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You can not, not be you, and you are infinite. Reality is wine. You’re thinking it’s water. Truth turns water into wine. (It already is). Also, such is laughter. See about applying it to what appears serious. Yes, that is crazy. Love is crazy.

@VeganAwake Uh oh. It’s bud-time. Love ya man. Just talking. Intention is entirely to the title of the thread.

Not talking about beliefs here, anymore than someone might mention absolute unconditional love is a matter of beliefs. No. Yes, it seems that way to you, which appears to be paradoxical, but evidenced by the ‘coming and going’, something worthwhile is being pointed to here....that it is but half of a paradox. That’s how paradox ‘works’. It’s ‘pendulum’ fully to one side, untranscended, the other side could “not possibly be true” - and so “separate self alarm!”. It could be said to be no more than a defensive posture, paradoxically, as not to “lose” the half of a paradox being held onto. Hence, the “mystery” of the coming & going.

@seeking_brilliance ha! Nice! Yeah, I guess so!

@VeganAwake It is beautiful. ?? Wouldn’t you agree, that in the absolute, apparent relative, was / is already absolute sense...it seemed like one was there, until realization nothing matters & a separate one is not there? Prior to the realization nothing matters, the experience is not, nothing matters. In hindsight, but not experientially. I’m only suggesting that understanding is apparently elusive in that exact same way, which is not quite the same as saying it is illusory. Do you see the other side of the paradox - in that understanding is literally the only ‘thing’ that matters? As well to say, everything matters ?

@JessicaKatherine Really enjoyable thread to read. It came to mind, if it’s useful...you have a lot of mental clarity. I wonder if it’s one of those situations one is ‘not noticing what one already has’...which sort of “acts” as preventative to appreciating it, cherishing it, and or utilizing it - realizing it is the ‘answer’. I would “go to” your clarity. For inspection considerations like... “what’s left of the sadness is my lack of being able to capacitate no marijuana long term “...the ‘answer’ lies in ‘going to’ that clarity of yours. This inherently incorporates this...”my emotional awareness needs exercised”. Using the term ‘exercised’ denotes a knowing of exercise and the ‘clarity’, or nuance of sensation & feeling it can bring to the body...look to that clarity for the emotional awareness, alongside the mental clarity. In that clarity, that sadness is released. Feeling is. The thought about a future and a ‘me in it’ doesn’t resonate, because it’s not rooted in truth, which you’ve obviously heightened your overall (mind & body) sensitivity & intelligence to. The sadness is the experience of feeling, and the thought of ‘a you in a future’, not resonating with feeling...but feeling is being labeled ‘sadness’, rather than inspected. Feeling can not be bad, wrong, or negative. Duality is only in thought. As such we create emotions ‘right under our noses’. In this ‘seeing’ if you will, there is also no longer the duality or push & pull with ambition. Just a body & mind filled with exuberance of truth and passion. Feeling, simply is. Upon clarity of, feeling, thought, and emotion, in that understanding, compassion can be. That is, to be in, or, of, understanding, is to be able to see that every other is in the exact same circumstance, if you will. Compassion, unlike feeling, is not as simple as - it simply is. For compassion to truly be, you must create it, through first realizing clarity in the whole of your direct experience. Mindfulness, care, listening for another, advice, helping, etc, etc, are all well, kind, and Good, but compassion is a far deeper richer experience, you might say two-fold, of the deliciousness, of passion, and twice as intoxicating.

@VeganAwake Yes. Impossible to describe. Paradox inevitably comes to the mind. There is nonetheless, understanding, transcendence of paradox, which is not knowledge, nor a thing which could be understood. Overly employing one facet, or one side of a paradox, veils, rather than deconstructs, in transcendence & understanding. Sort of two different directions.

@Prevailer I agree. Really interesting, thanks.

@Prevailer Sounds right on imo. Do I understand what was said - there’s us... the space / silence / gap...and then thoughts / ideas?

@Prevailer Great post. It is important, imo. That’s always a good idea. Weird question for you...would you say you are separate from this idea (op)? Or, no?

@VeganAwake Is there “intermittent returning” apparently? Relatively speaking, as you said that’s what you talked with him about, is that appearing for “you” (and disappearing, I suppose) ?

“You don’t need to get tattoos to do that” - Guy with tattoos to do that. “I meditate every morning cause I like that space.....that space is everywhere.....go there.” ok. Great video. Great ‘guy’. Loving the infectious laughter.

Doesn’t matter much to me if you do that or not. In any case, I’d suggest letting that go. In this moment, it’s a condition. A belief in a ‘thing’ or experience you need for happiness. Happiness is under, or prior to beliefs & conditions, as those transpire only in thinking. “Ego death” does not equal any kind of actual death. It is the seeing through your belief in death. The revelation of this, when you know this to be true in direct experience rather than thinking / believing, is known. The revelation of course, is that there is no “death”. It is not something which ever was, or existed. This is why people say they are “in awe”, or “reveling” in the beauty of existence. It sounds like you are describing a psychedelic trip, in which you took enough to dismantle / deconstruct the majority of beliefs about who you are...but not enough that all of them deconstructed. In any future endeavors, do proper research. It is not then. It’s now. Focusing on the past in that way is clearly not serving you, and you have had enough of that. Allow the proper wanting & orienting to the your wanted future, with the dreamboard. It is not “so deep embedded”. There isn’t any actual second prior to now, there isn’t any second following now. It’s just always now. If any concerns seem to be from a past, they are not. Carrying that weight, carrying that concern, is called “carrying”, because you would literally have to carry it “into” the now, carrying it everywhere you go, for it to seem like it “from the past”. You can let it go. “It”, is a thought, right now, and that is all. It is up to you to begin choosing to put your focus toward what you want. You’re free to, always. No one could ever take that freedom from you. It would not be possible. The more you focus on it, the more you repeat it, the realer, the more “here now” it will appear to be. If you were to drop it now, in a month you wouldn’t be thinking about it at all. (Because you let it go). Always up to you.

@zeroISinfinity Be as little children.

@Beginner Mind Yeah, I wouldn’t do that either. ☺️ The comment is about creation limiting beliefs, not psychedelics.

Ok then, I’m callin bs on this belief. ? Not suggesting you should do them. But man, let beliefs that don’t serve you go. Change that vibration. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.” ~ Rumi (It’s not “poetic”, it’s literal)

@Nemo28 I don’t believe you. ?

Just one awakens, and that is enough.

What a gem. ??

☺️?? I’d even go so far as to say, this is when one arrives to the party.

Add to the dreamboard. Crack the “line” open.

@Prevailer Strange loop.

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@diamondpenguin Good, thanks. Dreamlike. How bout you?

The challenge is inherent, in that books and teachers are all pointers to. None can actually tell you the truth, as you are literally the only potential decoder. The game is already afoot.