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Both the individual as well as the aggregate ideas kept alive by the individual both can get addicted to winning or being the best. This leads to riskier and riskier behavior to prove the ability to "Win" because the identity has been confused for "winning"

Pain no longer points the way. It becomes a masochistic fetish. Each moment in life becomes a desperate competition to see "who can bear the most pain."

It's a game of stupid men butting heads for the most part as the women in childbirth watching from the side can confirm.

There are different ways to Lose your Way based on the different ways we respond to pain and pleasure. Or most commonly... become "numb" or "unresponsive" to.

Being unresponsive to pleasure means you don't know how to get better, nothing gives you joy anymore. Being unresponsive to pain is stoicism. You don't know what not to avoid.

The depressed floats around with no purpose while the stoic sits statically through mud and storm with no purpose. Their lives revolve around a fetish.

The sadism/numbness/masochism triad represent the 3 main aggressive stances towards life. Positive aggression, negative aggression, and neutral aggression.

Balancing on 3 legs is very difficult. It is often better to lean fully into one. Yet constant balance using energy is necessary to fully purify the Now moment from the corruption of aggression.

The path is "simple" to follow because all you need is humility and acceptance. Yet it's very easy to be led astray. It's very easy to think "That shouldn't be." Which is a violent destructive thought towards Reality/God.

Imagine if someone came up to you, looked you up and down, and said "Yeah.. everything about you is wrong." "This shouldn't Be" is an ultimate insult towards the universe.

As an example of why it's difficult, take the recent controversial show Cuties. It is not actual reality, being a movie and all but it's "close" to reality. E.g. the girls had to learn a dance taught to them by the show producers.

So for many people, there's the idea of "This shouldn't have happened." which feels righteous and judgmental. Yet its effect on reality is yet to be seen. Everyone is only "imagining" all the hidden pedophiles hiding in our communities suddenly feeling empowered.

Theoretically the film producers might be people who believe in the inner goodness of humanity. Perhaps they recognize evil in the world but also recognize the conquering of evil that also happens day in and day out in the world.

Perhaps they are too out of touch? Maybe they live such siloed sheltered lives that they don't consider their actions on the world. "My neighborhood has TONS of pedos, you can't show that kind of information here!"

I dunno. It's just an example of how Something happens in Reality and we just have to accept it and react to what it results in. E.g. we have to react to Reality not to our Imaginations. This is hard because ALL WE HAVE is our imaginations.

So that's one way you can get lost. You want to fight for something. The children. The country. The women. The environment. The company. Something. Anything

One way to shortcut this maze of illusion is to completely purify the competitive winner/loser duality from your mind. You have to literally feel no joy from winning and no shame from losing. This is a sign that you've escaped the game.

You cant test this by imagining yourself winning 100 million or losing all your money and see how your consciousness reacts. Most people will fail this test because Money as God is incredibly powerful.

A more reasonable test is your reaction winning/losing smaller games. E.g. if you become angry because you lost a computer game, then you're mostly likely a child, at least in THAT specific moment/domain of your life.

If you become really angry that your partner had an affair. Then that's more "reasonable" and "acceptable". The devil whispers "Treat yo self. You deserve to have this feeling. Get angry. Judge. Criticize. Condemn Him. Condemn Her. Condemn yourself."

The creation of a "good" and a "bad" is the basic cutting action necessary in every dualistic thought. Once one decides one is "good", then demons magically appear from infinite portals and life becomes a game of maintaining this game of "I am Good" and above you all.

You can't balance between the elements of Earth/Water/Fire as Air if you avoid any of them. You can't say "Fire is bad because burning is bad!!"

Once the difficult and necessity is accepted of how difficult it is to walk this "Middle Path" then one is ready for the responsibility of actually doing so.

This can be found in mountain top monasteries. But it can also be found in the Father teaching the Son the balance of Life and Death through operating a gun.

To KNOW how to walk the Middle Path is to REACH the End of it. The transformation IS the journey.

When One sees the finality of death of ALL as the final location for All from the mountaintop One has fought hard to reach. One can return with Eyes Burning and a Story to Tell..

"I want to you to go on a Journey with me." "Why?" "Because it's important" "Is it Beautiful and Divine?" "No..." "Is it Terrible and Demonic?" "No..." "Then what is it?" "It will be what it is." "That sounds boring..." "Well... that's what this Journey will change."