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Yes well explicated. I am never doing what I think I am doing. And what I see you doing is not actually what you are doing. There is absolute content beneath every visible form. One is either reinforcing the idea of separation and fear or one is recognising oneness and perfection. Keep this at the forefront of every interaction. Everything being done. I am doing to myself.

All great pointers though still limited I would say. What we are after ultimately is an ontological shift not merely a psychological one. You want the whole to take you over rather than you taking change of the whole. It is something you cannot do but you can ready yourself and be open to the leap. Just remain at source and unfolding happens naturally.

It's a problem if your identity isn't in stone. My 24 hours barely change no matter what. I go anywhere. All are family. Parents aren't lepers.

My purpose is to realize the divine grandeur and not make do with the shabby substitutes at the surface. Do you not concur?

I'm only on earth for one reason my dear friend - to save myself time. If I am not sitting, I am taking the dream too serious.

For me the key to life is having rewards that balance disciplines. You could give yourself an hour of music after an hour of reading. Shower and snack after exercise. Chocolate after night-time walk. Some social media after doing important work tasks. Stack habits in twos. One that is hard and one that is easy. Don't do easy mindless lazy stuff until you have done something taxing first. Works well for me. Another good example is I go to a coffee shop most days. I read my book for at least 30 minutes before I order coffee.

There isn't a free lunch anywhere. It's the price of subsidising AI for the masses. This is how business works. I am poor so am fine watching a few ads.

I contend that meditation is indispensable. If you skip, you are kowtowing to ego's agenda. You are choosing delusion. I mean yes the goal of meditation is the dropping of meditation. But that means you are always in awareness so you don't need to sit quietly for a set period. However I find reading certain books meditative. In such a case, it matters not if you read one sentence or one chapter. It feeds the spirit and equips you to live the dream as a dream.

Yes friend it is true. I see either an ask for love or an act of love anywhere I go. Lots of love to you and thanks for all your wise words on this forum. Keep on loving and sharing and joining.

Reason to say that the limited is false is to shake people from stolid complacency. The limited will certainly not satisfy nor make you happy. You are not destined for suffering. There is a birth right available, your eternal inheritance, a kingdom beyond kingdoms. It is false that you have to settle for a meagre existence. Drop the false and savour the true. It's accessible and awaiting this very moment.

Life is simple, third for sleep third for work third for play.

Key to sleep is, sleep at same time and arise at same time. Don't listen to body complaining and groaning. Body is lazy and cunning and prefers sleep. When you're up you feel good and when sleep time you feel good. If you don't want to get up in the night, be sure and drink same ml of fluids per day and you will sleep soundly and not stir. I drink 2l in summer and 1.75l in winter and sleep like a baby. Feel restored refreshed and ready to go. I don't use a snooze button like I used to and I always get up gladly at the beep. Sleep is key to a good life.

For me no. When speaking, everyone is sloppy and light and just says yea right neat and funny whatever and you are cool man. When writing, if you do it right, you should be laser focused to sift the chaff from the wheat. Key is to say it in a couple of words. Nobody cares about screens full of salad.

You are correct that reality itself cannot of course be a dream, because dreaming presupposes a limited subject who drifts into and out of states. What is unlimited does not enter states. Yet within the appearance of a world, one's sense of being a separate self is taken to be unquestionably real, and with it comes one's experience of living in this shifting, unstable realm. In that seeming realm, “dream” and “illusion” act usefully as provisional tools. They meet the ones who believe they are a body-mind where they think they are and they provide symbolic actionable steps for loosening that belief. As these symbols are recognized for what they are, mere devices reflecting the mind’s unconscious projections, the conditions are thereby set in place through which the veiled depth of reality can dawn. Yes nothing actually changes in what is real. What changes is only the willingness of a seeming self to let go of the mechanisms that kept reality obscured. When these devices have served their purpose, they can fall away, and what remains is the simple fact of being itself, which of course was never altered.

Wealth needn't corrupt. It's poverty you have to worry about. Becoming poor you haven't a chance at truth. Poverty makes you brain dead. Just look at a monk. Never had an original thought.

Outstanding thanks. In meditation this is equivalent to going from I am that to I am to am. I work on such a practice each day and sometimes arrive. What you wrote is a solid simple explanation.

Everyone's a slave. Your parents make you that way that you stay that way. Don't dare be irresponsible! I need you here. Not to mention your priests politicians professors. Have a countdown is key to cutting the umbilical cord. Most won't. Most don't.

It's just one factor that will kill you. Each year you dodge one more bullet. If you live until 90 almost certain you have cancer. You can still live fine and won't even know you have it. Treat cancer talk as a call to wake up before it's too late. Imagine you are sure to die Dec 31. You better do what you put off all these years. You may not have it as good next time round should you get another turn. You have everything needed right now to wake up. Let cancer be your clarion call. I have heard of many people awakening after getting cancer - check YT. Because with that news, what else could matter?

What's not good friend?

Trauma is served up for as long as you need the lesson. You are untouchable. Even by an Epstein. Seeing it or suffering it are the same lesson, different intensity. You will get it while you need it. You crafted the lesson. You know what you are doing.

My life mission is about avoiding discomforts and enjoying comforts until death does its part. This is considered the good life. So sue me! If you can't beat them join them. Am I doing life wrong?

When I see a tree, I see the form. Form is paper over the formless bottomless absolute essence. How to realize and experience this? Forgiveness of the specific tree. I birth the form, I ditch the form. I placed the tree there for a reason. Well many reasons in fact. But only one is important. The tree is exhibit one that I am a separate form. I launched it from my mind to serve that very purpose - to convince me of and entrench me in separation. No I am wrong about that and have pretended for too long. Me and tree are both the same thing - finite forms opening to the infinite formless. I now forgive myself for the self deception of making a universe of separation devices. I at last awaken to the glory of the absolute essence that I am.

Yes. But forget the evil doer. Focus on you. How am I going to live is the only question.

Evil is whatever lets badness proliferate. An it's not my problem attitude. Today's world is cast in stone. Tomorrow's world depends on me. Do I end badness or turn the blind eye.

Women just want to be taken care of. And if they deny so they assuredly agree they are not taking care of any man. Attraction and body count amounts to cash in the bank. Or at least presenting the appearance of one who can take care of her and her needs. Drunk sex and mercy sex being some exceptions that over time make her feel a loser,