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Marathon at 89? I can't even bicycle a marathon, mainly because of hemorrhoids.

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Okay .

Troy for me love isn't like a regular feeling .

Maybe the love hate feeling sure .

But the experience of life , that existential love , that's something else .
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Estren I'm cleaning a pool hearing the phone ring ?

That sound a bit like the guy hanging from a vine eating the berry .

Oh I think you're right actually . You are saying I'm wondering what the hell is going on . That's true actually .
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Estren and Nikprit . I just want to say what a pleasure it's been to meet you and to everyone else that's contributed to a thread I've opened thank you .

Kaynight I prefer when you're around even though you rough me up lately .
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tomtrytostay wrote:
Okay .

Troy for me love isn't like a regular feeling .

Maybe the love hate feeling sure .

But the experience of life , that existential love , that's something else .

  I understand. But you cannot say you have feelings and yet you have this 'non-feeling': the feelings are denying the 'non-feeling'.

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I agree actually . The existential love happens in the absence of all other feelings .

I have a feeling Estren and Nikprit would call it the bliss phase .
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Nikprit do you remember off hand what's after the bliss phase ? It's understanding no?
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I wanted to say something about the thoughts I listen to . I'm aware that the view exists that thoughts aren't particularly useful .

I find though that they put into language the things you realise.

I certainly found it helpful in terms of my mental health documenting my thoughts but in terms of establishing what I am , I'm not sure if it's useful or not .
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I agree actually . The existential love happens in the absence of all other feelings .

I have a feeling Estren and Nikprit would call it the bliss phase .

  Oh, they 'have' this non-feeling?.. Can they describe it? Most people stumble when it comes to actually describing it. Even if it's awkward, it will make sense to the one going through this.

 

  So can anybody describe this non-feeling? I doubt that somebody who practices can ever come to that. The very practice denies it.

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kaynight wrote:

You are all insane. Just an observation..No offence.

You love the action Kaynight - admit it.

Drinking whiskey right now I bet & watching the excellent Billy Connelly 

 

  This one escaped the usual deletion process...Happy birthday Nik!

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You make me laugh Nikprit . It's a genuine pleasure to know you .
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I read you do not believe in maps and models of consciousness Tom. I refuse to give you any info at this stage of the game. Due to you utilising it for your own reasons today, then contradicting it tomorrow. Without even having investigated the topic either in a meditaiton practice or in writings. 

I am not here to feed new age thieves who do not meditate, but like to use terms they are have not investigated themselves. Preferably through experiential practice. 

Now, you do not hear the Dalai Lama quoting Tomism do you? 

Sorry Tom am in a humerous kind of happy mood. And sometimes I get like a kid - who likes to play!!!!

  Tom has a map alright, he said so.

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That's true I won't deny it . I have a map . The interesting thing to me is that a part of my completing my functioning map, a core part , was the I am love experience. But it never became part of my notes . It was the root of the tree.
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I have tried mapping re what I am . I'm still hoping that's going to bring the truth . Call me a crazy fool .
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