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First realize that no ego can have a true mystical experience - though if you visit these forums you will certainly hear people say otherwise. In addition ego will claim there is no progress no benefit and no realization taking place. In fact it will bemoan only the negatives: waste of time, of energy and of opportunity. Its very life depends on this entire approach to meditation. In short there is only one meditation. To sit quietly and watch the ego. Don't try to change it, just watch attentively. What is seen is that it isn't you. You don't have to follow its promptings. Ego will be seen to have a specific agenda. You always have a different choice available in every situation. This is liberating to realize. And when it is implemented in life, this is called liberation.

Wealth hording is envy projection. If I am a billionaire, I most likely have access to very little of that. All that money is simply the paper value of the business I created. I just as likely have less money in the bank than you. Why would I give away my money? That will be an assumption someone else can spend my hard-earned better than I can. My money is doing what my vision set it up to do. I over time will distribute it in ways I see fit. And that's nobody else's business but mine.

Happiness to me isn't worth a lick. Your happiness is my sadness and conversely. Joy is the way. Joy is doing what you're meant to be doing. It's a decision not a state. Sure feels good. Joy isn't a high; it's a constant undercurrent of satisfaction and certainty. Yes I lose it plenty when the world has its way with me. Then I need to recall that the world is the tool I make to awaken me. And so no pain just joy.

Nice one. I joined a monthly book club in 2012. 300 pages, 30 days, every month. Haven't missed a meeting. Made a ton of friends. Downed a lot of good wine. I recommend. If there isn't one nearby, start one yourself then you get to choose the books.

My metaphysics is that pain is the clue I don't align with God. God won't allow any pain to ruin its perfect creation. We dream pain as the price of trying to be god of a tiny universe. God is fine with what I do and every morning calls me to wake up and enjoy the joys of home.

Ambition is for recognition as purpose is for realization.

God lets his kids dream to see how silly it is electing to flee his presence. You're good at making up universes but still mad for doing so. Where there is pain, God isn't. Thank pain for showing you that you messed up and will now do better.

Poverty is having to rub shoulders with one's fellow mankind. Riches is to buy a bigger wall. Other people are the only way to wake up. Before enlightenment poverty. After enlightenment, riches. Seek first the kingdom and this will be given you. Namely when you wake up, you can live the good life.

Fear is prominent in awakening. No ego wants to wake up or allows itself to if it is permitted any say. It's utterly frightening to be absent ego. To last in the world will be difficult. Because everything is same. To not eat is just as cool as to eat. To sleep as not to sleep. You literally have to force yourself to maintain this bag of bones. Why bother, right? You bother because your Godself may have something up its sleeve. Someone could need a hand.

The FT is Europe's Wall Street Journal. It doesn't just report the news it establishes it. It's required reading for anyone handling money. Economist is stellar too and has better depth and authority than any other weekly. Though it became more for gossip than truth, Both alas have seen their best days and are dying slow but certain deaths.

Happiness in the world is to occupy oneself dutifully. On your death bed you will be applauded by all for a well lived life. Wanting more than this is suffering. Having less than this is suffering. What more do you want! What the heck has a spirituality forum ever given you except an endless headache!

So go ahead choose day then.

Seeking happiness is a form of ignorance. You think you are lacking, something is wrong with your life, but your own simple beingness needs nothing, it is completely at ease and content as is. Get to know it, relax. ~ Nisargadatta

Bad for me or bad for you? Neither caused me to take a sick day yet. Is that bad?

It depends. Once the human starts to live for 10,000 years, which isn't far off, there won't be much difference between god and me.

It's good to have a plan B like when chat-gpt was down worldwide a few weeks back. So then pull out Claude or Deepseek. For the most part though, chat-gpt is the gold standard. It gets better each month.

Jesus is just the shortened Je suis, I am, That, I am. It's not a french perfume brand. The man Jesus was the awakened I am as the name infers. Christianity is an optional extra.

Sacrifice is unabashed ego. I scratch your back and you scratch mine. God can't know sacrifice. God is a giver not a taker, a lover not a fighter. When you wake up, you realize there are no people to be awoken. You are doing everything for your own benefit. And everything that happens to you, you asked for. The script is written and the question is, how soon do you want to get out of here. You get out of here by not letting ego have any say in what happens. That is what will prolong your stay namely your misery.

Seek ye first the kingdom and all the rest will be added unto you. Spirituality is radical but it also admonishes you to be normal. Blend in and don't make a song and dance of all this. So actually you can have your cake and eat it too. If you are not happier your spirituality is misguided. God is happy and doesn't put a foot wrong.

Torture is the assertion I can break you short of killing you. Namely you are the 99% that has a breaking point and will do my will. Torture for torturing's sake is sadism and that's a different discussion.

What I say goes buddy.

There is pain or God but not both. Choose well. To think God knows of pain is ego's best yarn.

There are two ways to love. You will benefit by what I give because you don't have. That's the ego's way. The better way is when I affirm that you are everything and you have everything. I don't do this in words but through thoughts else you will think I'm unhinged. To bask in the fullness and wonderment of another's being is true love. Doing this joins our minds in perfect oneness. Holding onto such thoughts heals the energetic pathways between us. I graft your mind to mine. Whether or how you have the grace to experience this too isn't up to me. The healed one's physical presence seems to help the other's receptivity. Words and actions may hinder rather than help.

Emotions are good since they tell you when ego is running the show, It's my cue to choose again. My companion to awakening. Whether for example I feel mercy or vengeance, I am perpetuating illusions.

Kindness and meanness are the same thing - healing to destroy. You are keeping them stuck. Which keeps you stuck. Truth is healing to save. You can't handle the truth, is a good meme but also a destructive lie.