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Jed McKenna

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #30 on: September 19, 2020, 11:59:18 pm »
Remember, when fear arises, there is only one way out.... right through the middle of it.

Stick with it, I smell more fear coming your way.

Love ya, Jed.

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #31 on: September 24, 2020, 12:35:45 am »
In the dream, death came.
As he raised his sickle to strike, I yanked it out of his hands... and proceeded to hack him into a bloody mess..
On awakening the realization was that death was just another dream to be disposed of.. “and death once dead, there’s no more dying then..”

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #32 on: September 24, 2020, 01:17:06 am »
Thanks for sharing that Flo. Humans will never be deader than they are right now... remember, everything is 180 degrees off.

Much love and stay healthy,

Jed.

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #33 on: September 25, 2020, 05:07:22 pm »
A few weeks ago, one morning, I walked into my kitchen as usual, looked at the items on the counter, as usual, and suddenly, without warning, saw ‘into’ them... saw that they were infinite... The appliances, the jars, the little wooden birds on the window sill.. all infinite..
My head began to reel, and immediately a thought arose that said, “breathe... just breathe.”
I sat down and looked; everything.. infinite yet so ordinary.
Then.. in an action that was completely out of character.. I raised my left hand, slapped my left thigh, and burst out laughing...

Jed McKenna

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #34 on: September 25, 2020, 11:44:27 pm »
Hi Dear:

Well, if you toaster is infinite, and of course it is... one hell of a toaster, I would follow that you are too, and your laughter rang out through an infinite universe ... or more accurately, multiverse.

I think you for that.

Love ya and stay healthy.

Jed.

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #35 on: October 01, 2020, 03:54:29 pm »
Lots of non dual gurus out there - dream figures inhabiting Zoom rooms and speaking in tongues..
Masters (of contradictions and paradox..)
Ramana cuts through the crap..
Jed is where the rubber hits the road..
And Flo?
Flo feels like Major Kong, in Dr. Strangelove...
Slim pickings indeed

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #36 on: October 03, 2020, 12:39:28 am »
Slim was great....

Love ya, Jed

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #37 on: October 05, 2020, 05:10:40 pm »
The Absolute is absolutely alone... all one..

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #38 on: October 06, 2020, 01:07:52 am »
Nothin more to say bout that....

Much love, Jed

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #39 on: October 09, 2020, 04:29:21 pm »
In the Truman Show, Jim Carrey‘s character, adrift in a storm of confusion and despair, rams his boat into the horizon/wall of his world, and wails/rages at the deception. Eventually he comes to a door, opening into a deep black space beyond... Without any hesitation, he steps through... disappearing into the unknown.. unknowable?

These past few days it feels like the world has been turned ‘outside in...’
I feel I have hit that horizon/wall (of the mind) but have yet to come to the door...
Or maybe I don’t want to... avoiding the void...
Time will tell..

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #40 on: October 12, 2020, 01:31:49 am »
It's strange that such a non-existent thing, time, is credited with the revelation of all things, when in Truth, it is You who is doing it... all of it.

Much love, stay healhty.

Jed.

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #41 on: October 15, 2020, 01:53:04 pm »
Funny thing...
In bed, eyes lightly closed... The view was like looking into deep space...
Deep space where my head used to be...
And no Flo..
Was ok with it...

Flo returned a little later, deeply anxious..

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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #42 on: October 18, 2020, 02:16:22 pm »
Hi Jed,

I understand that an object is in my awareness. But I struggle to make the leap that I and the object are one. Can you please help me make the leap from awareness to consciousness?

In the thought experiment at the start of this thread, a conclusion is that everything should be dropped to escape the game- smoking etc. I didnt understand how this conclusion was arrived at.

Even if I don't grok the above conclusion, I want to shed and let go. How do I determine whats tying me to this game? And once found, how do I drop it?

Regards
Feanor
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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #43 on: October 21, 2020, 01:11:55 am »
Hi Feanor:

I cut and pasted it to try to make it clearer.

I understand that an object is in my awareness. (Are you sure it is in 'your' awareness? Could it be that percieving is just arising and has nothing to do with you?) But I struggle to make the leap that I and the object are one. (Then let them be 'two'. Struggle is not very helpful. Perhaps go throughout your day afirming that you are separate from everything. Really dig into it... i.e., push in the other direction.) Can you please help me make the leap from awareness to consciousness? (The definition of those two words gets pretty muddy, I suggest you inquire as to what is aware that there is awareness or what is aware that the is consciousness. Don't use 'who'.)

In the thought experiment at the start of this thread, a conclusion is that everything should be dropped to escape the game- smoking etc. I didnt understand how this conclusion was arrived at. (Neither do I. All conclusions are just an act of the mind trying to put to sleep what is doesn't understand by pretending it understands. I understand nothing, and BTW, neither do you.)

Even if I don't grok the above conclusion, I want to shed and let go. How do I determine whats tying me to this game? And once found, how do I drop it? (Always start small, go back to basics. Try releaseing one small attachment, something losing a good friend or pet. You practice that letting go muscle until it get's big enough to deal with the monster in life.)

I get a sense you are trying a little to hard, try a Tai Chi approach, relax and go slowly. Do you have my FBB tape?

Take care, Love ya, Jed.


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Re: After the accident... a brief story
« Reply #44 on: October 23, 2020, 04:59:54 pm »
The last leaf drops gently from the tree
The readiness is all
Before the truth can be realized it has to be accepted
Acceptance: the final illusion
Ay there’s the rub, the struggle;
The leaf; all the while thinking it was clinging when in fact it was simply doing/being what it was supposed to do/be
Only now is, so only now wins
Resistance is futile
No contest
Death dies when the false mind dies
Life goes on;
Love loving to love Love
Forever