case “exist” has a provisional meaning (emptiness does not appear to exist, because in truth it doesn’t). But every form is impermanent: every form is dependent on something—even forces such as “life” or “death”—for its existence. Not anything is a stand-alone, self-sufficient entity. If such a thing could come into existence, it would be permanent. It would not be subject to change: it would be immortal. So, in this sense, forms do not exist in any long-lasting, non-provisional way. This brings us to what appears: what appears to be real, or existent, is not the same as what is real or existent. A mirage appears to be real; a real source of quenching your thirst it is not. We appear (at least to ourselves) to be real. We are not: we are provisional—as are all other things—as mentioned previously. Our “existence” is in quotation marks: temporarily “real.” In fact, our true nature is emptiness—as are all things. When we as forms are not real, how real are any of the forms we perceive to be as real as we are? The world that we see only appears to be real? That is the point. In the writings, our existence, our world, is likened to a dream. You—whoever you think you are—are the dreamer of the dream. You are not outside of the dream, but within the dream. When the dream ends for you—when what you think of as “death” is present—the dream ends. “You” (which actually never was) disappear; everything you have thought existed disappears—the entire “universe,” with all its causes and forces. All forms are now purely emptiness, which they and the dreamer—despite appearances to the dreamer—have always been. Is it possible to awaken from, or to awaken to, the dream while still alive? Yes. That is what ajata and sunyata are telling us. When you recognize that this dream of life is your dream, and that dream and its dreamer have the same reality—that is, the lack of it—the “spell” has essentially been broken. What actually changes then? It’s simply a relaxed perspective on what’s apparently going on. In essence, we know that not anything is actually happening, in any unremedial or unredemptive sense. Life, suffering, joy and death appear to be happening (as the Bhagavad Gita says), cause and effect appear to be universal phenomena. But just as one does not wake up from a sleeping dream and take any of its events seriously, one no longer takes the supposed events of life as if they had any everlasting meaning. What about any meaning in understanding emptiness? That too does not matter. Whether one actually wakes up from the dream or not, the final ending of the dream for each of us will always be the same: the “presence” of sheer emptiness. None of us can ever make any “serious mistakes”: we, and all that we do or don’t do, are the same: empty of true reality or existence. I have only outlined some of the general points. If you believe that you exist and therefore have a mind, that mind will be bubbling with questions" -- Ajata Project Robert Wolfe

There isn't a you period. Just a bunch of conditioned thoughts identified with as the 'ME' character. When this is truly seen, that whole illusory self structure will start collapsing. Stop identifying with thoughts. There already isn't a you. You were never bound. This is the freedom longed for. ❤

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Yep, not knowing is the case regardless of thoughts about THIS!! ❤

Focus on the inhale and exhale during meditation. Don't resist thoughts but don't entertain them either... always return to focusing on the breath.

Hehe ? ❤ thx There is a conditioned body with all of the senses but its empty, as in there is no real 'you' inside of it. Thoughts arise but the self-centered experience as The Thinker is the illusory part.

He clearly understands the human condition and the mechanisms that create suffering and has the ability to communicate and market his message in a simplified way so it's easily understood by a large scale of the general population. Him and his team understand that if he gets too radical in his teachings, he could potentially scare off a lot of followers and miss the opportunity to help them in the long run.

Yes In the case of not understanding different communications what helped here was just sticking with it and being patient... eventually things start clicking.

@Natasha Happy new year! ?

Ah yes ❤ well you know me by now. It was recognized here the idea of any real meaning purpose value goals etc.. was merely a conditioned projection of the mind overlaying it's agenda over top of reality and creating the dream story of what should and should not be happening. And simultaneously with that being said there is absolutely nothing right or wrong with trying to make the world a better place or raising apparent collective consciousness, reduce suffering and such. There's no denial here that existence seems to have a natural intelligence and expansion quality to it regardless of the conditioned thoughts about it. Going with or against these natural apparent qualities of existence makes no difference at all... and only a conditioned thought would think otherwise... and so in that sense it's complete freedom Paradise the Kingdom of Heaven Liberation Enlightenment it's THIS!!

I just never thought I would hear Eckhart Tolle and New Age pop mentioned in the same paragraph.... yes 2020 has been quite the year ?.

@James123 Happy new year bro ✌

No? Have you ever gone under anesthesia? It's pure nothingness....but not even that because there are no arising thoughts to even label it.

you is a thought also...check ❤

Maybe get a nice camera and take some pics of "the miraculous play of nature and feel the elements, be in a really rough rain storm or feel sunrays" Get a little shelf with a sign saying happy new year with a blanket in front and take family photos... People pay for everything...its a win win ❤

Bingo...yahtzee...?

Existence is itself... okay I'll take that. But I was saying to LOOK for the you that feels like it's in the body. What does it consist of? Can you put a finger on it?