Reactivity is a Hoax

[Fearless_Bum]

You only believe you gotta react to something. You can choose not to easily. 

*drops mic

[Inliytened1]

4 minutes ago, Fearless_Bum said:

You only believe you gotta react to something. You can choose not to easily. 

*drops mic

Yes - it's the ego that wants to react...but if you can go meta you realize that it means absolutely nothing in the big picture..it's only the ego that is giving it meaning.  I can go meta now and see that   I didn't need to react to this post ?  

[Chris365]

"But if I don't react, things won't go as well as they could, for me"

[Fearless_Bum]

1 hour ago, Inliytened1 said:

 I can go meta now and see that   I didn't need to react to this post ?  

@Inliytened1 no worries, you didn't ?.

[gettoefl]

contemplate who reacts and who responds

[Carl-Richard]

1 hour ago, Fearless_Bum said:

You only believe you gotta react to something. You can choose not to easily. 

What does this mean in practice? Give an example of a reaction and a non-reaction.

[PepperBlossoms]

To do nothing is a reaction as is doing something.  What is reaction?

[Fearless_Bum]

@gettoefl when you ask "who reacts?" You are creating the "who" right there and looking for it, chasing your own tail. 

@Carl-Richard I slap you in the face, you literally believe that you gotta react somehow, either hitting me or attacking. The physiological response is not a reaction, as the physiological response is simultaneously arising when the stimulus occurs, in fact there isn't even a difference. The psychological reaction is a belief, therefore a waste of time and energy.

@PepperBlossoms don't twist yourself in knots. 

[Terell Kirby]

2 hours ago, Fearless_Bum said:

You only believe you gotta react to something. You can choose not to easily. 

*drops mic

Lol

[Fearless_Bum]

@Terell Kirby you know what's up ?.

[Carl-Richard]

2 hours ago, Fearless_Bum said:

I slap you in the face, you literally believe that you gotta react somehow, either hitting me or attacking.

Does a dog believe it has to bite you when you slap it? 

[Fearless_Bum]

@Carl-Richard nope.

I see where you're going with this, the dog biting you is not a reaction.

Only assuming, I could be wrong ^.

Edited October 31, 2021 by Fearless_Bum

[Carl-Richard]

11 minutes ago, Fearless_Bum said:

I see where you're going with this, the dog biting you is not a reaction.

Not all behavior is determined by belief. You have instincts, conditioning, habits.

[Fearless_Bum]

2 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Not all behavior is determined by belief. You have instincts, conditioning, habits.

@Carl-Richard conditioning is beliefs. 

Habits are mechanically repeated and free from the thinker or you. 

Same with instincts, it's a mechanical process which is already liberated, if a man pulls a gun on you there is no "what do I do?"

Nope there is an instantaneous response! You shit your pants, you run away, you jump on the guy and claw his eyes out. 

^but notice that this is not a response, as response implies time whether seconds even milliseconds, nope instantaneous, therefore in the "real" physiological world, response/reaction is impossible, literally. 

When the sunlight intensifies, the skin becomes sweaty, there is no response, it is instant! Instant! (Gotta emphasize this, it's beautiful when you recognize this)

Reaction only occurs in the confusion of the thinker. 

Edited October 31, 2021 by Fearless_Bum

[Carl-Richard]

13 minutes ago, Fearless_Bum said:

conditioning is beliefs. 

Reaction only occurs in the confusion of the thinker. 

Sure, if you define it that way .

[Terell Kirby]

This entire thread is nothing but reactivity.

[Fearless_Bum]

@Terell Kirby let me leave you with a vague spiritual comment: there's dust in your sunglasses and you think this is a dusty world we live in. 

@Carl-Richard yea sure ?.

[Terell Kirby]

1 hour ago, Fearless_Bum said:

let me leave you with a vague spiritual comment: there's dust in your sunglasses and you think this is a dusty world we live in.

^ When Zen devilry and reactivity meet.

[Nahm]

Yep. Wife calls it conbitchining, says it just comes up & out. 

[Fearless_Bum]

@Nahm The conbitch-tions will keep leaving, as long as she let's go of the belief that she has deep rooted stuff that will take years (maybe lifetimes) to purge ?.