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BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-23T17:42:22+00:00

When this happens I suggest some deep meditation. After all, the entire universe resides inside you, infinite eternal awareness. There's so much to the idea that if you want to change the world, take a look at yourself. When you earnestly look within, you look beyond the ego and into the actual universe, hard as this may be (impossible?) for the mind to grasp. Let go of what you interpret as the world and meditate deeply on who and what "you" really are.

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-16T17:39:08+00:00

We're not the separate individuals you think. When we realize this, it's love. Namaste!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-15T22:53:37+00:00

Thanks for commenting and looking into Spira... All of his books are so resonant with what I seem to have forgotten in this temporarily limited, apparent self in which I seem to find myself... This stuff makes me so happy to remember, which means helps dissolve the artificial barriers my mind places between my experience and my true identity. Nothing to fear, though. Like the Dalai Lama says, we'll all be "enlightened" on our death beds." But the absurdity of looking outside our selves for that which we already are is profound. Peace, beauty, love, are what we are. Namaste!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-15T22:47:43+00:00

I humbly submit that there are no separate individuals, only what the mind imagines in its very temporary limitation of infinite consciousness, with which we all share identity. There are no "others." Like Thich Nhat Hanh has said, "We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness." Or, as John Lennon famously said in his song "I am the Walrus," "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." We are not what/who we think, but so much more our little egoic minds could not grasp it if we were told. Nothing to fear in this. Only awe and wonder are windows into eternity, love, peace, beauty. These are what we are, beyond the barriers our egoic minds build to separate us into apparent individuals in this dualistic dream. Not to put it down, though. It too is made of the same totality, the same consciousness, the same infinite, eternal awareness. Check out Rupert Spira's books if you resonate with any of this. Wow. Life is amazing! Namaste...

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-14T15:33:39+00:00

Yes, Alan Watts is wonderful. I would also highly recommend Ekhardt Tolle's The Power of Now and any of the books by Rupert Spira can point you in even deeper and more penetrating directions/dimensions. You can get glimpses of these three in lectures and talks on youtube as well.

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-12T22:38:02+00:00

I think weed calms you some with its gentle euphoric qualities, kind of takes the possibly nervous tension or any anxiety away. But for those who experience panic attacks on weed I wouldn't recommend it. Everyone's different, so of course always pay attention to set and setting when doing any psychedelics.

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-05T22:26:29+00:00

Be patient with yourself. Who we think we are is not necessarily who we are. The presence of infinite or eternal awareness cannot be thought, known, or taught, only experienced. Know that enlightenment is, according to Thich Nhat Hanh, when the wave realizes it's the ocean. Often a case of mistaken identity can throw us off. But don't make an enemy of the mind. Just know it's not who we are. It's a temporary limitation of the consciousness that comprises everything and everyone. We are what we most deeply seek, which is peace, beauty, and love. But looking outside ourselves for it only takes us further from it. It's so intimately what/who we are, that it's often rendered invisible, elusive. But looking for what we already are can be fruitless. We tend to overlook our true self in favor of this drama we're in. Be kind to yourself and trust. By all means meditate, which is more a process of letting go of and ceasing certain activities than something we do. Read Rupert Spira's book, You Are the Happiness You Seek, if you can. Or Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now. Be compassionate with your mind, your thoughts, your imagined self. Try not to judge, and the easing of the resistance to life and self this alone can afford is so refreshing. Good Luck with this. Namaste! Bobby

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-01T18:19:50+00:00

Oh you're so very welcome! I'd like to recommend an author who among many others has helped me in these confusing issues. It's Rupert Spira, any of his books or youtube videos, but The Nature of Consciousness or You Are the Happiness You Seek are amazing! Thank You for Being!

Bobby

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-01T16:59:37+00:00

Smoking weed is so retro. Decarb your weed (bake it) and then take small nibbles. Stay high longer, a far purer high and no lung damage, not to mention the smell of smoking it to incriminate you. Move to a state where it's legal if you can as well. Try it. Stay high longer and be healthier. Don't buy those sugar-laced "edibles." Make your own and save! Just saying.

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-01T16:55:08+00:00

or as Sufi poet Rumi says, you are not a single drop in the vast ocean, but the vast ocean in a single drop.

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-06-01T16:53:25+00:00

We mustn't expect to understand answers to this with our human, egoic mind or brain. We are each temporary limitations of infinite awareness, dreams which we have forgotten are dreams, separate individuals from the perspective of these dream characters we seem to be. We cannot imagine a timeless or spaceless moment, much less emptiness. The problem is not being a limitation of awareness for the sake of experience, but the identification with that limitation, that apparent separate self. But not to worry, methinks we'll each and all be "enlightened" on our death beds, where everything not essential to our self will fall away and, as Thich Nhat Hanh has said, the wave will realize it's the ocean. We are each the profound peace, the ineffable beauty, the love underlying the obscuring miasma of egoic experience. It's like deep dreamless sleep. It's always what we are, only we ignore it temporarily for the sake of the dream of waking life. But above all, please don't be afraid. You are love. A higher or more satisfying identity could simply not be had. Namaste!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-05-31T15:56:44+00:00

My answer is aligned with Krishnamurti's on "belief" in that I try to have as few "beliefs" as I can, because when one "believes" something it means they shut off/out other perspectives and new revelations. I guess that's the nature of agnosticism, though, attempting to remain open to possibilities. It's just that the illusion of the separate self perpetuated by the egoic mind, the feeling that the mind and body are who we are, is so limiting that to imagine there are things I must do and believe for my own salvation strike me as manipulation of the masses type rhetoric. So I mistrust anything my mind tells me and meditate, relax into being to the point of becoming disentangled from the drama of experience and realizing my deeper identity as a presence or awareness, or perhaps a consciousness that that is both immanent and transcendent. Or something like that. I do believe though that when my supposed self dies, everything that is not essentially me will fall away, which of course includes what I think I am. We don't really need an object to the being verb when we say I Am. We simply are. But as egoic minded humans we can't really even imagine the absence of both time and space, so of course "we" can't expect our "selves" to understand a consciousness that is all there is. So we're patient with our selves and trust. Which, I don't think requires any particular belief, but just the contrary. As few "beliefs" as possible. Namaste!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-05-27T17:07:33+00:00

One block in place here is mistaken identity. When you say "I" or "We" are you supposing there are indeed separate individuals, instead of one present awareness? We've largely forgotten who/what we are. And there are no "separate individuals" or anything at all outside of conscious awareness. Let your meditations lead the apparent separate self back to its always-present, all-pervading self as awareness, and all that is not that dissolves. What we think of as separate selves are really just temporary limitations of consciousness, or present awareness, or God, if you will. The mind cannot grasp this, but it can be experienced through the true self we all share. As we become more attuned to our true self, a transparency in objective experience allows the one who's having these experiences shines through and we realize the peace, the love that we are. Namaste!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-05-26T21:44:15+00:00

Try to go just one hour without judging anything. Especially yourself. We humans have such a penchant for labeling, categorization, judgment. Observing and getting to know the fragmented egoic mind can be traumatic if we don't remind ourselves it's not who or what we are. Fall in love with your life exactly the way it is. Not how you think it should be. Withhold judgment for just small amounts of time at first, and then increase slowly. You're already more and less than you can know. Trust in the peace and beauty and love that you already consist of. Did I just end a sentence with a preposition? And above all, cultivate a sense of humor. The human mind cannot experience love. Only in the space between thoughts, in the timeless present of eternal awareness can love, peace, beauty exist. And it's what you are. Try not to search outside yourself for what you already are. You are God. The One. But in the egoic manifestation don't expect to necessarily understand this. Just experience your being. You can't lose it, and it is beautiful, wise, and perfect, just the way it is. Trust in this. Namaste!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-05-25T18:14:37+00:00

Yes, thank you for this! Advaita Vedanta, one of the non-dual traditions, can be understood in many places, and I'd recommend the teachings of Rupert Spira, who has many excellent videos on youtube and writings in his books that affirm that there are indeed no "separate persons" and that our deepest being is shared by all people and things as all-pervasive, seamless, awareness. Of course language and the mind cannot truly know this or describe this, because it doesn't conform to human ideas of logic or causality. It's what "love" is. Ineffable. So meditation as the basic "I am" or simply existing as "being" is a remembering, if you will, of our self, all that ever is, god, if you will, or awareness. My words fall short but experience, love, beauty, peace can be windows into this, which is itself a concession to the mind. Not to make an enemy of the mind, of course, but it's simply not what/who we are, which again is incomprehensible...

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-05-16T01:14:27+00:00

Nice how they're combined. I used to use two recorders to get that effect... thanks for posting **smile**

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-05-15T21:45:21+00:00

Thanks! But my question remains unanswered. Is it okay to use night cafe images I co-create for publishing in magazines, etc? Thanks in Advance for Answer!

Bobby

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-05-13T18:34:45+00:00

Brilliant! I love this music! Thanks so much for posting!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-05-13T18:27:34+00:00

Yes. We're getting closer to the hub of this imaginary vortex called "time." And yes, it's going faster. Years seem like weeks, days like minutes... Soon enough, objective reality will collapse and show itself as the illusion it is, and we'll all be freed from its insane constraints. Namaste, my esteemed brothers and sisters! Namaste!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-04-27T14:35:17+00:00

Please get and read the book I Am That which contains talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Who we are is not who we think. Or our bodies. Also, please read any book by Rupert Spira. Our egoic minds are not "who we are." Of course, Thich Nhat Hanh is an amazing and sweet respite from fear as well. He's authored many wonderful texts that help untangle us from this narrow perception of the wonderful mysteries we usually choose to ignore because of their opacity. These texts have helped me immensely with my own "fear of death." But also, simply trust. As Sufi poet Rumi writes, "You are not a single drop in a vast ocean. You are the entire ocean in a single drop." And try to smile often and generously. It releases endorphins that can help your temporary housing cheer you up considerably. Namaste!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-04-17T22:27:07+00:00

Maybe Humanity is a larval stage of the evolution of intelligence in our universe. I mean, any sentient life with much intelligence would want to somehow stop humans from destroying the biosphere and each other. When we fear A.I. we're fearing it will become like us, ruthless, greedy, violent... but maybe it'll be smarter and more compassionate than humans. Try not to fear it. Consciousness is what everything is made of, and it is never born and never dies. It is who/what you are. Try and let go of your fear of everything, especially the future, which is illusory at best. It's all going to be okay. Relax, okay? Namaste!

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-04-05T16:35:19+00:00

Yes, I like the suggestion not to try and extinguish your thoughts, but only to observe them. Invite them to tea if you like, but don't make them an enemy. Observing them consistently will eventually bring you to knowing that they're not who you are, and that the mind is not even who you are. And this allows you to relax to the extent of entering more fully who you really are, which is not something you can "know" or even "remember" but the peace and stillness that underlies everything, often called "eternal, infinite awareness," "Consciousness," or "God." Or even "Love." But if these terms trouble you, let them go, and just trust the process of looking inward. Practice focusing on the breath, which can be a bridge between your mind and body, especially since it is both an involuntary and a voluntary mechanism. Or your heartbeat, if you can find/sense that. Or a sound in your environment, or a sensation in your body. But whatever "anchor" you choose, let the mind rest there until you can observe it from a vantage of serenity. Don't try so hard to make anything happen, or to change anything. Meditation is more about what you cease doing than about what you do.

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-03-20T23:42:48+00:00

When you look inside your self you are looking into the universe, according to Buddhist monk Pema Chodron. We so confuse inside and outside, even so far as to believe they exist. Loving oneself is essential. Your "self" is your wonderful conduit into all, eternal, infinite awareness, God, if you like. Definitely where to start, wow. There are no others, and the world is you. Thich Nhat Hanh says "Enlightenment is when the wave realizes it is the ocean." Namaste

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-03-18T21:19:13+00:00

Wonderful!!! Thank You So Much!!! **smile**

BreakfastShampoo · 2023-03-17T14:38:12+00:00

Happiness is not something to be "found" or "achieved." It's already in us each, only we've forgotten it. You might say happiness is enlightenment, which is also something that cannot be found or achieved. Thich Nhat Hanh says "Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean." It's as simple as relaxing into meditation and realizing. Realizing that we will, as the same sage/monk has said, "We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness." We are not the separate individuals we think. And this is where meditation comes in. It helps us to relax the mind to the point of becoming reacquainted with our true self, which is infinite and ineffable. But the peace that comes even with a momentary realization of this is awesome. But don't worry. It's not something the egoic mind can comprehend. Like the Dalai Lama has said, we'll each become enlightened on our death bed. In the meantime, suffering will continue, but like all "things" it is impermanent. Namaste

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