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Tagging this with gay fandoms sorry
There's currently a European proposition to ban conversion practice in Europe
If you're European please sigh it
If you're not please reblog
Give your support !
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GUYS this would effectively ban conversion therapy in the whole EU! PLEASE SIGN AND BOOST
my two cents
u know what awareness feels like to me? like if i were to just describe it this is the first thought that pops up
(i) cant help but notice
get it cuz u actually cant help and you do notice. and yet you are the noticed and the notice and the noticing one and so on and so forth.
https://x.com/v4mpirui/status/1758974529987313793?s=12&t=kervRaBWS2ZiI4q-Sejmyg
A THREAD OF WAYS TO HELP PALESTINE (mostly for free)
Ego is nothing but a wrong concept of yourself. And concepts aren't real. Drop the notion and see if there is anything like ego in you.
Ego is there only as long as you believe it exists. If you stop believing in it, it disappears. It exists only because you identify yourself with your thoughts. If you look at your thoughts from the outside, they are no longer you. Therefore, it becomes possible for you to be convinced that you have something, which, a moment ago, was nowhere near you. If you drop the ego altogether, you live in a constant 'knowing', things happen by themselves the moment you think of them.
When you change who you think you are, or rather — realize you are no concept (and ego is nothing but a concept in your mind), your whole world changes with it. Do not be afraid to change.
Use the gift of this knowledge.
You would grow much quicker if you didn't resist confronting yourself so much.
This body is totally imagined. As I sit here on the couch, with my eyes closed, I see images of the body, I feel sensations associated with it, and it all happens within my perception; there’s nothing external in it. I open my eyes, I look at my hands and feet, and these so-called parts of my so-called body are still images and sensations within my perception. I can separate them from the rest of my visual world and call them my body, but that separation is still an act of mind, and the images are always of a past, even if the past happened a nanosecond ago. They’re part of a movie of reality; they’re not reality itself. Why would I believe that a movie on the mind’s screen is real? Every time I try to focus on what is real about this body, it’s gone, and the “I” who focuses is gone too.
There’s nothing solid. Not only the dream but even the dreamer is forever gone. And the dreamed body—I sit it, I stand it, I walk it, I feed it, I brush its teeth, I dress it in clothes, I put it to bed at night and lift it from bed in the morning, and none of that is real. It’s all a projection of mind. To imagine that there is anything outside the mind is pure delusion.
Even physical pain is imagined. When you’re asleep, does your body hurt? When you’re hurting, and the phone rings, and it’s the call you’ve been longing for and you’re mentally focused on the conversation, there’s no pain. If your thinking changes, the pain changes.
Byron Katie
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. (Byron Katie, quoted on her wikipedia page)
Manifesting is struggling, life is effortless
You may or may not get what you want by "manifesting", and I'll explain to you why.
If you've been practicing for a while, you already know sometimes you get the things you want and sometimes you do not. Each time you do, though, it happens effortlessly. Almost aggravatingly so, since the times you do succeed with — you barely even try.
Your ego, depending on a lot of circumstances, conditions, thought patterns - may or may not believe it can manifest. Because, basically, before the concept was introduced to you - you never did it before. It is like studying for a test, you know this is the material you have to learn, you do so thoroughly, you settle it into your memory perfectly, and yet you can never be sure what the test may present you with. You may even have a lot of confidence in your knowledge and think you've got this under your thumb, but what's put on the test you still can't control. Likewise, you've learned how to manifest perfectly, you know all the methods/possibilities/techniques which you can use and you use them - however, the results are always shaky. So who decides what materializes and what not?
The one that's materializing the ego thinking and doing stuff right now.
The one thing you already have a lot of experience in, the one you do effortlessly and inescapably by existing is being. You've been something all your life, you can't say you don't know how to do that, because—you're being someone reading this post now.
Imagine if you knew yourself as who you really are, the way you materialize this body and this world live and instantly, the same way you'd be able to materialize a different one whenever. The test, the event, would now be put there by you. The confidence you thought yourself into before would now be replaced by a sureness, almost laughable inevitability, one you didn't attain but have. Circumstances you now leave to a "3D conforming" (the ego-body-mind, are circumstances too, btw) exist when you want to.
You don't want to "manifest", all you want is to be your self.
But to have it, you have to go beyond the mind, and to do that - you let go of all the things you think yourself to be, not add more labels on top of it like "God", "Master Manifestor", etc.
Those might satisfy your mind for a bit, but they won't stop you from being what you know yourself to be. To know yourself as the source of all that is you have to first remove the veil of what's stopping you from seeing it in the first place. The labels you may add, but do 'you' know how to operate as any? The only thing you know from experience how to operate is "I AM".
The process is one of letting go more and more until you find yourself having nothing, being nothing. The thing about nothing though is that it's the only thing that can take the shape of everything.
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Gold again.
Jun 16, 2023
as a child i would consistently daydream and imagine scenarios before bed. i imagined myself in countless situations, yet never feared them. i imagined myself dying countless times (or whatever i thought dying looked like) and never even thought i would somehow bring death forth by doing so. because in the end, i knew the mind belonged to my body. the mind was in the body. whatever the body did was the ultimate reality for me - how could the mind manage to do anything if the body it resided in wouldn't comply? the body seemed superior. i recognized the body as the false perceiver of the mind, therefore superior. and yet i recognized that even this superior perceiver could only perceive its respective mind and thoughts. no one else's thoughts, ideas and feelings i was unable to see. that's what the body's limit was. it can only perceive what's its/within it.
then i found out the body was inferior to Self, which is amazing, but in a split second, I completely forgot about the principle mentioned earlier. what happened to it can only perceive what's its? suddenly, i considered the world to be perceived by me, but somehow still outside of me.
you are consciousness itself. you are conscious of everything, everything is yours, within you, you. giving autonomy and authority to things you are conscious of (things you are!) is the root of all suffering.
How can the one who imagines something be stuck in his own imagination...
Rant about It
If you don't want to burden anyone with your problems (who can you even tell about this?), get a journal, get your notes app and rant. Don't be afraid of your own thoughts. Think the worst ones, let yourself despair for a second.
I HATE THIS AND THAT AND WHY DON'T I GET THIS AND WHAT AM I DOING WRONG
Whatever it is, just yell it all.
You'll realize that this is also some kind of dropping - you just released the mental pressure, and because of that you forget about it for the rest of the day. What more can you do anyhow? You yelled so now you can only face it.
But you'll realize that after you do, it kind of leaves all by itself. Don't do so to get it to leave, just allow yourself to experience those things and be frustrated and be done with the anger for the day.
Then let it be.
You're still alive and you already have the knowledge,
You'll figure it out until you die so allow yourself to release some of that pressure.
one of my problems with letting go of the ego was realizing that even thoughts are a 100% dependent on me. i would be sad that even when i let go of thinking i was the ego, i would spontaneously think of things from the perspective of the ego but like?? those thoughts can't exist without me?? thoughts are literally just MY awareness of things, who else is in control of them if not me?
i've made it my goal not to lie to myself, so that's exactly what i will do; i have not let go of ego. i feel good and indifferent but the second something 'bad' happens in her life, i panic and get right back into identifying with her and trying to solve it. i create scenarios of catastrophic degree and literally start preparing myself for the worst. i tell myself i can do and that i can suffer a little bit longer, because i can imagine a different life afterwards.
the question is, why don't i do that today? right this second? i have the knowledge, i have applied it, it felt amazing, so why do i keep choosing her? i even got to a point where this body literally disappeared and i was pure being. i got to a point where i started to imagine a different ego with a different life, but each time i get scared (?) and stop. i tell myself that i have responsibilities as this ego and that if i don't think about them, it will be bad. this ego hates everything about their life, so why don't i imagine one that doesn't?
to answer my own questions, i think i still think i'm her to some degree. there's this last chunk of the ego that i still identify with. this sense of being, life energy, awareness or whatever you like to call it, i still believe a little that it belongs to this girl. that's why even though i know anything i observe and imagine is essentially not real and of zero importance, i can't let go of her. because i don't think i observe or imagine her, i think i AM her.
i can imagine myself and pretend to be whatever and whoever i want, but i will always be reality and reality only. unmarked by anything, with no attachments, in its purest form.
im slowly starting to understand how i materialize the world everyday. it’s a freeing feeling, like a breath of fresh air after not being able to breathe for a lifetime. i let my thoughts flow, i observe and disregard. and yet i can’t say i’ve let go of ego entirely.
i no longer feel like her and there’s a sense of distance now, but i give into her fears once in a while. it feels so silly given that she’s just a thought and nothing else and still i give her so much importance and all my life energy, and she’s not even there. she’s just me conceptualizing her.
anyways it’s getting much easier to let her go and i’m nowhere near as anxious as i used to be so i know i’m on the right path.
What is the necessity to declare as non-existing, that which is not there? It is naturally not there.
