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He is correct from what I expereince. You believe in separation and so you see it everywhere. It is non-existent. It needs collapsing. This is the work. Witness/awareness is indeed duality. But it is the stepping-stone. It is the pre-requisite. It is the most you can do. It is an abidance in peace and a non-resistance of all that is. Then reality rushes in to your aid to shower you with truth and grace. You have become a fit vessel.

Everyone is angry not just you. What you need is the antidote. Forgiveness. You have to hold in your mind that nobody out here wants to be a murderer. That's how YOU stop being a murderer.

Yes excellent. I think we’re actually aligned on this main point. I myself also don’t want to land on a conceptual conclusion like “I am consciousness” and announce that as enlightenment. It does seem like that can become another position the mind holds onto, which indeed subtly creates a split rather than dissolving it. Where I think we’re fully in agreement is that whatever reality is, it isn’t something that can be captured or reduced to a concept. Like you said, it’s more like an openness to what has no limits, rather than us arriving at a definition of it. For me, the sole difference is more in approach than in aim. I do not try to define what I am, but I do find it most helpful, practically, to notice how identification with thoughts or fear seems to create the sense of contraction and separation. So the “not identifying” piece isn’t an absolute truth claim, but it's a way of not reinforcing that contraction. So I guess I’d say I shy away from trying to describe what reality ultimately is, but instead stop feeding what seems to limit it in experience. Beyond that, I’m fine leaving it open rather than concluding anything like “it is consciousness” or anything like that.

Be the KISA of every devil. Knight in shining armor. Every sinner needs a saint and every saint arrives a sinner.

High quality is how fast and reliably you can drop what you think you know, how you think you perceive (you don't receive a world, you give a world) and who you think you are. It's all borrowed garbage. Meditation is curative.

I do see what you mean about not wanting to create any extra structure or a separate observer. For me, the point of noticing thoughts and feelings isn’t to define what I am, but to train myself to stop automatically taking them as me. I’m not trying to hold onto a position like “this isn’t me,” just to loosen that reflex. In the same way, with fear, it’s not so much about whether it is me or not, but seeing how identifying with it and feeding it seems to keep tension and separation in place. So in my case I’m less interested in defining what’s true at an absolute level, and more in not reinforcing what creates that contraction in the first place.

Suffering via legion bearers of evil is coming to get you. Maybe bad maybe slight. You can't forestall or forego. It may come the day you are born or in a 100 years. That's alas random or at best out of your hands. So all you can do is make sure you and your kids wake up on day dot. Or as soon as possible thereafter. That's your only task. Welcome to planet suffering. You stand in the crosshairs today. Wake tf up my lovely. Put in the time. You will awaken one day so why not now.

Broaden your definition. Can you define religion?

If you think religion is child abuse, maybe broaden your definition of religion. EVERYONE has a religion and, naturally, passes it on to their kids.

Child only does what parent rubber-stamps. Childhood is sanitised slavery, Be a good monkey and you'll be treated well. Schools are glorified baby-sitting warehouses. Churches are legalised brain-washing cults. Am I wrong?

They have no agency or standing. If they go off-piste for 5 seconds, parents call the police. Only a slight overstatement there. Source: I was that child.

For me there are two attitudes to life - gratitude and entitlement. I deserve all this and please feed me more despite hardly having lifted a finger vs. I have been afforded an incredible opportunity at the best time ever and I am in awe and humbled that I get to reside in this astonishing body. Entitled people blame their providers and want to quit when the chips are down while grateful people are standing on the shoulders of giants and marvel at the sweat blood and tears that brought them to this moment in time. And which you are is a choice.

Until you are of age, everything you do is imposed.

Reality is not two, right? What we term “awareness” and “appearance” are just two ways of describing the same happening. From one angle, reality is awareness knowing; from another, reality is appearances arising. And they are not separate. By identification I mean taking what arises, that is thoughts, feelings, even the sense of self, to be what I am. Observing them isn’t the final step of course, but it loosens that identification and sets the stage for the dissolution of separation. I agree that you can then identify as the observer, but even that can be seen right? So for me it’s not about holding onto the separate observer, but gently seeing that whatever I can notice isn’t ultimately what I am.

Does the anger experience exist? No. It is me pretending to be God and claiming you have sinned and are bad as if that could be true. No such situation exists. It seems to exist - because yours truly enjoys cosplaying God and smacking down other separate selves. It's an obstacle to Truth. Truth allows this but knows nothing of false stuff. Anger doesn't exist save in silly dreams. Your anger is why you didn't awaken.