u/Strong-Marsupial-762

Someone comes in and leaves a story about how they interpret life, translating their raw experience into rigid words. Deep down, it’s often a subtle attempt to validate themselves and prove to others why they are the way they are and why their way is the right way.

I've noticed this exact movement triggers basic evolutionary survival instincts. You(or I) are seeking acceptance from the "tribe," but by pitting your personal interpretation against the collective mass, you subconsciously trigger expectation and fear. That’s why posting here leaves you with a lingering physical tingling or doubt, unlike posting in a gaming subreddit or on YouTube.

What was supposed to be a post about Reality itself becomes anything but. It devolves into a war of concepts, making everything more complicated than it actually is. The body becomes agitated because someone else is attacking your very views you hold dear, your core. And so chemicals are released in the brain and that keeps you coming.

That's what enlightenment looks like, spontaneous, crazy at times, improvised, arising moment to moment action that doesn't require a thinker.

If you're there you would not be wondering if you are there, so that in itself shoud be one of the biggest clues... is your action arising from the moment, or is it in response to your own conditioning, fears and expectations?

To live each day as if it was the only day ever, for it is. Without the need to constantly argue oneself over the next move. Life simply happens.

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You're a slave to yourself and you don't even know
You want to live the fast life but your brain moves slow
If you're trying to stay high then you're bound to stay low
You want God but you can't deflate your ego
If you're already there then there's nowhere to go
If you're cup's already full then its bound to overflow

(Matisyahu - King without a crown)

If you are already there then there's nowhere to go. Meaning no matter how much you seek you won't find anything outside of your experience, it's always been and will be what it must.

Only your mind is making the experience worse than it needs to be. Only when you recognize this and become grateful you start to overflow, cause negative experience comes only from the prism out of which you look.

If you keep clinging to a narrative(can't deflate your ego) you will always encounter friction.

Good experiences come and go, and so do bad ones. If you keep trying to be always on the high you're bound to encounter big lows afterwards. But by all means do try.

The cup can only be filled with love. 🪷