Nahm

The intention of what the question can lead to, rather than a personal opinion of the question, is the difference. Mine is the end of your suffering...awakening, enlightenment. The topic & conversation are great, sharing information is great, and fun, but they are just a means to getting to actual liberation, right now. I see the perpetuation of “the sufferer”, and am inspired to help see through “it” / “them” / “him” / “her”, whatever you’d like to call the thought.

@electroBeam Write it on your dream board. Maybe make a list of why you want them, and then let go of any thoughts about the how. It can initially be a very counter intellectual, counter logical approach. The point is self discovery, rather than the getting of a thing, even if that thing is psychedelics. Question why you want a thing, and you are by default uprooting the separate self, “the one who needs it, can not have it (the experience)”, triggering release & healing. Via the wanting, the release & the healing, wholeness of the self is realized. A thing is really an experience, and what is preventative to the experience, is the belief held about a separate self, which is unworthy of the experience. Source flows to us all equally, thoughts, are relative.

@NormanN Well, my vote is that it is critically important. But I hear ya. ??♥️

@lightnessofbeing What is the difference, between pain & suffering? And when do these occur?

@Bridge to Infinity On a Friday, the manager of the chinese food place next to my older office comes over, all stressed out, wanted to use our fax machine. Something about his car getting repossessed. Told him of course, no prob. He sits in my office and is sweating, and shaky. I asked what’s up. He said he was out of pills. Long long story short...he was taking OxyContin, marijuana, and a couple other similar pills all day everyday. I mentioned psychedelics, and some studies on addiction, new treatment methods, etc, and kind of broke down the differences between psychedelics, and “drugs”. Oddly, all he was hearing was “mushrooms are a great drug”. He was very receptive to hearing that psychedelics are non-addictive. Zeroed in on that, I could tell. Monday, he walks in again, walks right into my office, and hugs me. Like a little kid who lost his mom at a grocery store hugs her when he finally finds her. Quite solid, appreciative, not ending this hug anytime soon. I was like, “it’s ok man, it’s all good. What’s happenin?” He just says, meet my behind the building in five minutes. ....”ok”. Even longer story short, he thanks me as if I’d invented psychedelics or something, and gives me a brown paper bag, with over an ounce of mushrooms in it. Flash forward maybe 3 months... he’s off all the drugs, and even quit smoking cigarettes. Even got his car back. I joked with him...”shrooms are one hell of a “drug” huh?”. He said, “I don’t know. I still haven’t tried them. It was the cocaine that was eating me alive, but I have a business, a great wife, and two daughters I hadn’t really seen in a while, and I appreciate them now, and you. Some of that shit you talk about clicked, and I got some help, and I realized I was creating all of my suffering, and all my problems. I was putting everyone I know through hell, everyone I love so much, I was blaming them. I just wasn’t loving myself, and in hindsight, I resented and blamed everyone for it.” If there’s a point here, it’s to look at the conditions, the beliefs, one’s own perspective. Get what you want up on a dream board, notice any resistant thoughts about what you are wanting, and let them go, by choosing a better feeling, true for you, thought. It will come. To need it to come, is a resistant thought.

@Serotoninluv ??

@NormanN Switch from the perspective of the teachers to you. Actuality vs abstraction. Solo practices, solo & group retreats, experience “hands on” group stuff like Reiki classes, and experience one on one coaching as well as some group / seminars stuff.

Sure. Just be sure to note, any instance where you personify this - be aware of the resistant thoughts that sound like... “well yeah, if I was at where Nahm is”...”if I lived where he lives”....”If I could _____ Iike Nahm ________’s”. Just notice, and keep it to you, take your own less travelled road, that’s where the magic is, not “over here”, rather than (in your thinking) making this something “unique” about “Nahm”... Woke up at 5:30am on Saturday, magic is waiting. Should probably get more sleep, but been so filled with passion and inspiration from dream boarding, letting resistance go, creating, etc, that 5 hours seems to do the trick. Was in a town I’d never stayed in before. It was quite still & silent out, though I was staying in the center of downtown. Seemed I awoke before the hustle, so I went for a walk, to go see, and be. Saw a tea shop, which was opening their door at 6am, just as I walked up to it. No customers there yet, just me, and a manager, and an employee. The manager asked what I’d like, I said, “tea”. She pulled out a sort of tray, with like twenty or thirty little metal tea canisters, and asked what kind of tea I wanted. She’s wearing the face of the guy at the home repair store, when you ask for “a nail”, and I think she partied too hard, and too late last night. So I said, “your favorite. I’d like to try that”. Her smile cuts right through the hungover facade as if directed by Scorsese, as she untwists the cap of her favorite. There’s a pride & purpose present that wasn’t seconds ago, it dawns on me that she owns this place, and she’s a dreamer too - she’s “here” too now, at least a bit more. She holds it in front of my nose and I take a sniff..and...I’d recognize that smell anywhere, instantly, it’s shrooms. I look down into the sweet little canister and yes indeed, that is chopped up pieces of magic mushrooms. I said, “I’ll have a a large”. This place, btw, doesn’t just put hot water and a tea bag in a cup. She started using some big machine. So I went and sat at a table, still solo customer in the place. A guy walks in, around 60 - 70 yrs old. In a sizable place, with maybe 15 tables, every one of them empty, he sits with me. He says “I was around your age, maybe a little younger, when the angel came to me. I was staying in a hotel room, out of town, for work. I didn’t like the job I was in, but I did it the best I could nonetheless. I awoke in the middle of the night, alone in my hotel room. Ive never had anything at all like this happen to me before, but, an angel walked through the wall, into my room, and stood / floated at the foot of the bed. I cried, and cried, and cried. And the angel said not a single word, yet communicated to me in some other way, that I can not explain, and as quickly as it had come, it again went through the wall. I changed my ways, I started eating, and thinking differently. I loved my wife, as if for the first time. I noticed things she did for me which I guess I had always just sort of assumed were her role or something. I quit that job that Monday, and I started asking people about the work I had always actually wanted to do, but figured I wouldn't make any money at. But I did, the value of the work ethic I had come to know, it pulled me through every challenge. Today, we’re staying just outside of town, in our second house. Thought I’d come here, and get a tea. They have good tea here, you know what I mean?” I said, “Yup”. Got my tea and headed out. 7am. Entire Saturday to go.

@erik8lrl Btw, loving all your posts. Thank you ??

@Bridge to Infinity What without resistant thought, without sin - has not readily appeared? What is the exception to your creation, to your attraction?

@Bridge to Infinity Just let go of the belief. Unresistant ‘things’ can’t help but manifest. “When the student is ready, the teacher appears”. (The psych’s, not Nahm) You’re creating your own reality. Let’s metadventure. This belief is either deep, deep deep deep....gonna take a lot of work to untangle.... “if only i knew a way to get legit psychedelics so that i can know what you mean.” Or it’s right here, right in front of you to see. Plain sight, without the belief, your condition. Without which, things just show up. Have a peak at what you’re already creating, attracting, believing. Hay in a hay stack, “hidden” in plain sight.

Should Enlightened Teachers focus on teaching individuals rather than mass teaching? You are looking to be teaching?

What is the difference, between pain, and suffering? “my pain, confusion, guilt, shame and anger are not resolved” My eight year old keeps touching the hot stove & doesn’t like how it burns her. She just keeps recreating the same experience over and over. I’ve instructed the stove correctly numerous times, to no avail. What should I tell the stove to do next? What advice should I give my daughter? She says she really, really wants a certain “lightness of being”. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - M. Williams

“The body is the temple”

To remind you that you don’t. You put them here.

There. Is. No. Assertion.

There is no objective reality. Fun to sort things out & converse. Never actually happening though.

@Rasheed Acuity of sensation is really the name of the game with food. It’s triggering, but, shit’s coming out either way. Might as well awaken. When we try to logically resolve food & diet, in the ’ultimately’ sense, we keep arriving back at feelings, over & over. It’s making sense (sensation) the whole time. The absolute source of sensation & thought, which allows for the relative feeling - (emotion) the feeling of each thought - remains the same, wether it’s eating, or a topic.

@Fede83 Funniest question ever. ?

@electroBeam Ha! Nice. The cosmological principle, spagettified into a dumbhole. You are truly the center of the universe.

@Fede83 If you don’t enjoy them, find some which you do, or rather do what you enjoy.

@electroBeam It’s a pointer to cosmic consciousness, which nondual realization is prior to. There needs to be a natural path unfolding. Without a full circle on thoughts as self, an explanation could all too well trigger too much pressure on thinking. Thought creates but is not necessary to create, if you can resolve that apparat this paradox you got it. I’d suggest putting yourself, a dream board, and what you actually want in life, into the equation. Makes the expediting of the path all the easier. And just, more fun, really.

Take Reiki classes.

@Fede83 All you. ??

The two are the same. Enlightenment can never be actual, if it’s being held as a thought about the future, nor is it an experience. It’s the actuality right now...already...and added to it is the thought story about needing results to feel better, it being easier said than done, etc. Writing out your perspectives, along with the opposite perspectives, really reveals, in feelings, the shift I’m pointing to here. Transcending a perspective can be done in minutes, clearing the mind, allowing purification the way. Letting those narratives go will trigger release of identity & misunderstood emotion. As a broad stroke, you’re neck deep in how, and measuring yourself by comparison to others and or an idea of yourself. A few hero’s doses of Why on your dreamboard can open up perspective greatly. This place is for you man. Nobody goes to Disneyland to compare & measure their outcomes and results of fun-ness.