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God is happy with the world but suffering is my choice. I desire to take God's role and rule the world; as a consequence I invite suffering. I have perfect free will but God says please, why you want to hurt yourself? Choose the happy world and the happy life instead.

God is clueless about fear, anger, guilt. I myself am spoiling the luminous view. But just as easily I can choose otherwise. No need to hide or run. God is patient and kind while I toil aimlessly.

Good maybe, God not even close. No matter how fab all this is, it pales into insignificance compared to a glimpse of God. Don't settle for tacky trinkets. God is the only treasure worth living for.

Yes. Indeed everything is thought. The thinks begets the things. Most thoughts are seemingly nothing to do with me - save one. Accepting or resisting. If I accept I expand into what is. If I resist I seemingly contract and apparently suffer. Accepting is aligning with the absolute. It proclaims, God's Will be done.

I say there is just two actionable thoughts: acceptance and resistance. And you choose according to your state.

Like I say, it is a shift or an awakening from the apparent world to the actual world. It boils down to, what you are and what is here now. What you see with your eyes / in the mirror is a passing appearance and the world is / you are not that. This is the work. Meditation is a good practice. From there you abide in and align with the real you.

Anything has two meanings. What I give and what I get. What I give is what books tell me. What I get is when I let the thing itself reveal its meaning. Meditation is the method for getting.

Self deception is a preference for being spared the truth. Don't foist truth on me. I have truth already and it is is working for me. Don't speak the t-word in my presence. I am good thanks. Leave me be in this lovely little bubble. Leo stated the truth on his blog today concerning what is philosophy. Almost all don't want to entertain it. Allow me to wallow in self-deception. I have wife and kids to feed and I don't have the bandwidth for dream-smashing philosophy thanks.

Desire and lack are inherent to all in the world; they are inescapable. Accept all that you desire as normal and natural. At the same time accept that you are the dreamer not the dreamed. Your character can do all it wishes and you are unaffected. Keep reminding yourself this until it is the default. This is the awakened state. Now you can do anything and enjoy it yet not be attached. Whether you do it or do not do it, all is perfectly fine. You are beyond all this.

These all are real since there is one mind. Yet they can easily become distractions in making one seem special. That can keep one shackled in illusion. Illusion isn't life's purpose. Might be okay as a post-awakening play-thing especially if it might help someone else. A nice to have not have to have.

To experience gain or to experience loss is the same. One gains, another loses. One day is gain, another day is loss. The way to gain is to give. To give is to receive. The world cannot make you happy. Yet you can make the world happy. Give. Then your store-house increases and you are made happy. Each person and each moment is you. To give all is to gain all for you do everything to yourself.

The absolute implies no choice. There is one thing, one way, what is. Only the relative admits choice. To mess with the perfection since it knows better than best.

Evil is wanting to separate from what is. There are 2 problems. You cannot. What is, is all there is. Okay well let's just imagine it then. Second problem is the price of separation - suffering. You won't be happy full time. If you are happy full time, you haven't separated. Separation brings about evil. Thank goodness it's just imagination. But not so great when you're in the midst and can't get out. How do you get out? You do the work. Unimagine what you imagined. Deny the tree you see with your eyes exists. It does not exist outside imagination. So deny it and affirm what is - what is actually there. Thus undo every separation device. Retrain perception so it becomes automatic. The imagined universe dissolves.

Self help and self halt. The 10 commandments is the former - you do good to me and I'll do good to you. Won't get you anywhere.

Suffering is sub-optimal. Allowable but unnecessary. A problem easily fixable. The world isn't suffering. It is the seer of suffering. The seer needs to correct his perception. That is the work. And the miracle is this: when you no longer see suffering, you no longer feel suffering! Why? Because the world is you - tadaa! So now you will abide in peace and not have to go through lifetimes of suffering. You merged back to the whole. Manifestation is now enjoyed, no longer endured. The puzzle of life solved and everyone happy. Everyone will reach eventually. Reality approves of bliss not blight. Drop the blight and see the light. That's the whole game.