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I have the power to choose between the changeful and the changeless, the fine and the sublime. Let me think, to see if my ego has any objections.

Withdraw interest in the sense of self in the firm knowledge that it's not you. Cease assigning meaning to what happens. All that is falsehood. Then perception of the world changes accordingly first in glimpses and then prolonged as you align with the truth of what you are. ACIM describes the result as the real world which is as much as you can do yourself since God itself - or your highest self - takes the final step of restoration.

The world roasts and the AI toasts. A necessary counterweight in a hurting world.

It's what you say that matters not what AI says. Task is to make it express you better.

Suffering is two things: 1. Thinking there is a me here who matters and 2. The thought I am living a life that matters 1. is the identity error and 2. is how I keep myself from addressing 1. by losing myself in the world. Better is possible.

But should I Stay or should I go?

There are two things in life that can be said: “This is so cool and groovy and fine,” or you can say, “Enough is enough. This ends with me.” (channeling my best inner Blake Lively here.)

Criticism is, I put you down so I feel good about myself. Work on feeling better about yourself so you can correct the error without criticising the person. The former is seeking an ego boost while the latter is the behaviour of one with good self-esteem.

The relative is my story: my attachment to it, my belief in it, my choice for it #abc When I withdraw meaning to my story, the relative is no more and the absolute is as it is. I need seek no meaning from this nor hold onto meaning from that.

Beautifully said. 💞

He is the kid in the candy store. You being triggered is your shadow not his. Let him explore his thoughts. He is sincere and well-meaning.

Conversely, your sole problem is you are always looking to the next moment to be fulfilled: https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/1k6sfkn/i_noticed_ive_been_waiting_to_live_and_it_hit/ Do everything perfect this very moment and then sleep well each night.

This is the default reality for everyone: everything taking place in auto-pilot without any input needed from the person. It is the unconscious life. The fact you wrote so movingly about your dismay with this setup is the first step towards breaking its hold on you. You are not a person run by an egoic mind and you do not need to continue is this delusion. You are not the finite looking at the finite; you are the infinite looking from the finite to the finite papering over the infinite. Align with what you are in meditation and in every moment and thereby disidentify from what you are not. Why accept misery and why not embody joy?