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Key for me is it be easy. This is how to sustain it. Easy is the gateway to effortless. Meditation is self care. It takes work to get there until it gets easy. Then one day you can't do without it. Even this is a trap. If you don't do it, you need to accept. When you do it, it will be even better since you are not forcing. Meditation is what keeps me authentic and grounded, the master of my destiny and the captain of my ship. Final thing: don't do anything, just sit.

Evil is seeing evil. Walk in the raper's thongs before you judge.

Special is the lowest rung of the spiritual ladder. It's what we tell children. Next is ordinary. I am nothing special. I have nothing to offer you. Highest is holy. You need me. I need you.

Key insight is that nobody seeks to make me angry. Even if someone slaps me in the face. They are doing so because they have good reason. They will do the same to anyone because they feel it is appropriate. Note well that anger isn't personal. It is another person doing what they judge they must. To meet another with anger reinforces their bad behaviour in a vicious self perpetuating circle. My anger ensures they remain stuck. We both stay sick.

Don't be overly attached. Don't make an idol of something. Be relaxed, flexible, adaptable. Shit happens, on the regular. Most important is have some discipline but enjoy life to the full. 5 days a week is enough.

Anger is a great gift to aid awakening. Reason is it's not subtle, it's a sledgehammer. You notice you got triggered. Your ego won again. You can do better. Next time you can think with a higher thought system. Anger is the stupidity of thinking you know what is wrong in the world and who should pay. Your perception is the only evil because it sees evil. Forgive yourself. It's no biggie. You heal your perception and remarkably you healed the world. Rapists still rape. But you are using the higher thought system now and are untriggered. You are good and the world along with you.

I'd say happiness is doing the will of God as opposed to the ways of man. This can be interpreted on many levels. For example obedient children are probably happier than unruly ones. Following religion likewise might make some happy. At higher levels you might say the will of God is getting out of here alive! Happiness ultimately is living from your true nature which of course is what God wants and how God made you. And again this can be thought of in a multitude of ways and will change per your consciousness level. I can likewise say happiness is self knowledge. Once you know yourself happiness cannot be assailed. You are beyond what another could do to you.

In ACIM, we say there are just 2 things - calls for love and expressions of love. Calls for love means duality and dissonance and expressions of love are oneness and harmony. How to go from former to latter? Recognise that nothing real can be hurt and everyone is the same and wants the same. It's a transmutation. You forgive people's attempts at a power grab. They are merely calling for love. You yourself see them as they are, an expression of love just like yourself.

To me that is still intermediate. You are then egoless, good. And life will be nice, good. But God is not interested in form. Sure God can dabble and dump in a heartbeat in any manner. Only oneness forever is worth a lick. This universe in fact never happened - time is illusion, body is illusion, other is illusion; so God is not perturbed by what tries to take place here. Better than here is the truth.

Not to any ego ever. The chicks are too hot and hell is too far off to give a damn.

Families are what upend the path which is why I decline. You are my family now.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. -ACIM

There is reality and there is the illusion of reality. One is real, one is unreal. Question is how can the real admit the unreal when real is all. The unreal is imagined and this is illusion. The real is changeless, the unreal changeful. So what changes is illusion. The job of life is to sweep away illusions and to abide in the real. Like @Breakingthewall says, merge the perceiver and the perception. The key insight is that perception is not a fact, it is interpretation! I don't need to see illusions! I need to walk around declaring all around, unreal. This is the only mantra I need. It works.

Not denial. All kinds of evil stuff is going to take place. And sometimes I get my share. This is why one needs to expedite awakening, to get beyond all that nonsense so it doesn't make one flinch any longer. What I know is, I am doing everything to myself! These are my lessons I needed to heal myself. Illusion for me is what blocks the real. The appearance hides the essence. It beguiles me and encaptivates me and keeps me spinning my wheels so I never go within to undo it. It's a masterfully ingenious strategy, fool proof indeed but not God-proof.

You want miracles not magic. Magic is what says, man am I good or what - while miracles are what get everyone out of here alive not dead.

Sure its not simple. We all want to stay here. Like St Augustine says. give me chastity Lord but only I bang my current squeeze for a while. Forgiveness has been corrupted as a term and so it is nothing to those who don't understand that it undoes everything that is false leaving only what is true. There are divine thoughts and ego thoughts. One is, this person is cool and the other is everyone is cool. Just live as God does.

For me there is illusion then there is unillusion if you will and this is the opening or the miracle. For example someone slaps me. I feel angry and immediately I say how silly, this is utterly unreal. The slapper is wholly innocent and pristine perfection. And gosh I guess I am too.

We live in a place that admits definitions so we need definitions to undo definitions. We live in an apparent dual reality. We need to roll back one side of the coin and so we need a metaphysics and an epistemology to do so. For me mind is real and matter is unreal.

There is only one helpful illusion and that is the one that rolls back illusions. All I see is unreal, that's called forgiveness. This opens the door to the real.

Are you a materialist or an idealist? For me forms are illusion; so is time space and separation. Only what is changeless is real. All else is keeping the dream alive.

Yes we are on same page. When I say suffering is an illusion, it isn't to a body but it sure is to me. Suffering to me is nothing because I am reality and can never be hurt harmed or hell-bound. Spirituality is going from the unreal to the real. I am mistaken in what I am and I need correction. Ego is any thought that doesn't include every single person. When I cull this, I recover my true nature that was seemingly blocked by my entertaining limiting thinking.

Fact is however here IS suffering and death and there is freedom and eternity. Human is flawed and needs corrective measures and THAT done right is spirituality. You are proposing a false equivalence between here and there, like they are both good and natural and inevitable and everlasting. I am not sure. I know here is not so great. And I experienced better when here quit for a while.

It's the only thing you can't be addicted to. Ask instead, what problems it is visiting on you. For example, time management or relationship boundaries. Remember that ego and meditation are sworn enemies.

We are denying the absolute each moment in favor of a stunted existence right? Yes we need to admit the absolute. It's our nature and destiny. And we don't deny the relative. This creates resistance and reinforcement. All one need do is give up judging and reacting. This creates the opening for the absolute.

Suffering is being what you're not. Why suffer this indignity? Is there any joy or benefit in relativity? You strayed in to this realm needlessly.