Journal Discourse Part 52
April 5th 2022
I remember what it felt like.
Scared to receive unconditional love from others.
Scared to give it back.
Confused with conditional and unconditional love.
Confused with who I even was or what I even liked.
So when I meet people who are scared of it,
I remember that was once me.
I remember the best thing to do is to just hold space.
Let them be where they are at,
And eventually the confusion will reside.
They will see that there is nothing to be afraid of
Because unconditional love is not just inevitable,
It is our very essence.
Salvation is not a distant reality,
It’s the knowing of who we truly are.
--
April 17th
Time as relative is finite. Time as simultaneous is infinite.
--
People say I believe in heaven because they haven’t been there. I say I know heaven because I have.
"I believe a banana tastes like this" versus "I know what it tastes like" are vastly different from one another. One is an intellectual conjecture minus the experience, the other is experiential knowledge.
--
April 19th
Do you remember how we studied in our biology class about the cells and how their mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and other aspects of them?
I think that there exists worlds were they look down on our planetand they describe us as if we are cells to them. Tiny, small, but still valid.
*video pans to a classroom of entities looking at a video of us humans on earth. The teacher begins to talk about our species*
"Behold! Human beings from the third density! Their powerhouse is called the car. They transport their tiny selves to different regions of the body called earth that way. Many crash because they don't make good choices while on the road and choose to endanger other people's lives.
Others are more responsible and take time out of their day to donate to agencies to help the homeless and change the infrastructure to be more eco-friendly."
They still suffer from an unequal power structure that keeps the wealthy extremely rich and the poorest people homeless and on the verge of death. They are not at the point empathetically yet to enact laws that allow their citizens basic survival necessities.
A majority of these humans see each person responsible for their own burdens instead of working together in a more communal and caring societal structure. They look down on social projects and government types where people share more wealth to allow everyone to live a healthier life because they distrust themselves which in turn causes distrust for their government.
Greed is still rampant in their hearts as they oftentimes place the economic benefit of large corporations over the well being of their planet, animals and people. Because of this devaluation of life and their lack of emotional intelligence, they suffer greatly in ways they aren't even away of. They can't understand how a healthy balance between emotions and intellect is crucial for a healthy and balanced society, and because of that, many of them have extremely short lifespans with a majority of their life filled with difficulty.
They don't understand that their severe lack of service to others in the form of government funding, volunteer programs, and other services creates a society of people who steal, harm, and destroy. They are so detached from their emotions that their leaders only send their people into other countries to help them when there lies an economic benefit for their own country. That's why they still have not helped the citizens in North Korea who are dying daily over a massively corrupt government.
A majority of entities from other planets refuse to make themselves known because they know that a majority of these humans are not in the right mindset and are very out of balance between their intellect and emotional intelligence. Many entities are shocked by these human's animalistic tendencies and wonder why they are still killing each other over resources, religion and land. Many entities still try their best to send love and good vibes from a distance.
Student: "What a strange species... They look so weird."
*Pan to an entity with five arms and five legs dipped in a rainbow color with no clothes on.*
--
The biggest barriers to spiritual progression is not how much you don’t know about the universe, but rather the barriers in your heart that are keeping you from unconditionally loving yourself and others.
--
April 20th
Someone could say they are a follower of Jesus and then express everything he is not. They could be a part of initiatives that take away minority rights (transphobic bills, anti-women bills, etc). They stand on the street sides instilling guilt and fear in peoples hearts over their interpretation of hell, based on their spiritual greed for reward and punishment masqueraded as “I don’t want you to burn.”
They treat women like the scum of the earth, mansplaining, turning them down, bantering with their buddies over sexist remarks and jokes. They are the ones spending hours in church services criticizing egalitarian movements in society and demanding men remain in power over women, especially in the family structure because “women are too emotional.” They create suffering where there was no suffering and call you “demonic” if you don’t comply to their rules of life.
Then there are those who call themselves followers of Jesus and truly emulate his life in their own. They make unconditional love and compassion the foundation in their lives and within their interactions. They treat others how they would like to be treated. They love others how they would like to be loved. They realize that their enemies are within, and they work hard day and night to purify their minds from any strongholds that are keeping them from being Jesus like.
They don’t blame others, but take responsibility when they can. They understand that deep down the problems of the world are due to ignorance, which stems from a lack of love manifesting outwardly. When others try to harm them, they see it as a divine cry for help, to be loved and to be seen. They are part of non-profit organizations that help heal earth and help animals live. They put their money where their mouth is and support the life and breath of animals rather than the death and ill treatment of them (animal testing in foods, products and medicine, raising them merely to be eaten rather than giving them a good life).
They work hard to establish a more egalitarian way of life and a society that does not judge one based on their gender or sexuality. They constantly check themselves to make sure they are not being racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, etc and if they are, they quickly correct themselves and learn that that behavior is harmful and not helpful.
They love deeply, not surface level. They constantly work on their emotional intelligence, not running away from their feelings or suppressing their emotions, but rather facing them with full courage and equanimity. They love when not asked to, help when an opportunity arises. They are quite truly the hands and feet of Jesus. Clothing the poor, taking care of the widows, and most importantly, healing themselves and others through the love of God.
--
April 21st
Any image or concept of God/Source at a macro-cosmic level is an idol. For it fails to respect God’s boundless nature.
Images and concepts imply limits and anything that does not respect the infinite essence of the Creator at a macro-cosmic level tries to reduce it to an idol.
There’s no difference between creating a physical image of God or creating a mental image in one’s mind of it. Both attempt to limit the limitless.
--
(I wrote this right after waking up from being put under for when I dislocated my shoulder while skydiving in San Diego)
If I don’t personally have any enemies, then why would God have any? If God is love (1 John), then what enemy could ever be an enemy to love? Even those who are selfish, love themselves. Even the “worst people” desire to feel an unconditional love that transcends their pain. So how could love realistically be an enemy to anyone?
Projecting an enemy against God is a belief in separation from God and his creation. It implies disharmony and disunity which are not the qualities of God nor of God’s creation. If God only can create based off his perfect nature, then anything less than perfection is not from God, but a mere illusion we temporarily believe in.
Enemies are temporary. They spring from ideas not rooted in reality, but rather from a place of ignorance magnified. That ignorance takes many forms (hatred, malice, animosity) but those forms are ideas not based in true reality. These ideas temporarily keep people from seeing and experiencing the truth of oneness, which is the essence of God and his connection with his creations.
If God created creations separate from his own essence that are eternally rooted in separation and ignorance, then we are doomed, everyone of us. But if God created creations as an extension of his own essence rooted in oneness, then our temporary enemies will one day be restored to eternal friends of light and love.
Memory will one day reveal the truth of everyone’s nature, and we will then find out if we are temporary figments of separation that will cease to exist or divine extensions of God’s unfailing love. I have faith in the latter. For how can a temporary figment of separation ever truly comprehend, let alone be able to extend unconditional love if it were not a part of its essence?
--
We have to eventually learn to have love and compassion to those who hate us or don’t like us because our love can contribute to their release from misery.
Criticizing them back, judging them back, hating them merely reflects our ignorance of what they truly need in that moment to improve. Not only that, but it also doesn’t help us on our path when we respond with a harmful reaction. Responding with help and love is a recipe for peace proliferating and both your life and theirs.
When Jesus was being crucified because people didn’t like his message, he responded with love not hate. Even when he was being murdered because they didn’t like his words. Learning to have compassion for those in our lives who hate us or criticize us will eventually cause a chain reaction of compassion.
Hate keeps the cycle of misery going, love releases us from it. Being aware is the first step of leaving that cycle of misery. Love is the antidote to eradicate the misery from that particular experience.
--
April 24th
Viewpoints
Naturally, we tend to be our biggest fan when it comes to opinions or viewpoints. We assume our viewpoint is most accurate while others lack in some way. We are naturally bias towards our own because it supports us in some way. If someone else caters their viewpoint in a way that supports us, we also tend to develop a bias towards their viewpoint. If their viewpoint detracts something from ourselves, criticizes us, or paints us in a way in which we do not see ourselves, many times we constrict and also detest the viewpoint of that person and the person themself.
The way we can escape people who try to have power over us by making us feel detestable, making us feel attacked, or even making us feel hatred towards others for having viewpoints that don’t align with our preferred viewpoint, is to remain equanimous regardless of viewpoints. The more balanced we can remain, the less likely we will become reactive to anyone who doesn’t fit our perspective. It doesn't mean we shouldn't have preferences, but rather that the preferences we do have don't create a do or die reaction within our being.
A magnet will stick extremely well to a polar opposite when it matches with a positive charge if it is negatively charged. Similarly, if you adopt an extremely polarized view, don’t be shocked when you find yourself “attracting’ other extremely polarized people from the other totem pole. It’s almost like mysteriously the laws of physics at a small atomic level are applicable at higher levels of reality such as viewpoints.
If this were the case, then you both will find yourself attached in some way to each other. From a higher level, the attachment is to misery. Adopting a viewpoint that is extremely polarized to the point where they are wrong and you are right, where they are the enemy and you and your followers of the viewpoint are the heroes, creates misery. Because once you see the world in that way, you will see misery in the world. You will see an enemy that exists who seems to always want to “thwart” you and your clans desire to make a better world your preferred way over theirs.
You’ll see a group of people who have extreme hate for you that won’t take the time to understand your position because they are just as attached to their own as you are to yours. However, once you start to realize those people with equally intense and polarized views are trying to deal with the problems from another vantage point, then you will start to have more compassion for them rather than criticism.
You will start to realize that they are simply trying their best as well to figure out the issues that are running rampant in our country. Then you will realize painting them as the enemies to a better future quite literally only causes more issues. They might be the "enemies" of a particular belief system but many on the other side of your beliefs still have the same goal to make the world a better place.
Let’s take the example of Democrats and Republicans. Many people identified heavily with a particular party are deeply attached to their political views in a very polarized way, which generates attachment and leads to misery. Those extremely polarized in their views are unconsciously attracting those who are extremely polarized on the other side.
This leads to both extremely polarized parties oftentimes attacking the other verbally for their extreme views. Nothing gets done or accomplished because the other extremely polarized person views the other extremely polarized person as the enemy to progression and right mindedness. They find reasons why they could never come to an agreement and negative emotions run rampant in their mind and generate more misery.
If one would simply realized that you can have views and not be extremely polarized. You can have views and not attach your identity to their existence. You can have views and not create misery for yourself by criticizing others for not adopting your exact beliefs, then you will quite literally feel less miserable.
You will not only help yourself, but you will help those around you. No one wants to feel miserable, so if you notice being extremely attached and polarized attracts miserable circumstances, then the natural thing to do is re-evalute your state of mind, and try another way of viewing things.
Consider a state of equanimity in whatever you believe or do not believe in. Research those who seem to be released from a lot of misery like nuns, monks, and other hermits. Or look to those in society who actually were able to make beneficial changes to society. Did they unite the two sides or did their words further divide them?
Consider the way you have discourses and how open you are to living in harmony with those who don't think exactly the same way as you do. Do you think having a more expansive viewpoint, considering multiple views, will help you be less miserable and more understanding of others? These are all great questions to explore and you’ll notice the more you explore, the less reactive you become.
--
April 25th 2022
Maybe that’s the weird part of walking the path to liberation
Your love becomes less unequal and possessive and more equal and open.
Labels seem less meaningful to you.
Why do I need to call someone my friend to treat them like one?
Why do I need to call someone my significant other to show them unconditional love?
A label conveys a special type of relationship, but when you start seeing everyone as equally special in their own right, what does a label provide in itself?
An idea for society to grasp your relationship?
But if that relationship and all others are built on unconditional love, then what purpose does it provide?
You know when you pick a word and you say it a million times and it starts to sound strange.
Now when I think of the word label, the idea of what it conveys seems foreign to me.
“My” friend, or “my” significant other denotes a level of possession.
Perhaps labels that constitute a certain level of special possession are less appealing the more you walk on a path towards oneness?
Or perhaps labels don’t mean as much to me anymore simply because they don’t mean much anymore.
Either way it’s weird to me now.
--
April 25th
The question is, can you have a solid opinion on something you’ve never experienced?
Is associative experienced enough to create a valid opinion of something you’ve never experienced?
--
April 26th
It’s interesting how when I have someone tell me I cannot do something, the desire to do it either multiplies or the aversion to the person who tries to limit me multiplies.
It almost seems like a recipe for disaster is to regulate people based off of someone else’s internal compass rather than allowing themselves to be where they are at and to regulate themselves based off of what is best for themselves, especially if they are not hurting anyone in the process of their internal regulation.
--
The Buddha sought to explain things in the simplest manner in order to help people liberate themselves in the fastest manner. That meant not focusing on extra spiritual ideas or terms that he believed did not fit into that end goal of experiencing liberation from all misery.
Instead of taking the route of explaining the true and untrue in terms of the “false self” and “true self” as many other religious groups chose to do, the Buddha didn’t try to explain the unexplainable, but rather focused on explaining away the unreal.
Through negation, he showed the connection between misery and the untrue parts of our lives and didn’t seek to explain things from the opposite spectrum.
This way of teaching the ultimate truth can be seen as the ultimate negation. Instead of using more dualistic terms as a reference for encapsulating transcendent realizations for one to intellectually comprehend, he wanted the seeker to find the beginning of the end of that which truly has no dual component in relation to it.
Pointing out that which we know through physical reality was something he did in order to create the connection of how craving and aversion to physical reality generates unnecessary misery. If one removes the stimulus to that which generates misery and also removes the past and future inclination to create misery, then there’s no need to explain away what is left.
What is left is beyond our minds comprehension because the mind is meant to reference ideas based on physical reality, which improperly understood, becomes linked to suffering. So when we find out how to stop generating misery, what we are left with is being without misery. What is being? To attempt to explain it, conceptualize it, compare it, would never fully do it justice.
So that is why it is left as it is. That is why the Buddha didn’t attempt to slap so many positive labels into his teaching of helping people release themselves from misery like “the true Self” or “God” because each positive label we slap on it, our brain instantly will attempt to conceptualize the label based on what it can comprehend or even try to deify it's conception, creating another form of unnecessary attachment to it. And since the brain’s ability to conceptualize absolute nirvana is beyond its mental facilities, the brain will fall short before it can even begin the process of formulating the thoughts behind the label it reduced it to.
--
I remember what it felt like.
Scared to receive unconditional love from others.
Scared to give it back.
Confused with conditional and unconditional love.
Confused with who I even was or what I even liked.
So when I meet people who are scared of it,
I remember that was once me.
I remember the best thing to do is to just hold space.
Let them be where they are at,
And eventually the confusion will reside.
They will see that there is nothing to be afraid of
Because unconditional love is not just inevitable,
It is our very essence.
Salvation is not a distant reality,
It’s the knowing of who we truly are.
--
April 17th
Time as relative is finite. Time as simultaneous is infinite.
--
People say I believe in heaven because they haven’t been there. I say I know heaven because I have.
"I believe a banana tastes like this" versus "I know what it tastes like" are vastly different from one another. One is an intellectual conjecture minus the experience, the other is experiential knowledge.
--
April 19th
Do you remember how we studied in our biology class about the cells and how their mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and other aspects of them?
I think that there exists worlds were they look down on our planetand they describe us as if we are cells to them. Tiny, small, but still valid.
*video pans to a classroom of entities looking at a video of us humans on earth. The teacher begins to talk about our species*
"Behold! Human beings from the third density! Their powerhouse is called the car. They transport their tiny selves to different regions of the body called earth that way. Many crash because they don't make good choices while on the road and choose to endanger other people's lives.
Others are more responsible and take time out of their day to donate to agencies to help the homeless and change the infrastructure to be more eco-friendly."
They still suffer from an unequal power structure that keeps the wealthy extremely rich and the poorest people homeless and on the verge of death. They are not at the point empathetically yet to enact laws that allow their citizens basic survival necessities.
A majority of these humans see each person responsible for their own burdens instead of working together in a more communal and caring societal structure. They look down on social projects and government types where people share more wealth to allow everyone to live a healthier life because they distrust themselves which in turn causes distrust for their government.
Greed is still rampant in their hearts as they oftentimes place the economic benefit of large corporations over the well being of their planet, animals and people. Because of this devaluation of life and their lack of emotional intelligence, they suffer greatly in ways they aren't even away of. They can't understand how a healthy balance between emotions and intellect is crucial for a healthy and balanced society, and because of that, many of them have extremely short lifespans with a majority of their life filled with difficulty.
They don't understand that their severe lack of service to others in the form of government funding, volunteer programs, and other services creates a society of people who steal, harm, and destroy. They are so detached from their emotions that their leaders only send their people into other countries to help them when there lies an economic benefit for their own country. That's why they still have not helped the citizens in North Korea who are dying daily over a massively corrupt government.
A majority of entities from other planets refuse to make themselves known because they know that a majority of these humans are not in the right mindset and are very out of balance between their intellect and emotional intelligence. Many entities are shocked by these human's animalistic tendencies and wonder why they are still killing each other over resources, religion and land. Many entities still try their best to send love and good vibes from a distance.
Student: "What a strange species... They look so weird."
*Pan to an entity with five arms and five legs dipped in a rainbow color with no clothes on.*
--
The biggest barriers to spiritual progression is not how much you don’t know about the universe, but rather the barriers in your heart that are keeping you from unconditionally loving yourself and others.
--
April 20th
Someone could say they are a follower of Jesus and then express everything he is not. They could be a part of initiatives that take away minority rights (transphobic bills, anti-women bills, etc). They stand on the street sides instilling guilt and fear in peoples hearts over their interpretation of hell, based on their spiritual greed for reward and punishment masqueraded as “I don’t want you to burn.”
They treat women like the scum of the earth, mansplaining, turning them down, bantering with their buddies over sexist remarks and jokes. They are the ones spending hours in church services criticizing egalitarian movements in society and demanding men remain in power over women, especially in the family structure because “women are too emotional.” They create suffering where there was no suffering and call you “demonic” if you don’t comply to their rules of life.
Then there are those who call themselves followers of Jesus and truly emulate his life in their own. They make unconditional love and compassion the foundation in their lives and within their interactions. They treat others how they would like to be treated. They love others how they would like to be loved. They realize that their enemies are within, and they work hard day and night to purify their minds from any strongholds that are keeping them from being Jesus like.
They don’t blame others, but take responsibility when they can. They understand that deep down the problems of the world are due to ignorance, which stems from a lack of love manifesting outwardly. When others try to harm them, they see it as a divine cry for help, to be loved and to be seen. They are part of non-profit organizations that help heal earth and help animals live. They put their money where their mouth is and support the life and breath of animals rather than the death and ill treatment of them (animal testing in foods, products and medicine, raising them merely to be eaten rather than giving them a good life).
They work hard to establish a more egalitarian way of life and a society that does not judge one based on their gender or sexuality. They constantly check themselves to make sure they are not being racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, etc and if they are, they quickly correct themselves and learn that that behavior is harmful and not helpful.
They love deeply, not surface level. They constantly work on their emotional intelligence, not running away from their feelings or suppressing their emotions, but rather facing them with full courage and equanimity. They love when not asked to, help when an opportunity arises. They are quite truly the hands and feet of Jesus. Clothing the poor, taking care of the widows, and most importantly, healing themselves and others through the love of God.
--
April 21st
Any image or concept of God/Source at a macro-cosmic level is an idol. For it fails to respect God’s boundless nature.
Images and concepts imply limits and anything that does not respect the infinite essence of the Creator at a macro-cosmic level tries to reduce it to an idol.
There’s no difference between creating a physical image of God or creating a mental image in one’s mind of it. Both attempt to limit the limitless.
--
(I wrote this right after waking up from being put under for when I dislocated my shoulder while skydiving in San Diego)
If I don’t personally have any enemies, then why would God have any? If God is love (1 John), then what enemy could ever be an enemy to love? Even those who are selfish, love themselves. Even the “worst people” desire to feel an unconditional love that transcends their pain. So how could love realistically be an enemy to anyone?
Projecting an enemy against God is a belief in separation from God and his creation. It implies disharmony and disunity which are not the qualities of God nor of God’s creation. If God only can create based off his perfect nature, then anything less than perfection is not from God, but a mere illusion we temporarily believe in.
Enemies are temporary. They spring from ideas not rooted in reality, but rather from a place of ignorance magnified. That ignorance takes many forms (hatred, malice, animosity) but those forms are ideas not based in true reality. These ideas temporarily keep people from seeing and experiencing the truth of oneness, which is the essence of God and his connection with his creations.
If God created creations separate from his own essence that are eternally rooted in separation and ignorance, then we are doomed, everyone of us. But if God created creations as an extension of his own essence rooted in oneness, then our temporary enemies will one day be restored to eternal friends of light and love.
Memory will one day reveal the truth of everyone’s nature, and we will then find out if we are temporary figments of separation that will cease to exist or divine extensions of God’s unfailing love. I have faith in the latter. For how can a temporary figment of separation ever truly comprehend, let alone be able to extend unconditional love if it were not a part of its essence?
--
We have to eventually learn to have love and compassion to those who hate us or don’t like us because our love can contribute to their release from misery.
Criticizing them back, judging them back, hating them merely reflects our ignorance of what they truly need in that moment to improve. Not only that, but it also doesn’t help us on our path when we respond with a harmful reaction. Responding with help and love is a recipe for peace proliferating and both your life and theirs.
When Jesus was being crucified because people didn’t like his message, he responded with love not hate. Even when he was being murdered because they didn’t like his words. Learning to have compassion for those in our lives who hate us or criticize us will eventually cause a chain reaction of compassion.
Hate keeps the cycle of misery going, love releases us from it. Being aware is the first step of leaving that cycle of misery. Love is the antidote to eradicate the misery from that particular experience.
--
April 24th
Viewpoints
Naturally, we tend to be our biggest fan when it comes to opinions or viewpoints. We assume our viewpoint is most accurate while others lack in some way. We are naturally bias towards our own because it supports us in some way. If someone else caters their viewpoint in a way that supports us, we also tend to develop a bias towards their viewpoint. If their viewpoint detracts something from ourselves, criticizes us, or paints us in a way in which we do not see ourselves, many times we constrict and also detest the viewpoint of that person and the person themself.
The way we can escape people who try to have power over us by making us feel detestable, making us feel attacked, or even making us feel hatred towards others for having viewpoints that don’t align with our preferred viewpoint, is to remain equanimous regardless of viewpoints. The more balanced we can remain, the less likely we will become reactive to anyone who doesn’t fit our perspective. It doesn't mean we shouldn't have preferences, but rather that the preferences we do have don't create a do or die reaction within our being.
A magnet will stick extremely well to a polar opposite when it matches with a positive charge if it is negatively charged. Similarly, if you adopt an extremely polarized view, don’t be shocked when you find yourself “attracting’ other extremely polarized people from the other totem pole. It’s almost like mysteriously the laws of physics at a small atomic level are applicable at higher levels of reality such as viewpoints.
If this were the case, then you both will find yourself attached in some way to each other. From a higher level, the attachment is to misery. Adopting a viewpoint that is extremely polarized to the point where they are wrong and you are right, where they are the enemy and you and your followers of the viewpoint are the heroes, creates misery. Because once you see the world in that way, you will see misery in the world. You will see an enemy that exists who seems to always want to “thwart” you and your clans desire to make a better world your preferred way over theirs.
You’ll see a group of people who have extreme hate for you that won’t take the time to understand your position because they are just as attached to their own as you are to yours. However, once you start to realize those people with equally intense and polarized views are trying to deal with the problems from another vantage point, then you will start to have more compassion for them rather than criticism.
You will start to realize that they are simply trying their best as well to figure out the issues that are running rampant in our country. Then you will realize painting them as the enemies to a better future quite literally only causes more issues. They might be the "enemies" of a particular belief system but many on the other side of your beliefs still have the same goal to make the world a better place.
Let’s take the example of Democrats and Republicans. Many people identified heavily with a particular party are deeply attached to their political views in a very polarized way, which generates attachment and leads to misery. Those extremely polarized in their views are unconsciously attracting those who are extremely polarized on the other side.
This leads to both extremely polarized parties oftentimes attacking the other verbally for their extreme views. Nothing gets done or accomplished because the other extremely polarized person views the other extremely polarized person as the enemy to progression and right mindedness. They find reasons why they could never come to an agreement and negative emotions run rampant in their mind and generate more misery.
If one would simply realized that you can have views and not be extremely polarized. You can have views and not attach your identity to their existence. You can have views and not create misery for yourself by criticizing others for not adopting your exact beliefs, then you will quite literally feel less miserable.
You will not only help yourself, but you will help those around you. No one wants to feel miserable, so if you notice being extremely attached and polarized attracts miserable circumstances, then the natural thing to do is re-evalute your state of mind, and try another way of viewing things.
Consider a state of equanimity in whatever you believe or do not believe in. Research those who seem to be released from a lot of misery like nuns, monks, and other hermits. Or look to those in society who actually were able to make beneficial changes to society. Did they unite the two sides or did their words further divide them?
Consider the way you have discourses and how open you are to living in harmony with those who don't think exactly the same way as you do. Do you think having a more expansive viewpoint, considering multiple views, will help you be less miserable and more understanding of others? These are all great questions to explore and you’ll notice the more you explore, the less reactive you become.
--
April 25th 2022
Maybe that’s the weird part of walking the path to liberation
Your love becomes less unequal and possessive and more equal and open.
Labels seem less meaningful to you.
Why do I need to call someone my friend to treat them like one?
Why do I need to call someone my significant other to show them unconditional love?
A label conveys a special type of relationship, but when you start seeing everyone as equally special in their own right, what does a label provide in itself?
An idea for society to grasp your relationship?
But if that relationship and all others are built on unconditional love, then what purpose does it provide?
You know when you pick a word and you say it a million times and it starts to sound strange.
Now when I think of the word label, the idea of what it conveys seems foreign to me.
“My” friend, or “my” significant other denotes a level of possession.
Perhaps labels that constitute a certain level of special possession are less appealing the more you walk on a path towards oneness?
Or perhaps labels don’t mean as much to me anymore simply because they don’t mean much anymore.
Either way it’s weird to me now.
--
April 25th
The question is, can you have a solid opinion on something you’ve never experienced?
Is associative experienced enough to create a valid opinion of something you’ve never experienced?
--
April 26th
It’s interesting how when I have someone tell me I cannot do something, the desire to do it either multiplies or the aversion to the person who tries to limit me multiplies.
It almost seems like a recipe for disaster is to regulate people based off of someone else’s internal compass rather than allowing themselves to be where they are at and to regulate themselves based off of what is best for themselves, especially if they are not hurting anyone in the process of their internal regulation.
--
The Buddha sought to explain things in the simplest manner in order to help people liberate themselves in the fastest manner. That meant not focusing on extra spiritual ideas or terms that he believed did not fit into that end goal of experiencing liberation from all misery.
Instead of taking the route of explaining the true and untrue in terms of the “false self” and “true self” as many other religious groups chose to do, the Buddha didn’t try to explain the unexplainable, but rather focused on explaining away the unreal.
Through negation, he showed the connection between misery and the untrue parts of our lives and didn’t seek to explain things from the opposite spectrum.
This way of teaching the ultimate truth can be seen as the ultimate negation. Instead of using more dualistic terms as a reference for encapsulating transcendent realizations for one to intellectually comprehend, he wanted the seeker to find the beginning of the end of that which truly has no dual component in relation to it.
Pointing out that which we know through physical reality was something he did in order to create the connection of how craving and aversion to physical reality generates unnecessary misery. If one removes the stimulus to that which generates misery and also removes the past and future inclination to create misery, then there’s no need to explain away what is left.
What is left is beyond our minds comprehension because the mind is meant to reference ideas based on physical reality, which improperly understood, becomes linked to suffering. So when we find out how to stop generating misery, what we are left with is being without misery. What is being? To attempt to explain it, conceptualize it, compare it, would never fully do it justice.
So that is why it is left as it is. That is why the Buddha didn’t attempt to slap so many positive labels into his teaching of helping people release themselves from misery like “the true Self” or “God” because each positive label we slap on it, our brain instantly will attempt to conceptualize the label based on what it can comprehend or even try to deify it's conception, creating another form of unnecessary attachment to it. And since the brain’s ability to conceptualize absolute nirvana is beyond its mental facilities, the brain will fall short before it can even begin the process of formulating the thoughts behind the label it reduced it to.
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