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There is a situation that proposes many what If questions. What if I do bad? What if I mess up and I blow it? These thoughts then cause you to avoid doing certain actions. However, by doing so you limit yourself to new possibilities. If you have the power to focus on the potentially bad, then you have the power to focus on the potential good as well.

@Angelo John Gage who is it that has control?

@lens It's showing us that language can only get you so far. Non-Duality is pointing towards nothingness. I see.

@star ark I agree with what you are saying. Our minds have proven to be very destructive but also very productive and effective. Having the capability to communicate and think is amazing. Through meditation we can quiet the mind and direct our attention in a clear and concise manner.

Do good and bad exist, or are they figments of imagination? Good and bad do not exist. They exist as a perspective, but from objective truth, they do not. Something good to me could be bad to somebody else. Something good happening at the wrong time could be bad. Good only can be there if there is bad to compare it to. Good and bad are relative and distinct to an individual. In reality, there is no difference, the two ideas go hand in hand, meaning they go full circle. From an objective perspective, the two are non-dual, no different. To expand, all dualities are distinct and therefore not truth. Up vs down, left vs right, shy vs outgoing, life vs death, existing vs non existing, black vs white, tall vs short, etc. All of which point back to the same non-dual nature. What good does it do to believe in non-duality?

An answer may be that you are your brain. Notice that it is your brain. Who is you! You may say, "I'm me." Whatever that is, is a thought. If you say, "Yes I am my thoughts, what I think is what I know, everything from the past shapes who I am and my past exists in thought so I am my thoughts." So if you were to stop thinking you would cease to exist. However you still exist without thoughts. When you experience presence you experience periods of no mind, that's what it means to be present! So again, we are stuck with this question of who you are? The last one answer may reveal itself here, the common statement of, "I am my body, I can feel myself. Everything on me is me." Which part of you is you? Can you locate yourself anymore? If you identify with a soul it's not like that's anything of physical substance. You feel everywhere yet nowhere that's what consciousness is! Consciousness is synonymous with awareness, nothing, infinity, non-duality, it's all the same thing! You can't find yourself. How could you? So if you aren't your body, your thoughts, your brain then what are you? Our ego creates a false sense of self that believes there is an outside world and an inside world we call ourselves I. For the ego to exist, it must believe it has a limit, for it would not be "itself" if it were everything. In truth, you do not exist. The thing you think you are is in fact not you. So if you aren't this limited entity you identify with, what could you possibly be? Well if you cannot locate yourself, perhaps it is because you are nowhere, yet everywhere. You haven't met yourself yet; that is, your true essence. One big mistake humanity made was believing they must find God because if they realized they were already God, why would they need to search for something they already had?