Princess Arabia

This question is the basis of everything. It's more profound than you can imagine; even though not really. My answer is this and, of course, there will be differences of opinions. It's all stories. What's appearing is not a story. What's being said about what's appearing is. How can we all have the same stories about what's appearing when the individual lives in it's own dream world. The person thinks it's real and everything that appears around that individual is real and it builds a story around what appears. Each story will be different because each individual sees itself differently. Out of that energy comes separation and it's own beliefs and ideas about the world it believes it lives in. This is also a story.

I wish you well, my friend. Didn't realize you were taking so many medications and suffered anxiety attacks. Good to see the meds are working and extremely glad to see you've managed to quit smoking . I know how much of a challenge that was for you. I think you'll be fine overall as I think you're a strong person inside and out. I wish you the best. Hang in there and stay strong. You got this.

Call it existence if you will but it's the Absolute asking if i'm the witnesser or doer. There's no witnesser or doer that stands on it's own. No reality to it. What you say is the witnesser and the doer doesn't exist. Everything is the Absolute appearing as such. Nothing stands out. Everything is everything. The witnesser and doer is an illusory experience called the "me", which is also the Absolute. There's nothing to witness and nothing being done. It's one happening by no one. What is existence? Whatever is appearing, and what's appearing is appearing from nothing. So, existence is really nothing. So no one is actually doing or witnessing anything. It's an illusion to think there is. There's no I am. The I am is an experience of it's own illusory world that owns everything that appears around it and thinks it's the doer. It's not.

You're the doer and the witnesser of nothing.

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There is no actual cause and effect, only appears that way. If you pay close attention to what's appearing (sometimes), you can see evidence of that. All spontaneous ordered chaos. I know, that's a mouthful. The raw inconsistencies of the appearance. This is why we have developed this thing called sense making. To make sense of it. Do you think when someone says something that makes no sense, it's them deliberately doing that. No. They're not stupid either. That's our way of making sense of what doesn't - calling people stupid. They have to be in our minds because they're not making sense. Well, when everything is everything how can anything make sense to us. Cause and effect is also us making sense of what's appearing. How can there be cause and effect when time and space doesn't really exist, it's all whole and there's no actual separation.

It's so beautiful and mesmerizing to see the Absolute working in all those Avatars. They are all claiming to know which is how it hides itself. Something knows, but it ain't those Avatars. That knowing is knowing itself. An Avatar or character wouldn't describe itself as knowing. Knowing knows, but no one knows.

Saying you have control is like saying you have two apples when you only have one. Control is control. Control is doing control. Control needs no doer for it to be control. I have control over this thing. Well, what is control doing or being, passive. Sitting there and waiting for someone or something to control it. We know what control means so I don't have to spell it out. What I do have to spell out, just for the sake of this post, is that control doesn't need you for it to be what it is. It doesn't need you to take control of it. It does it's thing on it's own. It doesn't need ownership to actualize itself. Control is control and it does it's thing.

That's so true. Only within the experience of the individual, though. It's all empty and means nothing in the grand scheme of things, which is still saying too much descriptively. Everything that arises in your experience is real, but only real to you. There's only you within that experience. Anything that anyone says means absolutely nothing to you within your own experience. So true. They are just bodies.

You must need company to dig deeper into your illusion with. Saying this is like the Jehovah Witnesses trying to save others so they can convince others of their own illusion of heaven and hell. Why do you care if others open up and go deeper. Do you really care about others or is it for your own salvation. If I can see others do it, then I'll know it's possible.

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The quest to "fix" ourselves is what's seemingly breaking us more apart. Our wounds heal on their own. The body is a tremendous tool. Give it the right conditions and it will do all the work. We want to give it the conditions and do the work too. All we are, are doers. Do, do, do. Fix, fix, fix. We don't know how we got into the problem, but we certainly do know how to get out. We must know, know, know. We know everything but how we got here. We don't know how we got here, who we are but we know how to fix ourselves. If you say you are God, then God don't need fixing, now does it. If you say, well, I have an ego and it's what needs fixing. How did the ego get here. First figure that out. Would you try to fix a car without knowing anything about cars. Why try to fix the ego without knowing anything about it. If you knew anything about it, you'd realize it's a construction of who you think you are and that you'll have to deconstruct it and start all over to construct a new one. Not fix. That's just a band-aid. There's nothing to fix but to deconstruct and to construct. Or you could just leave it the hell alone.

Not saying it will necessarily keep you addicted to it, but it doesn't help. Your addiction will fall away on it's own just like it appeared on it's own. What i'm referring to is a response. You've responded to it in a demonizing way and it's just not the best approach. Other than it being a construct, there's no real true nature to it. It's a matter of perspective and perception. It's an abstract object that one cannot really put their hands on and will be seen through the lens of whose looking. How can it have a concrete true nature, other than a conceptual one. You keep referring to the outside as in "awakening to social media's true nature". How about awakening to yours. Social media has no ground to stand on other than you. It doesn't exist apart from you. So inventing a "true nature" for social media is saying without your awareness of it, it exists; it doesn't. Try being aware of social media without being aware of social media. Also be aware that so-called enlightened masters and mystics can also have addictions with their heightened awareness. Awareness doesn't need an elevated state of awareness to be aware. It's effortless to be aware. It's like saying an orange needs to maintain it's "orangeness", consistently or it will turn into an apple. One only needs to awaken to their true nature not the outside world's true nature. Awareness cannot be elevated only consciousness. More conscious or less conscious. Awareness doesn't have a state. It's either you're aware or you're not. Whatever is aware of that so-called heightened state of awareness that you invented is also awareness. Based on what I've said about awareness, you're referring to consciousness levels. Yes, enlightenment is already the case, which most will disagree with, but if you thoroughly investigate that, it will become clear. It's just it's not the case for the individual that seeks it. Can't look for a purse if the purse doesn't already exist somewhere. Space and time are illusions and an invention of thought, so enlightenment is already here. It's the thought that seeks to enlighten itself. Let's not debate this, though, as it's a matter of personal perspective and I'm not here to change that part. I'm trying to be as practical as I can be but the quest to protect yourself is a part of the problem. Not referring to practically protecting yourself from bears and tigers and diseases, etc, but to protect yourself from being in lower states of consciousness. Those higher and lower states will happen all on it's own. Did you ever wake up and say, I'm going to put myself in a lower state? Well, the same thing goes for higher states. One can be in a club with a high state of consciousness and be a meditator and remain in a lower state. The difference is your perception. How you see things. There's nothing keeping you in lower states but your perceptions. Seeing dogshit can be gross or not, depending on your perception of it. Seeing yourself as an addict can be bad or good depending on how you look at it. Addict to change or addict to say whoa is me. Difference of perception and elevated consciousness. All within. Main thing is loosen up a bit and stop giving so much of your attention to the outside world. It will drive you crazy. Stop placing so much effort into trying to solve life and let life take it's course. This is not a weakness but a strength. It's because we feel weak and powerless why we feel the need for power and control and effort. The power is not in social media, it's the energy you give it; and in this case, by calling it a parasite and demonizing it. Now, you are forced to respond as such because that's the energetic match. No need to label it, just see it as social media. Figure out ways to not pick up the phone or whatever you need to do without bringing in awareness and consciousness into this. Those are also you labeling your being. High level, low level, who cares. Social media doesn't.

People ask, why do millionaires and billionaires still do things, still try to make more....questions like these. They fail to realize that they're just like everyone else. A seeker. A seeker, in this sense, never finds what they're looking for, it's always temporary. Now, they have to hold unto it. It's never satisfied. THAT'S WHAT SEEKING IS. If you're a seeker, which is just about every individual, how can that energy, which is the seeking energy, ever stops seeking. That's it's nature. The millionaire or billionaire isn't seeking money and more money, it's seeking something else. Something it will never find. The end of seeking is the end of the seeker. What the individual seeks is wholeness. What's already the case. How can it find it. It's already what it seeks. The seeker is wholeness appearing as a seeker. You see, we tend to ignore these understandings and then we keep questioning things. Keep querying these things. We take these suggestions as woo woo stuff and call it the Absolute state and that we live in the relative and have things to do. Yes, that's true, but when we truly see that this is the case, most of our questions fall away. Our confusions about the world and why it's like that starts to come together. We're all seeking something. Even enlightenment. We seek enlightenment for whatever reason. Maybe so we stop suffering or we become more conscious or we drop the self or whatever the case. How can something that's not really happening stop. It can't. It's not possible. We take more drugs and we do more practices, but only for temporary fixes. We're slaves to these things. Slaves to what we seek. What we seek is already here. I can't see it. I don't feel fulfilled. I'm not constantly happy and peaceful and ladi dah. No, it will never happen because i'm an individual. I see other and I see a world that I live in and have to constantly be defending myself against. I do, though, recognize the dynamics. It's obvious. There's no way around it if you're a seeker. Recognize this and the seeking becomes less painful. Less suffering. Less constricted and less contracted. It recognizes itself as a seeker and understands how seeking works. That's getting to know thyself. Not trying to be what you're not. I'm a seeker and this is what seeking does. Ok, now what. Do I try to not become a seeker, no. The seeker cannot kill itself. Death has to happen and fall away on it's own. The seeker won't even know it happened, it will just realize it never was. That it was actually in a dream. When you wake up from your nightly dreams you realize you were never actually at that beach - something like that. Do we go to bed and say what we are going to dream about. No, the dream just happens, and the dream just ends. The dreamer emerges and dreams and the dream stops and there's no more dreamer. We don't say we're going to end the dream now and wake up. Waking up happens on its own to reveal that the contents of the dream never really happened but only as a dream. Same thing with the seeker. When the seeking ends the seeker realizes it never was actually seeking but only as a dream. Seeking isn't really happening. It's an illusion. So there's no one to actually tell to stop seeking. No one to actually stop seeking because the seeker is illusory. Thatls also a form of seeking. That's the hidden freedom and liberation that we all seek, but not for the individual seeker. It can't recognize this. How can it when it is what it seeks. It's like the eyes searching for itself. This sounds like some Spiritual mumbo jumbo that you've all heard before and say, well, that's all good but we live in the relative. I do too and it makes me sad to realize that there's no end. There's nothing to do to end it, so this message is not going to help. What it might do, though, is bring relief to the seeker and it may recognize what this message reveals and loosen up the contraction a bit to make it more loose. Let go of the need for changing it's existence and to realize what it is and to accept it for what it is. Even that is illusory because that's the seeker accepting what never was. It's fucking horrendous, but beautiful at the same time because what's not obvious is what's beyond the seeking and it's already whole and complete and even the seeker is already whole even though it cannot be seen or felt. That's the beautiful part. Fuck, who cares. I want it now. Tough shit.

I think this is the case.

Yes, I get that but so are the constraints of the mind. If you knew nothing you wouldn't call yourself a human and tell yourself what it means to be such, so it's still conceptual. The energetic structures that build the psyche are absolutely real to the mind, not reality itself which is boundless and free. Understanding this will allow for one to stop fighting with those structures and allow for them to be what they are. We are fighting structures and using the same thing that created them to destroy them. Chasing our own tail. Caught in a loop.

This is impossible. We cannot control our thoughts. I can tell you're on a quest for control and control is controlling you. Thoughts come and go, it's our attachments to them that's the issue. The need to control them is still an attachment. What's needing to control them is yet another thought. Just let them be. Recognize them for what they are. The person that found their true love on there doesn't think so or the one using it for a business or career or to make friends or whatever positive effects it has for some. For what it really is and means to YOU. What it really is is a construct. A societal identity and a means of engaging with each other. Trying to get rid of the addiction is one thing, demonizing it is another. That only perpetuates the addiction. I don't know how to tell you to quit the addiction, but I can help with the way you see it and give you another perspective that might help to give you the appropriate tools to get rid of it. You know what I'm saying or you wouldn't agree, but it's the need to put everything outside of you as the enemy that's controlling the mind. Only thing i can say for now is to not see social media as the culprit because your interpretation of it is a part of the problem. We don't call something an addiction if it's good for us, we only call those things that are not as such, so keep saying it's not a good thing will keep you and it tied together and make it an energetic match for addiction mode - so to speak.

I'm not saying to deny the human aspects but understand it's just a concept. It's just a word with a meaning we've given it. Of course I say I'm human, but what does that even mean. I can't fly like a bird but does a bird even know it's a bird. No, we're the only ones that know and our knowledge is a part of our demise. I'm not saying anything is wrong, because it's not in that sense, but mentally we suffer the thoughts that we believe in.

That's it. There's a kind of natural wisdom that can come from that. When we insist on being human and of this world we enslave ourselves and then we do all these things to free us from our own enslavement. That's all that's happening here. The human identity will fight to stay alive even though it causes mental pain and suffering because it would rather suffer than to die.

The problem lies when we focus on the addicted thing itself and start to blame that thing. Imagine if there was no social media. Whatever year it was introduced to society, before that, there were still addictions. We go around blaming things all the time for our own demise. When something else gets introduced to society, and we get addicted to that too, we will blame that thing. We will continue to find things to be addicted to. It's not the thing that's the problem, it's out own state of being. Get to that root if you want to stop the addiction. We continue to look outside of ourselves for happiness and we look outside ourselves for what's causing the pain. Everything for us is on the outside, but we feel it on the inside. It's a tool, and that tool can be used in many ways. You have used it for your own destruction. If a building was wrongly imploded by mistake would you blame the tool that was used to cause the implosion. No, you would blame the people that made the decision to implode it. The problem was in the thought to implode it. Same thing with any addiction. The problem is not with the thing, it's in the thought. The generator of that thought. The belief in that thought and the belief that the thing can make the thought go away. It goes away temporarily but when it comes back, we turn to the thing again and the cycle repeats itself. Eradicate social media and the thoughts are still there and the believer in them will find another way to relieve itself from those thoughts. That's how it works. Now you have made social media the enemy with more thoughts. Thoughts battling thoughts. Sounds woo woo, but this is how the me energy operates. This is why we need to know ourselves and try to see how it is us that's the problem to us and not the outside world. You have turned social media into the enemy and called it a parasite when it's the thought you have entertained that's the real parasite.

When we feel sad, where is it located. When happiness is felt where is it felt. Where are all the emotions felt. Within the body? Where? The gut? The heart? The toes? The hands? The hair? We feel it in the body, but where. You might say the whole body but does your teeth feel happy. Maybe. Does your fingernails feel sad. Maybe. Is it in the cells. Does our cells feel the happiness and sadness we feel. Maybe. Why would something as a cell that's so magnificent and profound and is doing such a wonderful job within the body and communicating with other cells to keep the body going care about your new car or your devastating break-up. You might say it doesn't know why you're happy, it just knows so it can feel it too. A cell is going to disrupt it's important work of keeping the body working to feel happy or sad about your scoring an A in math class. Ok, so it's not the cells, but where - the heart? Same reasonings. Why would it care about the material things that make us happy. How is the heart feeling happy. I mean, I'm not sure where it's felt but I can't think of anywhere in the body where the emotions are supposed to be felt. If I ask you what makes up the body, you'll say all the parts but if I ask you does your pinky toe feel happiness, you might say no. Or does your pee have feelings. It comes from the body, no. Where are these emotions felt. In the body, but where. I don't know, I just feel them all over. Are you sure you're actually feeling anything. What is this feeling itself. Does feelings feel. Is that it's job, it's essence, it's innate feature, is it to feel. Does it need a body to carry out it's work. Do plants feel. I guess they feel within their plant bodies. Does feelings go around planting itself somewhere in order to actualize itself. Where do I go now. Ok, that man just bought a new car, let's go over there. Is that how it works. Are our perceptions responsible for our feelings. Feelings seem to be very dependent. Dependent on us. We feel all sorts of emotions from all sorts of circumstances. How do we generate these feelings. We don't know, it just happens? We seem to take ownership of a lot of things we don't have any idea of on how they work, don't we. My happiness, my sadness, my frustration, my this and my that. We own everything, but can't explain where they come from or the mechanics of how we generated them or how they came into existence. The only thing we can say is that outside object made me feel this way. So what, who cares about all that. I feel sad so it's my sadness. I don't care about your word games and mumbo jumbo. I need sex and i feel horny so it's mine. I get satisfied and the feeling goes away. That's all i care about. My satisfaction; not some spiritual nonsense about where feelings come from. I have feelings to care about, I have feelings to monitor and worry about not feeling. I thought they were yours. Can't you control them. Put them in check. If you can get a girlfriend so you can feel happy, why can't you do what's necessary to not feel sad ever again. Not after the fact, just not generate it to begin with. Enlightenment? Why do you need that if the feeling is yours to begin with. Just give away the suffering to charity or throw it somewhere far away if it's yours. What, you can't. It's abstract and not concrete. It's not in form. When we really stop to think about these things (not to mention thinking and ownership, but that's another discussion), we start to debunk our own existence. Our own neurosis. Wait, is that neurosis ours. Jesus. Who wants to do all that. Distractions where are you.

Ever notice you're walking around with a body with a brain, a liver, kidneys, heart, esophagus, stomach acids, cells and everything else that's inside plus the outside like hands, feet, ears, mouth, eyes which are all connected to the inside and just every feature of the body overall. The cells are so complicated and are working non-stop along with everything else including the heart's pumping blood to keep you alive, the organs are working nonstop and.....you get the drift. Now, that in itself is a masterpiece and a whole new world on it's own. How the hell is that just taken for granted. We are carrying around a masterpiece and a whole body construct around with us everyday doing our mundane things and searching for sex and conversations and work and money and whatever else we do in our daily lives like it's nothing. We see Einstein as a genius and smart technology so smart and magnificent and AI and all other human inventions how we marvel at them - until we get used to it anyway and then it becomes just another tool in life. We fight about parking spaces, who cheated on who, who said the wrong thing to insult us, who disagreed with our stupid opinions and all that while we're walking around with a masterpiece on top of.....on top of....on top of what. Whose the we and what's the masterpiece. Contemplate on that.