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The one who is 'suffering now' is the one that needs to die.
It's the UNREAL one.

Why are they cuddling it?

They have nothing.

The end of suffering is a BY PRODUCT of Enlightenment.
A PLEASANT SIDE EFFECT. Not the actual thing.

You seek it for its own sake anyway...
not because you want to 'end suffering'. Yours or theirs. Both the drama and and the one that is bothered by it are made from the same sta... no, Fairy dust!

They are just placating EGO by framing this stuff
as they insist on doing it from a sleep induced coma.

The 'healed self' (yeah right 😆) would be an even bigger opposition to your liberation.
You come back to square one but now you are even deeper down the rabbit hole then when the nagging feeling started. You should honor your pain. THAT IS WHY IT IS GIVEN.

Cheers my friends

🤡 "Completely agree everyone’s path is different and personal. However, I was in a very similar mindset as OP, doing the same things, and eventually chose to receive an “energetic car wash” session from someone I came across online a couple years ago. After that session I felt incredibly “on” and was channeling and talking to archangels and experienced a dramatic shift. However, I was not experienced enough in proper energetic hygiene and grounding practices to hold that channel open for the amount of time that I was, and I crashed…HARD. Actually fried my circuits and I ended up checking myself into a psych unit and drastically altering my reality for a period of time. So I do believeit’spossibleto“force”things open, but I do not recommend it. I ultimately set myself back because now I have had people witness me become unhinged and delusional it now makes speaking and being open about mypersonal-supernatural/spiritualex-periencesfee-lreallyscarybecaus-eIfer...gprftrtthwhww....

^(< 7 more kilometers of absolute poppycock followed>)

Ghaaaa! ;;)

This is what WRONG SEEING looks like folks..
Cheers

Not even me. ;;)

Trust me.

Now, tell me:
WHAT HAVE YOU COME TO IN ALL YOUR SEARCHING?

Shoot.

Cheers

Hey guys. It's been a rough week for me as one of my best friends since elementary school took his life last week. He left behind a wife and two little kids. This came as a massive shock as he'd always been a seemingly happy guy. Bubbly personality, life of the party. His family and the rest of us are trying to pick up the pieces and kind of put together the puzzle of what exactly happened.

His wife said he had grew distant in the past few years. I had also noticed something similar to an extent, but he always seemed to put on a happy face in front of me. His wife said he had gotten super into "nonduality". This had been going on for about 3 years I guess. Initially it seemed to make his happy and she didn't have any qualms about it. After about a year, she noticed it had become all consuming for him- constantly reading about it, watching videos on his phone. She also said he started to lose interest in things he used to love. Just became overall ambivalent to life.

I guess in the last year or so he found this Facebook group called "Awaken to Reality" and started to follow someone named Angelo on YouTube. I remember him telling me he went to one of his retreats or something. According to his wife, he became kind of obsessed with this Angelo guy and whatever he's about. Slowly he became super depressed, detached, and lost all passion for life.

Needless to say, we're all grieving but also concerned about this nonduality thing, specifically this Angelo character. Can anyone shed any light on who he is and what he's about? We're concerned others might be negatively influenced by him and want to prevent anything dire from happening.

Thank you all!

Cheers my friends ;;)

"Recently, in my new favorite book ‘A Tale For The Time Being’ by novelist and Zen priest Ruth Ozeki, I came across a little-known and very beautiful Zen custom.

Traditionally, a Japanese, Chinese and Korean Zen Master would write a final poem or haiku when he was about to die. In the death poem or jisei, the essential idea was that at one’s final moment of life, one’s reflection on death could be especially lucid and therefore an important observation about life. The poem was considered a final parting gift to disciples.

Curious, I tracked down some of these poems for myself and thought they were worth sharing:

Breathing in, breathing out,
Moving forward, moving back,
Living, dying, coming, going —
Like two arrows meeting in flight,
In the midst of nothingness
Is the road that goes directly
to my true home.

– Gesshu Soko

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Like dew drops
on a lotus leaf
I vanish.

– Shinsui

*

Since time began
the dead alone know peace.
Life is but melting snow.

– Nandai

*

I pondered Buddha’s teaching
a full four and eighty years.
The gates are all now
locked about me.
No one was ever here –
Who then is he about to die,
and why lament for nothing?

Farewell!

The night is clear,
the moon shines calmly,
the wind in the pines
is like a lyre’s song.
With no ‘I’ and no other

who hears the sound?

 – Zoso Royo

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Empty handed I entered the world.
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going-
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.

– Kozan

Zen legend has it that a few days before his death, Kozan called his pupils together, ordered them to bury him without ceremony when he died. One morning, after writing this poem, he lay down his brush and died while sitting upright.

As I get older, death feels more relevant. The magical thinking of youth fades – it becomes clearer that death is not an ‘if’ but a ‘when’. And I wonder what would it take to pass over with such clarity and grace… and a tiny grain of true wisdom worth passing on?"

- aalif (superaalifragilistic .wordpress .com)

"Recently, in my new favorite book ‘A Tale For The Time Being’ by novelist and Zen priest Ruth Ozeki, I came across a little-known and very beautiful Zen custom.

Traditionally, a Japanese, Chinese and Korean Zen Master would write a final poem or haiku when he was about to die. In the death poem or jisei, the essential idea was that at one’s final moment of life, one’s reflection on death could be especially lucid and therefore an important observation about life. The poem was considered a final parting gift to disciples.

Curious, I tracked down some of these poems for myself and thought they were worth sharing:

Breathing in, breathing out,
Moving forward, moving back,
Living, dying, coming, going —
Like two arrows meeting in flight,
In the midst of nothingness
Is the road that goes directly
to my true home.

– Gesshu Soko

*

Like dew drops
on a lotus leaf
I vanish.

– Shinsui

*

Since time began
the dead alone know peace.
Life is but melting snow.

– Nandai

*

I pondered Buddha’s teaching
a full four and eighty years.
The gates are all now
locked about me.
No one was ever here –
Who then is he about to die,
and why lament for nothing?

Farewell!

The night is clear,
the moon shines calmly,
the wind in the pines
is like a lyre’s song.
With no ‘I’ and no other

who hears the sound?

 – Zoso Royo

*

Empty handed I entered the world.
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going-
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.

– Kozan

Zen legend has it that a few days before his death, Kozan called his pupils together, ordered them to bury him without ceremony when he died. One morning, after writing this poem, he lay down his brush and died while sitting upright.

As I get older, death feels more relevant. The magical thinking of youth fades – it becomes clearer that death is not an ‘if’ but a ‘when’. And I wonder what would it take to pass over with such clarity and grace… and a tiny grain of true wisdom worth passing on?"

- aalif

https://reddit.com/link/1t6c7mo/video/63mz0otu6qzg1/player

Cheers my friends ;;)

"Do thou too, remain warm among ice.
Do thou too, live in this world without being of it.

Be cool at the equator, keep thy blood fluid at the poles.
Like the Great Dome Of St. Peter's and like the Great Whale, retain.

How few, vast as The Whale."

~ Herman Melville, 1851

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Be ware of 'seeking the crowd'.
The more people involved, the less their innate power of discernment becomes.

Realize that nuance doesn't scale.

Cheers

"There are two ways through life.

The way of nature and the way of grace.

You have to choose which one you'll follow.

Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it, when love is smiling through all things.

No one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end.
I will be true to you. Whatever comes."

- Terrence Malick

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"If there is any purpose to human evolution, it is to surpass the animal and become fully human.

But, society produces human beings in a common mold and that is the barrier preventing them from blossoming. Nature throws up these flowers from time to time, proving that society, culture and traditions are not the way. This is!

Such a human flower produces its own unique fragrance.
Don't ask me, why this happens to only very few and not all."

- UG

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You are either meat for Maya's poultry grinder or an absolute top G.

( they all ate chicken that night )

🤡 "No one on earth has 100% certainty on any of it. And if they do they are lying to u!"

I do. So now I am the liar here? ;;)

Notice the spelling of 'you'. That's already 12gb of 'what we're dealing with' information RIGHT THERE ;;) The easy thing is to dismiss all of it as 'not available'. But bro still keeps arguing about the inability to get certainty. He does what most people with entrenched belief systems do: invoke non-existent 'everybodies' to bolster his fabricated beliefs.

I don't get these loud self affirmations at all.

On top of that I would take 70% certainty and run with even that each day every day.
Those don't seem like bad odds to me. I guess my math ain't mathing or some shit ;;)

A sane man, a somewhat AWAKE man, would eventually recognize he is expressing his personal opinions on the matter and would put the emphasis on the Not Knowing part. He avoid conclusions for the sake of CERTAINTY. A dreamer will never do that. They will BOLSTER their insecurity by claiming to know the mind of every human on the planet as well. And speak as if they all agreed on it. Without batting an eye. Because dreaming in here is always done Wide Eyed which is basically the same as Eyes Wide Shut,

Welcome to the not so true hell that is the dreamstate my friends ;;)

One where the subjects admits defeat
before even getting out from under the covers of their beds.

It is super hard to come back from this kind of entrenchment. You ride it out to the grave and that will be All She Wrote. The equivalent of a Spiritual Lollipop. Take comfort in the absolute certainty I will add to this that: At least you still don't really die. You just wasted the opportunity to find out you could fly after you have already turned in your wings. ;;)

“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.” ― Richard Bach,

Cheers my friends <3

A SAVAGE wigger with a sick 'fro

^([ from my DM ])

🙋 "What are we? You and me? And why do you seem to know"!!?

😶‍🌫️ Let me ask you this: WHO is asking? ;;)

🙋 "Why don't you care to answer an honest seeker that do not want to be confirmed or denied something, just to know the Truth!?"

😶‍🌫️ When once you really know WHO it is that is asking, you will then have to reckon with the fact that there seem to be two of you. One that knows the other and one that doesn't. And never will.

The One forgets all about himself - just to be with you! Only then can you be ‘together’.

That's what love is.

It's an act of pure love.

<runs away giggling like a madman >

Cheers my friends <3