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@SageModeAustin Really great to hear. ??

@Someone here What exactly are you talking about when you say “this work” ?

@Person0 Thanks, and you are welcome. I get what you mean, but still, not much to think about (embody & realize, etc). Listen to the pain, the suffering. It’s the only real guidance, and that guidance is ‘wired’ right into us. It’s leading you out of pain, out of suffering. And @Chrisd makes an important point. This place is not without it’s imperfections, indeed, and you have an integral place within it, in this ongoing betterment. We’re all doing our best, whatever that is for each person, it actually is their best. We need you on the team so to speak. All that pain and suffering, there’s so much wisdom that will come from it, and you will heal, and you will feel better, and your presence itself will better this place. It already is in my eye. Let go of thoughts that don’t resonate, and don’t give up. ‘This too shall pass’. You are profoundly, infinitely, loved, and my hope for you is that you let enough go that you truly feel this love. I firmly believe you will. When you have some quiet, and ten minutes, give these a read, under the ‘The Essence of Being’ section. And let it in, as they say… ‘out with the bullshit, in with the good shit’. (Life’s bullshit I mean, not ‘your’ bullshit )

Pain & suffering isn’t graspable because it isn’t conceptual. That would be aversion of, away from, love… suppressing feeling & prolonging suffering with the distraction of existential rumination. It’s like a transparent smokescreen. Explore the notion that the pain doesn’t belong to you, and you’re not experiencing pain per se, but suffering. Pain is local and present (happening right now) in a specific part of the body. Suffering is not. Suffering is mental anguish and has to do with thoughts about yourself and the world, a past and or a future. Not to belittle your experience, but to give an analogy for communication sake… pain is felt when you stub your toe. Suffering is focusing on it long after the pain has gone. Namely, having internalized it, identified with it, and having not yet fully expressed or transmuted it. The projection of ‘your’ mind so to speak, is that what the suffering is about, isn’t happening right now, isn’t physical pain per se. The mind projects that there is a past & identifies by it, keeping the story of ‘me’ going, thus perpetuating the suffering. When this is let go, such as through daily practice, therapy, retreats, trips, etc,.. the mind begins to know & feel, is realized to be - it’s true nature of love. But 99.9% of the population will not let go, will not recognize there is no past, will not choose how they feel over being accurate / right / believing something is wrong with them / thinking the way everyone else does… and thus there seems to be widespread suffering. A different ‘angle’ on the same thing… 99.9% of the population apparently does not know & feel this love 24/7, because it seems incomprehensible to them that love would create or make a reality or world, such that it is so hard & difficult. Love is unconditional though, and it is none other than each finite mind which adds the lens of hard & difficult. This is suffering in and of itself, because love, you, are in actuality, unconditional. Reality seems real, and feels very real, because you - love - is real. You, love, are so real, that references like real or unreal don’t even put a dent in it. When something doesn’t resonate with you, don’t believe it. All that comes out of our mouths as received by ears, myself of course included, are opinions, perspectives, etc. The truth is love, and cannot be spoken. But it’s always present, and is precisely what some thoughts & perspectives aren’t resonating with. Likewise, “spiritually advanced” is conceptual, opinion. Stop with the “advancing” etc… and start letting go of what doesn’t resonate with you or serve you. Focus on what does.

@Person0 Start by understanding cruel is not a property of ‘the world’, but of thoughts, behaviors & actions of people in it. Then understand the ‘why’ people do what they do is ultimately love. This requires learning and expanding your mind & perspective, vs projecting onto ‘the world’, or continuing to see things the same way while it feels so discordant. What you might not be realizing is that if there is love & peace in this place, it gets here through you… and it changes everything. It makes life sweet, divine, and so much more than worthwhile. There are really no words which can convey just how much loving, understanding, accepting & forgiving can change ‘the world’ and your entire experience of it, and how this all starts with you. Just you, not you untangled with a past or future or others. It is within your power and your power alone to create suffering or not. Get all the help available to you obviously, but recognize you must make that choice to move from trauma & projection to understanding & liberation. There are millions of people passionate about helping you with where the water is, how to uncover it, etc, but no one can make you drink it. You have to want to. You have to choose to put how you feel well above what you think, others, a past, your life - everything. And I really mean what you think about anything and everything. Past, future, yourself, others, reality, God, Love. Life will not do. Death will not do. Suffering will not do. Only truth, love & understanding will do. Don’t attempt to hold perspectives of discord, and accept them. That’s not what acceptance is. Don’t accept the discord, the suffering - transcend it by owning it, taking responsibility for choosing perspectives of discord or alignment, recognizing it is not ‘the world’ which feels off - but your own views & perspectives. Please don’t use this comment to ‘add to the fire’, so to speak. Use it to start to Realize you must be pretty infinitely Good - because some perspectives just don’t jive with the Goodness you eternally are. Also, when you do make that choice, the Inner Kriya… all the stuff you learned from therapists which seemed like it didn’t help, totally helps. That choosing of well being changes everything, and all that stuff you learned is made new in love & understanding. It can not possibly be overstated - nothing needs to be added, things need to be let go. The truth, the true nature, you - are like a cork. When the self imposed weight upon is let go, you float, rise, feel & know the Goodness that you are, effortlessly. There are people specifically trained and uniquely compassionate who can help with suicidal thoughts… https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html https://www.suicidehotlines.net/international.html

The Truth.

Noted. Thanks. ?

@Noahsteelers34 But you feel it. That is unmissable guidance. If you care more about how you feel than what you think.

That’s a memory. Let it go. Once let go, it is clearly seen it wasn’t “a memory” at all. Just a self imposed veil. There’s nothing you can do which can’t be done, nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.

@Chosendeer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wXf08-42x4 You’re right, this is a major growth step for many people, but it hasn’t been about conspiracy per se for decades. That just means two people broke a law together. That ship sailed long ago. Laws have since been rewritten to accommodate and exclude people from the judicial system, and all legal & civil accountability. So it’s more a matter of legal reform or not.

@Endangered-EGO You’re judging, analyzing and imagining steps in this peace.

It doesn’t.

Maybe, but you are thinking about a yourself too, and there is no more a you which is thinking and a yourself which is thought about, than there is a secondary source of feeling, such that the good feeling (which is really what’s sought) is coming from interactions with people. Flip the script from how do I interact with people such that I feel good, to how do I interact with people such that they feel good… and now you are drawing upon that well, the source that you are. Pure selfless, non-self-referential-goodness. This is your place to pour yourself into.

@emind ? Such ineffable innocence & beauty you are.

@KennedyCarter Infinite can not know finite, there is no such thing as a beginning or end, life is via a-parent.

@Zega ?? Phil@ActualityOfBeing.com.

@KennedyCarter ?

Adopt a more mature perspective. You’re calling the way of the peace you most want gibberish. You’re right on point about not getting sucked into the thinking, the grandiose etc. Grounding is the way. The transmutation is happening. With daily expression, the mind doesn’t venture out so far as to project demons etc into perception. Without expression, it gets worse until it gets so bad, one expresses.

@Alfonsoo No, the opposite. Limiting beliefs are not something you work on, they’re more like a pack of jackals. “Working on them” = feeding them, which keeps them around. The nature of a belief is that it isn’t true. That’s what trips reveal or show you, so to speak. If you go into a trip with “something to work on”, you’re goin in with conditions, ‘my problems’, expectations, and with an a prior assumption something is wrong or broke and needs to be fixed. Trips show there’s nothing wrong, nothing that needs fixing… same as focusing on breathing from the stomach (meditation) which you can do any time, namely, in a trip. ‘Going into’ solving & fixing in a trip is just askin for looping and resistance. It’s called a trip because you leave, you know? It’s not called ‘my same everyday shit’. It’s more ‘literally… leave it all, let it all go… very literally - all of it. Relationships, the past, the future, others, the “self” of thoughts & fixing & problems & solutions, reality… let it all go’.

Make a dreamboard. Get all the juice of wanted outta this whole experience. You quit college initially, with a lot of unwanted in mind. Write it all in detail on a sheet of paper, then write the opposites in detail, what you do want, on your dreamboard. “Figuring” it all out is just one way. Writing what you want, not “figuring it out”, and just enjoying the inspiration & watching it appear is also one way.

@Ilan Priceless recontextualization. LMAO! Nice!

Agreed. Neither helpful nor considerate to anyone, yet no one is disappointed, and no one cares about projected expectations. They’re fictitious. The top of Maslow’s pyramid is a complimentary sentiment, but of course take it how you might. Something an exceptionally small percentage of people experience. The mugglfication of the pyramid points to the good news, that there is so much more. That you’ve not really even started yet. Realizing you’re creating this via dreaming, basically. Understanding what you’re attracting & why, and consciously proceeding. A real step beyond, also as in actual expansion, vs trying to pack everything into an existing box. What’s this need based on? How are you so certain? What does meaning have to do with a relationship? Doesn’t sound like it. Sounds like he’s avoiding his own intimacy, and in doing so unknowingly, avoiding the relationship. It melts the armor, getting ‘too’ close. The Light’ll melt all that “meaningful” stuff away. That’s just how you’re choosing to take it. Always up to you.

Yes & no.

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That ‘afterglow’ is you. If we hold fearful or discordant beliefs about ourselves, our reality, our future, etc… the more we ‘look at or into them’, the more relief (afterglow) is realized (truth). Careful not to swing the pendulum too far to the nondual, in regard to relative matters of expression / emptying. Talking (expression) with someone could by far be the path of lessor resistance. Either way, good for you on addressing this stuff you’ve been carrying. Happy for you!