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  1. @Gianna Hi! The loss of fear comes with the understanding you're just looking at yourSelf. Everywhere you look you find more of yourSelf. It's just ... so endlessly amazing and wonderful.
  2. Hello! I have a situation at work with a woman and I'd like to get some different perspectives before I proceed. Ok. This woman, 35, sent her friend to ask me if I was single a few weeks ago. I replied that she ask me herself, and the following week, she did. Since, there's been light flirting from her though I've only responded with subtle indifference. Today she became very vocal about her attraction toward me, making fun, flirty, comments in front of co-workers, and she even lingered behind in an obvious way, this too, in front of co-workers, when the day ended, to speak with me privately. She made comments about my physical appearance, signaling her interest again, and I learned she has five kids (I have zero). Now, on my behalf I've been hesitant from the start. I can tell she's had a rough life because that hardship is communicated through the shape and contours of her face. One can perceive such a history in it, but also an innocence, someone who wants love and companionship, and so in it also I understand her in her worth as an aspect of the creator in manifestation. I'd describe her as deeply unconscious in that she is identified wholly with a separate-self. She's very focused on the physical, which I assume is her only frame of reference when dealing with men to whom she's attracted. There's and adolescent quality in her presentation. So, I'm not romantically interested in this woman, but I don't want end our communication and make her feel rejected. Next time I see her I want to make clear, absolutely so, in the kindest way possible, that I'm not interested in a romantic entanglement, but that I'm open to friendship, to getting to know her as a person with no expectation of anything more. For very different reasons I believe we both can learn and grow and know ourselves in new ways through friendship with one another, if she's open to that possibility. If anyone would like to share their thoughts on this matter it'd be much appreciated. Thank you.
  3. Absolute: Unconditional, communion with all apparent things animate and inanimate. Relative: Conditional, apportioned based on familiarity, relatedness. Where's the ignorance? NB: The duality is understood.
  4. Emotions associated with thoughts of mediation are becoming more and more pleasurable. Over the last 13 years there's been maybe an hour invested in the practice, most of which, not all, were battles with monkey mind. So the practice thus far, from a relative perspective, hasn't been a complete failure, just a comprehensive one.
  5. The ego was seen for what it is: an energetic contraction encompassing the totality of the ""Finitude"" character. This ego in experience became seemingly isolated and identified as the self-contraction, with apparent existence and survival prerogatives of its own; the first emotional reaction was fear before dispelling it, which, in hindsight, was egoic squid ink attempting to cloud clarity. Disbelief then arose at what had been seen.
  6. The fear associated with eye contact generally and prolonged eye contact specifically has significantly eroded.
  7. Yes. Concepts. All examples. Theirin lies the seeming "rub". Not two is the condition of all apparent condition(s), and yet ... even the realization that none of these things are actually possible, seeming conditions exists everywhere. So there must be consent to conditional (conceptual) existence, or, perhaps, the apparent birth is the prima facie consent, and thus these things can be engaged with kind of humorous detachment (In the world but not of it).
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