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ThereIsOnlyOne

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #120 on: October 20, 2017, 12:51:45 pm »
Post It Note #80

There is a sense of 'that which cannot be lost' ... before it becomes lost again to mind ... and then back into that state with a subsequent mildly blissful quality appearing.

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Jed McKenna

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #121 on: October 20, 2017, 11:40:47 pm »
Lost again to mind... how about just losing mind all together? Anything appearing to an illusion is just more illusion.

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #122 on: October 21, 2017, 02:11:13 am »
Many thanks to you for all the pointers. This seems to be happening by degrees - I will look to sense an opportunity to lose mind altogether.

Post It Note #81

I have recognised myself as simply being - the lack of anything, yet aware. The act of searching and owning in mind is what draws the attention as it tries to create confusion and uncertainty, spitting out feeling.

I understand that just being aware of being is what is 'needed' to deepen familiarity. Also to remain conscious of what is not me without attachment. Mind can arise and pull whilst being aware of my empty presence. Awareness is relaxing, deepening and becoming closer - simple, clear, empty, before.

Observation: Mornings require attention, all insights/knowing act as reminders of what I am not as it is observed. Looking again and again with knowing there is nothing to be found is gradually weakening attachment. Avoiding leaves a nagging in the background.

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #123 on: October 21, 2017, 03:05:58 am »
Post It Note #82

Why do I need to remain confused by mind?

Why do I need to remain attached to mind?

Why do I need mind?

Why do I believe mind?

Is mind me or not?

I contemplate and observe.

Just be.
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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #124 on: October 21, 2017, 04:49:54 am »
Post It note #83

I notice the subtle, pulsing energy of mind in flux, arising and subsiding within nothingness. Sensations too. I feel a gentle contraction of awareness as mind is looked at and a broadening of awareness when left alone and to just be. This seems to be the addiction process in action - attach to mind and lose awareness. The more addicted and associated, the stronger the contraction, the greater the apparent reality and lesser the awareness. Placing attention on what is not there increases the sense of 'am' and prevents contraction.

Addiction to what is not me will be given up through starvation, understanding or further realisation.

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #125 on: October 21, 2017, 05:52:59 am »
I strongly suggest you never ask ''why?'' again. It is a stupid interrogative always answerable by one word, ''because''.

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #126 on: October 21, 2017, 06:03:35 am »
That seems to have instantly ripped something away. Thank you.

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #127 on: October 21, 2017, 11:25:06 am »
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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #128 on: October 21, 2017, 02:17:44 pm »
Indeed. It's amazing how you think you realise something until you realise that you hadn't realised it deeply enough.

Post It Note #84

I've always has a feeling that what was being seen was seen through my eyes. I now have a curious sense that what is being seen is not through my eyes but through my being. It seems more integrated/direct for want of better words.

I think this came about a short time after reading one of your responses on a different thread.

This appears to be a consequence of body-mind attachment. It makes sense to me that all experience appears directly in awareness.

There seems to be a bit of this body-mind residue hanging around, I'll check it out.

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Jed McKenna

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #129 on: October 21, 2017, 11:34:46 pm »
Common experience...

Just be with it...

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #130 on: October 22, 2017, 10:46:10 am »
Post It Note #85

It doesn't feel as though I'm searching for something elusive now. The being of what I am is becoming clearer and emptier.

Ego-mind is still there like a film transparency but has lost significant gravity and interest. I continue to place attention on my self which seems to be becoming much more natural and requires less effort.



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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #131 on: October 24, 2017, 06:09:05 am »
Post It Note #86

There are no answers.

Nothing can be changed.

'Because' is surrender.


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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #132 on: October 24, 2017, 10:07:35 am »
just give up... everything... all of it.

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #133 on: October 25, 2017, 04:51:23 pm »
Yes.

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Re: 2000 light years from home
« Reply #134 on: October 27, 2017, 01:35:25 am »
So... have you done it?

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