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Care more about how you feel vs settling for impatience. Use the emotional scale to express, then mind will be clear. Return attention gently, to consciously breathing from the stomach. There is no trying or questions in meditation. ?

@Vrubel That makes a lot more sense, thanks. I guess that’s where the definitions fall apart (or hold together) really. If the bassist says ‘my baseline’, I get what he’s saying. He’s talking about the sound he’s currently making with the bass, or maybe referring to music, a baseline, that he wrote or recorded. But when the bassist says ‘my baseline consciousness’, I don’t know his thoughts, connotations, ideas, experience, etc, so I don’t actually know what he’s talking about. It would be a mistaken assumption on my part to think I could know what he’s talking about. Actually, I would never be able to know what he’s talking about, since it’s his baseline consciousness. From what you’re saying, it’s not a detailed communication as maybe I thought it would be, but more of a general reference to how the seeking, or path, or self realization experience is unfolding. Hard to say. Like you said it is incommunicable.

@Vrubel Thanks. I think I get what you’re saying. Music wise, the baseline is the baseline. While there’s a lot one could do with it, there isn’t much that can be said about it. It won’t be found in the snare or kick drum for example, because it is the baseline. Consciousness wise, it’s a kind of general term, a reference to where your consciousness is, as in, where you’re at on the path. Sound about right?

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Sounds nice, but no mind is just an apparent reflection. Not even really.

That is illusory, this is why.

The exact same way straight people are born, the exact same way you were born. Sexuality is not a human creation. Humans, are not a human creation. People are born every which way you could possibly think of, and many, many more ways that you wouldn’t think of. Some people are born without genitalia, some people are born with both genitalia, and many people are born with any combination. This makes perfect sense because it’s true, which you could see, if you take five or ten minutes to google and look into it. In their defense though, most men are as sound asleep in black & white thinking as you are. This ignore-ance can’t even be called low hanging fruit on the path. This is not even the apples on the ground. You sound like you’re writing from 1940.

@sleep Appreciating the feedback, thank you. To help me with what to tweak to make it better... do you mean, what to do when ‘stuck’ as in how to reach for a thought to express the next higher emotion on the scale...or do you mean ‘stuck’ more like just not ready to express the next higher emotion? Do you think it would be a good idea for me to put a very bare bones, stripped down version too? No ‘vibration’ verbiage, no humor, etc...? If so, what should I name that version? Any ideas? Thanks!

@tatsumaru It’ll be gone in five minutes. Take some deep belly breaths and relax your entire body. Don’t think about it, do it. Feel it. Set your ego aside for five minutes and pay attention to lovingly caring for your body. Forgive yourself fully, right now, for what you’ve been putting your body through. Literally say “I forgive you” out loud. Don’t think it, say it, do it. Take this simple action. Notice the slight bit of relief from this. Recognize that feeling of relief, and recognize the love from the body for doing so. Recognize the body intrinsically knows forgiveness, care, and love. Now you are aligned with your body, with intelligence. Feel yourself relax into gravity. Feel the the eyes, the jaw, the neck relax. Feel your shoulders sink and relax. Feel your back, legs, arms, hands, and even the very bottoms of your feet, relax. Notice seeing, hearing and feeling. Recognize where ever you are...there is...seeing, hearing and feeling. You will never be without. The mind wanders to past & future, and that is fine. Affirmatively, as the boss...allow it to roam freely. Recognize you can always “return” to where you actually are...here & now, where feeling is. It never matters if the mind roams, because you can always recognize seeing, hearing and feeling. You are not ‘stuck in a thought loop’. You are the One aware of the thoughts. You are the boss. You love unconditionally, and you lovingly allow all things to be as they are. This is beautiful about you, and we all love it very much. Feel that bit of relief in recognizing the truth of your true nature of unconditional love. You love this beauty too. It is good to be you. Come clean. Acknowledge to yourself that you don’t actually even know what a “thought loop” is. You know the direct experience of focusing on a thought over & over. You are the boss, you are in control, and what you willingly do with that control, is unconditionally love all this is, as it is. You learned the term “thought loop” from someone. Send it back to them now, wish them love and a peaceful mind. Feel the relief in putting down what was never really yours. If & when you are suffering, notice in your own direct experience, only you are experiencing the suffering. No one else is, literally, just you. Reflect on that Notice it is true Pause for one minute and look around. Listen, what do you hear? Notice the variety of sounds, appreciate them. Feel the relief and wonder of sound. Feel the relief in noticing sounds, you did not notice moments ago. Bring your inner smile to your experience. Feel the love within you smile within you. Notice the sound is unconditional. Notice the sound is not in a rush. Feel that the sound is at peace with itself. The way you are keeping the suffering going, is by pretending it is coming from a secondary source. You are a creator and you create. You are absolutely free as a creator. So free, you can create suffering. All creators have a source, all creators feel their source. You feel your source now, and always. You cannot be, and will never be, without your source. Source has no thing to know. Source is pure, innocent. Source does not claim anything. Source does not claim to know, any thing. You are claiming to know, the suffering of a goat. You are not experiencing the suffering of a goat. You are experiencing, the suffering, that you are creating. Source knows that goat is fine. Source knows source is that goat. Source does not know things. Source knows, source. Source loves unconditionally. When you believe there is a secondary source, you feel the suffering of the discord of that thought...with the Only Source there is, unconditional love. The suffering is not caused by any of these “secondary sources”: subconscious, unconscious, ‘mind parasite’, ‘mind structure’, or ‘curse’. When you speak of these “things” and pretend they are “secondary sources”...you are actually speaking about The One Source. The One and only pure Goodness that is all things, Source. The very source within you now, which is unconditional love. You do not need to “know” this, you do not need to “understand” this - you are feeling this already. When you are pretending there is a secondary source, you are being dishonest with your self, and with your source. Source is the truth. It does not feel good to be dishonest, with the truth. And that is what felt terrible. You are not a victim of suffering, from secondary sources. You are a creator. If there is suffering, you are creating it. Feel the relief of Not Knowing. Acknowledge to yourself, you have no idea about goats, if they have any experience at all, or if they suffer. Seems like they do, but you don’t know if they do. If someone comes to mind, from whom you got this idea, forgive them and wish them your peace and your love. Pretending the suffering has a secondary source is a victim mindset. The suffering is not happening to you. You are creating it. The victim mindset is a mindset of powerlessness. You live in a world where many do not have a victim, powerlessness, mindset, and do not suffer. Be honest. You want to feel like these people do. You want nothing more, than to feel this love of our source all day, everyday. When you entertain the mindsets of victim & powerlessness to suffering, and it does not resonate, you feel angry. When you feel angry, you’re not able to focus on creating the life you desire to create, and you feel discouraged. You learned this, it’s conditioning. This conditioning has got to go, because it leads to self doubt, and that leads to getting overwhelmed, and that leads to being frustrated that you aren’t focusing, on what you want to focus on & create. This leaves you with lots of energy, but little focus. Any and every time you notice the thoughts about the goat, about pain, about suffering....recognize it. Allow it to humble you, to remind you that you don’t know, what you don’t know. And focus on seeing, hearing, and feeling. Be present here and now, where you actually are. Feel the relief in recognizing here & now, where feeling is, you feel fine. Honestly recognize that you are in control of your creating, and you can “return” to here and now anytime you choose to. If the mind wanders, that is fine. You are the boss, you are in control of attention, and you can always bring your attention to here & now, where feeling is. Deeply acknowledge to yourself that because you recognize this is true, you can expect better experiences from here on out. You’re in control of experiencing. You’re the director of attention. If you don’t resonate with what attention is on, put attention on something else that feels good to you. The more you do this simple act, the more you make the choice and take your place as the true boss of your experience, the more empowered you will realize you actually are. Really, truly, let the ego have a break, and lighten up. Allow your true nature of lightheartedness and joy to be present. Recognize this is the path to the true nature, to self realization, to “enlightenment” everybody is jabbering about. You’re actually doing it, right now. This is it. It’s all about letting go of what does not resonate, and focusing on what is aligned with you & your source. Acknowledge this to yourself and feel good about it. Make a note of that good feeling. Call upon it anytime you want. Consider sharing this with other people, when they are suffering. It is within your power to help people understand and let go of their suffering. You are a powerful, powerful being.

Well that’s just beautiful ? thank you. That’d be really boring for Me though. As in, ‘the way’ is through Me. Not Nahm. Not some married dude in the Midwest. The Me. The only Me. The real Me. The Me directly experiencing now. Can’t get that sweet Me from a you. That’s just a belief. That’s seeking, essentially. It works out perfectly every single time without fail, in it’s sending Me back to, Me. Questionable video btw. My wife is my best friend. We are sensitive, and that is Me. That is not “girly”. Can’t find Me in anyone. Can only be Me. We, Me, and it is ineffable.

You sir are more right than the wright brothers. All that’s missing is a single success story. The perspectives you’re experiencing don’t feel good to you. Folks are simple, and like you, they want to feel amazing. They’re attracted to people who have what they want - they want to feel amazing - woman are mindlessly attracted to men who feel amazing. You don’t need to do the first thing about pick up etc, woman literally approach you. Mindless. Feeling driven, right under the nose. Busy, thinking. Like you, like you used to I believe. Let go of perspectives that don’t feel good to you. Put love into your life by creating the life you actually want to create, instead of looking for love in experience, or looking for love to come to you in any fashion or form. Love don’t work that way. Incredibly paradoxical, you are seeing through it. Nice. Confucius say “seek guy to fill whole, attract guy to fill hole.” (Jk. Happily married 20 yrs Midwest guy say that)

@JSALO10 I started working full time when I was 13. No need to convince my parents of anything when they weren’t financially supporting anything. I noticed focusing on what I don’t want & what won’t work, creates more of the experience of what I don’t want & what won’t work. I wrote a list of jealousy...what I saw that other people had, did, or experienced, that I wanted. Then, realizing much of what I wanted, and focusing on it, felt great... and the insights and ideas naturally arose & filled in every blank. I also wrote a list of what I know I don’t want...an wrote the opposite list, of what I do want. I recommend a dreamboard to get this out of your head and in front of you. Less thinking / ruminating, more seeing what’s actually going on. Best of luck and Godspeed. 18-25 is rough af, it gets better. Also, I’d let go of any conditions on how you make $250, and take Leo’s LP course. Cut lawns, shovel snow. My 9 & 10 year olds do this, it works. Let those conditions go. Stop making what is effortless so complicated. ?. Let excuses to keep doing that, go. ?

“Ego” is the illusion of a subject object relationship, which is only transpiring in thoughts, and is none of the ‘objects’ or ‘people’ it is being credited to.

Notice there is an experience of thoughts about a yourself, and repetitious telling of a story about a yourself. Contemplate, who / what am I even talking about? If I am myself (self inherent, awareness) then who / what is it I keep thinking & talking about?

Highly conscious people has become the blind spot. Connect the dots to your suffering. Have yo self an aha. Yourself is not found beyond yourself. Consciousness can veil itself by believing itself is a property of someone else or something else, found somewhere else somehow (?), in experience. The looking is already way too far past. “A flashlight just ‘comes across’ light and that’s how it is”. Maybe not.

@Vrubel Sorry... What is your baseline consciousness? Can you explain? Can you articulate on what the shift is? @allislove They already in the band, but they be leaving.

@Vrubel If you were the bassist, and the band kept telling you to raise your baseline, what would you do?

@This Neat pic. ?

@sleep That’s valuable feedback, much appreciated thanks! Any thoughts come to mind on what could’ve been there that would’ve been most helpful?

@Vrubel I play in bands sometimes, so the word hits me differently. When there’s any issue with the baseline, we don’t check the mics, drum kit, pa, boards, etc. We check the baseline. Usually just a tuning issue.

Pessimism is also “unchecked sneaky shit”. Surface level stuff. All we have to work with is bullshit = absolute freedom from knowing. Of course, don’t take my word for it. Viva la connerie! ✊?

@Carl-Richard Me neither.

Awesome that you’re feeling better. In the vein of staying the course of well being, I’d lean very much toward not knowing, and focus on feeling. The absolute truth is not something someone knows. Nothing happens in a dream. Nothing is “the dream”, as in there is no “dream”. Realizing “the dream” = self realization = no one... nothing...realizes...nothing. There is no longer a subject object, a you & problems actuality. That is a narrative of thought. It is not “a problem” if there remains a subject object, self as object thinking relationship experientially, it’s actually perfectly normal, as in apparently the norm. The ‘problem’, in terms of potential suffering, would be in not spotting this misunderstanding. Years & years of potentially seeking better feeling having missed the underlying assumptions. You’ve equated self realization with emotional avoidance. This is also the overarching theme of the op. Avoidance is the opposite direction. Again, awesome to hear that you are feeling better. I’d stay only on that coarse of well being. Experiencing that there are problems, which are dealt with or avoided, is experiencing through the subject object duality of the finite mind. Again, that in and of itself is obviously not a problem, the misunderstanding stands to be an issue. The convenient blurring, or glossing over of this. I would definitely stop telling the hell stories, and stop turning the Psychic Hell Support People Channel on. But that’s just me. Don’t mean any offense.

@trenton Is there anything more valued, anything that you feel or believe you want more, than to feel great?

@floxxv Feeling.