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"What any taketh (or can) isn't them, and what another taketh from them isn't them. Release the inessential, anything another from you isn't your requirement; not crucial." -Me

I figured the extent of my knowledge is my current thought

I realized a portion of the, "Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.” Happiness is your nature. Upon thinking it is wrong to desire it it will be a wall around you until you seek it outside though it is inside. Relax in it. Upon seeking it where it isn't found it omits you. (notice this process in action during meditation/introspection) Please offer an explanation of the rest of the quotes. I understand fairly, but I wish to be more detailed.

Expressions are riddles, not thought transportation. If the expression's witness cannot solve the riddle, they cannot understand it's meaning. I'm curious, have you ever tried thinking without expressing what you were thinking? In other words, there are expressions tinier than things like smiles or audible terms, like a movement or rest intended to let someone know you are present. It's all about intention. I'm curious whether you can stop intending any expression, at least for an amount of time you can confidently say you actually accomplished this. You'll have to be thorough, if you're one of those who demands more than one evidence. Another point, after you try that, is to stop intending to transfer your thought via expression. Expressions are not thought transportation. Once you express (orally, through the hands, etc.) it is up to your witness to understand... either they know the interpretation or not. Another thing, and this has perhaps subliminal purpose, stop trying to hide what is already hidden. If someone demands your reason for being in their house (and you've broken in), freaking out doesn't preserve your cool. The truth is in your mind, stop trying to hide what is already hidden, perhaps they can't even understand your expressions (like leaning on one foot with one arm crossed). START BUILDING CONFIDENCE AND TOPPLE THOSE FALSE NOTIONS. Also, have you ever experienced emotion (not assuming you have)? Well, awareness requires a means by which it is gained... a sense(s). Yes. Now, through which sense(s) do you have(have you had) awareness of any emotion? Maybe you were watching a movie and experienced it, with which sense(s)? The main point is that it only ever was something you were aware of through at least one of your five senses, and that awareness of it didn't venture beyond that. If you want to manipulate your emotion, manipulate either the senses which sense it or what they sense (the thing you call emotion). Perhaps an emotion is merely a slightly war air, and one moment becomes cold as it exits your nostril(s) at which point you now know it is air... but would be confused as to how it jumped from emotion to air if you had not understood this. Yes, emotion isn't at all emotion, it is merely something you sense with your five senses which you've given another name because you've misidentified it. Maybe tell me what you think, especially if you tried the whole zero expression (the first exercise) and not intending to use expression as thought transportation (the second).

what if you can still quote people and have an account and receive messages? Expressions are riddles, not thought transportation. If the expression's witness cannot solve the riddle, they cannot understand it's meaning. I'm curious, have you ever tried thinking without expressing what you were thinking? In other words, there are expressions tinier than things like smiles or audible terms, like a movement or rest intended to let someone know you are present. It's all about intention. I'm curious whether you can stop intending any expression, at least for an amount of time you can confidently say you actually accomplished this. You'll have to be thorough, if you're one of those who demands more than one evidence. Another point, after you try that, is to stop intending to transfer your thought via expression. Expressions are not thought transportation. Once you express (orally, through the hands, etc.) it is up to your witness to understand... either they know the interpretation or not. Another thing, and this has perhaps subliminal purpose, stop trying to hide what is already hidden. If someone demands your reason for being in their house (and you've broken in), freaking out doesn't preserve your cool. The truth is in your mind, stop trying to hide what is already hidden, perhaps they can't even understand your expressions (like leaning on one foot with one arm crossed). START BUILDING CONFIDENCE AND TOPPLE THOSE FALSE NOTIONS.

If you say that it is here, a there must exist. But any "there" is simply present. If you say that it is there, a here must exist. But any "here" is simply present. If you say that it is small, a big must exist. But big is simply size. An ant may seem small to an unenlightened, but the ant may seem big to a gnat. If you say that it is big, a small must exist. But small is simply size. A human may seem big to an unenlightened, but the human may seem big to an ant. Focus on actuality. Also, avoid the illusion of one. It is often during the illusion of controlling. For one moment, close your jaws and try to reason that they are plural rather than one. Perhaps situate and adjust until you find the illusion of one again. This illusion is potent... like focusing on a hand and knowing it is a hand, but forgetting it is multiple things combined. People are combinations of what elsewhere isn’t a creature, elements. Apart from assembling a creature, those which form you merely are… being elements. With pointillism, dots are seen from a distance… they are placed so as to, from a distance, seem to form a solid image. That image is like the illusion of one. Wherever you seem to sense one, you sense the same lying confirmation you experience when you seem to sense yourself. But you are multiple, thus consciousness of self is to be under an illusion. “The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action” – Bruce lee “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." – Alan Watts

Oh then I don't think I misunderstood you, I thought you might think that. Looks like you understand a bit of what I meant though. As for whether or not worry is conditioned, check this out. I was focusing on what I exactly I "know". What I noticed is that I only "know" what I'm currently thinking. That is the extent of my knowledge. Whether or not i respond with what I memorized depends on whether I can make enough connections and be close enough to grasp it from where my current thought is. But seriously look at my other comment. I just had a brain fart and some of the things I've been contemplating have been making sense. I revised the response to Maorice's comment.

"Me" is a combination together forming "Me", therefore the case is "We". The eyes which see are not the ears which hear, and the connection between them, too, isn't "Me" it is "We". It would also be erroneous to say that "I" represent "Them", rather than to merely say "We" sometimes work together. Because sometimes I sit on my leg and can't move it, so that "We" are smaller in number. But that leg may soon join "Us" again. Therefore, because all of my components are elements which may not compose a creature... the universe is like a complete creature, whereas humans are an increment... a limb. There is no such thing as "My Life" there is only "Life". Existence actually only is. There is no belonging. Giving is only movement. Recieving is only movement. Small is only size. Tall is only size. A lake is a large puddle and a small ocean. If you stop considering belonging, you can notice IS-ness. Existence actually rather than inaccute perspectives. Inaccurate perspectives are formed much like imaginations, except with words. A unicorn is perhaps a combination of a horn, a horse, and the colors of the rainbow. Everything belongs where it is, if you are not it... it doesn't belong to you. Because nothing impossible has ever happened, it is logical that the thing is where it is. But since I am actually "We", We belong where we are rather than to anything else.

I wrote this one, it is in terms of the mind and non-mind. "Surrender if resistance costs more than it benefits. Resist if surrender costs more than it benefits."

I honestly thoroughly applied that quote. I found that, like worry, hate and love are like realizing something a second time. Because worry does nothing more than remind you of what you already know. Rather than to dwell on anything, I keep moving via contemplating, reestablishing focus (overall focus), and meditating. It is then that I don't look like a child staring at what they already have rather then to invite new experiences. As Christ said, "The old wine is better, they say."

I gathered two very opposing ideas to meditate on. They key is to observe the psychological and non-psychological affect of these meditation. Be thorough, though these directions may be unconventional and even considered other than moral (according to mainstream). Please tell me what you experience as a result of this, maybe even do them while doing chores if you can't just lay down and be still. But seriously, I'm interested in what you experience will be. 1Don't believe anything. Don't believe that you don't believe anything, while you are. If you aren't satisfied you've properly done this, it's because you require too much evidence. But evidence is the basis for proper belief. Don't believe anything. Not even the aforementioned. I want you to tell me if you can follow through with reaching for something if you believe nothing about it or reaching for it. 2) Believe everything, despite whether it would be contradictory having beliefs which contradict one another. Believe white isn't white, and that white is white, and that white isn't at all, and that white exists. 3) I don't expect you to fully accomplish this next one.Focus on something you doubt or something you believe. Attempt to both doubt and believe it. 4) This one is kind of hard, but if you fear during it you'll likely be at a loss for words. Focus on something you've either doubted or believed and NEITHER believe nor doubt it.

Do you realize what anger is? Nothing more than emotion. Realization of emotion suggests awareness of it, right? Well, awareness requires a sense whereby it is gained. Through which "sense" is your awareness of your emotion? This "sense" is simpler than you may think. As for how to observe it... salt isn't sugar, but to the eye they are both white. Work with what you have evidence of; therefore build upon factual premise, deduce. I recommend trying to preserve the conditions (sounds, sights, tastes, smells, sensations) which are present during your emotion, so that you can observe it without error. Think deductively. The anger/emotion you have... by means of the sense your awareness of it is by, locate it. NOW, it is simply something you've misidentified. Your misunderstanding is much like cavemen being impressed upon witnessing fire for the first time. However, if you treat emotion deductively (as with salt and sugar) you can bypass how impressing emotion is and better understand. After realizing this, I understand people far better. Movies seem to involve primitive minded, ignorant children (and the hype is easier to identify). I now know emotions aren't an aspect of your personality, they are merely what your five senses sense and what you likely misunderstand. The only reason you've associated them with your personality is because they have become quite familiar. When you experience a new "emotion" you likely get a kick out it, because you feel new and up to date, really that emotion is only something at least one of your five senses senses. Significantly changing what the five senses sense is manipulation of "emotion".

I love you.

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I believe that many people suffer the illusion of individuality. The fact is that one person comprises multiple elements, hence they cannot be something single. The way the illusion works is much like how two eyes provide one path of vision, so that you wouldn't know you had two eyes (and not one) without a mirror or feeling around (or something). People aren't individuals, they are combinations of what can be found elsewhere not forming a creature. Just as two eyes provide one vision, the true case is unity (collaboration/combination) rather than individuality. I've also found that this sense is often present during partial satisfaction (rather than complete satisfaction).