Jay Ray

I sometimes get stage orange behavior and red confused, can someone explain the main differences to me. Thank you!

@OBEler awesome thanks!

I am trying to understand the idea that consciousness doesn't come from the brain and that consciousness is from God/universe and so I am confused on how to integrate that with the tradition scientific understanding of the brain. if consciousness is infinite then what does the brain do exactly? What is it's function from a spiritual point of view? does it have one ? how can I somewhat integrate a fragment of the traditional scientific views of the brain with non-dual spiritual teachings? is this possible to do? Thank you.

@dimitri Wow, I never thought to look at the painful part of me (the bored/upset) part of me as a belief. I always looked at it as if it was a small animal like consciousnesses which had a life of it's own and I had very little control over. This belief seems to be able to generate negative emotions though. like anger and the feeling of "I am not enough". Is looking at it like it as smaller being counter productive or should it be looked at as just a thought? what should be done about the emotions that come from saying "hey ego.... you are just a thought" which will indeed cause so much anger. thank you!

@dimitri yeah that is true. I have thought that I have no idea how really how I move my body except from the most primitive level. how do I move my fingers? ..... "well, I just do it... I move them" anything deeper from a concept I have not found except that I feel awe when thinking about it. I don't know "How" I do it at all. The "How" in anything really. I can actually feel my ego very slightly right now getting frustrated when writing this. However also, there is a lot of peace as well. It is like a slight numb pain of boredom and annoyance. have you experienced this 2 simultaneous feelings of peace and bored/upset. Thank you so much! Jay

@dimitri yeah that is so true. I guess I wanted to know as an egoic way of persevering myself from future doubt. "I want to know how the brain works with the non-dual spiritual models so I that I wont go back to stage orange atheism" is what my ego is trying to ask. "That is the real reason I want to know, which is to increase certainty in order to not fear losing the peace which leo's videos give me. " writing this makes me see how egoic this is but I still feel like I have a hard time with it. I know that I need to give up certainty. but I am not sure exactly how.

Wow, this is deep. I love when video games are used as parables to explain reality.

What if fighting back IS submitting to the moment. Because if we don't truly have free will, then allowing our body to fight back is in a sense submitting. This brings up the question, is our "willed" action going against the moment or is anything that we do a part of the moment? If I chose to eat an apple instead of a pear, is that submitting to the moment or going against it? Just a thought.