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Post by zendancer on Apr 9, 2017 14:59:51 GMT -5
Actually, either approach may entail some neuro-linguistic reprogramming. Thinking, "THIS enjoys drinking coffee" (while coffee is being drunk), or "THIS is walking down the street looking at cars driving by" (while doing that), or "The Unborn is watching this sunset," can shift a human's perspective into witnessing awareness and away from self-referentiality. This kind of approach can have the effect of moving the sense of awareness "back." It's another way of putting everything seen "out front," and giving a tangible sense that what one is is something "behind" the ordinary sense of selfhood that sees thoughts about selfhood. THIS is typing. -- good idea! Yes. The finite and the infinite are one, but we usually focus upon the finite and identify with the finite. By shifting attention away from the finite actor, it sometimes loosens things up and triggers a glimpse of that which is infinite. At one time I used to do what I call "an Ahab;" I'd lift up a hand and internally contemplate, "How is that happening?" In Melville's novel, Ahab lifted his hand and asked, "Is it I or God that lifts this hand?" After consciously questioning and contemplating the issue, the question no longer had to be asked. I'd just notice what the body was doing and remain silent while watching. Behind the watching lay the unspoken question. Sooner or later the contemplation results in a realization that resolves the question. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 16:37:06 GMT -5
THIS...then THIS....then THIS...repeat ad infinitum...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 16:39:03 GMT -5
similar but different git your head outta your a$$  Either that or get out of your head and into the a$$ of the body.  |
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Post by silver on Apr 9, 2017 16:54:44 GMT -5
similar but different git your head outta your a$$ Either that or get out of your head and into the a$$ of the body. Umm, probly best if I don't get it.  |
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Post by steven777 on Apr 9, 2017 22:57:35 GMT -5
You can do anything, but there is nothing that you must do. You exist but there is no place that you are. There is no god, but god is everywhere and in all things You are of god, but god is not off you...but really you are making god in the knowing of god Be alert, and alertly surrender. Search deep within yourself, then let go of what you find. Create the world you want with focus, feeling, and gratitude, but live unattached to it. Look lightly but deeply, and forget what you come to know from it. Become un-familiar with all that is familiar, but don't lose intimacy with anything. Know your power, but don't cling to it. Live to die, die to live. Fight to Surrender. Be alert. Love. Beautiful. Now back to Reality.. are you all that? And so much more, and far far less too. |
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Post by Reefs on Apr 9, 2017 23:04:27 GMT -5
Beautiful. Now back to Reality.. are you all that? And so much more, and far far less too. Good one, Steve!  |
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Post by steven777 on Apr 9, 2017 23:25:41 GMT -5
And so much more, and far far less too. Good one, Steve! ;-) |
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Post by steven777 on Apr 10, 2017 15:23:19 GMT -5
And so much more, and far far less too. You are ready for gurudom. Haha....there was a time when I would have cherished the notion. Now I just want to play with this life lol |
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Post by Jenna on Apr 10, 2017 17:32:03 GMT -5
Stop residing in the thoughts.
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Post by steven777 on Apr 11, 2017 8:38:38 GMT -5
Stop residing in the thoughts. What does that mean to you exactly? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 8:47:30 GMT -5
Either that or get out of your head and into the a$$ of the body. Umm, probly best if I don't get it. The body lives in the present. The head lives in the past and expectant future. That makes the butt more in touch with reality then the head will ever be. |
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Post by silver on Apr 11, 2017 10:03:24 GMT -5
Umm, probly best if I don't get it. The body lives in the present. The head lives in the past and expectant future. That makes the butt more in touch with reality then the head will ever be. Interesting theory. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 15:13:56 GMT -5
Umm, probly best if I don't get it. The body lives in the present. The head lives in the past and expectant future.That makes the butt more in touch with reality then the head will ever be. The brain doesn't. The brain is well aware of the present. It's only the narrative that the mind is telling itself that is doing this appearance of continuity. |
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Post by Jenna on Apr 11, 2017 18:27:27 GMT -5
Stop residing in the thoughts. What does that mean to you exactly? It is all thoughts. Everything. In total. But I know my thoughts. I therefore cannot be my thoughts. I cannot be thought free for 1 Mississippi, but I can perhaps be free from thought. What will be left of me when that happens? Something tells me I will still be around lol. That is what it means to me. Please wish me luck. I am trying to be free from thought. lotsa love |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 20:16:33 GMT -5
What does that mean to you exactly? It is all thoughts. Everything. In total. But I know my thoughts. I therefore cannot be my thoughts. I cannot be thought free for 1 Mississippi, but I can perhaps be free from thought. What will be left of me when that happens? Something tells me I will still be around lol. That is what it means to me. Please wish me luck. I am trying to be free from thought. lotsa love If you are trying to be free of thought, you will never be free of thought. |
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