MOD XLII

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion of current events. Addiction is an obsessive commitment to make impossibility possible.  Imagining that being consumed with thought turns what is false into truth and reality starts as a weak impression that becomes depressing the longer we try to make the point. What is impossible cannot be done so no matter how maddening the effort it is never enough.  <br/>This self-induced, self-imposed state of condemnation is a byproduct of making believe our thoughts are reality and truth rather than imagined. To imagine this is to believe all we are is what we think. Our thought-life is thus threatened by any contrary thought. Claiming we are not causing it is an argument for non-existence (suicide) which seems to be a death sentence exposing the vacant nature of any thought-based self. To think we fear death for that which never lived is another fantasy imagined to be true. <br/>Illusions and images thought to be real are delusions. Delusions are nothing appearing to be everything since they consume so much attention maintaining them. For nothing to become everything reduces everything that actually exists to nothing.  Thought-centered thoughts to be true and thus our "self" are shaky manifestations quaking with fear masquerading as something that can never be to keep up appearances. <br/><br/> What is True is always present and real so what is false has no presence or place other than the mired complications and implications imagined. Feeling alone, disconnected, and displaced are natural consequences caused by lonely thoughts having no basis, place, or standing.  Functional literacy is our ability to read our language accurately rather than act oblivious like it is a foreign language. To fight against, get over, or feel better about them is to confirm our delusional belief there is something to get over or feel better about.  <br/>It is common to think willingness, faith, trust, hope, and belief are in short supply. This tendency reflects obsessive thinking. Hope in hopeless things is hopeless, and so too with any vain useless application of faith, trust, belief, and willingness.  What does not exist can never be fulfilled. To think we are not enough when entertaining such thoughts is to see - not truth or who we actually are - but the impact of thinking that all we are is what we think. This impression would not cause depression if it were true.  <br/>Imagine how quickly we can focus on fear and loathing while ignoring abundant, spectacular possibilities. Insanity is not sane, since it is imagined to be real. Addiction is not sane since it is imagined to be real.  Lies appear to exist only as long as we think they are true.  Insanity includes the delusion we think we can do what cannot be Longing for an answer that seems beyond us is thinking the problem we’ve created has nothing to do with us now. <br/>What can be done is easy, graceful, and great-full as it is always possible just as all that is possible is only ever happening where we are now.  <br/>There is no there, then or them that are not here now.  We are as we are, We know we know, We are aware we are aware.  You need not get used to the present moment to confirm reality and truth - now. <br/><br/>We appreciate that you're listening amd welcome any comments or questions. You are also welcome to attend our live discussion occurring all but the last Sunday of each month from 9 - 11 am + Pacific Standard Time. <br/><br/>contact@mentalobsession.com<br/><br/>