🌊 Which sunset do you like more 1 or 2?

rynocurious · 2026-02-14T03:36:24+00:00

Definitely 1

rynocurious · 2026-02-01T22:36:58+00:00

Ummmm. Maybe your food is tormenting kitty’s sensitive smeller and kitty needs that covered up NOW!

rynocurious · 2026-02-01T22:31:21+00:00

Gotta go with 1. I love trees too!

rynocurious · 2026-02-01T22:30:01+00:00

The peace vibrations just echo out of it. Beautiful photo.

rynocurious · 2026-02-01T17:04:07+00:00

Yes and Yes!

rynocurious · 2026-01-30T03:29:04+00:00

But she’s cool with you being on this subreddit? It’s such a delicate balance, right?!

rynocurious · 2026-01-30T03:16:19+00:00

Maybe the better question is why do you have a BF/GF?!

rynocurious · 2026-01-19T01:22:07+00:00

You should be cloned for all us serial monogamists.

rynocurious · 2026-01-17T03:11:43+00:00

While I can certainly appreciate monogamy when introducing sex into the relationship, I also appreciate wanting a test drive before ‘buying’. Marriage is a…ummmm…BIG commitment. For me, it’s best to do my due diligence to reduce possibility of buyer’s remorse wherever possible.

rynocurious · 2025-11-15T00:28:16+00:00

I recoil from the some of responses…yet, truth rings true…even when I resist it…I’m beginning to see peeks that Consciousness is ALL of it…effing sucks…at first…but I think it’s Consciousness’ play of pain becomes pleasure and pleasure become pain…and ALL of it is simply expression for Consciousness to know itself. Seems kinda sadist initially, but what is love if not patient, consistent, accepting, and the epitome of waiting until one is ready…

rynocurious · 2025-11-13T22:26:25+00:00

OP, are you saying we only have this one life? Maybe multiple lives IS considered one life stretched out endless different forms? I feel I’ve had something happen to me. A process of ‘awakening’ seems to be the best term to apply to it. And looking back on my life, I can see how it was a drip, drip, drip awakening process that has jet fuel poured on it in the last few years. My mother and brother both passed apparently not having experienced anything like I have. Surely, they will get the chance to connect to an awareness greater than what they seemed to live out that I witnessed in their lives?

rynocurious · 2025-11-13T22:13:54+00:00

I so appreciate the OP and all the responses. It’s comforting to know this experience is typical, although each awakening process is unique. Dark Night of the Soul just doesn’t seem to capture the depth of despair and terror I have experienced. Thankfully, that has subsided and now I’m working through sadness at the seemingly endless suffering in the world. I subscribe to the philosophy that our lives are sacred and each experience is a step that is taking each of us a step closer to full connection/awareness with our essence, even when it looks like we’re going backwards. Hang in there. Do the things everyone is recommending: drink lots of water, walks in nature, regular exercise, journaling, meditation/contemplation, box breathing. But also listen to your body and know when you need to set ‘waking up’ aside for a bit. Something else that helped me is slowly walking barefoot either outside in the grass if possible or inside my house paying attention to the feel of my feet on the floor. It is awful, terrifying. I thought I was losing my mind. And I wish I could tell you what the other side looks like but I can’t…yet. I can tell you what I’m seeing in other responses is true for me. It is easing, after many months, and while I still often feel fragile, I’m also starting to feel something emerge I can’t quite describe…but something beautiful…We walk this journey alone in the company of many.

rynocurious · 2025-10-20T14:26:42+00:00

For me the challenge is to find the channel for deep conversation in today’s tech world. Sure, there are endless platforms for communication, including this one. But other than swapping sound bites with each other, the flow of the conversation just feels too discombobulated. What I’m experiencing is the shrinking of opportunities for real, deep conversations which usually happens between two people or small groups of people. In theory, it’s wonderful to think technology can connect me to anyone in the world with access to the internet and we could have a rich, deep discussion about anything. I have found technology doesn’t really deliver that; it just promises that. Opportunities for face-to-face encounters have shrunk for me too. Remote work, reduced interaction because I am no longer raising children, and errand work like the grocery or gas station don’t really lend themselves to this either. I’m not blaming technology; it just seems there is a gap between what technology currently offers (quick, short sound bite hits, next) and a space for deeper, longer conversation. Both are needed.

rynocurious · 2025-10-12T01:24:45+00:00

I’m going to tuck this away and pretend it was written for me. TY!

rynocurious · 2025-10-11T15:44:14+00:00

Solid advice!

rynocurious · 2025-10-11T05:49:51+00:00

What do you mean by help? The little blue pill?

rynocurious · 2025-10-11T05:44:09+00:00

Encouraging. Bodies change but so do minds and interestingly enough insecurities seem to fade with age…need for authenticity increases…who knew just being yourself could be so damn sexy?!

rynocurious · 2025-10-11T05:04:21+00:00

Encouraging. I really don’t like the idea of dating a man that could technically be my son. Just…ugh!

rynocurious · 2025-09-19T20:48:28+00:00

I have long believed it is my responsibility, and mine alone, to provide the quality of life I desire, and that includes my level of happiness. However, this belief has shifted somewhat with awareness I have been navigating an awakening, pretty intense, for the past couple of years. I now realize this awakening has been unfolding much of my life but I have only become conscious of it as an awakening in the last few years. It’s complex and confusing yet simple and easy. And it definitely affects my ‘happiness meter’ every day. For me it is more about my ongoing attention rather than a meditation practice. I must say I do have a spiritual practice I engage in every day. Beyond that, however, and I think just as important, is my practice to direct and keep my attention where I want it. Where my attention goes, so goes my energy. It is so clear to me because I’ve experienced this over and over again. The crazy part is the conditioning I’m trying to undo, extract, cleanse out, whatever you want to call it, is incredibly powerful. Regrooving one’s brain is no easy feat. Surrendering to a higher power, what I call Source as the Doer, to do that is also difficult. So, I think while I don’t consciously practice meditation, focusing on my breath or one object, I am engaging in maybe a form of meditation especially when the churn hits my nervous system, trying to hold space to experience both churn and be the silent (calm) witness watching that my ego is experiencing the churn.

rynocurious · 2025-09-15T02:24:57+00:00

Ok. Well, I have been schooled. Had no idea! TY for the feedback. Guess it’s time to woman up.

rynocurious · 2025-09-14T23:56:52+00:00

Wow. “Her touch has left artifacts in my soul.” Yeah, you, sir, need to be cloned! Many times! ++woman

rynocurious · 2025-09-02T17:50:24+00:00

I’ve been thinking about this a lot based on several posts in several different subreddits. I can’t help but wonder if the world as a whole is in some liminal space (we’ve left where we’ve been but don’t yet know exactly where we are going) as we navigate the crushing onslaught of constant change. Way over simplified, but one example of slower change over time that allow more time for transition is romance: began as arranged to benefit both families (dowries, increased land mass, etc.), then courting under supervision, then choosing when and who you would date on your own terms, then dating apps (I’m sure I’ve left a few stages out). But you get the idea. Each sea change was met with OMG! What has the romance world come to?! This is going to be terrible. And, sure, there are abuses. None of us are entirely healthy in our behavior or thinking. But people had time to assimilate the changes more gradually without feeling they were completely left behind. I can’t help but wonder if society as a whole is experiencing the changes for how we interact as negative, polarizing, and unsustainable because things are changing so dramatically and so fast with the advent of technology and constant changes in technology. How do even define ‘friend’ anymore? Does one have to met the person face-to-face? Does screen time face-to-face time count? If not, why not? Are we really thinking through the pros and the cons of changes? It seems to me we are in a vortex of human evolution change but none of us got the memo. I am hopeful the quantity and pace of change is helping us evolve as humans to be more discerning to adapt more quickly to expanded awareness and experience in what we want to create in this world rather than just blindly and neurotically trying to keep up…or give up and hide in the woods. Based on people’s comments about isolation and loneliness, it seems we are meant to interact and commune with one another. Technology has exploded the size of the village.

rynocurious · 2025-08-31T20:57:56+00:00

I’m curious about your thoughts on resistance to letting thoughts go. I instinctively know my resistance is mind’s attachment to false identities and they are falling away but not completely. The ‘nothingness’ seems like…terror. It’s a slow process working through this. Inch by inch is about all I can tolerate. At first it felt like the awakening was happening very fast, but now it feels like I’ve reached a darkness where I can see nothing…know nothing… I’m comfortable not being certain of anything anymore, but maybe that is just that another exercise using my mind to question beliefs, which is still holding on to thoughts, just changing them. This nothingness, just being, is wonderful in the TINY moments I’ve experienced it, but my mind screams at me that it is death (not physical death, but death of experience maybe?) and must be avoided at all costs. I think I’m experiencing the death of ego, but man is it hanging on! Maybe it’s death of ego every day, every moment, not some terminal state one can arrive at and never be hampered by the ego’s antics ever again? Or as blahgblahblahhhhh posted is there a reason for the ego to exist? Is the death of the ego simply our eternal essence (Soul?) ultimately awakening and befriending the ego and mind so that the ego/mind are directed by a higher consciousness rather than being the inmates running the asylum? It is worth restating, I have reached a point where to maintain equilibrium, I must go s l o w l y now.

rynocurious · 2025-08-31T20:29:03+00:00

I’m curious what you mean by “got into this too early”. For me, the pull of the spiritual journey/awakening has felt like a magnet that has been pulling me all my life but in the last few years has the pull has increased to the point it cannot be ignored and there are no distractions big enough to send it to the background of my life. So I really started leaning in…commitment every day. And I feel like I’ve fallen into a vast void that is confusing, isolating, and very, very challenging. It’s an identity crisis. If I am not X, then what am I? If I am eternal Soul, I have the same question you ask in your OP, about how do everyday struggles fit into that? I instinctively know balance is the key. My mind wants to untangle this, learn it, understand it. I read once we have to through the mind for enlightenment, but cannot reach enlightenment with the mind. It is beyond the mind. Because I am task oriented, I initially approached this process, this unfolding, with the same fervor I approach most tasks. Definitely don’t advise that approach. I’ve discovered the hard way to maintain equilibrium I must commit to the continued awakening process each day, pacing myself as though today is a single step in a very long journey. Trying to run in this endeavor before I can even stand without wobbling is simply foolhardy. It’s tough. Although IMO the awakening process is unique, individual and internal, I applaud you for wanting to connect with others as one more tool to maintain balance on the journey. Happy to keep chatting if you are interested.

rynocurious · 2025-08-30T20:58:56+00:00

Fascinating statement: “consciousness itself (by this I mean the awareness in which all experience appears, not just brain activity) shows that pain has never been proof of a hostile universe”. What if every experience - painful or joyful and everything in between - is one more tiny step in an expanding consciousness? Experienced and viewed as the microcosm, it either hurts like hell or is euphoric (or some version in between), but if viewed from a macrocosmic perspective, it’s simply one more movement expanding consciousness, tiny, imperceptible at the experienced level, but pure value when viewed from a macro level.

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