Paradox Hunting

[Call Me Whatever]

What are some interesting paradoxes on the spiritual journey that'd lend themselves to dramatization via a fictionalized anthology? 

[ivankiss]

Surrender vs resistance f'ed me in the A, quiet hard.

[Nahm]

Decency vs efficiency. 

[ivankiss]

I am vs I am not is funky, too.

Especially in direct experience.

[peanutspathtotruth]

Being / Non being / None of the two / All three / ....silence

Edited July 9, 2020 by peanutspathtotruth

[ivankiss]

13 hours ago, Johnny5 said:

Could you elaborate? ?

When difference is no more, and all borderlines are erased; resistance and surrender are actually one and the same. The two blend into something known as 'Infinite Will'. 

In direct experience; the 'paradox' was unbearable - to say the least. There was no possibility of any release without a conscious effort. Meaning; even the sense of relief had to be willingly cultivated into being.

Prior to transcending this paradox; it was quite literally an equivalent to hell. In transcendence; paradox was no more. Only laughter and... Unstoppable, infinite Will. 

[LastThursday]

Time exists. Time doesn't exist. 

Part 1. Our heroine takes a huge dose of 5-MEO-DMT, and becomes enlightened and finds time breaking down. She starts to find herself suddenly in different times and places and bodies and is desperately trying to work out what's going on.  She finally works out there's a common thread to it all...

[Someone here]

Paradox is essential.  Thingness itself is a paradox.  Because it's absolutely impossible for something to exist yet here it is. 

In Buddhism they talk about emptiness "sunyata". It doesn't mean nothingness or what you think of the concept of zero. But basically the lack of any substantial existence to all of phenomenon.  Always changing. Insubstantial yet appears as if it's so solid and real. Tempting you to grasp at it.. Only to realize there is nothing there to grasp.. Yet it reappears again and you are decieved again like a fool.. Sweet cycle lol. 

[ivankiss]

Just now, Someone here said:

Paradox is essential.  Thingness itself is a paradox.  Because it's absolutely impossible for something to exist yet here it is. 

...To a mind, yes ?

The heart has never seen, nor experienced a single paradox.

[LastThursday]

1 minute ago, Someone here said:

Yet it reappears again and you are decieved again like a fool.. Sweet cycle lol. 

So the fool exists. And yet is insubstantial. Interesting.

[Someone here]

2 minutes ago, ivankiss said:

...To a mind, yes ?

The heart has never seen, nor experienced a single paradox.

Maya level. 

I don't buy your emotional poetic wisdom nuggets.  And your guitar doesn't do it either.   I'm not a naive high-school girl lol. 

Jk lol ❤️

[ivankiss]

@Someone here - Said the confused mind ?

Jk. ? ❤

Edited July 10, 2020 by ivankiss

[Someone here]

@ivankiss lol wtf. 

Srs tho.. What heart are you talking about?   Just What kind of Maya levels are you falling into lol ? 

[ivankiss]

@Someone here Maya?

Love is Maya? 

That's a new one.

[Someone here]

2 minutes ago, ivankiss said:

@Someone here Maya?

Love is Maya? 

That's a new one.

Well I didn't say love.. The love thing is tricky and don't even get me started on this one lol. 

You said the" heart " as an opposite to the mind.. I'm not sure what are you talking about?.  I know pure awareness and the intellectual mind. 

[peanutspathtotruth]

39 minutes ago, ivankiss said:

...To a mind, yes ?

The heart has never seen, nor experienced a single paradox.

Greetings from the caravan

[ivankiss]

@Someone here Pure awareness is infinite Love itself. The Heart = Unity.

The mind understands only through polarization. It is not an opposite to The heart. It is an opposite to itself - if anything.

The mind is - in that sense - merely an extension. Not The Absolute.

[ivankiss]

@peanutspathtotruth Salute ❤

[Someone here]

6 minutes ago, ivankiss said:

@Someone here Pure awareness is infinite Love itself. 

Well my awakening is incomplete then lol. 

[ivankiss]

@Someone here In a way; mine is too.

Awakening is either forever... or not at all ?

Peace