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According to David R. Hawkins, and other spiritual teachers, everything happens spontaneously. Control is an illusion. Something happens, then our minds take credit for it and say "I did that." Let me ask you something. Where do your thoughts come from? Did you choose to have your last thought just a moment ago, or did it happen of its own accord? I believe everything happens spontaneously from the one will, but I'm not 100% sure. Intuition says yes. I've heard this is self evident in the enlightened state. Supposedly, there is only one will - God's will. I have also heard that we have free will as well. How can this be? Can we have both? Is this paradox from two different levels of awareness in conflict with one another?

Yeah Darin, that helped. Thanks. Unconditioned, when I don't masturbate and see a hot woman, I definitely feel the effects. When I started to do the Kunlun 100 days, I would cut myself off from any more thoughts... only to have sexual dreams and to be drawn more and more to women's bodies. Then it became a battle of denial and suppression... and this was after 8 or 9 days of celibacy. I'm 20 years old and have never had sex. For me, choosing to follow a celibate path right now would be very limiting... with the raging hormones and all. The only times I haven't felt lust when hot girls were around is when I've been in an intense state of presence. I was in that state when I made post # 24. I figure if I'm making the wrong decision, the universe will give me signals... all I feel right now though is relief. Besides, I don't want enlightenment now (I don't think so anyway) I want to keep expanding socially and find my place in the world. After all, I am still living at home with my dad... enlightenment could be a while longer no?

How do you know if the feeling is an unhealthy one from the mind as opposed to a healthy, natural one from the body?

The answer is love... I'm seeing this more and more. ...When is it not?

Is this your book? Can you give me the cliff notes and/or your website? http://www.amazon.com/Wayfarer-Sonnets-Pat...2225&sr=8-1

DarrinHammel, I know you haven't masturbated since like 1994. Has it just been discipline, or have you transcended lust completely to the point where you don't have feelings of needing to take care of yourself sexually? Anyone else?

What's been on my mind... I watched this video: My highest excitement is not school... it's peeling more and more layers off of my ego and pursuing enlightenment. If I stop going to college, My dad will say "You're on your own." and kick me out... no place to live. For me the issue is money, that's why I'm at home and going to school, but it's just not where my heart is at. If I find a means to generate enough income to live reasonable comfortably on my own, I'm outta here. Only just now typing this have I asked myself the question, "Do I feel like I can take care of myself?" followed by a simple "Yes."... just a few moments ago! Who knows, maybe my new vibration will manifest something for me soon... and just as I typed that last sentence, I felt tingles + peace on the top of my head! Something is coming!

Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench

What is this "mirror" you speak of? Is it the same thing as awareness, or a metaphor I'm not seeing.

God

Thank you. I like this.

I guess it was a bad joke that could be taken as condescending over the Internet. Sorry.

A pimpin' Taoist!

Welcome Vega. It's nice to know you are enjoying the thread.

Welcome future Kunloonie. Once you bite the apple...

Email Sent.

Sloppy Masta, Mind if I send whoever runs the Bashar website your question? http://bashar.org/HOMEMAIN.html I'll send them an email like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Following Your Highest Excitement Maybe I'm just not as enlightened, but to me it seems that there is a practical point... I mean like I said, I enjoy sleeping in all day, not going to class, and just playing video games all day... but will following that "excitement" in my life lead me to a good outcome, or just lead to me being a bum? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm thinking that's just one of the concerns created by us humans he talks about toward the beginning. I don't know. I'm curious as well. I'm just beginning to play around with the idea. I haven't made any big decisions with it or anything. I'm just trying it on little stuff first. So, is it cool with you if I send it? I remember talking to Lezlie a few weeks ago and she says Yoda has a good handle on consciously co-creating reality the way we want it. Can you chime in Yoda?

I don't really care about who he is. I just took his message, ran with it, and I will say that it has been working for me beautifully.

Thank you James. Seriously though:

It's so simple... just love yourself more, and everything falls into place.

beautiful I'm actually beginning to love women now... and not just for their round, shiny body parts.

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