Hey folks! I want to share a recent insight. I was listening to the latest episode of The Consciousness Podcast when it struck me what alignment with what's true really entails. 1. Simply being - not being a self. 2. Living knowing, that the past and the future don't exist. 3. Calling a belief a belief when it comes up. 4. Saying "I don't know" when I don't know. Living from these discoveries is such a shift! I find that in my experience, 3 and 4 are relatively easy to act from, but 1 and 2 take practice. But I'm making progress! Regarding 1, I didn't get upset today when my husband blamed me for something. There was no suppression - simply no upset. It was so easy to move on. I joked he might as well take revenge on me someday, and we laughed together. That story didn't get to stay with me as a 'psychological episode', unlike before, when I believed I was a person, and my feelings mattered! 😅 Regarding 2, I noticed I tend to feel quite tense if an important meeting is planned in the future. So now, when there's a meeting, I notice how I create 'tense' by imagining the context of future and reacting to my thoughts in a way that produces tension. So nice to see all of this is happening in the now. Just need a bit more experience with this, and then I'll get settled in it. Thanks to everyone who read this. Are there any truths you are learning to align with? Hope to see everyone someday soon! (future ah!.. 😋 Unescapable!)

Hey guys, Lately I've stumbled across a realization on the nature of what has limited me in my communications with others, and now I feel I can start to drop them and live life from a different self or social context. In a nutshell, I've seen that a lot of the ways I interact with others comes down to feeling like I have to hide a true expression of myself. This was NOT something I consciously thought of, in fact, I can often say the opposite! I'm one of the types of guys who can yap on and on about honesty and authenticity and things like that, coming from a sort of Cheng Hsin influence. Yet, I've noticed in my patterns a sense that I can't fully open up to others for fear of... Something happening? Like I always have to be the nice, cheery, upbeat "love you" type guy. And I have that, to a degree, yet a big part of how I interact with others can come from this, and I'm now starting to see it as limiting, or unnecessary. When I am busy being "that person," I feel I am one step removed from that other person, as well as them being one step removed from me, so to speak. I feel that that's a powerful realization in my communications, because I feel it really opens me up to communucating in a whole new way, that i haven't really done in a while. Even more importantly, I feel I can become more authentic and honest with myself, and begin to orient my perceptions and actions toward the truth instead of whatever I'm simply trying to chase after. As a side note, isn't that interesting? What we WANT can steer us towards any direction. If I only stick with what I "want", I could've just as easily kept pursuing being this charming guy and not made any breakthrough on real communication. It's starting to seem better to pursue what's true instead. From "within us" or "without." Might take some courage, but I feel I'm starting to walk the path. Thank you guyz

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On the surface, intent seems to show up in the human social domain relating to potential action, choice and 'free will'. Going deeper, biological life seems to just move and adapt on its own without intent e.g. hair & nails, grow, heart beats, lungs breathe, plants grow etc. Forces of it-not it is interacting, changing living-dying. What is intent? Where does intent arise from? What is the nature of intent? What is it to intend to become conscious? What is it to focus solely on self-survival gratifications? What are the consequences? I'll post a communication if I come up with something. Back in about a week. Interested to hear from others what they come up with 😊 -RD

I noticed that when I think about others, I'm only interacting with my thoughts about others. That's how far our relationships go. Yet there is a different way of connecting with others: I notice they are 'in the same place' where I am. It is the same formless seat of our being, unchanged and unlocated. In that seat, we are identical. What follows is an appreciation of this sameness, which I want to call Love. All I can do from that position is simply be That which dreams both of us. So I got curious: is this love? What is love in your experience?