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i contend that better pointers than self realization are self recognition and self revelation to realize requires mind thinking / doing to recognize requires looking prior to seeing to reveal requires assumptions being dropped if you have no faith and receptivity, nothing will happen

desire absolutely anything in the cosmos should it come enjoy as best you can just don't pray it stays despise absolutely anything in the cosmos should it come endure as best you can just don't pray it goes you made this here, now live it in fully detached bliss as hereby described

daniel brown would echo your words: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=98A39B85ADEEDA1C!4108&ithint=file%2cdocx&authkey=!ALpq-rOsSXG_m0M

mind doesn't want god's help, it is taught self sufficiency and how to be top dog, grace and mercy are unwelcome notions grace is getting what you don't deserve mercy is not getting what you do deserve both are for the asking

philosophy is god exploring mind spirituality is mind exploring god

be so magnetic and charismatic in your walk and words that one day she may enquire if not it is minor ... the path is traversed alone and each has to find what works for them

addiction is turning a want into a need i no longer enjoy, it is necessary for me to live it is hard enough to gain freedom even without addictions

Michael Taft: And so how would you describe to someone this taste of awakening, this first [of the three] level? Daniel Brown: Well, there are four things that are necessary for the taste of awakening. The first is opening up to a field of experience that’s timeless, it doesn’t come and go in time. Events within that field still come and go in time, but the field itself is absolutely changeless, it’s timeless. And since time and space are related that field of awareness is boundless and infinite, limitless. So when you open up that field of boundless, changeless awareness, that’s what the beginning of the gateway to the Mahayana teachings are, which is very different from Theravada Buddhism because it doesn’t open up in timeless, boundless, what’s called “simultaneous mind” in Tibetan. https://deconstructingyourself.com/awakening-and-the-path-of-liberation-full-transcript.html

surrender is, whatever is happening good or bad is the absolute's will ... how can i be the means by which this here more smoothly more fully more lovingly unfolds

what surrounds me is energy ... my mind assembles that into holographic objects that i term world

time is change just sit still if you've time

time for a little meditation break ?

this is disingenuous, if we talk we need to utilize duality, of course there is only outer no inner because you are not a body, you are nothing from where everything emanates, you access this best by closing your eyes and falling into the void, we call this the inner in order to communicate a pointer to truth

there in Mind and mind, mind is an object in Mind, Mind is all this, mind is what an ego uses to create and dream all day and at night to practice itself being Mind so that (baby) mind grows up to be (daddy) Mind ... my dreams give me a taste of being what i am destined to become; they motivate the apparent small me to wake up and be the actual real me

spirituality is how many times a day can you stop in your tracks and say wait, this here is all just some paint being sprayed on a canvas until such time as it becomes your default vision you don't need a university, you don't need a teacher, you don't need religion, you don't need a book stop will you?

most believe they are a person surviving the 9 to 5, but they are wrong they are not that, they are the one who sees that person operating when you get a glimpse of that, for a time you split into two to become the survivor and the watcher, and these two joust for supremacy when the watcher prevails, then one's true nature takes center stage and enjoys the dream with unbridled joy and clarity

ego frames this question as either or but the truth is both and sure you need to survive and live the dream ... the question is, what is your priority ... are you focused more on the outer or more on the inner the outer is useless, futile, empty, meaningless, drab ... the inner is where all power and beauty and truth is and is discovered to be the maker of the outer and so its treasure can if wished be channelled to make for better outer experience the outer dream is merely affording you an opportunity to wake up, if you don't ego might survive one more opportunity for another chance or might not i am not here for the acclaim of forum users, i am here to slap myself over the head via aptly chosen words to jolt myself out of the stupor i am choose your priority live life accordingly

being hot is a kiss of death, you will look outward for approval your whole life and never find someone who wants the real you the worse curse existence imposes play down your looks in every way possible ... give someone a chance to appreciate and adore the sublime supreme subjective you they are the one worthy and this all applies to men as well as women

i constructed it when i needed survival and to be the biggest and toughest guy on the block to get the trappings and the ladies i outsourced thinking to an ego mechanism so it can do the job instinctively and uninterruptedly ... time is paramount to an ego that is not my agenda in this incarnation, i am here for my real nature to arrive and thrive ... to survive is the old paradigm and needs little concern

ego is all about maximising my territory my influence my reputation my bank balance my sex appeal my body count ego wants me hailed as king of the world it is seductive and cunning and beguiling, always saying you deserve all this, why permit some other sucker to get his hands on all the loot

don't dissolve ego, transcend it if i listen there is two entities in my head right now, one is real, one is an automatic response system whose job it is to give me a good life let ego do ego and in fact i have no choice in that but i don't mistake it for me, it is no more me than you are i am its watcher its minder its overseer its awareness i know my identity and look to live it fully

they melt on the mat, everything comes up be it anger lust greed hatred jealousy ... it is all worked through seamlessly the you who gets up is radically different from the you who sits down

i say forget karma until later, do what you came here for which is wake up, i rise at 3am every morning to hit the mat and will continue until its kicks in full time truth implores i be ultra serious, i haven't a second to waste, my heart can stop beating any time it pleases i am a man in the desert who has wandered aimlessly and desperately many days searching for just one sip of water i have plenty of time to pursue everything else both during the day as well as later on impossible for me to sit on a mat 24 hours a day

@r0ckyreed this is pure vice like mind grip on display, you mind is selling you delusion and you are the willing purveyor you are the poster child of mental enslavement, advertising what the ego considers the well lived life the monk lifestyle is one, doing what you incarnated to do and two, living the bliss of awakening thereafter, namely living in the garden of eden without a care or a concern ... there is no better life imaginable but you have to be out of mind's incessant grandiosity to see this i lived with monks for a bit, the benedictines at the abbey in san diego county and every day is a magnificent adventure never knowing what is going to full into your lap meditation is simply abiding in your true nature, not letting the mind's storytelling run rampant and deceive you into thinking it matters realize your true nature, start to integrate it, then let's talk about the monastic life it is perfectly fine to enjoy the dream after awakening and it also perfectly fine to play with the birds and the animals in the garden of eden

attraction, attachment, addiction = love to have, have to have, sure to have addiction is turning a want to a need conversely all needs are addictions your day doesn't begin til the fix is in ... you make sure you get it no matter what the one difference is addictions can be dropped i don't see addictions as bad for myself, if i am addicted i will force myself to take breaks so i can see the effect i am or have been addicted to everything but i don't mind because i indulge consciously rather than absentmindedly i give myself permission to do whatever body wants but i stay in awareness as far as able and doing this addictions don't pull so hard i take away their power and go along for the ride and one day they decline to being an attachment or an attraction and so i can say yes or no