A 360° Shift In Perception

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Hi..

Jeff Foster talks about a deep and uncompromising acceptance of this moment, not as something you 'do', but as who you really are. He talks about seeing life not as a journey towards a future goal, but as that which is already complete in itself.

Enjoy..

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-UtSeCsQdAk

[Eram]

Hi <8>,

Thank you!

I'm pretty sure that I've been in this space for a day some time ago.
I wrote about it here post #4

One of the things that I remember most vividly from that day was the complete surrender to everything that was to come.
Leaves me puzzled to why this awareness left me... Or why I left it

kind regards,

Waky

[<8>]

Thanks Wakytweaky..

Leaves me puzzled to why this awareness left me... Or why I left it

You are the awareness my dear Waky, Movement away from our nature causes suffering.
The mind reminds you of something, and when you follow the mind you suffer.

I had an experience not to long ago, that is hard to put words on. I started to accept what IS, but even accepting are not the right word, because there are an ego in the end of accepting.
I can't even use the word "allow" what IS, because what IS are before that.

Perhaps I had a new shift of a sort? Anyway, I feel that the word "surrender" that you mentioned, comes close to what you have experienced.
Right now I just feel a big OK to everything I experience, and I understand that everything that unfolds has to be like we experienced it right now.
And somehow there is a comfort in the knowing of this, and I can smell the perfume of peace arise within myself....


P.s...sorry for rambling away



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[Earth Angel]

um don't you mean a 180.....as a 360 would just take you back to where you started

[<8>]

Posted by Earth Angel (here)
um don't you mean a 180.....as a 360 would just take you back to where you started

Thanks..


This is beyond the mind my friend...

[modwiz]

Posted by <8> (here)

Posted by Earth Angel (here)
um don't you mean a 180.....as a 360 would just take you back to where you started

Thanks..


This is beyond the mind my friend...

Beyond concise communication also.

[another bob]

Posted by modwiz (here)

Posted by <8> (here)

Posted by Earth Angel (here)
um don't you mean a 180.....as a 360 would just take you back to where you started

Thanks..


This is beyond the mind my friend...

Beyond concise communication also.

Maybe he means something like this, from T.S. Elliot:


"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."

[<8>]

Thanks..

Well, we can only be who we are, everything else we believe we can be or achieve, creates suffering.
By making an effort to stop everything you are doing to become or achieve who you are, creates suffering.

You can only reach this pointless point, by witness the mind. And realize that, "All is well", as our good friend use to say..


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[ulli]

Posted by <8> (here)
Thanks..

Well, we can only be who we are, everything else we believe we can be or achieve, creates suffering.
By making an effort to stop everything you are doing to become or achieve who you are, creates suffering.

You can only reach this pointless point, by witness the mind. And realize that, "All is well", as our good friend use to say..


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...and the ALL is all-so like a WELL...full of sparkling crystalline waters...

...and 360 degrees is wholeness...
only from the mountain top can one see the full 360 perspective, so one has to get up there first...

Sorry if I'm rambling....

All is a-well...

[Cjay]

A. Binary thinking: one or zero, on or off, true or false, black or white, yes or no, good or bad, right or wrong, male or female, etc.

B. Expanded thinking: there are an infinite number of possibilities/permutations/combinations in between the two extremes of binary thinking

Option A works for some things. Option B works for most things.

No wonder we're confused.

[<8>]

Thanks for your thoughts guys...



Everything IS nothing and nothing IS everything.................And if you try to balance between this to point in your experience, You will fail.
Some are blessed to reach the unreachable and walk the line in peace..

It's when you merged with what IS, you just walk the line, you don't even try, because then you will fall..



Most parents are guiding their young because they are afraid they will fall.
It's when we let them go, we become free, the child was already free.



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