So ultimately, desires, they’re something you ‘desire’ ‘want’ etc which is why part of the concept of non dualism is you don’t have ‘desires’ as it’s all you. There’s nothing to desire if you are it. The i am.
How do you stop desiring though? By just placing your awareness on already having what you ideally want? Because if you already have it what is there to want? Or are it. Like the person with this house or blonde hair idk, anything.
Anddd i know nd isn’t about getting things but i’m not sure how else to phrase it i’m sorry 😭😭because, ultimately anyone living and breathing wants something, even you. I saw your post about caramel skin and how you want it to be smoother or something i’m pretty sure and then you received money from your uncle for your birthday. These are desires right?
But the only reason you now have these things is because your awareness is now on them. They’re in your awareness instead of the absence of said thing.
i want to learn more abt non dualism but i think i’m still struggling with the ‘it’s not about getting things part’ because if nobody’s life changed for the better after learning about nd then what would be the point if it. So i think for you to have a whole blog about it, it must be something you’re passionate about and want to teach and help others in. It must have changed your life for the better as well. Another things is well i like desiring things and i like getting them even more and i think everyone can agree??
So from my understanding of non dualism, it’s not a method that you can use if it’s just the fact of your existence. Everything is your perception and awareness. You created this reality through your awareness, meaning it can change at any moment by placing awareness elsewhere, as nothing can exist without your awareness being placed on it. You are pure consciousness living life as human. everything comes from your imagination and there’s no separation, only what you decide to perceive as ‘more real’. This house you’re living in is only your home as it came from your awareness first. you decided that and know it to be ‘true’. There’s no good or bad as that is also your perception and you’re the one placing labels on those things.
i know it sounds a little jumbled sorry 😭
also i have another question and sighhh its an loa based one
if loa isn’t real then why does it work for others?
i try and answer this myself and im just assuming it’s because in their reality they know it to work. they know that by deciding having said has to be true.
First of all let’s revise your current understanding of what ND and AV is , it is not a person having an awareness in a world with other people who have their own personal awarenesses, that seems to be the foundational problem right now.
there is ONLY awareness in the sense that everything else INCLUDING the “I Am” are (for the sake of this ask I’ll use the word imaginary even though it’s not very accurate) imaginary concepts , they are not real in the way that they are not final/dire. You mentioned I have desires; yes , that is part of the human experience however the glaring fact is that I KNOW that I am not a person having desires (in the most literal sense) but rather I am the awareness of desire , or desire with a story ; such as being a young girl wanting caramel skin.
this recognition is a very powerful one you see because what happens when something is realized to be false? It becomes impossible to take the experience of it into account, I never condemn desires , I have a million desires in one day ranging from as little as wanting a snack or wanting to explore Rome
The point of non duality is simply, as I’d like to say it, removing delusion and that delusion is that ‘your’ seeming experience of being a mortal being in a physical world is truth. If you can recognize this as truth fully then you would reach a place where the appearance of it is not something to bother with
yes, everything only becomes apparently real through the observation of awareness and that is what You are, so if what you appear to be doesn’t serve you then you do not have to bother with it, it is not a death sentence , it is merely just an idea in the vastness of THAT (self/awareness)
if you were in a dark room and you saw a snake and you got scared but soon saw the snake was actually a rope , does the fact that the rope still looks like a snake have any actual effect? If I know myself to be That , does the appearance of desire,worry,fear (whatever) have any effect ?? If it is known that they are unreal
it’s an illusion, it appears , it is experienced , it is felt but it is not real.
nothing changed but perspective.
Because there was nothing here to be changed in the first place, there is just awareness
whatever you choose to do now that you know the rope isn’t a snake is up to you, if you wish to take it out because it still bothers you or simply because you want to , or if you choose to leave it there because really it will not harm you Is your choice to make. There are no rules
whatever rule that exists only does if you want it to
asking me why loa works is equivalent to asking me why eating food leads to digestion, it’s illusion, unreal, a story
just like the existence of a person with desires and a need to fulfill them.
the purpose of my blog is only to unveil the truth, to open your eyes and heal our mass delusion
what you choose to do WITH opened eyes is entirely up to you
have fun or don’t , it’s all unreal anyway
but the important thing is that YOU KNOW
That you know life is nothing but an idea in the mind of God.