Kindness

Its all a ride, you are perfectly safe. You are the great lap in which
this little body and mind sit, like a child with his grandfather. Know
this and be happy, kind, loving. Make kindness your religion, your
fellow man is god. No need to confine your love for god in a temple.
Love god in the street, your wife, children, friends, beggars,
colleagues all are god.. As are you.
Attachment includes the note and its objects

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More Love and Attachment

i feel like something gets dislodged in my sense of self when i'm emotionally caught up with someone...i don't know if it's my attachment coming out...?

what do you mean your sense of self?

i mean...normally, being on my own i don't feel very bothered by my attachments...but when i'm emotionally and intimately with someone else...i almost start doubting myself, i start getting attached

What you sense is not your self

it is the mind, it is natural for the mind to become attached to those things that are pleasurable and reject those which are not

it also breathes in for air, this is just as natural

observation is the key, if you can observe, the mind will not bind you up

whatever comes just relax, know that it cannot touch you

love is not grasping, nor crushing

observe observe

do you have time to practice meditation?

yes

great

this is the best way to unstick yourself from the mind

and then it will all get easier

is there anything i should base the meditation off of?

no that is just more mind

looking for something to do

ok

if the mind is so razzed up that you cannot sit still and watch it, then do some technique

otherwise just relax, chuck all the techniques, books and blablabla out the window

all of them point to just relaxing and throwing everyrthing away anyway

i enjoy sitting still...i will do this everyday

great

do enjoy it, smile and relax :):)

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Love and Attachment

how do i love someone without attachment??

love and attachment are separate

if you observe closely you can see the difference

love is not me not me all you all you

attachment is all me all me not you not you

observe your thoughts and actions and see in which category they fall, then choose.

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Spiritual Library

Quite a few books on spirituality here, enjoy!

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No Effort

Awareness requires no effort. You are pure awareness, pure consciousness. All that can be said about this is that you exist, you are existence that is all. Existence requires no effort at all. Any perceived effort or struggle is just that, a perception. You are the field of awareness, the fact of existence that underlies all the fury of sound and color. Seeming effort or seeming no effort, you never made any effort!

For a while it may be so convincing that you get mixed up and attached, then awareness becomes a thinker, a doer, a sufferer. Even then you were never anything other than awareness, just like the cinema goer, though caught up in the plot, is never really affected by nor living in the film. Relax, you cannot be hurt, loosen your grip, life will occur as it does, within you, not to you.

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