How to be wise

Like what?

Everyone has a culture, that’s just how the mind works. Question is, how attached are they to the culture. Will they get angry if the culture is attacked?

@Wyatt tyt fan huh.

Pick a specific moment in time when you were suffering from that thought, and Work on that. That’s good, but the Work is meditation. Are you meditating on this? Each question, spend a few minutes really meditating on your answers. But more importantly, you have to realise that you won’t get total freedom from just one worksheet. The ego structure causes your suffering, and that is what The Work is dismantling. Don’t expect the really good results until like 3-4 months into your daily practice. When you finish this worksheet, pick another disturbing situation in your past and get to Work on that one. Then the next. And so on. As you do many worksheets, you will get massive relief from negative emotions, but not in the way you are expecting. If you do this Work long enough, it wakes up inside you. You will notice that your mind is undoing beliefs all by itself! Until the entire belief structure collapses and eternal peace and bliss is reached. Don’t stop till you get there! Good luck my friend.

Today, a massive shift has happened to me. Whilst I was doing inquiry (The Work of Byron Katie), a huge force came from within me and stopped me from “doing the inquiry”. Instead, the force was itself doing the inquiry, and wanted me to just follow it. And I did. It was far easier than my usual sessions, and much less daydreaming. It was like getting on a roller coaster that is now moving without my action. To be honest, I wasn’t too surprised when this happened. Katie had always said: “If you do this Work for a while, it ends up doing you.” And this is how my inquiry sessions will go from now onwards. It will be me allowing my heart to show me the truth, without doing anything. Let me know if you know anything about this shift.

So, for the past few weeks I reduced wheat intake a lot to lose weight. But then, today, I saw in my kitchen cupboard an organic bread, which I never heard of before. Does that also cause obesity? Is it the same as normal bread?

But you said that yourself. 26:46. Did you change your mind?

Can you elaborate please.

It’s an idea.

@Leo Gura There was one big problem with your video. Most of it, you were talking about scientific concepts. But scientific concepts aren’t real. Fractals are just an idea. They’re mathematical/scientific concepts. Another question: We all know that in non-duality, there is no time. So how can you say that reality is eternal if the past isn’t real. ‘One second ago’ isn’t real, it’s just a thought in your mind. Isn’t it more accurate to say that reality is not real at all. You were talking about creation. But creation implies a past when the created didn’t exist, which is just a fantasy. So how can creation be real. Also, you say that space stretches out to infinity. But isn’t ‘space’ just another thought in your mind? There isn’t a reality to it. Please answer these questions.

Yes.

I remembered something that Byron Katie said. She said that, in her experience, memory is not thoughts of the past, they are beliefs about the past. They’re not true! The implications! Nothing that happened to you in the past is remotely true. Think of the implications that has on emotional mastery. All of the terrible things that happened to you in life are not true. You just believe they’re true. And you can unbelieve them if you want. Think about this: if you’re memory is causing you suffering, why do you choose to believe it. Why not just not believe it. Then you’ll have peace.

Yes.

Word games.

Lol, hunger is not behind my back (I wish it was). Hunger is real when it comes. But hunger has no cause. Because the causation is behind my back (i.e. not real). There’s nothing wrong with using the mind, using thoughts, and ‘behind the scenes’ theory. Just become aware that they are not real. They are not true. When Leo says that: space stretches out for infinity, I can’t believe him. Anything behind the scenes exist as my thoughts. So when I think about space stretching out to infinity, I’m confusing my thoughts for reality. Notice that if you can’t think of it, it can’t be real!

@Leo Gura When you say that reality is like a fractal, where you can zoom in forever, I can’t believe you. I have the awareness that nothing is hidden, nothing is behind my back, so to speak. Before you’ve zoomed in on something, the only thing that exists is what you’re seeing right now. There is no ‘deeper’ world hidden within the fractal.

@Nahm Thinking is when thoughts come to you. You experience the thoughts. Believing is when you regard the thought as ‘true’. For example, a thought comes that your friend is in trouble. If you don’t believe the thought, but simply experience it as a thought, there is no suffering. When you believe the thought is true, that is when suffering begins. In spiritual work, our goal is to unbelieve all of reality. We will still experience it, but we will be aware that it is not true. There can be no suffering in this state of mind.

That’s how much unawareness we have.

There’s a difference between ‘thinking’ and believing. Yes, the thoughts will continue. But suffering comes from holding those thoughts as ‘real’, to which you can reverse. You can experience thoughts with the full awareness that they are not ‘real’. And in there is peace.

Well, for happiness. It makes me happy when I stop believing painful beliefs.

What a big beard.

In the ‘How to shop for healthy food’ episode, Leo said: “When you stop eating wheat, it will be very very difficult for you to put on weight, no matter how much of it you eat, as long as you also avoid lots of sugar.” 29:53 So, as long as I avoid wheat and sugar, it will be difficult for me to gain weight. Does this mean that, if I stay within the recommended daily calorie level of 2000 kcal, that I can have chicken wings with French fries, every single day and not become fat? I’m dying to try this out. As far as I know, neither contain significant amounts of wheat or sugar (if at all).

Of course I eat some sugar. Can’t imagine life without it. But I don’t overdo it with the sugar. I eat it in moderate levels.

Today I had the most profound insight ever. What if I’m experiencing reality through thoughts? Everything you see in your daily life, the entire external world. What if all that was just in your mind? That’s the experience I had today. It lasted a few seconds, but was extremely profound. I had the insight when I heard Byron Katie saying that same thing. She was saying that “there is no reality outside of your mind. Absolutely nothing is true.” Of course I believed her, but I never really considered it because it was too obvious to me that the external world is real. But a few days ago, when I heard her say this, I thought about if this was actually true. All of reality, everything, is just thoughts and beliefs. No such thing as ‘being’? If ‘being’ is real, it is not what I’m seeing right now, the world of forms. In the ‘what is perception’ episode, Leo said that the external world is undeniable. I disagree. What if things are so radical, that even the very ‘obvious’ external world is completely unreal, and just your beliefs. Is that how much our mind is deceiving us?

I haven’t done any exercise in many years. I can’t even run for the bus. But I’m not ‘overweight’. If you ask people, they’ll say I’m normal but bordering ‘fat’. The one thing I do do right, is that I set a daily calorie limit for myself. Around 1600kcal per day.