Nahm

Nothing’s ”wrong” with beliefs, they’re beliefs.

@Loving Radiance Just imagine that, but without the foundation of letting go, and getting ‘stuck’ on a thought. In a way you bring up the key point. You have to appreciate that some people don’t know letting go. A trip can reveal this either way, the heaven of letting go or the hell of clinging (so to speak!).

“Prickles & Gou”

Just one take on it... It’s a pointing of “a way” of life, intended toward self realization / awakening, nonviolence, peace, inner peace, etc. I like to think of it as addressing life like a flower, that one is creation, ‘budding’, expanding, etc. But like any word, it’s only what you believe it is, if you do at all. If anything (imo) Buddhism is non-religion, non-dogma, non-identity. This is a nice ‘quote’, that kind of sums it up... “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” - Buddha Like all things God, this is ironically funny, as it is not actually a quote from “the Buddha”, but is “the Buddha”. As if such a thing (a quote from ‘back then’) were possible to actually verify anyways....which is kind of the beauty of the sentiment of the very words. Doubly funny perhaps, The Buddha actually points to / ‘means’ God. Buddha was not a guys name. People can’t get that for some unknown reason. Again though, up to you.

@allislove Beautiful. @Michal__ You’re very gifted.

@Loving Radiance Iknowright!?

@Sam Barker Dig deep into your creatorship-self. Express what has never before been expressed by you. Ime, this is more aligning & healing than typical yogas. Song writing is intrinsically emotional diving and understanding, inevitably emotional mastery. It teaches us focus, feeling, and ‘getting out of our own way’. It reveals creation-creator-creating, The One, expressing as the ones. Life / Creativity / Source, as compared to the thought “my” creativity, etc. Yoga’s great, not knockin it. But Yoga means “unity”, and you got a direct line, if you will.

Maybe the system could be such that this has a fail safe, checks & balances.

The same, in that they are your thoughts. Have you experienced ‘two consciousnesses’? Consciousness is infinite. Actual. Meaning is the appearance of consciousness, like all other ‘things’. ‘You’ & ‘your friend’ are thoughts. We all experience these thoughts. Some believe thoughts, some don’t. Great to hear you’re not feeling loneliness. That’d be silly. And there’s nothing to be nervous about. ?? If a thought doesn’t feel good, let it go. ? You’ll end up Truth.

@blackchair Hellz ya. Sure seems like we’re all in this together. “Prisons” ain’t workin anyways.

@The Buddha Lol. That’s what I said. Starred at the wall for a while on that one.

When suffering is already here there is no need to look elsewhere. Look at the suffering. Nothing is hidden. Emotional mastery is not in a past. More ice does not make water.

The depth to which man believes he can do whatever he wants with earth is astounding.

“Waking up” laughing about the illusion of “waking up”.

What book?!

Yes and no. Sincerity.

@Mulky How do you feel when you are unconditonal, in regard to your self? What does freedom from judging your sister (and “almost everyone in town”) feel like?

A year from now there will be a thread asking, “how many days can you go without crying”. That’ll be beautiful.

Get down to the fear.To specifically what the fear right now is of. Uncover that is an assumption, and it can no longer be experienced the same way (as misunderstanding). Takes some momentum, and yet on a good note it takes no effort, only understanding & clarity. All else is avoidance, which is the perpetuation, the efforting, the suffering, the resistance of what is desired to be without. The exhaustion is an experiential creation, not a state to “get out of”. The resolve is not creating, or “getting in it”, the release of the misunderstanding, and the identification as or with it.

The insight of what insight actually is. (Not zen)

FInd the beginning & ending of reality and it no longer shifts.

If you’re the creator, you’re one step prior, and you created the loop, by using the lsd. Not that I’m against it by & large in any way, but that is one perspective on how you create the loop. Can’t ‘break’ a loop in the loop, only prior to it, by not looping in the first place. Of course, psychedelics will also reveal the truth of, the “loops”.

That there is a you, does not feel true, to you. Similarly, expecting control is like expecting a unicorn, while being the unicorn.

Is it possible for man to create a system which man is not above?

You are consciousness, yet you are attributing yourself to your friend being “very you” (still better than “not very you” imo). He’s absolutely you, not “very you”. That arrives at “one thing”, which stands to pierce the very heart of nonduality, or ‘not two’. “One thing” is not, “not two”. For an actuality of your friend as very (or not very) conscious, you must forget you are the consciousness you’re talking about. And the miracle is, you can! How awesome are you?! Pretty awesome “in my opinion”. Your typo is actually spot on! @Mannyb Nahm is day my good sir.