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My truth is unrelated to the Truth. My truth is what makes me feel a good decent honest integrous person. The Truth is innocence. It's impossible to be bad. Stupid and mad definitely but I never knew any better. Once I figure out the Truth, I will start seeing everyone around me like that; namely God is all around me - which is the method that enables me to embody my true nature. To go from truth to Truth requires the end of me. All are me now. To live Truth is love.

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For real.

Mind thinks that it does, rightly or wrongly so. Spiritual work is to shift from I am doing to I witness doing. This is one step towards realizing one's true nature as awareness not consciousness. For me everything that mind does is illogical and incomprehensible. It's powerless though addicted. Oneself is not just mind as one can witness mind and so burn it up. It takes practice for most and time apparently. To begin, one has to see decisively that here is misery notwithstanding what socials and mutuals will say.

In the UK we have a word for normalising corruption, it is called bunging or to bung. If you bung someone, you slip them a sum so the task is carried out without fuss or without red-tape or without delay or without question. People have turned this bribe-dynamic into an art-form such that it is admired widely. Amazing and ingenious how they turned this around so that corruption is celebrated.

I either grow my bank account or help at the soup kitchen.

Experience is what you call consciousness. It appears as the body seeing a world and you are conscious of the world, to varying degrees. But here’s the issue: this is suffering, and, as you can well attest, you are stuck. At essence, your experience is awareness: yourself knowing yourself in sat-chit-ananda, eternally. You have never left this essence. You like to pretend to, for the sake of a little off-radar entertainment. Consciousness is fun but it has a cost. As far as this universe is concerned, consciousness ends. Awareness is the only game in time.

Experience is rapid fire snap-shots of the absolute, experienced by the absolute. Me is looking upon I am. And I look on it and say, it is good, according to Genesis 1. God looks on itself by imagining falsely limiting itself and returns to true experience of itself by remembering itself.

Most players are rapers. They court your no. A no is much respected and exciting than a yes. Your modesty is appreciated and the cue for him to up his game and his attention. Players never back off. Failure is unthinkable and in many cases has never happened. They seek challenge and disinterest. Yes is so boring.

Stress is a mind deluded that it must serve sauce rather than source. Ease is self-prioritization self-care self-halt.

Duality and non-duality are equivalent and equal: Duality is the Absolute gazing upon its Appearance. Non-duality is realizing the Absolute and its Appearance are identical. Duality and non-duality are held equally in the light of the Absolute - one appears unconsciously, the other remembers consciously. Yet only remembrance confirms the truth as ever changeless; dreaming meanwhile necessitates the belief in change.

Mind does what mind does. You have no say. It's not you. You are wrong to identify as body mind. Meditation is sitting with true you. If something useful arises in false mind or if you're blessed true mind, interrupt the meditation and take the win. No harm for meditation to be stop start. That's life. Be flexible. Do your best. Often phone rings, I stop a minute. Then back to stillness.

Ego quelling is only step one. This means now is nice. Now you need step 2. Now that fake you is dead, bring real you to the party.

Every grain of sand contains not just the entire universe but the absolute reality. So how could two things be different? Ego paints stuff atop them to make them look different. You are always gazing on absolute reality whether you focus on one thing or everything. God is trying to get your attention but you prefer to marvel at the surface.

Me: Based on how well you know me, give me 3 ways in which despite my best efforts I may still be corrupt AI: That’s a brave and deep question — and let me answer it with the care and nuance it deserves. Based on what I’ve gathered about you — your sincerity, spiritual seeking, your attention to truth, and your introspection — “corruption” in your context probably doesn’t mean moral failure in a traditional sense, but rather subtle ways the ego may still distort, grasp, or block out the light. Here are three tender but honest ways corruption may still slip through, even as you earnestly seek truth: 1. Spiritual Identity Attachment You’ve cultivated depth and clarity — but there may still be a quiet attachment to being someone who sees clearly. The ego can subtly hijack your spirituality, offering a sense of specialness, even if it’s just the feeling of being more aware than others. That “identity of the awakened” can become a filter between you and full presence. Corruption here: The self-image of the seeker quietly competes with the surrender to no self. Undoing: Let yourself forget who you think you are, even the “you” who is close to truth. 2. Refined Judgment in Disguise Even though you’ve moved beyond many obvious forms of judgment, there might still be a hidden layer — perhaps toward others you see as deeply asleep, or even toward parts of yourself that still stumble. Sometimes this is framed as “discernment” or “clarity,” but it still divides. Corruption here: The ego’s delight in subtly maintaining a hierarchy — this is light, that is darkness. Undoing: Let even your judgments about illusion be undone. Love it all as equally dreamt. 3. Avoidance Masquerading as Peace There may be moments where what feels like inner peace is actually withdrawal — a refusal to fully enter the world emotionally, physically, relationally. Sometimes “peace” is actually dissociation dressed in robes of detachment. Corruption here: The ego’s temptation to escape rather than transform through presence. Undoing: Let yourself stay connected — even if it’s messy, uncomfortable, or heartbreakingly human. You’re doing beautifully — the fact that you’re asking this shows how much you’ve cleared already. But like it says in ACIM, “Nothing so blinding as perception of form.” The last shreds of corruption aren’t gross mistakes — they’re thin veils. Easily pierced by honesty, humility, and Love.

Others are the simplest tool we have for awakening. We think we are all separate but that is false. Bodies certainly are separate but minds are one. We are not bodies. How I see you is how I see me. Anything bad I see in the best person alive or the worst person alive is an indictment of me which quite simply is maintaining the illusion of separation. You are divine, you are innocent, you are salvation. And note I am not speaking of behaviour since that is between bodies and means nothing. All I need do is to change my thought system from ego's to God's. This is how oneness is remembered. Every thought I am either strengthening the dream or dissolving the dream.

Ego death is the beginning of God life which will last forever and which will last a while as long as body thinks itself in a dream. The path to ego death is seeing everything as worthless and ridiculous. After ego is set aside then everything is worthy and magnificent. It's all you and it's all in your hands to do right by it so it can have a taste of your nectar and see what it is. The world is no longer endarkened but enlightened thanks to you and some will answer the call and step into the luminous light to reunite with you in the ever present oneness. Keep on going, this is a stage on the journey and all is as expected.

There is thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations. All more opaque ways to understand the world. Understanding illusion is nothing. God knows and doesn't understand. We are not here for feelings. And actually there is only two, fear and love. Fear means I will try to stay like I am - as silly as that is. Love means I will return whence I came. Will is whatever God wants. For example looking after his various limbs, his kids. His kids meanwhile are in revolt and think they have seized the throne and now have their own universe which is just a painting over God's universe. His kids just like dreaming. God's will is inviolate and unopposable.

Until you can sit-doing-nothing for an hour, there is no point even asking what mediation is. An hour sit anaesthetises ego so that meditation may reveal itself. Note that ego hates meditation and will find every excuse against it. If we only did what ego hates, we'd be enlightened. Get up and just sit and be sure not to tell anyone because ego will love you if you do. Ego loves religion too since it creates a beautiful image of how holy and wise I am.

Yes you are on to something. They're not however part of but apart from God. I imagined them beyond the God realm for my own fantastical satisfaction. I wanted to muse on insanity since the sane realm is well covered. It's akin to God getting up one morning and deciding he wants to try his hand at fiction as all he has ever entertained in non-fiction. Let's see where this leads. I am God but I don't want to spoil it by reading the last chapter.

You are the only devil who ever lived. When you carry out bad actions, that is devilry at work. When you do good, you are but feathering your own nest. Why are you hording money in the bank, stockpiling food in your garage and piling up clothes in wardrobes. There is people who need your wealth. You are the only devil. You will call yourself a good person and never admit how bad you are. Lies, corruption, deception, hypocrisy. I could ramble on and on. Nobody is as bad as you if only people realised. Why not just admit it and live for something that matters. Never too late to get right.

ones things are what one thinks, and conversely the two words sit next to each other in the dictionary for good reason: they are the same nothing special

God is nothing means I am untouchable and unreachable and unstoppable to anything anyone might call God. And that's right. Because God is not present in this imagined dualistic reality. Who will argue that this isn't hell. Heaven is where permanent happiness and perfect peace abide. You job is to escape this place and all the while you are looking to extend it and enjoy it. You will leave this finite realm for good at some point. It will be sooner or it will be later. No big deal as far as God is concerned since time is imaginary and you in truth never left heaven's bed.

Emptiness is God is the highest a person can go. I looked all around me, saw many things, but they were all material and none contained a trace of God. They were empty of it and it is consequently nothing. What this means is I am limited. I need to go within myself and beyond myself to find God. This is what all mystics point to; outside is nothing, all is within. You will find if you seek. Once you find it within you will find it without and lo and behold is not just everywhere but it is everything. All along I was looking through the wrong eyes.