mandyjw

That is the very moment that I was always told that "free choice" was born. But the Devil also embodies free choice because he/she got sick of God and wanted to go it on his own. So God plants the tree in the garden, and tells them it's forbidden and the Devil comes to Eve and says it's a good idea to eat the fruit off of it. Then Adam gets to pretend that he was just a victim of that whole situation. But really, he created duality to BEGIN with because he complained to God that he was lonely and so God created Eve for him. SO ADAM out of his desire split himself into two and duality, male and female. Haha. I got your number Adam.

@Beeman So you are entertained by the reactions, you don't act that way in order to provoke reactions for your entertainment? Is there a difference? I don't know.

@cetus56 So when God told them not to eat from the tree in the first place, wouldn't that have been the moment they were truly kicked out of Eden?

It's expressed differently, most of the time anyway. Men sometimes perceive women as having less ego because they aren't as familiar with how it is expressing itself, and they are less threatened by it.

This subject fascinates me. How does one maintain a serious practice without getting a spiritual ego of "doing" about it?

@Serotoninluv

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

@jbram2002