mandyjw

As you admit in the title, you like doing it, it amuses you. Why is that?

This is really interesting. We start out life unconscious but are blissful in it. Some people stay that way. Something throws us out of the Garden of Eden, maybe it's a realization, awakening, life changing event, realizing the emptiness of success or just maturity. It steals out innocence. Then we suffer until we learn to go back to the garden of eden by choice. After that we have access to both worlds, the world of thought and intelligence and the world of peace. We started out with no choice, then we were given choice but lost our happiness and in the end we learn to keep them both.

@Swagala Yes, that's why acceptance of the present moment is so important to this work, because everything is always changing and therefore what we are asked to accept is always changing too.

@crog_wallz All his videos are his instructions. If you had discovered him a few years ago you were along for the ride. It's been a fun one.

Wanting to be content and not be seeking is a desire. Wanting to not have desires is a desire. It's ok to want to awaken as long as you know it's ok to want.

@Leo Gura The devil is literally the angel of light. The Biblical Lucifer successfully embodies the duality of angel and devil him or herself. The snake in the garden of Eden convinced Eve to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and at that time humans set themselves apart from animals. But God planted the tree and he created the snake and he kicked them out of Paradise. Tell me, who is the villain in this story?

People who usually value the type of intelligence that they have more than other kinds. People who have high IQs often look down on the more social butterfly type people and vice versa. It's just another function of the ego.

@jbram2002 I've done that before with an intense feeling of rejection, it was a very memorable experience. It felt like fire.

There is a point where bravely suffering pain becomes self flagellation and the ego tell itself that it is purifying itself because deep down it believes itself unworthy of experiencing pleasure. Wisdom is knowing is where that point is, and we usually don't find it until we self flagellate a little bit. It's all in good fun.

I experienced death/love intensely when my Grandmother died. Love/fear is a dear friend too. Intense love and intense hate are only unbearable if you carry great resistance.

You wouldn't have ever wanted me if you didn't secretly like pain. You just haven't figured out that the counterintuitive truth that embracing pain is far better than running from it.

@jbram2002 Remember that night we had to clear all the stuff out of the house so they could renovate the upstairs? Remember all the fighting in the rain? Demolition and construction can't take place until you take all the shit out.

Thought I was posting in my own journal, sorry.

I listen to them while I make art. Get out some colored pencils or paint and entertain your hands while you listen.

@Shaun Which is more beautiful, black or white? Shit makes the garden grow and sugar causes cavities.

We can never appreciate who others are if we don't know who we are. And they are the only ones who can show us the light.

Life. There's a reason the earth is the perfect distance from the sun.

“Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.” ― Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor

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@bejapuskas I don't smoke but I get it. The deep breathing, the repetitive motion. Meditation with a substance that will kill you. Putting your current state of peace above your own need to survive. Very enlightening.

My dad had one of those, he really liked it. You can also get a floor meditation cushion if you really care about posture.

It's a hunt for unicorn in the forest. The unicorn doesn't exist but you'll have a damn good adventure and discover a lot about the forest and yourself while you're trying to find the damn thing.

This is sort of like when you type out the same word so many times that it stops having any meaning. Looking at something stunningly beautiful also shuts the mind off. Lots of seemingly positive, negative and neutral things can lead us to a state of no mind.

@bejapuskas Yep. Smoking is a meditative, mindful breathing practice. I had that insight a while ago while I was running, I have a bit of a running addiction and it's because it's an easy way for me to breath mindfully without forgetting. A lot of bad habits are just unconscious ways of trying to be mindful. Getting lost in a TV show lets us have someone elses' experiences and escape our own repetitive thoughts. Nobody is sane, and no one can escape from spirituality.

I think I value collective happiness over personal happiness because this work has taught me that I AM the collective. I don't think I really have to choose. I'm getting much better at being able to be present with my life and not get caught in other people's pain. yet at the same time I try to have the courage to know what to do to help, even if that causes pain for the greater happiness. I was talking with my husband about this last night and I said how you couldn't be a good doctor if you tap into people's pain. You can't be there to do the greater good and help if you are caught in the empathetic suffering. it seems like a good righteous quality, but it's evil. That's the skill I'm working most on right now. I think Abraham Hicks introduced me to this idea in the first place.