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Jed McKenna

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« Reply #30 on: January 16, 2018, 03:42:26 am »
Yes, the nature of Truth is total paradox. That's why it's so challenging for the mind to grasp it. Look are how you mind hates and argues with paradox and you will see.

So, forget look for T/R where is isn't. Only a fool would continue doing that.

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« Reply #31 on: January 19, 2018, 04:32:05 am »
the following happens frequently:

I start to feel like i'm putting no effort, making no progress and wasting my time.
I know its just my thoughts at it again so i dont cling to it and i resume whatever i am doing.

I am able to identify these thoughts more quickly than I used to and they barely have any power over me, however my question now is how to stop them? Would they eventually whither away the more I continue the observing? This applies to every thought. When/how would they stop?

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« Reply #32 on: January 21, 2018, 03:41:37 am »
It will all happen ''now'', because that's all that is.

Love ya, Jed.

P.S. Be patient.

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« Reply #33 on: January 22, 2018, 05:38:58 pm »
youre right youre right ,patience.

"desire is the memory of pleasure. fear is the memory of pain" Nisgargadatta maharaj

and memory is an illusion often mistaken for reality.

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« Reply #34 on: January 22, 2018, 10:46:50 pm »
Excellent!

Cheers.

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« Reply #35 on: January 24, 2018, 07:04:05 pm »
No such thing as free will. There no concrete I that makes choices. Theres no self. Just a bunch of successive perceptions and memories of those perceptions. No biggie

Perspective is everything. I see heads you see tails but in truth theres just a coin. Once the fog in the mind is cleared, truth an be seen with clarity.

Lets get back to cleaning.

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« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2018, 09:57:47 pm »
Dust off that lens.

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« Reply #37 on: January 29, 2018, 07:38:38 am »
A: so tell me about yourself

me: *laughs out loud :D*

A: uhhh...? ???

me: oh... you werent joking?

Interacting is weirder. I mean, how can you not see the simplicity of it all? the great cosmic joke? might as well have fun with the different characters i choose to enact

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« Reply #38 on: January 30, 2018, 09:26:01 pm »
Could that be all there is left to do  ??? ??? ??? have fun?

Well... nothing wrong with that in my experience.

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« Reply #39 on: January 31, 2018, 07:48:51 pm »
controlled abandon. Having fun during performance but not identifying with the character. I'm still offloading the extra baggage im carrying however. further and further

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« Reply #40 on: January 31, 2018, 08:05:20 pm »
Why hold on to an image you have of yourself? Then go about suffering by trying to maintain the image?
My ego doesnt want to accept this fact but I gotta do what I gotta do .

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« Reply #41 on: February 09, 2018, 05:48:39 am »
brief conversation with death the other day.
he told me not to fear him but instead befriend him for he is always by my side and he's the best friend anyone can have.

delving into this fear, I see I do not fear dying itself. I fear not fulfilling all the dreams I have within this one. I fear life...

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« Reply #42 on: February 13, 2018, 04:11:13 am »
Everything you talk of can be put on the shelf. It's all dream talk. You were never born and thus can never die. The dream has a start and an end, that's all, but it has nothing to do with ''You''.

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« Reply #43 on: February 23, 2018, 04:54:33 am »
as always you're right jed!

Just an update since I've been away for a while

I'm starting to feel less than my body. I knew I wasn't my body however I am starting to embody it and actually feel it.
everything feels foreign. as I walk, as I type this, it all just seems strange. idk what the word Im looking for is. perhaps Im trying to explain the feeling of actually knowing that this Is just a dream. I see people wasting a lot of energy by taking themselves so seriously and sometimes I get the urge to continuously shake them until they've come to their senses. at the same time I'm not bothered and I move on. 

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« Reply #44 on: February 23, 2018, 10:25:57 pm »
As the police say..''Move along now folks, nothing happening here... move along''.

Love ya, Jed.