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@Dlavjr Like all notes & chords, all thought is relative. The ’background’ hum of the cosmos is C, all sound & music is now possible via relativity to C. Like all light & color, all thought is relative. The ‘constant’ of the speed of light is C, all perception is now possible via relativity to C. Like all wanted & unwanted, all thought is relative. The absolute of Love is C, all sensation is now possible via relativity to C. Attention inward there is only the endless C, attention for the world and there is only the relative world. (C = Consciousness, you) ”The Wholistic Insight”... All thought is one whole. Entertain duality of thinking, and it can go on forever. There’s no absolute in the content of thought. Because that is you. The thoughts are you. The understanding is you. You are the creator. You are the creation. You can not be found in what you are already, the whole of. The background hum is for making music, the speed of light is for experience, and the linear one-at-a-time stream of finite thoughts - is for creating your reality. You are already that relative world. Already creating with - of - your infinite self.

@Angelite It’s absolute.

Relax. Thoughts are just thoughts. You’re totally, perfectly, fine. Let them pass.

@Shin I know right!? Someone should tell people about this.

We’re really just sophisticated computers. With emotions.

if you want to have it, just give it away.

@erik8lrl

@Deanna Let thoughts of other people’s path behalf go, and stay on your path. This will make sense when you know Truth. It can’t be projected. When you’ve seen through your suffering, you’ve seen through suffering. Realize your wholeness, then, if you want to, help others.

The experience ‘reading’ does not require a “reader”. Look for “the reader” in direct experience. Scrutinize. Underpin the belief you are a physical body, which anything could be around, be examining thought & perception. “World” is a thought / label. “Show me how the opposite is true”...Truth includes all opposites. Rather than argue, or ask for someone else to show you, have a look at direct experience, and ask for assistance. Nothing is hidden. First, read up on what suffering is. If you realize that, even conceptually, feelings, intention, and understanding illuminate the path. Fearing in ignorance, not understanding suffering...you could be looking at decades, or even lifetimes.

@TKP What is it thought wander off to? What content, subject, category? Have you written about the feelings of that content? Exploring the feelings tends to release them in the body, resulting in natural focus. If you had the focus you seek, what would you do? Making a dream board tends to also release feelings and increase focus. It can be progressively ideal to calm the feelings and mind before doing much self inquiry. In short, are you trying to get rid of / stop thought? Cause that’s impossible. The focus is still on thought. Also, have you taken a trip, solo retreat, group retreat, etc? States can be inspirational & motivating.

@Deanna Awwww. In a culture of adding more, achieving, becoming, rat racing & competing....the “secret” is letting go of the “parts” beliefs, you’re already whole - underneath it all so to speak. Let attachment to being a human being, go. In the end, you’ll get nothing for all your efforts, because the only point is the experience, now. You won’t get anything for letting it all go either. But you’ll have let go of suffering, and all that energy going into suffering, and the beliefs that were ‘holding you back’.. Inspect the dualities at play in thought. Notice the opposite perspectives always have some truth to them as well. But not all words point to dualities. The game is afoot Humpty. You’re free to pick thoughts that feel good to you. They’re the breadcrumbs of feeling, and being. Infinite doesn’t have pieces, because it’s whole. It has beliefs though. Deanna-sized beliefs.

@Deanna You’re not alone, and loneliness is unjustifiable. It’s dualistic, meaning, it’s just thinking. Alone requires something secondary, an object a subject is not with. There’d have to be someone else, to believe you’re alone. When there truly isn’t someone else, there’s no self which is self referentially thinking it is alone. It is so not a problems whatsoever that it has long been referred to as The Cosmic Joke...as in, if you don’t get it, the joke’s on you. (Because you’re the whole cosmos) This is not a pushing away from being, it’s a calling for reconnection, re-membering, reuniting. Time in nature is great imo. So to speak, when the only duality (thinking) going on is yours...nature’s being without dualistic thought, well the peace eventually gets ya. And that peace is you, reconnecting. To transcend in perspective, the one that is currently being held in mind must be let go, so the new, transcendent to that thought / perspective can arise. You can’t fill a full jug. “Empty your cup”. The attempting to sort out who understands, is a diversion of the self discovery. Only you could understand. Only you can awaken.

@Raptorsin7 Investigate reality, scrutinize your direct experience. Use a pad of paper, and write what you know is true, or at least what you honestly know you believe to be true. Start from whatever comes to mind, doesn’t matter. Question each thing you write, how do I know that is true, when the opposite is also true? How do I know this is true, what did I actually directly experience? You can do this all day long. Reality indeed gets interesting & exciting. This is the metadventure, transcendent of the life adventure. This is what makes life worth living, some say. If reality is not exciting enough in it’s most ordinary state, then you’re still looking at the finger, while it’s pointing to the moon. Fundamentals, Hoosiers. Direct experience, the moon.

Emotions have been created thus far based on the relationship to the outside world...circumstances, events, etc. This script must be flipped. Emotions are actually, and always have been, created by the inner world “Relationship”, the relativity between thought, and infinite being / absolute Love. At whatever pace you’re comfortable with, you and reality, will be turned inside out. There will be highs, and there will be lows. But in the end, everything will make sense, really, really, really Good sense (feeling). Btw...this is what every religion, spiritual teacher, every guru, and everyone who loves you, everyone who really just freakin loves you - has been talking about.

@Raptorsin7 You’re ‘tasting’ the bitterness of the separate self. Not at first glance maybe, but it’s a wonderful thing. The separate self is the one in the thought story, the one in the past, the one in the future - where feeling is not. It seems to me you are discovering this clue, this “there must be more to life than this”. It’s not too far of a stretch imo to say - welcome to the ox pics. Indeed, there is much more. Expressing gratitude & appreciation in thoughts & words can tune one into the feeling, for sure, without a doubt. However, on a ten scale, figuratively speaking, this might take one from 0 to 3. Later, full circle, turquoise, nondual, this is the default, though it would then not be described as gratitude or appreciation, but visceral amazement, disbelief, childlike wonderment. I’m going to really scrutinize the clues, and I hope it’s helpful... The biggest challenge on the path, the name of the game, is precisely what you’re getting clued into - suffering & the separate self. Self referential thinking - thoughts, about yourself - over time, have constructed a sort of seemingly solid idea, of you. But that ain’t you. That, is conceptual, and is more or less void of feeling. So welcome to deconstruction. Contemplate, with “new eyes”, presence - mindfulness - what you’re encountering at this point, is exactly what those words were coined to point to - being here, now, where feeling is. And furthermore, diving into this ocean of consciousness, awareness, of Love. For now (terrible pun sorry)...just practice: Being attentive, to what you have thus far been inattentive to. Didn’t seem like a big deal, letting the mind wander, thinking, overthinking, etc. We all go there. This is the intellectual era. Most die there. Some of us, die now. One little deconstruction of the separate self at a time. ”I always imagined” Imagination is arguably the greatest facet a ‘human’ ’has’, but, when we involve happiness and gratitude, we can create a trap while simultaneously getting snared in it. It’s a triple trap really, that I am human, that I am the idea of who I am as a human, compounded with that I expect to be able to wander via the undisciplined mind, and still feel. If right now, and for the next year, I imagine when I’ll be happy and appreciative...________ - ...notice I’ve already blown it. I left now, and made my happiness conditional - the condition, is time. I did this merely with thought, about me, in the future....where happiness is expected to be. Because the truth is that there is no separate self, there is no past, and there is no future - that what appears to be a time space continuum (“physical reality”) is actually an infinite being, appearing as time & space - because that’s actually the actuality - feeling - which is only of infinite being, not of the separate self in thoughts - is only here & now. The source of feeling is absolute unconditional love...unconditional, as in, the finite mind says “meh...later in life..I’m busy”......Feeling, all knowing, all loving, nowhere & no thing more worthwhile to be than “you” - says “Ok, cool. You got it my man”. Very, very loosely, you might say this is the “catch”. Infinite being is unconditional. Loving you so much, no matter what you do...that it can slip by unnoticed. Absolutely unconditional. But alas... THIS IS A DREAM. YOU ARE THE INFINITE BEING. The metadventure is well underway. Welcome to it brutha. The separate self is a virtual expert at taking living, and reality, for granted.

Great post. Loved this especially.

That’s huge! Good for you man. ??♥️ Now don’t go telling them “it’s your choice to believe dogma, etc, etc...” Just choose for you. Exemplify.

@Raptorsin7 What I just pm’d you...precisely what you’re doing here. ??♥️

Been there, and feel for ya man. What ‘worked’ for me, and hopefully is of some help for you... my parents are like that. I, am not. I love them like that. I love me like I am. No judgment on my part, no problem. Meditation every morning makes it pretty easy to let go of thoughts which do not feel good, and to choose thought about what does feel good to you. I would consider being “selfish” in this regard. What you create, what opportunities you seize, what you focus on which becomes your life - no one else will experience it but you, and no one else will answer for it, but you. If they’re perspectives, comments, etc are not serving you - just change the channel to what you actually want to focus on. They are the greatest of teachers in this way. They have served well to your realizations of what you don’t want, and now, you know much more of what you do want. It might be helpful to make a dream board, and get so much of what you are wanting in life in front of you. You’re got the energy, not direct it into creating the life you really want. This changes everything, and you’d find just how little time you have for giving attention to what does not resonate for you. Wherever & whatever you put your focus upon, you get more of. Accept that not everyone will be focused, and attuning their thoughts with feeling. Exemplify this, it is most worthwhile. Though it happens quickly, notice & be accountable to yourself, for your interpretation. Notice if I say “you are a toaster”, due to your interpretation, you have no issue. But if I say (apparently from reading your post) that you are a “hippy dippy spiritually bypassing fool”...you interpret that, bounce it off beliefs of who you are, and there’s an issue. At the end of the day, who cares what people think. It’s what they think. It has as much to do with you - as you are choosing that it does. 17 - 25, imo, is the roughest part of life. Consider, emotions thus far have been created relative of the outside world, of circumstances & events, just like hearing & interpreting what people say. There is another way with emotions, and that is the relative creation, to the absolute unconditional love within you. Notice, you must feel bad twice in such events: Once from your interpretation & beliefs. Then again, in ignoring your feeling, and choosing to tango in unwanted. The Love within is not moving, nor joining you in what does not feel good. You, must align with it. We are relative. Love is absolute. This is simply what is, fight it as we may, it is at the peril of our own feelings.

@thetrut11 There is a logical, conceptual understanding available as to why infinite absolute love, Being, must forget ‘itself’, to allow for experience (and how things get so out of hand, so to speak). It might take a bit, but I think you’d feel great relief.

@Raptorsin7 ??♥️ You’re nobody’s pain. We create our own suffering. When we acknowledge this, and inspect and discover this truth, we are liberated from it. Reality’s so tricky, weaving dualities. Compassion, understanding, true love, these are One, not two. Everything is already ok...and then we think, and believe our thoughts, and end up searching, for the knowing that everything is ok.

@Dylan Page The belief set of being a human, a separate individual self, surviving, is suffering. Imagine living your life, completely believing you are an ant. Thinking like an ant, feeling like an ant, creating like an ant, relating like an ant, fearing like an ant, loving like an ant. If you were a human, this ant story / living would be an enormous limitation, yes? @The Don Possibly the sneakiest I’ve seen yet, ?. @Arthur ?

Nothing.

@Uncreated Yep. That is awareness. ‘Congrats’. Let that “my” thought dissolve into awareness, aware it’s a thought.

@Chives99 Imagine if you were telling a story, right now, that was so good - the full charactering kind of story, gestures, impressions, excitement, acting out scenes, etc - you put everything you got, your whole self into the story - and twenty minutes into the story you’re so engrossed that you actually forgot who you were, and became concerned in believing you actually are the character you’re telling the story about... and then you stopped telling the story and remembered you were just telling a story.