Loving Radiance

@Arzack There is something pointed to that is implicit... Brace yourself, a long comment is coming. Feel free to take your time to grasp all what is said. How is shooting the messenger connected to meditation or awakening? Imagine a SD red warlord veiled in rage who shoots the messenger who delivers the capitulation. Does that feel like non-duality mumbo jumbo? How is the dynamic applicable to this threat? I am really interested what you think. I try to make the pointer more obvious. Hopefully something to reflect on to get. My perspective is maybe wrong, but for you to choose: You believe you can attain enlightenment and that reincarnation happens when you aren't enlighened (assuming you belief in buddhism). "Tripping up" means that this is something which keeps you contracted/identified/hindered. This is how you 'become' free. Be humble about what you think to know [I plan to explore more of humility because there seems to be a veil for me]. You suffer when you are "tripping up" (creating stories you belief in). Creating stories makes the "non-duality mumbo jumbo" harder because they hinder you. You don't want the "non-duality mumbo jumbo". You want stories because they may seem reasonable. It seems reasonable that there is reincarnation till we enlighten (again, assuming you belief in buddhism). Yes, you are right. This is easy and yet many people do not let thoughts & stories go. Many people choose automatic behavior to stay "tripped up"/hindered [this is something I also struggle with]. Nahm uses your explanation with hunter-gatherers to get you to realize that this is also a story you create. Erase all what you belief to know. Now, live your life without a history [my struggle too]. Then you are happy. Let go of searching happiness. Or not I mean, maybe someday you are so in vain, and suffer so much that you realize that the search is a story you create to 'stay alive'. It is not quitting the search, but rather finding what you search for (counter-intuitive). Analogy: Imagine a zombie searching for aliveness. It eats human beings for feeling alive, but it is temporary. After some hardships it realizes that itself is already alive - you are the zombie searching for happiness. It is what I referred to as fire. This is your magic button. Granted that it takes some to effort to do to make it effortless (habit building). Analogy to the warlord: You suffer by disregarding the messages (pointers to truth). You create your own suffering and hold yourself back from happiness because you are the warlord who wants war. Accepting the messenger (capitulation) would require for you to give up war. You enjoy to be a warlord because you feel validated by being a great one. You may search for something else than war (or think you do, but actually you don't want to) and have convinced yourself that is has to be found in war. And still the messages constantly come in and you shoot the messenger every time. Who would love peace so much that the messengers keep coming? When I said this I tried as Nahm to use your story as a pointer. Don't get me wrong here, stories are great; where would we be without stories? And yet again, you are so diligent to shoot the messengers. And the message is denied. You are again "too Good to be True" by being the warlord. Karma is a bitch because you suffer more by dismissing the messages. The 'Ad hominem'-card cannot be played here because it was the entire time about you. Much Love.

Yes, my friend got it through being on a party. He is in his 20s and had regular symptoms of a cold.

You have discovered the fire. Also, what is non-duality mumbo jumbo?

See if you can let go of one thought.

It is how we are wired, it is so attractive.

Have you experienced this? Do you meditate?

@Consilience I like where this is going...

@Emerald What do I face right now and how does it apply to changing my identity?

Nice insight. Btw, isn't building sandcastles and destroying them the point of life? In that image, what is God/Consciousness/Love/Truth? Edit: Wait, who/what creates and deconstructs? And why are there sand and castles in the first place? ...Is it possible to awaken through building sandcastles?

Thank you for sharing. Tears of joy and love.

I had to watch it twice to feel the inspiration. There is also some criticism of SD orange.

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@BETGR164128 Yes, I now see that too. I believed my thoughts and tried to make sense out of it. In my self-bias I thought that the realization of the zero/singularity-infinity relationship was brilliant. It may be useful though. As useful as a thought can be.

Can you say this in another way please?

@Nahm Another perspective: What I felt despite the emotion was presence. You ask what I feel while reading them. I see a storm on the oceans surface. I tried to get the deeper waters moving as the above, but it was as always just present/observant. Right now it does not work to identify with the stormy weather, to be caught up. Identification is more to peaceful presence than emotions [again creating dualities...], although there seems to be a attachment to "old self" and the seeming effects it has on the still thought-present now.

I feel disappointment that I was so caught up in the thoughts. This feels bad and I do not want to deal with it; more inspection would reveal more, for sure. There is now a want to forget all this and move on [could be avoidance]. To look at present thoughts and seeing them. The link was curious. More to learn/rediscover and manifest in life. @ivankiss The night feels so beautifully illuminated by the unusual presence/light.

Well this threat has aged quite well.

@Consilience @ivory This.

Some sharing. After a day of having been pushed out of my comfort zone (inferior introverted Sensing), a year of meditation and one Vipassana retreat I as well had this insight. Everything is meaningless, and out of this point of singularity and nihilism all meaning can be created. I create value/worth/meaning. I had written down the process of the Vipassana retreat's insight immediately before and during the realization. I would like to share it, but it is in German, so I would have to translate it; some things are lost in translation, including words that describe an experience. Vipassana GERMAN.pdf Vipassana ENGLISH.pdf Now, I forgot the experience of the insight itself. I just know the words and the intellectual meaning behind them [Is here protection/self-deception at work because it would have destroyed i/identity/ego? I feel everyday how I am deliberately choosing my identity and the clinging to meaning in my identity.] Does someone know a way for me to regain this insight? Memory/past is a dream; dreams are like sand. The experienced insight of the memory vanished. @Nahm Please, can you illuminate my past sneakiness?

Here it is.

@Martin123 Beginner question: How can you block someone on the forum?

Thank you. This really connects me to Beauty. Wisdom

@Vladz0r I thank you despite you haven't watched the series. It is good to hear another perspective. Uhuru Kenyatta is a curious one. It came across to me that people who work with drive and inspiration in their career would be payed the same as someone working 30h per week. Hmm, now I sense that the 30h are connected to the living wage, and anybody can work more and thus get payed more. Be sure to watch/hear the videos Leo suggested in Part 1 for proper understanding.