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Post by Figgles on Sept 14, 2024 18:46:57 GMT
Have you ever looked into why it is that you continue to come a forum that is mostly dedicated to ferreting out Truth vs. engaging on one where there are others like yourself who are interested in New Agey topics like personal creation/LOA...reincarnation....pre-life intentions prior to incarnation?
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Post by Figgles on Sept 14, 2024 18:52:51 GMT
Nonduality is all about putting those myriad of hypotheses under the same umbrella as all other appearance/perceivables/experiential content to ascertain what is actually known, here and now, for certain, beyond all shadow of a doubt.
As tightly as you might be able to tie up a particular hypotheses that supposedly answers your question as to "what physical-reality is," (it's purpose, how it came to be, what was before, what will be after, etc.) there is no means by which you can step out of experience to know for Absolute certain that it is so. From a position of 'beyond/prior to,' all such ideas are lightened of any inherent substance...they're all illuminated as mind-based...the very question upon which those answers arise, founded upon the delusion of separation....existent, fundamental limitation/boundary.
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Post by Figgles on Sept 21, 2024 20:47:44 GMT
Sharon, the tact you're taking with the Dr. was a good one. He is unaware of his hypocrisy and blind spots. He insists his mantra is a cure-all, but somehow it fails to relieve an anxiety so deep that pharmaceuticals are depended upon to relieve it. etc. etc.
However, he has a point. I doubt if anyone else reading along was at all surprised that you refused to reveal anything personal in this exchange. It's classic Sharon/Wren/Bak. You've no problem at all deeply challenging others, particularly those who are forthright enough to share intimate, personal details about their lives, but when queried about your own, or really, when you're queried about anything, you refuse to answer.
THAT right there is what's begging to be inquired into where you're concerned. That's YOUR blind spot. It's also Reef's. Notice how you're both great at challenging others, but rarely if ever, share personal details of your own lives and both of you balk when your views are directly challenged. You usually ignore the question or find a way to make a snarky remark that in no way provides an answer the the question asked.
Why do you think it's okay to ask personal and pointed questions of others and to expect answers when you refuse to answer pretty much any question/challenge posed within your exchanges on ST?
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Post by Figgles on Sept 21, 2024 23:33:23 GMT
Notice how you are both standing in judgment of a particular, arising feeling, labelling it as bad and as something to be gotten rid of/replaced with a "better feeling"?
Rather than immediately leaping to some means of ending that so called "negative" emotion, I suggest sitting with that feeling.....allow it....embrace it....inquire into it in a loving, accepting way. Seems most folks are conditioned to a knee-jerk reaction the instant a feeling arises that is south of purely pleasurable. Turns out, it's that seeking itself for "a better feeling emotion/experience" that if inquired into, is the real "gold."
When we stop judging arising feelings and labelling them as "positive/negative," they are no longer anchored into place...as such, they simply arise and fall...no stickiness. In that, all feelings become okay.
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Post by Figgles on Sept 25, 2024 17:24:15 GMT
My God, SDP, I cannot imagine how burdensome this set of beliefs must be. It is precisely these types of ideas that beg to be challenged as one uses inquiry to become more aware/conscious as a person.
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Post by Figgles on Nov 7, 2024 17:07:11 GMT
Conscious awareness of mind's machinations.....part and parcel of what it means to wake up to the consensus trance...to be a high functioning, consciously aware adult human. Seems the most difficult place to be consciously aware involves ego. This gal exemplifies what it means to be blind to the obvious in favor of protecting ego. She appears to be completely devoid of any understanding as to why there may have a been a backlash against her as she entered into Olympic competition, demonstrating a level of skill that was beneath what 'should be' the Olympic standard. It all would gone much better for her has she simply had the humility to admit that she'd overestimated her talent/skill level...was not Olympic material. Instead, she continues to double-down on the idea that she was unfairly treated...a victim. A stellar example of just how stubborn some folks can be in their denial of the obvious....a stellar example of how mind can deceive.....how strong the need to protect identity can be. www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/11/06/rachael-raygun-gunn-viral-olympic-breaker-retires/76102225007/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn, viral Olympic breaker, retires from competition after backlash |
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Post by Esponja on Nov 9, 2024 2:43:47 GMT
Conscious awareness of mind's machinations.....part and parcel of what it means to wake up to the consensus trance...to be a high functioning, consciously aware adult human. Seems the most difficult place to be consciously aware involves ego. This gal exemplifies what it means to be blind to the obvious in favor of protecting ego. She appears to be completely devoid of any understanding as to why there may have a been a backlash against her as she entered into Olympic competition, demonstrating a level of skill that was beneath what 'should be' the Olympic standard. It all would gone much better for her has she simply had the humility to admit that she'd overestimated her talent/skill level...was not Olympic material. Instead, she continues to double-down on the idea that she was unfairly treated...a victim. A stellar example of just how stubborn some folks can be in their denial of the obvious....a stellar example of how mind can deceive.....how strong the need to protect identity can be. www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/11/06/rachael-raygun-gunn-viral-olympic-breaker-retires/76102225007/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn, viral Olympic breaker, retires from competition after backlashAnd yet no doer and she gave me a week of good humour 😂 All perfect ❤️ |
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Post by Figgles on Nov 9, 2024 18:38:24 GMT
Conscious awareness of mind's machinations.....part and parcel of what it means to wake up to the consensus trance...to be a high functioning, consciously aware adult human. Seems the most difficult place to be consciously aware involves ego. This gal exemplifies what it means to be blind to the obvious in favor of protecting ego. She appears to be completely devoid of any understanding as to why there may have a been a backlash against her as she entered into Olympic competition, demonstrating a level of skill that was beneath what 'should be' the Olympic standard. It all would gone much better for her has she simply had the humility to admit that she'd overestimated her talent/skill level...was not Olympic material. Instead, she continues to double-down on the idea that she was unfairly treated...a victim. A stellar example of just how stubborn some folks can be in their denial of the obvious....a stellar example of how mind can deceive.....how strong the need to protect identity can be. www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/11/06/rachael-raygun-gunn-viral-olympic-breaker-retires/76102225007/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn, viral Olympic breaker, retires from competition after backlashAnd yet no doer and she gave me a week of good humour 😂 All perfect ❤️ There ya go!  A very popular Halloween costume this year, I've heard! I think it's important to note, that the ultimate Truth....the impersonal perspective that reveals 'no doer'....'fundamental perfection,' does not negate or deny the 'relative importance' of being conscious and aware of mind's machinations...does not deny the personal interest in having a pleasant, emotionally rewarding, personal experience...an enjoyable dream. I think some want to deny all in the dream, self-improvements, labelling them as non-important or non-consequential from a position of having apprehended the Truth. In SR there is a shift in terms of 'primary' locus of seeing, from the eyes of the person TO beyond/prior to, but that does not deny the experience of person with eyes that see....it's just that is now couched within the primary vantage point/seeing that is beyond/prior to all content. Anyway, not at all suggesting you are doing that...but I think as some read along, who are still seeking, they might erroneously hear; because there is ultimately no doer....and all is fundamentally okay/perfect, there's no relative interest any more in relative clarity, improvements, etc. regarding the me character. |
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Post by Figgles on Nov 11, 2024 21:54:18 GMT
Really?   Any interest in becoming more self aware...inquiring within into the machinations/content of mind? While it's fair to say there can be no "Absolute" certainty straight across the board as to how the me character will behave in a given moment, those who are highly self-aware re: mind content, who are present to the moment and consciously aware of 'what's going on,' will be very clear on the general propensities of the personality in play... of what's 'likely' to arise in terms of ideation and behavior. This involves being clear about the conditionings that are in play. Those who are absent awareness of those, will have little idea about what they're liable to do in any given moment. That's the state of lacking self awareness. My advice to one who is seeking Truth, but who still is very lacking in basic self-awareness, would be to focus on the latter...get very familiar with the mind-scape of the person....focus upon inquiry....in being aware of self and all else that is mind-based. If such an interest is there, it's an indication of the sincerity and earnestness that all the old gurus of yesteryear insist, correlates highly with awakening, and absent full out SR/awakening, being a more conscious, present, aware 'person' really is the next best thing. |
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A very popular Halloween costume this year, I've heard! 
