Nahm

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Welcome to the forum! With respect to you just starting in on the path, I would offer that diet & fitness is 99% of it. It’s relative to you though, so don’t use comparison to anyone else. Listen to your body. The mind is a limiter of intelligence, not a generator of it. The body is infinite intelligence. Let it lead, by listening to feeling and willingly letting thought is discord with the body go. (That will uncover all beliefs.) Learn to “get out of your own way”, make it easy - let it be easy. All of the philosophy ever written is inferior to a single change in the orientation of your well being. You’re responsible for your behaviors, choices, and actions. That’s it. The universe is already wakefulness, and you are already not separate of it. You are asleep. I don’t mean that in a derogatory manor, I mean you’re literally asleep & dreaming right now, but have beliefs supporting the notion you’re awake. All thinking is dualistic. It has a divine use, but it’s not ‘figuring things out’ / existential rumination. In letting go (meditation) insights arise, and epiphanies & revelations are inevitable. Always empty, never cling, never claim what arises. Inspection of beliefs & assumptions is key. Scrutinize everything you take for granted. Not just ‘things’ & people in your life, but air, breathing, gravity, etc. I would drop all notions of striving for, achieving, obtaining, acquiring, or increasing via “levels of consciousness”. This is my opinion though, and it is not the popular one. I find it to be the undermining of one’s own path via comparison to others and a fictitious ’measuring stick’. It is more path-wise imo to tell the attendant at the gas station thank you & that you appreciate them, to actually see them, than to decipher which one of you is higher or lower consciousness. Invest some time in spiral dynamics instead, and don’t confuse it with your path. Simple & practical is most ideal. When you wake up every morning, splash cold water on your face, breathe deeply in your stomach, feel & relax the body, go outside and express gratitude for that miracle, and ponder, how much love can I feel, express & allow myself to receive today? Meditate. Exercise. In that manor, outdo yourself, everyday. It is by loving you discover you can never run out of it. Imo, don’t look to awaken the world. It’s fine how it is. Look to see how much love you can give to it. Great user name btw.

Well I won’t argue with that! ??♥️

@The observer It is not an assumption & it’s not both. There’s a deep seated reason one believes in individuals and their wakefulness And freedom. Perhaps just simply enjoy the freedom. ?? There’s no point in elaborating as you’ve already outsmarted yourself. I’m fine with the frame of what I said as “unsolicited advice & guidance”.

It’s not an assumption, it’s a response to what you said. Much appreciated, but I’m not triggered. I just love you. I find you quite kind as well & you didn’t receive any advice or guidance, so no worries there. These are personal ‘levels’ really.

@Serotoninluv Beautiful.

@Anton Rogachevski Assume all you like. A point does come where what worked in life and logic has reached the ceiling of duality, of thought. Then it’s time for what was avoided all along, with the very utilization of thinking.

@Anton Rogachevski Hi! Welcome to the actuality. Now confront & release that without involving me. Consider writing a list of what is not subjective in your direct experience. ?? And perhaps a second list of what you know to be true outside of your subjective direct experience. Here’s a great song about it.

@Mada_ Great to hear! ♥️

“OMG! Thank you love for this guidance! You’re of course, completely right - what I was thinkin simply wasn’t true!.” Source is always guiding you, looking out for you. It’s truly an inside job. Feeling better feels better than being right. Be right about fear at your own peril. Radical - RADICAL open mindedness. Even the idea of ‘being right’, can go. Right & wrong is just a fleeting duality. All but direct experience is a facade of the matrix of thought. Direct experience does not imply time, any differences or distinctions, such as you.

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Feeling is, and thus will not be found in “a past”, in a thought. Emotional mastery is a full circle which dissolves the ‘emotional master’.

Repression, or current judgement? Why judge? Belief in validation. Why seek validation? Feels good. What feels better? You. Being you.

Express it on paper so emotional intelligence expands and understanding arises. Including mom in the situation, is including mom in the situation. Rain, sun & dirt yes, but a flower blooms of it’s intrinsic inherent nature, or not at all. Every parent secretly doesn’t want their kids to grow up, which leads to transcending impermanence, which leads ‘back to’ love. Something you might make use of...when we are looking to liberate of a belief / behavior - do it on purpose. Laughter often cuts through, revealing. Another example, be serious on purpose right now. Super serious. No laughing. Be serious. Relax your face and body completely and get serious!

Fear, but ultimately, love. Don’t rope me in to your subject-object situation! ?

I think you know you’re way past deflection & projection. Penetrate through that, rather than settle. “One can not go where one has not been”.

@Anton Rogachevski You just returned to the initial subject-object inquiry of the thread. Try to ascertain which is which in your last comment.

@Anton Rogachevski Tell ya if I could. ??

@The observer You can love freedom, but you can not be free of love. Awareness is aware of awareness. Infinite can not know finite. Freedom is a thought.

@Anton Rogachevski Paradox doesn’t exist in actuality. The thought itself it does is you.

It’s you.

@Anton Rogachevski When contemplating consciousness & awareness - where is it, literally? What is your actual direct experience of these? 0%.

@WHO IS Awesome.

@Anton Rogachevski Might be a step in home direction, but doesn’t make ‘total sense’. It will lead to deeper contemplation & deconstructions.

@The observer Freedom is actually a ‘deep’ bias, a relative subject-object projection. The actuality of ‘freedom’ is love. Consider you can not give up love for freedom, you can give up freedom for love. Or more simply, you are you. Wether free or not, thinking you’re free or not you’re still you. There’s no such thing as a person. Names are thoughts, time is thoughts, perception is perception, love is love. You’ve never spoke with an “enlightened master” and you’ve never received Shaktipat. It only seems sent & received because there is no sender & receiver, but you believe there is. The love is you, everything going on with it is thought. In the same manor, you’ve never seen your own face, but believe there’s a you receiving. If you could be said to be receiving at all, it is only from the source of ‘you’, which is you, which is love. These are the ‘myth’, ‘you’ is the myth, love is not the myth, it’s just prior to and yet is the thinking derived to arrive at the contradiction to itself. Notice, rather immediately, thought arises, of self, past, future, other. Let go, all revealed to be love.