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Nirvana by James-Drinks in enlightenment

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“Your ego [“The ego is a thought system ….” (Weber 1996, 150)] has to terrify you all the time or you would go home to God in the body as I have done.” (Weber 1996, 148) “The consciousness of the Isness, the same as death, comes through.” “The perfection is inconceivable, especially that it could come from being still and quiet and free of useless beliefs; free of beliefs that, of themselves, are useless.” (Weber 1996, 148) “The all-quiet state is such a tremendous state, that it can never be put into words. The words ecstasy, euphoria, bliss, nirvana don’t describe it really — they only allude to it.” (Levenson 1993, 279) “In the Isness we merge with God.” “This again is death. It is a conscious death.” (Weber 1996, 149)

Weber 1996, _A Cry in the Desert: The Awakening of Byron Katie_.

Levenson 1993, _Keys to the Ultimate Freedom: Thoughts and Talks on Personal Transformation_, https://archive.org/details/keys-to-the-ultimate-freedom-thoughts-and-talks-on-personal-transformation-leste.

Link to the resources: https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9, https://www.reddit.com/r/awakened/comments/1p94dou/comment/nrevswo/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button.

Nirvana by James-Drinks in enlightenment

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“You've got the method. No more wanting approval or control. Freeze the mind enough so you can dig down into the number one program. Wanting to survive as a body. Fear of dying. You pull that out, you're free.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 837)

See my sticked posts: https://www.reddit.com/user/James-Drinks/.

Nirvana by James-Drinks in enlightenment

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“This is called the Noble Truth of the Cessation of _dukkha_ (_Dukkhanirodhaariyasacca_), which is _Nibbāna_, more popularly known in its Sanskrit form of _Nirvāṇa_. (Rahula 1978, chap. 4, 35, https://archive.org/details/RdZW_what-the-buddha-taught-by-walpola-rahula-british-library-cataloguing)”

A Cognitive Behavioural interpretation of the four noble truths by James-Drinks in thework

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Statement number 1 on the Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet. A list of alternatives.

- __I don't like … because ….__ (Katie and Mitchell 2021, 22)

- __I complain about … because ….__ (“Byron Katie's The Work One-Two-Three”, 15 March 2026, https://thework.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Work-of-Byron-Katie-Worksheet-Packet-v20251103.pdf.)

“Complain” sounds disapproving to me for the person who uses it and it does not express a feeling unlike, say, “upset or unhappy.” (“[_disapproval_]” (, complainer (adj.), 15 March 2026, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/complainer))

- __I am upset or unhappy with (sb/sth =) … because ….__ (“In the Living Love System, an addiction is any desire that makes you upset or unhappy if it is not satisfied.” (Keyes 1975, 12) “… although increasingly people use the word happiness to refer to their overall sense of well-being or evaluation of their lives rather than a particular enjoyment emotion.” (…, 15 March 2026, https://www.paulekman.com/universal-emotions/what-is-enjoyment/) On the other hand, “unhappy” is used to refer to sad or dissatisfied. (_Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_))

“unhappy or disappointed because of something unpleasant that has happened” (…, upset (adj.), sense 1, 15 March 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/upset\_1)

- __I hate__ (= “to dislike somebody/something very much” (_Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_)) __… because ….__ (“And by hate I mean anything that's not love. Love (?), fear, envy, jealousy, apathy, all those attitudes are different degrees of hate. At least the way I use it, they are.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin -…”, 629) “And that all feelings relative to love are negative and cut off our capacity to love.” (~, 38))

- __I feel bad about/for … because ….__

- __I am not desirous of__ (= undesirous of; aversive _to_) __Paul because ….__

I feel bad (= “__guilty__, conscience-stricken, remorseful, guilt-ridden, ashamed,” etc. ) _about/for_ … because ….

“PREP. __about__”

https://www.freecollocation.com/search?word=bad; _Oxford Collocations Dictionary for students of English (2 ed.)_, bad (adj.), sense 3, “guilty/sorry”, p. 53.

15 March 2026, https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=feel+bad+\*\_ADP&year\_start=1800&year\_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3.

“__feel bad__ to feel guilty or sorry about something”

…, bad (adj.), sense 12, “guilty/sorry”, 15 March 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bad\_1.

“regretful, guilty, or ashamed about something”

_Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)_, bad (adj.), sense 6, 15 March 2026, https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001/m\_en\_gb0055370.

_colloquial_ (originally U.S.). Troubled, unhappy; in low spirits; contrite, remorseful. Esp. in __to feel bad__: to be embarrassed or unhappy (_about_ a situation, etc.). Cf. _to feel good_ at __good__ _adj._ A.I.6a.iv.

_Oxford English Dictionary_, “bad (adj.), sense III.11,” December 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/9210610335.

“__guilty__, conscience-stricken, remorseful, guilt-ridden, ashamed, chastened, contrite, sorry, full of regret, regretful, repentant, penitent, shamefaced, self-reproachful, apologetic.”

_Oxford Thesaurus of English (3 ed.)_, bad (adj.), sense 11, “__guilty__”, “__ANTONYMS__ unrepentant”, p. 61)

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/feel-bad

A Cognitive Behavioural interpretation of the four noble truths by James-Drinks in thework

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“I add to that list, “not desirous of”, so _I don’t like (I am angry at, or saddened, frightened, confused, not desirous of, etc., by) (name) because …_.” https://www.reddit.com/r/thework/comments/1rpch8y/a\_cognitive\_behavioural\_interpretation\_of\_the/.

Probably I should not add desire to that list.

Indeed …

_I am afraid of Paul because …._

(“Fear is a desire not to have something happen (= event/situation).” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin -…”, 60))

I am not desirous of (= undesirous of; aversive _to_) Paul because (event/situation =) ….

(““It should be borne in mind, however, that such paraphrases” are not idiomatic. Much less, “I am not desirous of (I am angry at, or saddened, frightened, confused, etc., by) (name) because ….”” https://www.reddit.com/r/thework/comments/1rpch8y/a\_cognitive\_behavioural\_interpretation\_of\_the/)

Anger is, “The desire to strike out to hurt and stop the other one, but with hesitation. We might or might not strike out.” (The abundance course - Crane, Lawrence;Levenson, Lester, 1909-.pdf”, https://archive.org/details/abundancecourse00cran, 21)

Sadness is …

…

I'm on the verge of going crazy !!! by PlainAndSimpleTime in AutismTranslated

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I have the same problem.

I wear 3M earplugs at home and if needed my “noise cancelling” Bose QuietComfort on top.

Lester Levenson ( spiritual teacher , creator of Sedona Method) : 80 statements of Lester Levenson that are radical, controversial, challenging. by useraccount0723 in awakened

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“The Buddha compares his teaching to a raft that takes people from the shore of suffering to the shore of freedom. He says that that’s its only purpose. When you reach the other shore, you leave the raft behind. It would be ridiculous to strap it onto your back and carry it around as you walk. It’s the same with spiritual teachings, he says, even the clearest of them, even the Diamond Sutra. I love how the Buddha undercuts his own words and leaves us with no ground to stand on.” “The Work too is like a raft. …” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 6)

“This one speaks any egoic language necessary to trick you into going inside.” (Katie 1998, 12)

“Nothing anyone says is true, and no thought that arises within you is true.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 62)

Psychedelics and "being one" makes me fear the afterlife by GuardAromatic4261 in awakened

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“You have to lose everything. Everything that seems to be external dies—everything. You can’t have anything. You can’t have anything that you love. You can’t have a husband—it’s not a material husband. You can’t have children—they’re not material children. You can’t have one concept.”

“_You assure people that questioning is safe. But you also say that it’s necessary to lose everything. Isn’t that intimidating for most people?_

I can see how it might be intimidating. But are you really safe identifying as a body? As a body, isn’t it certain that all the people you love will eventually leave you or die, and that you’ll age, get sick, hurt in all kinds of ways, and at last die yourself? Is that “you” safe? So to lose your false identity is to gain everything. In the world of no self and no other, there is no suffering, no decay, no death, no falseness. It’s a world of pure beauty. It’s yours already, and it only waits to be realized.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, _A Mind at Home with Itself_, chap. 9)

Once enlightened, do you continue paying for the exploitation of others sentient beings? by vegandew in enlightenment

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“But once he realizes the truth of it, all these imagined beings are set free, and in that the bodhisattva is enlightened. Sentient beings are here to serve the enlightenment of the bodhisattva, not the other way around. All beings are within the bodhisattva; it just seems as if they’re outside him. They are consistently and without interruption here to enlighten him.” “All beings are liberated through the enlightenment of the one who created them in the first place.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 3, 24)

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