Author Topic: Karma  (Read 1155 times)

KenBrace

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Re: Karma
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2018, 08:26:29 pm »
I’ve decided that essentially what I want is to experience an unbelievably exciting and ecstatic drama. Magical adventures, amazing discoveries, and deep love with others.

Here is my only concern. Are intense experiences the result of large amounts of life forcing getting burned? So if I get my wish and live an intense life, will it end up being short since my life force was spent faster? If that is the case then would it be better to be more conservative and focus on storing life force into this human mechanism so I have more of it to spend. Sort of like getting rich before I throw a bunch of parties.

Or does an ecstatic level of energy always flow through us and it’s only our attachments that suffocate it and dull our experience?

KenBrace

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« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2018, 08:43:07 pm »
Does the present moment always contain an ecstatic level of energy that is freely available without attachments wasting it? Or do intense experiences burn more life force than mellow ones? I’ve decided that I want an unimaginably exciting and ecstatic adventure with mind blowing discoveries and deep love with others. Would such a drama burn up my life force quickly and result in an early death? Would it be better to build up energy levels first with meditation? Charge up my batteries. Get rich before throwing a parties so to speak.

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« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2018, 08:45:28 pm »
Wait didn’t realize there was a page 2 so I retyped it thinking the post was lost haha.
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Jed McKenna

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Re: Karma
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2018, 12:52:56 am »
I suggest you let it all flow, and never attach an importance to anything. It's those importances that cause grief.

A wire carrying electricity only experiences heating up via it's resistance. Resist and you dissipate energy. Just enjoy the dream. It's all here for you.

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KenBrace

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« Reply #19 on: July 18, 2018, 01:33:01 pm »
Hey, I wondered if you had any thoughts on the interesting situation that I'm currently in. During my mother and father's break up, my dad shot my mother in the leg and is now in jail. Today he was granted bond and will be released soon. My mother is quite frightened and is looking to change locations and wants all of us to block him on social media, have no contact, etc. It is in situations like this where it seems almost impossible to live on both the human level and void level at once. On one hand, I know I'm everything. I'm my mother that was shot but also the dad that shot her. This contradiction is quite difficult to balance. On one level I feel like my dad is a terrible person that needs to be fought against and I am inclined to take my mother's side. But when thinking in terms of the void, I'm not sure it's a good thing to feed into a drama where my dad is a bad person that my mom has to run from. So she's really paranoid and wants me to cooperate. I do love her and would like to do whatever it takes to reduce suffering but I'm not sure if that involves coming from a detached place or an involved one. Do I buy into her drama and support it or do I try to help her redefine reality? That's sort of what my mind keeps going back and forth on. I'm not really sure what is best for her and everyone else. I try to just feel it out and that seems to be working pretty well for the most part. Just sort of felt like typing this out since it's been on my mind all day and also wondered if you had any thoughts that might be beneficial.
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Jed McKenna

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Re: Karma
« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2018, 01:20:48 am »
T/R doesn't mean you become a complete ninny.

I would do everything I could to protect my mother and would have nothing at all to do with my father for the next...mmm... fifty years. Time for you to man up... but hey, that's just my opinion and opinions are just another part of the dream. Please ignore me and make you own decisions.

Love ya, Jed.


KenBrace

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« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2018, 02:57:13 pm »
Is it possible to find oneself and then get lost again? Perhaps the task is not to simply discover your true nature but to eliminate thought forms that keep pulling consciousness into traps that create bad experiences. That would mean there is a difference between glimpsing freedom and becoming it. Thoughts?

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« Reply #22 on: August 02, 2018, 02:34:37 am »
What you say is close to my experiences and understandings. Find yourself and lose yourself... you're losing me.

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KenBrace

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« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2018, 07:16:10 pm »
If one breaks free from delusion and sees reality for what it is, how long will this clear vision last?

When the body dies, will there still be a point of awareness that sees everything clearly and is free?

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« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2018, 01:43:50 am »
You'll find out soon enough. Don't fret about a non-existent future.

Love ya, Jed.

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« Reply #25 on: November 13, 2018, 11:11:51 pm »
Seeing everything just the way it is means seeing that everything is you and there is nothing to fear. So you would be in love with the whole universe. Nothing would pop up in consciousness that fools you into thinking there is a problem or something to fear. You would never get trapped because you could always see through the games and dramas that others project. This would be absolute freedom.

Is the Truth Realization you point to just knowing a certain fact about reality or is it transforming yourself into something that is no longer tricked into delusional outlooks on the world. Something that sees the world exactly the way it is.

If so, does this perfect vision come and go or is it possible to become completely clean so that nothing ever traps you into a story with all the problems, fears, and beliefs that it includes. You would never get lost and trapped again. Could always see Truth in everything.

What are your thoughts on this?

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« Reply #26 on: November 14, 2018, 12:09:36 am »
In a sense you are this whole universe so you don't fall in love with it. It just is love.

I don't see the world exactly as it is, there is no world to me. It's a dream and no more than a dream. Insubstantial in every way. There is no truth in anything, everything arises in this worldly appearance within Truth. This may sound similar but it's a very important distinction. One never sees though the trap because at that apparent point one sees that there is no trap and never was one. An illusion is always an illusion. An realizing that is concurrent with the disappearance of the universe.

Love ya, Jed.