The
difference between believing and knowing.
Is there a difference?
Suppose I was to ask you, where you live? You would give me a street name or address, ex: 223 willow street and 67th ave.
or the address on your drivers license most likely.
You may be surprised that, that in fact is precisely where you do not live!
The key to this question is the two words "YOU" - "LIVE".
What do we think we are and what is live?
We know one thing. The center of our being is behind our eyes, in the middle of our head.
This invisible delicate self, that is constantly analyzing the world from behind those eyes.
So lets say that is you. You are behind the eyes and in the middle of your head.
So where do you live?
The Answer is simple - Behind your eyes and in the middle of your head
Now your laughing " Haha, we'll I cant go around writing down my address as (behind my eyes and in the middle of my head!".
True indeed! And I am not suggesting that you do so, unless you want to end up in a mental institution.
Seriously speaking, you are behind your eyes in the middle of your head, you have always lived there, you have never left there.
(Unless you have had an awakened outer-body experience, but we will get to that later). Basically your home is in your head.
You have been stuck there for however long you have been on this earth.
My point here is I am showing you what it means to be real.
To break down every concept and statement you are fed or exposed to, to its base root elementary level.
You will see the importance of this later on in the teachings here. This maybe your first introduction in (Reality Training).
It is important that you understand who you really are, as opposed to what you have been led to believe.
I understand when talking to the average person about who you are or where you live,
you cannot go around saying these things without getting negative reactions.
These are concepts for you to be aware of, but not necessarily apply to daily conversation.
This world is very rigidly structured and so are many other peoples minds, always be aware of that.
What is your phone number I might prompt you?
You will probably shoot back something like this,
(999) 555-555
Is it really your number?
You don't own it, I know that!
You weren't born with it.
Cant be yours then!
You use the number though.
You use a specific phone number assigned to the house and phone lines in which you occupy sometimes.
Sometimes you use other phones with other numbers attached to them,
does that make them your phone numbers as well? Of course not.
So in effect you don't have a phone number.
You merely make use of one, from time to time.
What do we really have?
Our skin, hair, teeth, arms, legs, etc. Hell some people are even missing some of those!
That's it.
That's all we have!
You might argue "Bull Crap! I have a car in my driveway, A bank account, jewelry, television, clothes, etc.
Do you really have them?
Think about it.
What if a team of football players came into the house that you occupy and grabbed all of the belongings that you think are yours?
Do you still have these things? No.
Are you still the same person you were before they took the stuff? YES!
You didn't lose anything, perhaps except your temper.
If these things were yours, you would now be missing parts of yourself after the football team had their way with your supposed belongings.
But no, you are intact! All in one piece! So you could not possibly be at a loss.
You don't have anything except yourself.
What you do have, is the concept of ownership of material objects, that you have identified as part of you.
Which in all reality, are not you. They are merely trinkets that you have built an association, attachment, connection with.
"But, but they are mine!!" you might say!
"Remember you are behind your eyes between your head"
Other than the body you operate, nothing else is yours.
Yes, I have not forgotten we have to wake up in reality the next morning and drive your car to work and live in the real 9-5 world.
So what is the point of all these strange concepts?
Your definition of the word REALITY is most likely going to change during and after reading this website,
in a way in which words cannot describe. You may awaken to the game we are all participating in,
and really start to have fun! That is the point.
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