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@JuliusCaesar “Aerosmith” (arrow smith). There’s some parable happenin here. https://exploringyourmind.com/the-poisoned-arrow-buddhist-story-about-living-present/

@Someone here Kind of ‘the push & pull’ routine, or, inquiring but ‘hey no inquiring!’… chalked full of misinterpretation, assumption, and projection of.

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And a little bit of this as well.

I don’t recall saying any of that. Perhaps these are interpretations & assumptions?

@WokeBloke @Someone here Awesome. ? Happy for ‘you’s’.

A little more substance to threads is appreciated. Is there as aspect of this you’re looking for suggestions or insight on?

Yap. Suffering isn’t ‘in a world’. Also isn’t in cessation. Maybe excessive listening to verbiage about God and absolute being contributes to believing the thoughts that there is this other thingy, and therein indirectly, a separate I. Go into the blank, so to speak.

@Someone here Point to them to see they are thoughts. Point to the I which is said to disagree as well.

That’s hilarious.

There’s no watcher, artist, it, or me. Those are thoughts. That’s ‘how’.

@ChrisZoZo See if it can be noticed perception is perception, and thought is thought. ‘Cup’ for example… there is no such perception of… just the thought, cup.

The beauty is that emotion is divine guidance as a creator. https://youtube.com/channel/UCe60ditqv4s0H2eVxYJ9q1g

‘Seeing finite’ is a thought. ‘He’ is a thought. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

That’s joy bruthah. There’s no levels. That’s the power. ??

It’s not really an over-complicating of anything, but more of a habit of much focus on thought… just relax and focus on feeling. Rupert Spira, Esther Hicks, Ramana Maharishi. Generally… Clean eating, daily meditation & use of the emotional scale, and make a dreamboard. Specific to self inquiry… https://www.actualityofbeing.com/self-inquiry No. Just the feeling. ?

@ChrisZoZo Meditate every day, eat clean, use the emotional scale, make a dreamboard. And don’t give any attention to any thoughts claiming the doing of any of it. Choose fun. Love. Just love. Don’t expect nothing. Love for the feeling, the being loving of it. All the delusion just fades away. It’s all illusory. It’s just thoughts. What it’s made of will just shine through of its own brilliant accord.

@softlyblossoming Well… basically, ‘thought’ is the trap. Not to imply thought is ‘bad’, but in terms of focusing on feeling… it’s a matter of ‘catching’ or noticing when attention has ‘strayed’ to thought, and just gently, effortlessly returning attention to feeling.

No. I’d consider it an expectation, the activity of thought, and return attention to the feeling. ??

I’m not a dog. Well, I mean, I am but not in this sense. If you have a question, feel free to ask it. None of anyone’s arguments are true. No. ?

@Danioover9000 Yes.

@lostingenosmaze Doubt is an emotion, not a Tesla.

Feeling isn’t a thought. Right & wrong are thoughts. The instruction is not to ‘look for who is observing it’, or to think about an infinite regress of observers… but is - simply & naturally - to effortlessly focus on the feeling. Because, the feeling of you is enough. The rest is just thoughts. No. None is needed or advised. Relax! Enjoy the practice! Life is supposed to be fun! If you got something more fun to do, do that - and make a mental note of the feeling. For self inquiry, allow the enjoying to be the point, and that feeling’s gonna be much easer to focus on, as it’s more produced in alignment with enjoyment. Let all thoughts go. The practice is to feel. Be most careful to let thoughts go, which are about “a point” or “purpose”. Let expectations go. Also, consider looking at this list of meditations, and notice the skipping over of all the other suggestions. There’s no right or wrong, but, self inquiry is more readily enjoyable when the previous meditations have been experienced. Just look the list over, and if it seems like one or two might be advantageous, give them a few minutes of attention. Check em out.

Don’t suppress the feeling and hold the speaker / video to be authoritative. Listen to the feeling and express. What anyone else thinks doesn’t actually matter… but you’re focusing on it as if it does. Stop choosing the content which is to you, so discordant. If you didn’t watch this stuff, you wouldn’t be thinking or focusing on any of this. If you are going to continue listening to people instead of the guidance within you, listen to people who’s content resonates. Discouragement is an emotion, and suppressing it to listen to the speaker is suppressing the guidance of infinite intelligence. Blame the speaker. Recognize that when you listen to that content, you start thinking that way, resulting in worrying about how it’ll go. Recognize doing this results in experiencing the emotion of doubt. Don’t suppress it, acknowledge it. As you said, “every time I watch a video on…”. Acknowledge the overwhelment felt & experienced. Admit (‘for yourself’) this results again and again in frustration, irritation and impatience. Demystify this by acknowledging the emotional guidance. This results in pessimistic thoughts, or, the experience of the emotion pessimism. This results in boredom - the desire is there, the intention is there - but the focus & clarity isn’t there. Let go of all the thoughts which arose from the material, all together. Really relax and just let it all go. Feel contentment with right now, as it is, as you are. Do not continue to believe those who imply you are not enough as you are, and need something from them. It’s a hamster wheel. When you feel contentment from letting these thoughts go… be sure to recognize contentment feels significantly better, than any of the previously mentioned emotions which arose in watching the content. As it is recognized letting it go results in contentment (not trying to be someone or something you’re not / not comfortable with, or trying to manipulate, change states, etc)… naturally… hopefulness arises. Because however it goes, you can always let discordant thoughts go, and the natural result will always be hopefulness. From hopefulness, and from knowing how to ‘return’ to contentment… naturally… positive thoughts, optimism will arise. It is the true nature of our being to rise whenever unfettered (letting the discordant thoughts go / listening to the emotional guidance, and doing so, letting go). Effortlessly focus on the optimistic thoughts. As you do, you will experience enthusiasm, eagerness and happiness (simply for having unfettered). This feels great, and naturally… passion arises. If you will, beyond enthusiasm, eagerness & happiness. Then you are, so to speak, ‘right back at yourself’, and creation makes perfect sense. Should any discordant thoughts again arise, simply use the scale again, instead of ruminating, or, focusing on thought loops, or information which is discordant for you. ? https://www.actualityofbeing.com/the-emotional-scale Perhaps what you really hate, is that you continue to choose to watch content which is extremely discordant. (Referencing some of the gruesome stuff you’ve shared previously). Use the scale. It works for that too. Comparative thinking, such as with statistics, is discordant. Listen to feeling. You are the creator of your reality!