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It’s a joke to a female I know personally. I can assure she got the joke which you did not. For you it might be ‘marriage humor’ not yet in the radar. @Ibgdrgnxxv What if you were raised in Wyoming, and never heard of Islam?

When something weighs heavy on my heart, I listen to the heart and let it go, because it’s a perspective in conflict with Truth. The last thing I’d do is focus on it, share it, etc. It’s like “this food tastes like poop...I better keep eating it and share it with others so they can taste this poop”. No self no problem. How can you be experiencing a problem right now, without perpetuating that story which is ‘itself’ the creating of the problem? Awakening can’t possibly be what you are thinking it is, as you’re the awareness of the thoughts, and more importantly, the focus. Let go of the wanting others to see you as that awakened / enlightened person, and you have no more suffering from telling the story about you, the awakened one with all the awakened experiences. Your threads are great, your comments are great. I always enjoy them, it’s deep and I like it, and am interested. In this regard however, it’s “if y’all really wanna taste this poop you gotta know the story behind it!”, but the back story recreates a ‘you’ the story is about, and you & the story are the recreation of the poop, evidenced by how it feels / tastes (suffering). If there were a subject and object, you being the subject and depression being the object....then maybe, you could fall into it. If there is not a subject & object, but rather awareness aware of a perspective which is not believed to be a separate object, then there is the opportunity to change the perspective, simply because it doesn’t feel good. Nihilism & solipsism are not love, they are perspectives about a you which is alone. It is far, far easier (effortless literally) to inspect and realize what you got wrong in your metaphysical understandings, than to continue suffering through being right. Only the separate self suffers, as that is what suffering is. Notice that’s a story. That situation is not unique to ‘you’ like ‘you’ believe it is. There isn’t a problem in the first place, sans resistance of letting a perspective go. Only in refuting this, there is a problem, which is ‘especially’ tricky to manage. “I realized nothing...struggling to manage it”. Gotta laugh at these perspectives rather than let them get you down / ignore that they don’t resonate. Consciousness didn’t need improvement to begin with. It’s (you’re) perfect already...and just entertaining some terrible feeling perspectives. “The main problem I’m having is that “I’m” alone...so...I’ll listen to what others think and how they size things up instead of the intrinsic inseparable love that I always am...which is loudly saying - No!”. Let go of that there is individual someone’s, and you realize understanding is an appearance. It is you. Only in perpetuating the separate selves, can there be the perspective “no one understands...”. All that need be understood, is that is you creating suffering. The need to be understood. You can feel right now the sweet peace of not needing to be understood, by noticing there is not understanding and a separate you. You can not see what is seen. (There’s now, not a past you think you saw). Look in front of you now. That is what is seen. What you really mean, is I can’t unknow what I know. The suffering, is what you believe you know. In short...”I know the Truth is that this sucks”. Wrong...evidence onced again, by feeling. Right. It must be ‘the path’s fault’...because it can’t possibly simply be the current perspective...cause “you’re” “right”. Love you! Wish you Well! ♥️ Let Love pop “you’re” bubble, and it will be so. Some perspectives feel as there do, because Love does not taste this poop. Love does not go with you to the poop trough.

Conspiracy: An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. A group of conspirators. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action. That is all that a conspiracy is. Two or more humans breaking a law. Conspiracy is not “stories about aliens”, or “the truth of 911”, etc, etc, etc. If two people conspired together and broke a law, that is a conspiracy. It could not possibly be more practical and less fantastical.

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If there’s a separate self then yes indeed, there is no sense in it, and one deluded oneself via the claiming of the knowing / knowledge (as if it were an object possessed by a subject). If there isn’t a separate self, and you = knowingness, then knowing you are the knowing and not ‘the person’ is the most practical ‘thing’ that could possibly be known (yourself) and you are liberated from the prison of knowing, via the knowing you are not knowing (specifically, ‘objects’). Put another way, the most common ‘error’ (relatively) isn’t what is known or unknown, or even what is knowing or not knowing...but the believing there is something to be known, which is not / or is other than, what is already direct experience. (Such as ‘not knowing “the truth”)

@Conscious life We don’t.

The difference is that on lsd you’re more being yourself than thinking about “yourself”. None of these things you think about yourself are true, and believing and repeating negative self talk is self defeating, and world shaping... At some point you have to begin to notice you’re doing what you’re saying is the problem. If any of these beliefs about yourself resonated with yourself, they would feel wonderful, like you are (you: that which beliefs, thoughts, and perspectives are, or are not, resonating with.) It is difficult, I will admit that, and I am very sorry to be the one to inform you of this, but to feel good, you have to think well of yourself...literally because of the actuality of your awesomeness, the truth which beliefs aren’t resonating with. You simply must know more love. It does not matter what, just love. Momentum builds. You’ll be feeling like your ‘old self’ in no time.

Wouldn’t maximum fulfillment be doing what you most want to do? Only you could define that. It will change in many ways many times. Wouldn’t what you want most come from the feeling that is the wanting? Desire, if you will. What else is needed? Clarity? Seeing it from a higher vantage point? Does the source of feeling, and the experience of feeling, come from anyone else? Is this stuff on a dreamboard in front of you, so you can experience that vantage point? And change it as you desire so? And see that new desire incorporated, from that vantage point?

Life. Just being you. This must be true, as it is absolute that you are you, and there isn’t another scenario.

@28 cm unbuffed You don’t actually need any of it. That belief about yourself is like a filter tarnishing perspectives, spinning your wheels and getting nowhere, zapping your creativity. Come to terms with that what you have is actually what you want, by letting conditioned judgmental perspectives go, simply because it feels good to let go of limiting beliefs. There is no getting out from behind perspective, and it is influencing your entire experience not to notice this. Society inherently can not have a brainwashing and materialistic lifestyle. You are the subject you, only. You could be a billionaire, in this lifetime, without being brainwashed or materialistic. That’s your belief & judgement, of the very thing, the very society and money, you say you need. But when you come to terms with that you honestly want that (money - not brainwashing & materialism), then you’ve aligned with what you want, and thus ‘gotten out of your own way’, and will indeed experience what you want. Beliefs and judgements about money & society, which are ultimately and presently beliefs & judgements about yourself, will not feel good, and are you ‘getting in your own way’. ‘I can't really find a match to my interests and lifestyle in society.’ ...through the lens of ruling it out.

If you were to believe in a future and past you would identify as the object moving through time which has the future and past, and will in a way feel the discord of the misidentification, or, sad. If you were not to believe in a future & past, and not be identified as an object moving through time, you would feel liberated.

No. It’s a thought about yourself. Which can’t be true, or you, because you’re the awareness of it. It’s a certain mentality that could use some illumination, love and purification. Psych’s come to mind. Loa works for that too. I am sorry to here that about your mom. Hard to imagine the suffering of a woman who can’t even find her way to expressing the love she has for her own son. I do not envy that experience. I am sorry for you as well and the impact that had on your experience. If we named the ten greatest creators of all time off the top of our heads, I’d bet you 9 of them realized tremendous pain into beauty. (Really ten but I’m nicing it up for you)

Mania is a narrative. The Truth (psych’s) tend to show The Truth to The Truth. Then the ‘hangover’ tends to be awareness of the falsities held, relative to the previous experience of The Truth. Integration and embodiment, are spiritual vernacular for what in the dualistic psychological paradigm is referred to as mania, psychosis, etc. The difference could be said to be getting sucked into a narrative, or not. More personally speaking, if you felt you needed to go to the hospital, I’m glad you went. Had you started small and increased your dose / depth incrementally, the relativity of the falsity would have been more nominal, and not so hospital level heavy. And yet, some people want that ‘too big dose’, and want to breathe & ball through that purification. I favor the more conservative no rush approach.

@Michal__ Yeah, I do. Lmao. OMG yes.

@Consept You think you’re in a reality where there is people, and or other people. That is not what this reality is, at all. That is the movie, what it appears to be. (No offense, in any personal sense). The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that the more you know about where an electron is, the less you can know about where it’s going, and vice versa. All there is to appearance is “electrons”. The Uncertainty Principle is not a revelation about electrons. It’s pointing out how focus is functioning. What you do not give your attention to - which could be said that you avoid - is literally a void, and does not “exist” in the usage of the word exist indicating appear. All of the findings of quantum mechanics are the same. They’re telling us the “facets” of how reality works.

@Michal__ Yeah, I agree. But also, that’d be true when said about literally anything lol. Dog shit at the highest level is synonymous with enlightenment. ?

That loa is a belief, that there are other people who do or don’t “believe it”, and then that it is something that could be learned & used...are reactionary thoughts. If those are breathed through & not acted upon, it can begin to be seen that loa is no more and no less what has been the case for you all along. It is descriptive of how reality is functionally appearing. What is referred to as ‘experience’ is one whole, which appears via....nothingness...vibration...particles...one whole experience (extremely condensed version). The “person” is just vibration, and is of the experience, not separate of it. ‘They’re’ a ‘condition maker’, ‘in the middle’ of an unconditional reality, which what you really are is appearing as (The One vibrating & illuminating being the one whole experience). The first step to seeing this is already the case, is noticing your vibration (state of mind / outlook / attitude / intention / how you feel generally) is indicative of what’s happening (literally, what you are creating) in your life. It’s seemless. If that’s too big of a paradigm leap, study quantum mechanics. The initial challenge of realizing loa, is one’s own karma, and that there are not multiple beings / people. (Can’t attract for another...which is really clear throughout this thread.)

@zeroISinfinity I’m not convinced you’ve even begun to put a dent In actually realizing how beautiful you are.

And apparently the sense of humor sometimes. @Ibgdrgnxxv Something to consider...when all beliefs are uncovered, that narrows down what can remain.

@mandyjw Woe men. Woe: Noun: Grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description. An affliction: She suffered a fall, among her other woes. Interjection: An exclamation of grief, distress, or lamentation. It does have a certain biblical ring to it.

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@Martin123 Beautiful. The healing feels like love reuniting. ??

@Ibgdrgnxxv Indeed. I think we’re mostly saying the same thing.

@mandyjw Women, obviously.

@Ibgdrgnxxv You do realize, you’re making judgement up, right? Dogma too? If not...do your diligence, find out exactly, precisely, how there are ‘separate objects’ (in any way). Kinda hard to hold that belief without ‘something’ or ‘someone’ separate to judge.