Joseph Maynor

I would say that all suffering is triggered by the Ego-Mind, which is the Ego and the Mind. The Mind mostly but not entirely serves the Ego, so it's useful to lump them together, but it's also useful to think of them as being separate things too depending on the context.

It's not "not knowing" that's the goal, it's transcendence of the Mind. You will know, but you will see the Mind for what it is and what it serves. Of course transcending the Mind will cause a lot of your beliefs to drop away, but you're not clinging to not knowing, that's just another kind of mental clinging.

You should explain what you meant. That's not an unreasonable request. Then we can have a discussion about it here.

What is that which noticed the screen?

What would be it? Do what? What is Enlightenment?

I love Aeris haha.

Just what you told me.

You've caught yourself in your own snare though. Enlightenment is not about belief or about no belief.

Yeah I know, you told me already.

What do you believe in? Seems like you just traded in one paradigm for another one.

Trying to be aware can easily impede Do Nothing Meditation. Do Nothing is a much less neurotic kind of noticing.

Yes, but not neurotically. It's more like a noticing rather than a staring-down.

Nothing. I think I tried it once and realized it doesn't resonate with me. I meditate by laying down in my bed.

This is the best question I've seen in a long time on here. I've been meaning to address this issue in my own writings for a little while now but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Now. Does what 'being' points to say that it's God? Where are you getting that concept from what 'being points to? What is creating this concept of 'God' -- this meaning, this thought, this talk? Does what 'being' points to need a concept, thought, meaning to hang in an unchanging frame? Or is this like a piece of property that you have in your possession but don't have any use for?

'Being' is not about agreeing or disagreeing. It's the Mind which agrees and disagrees. Being is about locating that which the word 'being' is pointing to.

Being just is. That's why I call it 'being'. Being means that which is. More specifically, being is a pointer to that which is like a finger pointing to the moon. Being has no cognitive content, not would it be appropriate for being to have any cognitive content. Only thoughts have cognitive content, and what 'being' points to is not the conceptual content of any thought.

Is being clinging to talk or to concepts or to thought or to meaning? What is that which talks?

You will do it: you will continue to cling to it. Or so your Mind thinks. How many times have you deviated from what your Mind thinks you will do?

Oh yeah? The Mind loves to make linear predictions about what you will continue to do.

You need to find out what the word 'being' is pointing to. That's a major milestone on the Path.

Being can be pointed to but it cannot be captured in the Mind's concepts.

What does being point to? Throws a cup of ice water in face.

The word 'being' is a pointer. You saying being is everything is the Mind attempting to turn being into a thought, a concept. You have to locate what the word being is pointing to. It's not conceptual. Being as a pointer points to being. There's no conceptual extension for being. That would be to turn being into a concept, into a thought.

Being is not an answer to the Mind's questions; and on the flip-side being is not an object for the Mind's answers.