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Yes Thailand is becoming really nit-picky over who is allowed to enter. The entry process is discretionary and arbitrary - the luck of the draw. Cambodia is the opposite. Visas are issued like confetti.

Yes there is ill-will and resentment between the two but daily life I hear isn't affected by it.

Would be sweet my friend as I am leaping into the unknown. Are you still there? I got a few nice pointers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cambodia/comments/1umh41f/i_will_relocate_this_month_from_london_to_phnom/

For those of us who know not truth, right?

To seek another's destruction is to bring about my own. I am doing everything to myself in this life. Any ill will lingering in me is the only cancer I need healing of. The tricky part is, that seeking another's advancement and progress is also destructive to oneself and needs to be let go. Any time I compare I am self-harming and need to find healing. Of course on the level of form, get out of dodge in the face of any ne'er-do-well. I and you are not called to suffer unnecessarily. Just know that that person is perfect and doing their absolute best the only way they see fit. But also I need to make sure to recall every waking moment that which is the truth: Nothing real can ever be threatened. Nothing real can ever be enhanced. Only in this way do I bring about peace, openness and receptivity to the absolute.

Yes! known as Land of Wonder - for any other wonderseekers out there

God makes sure here is pretty shit. Mixed in with some pretty good. God does this so you won't settle here. Your job is to get out of here alive. But take your time. Enjoy the pretty good. Here is finitely fine. Home is infinitely good. After you go home, you will chill then set up another million incarnations to play with. And so it goes.

Thank you WonderSeeker. I was torn between Thailand and Cambodia. Had offers in both. Cambodia just about edged it. Better pay and contract and visa so much easier. I feel it's more an unknown quantity than Thailand. I like adventure and challenge. Much more amenable to expats than Thailand which has dropped its rose-colored spectacles about all things foreign. Cost of living cheaper and better quality housing available in PP.

Keep up the stellar work brother! Nice description of meditation by the way - it helped me a lot and I shared with friends.

The basic wider practice is to say, no this is false, to everything that appears. Every appearance, positive or negative, is hiding God. Deny every arising appearance. You say inwardly: I am being deceived and I don't know what this here truly means. I am willing to see differently. Now keep quiet and wait until your perception is healed and God is revealed. This is the first miracle that is allowed. Heal everything similarly until God is all you see.

I edited some clarifications above. Society is what conditions and programs. Everyone is actually the same and can choose to be Jesus or Hitler or anywhere in between. It's all a choice and all up to each person.

God knows nothing about good or bad. Good or bad are distortions. God knows oneness. We all know good and bad right? and in that we are sadly mistaken. They don't exist. To no longer judge good and bad is the way back to God. Don't see good, don't see bad, see God instead. Do you understand? That's the practice. Jesus was the first we know of who did this. He saw God everywhere and thus was able to do miraculous deeds at will. I need to see God, to know God, to act like God. As BR says, we are no different from Jesus. Because God doesn't make people and personalities; God makes sameness and blank-slates everywhere. She is absolutely right.

Life has a purpose.

Seems you follow well. Waking up is saying, I have a body, am not a body. Body is good tool. I use it well, or not. Your will be done, not mine O God. Pain is the message, more work needs doing. I still wrongly identified. Only body feels pain. Not ever changeless me.

Cept when we're young we typically say, let's just dance and be merry for death and doom is eons away. Plenty of time to buy insurance. The purpose of life I would say is to die before you die rather than stare death in the face and shakingly say, where is your sting? The grandiosity of youth.

You didn't go to hell right? Your life is okay. Maybe on your death bed, you will say why did I waste my life denying what is in front of my eyes the whole while. Next lifetime I am not going to ignore the inevitability and will toil to go beyond body.

The only problem in the world is interpretation. We see bad. We should say, this in my mind tricking me. I don't know what this means. I am ready to see differently. This ushers in a miracle. Everything gets reinterpreted. Your box is my bliss. Nothing can touch me. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

There are only two thoughts: I am a body-mind character surviving in a world and I am not that but rather something unimaginable and beyond. Each moment is a choice how to identify. Most of us default to the first thought since we didn't know we had a choice. The practice is to choose again and re-wire one's identity to its true nature. It is moment by moment. Meditation is helpful to practice. When identity corrects, then thoughts are of a different nature too. Love not fear, joy not pain, innocence not guilt. Thus don't worry about thoughts. Focus on correcting the root thought.

Leo calls it breadcrumbs. Another word is grace or miracle.

There are ways to be done with hallucinations. Helpful hallucinations. You put these in your path for when you want to check out.

Yes problem is everyone wants to wake up and everyone wants to stay asleep. Paradox indeed.

There is two things: imagination and training. If you can imagine you can imagine. Can you train mind and body to manifest it? Well dogs seem to be able to sleep still perceiving with their senses the outside world. Says in the bible: For man these things are not possible but for God all things are possible.

It has absolutely nothing to do with time. Allow it now or wait some more.