mandyjw

It's challenging to teach the law of attraction to people who have already decided it's bullshit and have been turned off by false positivity. There are so many personal development teachers who make people want to puke because of the way they embody phony positivity. That's one thing that you do really well as a teacher, you appeal to people who see through the bullshit of it. But there's still a challenge in making people feel authentically cared for, first you have to truly care for them but some people are so used to being insulted that they take still love as an insult. There's science behind the way we rewire our brain with positive or negative thinking but people still choose to reject it. You create with your thoughts. You get more of what you think about. If you think you are addicted to food, you will be. If you think you are depressed you will be. I guess that's why present moment awareness is such a good starting place for people. It takes the stories of addiction and depression and mental illness and dissolves them without having to use logic. You don't have to convince someone their story is false, you only convince them that the present moment is the only thing that is true. Even in teaching, the law of attraction is necessary. You can never focus on what someone lacks and also give them what they need. You have to focus on what they already have, the perfection that they already are. And that's the definition of love anyway, right?

We just need to start a fire and bring in some magical forest animals and cleaning fairies to spruce it up a bit.

There is no law of unattraction but get what you think about so if you think about what you don't want all the time you get it. I'm not sure if that's what @now is forever means. I think she just means he has turned himself orange.

I really liked what you said but I keep getting the sense that you hold yourself back and don't express yourself like you want because you don't want to take the necessary authority to do so. You think it's a trap. That's why you feel they way you do about Leo.

There's no post from you before that one? What video are we talking about critiquing? I'm talking about you critiquing Leo's original video.

Where?

@tsuki "My god, I wish I had the strength to debunk this guy. I wish I could be bothered to write a better critique of his critique. "

Oh, I keep forgetting, you're always above it all.

@now is forever It's the same problem as trying to locate the "you" in your body. The problem is that people are trying to repress their reactions and projections, rather than just letting them flow and letting true connection arise. So as long as you repress, or react by closing up and getting defensive, the same shit will arise again and again. It will until connection is established.

Just watch the first few minutes of Emerald's video.

You have an enormous light shadow.

Criticism is how we connect with people. If I give you a compliment you say thank you, then the conversation ends. If I criticize you and you engage with me to defend yourself, I get to know you better. We criticize just because we feel disconnected and are seeking connection. Maybe we even create the flaws we see simply for this reason.

There's a kind of positive mistrust of direct experience that is Nirvana I think. It's neither trust nor mistrust.

It does help if it is done with awareness on both parts. The person pointing out the flaw should be conscious that they are making a projection as they make it. Even so when you point out something to someone and you don't want to hear it, you still do. I went to an art forum full of liberal artsy middle aged women and tried to talk about my right wing politics with them. Within a few years they had won me over. No one goes through a conversation where there is vulnerability of some sort and comes out unchanged after.

You listen with your whole being. Try saying what you won't say first.

I was going to take a picture of a perfect apple and before I could, my three year old stole it and took two bites. And it seemed fitting so I went with it. So that's what happened there.

I don't think we get to choose. I think choice is only an experience/illusion of this life. That's just my guess.

But I just realized that I don't WANT to be a snake eating it's own tail. Goddamn it, where's the rewind button? Is this thing on a loop? I'm getting dizzy.

@tsuki Maybe he is lost for words.

@Joseph Maynor I made this for you. I hope it helps.

Do you choose whether or not to wake up in the morning?

What is Leo's message? One of love above all. Stage blue is the only real embodiment of community we know from past, that's why an attempt to build embody community that for the first time that doesn't have boundaries and accepts all races, religion and people reminds us of stage blue. Green tried and made a royal mess of it. We're trying to do successfully what green failed at.

@Joseph Maynor I know, I was right with you when I first came here. What is more important is the feeling of disconnect, rather than the reasons for it. Our own path is really unique so sometimes we feel less than when he describes his own. For example i haven't done many hard core techniques or experimented with any psychedelics. So when I first came here, I felt judged and estranged because of that. He isn't wrong, he is talking about his individual path and we all fall into making assumptions and traps of judgement when it comes to our own path. Our own path is part of our ego until it becomes OUR path. The problem lies in your focus upon the differences, not the similarities. As he said, go back to the video time and again. Watch his eyes, watch his face. Don't think about what he is saying. Is he telling the truth? I know what I'm suggesting sounds like brainwashing, but it's a type of meditation to tap into a connection and understanding with someone.

@Joseph Maynor He's building something together along with us. What part of what he is building exactly do you feel needs to be taken apart and put back together?

@Truth Addict Sometimes, you just know. Sometimes, the eyes staring back at you are your own. You won't help me build my sand castle? Do you think I'm deluded? Do you love me?