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Knowledge will awake your consciousness, what you have to avoid is to seek for "information"... read those things that resonate in you, follow your intuition and the knowledge will give fruits.

Great explanation @Azrael

You are welcome. You will notice the effects almost immediately. At least that was what happened to me. After meditating some days I noticed how easy it becames to "dissolve" negative thoughts. It's like the mind or the brain becomes accustomed to see that the thoughts are independent and happen anyway. The brain is like a machine, you can train it to change your perspective. The other thing is that the senses are the only thing that you can be sure of, they are the only thing that makes you perceive the "outside" world. You don't know if what you see is exactly that, because when you see the light hits in your eye, then it sends electrical signals to the brain, that are interpreted in a way where you see the "solid" world. But you don't know that, you don't see the objects and even the light that hits your eyeball you don't really see it. So the "labeling", the senses is the only thing you really know listening, hearing, smelling, seeing, thinking, etc...

Do Nothing = Do Nothing and Mental Masturbation = Mental Masturbation

The labeling what it does is to to stop separating things so much, is like an step to mindfulness. Before you used to name things like table, chair, house, cat, etc... now you just say "hearing". After a while you will see that the mind begin to get accustomed to that and it tends to "separate" from the objects. You are not so involved on the objects when you label them more generically. That also helps to not identify with the thoughts. So, don't worry. Keep doing it until you see the results. Don't try to understand how it works. Just do it and see the results. :-)

Four Noble Truths The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism are stated in simple terms as: Suffering exists Suffering arises from attachment to desires Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path

I did the do-nothing meditation. I could reach to a point where I didn't feel my body. I was just the mind, but I could do it like 10 minutes, after that I couldn't meditate again. Will try that again tonight.

This is enlightenment

"Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether." --- Jed McKenna

Know thyself

Lol... true.

You are right is certain way @No-Thing In the sense that there's no enlightenment and nothing to seek. The problem is that the ego doesn't know how to find something without seeking, it doesn't know how to not seek something and that's the difficult part. I hear a lot of stuff from UG Krishnamurti and IMO he is enlightened even when he says he is not. And probably he says he's not because of what I wrote above. There's no enlightenment, no path, nothing... just be. But is hard to do that...

@Sevi Thanks!

I need to lay in my bed too... Lol

Thanks @nightrider1435 and @Leo Gura Very valuable to take into consideration.

Thanks @Leo Gura I asked you because I had an experience where I didn't know who "I" was. The "I" I am referring is my ego, my lower self, memories, etc... because now I realize I was there (during that experience), only without memories, just awareness. But at the moment it was pretty scary. I thought I was having a problem in my "brain" Lol... I was completely blind thinking there was a "me" at this time. I always had an strong sense of me, my soul, my identity, etc... I think I needed a shock to begin to understand. It was before I found out about actualized and I didn't know anything about meditation. I think that was one of the things that helped me to begin to search and investigate. Thanks again!

@Leo Gura At any point on the meditation did you lose all idea of your identity? to the point of don't knowing anything? All memories gone, etc...???

With the do nothing meditation I try to notice the resistance of the mind to be quiet, and when something happen, I ask to myself why there's resistance? And I try to find a reason or notice and insight. Every meditation is different.

You need meditation to differentiate and discriminate thoughts from the source versus thoughts from the ego or lower self. Your mind is not yours, you are aware of your mind and thoughts, you are silent consciousness, the observer. Try some mindfulness meditation.

@Prabhaker Osho is really good.

@Soulbass @Toby But when we see others, we see them distorted by our biases. That can help too to know more about ourselves. In fact, we don't see others, we see ourselves reflected on others. Everything is a mirror. Right?

The idea that consciousness creates the illusion of a body, is not real very far away of what I am finding out. What do you thing @AstralProjection ?

Consciousness is never asleep. Do you believe every thought you perceive?

I'm lost and the thread is too long!!! When is the next skype meditation???

You are a poet @Natasha