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@Derek White RIght on. Write it next to your dream board, so your ‘why’ of letting go is readily available.

Let thoughts about it go and feel it. No.

@Derek White Essentially, yes. The claiming of ‘my’ consciousness would be let go as it’s a thought. Thought is indirectly ‘let go’ by focusing on perception & feeling. Like a phone which has been believing in it’s concept of “my baseline wifi”. It’s just, wifi. It has a source, but it’s the router, not the phone.

Because I don’t see it that way, I never lose ground. That would be let go..previously I would say ‘in meditation’, but now I’d say because I created it in the first place. I’d recommend seeing what baseline consciousness is, when all else is let go.

It’s not a paradox, it’s a misunderstanding of reality, practices & spirituality, which perpetuates the non knowing of oneself.

Someone I worked with discovered he’d rather be right about his beliefs, than free of them, because it meant experiencing his karma. He believed ‘owning up’ to the fallout from his misunderstandings / beliefs would be painful, so he was choosing the lessor of two sufferings. He was inspired & addressed it head on nonetheless, via forgiveness of others & himself, and apologizing to others & himself, and to his surprise none of it went how he thought it would, and he was liberated in love. He’d never done psychedelics, never even meditated. He did spend a lot of time in the woods alone when he was much younger, hunting. In a hindsight way, he said the moment he realized he gave & received the love he had previously reserved and withheld, he saw through his belief of death, and the duality of self & other. He also said he naturally transcended a paradox, as he let go of a belief ‘there is not other’, a belief which he had wrote his own relationships off with, thus realizing love was always the bond at play, that it was all for him the whole time. He believed people were ignorant psychologically speaking, but realized he was ignoring his own acceptance & receiving of the actuality of the miracle that is his life.

It’s not about relationships & small talk, these point to the natural precedence of creating the life you want. Passion isn’t missing from the conversations but from the living. Small talk resonates the nerve of apparent limited time to create & not doing so. (Exaggerated:) “I could be living my dream right now but I’m listening to your rambling...your lack of focusing, your lack of awakening, your lack of living your dream life”. There’s no shortage of what you are wanting to create. Alignment of thought & feeling will reveal that, as well as calm the mind resulting in presence, and a renewed patience and appreciation for even the miracle of, ‘small talk’.

@cetus Ahh, that explains why he only buys cars with sunroofs.

Let it go. You’re creating the worrying. Feeling is not actually of a past, it’s a thought which resonates with feeling / now, feeling which is always present. The feeling you’re believing is the outcome of thinking about the past, isn’t. It’s abundantly, readily available, always, now. The resistance, is in letting the past go, not in any actual potential of losing the feeling, because the past isn’t actual, though thought implies it is.

@Meta-Man These are your beliefs, not your direct experience.

@Meta-Man Love isn’t a belief. ?

Fear isn’t rooted in death. Fear is the discord of the thought / belief of death, and the love that you are, saying..”no!”. “If you see the facts in the road, kill them”

@heretohelp It’d be up to you to see if there’s more to that.

@heretohelp Oh ok. Tell your ego I said hi.

@heretohelp What exactly is going on with this “ego backlash” ?

God’s hero. Happy Birthday!

Nothing is hidden.

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! ♥️