The pointers are reminding us about peace of mind in daily living, in other words, the end of suffering.

Suffering can be described as the presence of uncomfortable psychological noise, and peace of mind is the ending of the uncomfortable noise, or, contentful silence.

Is your particular seeking leading you to silence or more noise?

Peace for now
Roger

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can you imagine,

what it would be like,

if thoughts, feelings and urges,

which were not our "doing", kept arising,

and drove us to feel and act a particular way?

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Non-duality has little to do with the end of duality. It's about the end of dualism.

I've noticed that most people really don't appreciate being told how to live life
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well, too bad

"in each moment do exactly what you think or feel to do"

Peace for now
Roger

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to not hate anyone,
is to love everyone.

We often hear about a move from head to heart (Being), and it can be hard to comprehend what this is really experientially referring to if it isn't part of our experience.

This shift is often spoken about in relation to freedom, in relation to knowing oneself more fully, more truly, so it's quite an important topic.

So this here, is an attempt to demonstrate what the shift is referring to quickly and simply - it may or may not work over FB post as it usually requires some precision in the delivering of the instructions, but let's give it a go.

Try not to read ahead and follow the suggestions as you go. Here we go:

For the sake of the exercise you'll need to drop into one of your main beliefs about yourself - let's play with this one for demonstration purposes - "I'm really quite unsuccessful" (replace it with one that is more applicable to you, it could even be a positive one like "I'm so cool 😎", or "I need to find my soul mate.")

Pick whichever belief about yourself comes most easily in this moment and really embody it, repeat it a few times, loud and clear in your mind and really believe it.

I'm really quite unsuccessful.
I'm really quite unsuccessful
I'm really quite unsuccessful
I'm really quite unsuccessful
I'm really quite unsuccessful

Close your eyes and really feel what this story or belief feels like, it shouldn't be hard, it's part of your self identity after all.

Repeat it a few more times.

Now, think of the opposite belief, replace the first one with it, and repeat that a few times really feeling what it feels like.

I'm actually quite successful
I'm actually quite successful
I'm actually quite successful
I'm actually quite successful
I'm actually quite successful
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Now, here's comes a final question, don't think about the answer to the following question, just read the question and see what happens, don't read past the question either, just read the question and maybe just drop into Being:

"who are you if you drop both those ideas? "
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I hope you found a moment of Being in the heart. A drop from the head to the heart.

Peace for now

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When you think about it, what seems more realistic:

1. that one day soon, life will become a flow of pleasure, pleasure, pleasure, where everybody will always behave exactly as you would like, where unfortunate things never happen and as a result you will get lasting unbroken happiness through continuous pleasurable outcomes in your circumstance (insert multiple unicorn icons here - oh sorry, I didn't mean to sway your answer with this

or,

2. that one's ATTITUDE towards what happens in the flow of life changes such that you get lasting happiness in the form of unwavering peace of mind regardless of the circumstance.
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The enlightened masters of the past didn't live in a perfect world, their happiness wasn't a happiness through circumstance.

So whenever there is a noticing of the attitude which says your happiness is dependent on outcomes, consider, that this may just have been the attitude that changed for the enlightened master in order for happiness through peace of mind to truly flower.

The simple act of noticing is a significant part of the flowering. If insisting that the change happens on your terms happens, then refer to point 1 above (especially the unicorn bit, for a reminder.)

Peace for now

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Acceptance is not something you do, but rather what's there when non-acceptance stops happening.

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life's
a
'happening'

Life has already organised all the onward tickets for the pleasures and pains in life.

They will visit as planned and leave as planned.
Whenever possible don't get involved in their schedule, you are not the journey planner.

Peace for now
Roger

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