Thank you David . You always lift me with your humor and honesty about our predicament. It’s going to take an act of divine grace to get me “ above the battleground “
It would take the same for me! I ask for divine grace myself! I receive it, accept it, expect it, etc, daily, multiple times a day! This suffering is beyond believable! I never imagined it could get this bad! I can't seem to pull myself out of it. 😢 I pray you experience a miracle, and me too. 🙏🕊🌹🫡 May Divine Grace be upon us showering us with peace, love, laughter, lightness of mind, harmony, health, and ease. 🙏🥳🤌
@@stacielivinthedream8510 blessings to you . Where we place our attention and trust is where we place our energy , let’s both put it way up high above so our guidance comes from heaven ! And so it comes.
Im getting to the point where I feel like it does not make sense to try and explain life using language, it may make sense to try and untie the knots that were made in our mind with that language, which also means that we as humans are led to be lost using the tool thats supposed to make us understand everything and comunicate with others. What one can do with language is add new words and concepts to expand the perception with which one undertands life, but that also leads to the false notion that you now have the answers but what has really happened is that you found new information that was 'hidden' before.
So I don't know what could be used to better understand life. Probably a more abstract 'language' like the one we experience while dreaming, where emotions and sensations that we need come to us and since we are in a state of complete relaxation we can just experience what the wisdom of our organism knows we need. For most people it doesnt happen everytime when we are awake because we tend to repress what we intelectually believe is not right, which can be tricky, because as a society we've created a script for men and women that doesnt go along with the true nature of humans. Then again this is all assumptions that I get to using the tool that is language which is the only one Ive known all my life to explain things, so it may all be nonsense, but idk
Absolutely. Language is very small, precise and linear and life is vague and huge and it happens all at once. Trying to describe life with language is like trying to drink the Pacific Ocean with a fork.
If you are sleeping during meditation then that’s what is happening. David seems to be saying that there is somebody who can do something about what is. The whole point of ‘the teaching’ is the truth that there is no such person to do anything. There is no ‘doer’.
Too late - I'm already all depressed. Meditation, contemplation - none of it has led to freedom from selfing here. It almost seems selfing is stronger than ever. I just want the impossible - I want this experience to be other than it is. Thanks for trying to free us from ourselves though.
You said “It’s too late, I’m depressed.” You know that to be happy you have to want things to be the way they are but you can’t do that. But what if you are depressed and want to be depressed? Then depression itself is freedom.
The self rises even more when awareness begins to peek through. It wants to be "real". The ego wants it to end, yet it still wants to control everything. It works against itself in this way. Keep practicing and one day it’ll end. You want "the impossible" when it doesn't exist. Look at what's right in front of you. Find the forest and forget the unicorn 👍
External circumstances still matter. Don't fall into the trap of trying to meditate your way out of mental illness alone. You need a holistic approach . What is one thing you could do in your immediate environment that would make you feel less stressed and hopeless? Even if it's just tidying up your desk, washing cleaning or changing your bedsheets etc. Start small. Just do one thing today that will make things a tiny bit better.
If you want to be depressed then you have a desire ( to be depressed) so as I understand it that’s not ‘freedom’ as freedom occurs when the one who desires disappears or at least is seen to be illusory.
