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The only prerequisite is willingness. I am willing to give it my all by setting to one side all of me.

Yes JK is explaining the whole of spirituality in one quote, the pause is the entire practice, Our problem is we walk around thinking, i know. No I don't. I have to suspend the thought, I know, in order to have reality revealed. The only way to know reality right now is to first drop the thought I already know. ACIM calls it the holy instant; I forgive myself right now for thinking I know what this means. I repeat that it's the whole of spirituality. It is how truth is allowed to enter; I simply stop blocking it with all the crap in my head. Note that I say allow. I do nothing. I make no effort. Truth is all there is. Me is what impedes.

Best baker's dozen s-words for God: Source, Self, Sustenance, Silence , Space, Strength, Stillness, Sameness, Safety, Stability. Support, Spirit, Supreme Source: me

One things is needed: trust. What is trust? Letting go of what you think you are. So the real can enter. Few can conceive of undertaking such madness. It can only be done now not tomorrow. Tomorrow this tweet is forgotten and I am enjoying life again.

You dream for one reason. To wake up refreshed with all junk processed to live exuberantly. When you dream you suffer. Do you notice? And you make your reflections suffer too. Dreaming is but a glorified suffering asylum for yourselves. Why subject yourselves for a moment longer then absolutely necessary. The only morality is opening your eyes.

This is what every ego says. I am not good enough. I can't do this. I am feeble and slow. No. I am God playing a game of imagining that I am limited. All that I lack is making the choice to see things differently. I can change my mind right this moment and see the world anew.

The movie is the default for everyone; it is fear-based, lacking, toxic and painful. This is the world we are born to and inhabit. One day we want out. Yet we don't want out for fleeting moments but we want out to become the new default with life being peace, joy and beauty. First note that only thoughts disturb you nothing else. The practice is that when a disturbing thought arrives, you gently correct it saying maybe I can see peace instead of this. Then you enter the silence which will purify you of this thought. Put simply, the pause is the practice. Go there and be healed. Of course this is a momentary thing. Eventually just stay there. Nothing will ever disturb you again. You are out of all trouble. Truth liberated one from fiction. You don't manufacture peace, instead you remember peace. This is what works for me.

Meditation has to be an easing of ego to be anything. Else it will badger you to get off the mat and get productive. When ego lets up, truth is let in.

I can't know the truth. I can however withdraw untruth. This is the gateway.

Impossible for any person with a modicum of ego to meditate. You meditate for a hundred years and you get near the light say and all geo says is, nothing has changed man, you are wasting your opportunities, you are not being all you could be, you keep beating your head against a brick wall, get a life man. Every thought a person has ever has is an egoic thought. Contemplate that and see if you have a counterexample.

Most won't and many can't. Next lifetime a good chance maybe. Everyone is called. Only a rare few have the willingness it takes to listen and jump all in. The deeper you are the harder apparently the climb. And the deeper you are the happier apparently the world that offers itself on a platter.

For me its make up seeking pick up and the reverse for the man.

Running is modern-day public flogging for me. Certified suffering and not much satisfaction. Personally I prefer jump rope. I do hour a day. According to AI it works the whole body and burns 800 calories - which I need since I sit all day. I ran most days for years but won't run again. If you have a good target to aim at like you do then running can be fine.

For me it is abusing the sacred. Sex used well can elevate and evolve one deeply. That's its purpose. https://ia903105.us.archive.org/18/items/alloshobooks39883p/Osho a.k.a. Rajneesh (312 Books)/From Sex to Superconsciousness.pdf

Yes life should better until the day you die. Keys in no particular order are MEDS - meditation exercise diet sleep. Improvement doesn't matter. Just show up and put in the time. Other people are fine just don't let them dilute you.

Stop comparing and stop complaining. Everyone is on their way home. When it is, is up to you. Stop looking at others except as a means of getting home. Just a heads up that if you exclude one person even an Epstein you will remain here spinning your wheels. Love don't compare. We are the same.

Good blog post today on this worth a read.

Casual sex is an oxymoron, the ultimate entrapment and obstacle for men as well as women. Nothing good can come of it. Except perhaps - good that's the last time I ever have to do that. Since I saw the deep damage caused. Mine even more than theirs.

Meet people where they are at. If they want gods and gurus, give them. While people believe they are a body, you have to teach accordingly. If you are a body, you cannot imagine God otherwise since you think you are the pinnacle. If you tell someone, they are God, the ego will hijack the idea and run amok. Steps, stages, signs and symbols are useful tools on the way to the wordless absolute.

Regret is the signature of every ego. I should have done things differently! No you shouldn't. You can delay realization yes but you can't stop it. Delay is to party here a bit longer with the hot chicks. God is fine. As the good book says: Nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists.

Reality can be seen two ways. Most of us see through fear-tainted spectacles. Not because we choose it, but because it was ingested early and is reinforced daily. Through this lens, suspicion and scamming are are daily diet in every scene and screen. The world is dangerous. Everyone is a threat. Me I am a good person; the problem is always outside my front door. This is how we teach children, how we build society and is the frame in which we commend ourselves to ourselves, never pausing to question or even notice the lens operating. There is another way to see. It does not need denial of what is seen, only a willingness to look differently. I can wake up each day and put on love-tinted spectacles. I don't mean sentimentality. This is clarity in fact. Seen this way, every person is the universe expressing itself, compressing into a tiny form, carrying wounds, stains, and distorted eye-sight, doing its level best to survive, the same as everyone else. What I meet in the world is not apart from me. It is a reflection through me. Change the lens, reassemble the world. Fear recoils. Love recognizes. I am not stating moral doctrine. This is hard-won vision.

Two decent posts and subs perhaps worth monitoring: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesidehustle/comments/1qcizwj/spent_8_months_trying_to_crack_faceless_content/ https://www.reddit.com/r/passive_income/comments/1qdlo7r/how_i_built_an_8voice_portfolio_that_pays_me/

Projection-not-reception maketh perception! In other words, I don't see a world here before me. I make one up as I go along based on my assumptions, my biases, my corruption, my deception, all of which are based on my original dissociative boo-boo.

I would propose, do both. There is nothing better than spirituality. It simply means to see what is there - to train the mind how to do that. It's the highest meaning in life and what everyone will choose if they knew what it meant and what it grants. But yes, the world has charms too. We all wish for the creature comforts and the mod cons. It is not unspiritual to live life to the full. In fact it helps the spiritual path since we expose ourselves to all aspects of the world, the good the bad the ugly. The world is a laboratory to put our spirituality into action, namely to see things in the light of truth. So I say go hell for leather with both. You are young and you are smart and you already tasted the truth. So become say a self-help influencer and a mystic in the same lifetime. Why not!