Joseph Maynor

A few more albums I love:

@egoless I love all types of electronic music, including Techno. Music is very mind-expanding. Here's a gem: Grandfather of modern electronic music. Another amazing gem: That thick sound is the "Big Moog." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_synthesizer Here's another gem: Ah man. I can't leave this one out: Dark but amazing. Same band 4 years later. Check this one out. Totally different style.

And the Devil would have rockstar kids, if you think about it. Sex, drugs, and rock & roll. I like the Devil on South Park. And Jesus and God on Family Guy. Do a Google Search on the images. Hilarious!

@Max_V Every time I put something into words, that's what I am thinking! Using language is like trying to play professional baseball with a Nerf bat and Wiffle ball.

Realize it's all a dream, that you don't exist other than Being, and that the mind is deceiving you into believing everything is real when everything except Being in the moment is illusory. Then all your obstacles will simply melt away. There are no more obstacles or concerns. You just watch life live itself. If you can let go to this extent, all your obstacles will fall away. It all stems from realizing fully that you don't exist in any manner other than Being in the present moment. Not just understanding that intellectually, but truly grokking it. Being able to let go and see the effect it has. It's remarkable and counter-intuitive. There is no need to do anything except maintain Awareness in the present moment, which is what Being is. Awareness alone is curative. No self. Video on point:

@Brimstone Sorry. I realize my post was probably below your level. I try to tailor my posts to someone's level. But you seem much more advanced than I assumed.

Pay attention to what is perceived versus how the mind is augmenting reality. Pay attention to what is perceived versus how the mind is augmenting reality. Now -- Is anything that the mind is telling you what you actually perceive? Start to pay attention to how the mind augments reality. Start to see how that augmentation differs from what is actually there, what is actually perceived. This will yield you some juicy insights. Do a comparison and contrast in the moment. A lot of the practice of Enlightenment is making your awareness much more keen. Videos on point:

Being does have a kind of indirect control through awareness. Awareness can improve your movie. That's the relation. Awareness alone is curative. Awareness is a feature of Being. So, you can improve your movie by heightening your awareness. But, still, you have no control over the result. The dream has to auto-correct, you don't have any control over that. But you can see the problems: notice them. That is part of Being, and that you can "control". You're the watcher. A good watcher sees all the shit. The more shit you see, the more your movie cleans up its act. It's a weird cause/effect relation that seems to transcend free-will. Free-will assumes there's a self, so there is no free-will because there's no self. Although there is no self and thus no free-will, awareness still can cleanse your dream and steer it from a nightmare to a fantasy or somewhere in between. So, Being doesn't have direct control, more like an indirect control. Being has indirect control by its noticing capability. Awareness alone is curative. Being is non-symbolic, pure, transparent, empty awareness in the present moment. You are Being. Videos on point:

It's funny that we're arguing over the answer here. There's a paradox in there too. One of the things I realized is that when you shack-up with the mind you get fleas. Being just is. All rationalizations are thought-stories. You are non-symbolic, pure, empty, awareness, in the present moment. And that is Being. Of course this is just a monkey-mind description. You have to see what this monkey-speak is pointing you to. Where in this do you find people or things? You are no-thing. I take this literally. Well, what it's pointing to that is.

Mind includes thoughts. I'm trying to determine if mind is a constant bystander of Being. What about when you dream? Is the mind there too? What about during your ego-death trips? Can Being ever totally break free from the mind?

@dorg Well said. I agree.

Keep meditating. Try to let the mind take a nap when you meditate. Don't force it to, but don't be thinking when you're meditating either. Just do do nothing meditation for 30 minutes. Get in touch with the body. Let the mind do what it wants, but don't encourage it. Just appreciate Being in the present moment. Notice everything you are aware of -- sounds, images, thoughts, emotions, touch, taste. Notice that thoughts are real as sensations, but the images, ideas, visualizations, are taken by the mind to be real when they are not real. There is a giant illusion going on with thoughts. But then thoughts do exist as sensations. Thoughts are both True and false. This is a very nice area to do inquiry work!

I've been catching up on some sleep today and dreaming a lot. One of the insights I had is that dreaming is no different than being awake. When I dream I am Being just as much as when I am wake. I don't have any control in either.

Realize they don't exist and you have no control. You're just the watcher. A watcher of a dream who has taken the simulation too literally due to the devil mind.

@Max_V From my perspective -- Being perspective -- there's never any gaps.

I'm inclined to think the only thing I'm sure about is Being in the present moment. Other things existing, including other people is a thought-story. So, I guess I do gravitate to a kind of solipsism, although that would be a thought-story too. Being just is.

Thank you Leo for your contributions to the Good in our world. You are a great role model and teacher to me, and I'm sure others would say the same if asked how they feel.

Everything non-symbolic about other people is something perceived in Being, and therefore part of God, part of you. Symbols exist, but how they comment on or represent what is True is illusory. Truth = Being. So, the phenomenological aspects of anything sensed in Being is you, is God. No-thing properly exists. Saying things exist is just a mental symbol being clung to as Truth. You are watching a movie play itself out, and the key error is identifying with aspects of it as anything other than Being. That's all mind stuff. The mind is a tricky bastard. The phenomenological aspects of everything is you. Even thoughts are you, they just need to keep their opinions to themselves. Thoughts are very vocal about Truth.

There is no you. There is no control. All there is is Being in the present moment.

All there is is Being the Truth. Other entities are just thought-stories. You are watching a dream. The only part of the dream that's real is the non-symbolic awareness in the moment.

@Nardo Don't forget that you do exist as pure, transparent, empty awareness, or Being. I resonate with a lot of what you said.

I'm a bad dream that wants to become a better dream, and maybe one day a good dream.