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by NontheisticBuddhist
Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:35 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

Is there somewhere else I should go to on LU? A through-the-gate section?
by NontheisticBuddhist
Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:41 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

Thanks for all of the help (You too John!)
by NontheisticBuddhist
Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:31 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

Are you still seeking?
if so, for what?

No, I'm not seeking.

Is there freedom, and if so why is there freedom, and not bondage?
What is Freedom?

There is freedom. Thoughts sensations desires etc all come and go freely. I don't know if I can give a solid answer for what freedom is. Maybe the ...
by NontheisticBuddhist
Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:04 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

What is missing? Seeking doesn't bring happiness - does it?
Freedom is missing. Freedom from the illusion of the self, freedom from the need/desire for control, and freedom to be at peace.
by NontheisticBuddhist
Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:39 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

What does "Jason" sense is missing such that "he" is seeking?

"Jason" senses that he'd be happier if he seeks.

Who would "Jason" be without the desire to seek?

Well, since "Jason" is defined in part by his desires, if he didn't desire to seek he'd no longer be "Jason". He'd be something very ...
by NontheisticBuddhist
Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:52 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

If Jason had a desire to shop-lift, what would happen then?

After all there's no control over it. Do you just break the law? Not much liberation in prison.

If there was the desire to shoplift, then thoughts about shoplifting would likely arise. However, thoughts about the consequences - guilt ...
by NontheisticBuddhist
Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:21 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

Hi John,

Good to meet you too.

Why not just face up to the fact that seeking is important to you Jason?

Isn't it?

There are thoughts about seeking (including the thoughts that say "Seeking is important") but I do not control those thoughts. There is a desire to seek, but I don't control that ...
by NontheisticBuddhist
Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:17 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

But to answer the question: no, nothing is missing in this moment.
by NontheisticBuddhist
Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:29 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

Only the self :)
by NontheisticBuddhist
Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:25 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

Why would you defend the existent Jason's apparent seeking? What does it matter what Jason does?

I don't know why I would defend existent Jason's apparent seeking. I don't know if it matters what Jason does; in direct experience there are only thoughts about what matters.

Is there an existent ...
by NontheisticBuddhist
Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:43 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

Please clarify why an existent Jason, would seek for Truth?

Causality. Just by chance the thought part of existent-Jason has thought "I should seek the truth."

Are you still seeking Truth? If so, what is Truth and how will you know when you find it?

I (existent Jason) am still seeking truth ...
by NontheisticBuddhist
Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:08 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

Where would you look for the last remaining vestiges of identification with Jason?

I'd watch the thoughts pass through conscious attention. "Jason" is a thought/label that bunches together the thoughts that go through conscious attention, and so that's where/what Jason is.

That said, there's no ...
by NontheisticBuddhist
Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:55 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

#7 "this has made me a happier person"
is there anyone that feels happy?

is there anything that feelings arises to?

There is no self to feel happy, happiness is just felt; there is nothing that feelings arise to, feelings simply arise.

#9 "helps me organise "MY" thoughts are a little "off ...
by NontheisticBuddhist
Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:42 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

1) Is there a 'me', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever? Will there ever be? If NO to all questions, then Explain Why?

There is no 'me' at all, anywhere in any way shape or form, there never was, and there never will be. This is because the sense of 'me' in any way, shape ...
by NontheisticBuddhist
Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:26 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 119
Views: 11319

Re: Help Needed

Sounds like a plan :)

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