One Principle Can Save You Time, Frustration, and Confusion when it Comes to Awakening 

You're not alone. I suspect there are many of us who spend much of the day distracting ourselves from simply being with whatever life is presenting. It's bizarre; we see the door, know the door, are continuously haunted by its presence -- but keep turning away. My prayer is for courage and devotion to truth over fear. Good luck.

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Yes I know, it’s odd. Perhaps the ego just has nothing wise it can do to occupy itself when hearing this. So it imagines being the one teaching it 🤪

Funny, mine does precisely the same thing! Lol..! I’m like Christ in many thoughts but I’ve felt this way my whole life… I just KNEW we were the same being..

It’s a way that people learn, by teaching. It shows you’ve fully understood something. That’s why in school you write essays explaining XYZ for tests.

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Yes. However you may need to do it repeatedly for a while. Can also inquire into “which identity is arising with these thoughts?” The one who knows The one who wants to have knowledge The one who wants to be an expert Etc etc

They won't affect it either way :)

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Hi knight of cups If what you think will happen happens 'well none of us will know anything about it. My advice, don't watch any news just live now. We're all dying. If you feel like a chat come in here. There a pretty freindly bunch, and quite tolerant of the odd reaction. 🙃 Take care 🐴☕

@@nat998 I use to think about that stuff in the 80's, and i'm sure my mother did in the 40's. But we're still here. Humans seem to find a way. Feelings come and go.Still working on reactions, but don't seem to get anxiety any more.😊Pardoxical weirdness provdes lots of giggles.😂. Have a great day/night?🙃 Take care.🫂💜

Dear Knight of Cups, I so appreciate your raw and genuine post. I grew up in the 60’s, around the time when the impact of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was just being felt. And when we expected nuclear attacks to hit our cities and our schools any day now, so children were taught to shelter under desks 🤨😳. And new bombs were being built at a furious pace, in order to “protect us.” Later in life I went to prison and saw how “the greatest country in the world” treats people who never knew what hit them. Now, with Covid and massive staffing shortages, many federal prisons keep inmates in what amounts to perpetual lockdown/solitary confinement. In other words, I have experienced my own versions of what you describe so beautifully here. I won’t try to talk you out of it, because to me it’s an expression of your wisdom and your love. What I will do is remind you that even though what you describe is based in part on your insight and experience, it’s not an end point or a truth set in stone. It’s still just a viewpoint in an ever-changing, even dissolving process. It can and will change, whether or not the external factors change, or however they may play out. And the more you can remain open to this change of viewpoint, the more fluid it can be. I suspect that’s why you’re here, talking with us. I know that every time I express my own version of what you’re saying here, what I’m really wanting is for someone to remind me of these deeper truths. Welcome, friend. I love you, I respect you, and I’m glad you’re here… 🔥🤬🧌💎💜🦋

Nat, you are a lovely being. Always showing up here with such 💜 Thank you 🙏

Very important realization! If it chooses you, so be it. However you don't get out of it what many who aspire to this might think 😂

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@@sixnine-id9ox sure, what would be the thought releasing thought

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You know it

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@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I can feel this now. Life will wake you up. The questions that evaluate pull me away and create the distance between me and life. Letting things "be as they are" is letting go of the questions.

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I love your comment!!

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Thanks, trinidiana, Sometimes it’s lighthearted, sometimes it’s like dragging a bag of rocks up a muddy hill. Best to you!

It took me a long to to see this clearly bc there were so many thoughts, but what I’ve found is that underneath all of that thought activity there is a sort of ever changing weather system of sensation. Depending on the pattern in the moment, the push into thought will be more or less acute. When it’s an intense push into thought, the mind will often conclude that it was caused by thought. Over time you instinctually realize that there is always access to the sensations, and that that’s where the money is :)

And then you're free from thought and rich! Win-win! 😉 Thanks Angelo! 🙏❤️

That’s the question isn’t it? I’ll quote St John of the Cross To come to the knowledge you have not, you must go by a way in which you know not. To come to the possession you have not, you must go by a way in which you possess not.

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake God help me. I can t figure it out. 💧

or unlearns as the case may be :)

I’m sure it did in part

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@@nat998 Are we using the boundless nothing to become something or having chosen to stick around, are we not using isness to live a more full and balanced life? I wonder. I'm writing up a personal experience in the practical use of this boundlessness. I'll share at with you when I feel like it's more of a lesson and not the story of a braggart. Angelo's gambling video brought back the memory and I've been toying with it ever since. nice to speak to you as well! 💛

@@nat998 Eggs zachary! The ego will strive you from achieving mastery and once it has been attained will attempt one from that realization; what is me anyway? chandra is Chanda btw lmao 💛It's so much better (better being... well... fun... then back to balance. remember Buddhist Priest doing: Breaking the law?) to actually be part of the experience and be the whole of the boundless nothing. when the student threw the text into the fire he became the master. "What are you doing?!" ""What are you saying?!""

I love that story. two rare pearls for the price of one. A master is quite fortunate to bring one into the light. To bring many is to be a master of masters and a rare blessing indeed. "And we shall flow a river forth to thee and teeming with souls shall it ever be" - Boondock Saints. Perhaps not with a faith of death but instead with a faith in life.

@@nat998 It is, also yoga, also the moon energy which opens one up. A dance, that's life. chandra is Chanda. see? A fine Argentine Tango or a brilliant event horizon. The bull is the bull and therefore is one with everything.

@@nat998 I like the matrix. I liked the leader of Zion. He didn't know the history and still was able to see that people and machines needed each other to survive. It becomes a matter of perspective if the machines made us slaves or saved us or both. Because the matrix evolves it means even after everything they are still trying to coexist.

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@@nat998 oh wait there’s more… and the more you think about how deliciously amazing this fake cheesecake was the more fake peas you will get and if you ever talk to anyone about this elusive scrumptiously awesome fake cheesecake the more people will stop talking to you cause you’re crazy because everyone knows only real peas exist and talk of a fake cheesecake that doesn’t exist only gets you back in the looney bin or rehab which also isn’t a real thing 🤯🤯… you think drama is the one thing you don’t want but apparently God freaking loves it

@@nat998 cool story

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