Mellowmarsh

People can say all kinds of things. Take being aware you are aware as a self-conscious being for example. Being conscious you are conscious can be a curse, insofar as to be conscious you are going to die can cause an existential dread. Or to be conscious of the pain of torture can be a curse because there’s no way to escape this self-consciousness unless you are unconscious which would be like a relief or a blessing. It’s like a mind fuck, being self- aware, tbh. Yes, you can also be conscious of all the pleasures in life as well, so it’s all about the price we are willing to pay for being self-aware entities.

I’m not sure, but I’m assuming he means loving yourself as if there’s a self there to begin with. Who is this self that loves itself is the one question to all our answers. Is Love actually real, or it it just another illusion. Is love just another survival tactic evolution uses to propagate life to continue. IDK tbh.

Kinds of Love. 1: Loving yourself first to be able to love others is a foundation of healthy, sustainable love. Rather than being selfish, it’s about having a "full cup" so you can give to others from a place of abundance. It relies on self-worth, mutual respect, and emotional maturity. 2: Agape (Selfless & Unconditional Love) The Focus: It is outward-focused and completely altruistic. It is a deliberate choice to love, serve, and sacrifice for another person's ultimate good, regardless of whether that person "deserves" it or can reciprocate. 3: Eros (Romantic & Passionate Love) The Focus: It is largely self-centred in its initial stages, motivated by the desire to be with someone and to fulfill one's own needs for passion, companionship, and intimacy.

This happens because the egoic mind struggles to process two completely different ways of viewing reality simultaneously. For example: You cannot be and not be at the exact same time. But paradoxically you can know being and not being is the way the mind plays out. You conceptually understand the duality of birth and death. Appearance and Disappearance. You can also intellectually understand everything is "one," yet you still experience the practical necessity of functioning as a distinct individual. As the Rumi quote drop/ocean states.. Rather than a trap, confusion can act as a bridge. Bridging the gap in understanding the illusion of separate individual experience to be real, but not what it fundamentally seems to be. Switching context is the key.

Yeah I like Jim, his laughter is so genuine straight from the belly. It’s so contagious.

😂 LoL Jim Newman morphed into Jim Oldman that died and emerged as Jim Noman. Lol

Love is an active force that fundamentally requires an object. Whether directed outward toward people, passions, and nature, or inward toward yourself, love cannot exist in a vacuum; it is the vital connection between a subject and an object.

Only an animal would know the answer, surely?

I can imagine!

If you’re body could speak right now, what do you think it would say?

Not quite right, but almost. The apple is not the tree because observing knows the apple separates from the tree. However, there is no apple without a tree, and there’s no tree without an apple because both are the inseparable Appletree.

Mind the Gap. Im Possible. Mind is known in this conception that is knower and known communication. But that which is known knows nothing, because the mind is never seen, only known. Closing gaps is the entrance to infinity.

Indeed, J What humans think of as “knowledge” and “sense of self” are actually just cultivated glimpses of their alienation, which is suffering. The detachment from truth feels alien. One cannot be attached to truth either, same problem because there’s no separation there at all. This artificial separation once recognised is the end of suffering and knowledge both. What’s left is pure nakedness.

Indeed, this one and only thing is infinite, thus is impossible to be separated. Infinity looking for the start of itself would be like the content of consciousness looking for consciousness. There’s no way to traverse the content of consciousness from consciousness, it’s one continuous seamless flow, from source to source. Paradoxically, infinity is impossible to be known without the apparent separation that appears as the observer / observed , albeit illusory. As this one and only thing cannot be divided from its own essence without ceasing to be what it is. This one and only thing "one" or “ infinity” can never truly be separated from itself. Because a thing is identical to itself by definition, absolute separation is a logical impossibility.