Princess Arabia

Survival is not just about staying alive, eating, paying bills, etc. It's also, for the individual, about surviving an identity. See Leo's survival series, it made me aware of this and I've seen it to be the case all around. If one identifies as a spiritual seeker or it could be anything pertaining to meditation or spirituality, then that's what is being survived, not just the body. This also applies to any identity one has ascribed to. This is why addictions are so hard to quit. A smoker that identifies as a smoker, "I am a smoker", that's an identity and it's the death of the 'entity' if it quits. Understand the nature of things and it becomes evident. I know when I say there's no one in these bodies it sounds woo woo and shit, but it's this that allowed for better understanding of behaviors or things in general.

R.I.P Anne Burrell. I used to watch you back in the day when I was glued to the Food Network Channel. Rachael Ray taught me how to cook delicious recipes just from watching her 30min meals program and I learnt a lot from the network on how to prepare meals especially Mediterranean style cuisine. I would sit there with pen and paper and make notes and write recipes down for future reference and your show was one of them. I enjoyed your show amongst many others of which one was Iron Chef. I remember when you beat Bobby Flay. Loved your hair and style and you were one of the greatest chefs on the Network. I was shocked to see the report of your passing. We surely lost a great chef and cook.

Ok, shorty!!

The sense of a separate identity is so neurotic and unstable, it tries it's best to cope, to become, to not do, not act as. It doesn't realize it's not those things it's avoiding being already and that it's only a felt sense, it thinks it can act it's way into being the Absolute. The Absolute can appear neurotic, looking for the absence of the separate self not realizing it is appearing as a separate self and that the separate self it thinks itself to be isn't really there. It likes to play the game of hide and seek with itself. It can't escape itself because it's everything, but it can surely appear as if it's not. This is me writing as if I'm saying something to an other. Then when other responds, it affirms that other. What if I was to go about life and in a world where no one ever responds to me. I talk to people but they don't acknowledge my presence. Everywhere and everybody. Do you think I'd feel as if I'm alive or here. No I'd go insane or thought I was dead. Well, that's what happens with the sense of a separate self, everybody confirms it but because it's not really there, there tends to be neurosis that arises and a tendency to develop dis-ease and feels traumatized and depressed and anxious. The body senses a person there but gets confused because there's no one really there and it throws it off-balance through the nervous system. Dysfunction galore. Therapy galore. Guru galore. Worshipping galore. Bipolar, Adhd, Ocd, narcissism, psychopath galore, all types of personality disorders can arise from this dis-ease of the body feeling a sense of self. Thus the need for balancing with the aid of teachers, gurus, priests, gods, idols, therapists.....you name it. And the stories continue.......FOREVER because there is no end nor beginning to the Absolute that's being all these 'things'. Oh my!!

Lol. The regulators will start to impose fines and jail time. I say this lightly and as a joke but wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a thing. This world has become ludicrous and insane.

Your comment is too short. 😅

English, please. Lol. OK I hear ya!

Are you guys realizing that forums as this one is the same as shorts to the brain. This is why long comments aren't popular and sometimes spoken against. I've seen some comments criticizing long comments and responses and people sometimes apologize for making long comments. Some even say they don't read them at all. Some even try to shorten their comments on purpose so as not to take away from the 'shorts' perception. No one has ever said, your comment is too short. It's not just YT, IG and TikTok, here too.

I'm just taking in what you're saying. I really have no opinions on it either way. I would say the sun isn't really there or it is there and I'm not. Either way I can't say for sure. When I say I'm not, I mean me as a human seeing things. I'm speaking from a human perspective here and on a subject/object level so this is just perception on that level happening. If I don't intervene then there's more of a flow of just automatic writing happening and no thinking; just thoughts arising and being written; different than thinking.

I'm finding myself not really resonating with anything anymore. Not against, and not for, just neutral. I might speak on things, disagree with things (I'm talking spiritually), but the disagreements are merely just beliefs and perspectives, which aren't real or factual anyway. Just a way of interacting with life and expression. If I see where someone says something on a spiritual level, I see it mostly as words talking. So what, is it true or not; so what, is it false; so what, do I agree; so what. I might respond or I may not. I put up an argument less now because I realize that none of it is true and all of it is true; none and all of it is false in the sense that it's what is. There are different explanations, different, meanings and interpretations, different opinions, ideologies, perspectives, perceptions.....you name it. Which one is true and which false. My thing is it doesn't matter much as it's all nothing BEING IT ALL. Me resonating with any is a position and localized so it has to be false because whatever this is, is not. It's everything so nothing is true or false. On the relative level, yes, but relativity is also the Absolute so that's also a matter of what is. I also feel sometimes I act from the sense of I and also not from the sense of I. Makes no sense, that statement, which means it's not from the sense of I. I wouldn't have said something like that because it definitely doesn't make any sense to say I'm acting from me and acting from not me. That's what I mean. Even though there's no one in this body, I still feel the sense of it but sometimes I also don't feel as if everything done or said is from that sense. There are times when it feels automatic without a conscious being behind it and sometimes it does. It's weird. I'm not saying I feel unconscious or act from a state of low-consciousness, I'm saying sometimes it seems the body is acting on it's own but realized by something other than the sense of a me. Like I'm not seeing the body acting and saying to myself, look at the body move. It's after the fact that I reflected and either said I don't recall a felt sense of presence when that act was being done. Hard to explain.

If everything is, then saying everything is one, is.

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I'm not understanding this part. You're saying when the sun disappears, I disappear too, how's that. Do you mean the me 'inside the body' and just the body is left or that the body disappears?

You know what I was thinking today, how can someone else see or hear the same thing you see or hear with different eyes and ears. For example, we're walking together and the man in front sneezes, I hear it and you hear it but we have different ears. Same for seeing and any other sense. It was just something I was pondering. Are we really seeing or hearing individually......that's the question.

Yeah, you might have something here. I never really looked at it that way, but you gave me something to think about. When looking at something peripherally, it tends to be a bit blurry or even looking at an object at a far distance. That may mean that the further away you are and when the object isn't visible anymore, it really isn't there at all, not just that you can't see it. Maybe nothing is really there, close or far but there's a light that shines from the body that illuminates things into being. I've heard this theory before but never viewed it from this perspective.

.....and what is that emoji, may I ask. What does it mean? Looks like a frog.

You cannot live non-dually. Non-duality is death. Death of the individual. It's already the case, so your life is an illusion. Not life itself but the individual that calls it "my life". That's ok and it doesn't need to change. I say my life too. It doesn't matter. Calling myself 'this' or by my name is not necessary and is trying to apply it to myself. Sometimes I might say "this character" but it's still referring to something separate so it doesn't mean anything. Oneness is impossible for the individual to see because it implies using consciousness which is not a thing to be used unless it is in the context of 'i am conscious of...' which is dualistic. The eyes cannot see itself. One cannot feel oneness either because that's also dualistic. If one says they have experienced no separation, that also is dualistic. I think it can be intuited but I'm not sure. It can't be known either because that's also dualistic. The knower doesn't exist on it's own. It requires a source. Source implies 'source of something' and there is no source in oneness because it's all there is. The oneness one thinks it has experienced is illusory and an appearance. It has no real reality.

Most people are addicted to something. No exceptions on this forum. People don't want to feel like hypocrites telling you how to quit addictions for good while still on theirs. Most don't even know how; battling their own. Maybe rephrasing the question a bit would have had more responses. Maybe narrowed it down to "how to eat more healthy and quit junk food" rather than "how to quit addictions for good". That seems more a question for a trained therapist. In regards to Leo's video and "awareness is curative", it kind of puts one on the outside looking in. Almost like meta. Like watching someone else indulge, but without judgement. Keep doing that while showing love to yourself and the thing indulging in, by saying "I love you but you gotta go". Keep repeating and repeating everytime you watch yourself indulging. I'm not a pro at this and I get cravings myself but I give in since it's not that often or with many things. The cravings naturally go away after awhile. There are other things I might do but am not trying to quit and am comfortable doing them and is at peace with it. Sometimes the problem lingers when there's a battle going on; like confirming it's existence. Sometimes just doing it without even noticing can also have an adverse effect; can help. Who knows, things can naturally fall away on it's own. The body is what craves these things and it has a "mind of it's own". It operates even when there's no driver in the seat. It can seem to get programmed one way or another so sometimes instead of trying to quit the current thing, it's more effective to program it with another to override the previous program. Program it to start doing something instead of trying to stop something else.

How's me responding to the use of the word 'submit' shitting on his work. There was nothing to ignore as I wasn't addressing you in the first place.

That is your interpretation of what's being said. I don't feel superior to anyone when I address them. It's my way of communicating. It's very direct and to the point and never disrespectfully said. If you interpret that as my thinking I'm superior then that's on you. You addressed me harshly, which you admitted, yet you criticize me for responding harshly. I don't have a superiority complex about me and i don't have to reflect on my behavior like a child because I'm well aware before hand how I'm responding. The person I addressed initially didn't have a problem with the way I addressed them, but you did. That says more about the way you interpreted it than anything else. It was personal to you and the ideas you already concocted up in your mind about me prior. To me, that's a projection. Anyway, it's over and I've already moved on. The rest is up to you. Behavior is acting out, I merely typed words.

Nice video.

We don't want freedom and liberation. No we don't. We want to be trapped and caged like a puppy dog so we can keep whining for attention and food to feed the 'soul'. Why would energy that escapes it's mother's bosom to roam the world looking for it's independence want to be free and liberated. Irony is, that's exactly the reason why. It seeks freedom, liberation and safety through escape. It wants to obtain any and everything it can to remain free of captivity, not realizing how wanting, desiring and getting what it wants, is the very thing that enslaves it. Will it stop eating after one pistachio; no, it wants the entire bag and will not stop until it's full. After it's full, it will pause until it hungers again. Then it wants some more to fulfill the hunger and when it's full again, it wants some more. Repeat. It never stops wanting. This is how the body works. It hungers, then it feeds itself, then it hungers and feeds itself some more. Repeat. It's a never-ending cycle of wanting, needing, having, getting, feeling full....repeat. How is that freedom and liberation. If it doesn't eat, it craves, if it's deprived, it whines, when it whines, it feels bad, when it feels bad it suffers, when it suffers it looks to end it's suffering. It ends the suffering temporarily.....repeat. Is that freedom and liberation. YES, true freedom and liberation. Do we want to go hungry forever, no; deprived forever, no; whine forever, no; crave forever, no; feel bad forever, no; suffer forever, no; that's freedom and liberation. Free to feel deprived, whine, crave, feel bad and suffer. Is that what we want, no. We want to be happy and joyful all the time free from suffering. That's not freedom and liberation. Freedom and liberation is just that; free and liberated to be and feel whatever the hell it wants to. That's what's happening here, but we seek for better, we seek to feel happy and joyful and contented. We seek to feel fulfilled. We seek for conditional freedom and liberation. That's what we want. We want it for us. To satisfy us. When we eat, we eat for ourselves, not for other bodies. When we feel hunger, we feel it ourselves, not other bodies. When we seek, we seek for ourselves, not for others. Everything we do we do for ourselves; even when helping and caring for others, it's to feel good about ourselves. Yet, freedom and liberation isn't personal. It does see us nor relate to us, nor has any reason or purpose to because it's free. If it catered to us, it wouldn't be free. Yet, we seek something that doesn't even acknowledges our presence. We want from it, yearn for it, desire it, crave it, pray for it, ask for it, suffer for it, get addicted to it, think about it, kill for it, do everything in it's name and it doesn't even know we exist. Freedom and liberation couldn't care less about us and our desires and wants. That's how free and liberated it is. IS THAT WHAT WE WANT. NO, THATS WHAT WE'RE RUNNING FROM. We run to illusory objects, people, places and things for freedom and liberation. Illusory because they have no reality on their own. They are simply appearances. What is this appearance. Nothing. Freedom and liberation. Nothing because freedom and liberation cannot be anything because then it wouldn't be free and liberated. It would be limited and constricted to being that thing. It's nothing and everything. So, the moral of the story is we don't want 'nothing' (excuse the double negative). We've turned nothing into something so we can grab and hold unto and achieve and get nothing (something), which is nothing. We've become neurotic beings because of this dynamic and we suffer for it. That is the human dilemma. It cannot be helped. It's the nature of what's happening. Nothing suggests that anything should or can be done about it either. It's utter perfection and for no rhyme or reason. This is FREEDOM AND LIBERATION. It is not us and we are not it. IT IS ALL THERE IS. Independence means nothing, captivity means nothing, wanting, desiring, craving, having, getting, needing, rewarding, asking, denying, whatever, it is means nothing - LITERALLY. THIS IS WHAT SEEKS. It seeks nothing - literally. That's why there's nothing to get, obtain, understand, know, want, desire, need, crave, because it's all nothing. It's ambiguous. It leaves us with nothing. Reality screams this. Born with nothing die with nothing. Nothing needs to change and nothing needs to be done. It's already done. It's already home. ALL IS NOTHING AND NOTHING IS ALL. Let us continue to do and be what we've been doing, seeking and all, no seeking and all, suffering and all, joyful and all, wanting and all, desiring and all, craving and all, fighting and all, loving and all, hating and all, nothing will change and can change - literally, simply because it's ETERNALLY NOTHING and no-thing is eternal. Nothing need be accepted, let go of, surrender to or deny. It's all freedom and liberation. We don't want that, we want to not be freedom and liberated because we want something and some-thing cannot be free and liberated. THIS IS WHY WE DON'T WANT TO VE FREE AND LUBERATED, It's the game of cat and mouse freedom and liberation plays but will eventually lose.

Thank you.

May I respectfully ask what is the reason, if you had to power to ban me, what would be the reason for the ban. Please answer this question because I'm genuinely curious as to what that reason would be.

Thank you for this explanation and he did clarify what he meant and his message is more understood here.