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@blazed Thanks! I missed that part...

@Salaam and what is your concept or opinion of Buddha? He's the one that taught more about impermanence and no self.

That's exactly what people "does" to get enlightened

Life is life... Maybe this can sound a bit harsh, but I heard once Jed Mc Kenna saying to a forer that was complaining about how bad his life was. And he said that we fill more important than what we really are, and we want to do special things and feel important, when we are just a part of nature. Seeing from the point of view of "our" body, "our" ego, "our" etc etc etc... Seen from the absolute point of view, we are the reason why everything was "created" or perceived... there's no world without you.

I think lucid dreaming happens when you begin to get not attached to the "body" concept.

Awesome question @Parki This is good for inquiring about the nature of reality. When I am meditating I am questioning about what is a thought, if it has weight, color, smell? etc... hehehe...

The "I" thought is the source of all suffering. The "I" that appears even before the "I thought", that is what you are.

No more questions for me. What about you? Are you feeling the same way? Everything what we talk or try to "understand" by thoughts is pointless. It's better to sit and observe reality. What do you think? I want to listen to different opinions. :-)

What is "pure" consciousness? Our bodies are consciousness too... that's why Buddha and Jesus say we have to take care of our bodies.

Did you experience something like that Cetus?

Well, Adam Watts already gave us a hint about the game... it's like trying to bite your own teeth. The mind will always have questions, on a second thought, it's not me who is tired of questions.

That's the conclusion that I have arrived. Thanks @Prabhaker

The problem is... who is asking the questions? There's no one to ask questions. The act of asking is just another game in consciousness. Better to flow with the "game".

That's true. You know that I always think about that concept that the Hebrews had about the names of God. They say God has infinite names, etc... And it comes to my mind that they didn't name him, not because of respect alone, but because it can't be named!!! But a lot of people now doesn't understand it, so sad... but I suppose that this is the way it has to be. :-)

Don't call it like that, it's disrespectful, you have to call it YHWH

The brain changes depending of the thoughts we get attached. I know is hard when you are very bad mentally (I am talking from experience) but in my experience the problems with schizophrenia and other mental disorders is a problem of identity. At least that was what took me out of a big depression with some psychotic episodes. I was trying to fight against reality with my ego, and that obviously doesn't work. I denied my true self so much that I believed I was my thoughts, and thoughts are chaotic by themselves. In my opinion, the mental disorder is one of the ways of nature to let you know, there's something wrong here. Something you need to see and experience more than your mind. The physical appearance of the brain (as one mentioned that you can be ill because your brain is not OK) is a reflection of us. So, if there's a damaged brain is because we need to experience that. There's nothing wrong in "what is" or "reality". What seems to be "wrong" is wrong from the ego point of view.

1 Corinthians 2:14 King James Version (KJV) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

It "seems" that life is created and destroyed, but that's not what really happens. There's no creation and nothing is destroyed, life always is there. And that's all there is.

@Venus I didn't say that. I just said that it can help and it was what it helped me to know that I would never be depressed. I was in a very deep depression and I got out from it that way. I'm just sharing my experience, maybe it can help. Maybe not. Who knows? MIndfulness meditation helps to know you are not those thoughts. Not creating an habit. When you get separated from the thoughts your true self or true nature begins to get awaken. When you understand who you really are, there's no depression who can defeat you. Because there's not a "you".

The main problem is that you "think" there's someone separated from others who is depressed and sad. You are not that. Check what you are not and you will find what you really are. And that what you are, can't be depressed or sad. You are aware of sadness and depression, but you are not not depressed, because you can't be. It's just a thought that is not real. I suggest you to meditate on mindful meditation, observing thoughts without getting attached to them. Don't fight them, just observe them. This will create an habit of not paying attention to your "lower self". That doesn't exists in reality. This helps to make a separation between your real nature and "thoughts" (lower self) which are not real and are not you, and those thoughts are not even talking about you, and they can't tell you who you really are. After you understand you are not the thinker of thoughts your awakening to a new life will begin. But, you will see that this life it's not something new that you can get or obtain, you were (and are) always "that". You are life itself.

I am awareness, I am pure consciousness...

I found this set of instructions really helpful, here is the link if anyone is interested. http://www.albigen.com/uarelove/awa_instructions.htm An extract from that webpage: "The author of these pages does not claim to have invented the awareness-watching-awareness method. Rather, after many years of searching, he intuitively discovered the method while on a visit to the Ramana Maharshi ashram in India. Before applying the method, he sought support for it in the teachings of Ramana and other realized teachers, and indeed found support for it there. Many of these supporting sources are referenced below. He then applied himself diligently to the practice, and in a little over two years time experienced the death of the ego and realized his real Self. He considers this method to be the most rapid and direct means to self-realization, and the writings on these pages are intended to explain this simple practice, thereby saving the aspirant many years of vain searching, the result of using less direct means." I hope it's useful for all