abrakamowse

Oh, cool! I thought you were still in Europe. Lol Don't feel a loser for that! I am a guy and guys always are supposed to have sex ASAP Lol... and I didn't have sex like until 25/26... I don't remember well Lol... Nothing to feel bad about. And there's a lot of people in the same situation, more than you think. The difference is those who were a bit "late" for that don't talk too much and those who had it earlier like to brag about it.

@moon777light Come back to America.

Cool! I was always curious about that "method"... interesting.

@Faceless I thought that it was a method created by that guy , Richard Lang. How did you find about it?

By headlessness do you mean this? @Faceless http://www.headless.org/

Exactly!

I think that is the key. The ego always wants results, and it's impatient. If there's not results fast it becomes disappointed. And... we can be aware of it!

I am meditating almost daily since 2 years ago and I just beginning to notice some changes, mostly in concentration and focus. But it's nothing really hehehe... but it gave me the perspective about how meditation works and what to expect.

Isn't it the same subtle attachment to call it reality? What's the difference of calling it God? or reality? or the flying spaghetti? In my opinion, we shouldn't be bothered by the way what is unspeakable is named or called. God, reality, awareness, all of them have subtle attachments in different ways. If you are attached to matter or science you will call it awareness or reality. If you are attached to the idea of atheism, you can call it the void, if you are religious, you can call it God. It's not different in my opinion. Just my 2 cents.

Hahahaha... You don't see the point because for you is pointless. But I gave you several reasons in that definition of Mahasamādhi. According to that it says that Karma is gone. You won't be suffering again in a new incarnation. That's really a good point! You will become God, or one with God. No more samsara.

I think so, I am not sure if they have a deeper meaning than this one. But I think that's what they refer to.

I agree with that I agree too, sometimes I post things that I am not completely convinced about them. But as a way to be open to different possibilities I share them anyway. I am really not sure what is the idea of leaving the body. I think that once you are enlightened you will see life much more "alive" and you will enjoy more what is now. At the moment. But who knows? They say that they break the cycle of Karma immediately. That's interesting.

http://www.eastern-spirituality.com/glossary/spirituality-terms/m-definitions/mahasamadhi Mahasamādhi Completion of the final incarnation of a realized being. Mahasamādhi (the great and final samādhi) is the act of consciously and intentionally leaving one's body. A realized yogi (male) or yogini (female) who has attained the state of nirvikalpa samadhi, will, at an appropriate time, consciously exit from their body. This is known as mahasamadhi. This is not the same as the physical death that occurs for an unenlightened person. Enlightened yogis take their mahasamadhi during their final practice of samadhi: and they expire during this final sadhana practice. Therefore, mahasamadhi occurs only once in a lifetime, when the yogi finally casts off their mortal frame and their karma is extinguished upon death. An enlightened or realized yogi is one who has attained the nondual state of nirvikalpa samadhi where duality of subject and object are resolved and the yogi becomes permanently established in the unity of full enlightenment (Videha mukti). Each realized yogi enters and prepares for mahasamadhi in a unique fashion. Sushila Blackman (1997) furnishes a number of examples.

And who can know about that?

That's what non-duality is... He is both at the same time. Like you are too. It's a paradox, but he always had a tendency to be humble and he never said he was God. He said "Me and God are one"... The way he says it you can infer that he is God, but you can also infer that he is different than God... but also one with him at the same time. Confusing, right? A lot of truths has to be answered with paradoxes.

Nice post @Monkey-man I think too there's also a personal God, it's not all impersonal. But I am always open to be mistaken or deluded. And I didn't know about those Vaishnavas, I will find out. Very interesting. Thanks!

But he never said he was God.

It means that you create what you believe. Hell is clinging to the false self. The false self is the one that has fear about hell, and he may end creating it. Even if the false self (in this case the bishops) says that hell doesn't exist. The true self can make them go there so they learn not to cling to false and know the thruth. You have an example on the bible, the pharisees think about themselves that they won't end up in Hell because they were righteous. But they were deceiving themselves. They were creating a big spiritual ego. That's why Leo said that maybe they will end up on hell. Belief is not reality. You can have a belief but reality maybe different. The best way is to pay attention to what is, and not what your mind (thoughts) say.

You mean the small self, right? I agree...

That's what I was trying to explain to @Freakrik he has nothing to fear about Hell or any other projection of himself.

The thing that does not have free will is the ego, what you think you are. Normally our ego "thinks" he's doing something and that it has choice or free will, but it hasn't. Consciousness is doing everything or creating. You create your own reality, it means that if you need to have that experience consciousness will give it to you. But, if you realize that there's no "you"... who is going to end in hell? There's no one to be in hell in reality. What we think we are is just an idea. Let me tell you my experience. I was also really worried about not going to hell. I was christian and I was afraid of the things people say about Hell, etc. The day I was liberated from that was when I realize that if consciousness thinks that I have to go to hell, there's nothing I can do. So I will do whatever I think is good to not go there, I have to accept reality as is. If I deserve to go to hell, even if I am thinking that what I am doing is Ok, I will go, because there's nothing I can do about it. You have to submit totally to reality and not be afraid by nothing. Think about Jesus, how he supported all that punishment, because reality had that for him. I learned by mindful meditation, that nothing can scare me. If I keep that separation between me and my thoughts, I can walk on Hell and laugh about it. hehehe...R

There's a possibility. But if you are asking questions and trying to find out about your true self, I don't think it will happen. Most of the population don't even worry about that, so you will be Ok.

The price comes by the actions. Everything you do comes back. It's Karma's law. In the material level if you boil water, it boils. Same thing with your actions, if you do something with a bad intention there's will be a response of the universe to balance that act. Who knows how? It's better to act accepting the law of Karma, and not doing anything agains it.

I google it and I found this: https://www.near-death.com/religion/buddhism/tibetan-book-of-the-dead.html

I didn't arrive to that part, but I think is a matter of low consciousness. When you are attached to the body and to material things, after you die, you have nothing of that, you are not prepared to let go and probably you can stay in a kind of hellish place until you let that go. But that's only my idea, when I reach at that part I let you know.