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       Re: what now?
   DIR By: CollapseAll
       Date: July 9, 2016, 9:17 am
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       Hi Jed,
       So I think I am awake in the dream but still not awake from the
       dream. I can almost flip a switch inside and go from
       observation-flowing-mode to stagnant-self mode, and the
       experience is literally like the metaphor I shared before: I am
       either flowing in the river of consciousness or resting on a
       self rock. Using my "mind" I think I get scared when I don't
       feel my body in space. Resistance and desire help me stop long
       enough to feel I exist..."ah, there I am." The unknown
       experience of constant flowing is perhaps frightening (to whom?
       Only frightening to a "me").
       Lets rewrite the metaphor. However now I imagine that on every
       self rock, I am actually still flowing but just in a circular
       motion around some "me identity." So really fearing what I am,
       constant flowing consciousness, is insane and even to the mind
       illogical. I never stop flowing because the rocks aren't "really
       there."
       Really can I be anything other than Truth? This is my new
       question to consider. Thank you!
       Furthering....
       CA
       #Post#: 22601--------------------------------------------------
       Re: what now?
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: July 9, 2016, 11:56 pm
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       What else could you be, other than a thought.
       Love ya, Jed
       #Post#: 22633--------------------------------------------------
       Re: what now?
   DIR By: CollapseAll
       Date: July 11, 2016, 2:40 pm
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       A whole lotta...nothing!
       :P Love ya,
       CA
       #Post#: 22643--------------------------------------------------
       Re: what now?
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: July 11, 2016, 9:36 pm
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       That's what I get... :P :P :P
       Love ya, Jed
       #Post#: 22682--------------------------------------------------
       Re: what now?
   DIR By: CollapseAll
       Date: July 13, 2016, 7:34 am
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       Hello Jed,
       A question has arose so feeling inclined to ask it. Is distrust
       for the 'mind' beneficial on the T/R journey?
       Even as I distrust my mind and all its various thoughts and
       rationals, I sense I am 'using' it...or am I?  I am sure it is
       helpful to define what my connotation of the mind is.  I see the
       mind as the internal self, from which the external self flows.
       Thoughts become intentions become actions become habits which
       then can be labeled an 'identity.' Without a mind, there could
       be no external self. Though it seems almost impossible to escape
       the function of the mind. My current action is to distrust the
       mind, the anti-thesis of accepting its meanderings....
       Thanks for any feedback,
       CA
       #Post#: 22699--------------------------------------------------
       Re: what now?
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: July 14, 2016, 12:41 am
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       Why would you trust you mind... it only contains stories,
       memories and concepts.
       Ramana use to say you use a thorn to take our a thorn and then
       throw them both away.
       Love ya, Jed
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