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Transformation of Evil to Good – Emerging of empathy

Imagine someone numbs their hand with an injected anesthetic.
Then later he decides he is not the hand and is not identified with it.
He beats the hand with a stick.
He does not feel anything, but lets assume the hand still flinches.
He finds this fun, and beats the hand again and again
He enjoys watching the hand struggle every time, but feels no pain.
Later he beats himself on his leg, which is not numb and normal.
He feels pain.
Then he extrapolates that the hand must technically be feeling a similar pain as when he hit his leg.
This is cognitive empathy.
When the anesthetic wears off, now when he beats his hand, he feels pain.
He understands the hand is himself and treats it just like he treats his leg.
This is experiential empathy.
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The experience of “Death” and “Life” are verbs

Death as a “Verb” = Corrosion, rusting, decomposition, degeneration, deterioration, disintegration, impairment, rotting, atrophy, crumbling, decadence, decline, dilapidation, dissolution, fading, putrefaction, ruination, spoilage, withering, wasting away, losing.

Life as a “Verb” = Advancement, Expansion, Prosperity, Production, Surge, Boost, Cultivate, Enlarge, Extend, Flowering, Proliferation, Building, Development, Growth, Progress, Improvement, Ascent, Construction, Increase, Rising, Flourish, Strengthen, Ripen, Germinate.

So technically one cannot be afraid of death as a noun. Because death as a noun is not an experience at all. You would not longer exist to know that you do not exist. Similarly life cannot exist as a noun.
All change is a simultaneous creation and destruction.
It is the destruction of the old and creation of the new.
Like the ouroboros snake.
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Whether you see change as a “destruction of the old” or a “burgeoning of the new” is a matter of perspective. This problem is exactly like the necker’s cube. BOTH THE PERSPECTIVES ARE TRUE.
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So in a way, there is no death, there is no life, when seen from the dimension above, there is only constant endless transformation. It is the perpetual dance of seeing different perspectives of the same infinite object.
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Why is emptiness so unbearable?

Why is emptiness so unbearable?
Because emptiness is loss.
It is felt when just about anything is lost.
Loss of what you love and even loss of what you despise.
Because what is loved is the relationship.
(Even the relationship of despising something can be loved.)
The objects carry the relationships.
In fact there are no separate objects at all.
The objects have no essence.
Objects themselves get created by the relationships you project.
The only essence of the objects are the relationships projected by you.
The objects and the relationship are in-fact ONE.

One can say,
Emptiness is the loss of these relationship projections
It is the collapse and flattening of relationships.
Both existing ones and potential ones.
Without the relationships as we looked at earlier
The objects that you see around are emptied of essence
Everything flattens out in your world
Your formerly rich 3D world is reduced to a flatland (2D).
As the emptiness grows, it can potentially reach a point
Where even the flatland (2D) becomes ONE infinite nothing or 1D.

Lets look at the dimensions in greater detail.
This is just a exercise to get one thinking.
6-D is maybe what you feel in childhood in the magical stage
Where impossible possibilities are believed in the imagination
Then say as you grow up you enter 5-D realms
Where the limitations of reality have revealed themselves to you
And now your imagination gets narrowed onto what is realistically possible.
Then as you further grow up even more limitations get imposed
You reach 4-D, when you get anchored to a specific career path
OR commitments like marriage and so on
which further limit the diversity or riches of possibility.
Then on meditation exercises like vipassana
You focus on the present moment experience, Right now
You narrow your attention to relationships you have with specific objects
i.e. Objects which are happenings right now,
In immediate time, like your in-breath and out-breath.
This makes you reach 3-D
Then when you develop equanimity
Now, the 3-D collapses to 2-D
Because there is even(single) relationship to everything appearing in your immediate present
Then finally on further experiential inquiry
The 2-D collapses to 1-D.
That is everything becomes unified, ONE.
There is oneness, wholeness.
In which case there is no relationship at all.
How can there be a relationship when there is only one.
The 1-D is the final union of the witnesser and the witnessed

So the journey to oneness in other words,
IS the collapse of time.
OR the collapse of dimensions from 6-D to 1-D.
OR the collapse of multiplicity.

The corollary of this would be,
The creation of new dimensions
Creation of new possibilities
The creation of new worlds and so on
Which would be the movement away from oneness.
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Relativity of happiness perception

If all happiness is relative then we could divide experience into 2 parts:
The background and You.
Also, another factor is where you plot yourself on the background.
1. Lets say this is the background you see:
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It is basically all the possibilities appearing in your imagination.
Now this background itself shifts with your changing moods and perceptions even during a single day.
It may not shift around much though most of the time.
But it can dramatically move around, when your doing deep inquiry and elevating consciousness into the nature of everything.
2. The next factor is where you plot yourself on this imagination spectrum that appears in awareness.
Case 1: If you consider yourself unfortunate and cursed
-ve ——-|You|—————|———————-+ve
Case 2: If you consider yourself blessed and fortunate
-ve———————–|————–|You|——–+ve
 This is a heavy simplification, but could be an interesting train of thought to pursue.
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Karma monsters (reactive patterns)

The karma monsters “reactive patterns” become visible in the light however, they do not disappear instantly. It takes quite a while of sustained light for them to release themselves/their hold from you. It is like a quest to disable those monsters by gradually dissolving them with more and more light, by learning how they work, learning their triggers, their ways. Its similar to how a scientist observes an animal daily to master its patterns and workings. In this case, the animals are internal animals that hijack attention through reactive patterns.

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Also the monsters themselves are not revealed to you all at once. They are revealed in time, in episodes and bits, as you move around, encounter different situations internal and external, in life, the reactivity is triggered in different degrees. So the invisible reactivity matrix is made visible in time (through internal and external circumstances) and by the intensity of light, observation and contemplation you give them. It needs patience. Sometimes light is low, but karmic pattern is made highly visible. Sometimes light is high and there are only mild karmic patterns working. And sometimes, there is high light and high triggering and these states are when the monsters get illuminated the most. Various difficulties can arise, reactive patterns may assault you at various times. But ultimately every reactive pattern needs to be dissolved with light. These monsters exist in the SPACE-TIME dimension. They are 4-D creatures in a way because at this moment, you only see a thin slice of them. Infact you may not see them at all, if they are not triggered. You can see, the monsters comprise your 4-D Karmic Body in Space-Time. In space – they are this moment’s experience. For example: Someone said XXX to you and you got disturbed. Then if you look at your feeling right now, the disturbed feeling is there, a snapshot of that, is the existence of the karmic monster in space. On the other hand, if you continuously observe yourself in time, you would see the map of how different situations, beliefs, thoughts trigger this pattern with different intensities. Maybe if you continuously observe and journal about it for a month, then the monster has revealed itself to you in TIME, its patterns in TIME. So the invisible reactive monsters live in SPACE-TIME. Through this observation in SPACE AND TIME of the invisible energy based karmic monsters, eventually you would understand their root cause in the belief level (Remember belief level is outside of SPACE-TIME) and transcend it.

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About Causation – determined by Past or the Future.

Normally we believe that the chain of causation infinitely backwards.
For example: Your forefathers determine your genes.
Your childhood determines your adulthood and so on.
However we can also see it in the reverse way i.e. the chain of causation could also be seen as running infinitely forward too.
How could this be so?
Because, we believe the past determines the future.
But what if the future determines the past?
Meaning your experience now could be a building block towards some experience you are to have in the future.
For example: Maybe your bad experiences now are so that you can master them and help somebody 10 years in the future.
So in that case, then event ‘now’ is caused/determined by the future event and not by the past.
So lets see the continuum:
Past ———- -> ———-Now———— -> ———- Future
Is the driver moving from left to right? – in which case the now is determined by the past.
OR Is the driver moving right to left? – in which case the now is determined by the future.
Both are true and its a matter of perspective.
We can shift this perspective to and fro just like looking at the cubes below:
Now Time is created by the mind or Thought.
No Thought implies No Time.
So No thought would bring you to the ‘Eternal screen’.
Now Past = Analogous to ‘known’, and Future = Analogous to ‘Unknown’ right?
Another way to look at it would be – Why should the ‘known’ be the determinant of the future?
Couldn’t it be equally so that the unknown/mystery is the real determinant of the future?
I guess here too, the answer is both are true.
Depending on how you see it – just like the cubes shown above.
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All egos are mini-gods

At a micro level – creations by a single creature are similar to creations done by God in the universe.

“You” are God’s thought. And your thoughts are God’s “micro-thoughts”.

So you are a system within a system – created by God.
Man made systems are microcosms and they sit over the macrocosm creations.
The microcosms are completely dependent on the macrocosms.
Like how we are dependent on conditions on earth, solar system, sun for our survival.
All egos are essentially mini gods (with will and personal powers).
However, this mini-god status of man is ultimately granted by God himself.

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All of existence is You, and all of existence is in relationship with You

How do I move my hand?
I have a certain relationship with my hand.
I can move it in certain ways and not others.
I call my hand mine, because I have trained a relationship with it.
In the same way, we have a certain relationship to others.
If we understand them, their driving forces, we can control them as well as we control our hand metaphorically.
Everything exists as a relationship in consciousness.
So we can call all of existence you, since everything is in relationship.
There is no way to not be in relationship to anything in your awareness.
What we conventionally call ‘ignoring’ or ‘not being in relationship’ is also a kind of relationship.
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There is nothing to attain, all attainment is an illusion

All attainment is insubstantial, empty because it has no REAL substance. Like playing a video game and winning, or winning something in your night dream. It vanishes as soon as your state changes. Nothing can be held on to. Reality is a constantly moving movie or river.

Its like playing a game in a 5-D Virtual Reality room, where you just move on various treadmill like belts on the floor, and that translates into a virtual world projected on the screens of the room. Even if you play for 5 hours and accomplish all kinds of missions, its all ultimately empty, because once you turn off the VR machine and leave the room, all that reality is lost.

The interesting part is, usually when we give such an analogy of a video game, we say “you have to face the real world”. But even the real world is an empty appearance on the screen of consciousness. So then the question is WHAT IS REAL?(If the video game is not real, and the so called real world is also not real).

What is REAL is NOW. What is real is THIS. YOU ARE IT.
A millionaire, a person from the middle class, a child, all have the same mind and same potentials for projections. Its just the mappings and objects that differ. The same ‘mind and projection potentials’ is like the physical body and its energy in the virtual reality room. But the movie projected on the screens of the VR room is unique and individual to each person.

If I take it even further, even the VR room, physical body and its energies and potentials are not real and only an appearance. The absolute truth is that NOTHING is as it appears. There are just infinite appearances and no solid substance. The absolute truth IS “The Ultimate unknowable/imperceivable Mystery”. This is because you cannot KNOW yourself, just like a flame cannot burn itself OR a knife cannot cut itself OR an eye cannot look at itself. You are THAT UNKNOWN, which makes all of ‘THIS’ possible.
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Absolute Truth vs. Relative Truth

The entire relative reality is the reality of appearances.
Since the entire relative reality is an appearance, truths in the relative reality can change.
 
Relative reality truths are appearance/apparent truths.
Like what science studies, gravity, physics laws, body mechanisms, emotion mechanisms, social programming and so on.
Relative truths are truths regarding the nature of the dream appearance.

The relative reality/dream appearance truths too vary in their mystery factor:
Spectrum:
Determined (nature of rocks) —————— Mystery (Dreams at night)

But the absolute truth is like the very pixels in which the relative reality appearance comes up.
Absolute reality is like the pixels on the LCD screen.
Knowing the absolute truth is to know “YOU ARE THE SCREEN itself, on which everything/relative reality appears”.
Now relative reality is everything.
Because absolute reality is ‘Nothing’ OR beyond/transcendent of all the dream appearances that appear in it. So all things belong to relative reality/appearance/relative truth.
Like imagine all the varied dreams you have had every night. Think about the nature of the mind that dreamed all that up. That mind cannot be, or have the essence of any of those dreams right? Because every night its brand new ones. So all the dreams are then NON-ESSENCE. The only essence is the nature of the dreaming mind itself. So you could apply this analogy even in this waking life. This waking life is a dream of consciousness (the ineffable substance).

You may have a terrible time in relative reality, in the dream of awareness, just like having a bad dream at night if you imagine this waking life to be a 80 year dream. But no matter what the appearance – good-bad, narrow-vast, limited-infinite, struggle-comfort, that is only an insubstantial, non-essential appearance in YOUR TRUE NATURE, which is AWARENESS or CONSCIOUSNESS itself.

Relative reality is the – appearances on the screen, movies on the screen and so on.
To know who you are, is to know yourself to be the screen itself vs. a character in the movie.
To know yourself to be CONSCIOUSNESS.