Your unrelenting trust in your ability to fail; a non dual perspective
I had a conversation with a person recently, and the topic was shifting. I used to be a huge shifter back in 2020 and I was probably on every shifting platform; amino (that’s actually where I met ko) , discord, tiktok, I even had a notion lol but this particular conversation was probably the first time I’d spoken about shifting since then—now, I know more things and my perspectives on everything have changed drastically
This friend of mine had been attempting to shift for about 6 years, which I learnt is quite normal within that community; she said no matter what method she tried, no matter what beliefs she had she was always unsuccessful
I first of all told her ‘shifting’ like every other experience is nothing but a fundamentally unreal yet appearing idea which she knew however she said if there was no difference between experiences such as the experiences of drinking coffee and shifting then one shouldn’t be easier to do than the other
And I told her but it’s not easier to do and it’s also not not easier to do—it’s whatever you define it is. Then I explained what she was doing which I think a lot of you need to hear as well. I told her she was completely blindly believing in her ability to always fail an attempt—and this can be said for any other apparently difficult situation, I want to emphasize this post is fundamentally about how not noticing leads to being deceived by appearances and not solely shifting ( it’s just a really good analogy)
I asked her what makes her genuinely believe she cannot shift at her command? And she said it was because every time she tries she knows she doesn’t succeed, she wakes up in her normal bed with that same feeling of dread and disappointment, then I asked her “so you believe in that idea of stagnation but not the idea of success?”. Expectedly she was confused, this was something she saw and experienced, but what she failed to realize was how instantly that conclusion of failure is made, she is taking a completely random self conjured idea as truth
What do I mean by this? There is no actual logical reason for why she says she can’t do it, nada. Every reason she’s giving herself is just an idea she is taking as her truth with absolutely zero effort, the idea that she woke up in her bed is just an assumption, the idea that she wakes up with dread all the time is just an assumption, the idea that she continuously fails is just an assumption because all these reasons are appearing completely within at an instance.
My question was if it’s so easy to believe that completely mental assumption, why can she not do the exact same for the idea of always shifting ? What genuinely stops her or any of you? That’s right, nothing but yourself and your instant mental narratives. The only reason you’ll not shift when you say is because the idea of failure is present, and yes it’s an idea with zero truth
If you do not recognize what you are always taking as truth is due to the fact that YOU are taking it as truth then you will continue to suffer your very own ignorance and narratives
This post is a little different from what I usually talk about but I figured it might be helpful
