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People do not change their habits and behaviors based on just having a realization and deciding to, but through a new pattern of reconditioning, which requires inputs.
By your OWN admission thinking is a bottom up process NOT top down. You don't just have a thought and have it magically change your autopilot behavior, it requires being reconditioned to new inputs.
Life still delivers conditioning in each moment, it just no longer includes a fictitious story about what could and should have been in the past, and how the future needs to look
I know that the concept of conditioning is literally psychology 101
But I see it as an incredibly complicated thing
The classic illustration given in this teaching is that of the sperm and the egg. Life creates the organism when the sperm and the egg join and the DNA is constructed. And in every single moment after conception, life grows the organism, shapes the organism, conditions it, lives it
Suffering is based on a feeling of separation from life, the belief that we're an independent entity with complete volition. When we see that we've never been separate from life, and that our thoughts and actions happen on the same basis as our breathing, heartbeat and digestion, all the uncomfortableness falls away
Even after the fiction falls away, we still feel like we have free will in each moment, but there is no longer the uncomfortableness about how life should turn out and could have turned out
Again, the reason I buy into this description is because I've listened for hours and hours to people I can tell experience exactly that, unbroken peace of mind
I'll leave a link to my favourite teacher, all his videos are way too long but I think even listening for ten minutes you can tell he's not bullshitting about this, he's talking about his direct experience
One of my favorites was they had to change the algorithm for the iPod shuffle to be LESS random to make people think it was MORE random, because otherwise if it played two songs in a row from the same album or something...
Make up your own mind, but this guy at least claims that he no longer experiences any remnants of guilt, blame, pride, worries and expectations
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He sometimes talks about a life-threatening illness that he had after suffering fell away, and how even intense pain no longer interferes with his peace of mind
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And like all the teachers, explains in detail that the absence of suffering does not mean a loss of cognitive powers or a lack of intellectual functioning, etc
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All it means is the end of uncomfortableness
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The end of psychological resistance to life unfolding(edited)
I think it's a handy stance to adopt at certain points in time. And the comment by Catherine about viewing as a spectator helping deal with trauma also rings true.
But this is how I wound up in the place of adopting different viewpoints based on which was most beneficial at the time.
Lily has heard me rattle off this description a thousand times before, but consciousness is described as having two aspects
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Awareness, also sometimes referred to as "witnessing", and the sense of "I am", a sense of existence
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In each moment, you are witnessing life unfolding
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No matter the circumstance, no matter your actions, as long as you're not asleep, you're witnessing
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Meditation is the art of letting all other aspects of the experience fall away until only consciousness remains
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Awareness aware of itself, and a sense of "I'm alive"(edited)
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One of the concepts says that both dreams and our waking life are experiences arising in our consciousness, only the content is different
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In both cases, there is a witnessing awareness, and a sense of being
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This is the "core" of the human being, and it's peaceful by nature
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But it's completely overlooked by humanity at large
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Because suffering distracts us from it
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What if the point of life is not to win and be successful? What if the point is simply to have an experience that delivers sometimes pleasure, sometimes pain?
Just wondering what they mean by "frequency", which is a word that describes something related to movement. I wasn't aware there was anything moving in a mineral
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