Quote:@Shannon Interesting thing that you might want to know. I know in your concept yours didn't have anything to do with "death" but I did feel like in my case there was some of that. It seems like when I got to the point of just saying "Screw it, I'm going to change and if I die in the process or have to give up my life then so be it". After that it seemed like the subconscious didn't have jack shit afterwards. I mean when you get over the ultimate fear of any living thing "death"... what else can it possibly use? I called its bluff and it had nothing else after that. I faced the fear of my own mortality and came out the winner. Funny, now I want to live not because I fear death but because I love life. Since I love life without preconditions I can then live any life in any reality I guess you could say and be happy with that. Not sure if that makes any sense but that's how I like to think of it.
The concept of "change" and the concept of "death" are really one and the same. People just get them confused because they think death is somehow final. Death, in any form, is just a change of state. Thus, the root of all fear is fear of change. Typically because of a faulty belief, or series of them, that causes misunderstanding of "what is". But change is the only constant... I always sensed a really deep secret in that simple truth. Change being the only constant.
Quote:@Shannon btw, there has been something I've been thinking of that I've been meaning to ask you. In your opinion do things like "difficulty" really exist? I've been going it over in my head and I really wonder if it really does. Like maybe its more of a thing of the mind? Sure there are some things that are more time consuming than others but I wonder does this thing called difficulty even exist or is it something purely in our minds? I wonder to get your opinion on it as I haven't really come to a conclusion myself. I guess a bunch of fear must be gone from me if I'm even questioning something like difficulty.
If you consider reality from the point of view of "what is", you will see that all limitations are self imposed. The key is, how and why are they self imposed? When you stop imposing them out of fear, then you start having to deal with the limitations that are imposed for more practical reasons. For example, you exist in a limited, finite body, and that limits you. That body is necessary to be able to experience the physical world. And, you exist within a system of systems which pre-exist you, and which exist for a variety of practical reasons, and which are "bigger than you". So you as an individual will only have as much power to change the system as you have mastery of yourself, your understanding of "what is" and how it works, and how necessary the system is for the greater good.
Difficulty can be framed in a variety of ways. Artificial, fear-created difficulty only exists while you are making it exist. Then, upon achieving the level of enlightenment at which fear ceases to exist, so do all of its roots, branches and the fruit it bears.
Difficulty in understanding a thing can be artificial or not, as in, focusing through a damaged brain and trying to understand 2+2=4 might be very difficult, but that same awareness may find the same thing effortless with another brain. Beyond the limitations of the body, there is still "difficulty", as in the challenge of creating the change and growth one needs to advance one's awareness and cognition. But with the right point of view, is it really difficulty? Or maybe it's just a fun challenge?
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!