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@roopepa Beautiful. ??

@fopylo Sounds like you’re putting yourself through the ringer my man. Be easier on yourself, more loving with yourself. You’re on day two of a completely new place, experience and people. It’s totally normal for it to take some time to adjust. Let go of the expectation that it’s supposed to be some other way. If you’re nervous, don’t mentally resist, just mentally note - ok, I’m nervous. Makes sense, pretty much everyone has some similar feelings when somewhere new. Allow time to adjust. If you sense that you’re overthinking or thinking too much about what people might be thinking of you… stop for a minute and take stock of what it is you really, ultimately want… which is too feel good. Go directly to the breath, to feeling breathing from your stomach, and allow the body to relax. Allow the shoulders to sink, the stomach / waistline to relax, face muscles to relax, etc. Choose what thoughts you focus on, you’re in control of that. Let others feel what they’re thinking, you feel what you’re thinking. Choose what you’re thinking, and zoom out. When you noice you’re sweating a detail, or what one person might think… zoom out to a bigger picture view. Like, this is going to be valuable experience overall for you. It’s tough now, but you’re gaining experience, character, etc. Then next time around in situations like this, that’ll all come to bat naturally for you. And if you feel like you don’t know how to be, or to act, etc… welcome to the club man. Nobody knows. It’s like this movie just has ‘play’. No script. No instructions. Everyone feels like you do sometimes, especially when experiencing something altogether new. And not one person on this planet really knows what they’re doing. You experience… you know more of what you don’t prefer & what you do prefer… allow gentle, effortless focus on what you do prefer. That will be your future experience. And really, I’ve read a fair amount of your contributions here. Give yourself more credit than you do, honestly. You’re a smart, energetic, driven, creative and ambitious guy. Allow yourself to know and feel that. You have a lot going for you, and you deserve to feel good about it.

@ivankiss Wonderful idea. I’ll whip something up soon.

@7thLetter I guess what came to mind was content rather than personality. When I think of blunt, I think of without concession. Jim Newman‘s content comes to mind. Leo’s content seems both razor sharp and deeply informative. Seems thoughtful, caring, or taking the time.

@7thLetter I just noticed how that could be taken funny, as if I actually think he’s (his videos) blunt. Not how it was meant. Very funny though.

Reframe ‘How can I become more organized’ to how can I experience more organization… and like magic, you already have.

Not sure if one can consume creating, but surely one creates being a consumer.

Blunt?! Seems so sweet and soft spoken to me. Weird.

@SaWaSaurus Without argument, for the meditative mind if you will, this is most simple. Is I a thought, like any other thought - or a significant thought, an identity? Does I point to something outward, or some’thing’ ineffable, inward?

@Windappreciator Some people indeed do have selfish intentions and don’t mind the damage and wreckage they cause others along their way. They will rationalize & justify rather than purify. It’s just ‘where they’re at’ / not ready for karma purification. What stands to be realized is there is no assertion. For one to be damaged so to speak, one must go along, be influenced, knowingly or otherwise. You could explore… in regard to fighting it thought wise - how is this being attacked by psychic mental energy not also a thought? An introspective inquiry might be how do I know for sure this undesirable feeling is caused by the asserted psychic energy upon me… vs the undesirable feeling being the response to believing this is the case. What if the feeling response / message is direct, as in, in regard to the thoughts of fighting of something, of there being something to fight against… what if the feeling is ‘saying’, there’s nothing to fight my dear. We tend to create & experience more, of whatever we focus upon. Often the solution to a problem, is the letting go of the problem perspective. “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” - Jesus That quote could have an insulting ring to it, as if it implies one is ‘being childish’, but there are many interpretations. Side note… is music in your life? Do you utilize it, to relate, to purify, to get under that thought radar and liberate? It’s powerful. Your jams, whatever they be, with some cardio… forgetaboutit. (You literally forget about it ) and the true nature rises in, of, as, and through the clearing. Then things get much… clearer. Maybe transmuting energy, rather than focusing on the thoughts of assertion.

These might be very useful reads. Might bring about more of a bird’s eye view in regard to what you’re experiencing, where you’re at on the path, how you’re interpreting what you’re experiencing relative to what lies ahead upon letting go of what isn’t serving you or resonating.

Wow! There’s really no ‘me’, there’s actually no separate self! No separation! Now how can I use this to my advantage…? Muah ah ah ah ah

@Tefikos You can’t get poor enough to make someone rich. You can not get sick enough to make someone healthy. You can never suffer enough to make someone else feel good.

Can you elaborate or put that another way? Not sure what is meant there. (I’m taking “psychic attacks” to mean not what people say, not what you think or any perspectives held. But that someone or someone’s entities are using a mental power of sorts to attack you.)

Levels of awakening is a defense of the ego. A claiming, “I achieved, obtained, acquired this level - which is higher than you’s”. An insistence on reality being what you know, while this is not accurate. An ultimate “I’m right”, which is just thought attachment. I don’t think you mean to, but if you persist in teaching while you’re still entertaining levels etc, you’re going to inadvertently mislead. You can say this feels great, but that’s creating karma to be cleaned & purify later. The intention might very well be for those you teach to know truth, but you’d actually be reinforcing seeking / state chasing, as if your students need to do or be x, y or z. Keep the focus inward on your path. When the outward of teaching occurs, it will be effortless & natural, free of influence of egoic ambitions, and projections of conceived / contrived defenses. Notice the pendulum swinging this way & that on that matter, and allow the peace & love of equanimity for yourself. Wrestling the ox yourself is not the time to teach. The pendulum will ‘say’ this is not at all about ambition, notoriety, money, self image, etc. The path is very tricky this way, as that is precisely what it’s (currently) about. Better to see sooner than later, as the fallout, the karma, is intrinsic, not avoidable or story-it-away-able.

What is meant by ‘one learns from it’?

@PlayOnWords It’s most probable this will instantly be deflected & projected, like Nahm’s always tryin to one up, he always just says the opposite, he tries to be zen, etc. But, A & B are entirely story. Each word. Primarily, the conditioned notion that there are things. There is very literally no actuality to ‘conflation’. Absolute & relative are pointers. Neither have any actuality whatsoever. When they aren’t pointers, they’re thought attachment, just like gravity. There is no call to refute (gravity or no gravity) what is already not actual / just a thought story. The truth can never be verbalized or said, only pointed to, and not even. All words are utter bullshit. Not even! So to believe a psychedelic confirms what someone said, is to believe a lot of back story to derive that. Before that, (so to speak lol) you have to believe in self in other, in there being a past, a your past, in vibration being sound, in sound being words with meaning, etc, etc, etc. You can’t know the truth. If you know the truth, its something else, that you know, and it is not the truth. That you, the knower, is in & of itself a belief, a concept, an idea. The belief in gravity is contingent on the belief in a you experiencing it. Anything thought to be the truth is still the masquerading… of, the truth. Being comes before knowing is spot on. Only awareness (being) is aware of knowing. Only awareness (being) is know, thus, there is not a knower and a known, and there is quite literally nothing to know. There is however more to experience than could be experienced in a hundred lifetimes, apparently.

Obviously we are not.

@roopepa Pretty sure I got what you’re saying. It’s not just “called vibration”, it is vibration. What is vibration… vibration. What is vibrating… well, it’s not this ‘other being’. Vibration doesn’t per se have up & down, it seems to. Those are thoughts about vibration, which are of course ‘themselves’, vibration. This is the basis of the first video I made. Link’s below if you’re interested.

@roopepa Space is just vibration too.

Overspending is simply spending more than you have / are making. The ‘over’ is relative to the money on hand or income. Common sense advice isn’t bitching, and money does not actually have the property or possibility of being manipulated or not. Manipulating or manipulated is a human characteristic, behavior, action, experience. A debt is a debt , and is not an ideology. Credit card debt is among the highest interest rates, and is least ideal, and is (imo) far from wise, baring any extreme situations. Absorbent credit card debt is a you sized problem, no one else will owe that money. But if you advise as you do, you’re likely to end up with a situation on your hands that you might not enjoy. If you advise opposite of as you do, you’re likely to end up with a situation on your hands that you might not enjoy. The Buddha advised equanimity, the middle way. To spot our highs & lows, to deconstruct & understand them (ourselves), to experience reaction - but not react, as to liberate the mind of causation, via liberation of reactionary thought, behaviors, and actions. And one more time for the cheap seats… there are no levels of awakening. This is like saying “there are levels of me”. There aren’t brother. You’re just super duper good at appearing. My momma don’t like debt, and she likes everything.

@RMQualtrough Not to encourage, but I’ve passed out a number of times and a couple have been insightful. Learned ice wine isn’t for people who don’t eat sugar the hard way, and just before my face hit the kitchen floor a thought narrative appeared to the tune of I actually wanted to be passing out. When I came to my friends were worried, but I couldn’t stop laughing. I was astounded at the level of sneakiness of thought. Was (is) shocking just how sneaky you are (aren’t).

It doesn’t. Infinite can never know finite. Or if you like, it does…as the falling away of the overlay or interpretation of perceiver & perceived by which ‘human perspective’ is derived. Ever notice there’s no perspectives in a dream? Just, the dreaming. By ‘knowing thy self’. How do you even know they’re aware? Have you ever actually experienced any thing, or any one, as, being aware? Have you ever experienced those as anything other than ‘your’ thoughts?

@AminB501 Awesome. Sounds like an incredibly insightful experience indeed, good for you man. Undefinable, but ‘collapse of the knower & the known’ comes to mind. Keep rockin that path.