Ra, tell me what your expectations are ?
Well Vince, I think that I am on the way from years ago, that I am awake. But I'd like another point of view; perhaps I am wrong and always it is good to listen other people.
"awake state" takes implied that there is a goal, which, once achieved, you've got it always.
Ok Ra, i was imprecise with my question.
When you say that you are awake there is obviously a different experiencing from before that happened.
Can you describe your experiencing after waking up compared to before.
No theory/intellectualisation/second hand knowledge - your experiencing.
Before, I was in the common way of life, that one that almost force you to have a goal with an expensive car, a good house, well job-positioned, a very nice partner of life, kids, money, ... All these were just smoke screens that do not allowed me to see clearly the simple things.
Just before, I had many questions about everything, about what that I considered true.
Then there was an internal "click", that broke every true-thought that I had: I realized that there was no "absolute truths" ... This took an internal crisis, very strong for months, softened for years... Pain, lots of pain... lots of sleepless nights thinking and thinking and ... Nothing was real, nothing was true ... no support-point from which understand the world, the reality.
I founded mine at least: there is no "the reality", there is "my reality"; and there is no "the truth", there is "my truth". And the only important is to feel good with it, to behave consequent with it.
Yes, a big realization. You partially woke from the dream and it changed your life.
When you say "open minded" you are having thoughts about an attitude - right ?
You are having thoughts about what thoughts to have about circumstances.
Tell me, where do those thoughts originate ? What stimulates those thoughts ?
please always answer ALL questions.
To be absolutely open-minded means to me not having any thought or expectation.
I do not stimulate those thoughts, cause I think I do not have got anyone. Just, I do not permit myself to create them from years ago.
Ok Ra, for the moment, don't tell me any more about yourself. We need to get into LOOKING not thinking.
You are having thoughts about what thoughts to have about circumstances. Is that right ?
Tell me, where do those thoughts originate ?
What stimulates those thoughts ?
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No, that´s not right. I do not have any pre-thought about any attitude, from mine or from others.
Not again. "Thoughts to have about circumstances" is the definitioin of pre-thoughts. I erased what I had, time ago.
I know where, how and why they can be originated. Thanks to this, I was able to prevent them.
I do not have any pre-thought about any attitude, from mine or from others.
Meaning that you equally expect any possibility.
Do you have judgements about what occurs ? Are some outcomes better than others ?
the I that was able to prevent them, is that the same I that creates them, the same I that was able to prevent them.
I know where, how and why they can be originated.
You didn't tell me where ?
That is not exactly like that: I do not expect anything. Everything can occurs. Everything will be OK.
Do you have judgements about what occurs ? Are some outcomes better than others?
When I say "where", of course I'm meaning inside us, in our mind. Why? Because of our fear. Loosing fear is becoming free. I do not fear anything, plus everything is OK to me, means that I do not need any pre-thought.
Ok, i was getting a little concerned. It is better if we can have a daily reply, but if we don't that is ok too.
Ra, this sounds like you have more than one I.
:-) ... No, I don't. It is just a way of speaking.
It was easy to cancel my Ego (and all those false I), once I knew its lie, its fiction: while you believe that you are the same than it, you belong to it, you are a slave of it. It is always trying to convince us that we, with it, are a unique person and, of course, it knows the best for us and how we have to behave.
That's the lie. Without our force, our will, it is nothing. And if it is nothing, all those I disappear, leaving our real I, free of needs, free to feel, free to live, free to be.
So Ra, Is there a 'me', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?