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    Nothing I wrote on my dreamboard got manifested

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    On 3/10/2024 at 3:02 PM, Orb said:

     

    Manifestation has nothing to do with self. 

     

    On 3/10/2024 at 1:34 PM, Alexander said:

    Does it matter how it feels like,you can work with love or passion that's very top on infamous emotional scale.

    You will wake up to the face that you spend your best years of life believing BS and running away from Life truths into spirituality where you will gain nothing.

    Manifestation has nothing to do with self as orb said. 

    An interesting question

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    On 3/12/2024 at 12:02 PM, Blessed2 said:

    Just had an interesting, perhaps eye-opening question pop up.

     

    If there's a belief that there are awakenings and stages and levels and degrees, this will be a useless question.

     

    If there isn't, then it might open some doors:

     

    Why are you not enlightened yet?

     

    What's holding you back?

     

     

    I can not be enlightened. All is enlightened already. 

     

    If you haven't realize this, you just lost yourself in the clouds, thoughts and attachments that's all. 

    Is this the bondage of self?

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    On 3/6/2024 at 2:54 PM, Blessed2 said:

    "I" is just the thought "I".

     

    It seems like the thought is about me or that the thought "I" is me because that's what the thought implies/creates.

     

    But it's not me. It's just the thought "I".

     

    So self cannot get out of self. It's like a closed system.

     

    And 'within' that thought "I", everything is about I. Like tinted glasses that paints all red. An entire universe is created within that thought "I".

     

    And so you can't get out of it because you're never in it.

     

    It's just innocently picked up at some point and then it overrides everything. Like a brain-parasite that takes hold of you by appearing as if it's you.

     

    I=universe. An attachment with one thought brings back entire duality. Sit, lay back and just watch the show.

    Letting Go vs. Losing Interest

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    7 hours ago, Blessed2 said:

    The term "letting go" (of thoughts, beliefs) can be quite misleading/confusing, because it doesn't quite address why you're holding on to begin with.

     

    Like for example, if you're worrying about your looks or something... And feeling the discord... And someone gives the advice to "let the thought go", that isn't quite helpful is it? The interpretation easily goes to the direction that the letting go is something you must effort about, be fearless or become indifferent enough so that you no longer care about your looks. "Letting go" becomes of work, effort, bravery, something you must accomplish, succeed in.

     

    But IMO there's a better way to go about it: seeing that the thought is not your thought, and is not about you. If that realization dawns, what is there to "let go"? The thought was never yours and never about you... You simply lose interest. There isn't even nothing to let go. They're just simply not your thoughts, and never was.

     

     

    If (let's say) Clint Eastwood would be having self-referential discordant thoughts about Clint Eastwood, would it make sense for you to be like "I gotta let go Clint's thoughts and worries about Clint"?

     

    No!!! You see that they are Clint's thoughts about Clint, and have nothing to do with you. You immediately lose interest, and "letting go" happens by itself, without any intention to even let go.

     

     

    Rather than offering the advice: "Let that thought go", how about: "Lose interest in that thought by noticing it's not yours and not about you." ?

     

    Much lighter, isn't it?

     

    By the way great topic!!!

    Letting Go vs. Losing Interest

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    7 hours ago, Blessed2 said:

    The term "letting go" (of thoughts, beliefs) can be quite misleading/confusing, because it doesn't quite address why you're holding on to begin with.

     

    Like for example, if you're worrying about your looks or something... And feeling the discord... And someone gives the advice to "let the thought go", that isn't quite helpful is it? The interpretation easily goes to the direction that the letting go is something you must effort about, be fearless or become indifferent enough so that you no longer care about your looks. "Letting go" becomes of work, effort, bravery, something you must accomplish, succeed in.

     

    But IMO there's a better way to go about it: seeing that the thought is not your thought, and is not about you. If that realization dawns, what is there to "let go"? The thought was never yours and never about you... You simply lose interest. There isn't even nothing to let go. They're just simply not your thoughts, and never was.

     

     

    If (let's say) Clint Eastwood would be having self-referential discordant thoughts about Clint Eastwood, would it make sense for you to be like "I gotta let go Clint's thoughts and worries about Clint"?

     

    No!!! You see that they are Clint's thoughts about Clint, and have nothing to do with you. You immediately lose interest, and "letting go" happens by itself, without any intention to even let go.

     

     

    Rather than offering the advice: "Let that thought go", how about: "Lose interest in that thought by noticing it's not yours and not about you." ?

     

    Much lighter, isn't it?

     

    Of course!!! Letting go is much lighter. You do lose interest on everything, but you gain love. Love does not show itself so sudden. When everything is surrendered love becomes inevitable.

    How can you trust the human knowledge?

    in Nonduality, Consciousness, Awakening, Enlightenment, Self-Recognition

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    4 hours ago, Phil said:

    There is only an illusion of knowing & understanding for the illusory separate self of thought. The separate self of thought & knowing and understanding is the veiling of the true apparent nature of reality, and the true nature of being. Oneness is ‘all things and or selves are in actuality one’, like panpsychism is ‘there is consciousness in all things’, just as solipsism is ‘all that can be known is my mind’. 

    Definitely 💯.

     

    How can you trust the human knowledge?

    in Nonduality, Consciousness, Awakening, Enlightenment, Self-Recognition

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    As I mentioned above, how can we trust the human knowledge? How do they know that we are in the world, having a body, experiencing, living etc... ? Whatever we have learn since our birth including the birth and I is the biggest illusion in the first place. Let me give you an example. Phones. If you go back 50 years ago and tell someone cellphone they will tell you wtf is that. So as you see we invented the phone, as our birth, as us, as these/my sentences. 

     

    Great deal to learn many stuff. But how do they know?

     

    Knowing is the biggest illusion. 

    I recognize what enlightenment is, ask me anything.

    in Nonduality, Consciousness, Awakening, Enlightenment, Self-Recognition

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    56 minutes ago, Rose said:

    And realized enlightenment is not something magical and beautiful I’ve been picturing all this time. It is literally me at that moment in that room. Accepting the world for how it is, accepting my life for how it is, being in this room as I am and living to the fullest in that moment.

     

    Definitely. Enlightenment is simply being where you already are and being what you already.

    I recognize what enlightenment is, ask me anything.

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    Posted · Edited by James123

    35 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

    Do you believe in solipsism?  Why or why not?  How does your recognition of enlightenment differ from solipsism?  I think I already know what your answer will be but I still felt like asking you this.

    Solipsism comes from I, I is the accumulation of thoughts. If there is no thoughts, question becomes irrelevant. Because enlightenment is giving away / surrendering all attachments therefore thoughts. 

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