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Yeah, precisely. Because your not inspecting the narrative, you’re not awakening / remembering...so you’re missing the very first act of creation is simultaneous with forgetting the infinite intelligence that you are. Infinite can only know infinite. If there are any regulations by law which are being ignored, report them. If you desire to, be the light & love you say the place is missing, and it’s therefore found.

@Santhiphap There’s a lot of classic overthinking which is sucking the energy & zapping the creativity, so to speak. The thoughts are being entertained / believed, based on a foundational belief that there is an ego. This is the floor if you will, upon which self referential thinking..or ‘twoness’ in thinking... “I beat up on myself” for example, is perpetuated. It seems you developed an inner monologue of a polarity....”the ego”...or “awakened”. It is only the believing of thoughts about yourself...there’s no such thing as “the ego”. “The ego” = these thoughts you’re believing. Inspect them instead. Each occurrence of inspection and ‘seeing through’ each thought, is a “step into now”, where all the feeling & inspirations awaits like an ocean of consciousness. If I can help, say the word.

@oMarcos For sure. “In your way” is not the best wording, in hindsight. If you notice resistant thoughts, not-good-feelings, patterns playing out in life in which things are not working out for you, unrest in any relationships, habits you want to stop, etc, then sharing those helps someone to connect the dots to what you shared regarding potential childhood shadows hanging around. In understanding how they’re connected...they’re transcended / released. A “shot in the dark” of shadow surfacing...struggling to trust in relationships, fragmentation, over emphasized need to control outcomes, reoccurring self doubt, subconscious reactional thinking / anger / triggers, getting & losing jobs / opportunities without understanding why, seeking a strong affirmative figure for relationship / being influenced by this without seeing what’s at play, internally normalizing stress tension & uncertainty, possibly a struggle to share more deeply in intimate relationships making them difficult and short lived. Again, I’m not suggesting or insinuating this. Your post reads like you’re pretty solid on the whole thing. This is just the “shot in the dark”, what I think you’re asking for...potential things to consider, to inspect...if I’m not mistaken.

@Javfly33 Yep. Inherent, intrinsic, innocence...amnesty.

@mandyjw Nothing really matters! ?♥️ @Serotoninluv Iknowright!?

@LfcCharlie4 Ya, I agree. Airbnb is lookin good. After the mort, taxes, ins, people are making out pretty well on them. Especially now that the fee’s & cleaning cost are passed onto the customer. I was surprised that happened and stuck. I do my own. I got the licenses around ten years ago. Not that’d I recommend doing that. Easier to meet with a broker. I think in short & long term, low & higher risk, now & later incomes, but I don’t have a goal really. ‘Live & retire comfortably’, yeah, pretty much. Sweet. I found Zillow online to be most useful (not sure if you have that there). Scanning large areas, looking for the sweet spot between house price, taxes, and how much they rent for. I found one ‘pocket’ of zip codes that resulted in almost twice the net as everywhere else. Been a few years and it’s working out great. Biggest obstacle has been reliable maintenance workers, but they basically weed themselves out over time, so it’s gets progressively easier. Anytime. ??

@Chumbimba That’s awesome. I would love to see him one day.

@Chumbimba Like Mandingo said, YouTube Abraham Hicks & money. You’ll be right as rain. When it “clicks”...ahhhh. I wanna hear from ya. ??♥️ Also, I believe there are some videos of not only Tolle on LOA, but Rupert Spira also.

@Serotoninluv Who named it “matter” in the first place? Whoever it was, what a Riddler!

No worries. ♥️ What I was pointing to before...was the eventuality of that. It’s not actually true. We can get so used to believing a perspective, that we don’t question it. If you consider the direct experience, it’s one thought arising at a time. There’s no such thing as a “true thought”. Have you checked out Leo’s video...I think it’s called “Human, The Bullshitting Animal”? It’s one of the greatest, in my relative opinion. Also, Osho held a too-often-unheard view about this. It’s opposing to yours in most ways, but that’s precisely why you stand to liberate in exploring it. Just a thought. Also, if it seems like I’m saying, transcend the relative, the morals, values, “truths”, etc...so that there can be some orgy chaos New Earth situations, that’s not the intention. It’s so that you discover the real deal for yourself. What all of this and that, are of.

Solid post man. I do mutual funds, small & large cap, realestate, crypto, and start ups. Also worth mentioning, perhaps my best investment is the house I live in. Being transparent, that’s due to some location & timing research, but I’ve more or less utilized every house I’ve ever lived in in my investment picture. Rolling one into another, or pulling from one (renting it out / selling it) to fund something else. Looking into building an airbnb. In the right area, they stand to make 2-5x what a rental house nets. I see the MF’ s and rental houses as more conservative and predictable, and the crypto & start ups as more volatile “bets” on higher returns. In my perspective, the start up “bets” are on the person, and the company, but more so, the person.

@Dumuzzi Thanks. Didn’t realize I was arguing. Sorry about that. Did you mean, like, I’m arguing against marriage, yet am married...? Or against multiple partners, while having one...? Not sure what you mean there. ??

@Dumuzzi Eh, I don’t know man. I don’t have those beliefs, not that I’m saying they’re right or wrong. I do have a very happy marriage though, and a mind free of judgment.

@Dumuzzi Yes, I’ve read them. Sometimes we forget that the writings are someone’s words, ideas, interpretations...and we believe it is true.

@Dumuzzi “Some of it comes from my own experiences, some from those of my friends and extensive conversations we've had about the topic and a lot from other sources, such as by studying history and societies in different historical time periods, as well as the similarities and differences between different societies in various parts over the world over time. The topic is so vast, that I can barely hope to outline even the basics of it. But, just to give you a taster, in Thailand for instance, it is common for girls to stay virgins until marriage, even if marriage never comes. So there are literally a ton of 40-year old virgins over there, who did not get married for one reason or another, therefore they never had sex. I used to date a girl like that, she was 35 at the time and she never had sex with anyone before me. When we slept together, it was assumed by her that we were now committed to each other and would be getting married soon, in fact she started pressuring me on that front almost immediately and there was considerable pressure from her parents too. In the end, our relationship didn't work out. However, I've heard many stories from Thai-Farang (White Western Foreigner) relationships, where the guy assumed they could just lay a girl and dump her. Such a move is incredibly risky and could end in retribution from the girl or her family. I've even heard of stories where the girl's father took out a hit on the guy who disrespected her daughter in that way. This is just to illustrate the good girl - bad girl dichotomy I talked about. You can play around with girls you might pick up in a bar, but you'd better not disrespect a good girl or you'll most definitely be sorry. Admittedly, things are now changing due to western influences, but even today, there are facebook groups for Thai girls for instance where they expose guys that are "players" and warn others away from them. This is just one example, but I could give you many others on how social mores vary across time and cultures.” But can you see what that actually is....a thought, arising now...believed...influencing you? Not saying it is right or wrong, or good or bad, just wondering if you see what I’m saying here.

? Some examples of what is only a thought, arising... That is a thought about an I, a self referential thought. “Javfly hasn’t had a mystical experience”. See how sneaky the ox is? At the same time, create it. Go have mystical experiences. Sooo sneaky. Just an “ I “ and we’re into story town. Awareness of that thought. You’re Grand Central Station, always...it only seems that you got on a train (a thought) and left. Consciousness folds into itself, so to speak. So there is the apparent continuum of this, creation...and there is the inward path to what is already a backwards / inward movement, or Self Discovery. There is not only not “one who is done”, but also infinite Self discovery of who you actually are. Infinity is infinite. Look at the hand. Touch the wall. That is your infinite Self. There is no unreal, no nonexistence, no “out there”.

@Forrest Adkins I didn’t. You did. You’d be scamming yourself. It’s one of the questions to which the answer is so clear, it just get’s skipped over without consideration. Are you not “channeling” right now? Are your words “just coming from nowhere”?

@Javfly33 Ever played a video game in which you acquired stuff along the journey, developed (unlocked) skills, etc? Ever notice you are not that character in the video game, as ‘into it’ or ‘attached’ as you might have been to enjoying the game? It’s light, on a screen. What’s the light? The screen. Are you the character (light), or the screen? Do you come & go? Does all that appears to come & go, come & go, within awareness? ....Awareness, come & go?

@Kalki Avatar Good luck not blowing this off right out of the gate ? but...give Abraham Hicks a solid listen or two. It’s your ‘two birds’ in one. @Dumuzzi Of what you said...what of it is belief, what of it is conjecture & influence, what of it is your own judgements (which seem not to be, by assigning authority to another)...what of it can you honestly say, is actually absolute truth?

@Forrest Adkins Who would you actually be scamming?

Start with quieting the mind in meditation, and presence throughout the day. Stomach breathing consciously is ideal. Then contemplate in a specific “ask the question and then truly let it go’ manor. With practice, you find that in the having emptied of the question, the ‘answer’ or response indeed does arise. Practice this more. Overtime, it becomes clear there is not a ‘separate you’ / “the channeler”...just...you. Anyone can “channel”...it’s just “of” Now...while most seem to “be” in past and or future. Also keep in mind, it can just be a “scam”. But keep in mind, appearance, and actuality entirely, too. In the sense, do you believe your doctor, your teachers, your boss....are “not a scam”? How do you define “scam” and “not a scam”? Now notice, intuitively, you already know the answer, regarding “scam” or not. Not all “answers” are dualistic (thought). Sweet avatar pic btw.

Imagine a character in a movie sitting down and beginning to realize he’s been reacting - following a script, filling the roles of a character. And more deeply, the actor begins to realize he’s been ‘playing the part’ of a human. Upon further inspection, ‘he’ discovers who he actually is, and as such, is entirely free - always was. So he begins living the life he actually wants, free of ‘others thinking’, free of ‘self referential thinking’. “Sense”, is feeling...sensation. When viewed through the ‘what other people think’ or ‘what is logical & appropriate’ (collective beliefs) lenses...logic is misunderstood as ‘making sense’. “Makes sense” is feels amazing, or, the living of life which is full of sens-ation, in love of “living”. In this, new sense is “made”, siddhis, intuition, etc. I think this is because you’re looking at your experience from a one sided limited view. In noticing “you” are not “doing the walking” per se, you reduced your idea of you, rather than realizing your idea of you is just an idea, and never was actually you. You could say, relatively speaking to that reference, that actual you is the ground, the motion, the electromagnetic field, gravity, energy, etc. Rather than reducing an idea of you, inspect, scrutinize, actual you. What is meaningful...to you? Do that. Not so much “wrong”, just on the path, self discovering. The ego is made up. It’s a word used for where quantum meets atomic. A “line”. But there is no line there, it’s just where logic breaks down, where infinite wave appears to be finite particles. So in only thinking...this is where thinking breaks down. In feeling though...meaning & purpose are made anew, in the discovery of who you really are. Both are already unfolding perfectly as one. Enjoy the adventure of living, and the metadventure of discovery the true nature of self & reality. It’s truly the journey of a lifetime. “Play it out”...why do you want to achieve something? ...for the experience, & how it feels. There’s an a priori assumption of “how it works”...that you’ll feel better, when you’ve achieved more. But upon ‘having achieved more’...the great feeling, fades, and there is a new ‘thing’ to achieve, to feel the high again. You can see that without the assumption ‘I’ll feel better when’, is conditional living / feeling. Without the conditions, the greatest feeling, is now. If you think about it - there’s no feeling in a past or future. There simply is no past or future. These are thoughts, which only ever arise, now. Now, is when feeling is. Only, now. They don’t feel good, and you’re focusing on them. What does feel good for you? Focus on that, you’ll experience more & more of it. You have thoughts about what other people think. That is not actually what other people think. It’s what you think, that other people think. If there is ‘high worthwhile value’, or if there is ‘low worthless value’....it’s your own thought, your own perspective, your own belief. What feels best for you, what ‘lights you up’? That is actually valuable to you. Do more of that. Give some attention to your direct experience. Have you even experienced real and unreal ? Have no experienced existence, and nonexistence ? Thinking is quite sneaky. Ideas of unreal, or, nonexistence, are not the same as directly experiencing unreal, or, nonexistence...are they? Wherever you are, is here. You’re the one ‘thing’ which can never be lost. There is only the believing of thoughts (like Is am lost’), or not. You’re exactly where you “should” be, you’re where you are. Prior to thought, to judgment of it...it’s already perfect, and you can relax and enjoy it as such. Inspecting, contemplating, as you are, is “facing fears”. They’re all made up, so it feels wonderful to debunk them. Love is very funny in this way, and can be no other way. That is, to experience, you had to forget who you really are. What is the source of feeling...what is the value in terms of feeling and maximizing the living & the love experience, in getting all of what you want in this life on a dream board in front of you, so that it all begins to become clear, and in doing so, more & more enjoyable & effortless? If there is no separation, such as between the ‘thinking’ and the ‘feet walking’...what happens when you honestly write on the board, what you’re wanting...and let all resistant thoughts to it - go?

@oMarcos Sorry to hear, it does sound like a rough past. If it is not ‘in your way’, then it’s not. If you do feel it is, how so? What obstacles are you encountering?

@zeroISinfinity ‘Sick’ would be # two. This get’s right to the two perspectives, and my disclaimers.

@randomguy123 What do you imagine it would be like if a reset button was pushed, & every and all symptoms stopped? Would they start up again? How? What would be the chain of events? Or would they not? Why not?