Sempiternity

Great post. Thank you.

To me it's simple. Like in a dream, everything is Consciousness/Mind. The body, the point of view, thoughts, feelings, the environment, other people, is all one thing: Mind/Consciousness. Consciousness has never experienced anything outside of Consciousness. Consciousness can only exist Now. The Eternal Now. If it's not being experienced Now within Consciousness, it does not exist. So this bubble of Consciousness is all that there is.

Any meaning is self-created. There is no inherent meaning to anything. Image a Being, made of Consciousness. It does not have form, no physicality. It does not exist in "time". It is Infinite, Eternal. It is all that there is, all that there ever will be. It has been alone and will always be alone, for all of eternity. Could this be maddening, to only know yourself, know that you will always be alone, formless, for all eternity? If this Being has the ability to make itself into anything. Maybe it made itself to appear to have form and physicality. Maybe it made itself to appear as though it has a "body" and there are "other things" that are separate from it. Maybe it created a sense of "time", so it can experience the passage of time. Then it made itself forget that it did all this, so it could experience form, and time, and a body, and other, and life, and reality, all unfettered by the knowledge that it created itself to be all this. Made itself lost in the dream. So it can forget it is Nothing, that it is eternally alone.

Every once and awhile I check on this Spirituality forum to see if there is anything of value to read. And I am, and have for a long time, convinced that the only people left on this forum are teenagers. Case in point, this post.

Reality =Consciousness. Everything in Reality is happening within Consciousness. Nothing exits outside of Consciousness. Consciousness can only exist Now. Anything not being experienced in direct experience Now, such as 'other bubbles', is only being experienced Now as a concept/thought.

Film = Consciousness. You're not "observing it, you Are it. Observing insinuates separation. It's one thing, Consciousness. And you're not "in the illusion", you Are the illusion. To be 'in' something means you can be out of it. The illusion is Consciousness dreaming itself to be what is Reality. Consciousness is eternal, One cannot be out of it. Sorry to be knit-picky, but these slight differentiations in words can change the whole meaning of what is being inferred.

Life is perception. If you work on yourself, and master creating yourself, master the stories you tell yourself, so you're viewing the world as beautiful and perfect, the world will be that to you. And you being this in the world, will have ripple effects that you have no idea how far and wide it can impact others. Lead by example. Inspire others to view the world as beautiful and perfect too.

@Javfly33 Hmm..ignorant point of view imo. There are many variables and factors that go into an Awakening. One's readiness to Awaken. The dosage of the substance. One's tolerance. One's ability to Let Go and Surrender to an Awakening. Most, when the feeling of Death is upon you, however you got there, will resist, to continue to exist. Survival at all costs. This is why Awakening is rare. Ultimately whatever the substance or practice to Awaken, it is all an illusion. God will wake up when it wants to. How, is all part of the illusion.

Awesome! I think weed doesn't get the respect it deserves as a tool for Awakening. Now the question is how do you integrate this Awakening to Truth, so it's always present in the Now? Only critique is the above sentence. Thoughts are Truth. Everything in Reality is one thing: Consciousness. If thoughts occur Now, whatever they are, they are Consciousness, therefore it is Truth. What is Now, is Truth.

I personally wouldn't laugh at someone new to the forum asking a standard foundational question in realm of seeking spiritual truth. They could be new on the path, and what they don't need is people laughing at their questions.

Check out Leo's video on 'What is Reality'.

It's made of mind/consciousness, which is nothing. A dream is made of nothing. But it's still something, because here it is. It's nonduality. Something and nothing are the same thing. It's nothing, experiencing something.

The key is to keep dating your partner. Never stop trying to win her favor. Never stop taking each other on dates to fun places. Can prevent things settling into a rut.

That was exactly my first thought. All there is, is what is within consciousness, what is being experienced through direct experience, right Now. If one were to get on a boat and travel around the world, all that would be true would be what Now is being experienced through direct experience, Now. There is no what happened before or where you'll go next, as that is all a mental projection/fantasy, that can only exist Now as a thought.

I'm sure this will be similar to Trump University. What could possibly go wrong? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/federal-court-approves-25-million-trump-university-settlement-n845181