Belief vs Experience…

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Belief vs Experience…

What is this shift that ends suffering?
“Truth is simple, but the seeker is complex.”

This website is not about regurgitating dead words;
I just would love to unlearn old complicated ways and invite fresh, alive ways to debunk unhappiness.

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Materialistic (belief/mind-stuff)	Non-dual (direct/aware)
I am this body-mind.	Body-mind is an object in my experience.
I am an autonomous entity surviving in a world of 8,000,000,000 “others”.	I live as though I am this action-figure, free of lack.
I am in charge of what I think, feel and do.	”Thoughts happen, deeds are done, but there is no personal doer thereof.”
Thoughts and feelings are “me”.	I am aware of thoughts and feelings coming and going, but I – Awareness – never come nor go.
My happiness is in circumstances/objects.	I am this quiet joy. Being, effortlessly. Knowing myself as I am (non-objective) is fulfillment.
Pain and suffering can diminish what I am.	Pleasure and pain are circumstantial (not in my control), suffering is attitudinal.
“Only what can be measured is real.”	Beyond doubt, I am; but I don’t know (phenomenally) what I am.
“An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”	Mind is a tool, not a place to live in. “A tight muscle is a slow muscle.”
“Bigger is better”	“Less is more.”
Money rules the world.	What do I really want? When is enough enough?
Let’s do it!	“Be the change you want to see.”
Future happiness.	Quiet joy, always present, here and now.
The person becomes enlightened.	The psychological-me dissolves. I am That, living as this; not-two.
Prescriptions (for a personal-doer)	Descriptions (to relax/understand/abandon the nervous system. To tune into the harmony of what IS.)
What can I get from you!	How may I serve you?
Belief in “me” = a sense of lack	Presence of “I” = fullness
All I know about myself is what mind tells “me”. I am a thing in time and space.	Time and space are concepts of mind. I am the one aware of everything coming and going; I am not limited by names and forms.
I am right, you are wrong.	Being myself is unburdened by opinions. In the world of ideas every concept has an opposite.
I want to be careful to not interfere with God’s plan.	“Love and do what you will.”
We create and subdue nature.	We only discover what already is.
I am this person.	What is perceiving cannot be perceived.
Idle moments in a conversation feel awkward.	The natural mind is an empty mind.
Mind is a story-making machine.	Awareness is freedom itself.
“Now” is sandwiched between past and future.	“Now” is not in time. It is pristine, open and unbound.
I made up my mind, I know who I am, what I need and want.	I am being lived and loved by Life.
Suffering is unavoidable, have fun while you can.	Suffering is man-made and can be debunked with a little bravery and understanding.
“I don’t know” is embarrassing, unacceptable.	“I don’t know” is the Source: Life, love, inspiration, flow.
Life is a problem that needs to be fixed.	Life is a mystery to be lived.
Enlightenment is only for a few special people; it takes a lot of time.	Happiness is our birthright, but we tend to overlook it due to faulty thinking and muscle-memory.
Life is personal	Universal love, individualized
I make life happen	Life is a happening

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Sorry, in case this table gets a little messy, I am just learning by doing.

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Belief vs Experience…

Not to open a can of worms, but/however: What is missing? What is more important? Please comment, like, subscribe (-;

Feb 13, 2024

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One response to “Belief vs Experience…”

Deanna Westendorf

February 20, 2024

Perhaps something about: “I can’t be enlightened, I don’t live in a cave”? And/Or I can’t be Awakened, I just became: jealous, angry, sad etc.

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