INVISIBLE GURU FORUM

Thank you for your contributions.

Now RG, please tell me what is the difference between those three things, as best you can, no tricks or back-hands from me. Just want you thoughts on it. (well, maybe no tricks. We shall see...)

Love ya, Jed.

I visit here every now and then, saw this and was interested in my attachments

- being alone
- my insights - no, the energy or joy, wonder that comes with it.
- equanimity
- being clear in what I say/write
- my lies
- nicotine
- having nothing to do
- approval, mmm I'm not sure about that, disapproval is getting to be interesting as well, but (not yet) attached to it
- beer, belgian
- being not-involved
- coffee in the morning
- my fantasies, imaginings
- laughter
- being out of my head
- my children I suppose.
- finding a good book which doesn't happen often
- a dress I have             
- not blushing
 I've a couple of aversions as well and I'm quite attached to them; both attachments and aversions are things to play with - something I'm finding out.  Every now and then I develop some bodily minor nuisances and during a 'crisis' my stomach tightens and my heart goes too fast.
Breathing is letting go of everything.

I love Rumi but please keep in mind, these are beautiful diversion. If you get something from them, great, mostly what you get is a warm fuzzy feeling and little more. That's definitely not T/R. But Rumi is a hell of a poet and pointer.

Love ya, Jed.

  toall....

Love ya, Jed

Thank you for sharing. Like RG has pointed out (to a degree) sometimes T/R is traumatic and my advice to many is if the blue bird of Truth craps on your birthday cake, you may be well advised to keep you mouth shut for a  while. Writing here is a venue that won't get you into trouble, unless I bite your a s s!

Love ya and urge gentleness on the only person you may ever meet and know, yourself.

Jed.

Maybe....

Love ya, Jed.

The need to create meaning, where there is none - including the idea of what 'enlightenment' is.

Yes, I was being 'rhetorical'.

I don't know how to participate in this forum. I'm not searching for anything, because there's nothing to search for.

I first stated, in a previous post, that, 'reality', has no inherent, intrinsic, 'meaning'. When I arbitrarily place 'meaning', onto any given exoteric 'event', I've just become a despot in my own self delusion.

The unclimbable mountain, of the concept of what 'Enlightenment' is - was - for me, the Mount Everest, of obstacles, I had placed on the alter of delusion - in order to hinder knowledge of 'who' is the one seeking, for example. Who is it? Ummm.....wait, I know! It's...er, ah....let me get back to you on that one.

When I 'got it', years ago - it was on a plane - 30,000 feet up - with Gingerale running out of my nose - hand clasped over my mouth, and tears streaming down my face, laughing hysterically.

Thailand was gravy. Horrifying Gravy. To not exist - and to go through hanging on to anything - including the Self? Death on Rollerskates. All I could think was, "I love myself, I don't want to not exist"!

I can verify, with first hand knowledge - that Self Inquiry - for lack of a better word, 'works'.

'Who Am I'? Well, who is the one asking the question? 'What Am I'? Well, who is the one that's asking? 'Where am I'? Who is the one that's asking the question' - like an endless mobius strip of endless, endlessness. Round and round we go - where we stop... Who knows?

Who, indeed.

I'm seeing - that, after 5 posts - I need to let go of feeling the need to write anything in this forum - because there's nothing left to say.