Livin Your Best Life

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“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”

—Robert Frost

lol big bunny, you give to much homework, and should I address all, id be here for weeks.

and what of those blubber eaters up north?

agree on the mushrooms

painterdoug wrote:lol   big bunny,  you give to much homework, and should I address all, id be here for weeks.

and what of those blubber eaters up north?    

agree on the mushrooms

The books are breadcrumbs for others.

For those looking to live as more than a muppet.

You are too old to change

Our only job is to help the younger ones.

with your big bunny love title, I would suggest a change for you, maybe Big Bunny hate, with all those you judge and want to eliminate.

believe me, you are very well set in your ways.

That’s muppet speak.

The trash will take itself out.

Relax dougiepoo.

Karlor wrote:  You are too old to change  

SO ARE YOU!

painterdoug wrote:with your big bunny love title, I would suggest a change for you,  maybe Big Bunny hate,  with all those you judge and want to eliminate.

believe me, you are very well set in your ways.

Bunnies don't wanna eliminate anyone

Whatever would give you such an odd notion?

He's right, you should relax.

Chill out.

Go paint a really impressive and photo realistic picture of a tire a much wiser man once told you to change for your own good or some shit.

DORK!

Dante’s Divine Comedy is so named because there is supposedly a happy ending for us.

He describes the fate of those who reject their source.

He saw them in the “dim” light.

How can anyone know anything for sure, being so limited and very finite?

You can’t.

So what do you do if your life is not enough for you?

You make up a happy ending maybe.

Dante wrote that there is no more wretched sorrow than to remember joyful times.

That would be a torture.

No one can always be joyful.

But one can make a warm home for joy in hopes of attracting it.

I had a grapple with my devout Catholic Uncle recently at my Father’s funeral.

He insisted though I may have stopped actively looking for anything, we are always searching.

I do not agree, one can truly end their search.

He also insisted that my good luck, is in fact, real grace.

I do not agree.

One cannotspeak about what this is and do this any justice.

He is one of the only men I know who has read “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius.

He’s an accomplished and virtuous man, a true elder, but I think I’ve done him one better.

Oh the arrogance of youth, right?

I know where he is coming from, faith, but I can’t live by faith, I must live by sight and stay in the light.

He said my other Uncle and I are “way out” there.

No, we are deep “in here.”

Living by sight in the light is more than enough for this big bunny

If there is anything more to life than it appears to be, it will need to be a surprise for me.

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.

Dante - The Divine Comedy wrote:Midway upon the journey of our life
 I found myself within a forest dark,
 For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
 What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
 Which in the very thought renews the fear.

So bitter is it, death is little more;
 But of the good to treat, which there I found,
 Speak will I of the other things I saw there.

I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
 So full was I of slumber at the moment
 In which I had abandoned the true way.

But after I had reached a mountain’s foot,
 At that point where the valley terminated,
 Which had with consternation pierced my heart,

Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders,
 Vested already with that planet’s rays
 Which leadeth others right by every road.

Then was the fear a little quieted
 That in my heart’s lake had endured throughout
 The night, which I had passed so piteously.

…

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

I don’t need hope or faith to live my best life.

In fact, I don’t think you can find your best life until you realize yourself beyond faith and plant 🪴 yourself in the garden of the eternal now.

No one is a stranger, we are all familia.

Death to all capitalist pigs and liars!

Jeremy is an experiencer.

He is also a pretty good UFO cynic/skeptic.

He’s written some funny books.

I think he’s very funny, whether he means to be or not.

He sends up Diana Pasulka pretty good and even Jacques Valle.

Let’s be honest, nothing serious happens without money, follow the money stupid.

Diana does seem to be a bit of a dolt and very easily fooled.

I don’t think she is maliciously misleading people.

She’s just a useful idiot.

Gary Nolan and Avi Loeb seem like they are just grifters to me.

Professional scientists are mostly grifters, let’s be honest.

Ron’s ship of fools all seem like grifters to me.

If they were smart grifters, they would use all the money they steal from UFO fools to fund their pet science projects.

To the stars anyone?

The exotic material stuff is such rubbish.

They seem to be on the edge of laughter every time I hear them.

Money changers in the temple!

This brings us back to Dan.

Sigh.

Dan Dan Dan.

He’s on his own, no comment.

Jeremy has an outsider perspective in a very fringe community.

He’s rightfully skeptical imo.

As a merry prankster, I must say we should send up all UFO nutcases.

Mercilessly tease and taunt them.

Strip naked and run around them.

Make faces.

Fart in their general direction.

If they aren’t laughing, walk the other way, but watch your back for bullets.

God is laughing but the devout are locked and loaded.

The absurdity of our world is so tragically funny.

You sob in between your laughter

No, personalism doesn’t make the world real, sorry Dan.

My feeling is Dan lost his mind years ago.

God bless Tiny Tim!

Tiny Tim for President!

“The Mysteries represented the myth of the abduction of Persephone from her mother Demeter by the king of the underworld Hades, in a cycle with three phases: the descent (loss), the search, and the ascent.”

Loss…search…ascent

Loss…search…ascent

Loss…search…ascent

The theme of our oldest stories.

This is how one becomes enlightened in a basic sense.

This is the heart of all religion.

Ritualizing this formula was the foundation of the Mysteries.

For myself, this formula was the essence of my slavery.

Loss of what?

Search for what?

Ascent to where?

Nothing has been lost.

There is nothing to find.

There is no where else to go.

El fin.

Science doesn’t even understand voluntary action.

They understand a little about the puppet and the strings but they still have no idea about the puppeteer.

We simply only have a very surface understanding of ourselves.

Anyone living by ideology is a puppet, or a muppet in big bunny speak.

Anyone making ultimate claims is deluded and/or liars.

Humility here maybe.

Science can’t come up with any good questions about the puppeteer.

I chuckle at what a mystery life still is and folks like Dan talk about it ending, as if they knew a god damn truth about all of this.

OMG the lunacy and arrogance of such a view.

Hey, whatever you have to do to get through the days and nights.

Believe anything you like.

Life is what it is without needing our explanation.

It’s not for me to persuade or dissuade anyone of anything, we can all just give an account of life from our perspective.

Few really care about the perspectives of others.

It’s better for survival to be selfish.

We don’t need to drag others into our river.

If they want to come and wade in a little, that’s the best we can do.

Along the road to nowhere, many will try to attract your attention.

They don’t want you to know yourself.

It’s better for most if they just live on the surface.

Only lovers embrace in the depths and sing soul songs into each other’s hearts.

It’s painful and blissful.

Only the lovers get a chance to really merge with another and become one.

And so it is with the puppeteer within and us, the puppets.

We can come to love each other, we can come to a working understanding.

Knowing thyself is a very strange kind of mental tapeworm.

One consumes themselves.

Moving around in darkness is scary.

Terrifying, so most don’t do it.

The doors are all hidden.

As soon as you find some light it’s obscured by halls of mirrors at every turn.

The lovers are the key to truly knowing thyself I have found.

Without the lovers, there is no bridge.

The individual simply lacks context and perspective on their own.

We are not strangers, we are familia.

We are better together than apart.

These connections are the best part of us.

Where the world may seem absurd objectively to us, our connections are not.

We live for them.

Abstracting the basic connections between us does become absurd.

Being connected is life.

Those connections have to be cultivated and tended to.

This is the sign of a beautiful life to me, where one becomes a nexus point of connection you will find a whole lot of love.

We remember those connections most when we die.

That’s a big clue about what’s most important in life.

It’s amazing what nonsense comes into our heads.

The heart has to lead.

The mind should assist.

I do appreciate the Sufis and contemplatives.

They burn you can smell it.

The rest are just pretending.

You don’t have to call yourself anything to know love.

I think the human being is best natural with no names or faith of any kind.

We can still stand before the Sun and not have our faces ripped off.

We will burn being too much in the sun.

Love is the universal solvent.

I like this one from The Last Temptation of Christ.

Jesus wrote:Jesus: If I was a woodcutter, I'd cut. If I was a fire, I'd burn. But I'm a heart and I love. That's the only thing I can do.

We have to counter Fundamentalism and Authoritarianism.

I think these are diseases of the mind that only the heart can heal.

I’ve seen it happen in living color.

They can’t stand up to love.

You may resist love for a long time, but it is patient, it can pierce the hardest barrier given time.

Jesus is the easiest fool to find in the universe, he is not hiding.

He’s helping people along the road, collecting the wayward.

You never have to know what to do in life.

Just do your best and help those you can.

Sometimes our help though can be a curse.

If anyone thinks Jesus was about anything else than helping those around him or directed us to do anything but take care of the ones we can around us, they are sadly mistaken and deluded.

Those who would seek a king are sadly mistaken and deluded.

No one can save you, no one to save really, but some ghosts maybe.

So what’s all this fuss about?

Absolutely nothing in the end.

In the first four centuries after Jesus Christianity was a religion of the slave and poor.

But it became the church of the rich.

Liberation theology of today is a direct threat against the current powers that be.

So they destabilized South America to counter the spread of Vatican II theology of the poor, which was a return to the radical gospel of Jesus as I understand it.

Salvation is for the rich and white mostly as the Evangelicals practice it.

But there are many flavors of evangelicalism.

Some Liberation theology yet lives within the Protestant church.

The CIA has done all it can to eradicate it across the world lest we fall as the Romans did to the gospel of love.

But you can’t beat Jesus really.

You can’t beat love.

Prester John wrote: You may resist love for a long time, but it is patient, it can pierce the hardest barrier given time.

It is kind...


And so theologically speaking the CIA might be the opposite of the protestants?

Heard.

Long live the Holy Roman Empire!

Pax Romana/Americana.

Santos Bonacii has had a lot of interesting ideas, before he became a geocentrist at least.

Yah, the CIA exists for one reason to extend and support American Empire.

They hate Jesus and his radical gospel of love.

Every power hates Jesus.

I’m not a Christian or anything.

But Jesus beat the power of the state.

A true revolutionary and they have hated him ever since.

CIA psychopaths have done everything to fight love.

The world is full of mean selfish evil priks no doubt and one hopes our bastards are meaner than theirs.

Still.

Jesus subverted the state and established something that is beyond the state.

And they have tried their best to subvert love.

The world is always on the brink of destruction.

Who can live under this system and not go a little insane.

This empire will fall, it already has really, then it gets real nasty.

This war on loving the least is an open secret.

They don’t love the poor, they fuck the poor.

The magic trick is to make you think your religion is the best one.

Our religion is really empire.

We learned that from the British.

But the Sun still shines.

Our source is always right above us.

Within us.

I’m not a Christian or nuthin, but I think that radical Jesus was beautiful in a lot of ways.

Every religion has been corrupted by the state.

Yes, Christianity is just a rebranding of state religion, a rebranding of paganism.

Instead of killing sacrifices, we give tithes.

Every religion is false.

But man can free himself of the state religion and should.

I know how to do this.

People are hypnotized on such a deep level.

So they are using the UFO myth to establish a new religion.

A technological one.

Just fucking enough already.

We’re alive, live it up.

Based on deep introspection, considering all before, and experimentation, my working principles are based on a humanism encouraging human flourishing in balance with environmental sustainability.

Everything in our world is connected. We are local and global citizens. We should prefer peace and consider our impact locally and globally.

Be present in the moment for the win. Cultivate mental, emotional, and physical resilience. Do not neglect our spiritual nature, but recognize no one philosophy or religion can really provide us what we need.

Given the constant change we live in, be pragmatic, adaptable, and flexible. Always be improving. Be a lifelong learner.

It is better to be in community with others than not generally. The good life includes contributing your best to society.

Contribute to a meaningful life for you and others.

What happens after death is irrelevant.

This is what I have found to live your best life.

Oh, and death to all capitalist pigs

Oink oink.

I had a strange thought today.

Consider that life transcended biology.

And we are living in that post biological state, but we play games and live lives to pass the time.

We play endless games.

So in our post biological state we have infinite power and simulate endless realities.

Every version of hell and heaven are here.

You may exist in any eternity you like.

Then back to the grind.

Did we entrap or free ourselves then in the end?

Just a thought.

We don’t think love first, we feel it.

Thinking, speaking, writing, or arting about it are only echoes.

Emptiness is fullness.

The word monism is meaningless to me.

Fullness is not.

What are you full of?

What light have you let pass through you?

How much darkness blocks the light within you?

What light can others see in you?

Are you full of light or darkness?

God said, “Let there be LIGHT!”

Don’t spend too much time abstracting things or you will go insane…like Dan and his friends.

Stay close to love.

Stay open to love.

Prepare a home for joy.

Cultivate virtue.

Stay close to the light.

Or not.

Your great loss.

Live in the cave forever if you like.

Few can take the light.

It exposes every lie.

Better to hide with our lies in the shadows, right?

Easier for sure to hide.

All I can say is that I am a coward and still mostly hide in the cave, but I am not as cowardly as I once was.

I can venture out of the cave more and more.

Just like exercise enables great fitness, so does exposing yourself to fullness, to the light.

I am a work in progress…not finished until my heart stops beating.

To challenge the core beliefs of a person evokes an immune response.

Ideas and memes have a life of their own.

When I was hit by cosmic consciousness, I evoked an immense immune response and like Neo, I was ejected from the matrix.

It is a very disorienting experience to be ejected from the matrix.

But what a ride!

Haha, I met many lunatics on my way out of the matrix, fringe dwellers.

I danced with them sometimes.

Slowly, I integrated my cosmic consciousness encounter.

I simmered down.

My family rejected me because I was just burning too brightly.

But I was shown how religion works in humanity.

How ideas form and drive us.

I learned to treat those around me gently.

You will know people by their love.

We are driven by our love of beauty.

Religions harness this natural drive.

Direct it.

What speaks louder than words is our love.

And that love beat the immune response.

What is cosmic consciousness or what those words point to?

I can’t say, but it’s full of stars.



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Let me give you another recent example of direct contact with the source.

Drew Carey was just blasted by the light.

Listen to what it did to him.

I have a theory.

No theory can ever be proved, only disproved.

We have not evolved spiritually for a long time, we have been adapting, yes, a mechanism of evolution.

Well, we are now.

And it’s going to blow our socks 🧦 off!

And all of our clothes.

I love this and tip my hat to Drew.

Welcome to the circus

Drew Carey used his time on After Midnight to clarify some tweets. Carey went to Sphere on 4/20 weekend to see Phish, and it apparently changed his life. “I swear I just talked to God,” he wrote. “I would give you all my money, stick my dick in a blender and swear off pussy for the rest of my life in exchange for this.” He also said the show was “what it must feel like to cum with a pussy.” Taylor Tomlinson obviously had some follow-up questions. During the talk-show segment of After Midnight, she gave Carey the space to expand on the themes of his tweets, and expand he did. Carey explained that the reason he thought Phish was akin to the female orgasm was because he went to see the band with a bunch of women. “It was like being edged for four days straight,” he said. “And then right before the face-melting climax on the fourth day, an angel comes down — Gabriel — and he shoots fucking heroin into your arm.”

We would give everything, our lives too, to live in that beauty.

It’s that good.

Now is this feeling bred into us by aliens who eat us like food?

Hahahaha.



The way to god is through cosmic orgasmic sex.

Being hit by the light, triggers a cosmic orgasm.

A cosmic orgasm will turn you inside out.

A cosmic orgasm will show you the face of god.

A cosmic orgasm will open you up, like all the way open.

A cosmic orgasm will scramble your brain.

A cosmic orgasm will open a closed heart.

All religious instincts come back to the sex drive.

Those of us having cosmic orgasmic sex are closest to the source.

Those of us who aren’t, are angry asshole conservatives mostly, grabbing people by the genitals, counting their money.

Losers.

I wish great cosmic orgasms to you all, best thing for ya really.

A cosmic orgasm a day will keep the conservatives away!

Drew Carey went through a portal and it opened him all the way up.

Kowabunga!

How are those cosmic orgasms coming?

I’m hoping Dan and Ron have some big Os.

Watch how they open up after.

Like flowers.



Not with each other, unless that’s their thing.

Guys like to get together in secret groups and do weird things to each other.

Weirdos.

I wish Dan and Ron many happy years yet, keep those Big Cosmic Os…coming.

I just had a huge cosmic O just this week eating my bunny carrots

WOW 🤩

Hehe.

Observe the rise of Homo Trumpus, “The Rat King.”

Proof that there is no intelligent life in the Universe.

Some recent studies and scribblings about what can’t be written. Enlightenment is sudden and permanent. Round and round we go on our donkey/ass seeking the donkey/ass. It is quite comical.

Psychedelics were part of my early stirrings. But I have moved on from using anything outside myself to find myself. Ordinary mind is the only way. You are your only teacher. I was always right here. This is the funniest damndest thing to realize.

Words are memes. They convey cultural information. Words are not the “thing”, they are simply symbols for something. We miss much not listening to each other’s verbalizations and silence. Ordinary mind, experiencing things as they are, is the way.

If you don't ask, you won't get it; but if you ask, in effect, you've slighted yourself. If you don't ask, how can you know? But you still have to know how to ask before you can succeed... Remember the story of the ancient worthy who was asked, "What was the intention of the Zen Founder in coming from India?" Amazed, the ancient said, "You ask about the intention of another in coming from India. Why not ask about your own intention?"

“All over the earth is unclarity; best be very careful.”

Here, I am thus every day, thus all the time. But tell me, what is "thus"? Try to express it outside of discriminatory consciousness, intellectual assessments, and verbal formulations. This reality is not susceptible to your intellectual understanding. ... How can you think of your original mind? How can you see your own eye? ... What can be seen by the eye or heard by the ear can be studied in the scriptures.

But what about the basis of awareness itself -- how do you study that?

“I will settle something for you right now: the ultimate rule is to see your own mind clearly. An ancient said, "The mind does not know itself, the mind does not see itself." So how can you see it clearly? Mind does not see mind; to get it, you must not see it as mind.

Do you want to understand? Just discern the things perceived; you cannot see the mind itself.”

“Buddhism is extremely easy and saves the most energy. It's just that you yourself waste energy and cause yourself trouble. The ancients saw people helpless, and told them to try meditating quietly. This was good advice, but later people didn't understand what the ancients meant, and closed their eyes, suppressed body and mind, and sat like lumps waiting for enlightenment. How foolish! [You must not just sit: you must also realise that the one sitting, i.e. you, is your only teacher.]”

“According to Ch'ing-yüan, also called Fo-yen, there are two diseases in connection with the practice of Zen. “The first is to ride an ass in search of the ass. The second is to ride the ass and refuse to dismount.” It is easy to see the silliness of seeking the ass you are riding. As your attention is turned outwards, you will never look inside, and all your search will be so much ado about nothing. The kingdom of God is within you, but you seek it outside. There is no telling how many troubles in the world have had their origin just in this wrong orientation.”

As Ma-tsu has said, “You are the treasure of your own house.” To seek it outside is a pathetic endeavor, because you will always be disappointed.

Best not let your mind get sick.

You are the donkey 🫏

What an ass