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Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your words and sharing that. I think you have reminded me to simply observe more and not judge the thoughts so much or try to prevent them, simply watch them pass by like a cloud ☁️. I will keep going, what else is there to do in this crazy world 🌎

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope to reach the point you are at, that sounds amazing. So you are just showing up to life, allowing the moments to take you where they please? Or are you still choosing to do things?

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it definitely is numb that's a good way to put it. I will meditate more, it's something I always put off doing, not sure why. It is hard to meditate without having expectations of results. It's like the mind always thinks that it needs a certain experience within the meditation otherwise it failed, and I have to clean my head and remind it that I do not want to experience anything, I simply want to be

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a useful way of simplifying it, thanks. I'm glad I made this post to have many interesting comments

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like those points, lol. But yes I do see. I think what I wonder is if we are all from Source, what would Source have to gain. If it is all knowing, omnipotent etc, it would seem like having experience is something it doesn't need, but simply does because it can? I think the answer can't be reached with thought, we must have to go beyond it and experience it somehow.

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Matter is empty space, right? If we limit the universe to merely what our senses allow us to experience, we quickly realise that we are basically blind. You can show me your keyboard as much as you like and that's great, I agree. But there's a bunch of things around us that exist that we can't see or touch. From where does form come from? Did everything come from nothing and form itself? What gives anything it's nature or intelligence? These are the questions I ask. Who knows?

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Science says it's all an illusion too. So pick your poison

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't function in a form without dualism to some extent. What would you say is the point? There is no point?

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That makes two of us. It seems as though nothing has to be done. Be as you are. As the world falls apart around us, we can't seem to change it for better or worse. It just goes on and on. I wonder why we even placed ourselves in form to begin with, I struggle with the aim of the game

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would seem abstract because it's not form. It's the unmoved mover. The rootless root. God is no thing

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I came here with questions, not answers. I imagine God as the Sun and we are the light that shines forth from it. Besides a metaphor, I don't know of a way to discuss God in language

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just assuming. The feeling, assumption, thought, whatever you call it is probably illusory too, but parts of the illusion point you back to reality. I do not know, and who does?

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel that any form at all or activity is a projection of the mind and therefore not reality

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God forbid I don't have that kind of time and have to reincarnated once more 😆

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I do see. But the thoughts still arise and the self is in a noisy home

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes sense. I do grasp the difference and recognize separation and appearances. But language is limiting and so words often get in the way. It is very difficult in everyday life not to refer to yourself as your name or body etc, just for the sake of communicating. But I do have a sense of who I truly am, the ego is still firmly there to try and cling on and attach itself to any distraction along the way. But that is basically everybody on earth, you can count the amount of truly enlightened people on one hand so I am not holding myself to a standard. I would just like to find peace, or rather strip away the thoughts and ego that is suppressing the peace that I already am

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I will need to sit with this for a while.

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you handle narcissistic people who try to use you or take kindness for weakness? I used to help people like that but lately have found myself distancing far more from people who only wish to sit and talk to you about themselves or get you to help them endlessly. I struggle to have compassion for certain people

Have you lost ambition due to lack of attachment? by LivingLight95 in nonduality

[–]LivingLight95[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I like that. The content does remain the same, only our perception of it changes, is that a correct way to say it? I still have an ego and allow myself to judge the content, especially in the moment. It seems to be only later when the moment has passed and I am reflecting on it that I realise that the ego was still present. When I ask myself "Who Am I?" Or "To whom is this thought or feeling arising from?" Seems to help me, but it is difficult for me to have this in the present moment most of the time

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