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Lol 😂

I was sitting in the computer, I am learning some game mechanics in a game engine and I was feeling like I am not really learning anything. I felt that the information was flowing and there was no one learning. It was weird, I don't know how to explain it in words. The letters were in the screen I was looking at a tutorial in youtube and the information was just flowing and no one was there learning, it was just a free flow. Then there's the idea that someone is sitting in front of that computer learning and someone else have done the video so I can watch it and learn but the truth is nothing is there. There's just reality making its own thing. :-)

Everything is a dream...

Enjoying this post a lot. Thanks @A Fellow Lighter

God is famous but no one notice him. He's a great magician. Everything was created by him, but no one knows him. In the end, all will be surprised when is revealed. Lol.

There’s no privacy for the whole, for God. Luke 12:7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

I don’t see any poison

I want to talk something about Christ here because I see that there are some posts on the subject and it seems to me is worth to explain the message of Christ a little more clearly, since he used many metaphors and many confuse metaphors with strictly exact, textual things like it is written in the Bible. And it's not like that. First point before some may say that "Jesus does not exist” and that he is a creation of the mind. True, but I think we should not go so meta to explain some things first. Many times in the forum we go to much non-dualism and go to extremes. To talk about the subject we have to move in the field of dualism. At least for a bit... Jesus constantly spoke from the non-dual point of view and moved on to dualism. That confuses many but it also teaches, impacts, creates shock and that helps to transmit the message, remember that he gave the message more than two thousand years ago. Many including his disciples did not understand his message well and that is why we have a church like this now. Confused, transmitting a wrong message that in my opinion does not help anyone to get "salvation”, "liberation”, "Enlightenment" or whatever you want to call it. I'll try to be brief. Difficult thing on this subject. The history of non-duality is clearly seen in Genesis. Genesis tells us that we lived together in paradise with God. Basically it is a metaphor of the moment that everything was not manifested yet. And the moment that separation from God is created is when we "sin". The devil offers the forbidden fruit to the woman and her to the man and thus we are separated from everything. (Remember this are metaphors or stories made long time ago) That is, at that moment the idea of separation is created. God Himself creates that idea, because everything is created by him, by his mind. So the devil in this case is also his creation. In the Bible it is said that the devil has a purpose, if you ask a pastor or priest they don't know how to explain well why. But if you understand non-dualism you will realize that the purpose of the devil is to create separation, and that way we can have experiences in the world. The Bible itself says that God gave the world to the devil. It is basically a symbolism similar to the idea of Maya from the Eastern religions. We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. (1 John 5:19) That's how it all starts. “You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also."(John 8:19) Here it is clearly seen how Jesus had assimilated that unity with God. He saw Himself as one with all, one with the universal truth, one with the creator, one with God. But not because he was the only one that experienced that. He was talking about what he had experienced and that was that he and God were one. But he knew everyone can experience it too… He even prayed God so we can all experience what he had experienced. “I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me.” (John 17:20-23) Something that we can all experience, the church has taken it upon itself to twist this teaching to continue with the idea of separation, that is basically what is taught in the churches is totally the opposite of what Christ preached. This ultimate truth he expresses in “I and the Father are one.” (John 10:30) The truth will set you free "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."(John 8:32) The truth that we must know is the same that Jesus knew, that he and the father (God) are one. This is achieved by experiencing when we die to our individuality, to our idea of an “I” separated from the whole. That is the original sin, to believe that we are separated from the whole (God) and that we can fend for ourselves, for our selfish desires without seeing that we are one with God. With the universal consciousness (for those who don't like the term God). When we experience that unity we realize that we simply “are"... I am.. we are pure existence. That's what Jesus experienced. It is the “I am” that the Bible mentions to us, when God speaks to Moses he says “I am who I am". (Exodus 3:14) To know that truth we must die and be born again. What is this death that Christ speaks? It is to die to our individuality. The need to sacrifice our individuality in order to be born again is a recurring theme in the teachings of Jesus Christ. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. (John 12:24-25) Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. (Luke 17:33) Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. (Matthew 10:39) ‘If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever will save his life shall lose it: and whoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?’ (Matthew 16.24-26, and also Mark 8.34-37 and Luke 9.23-25). And there's much more to say but I don't want to extend too much. The last thing would be the very resurrection of Jesus. Jesus had such a strong revelation that he could do things basically like God and the resurrection as a way to show his message to everyone in a dualistic way let's say. His death is a metaphor for the death of individuality and his resurrection was the sign of the power of God that was with him because he had understood that supreme truth completely. Come back to life. Showing the true power of God, which is inside everyone but it is so difficult for us to understand it. I am posting this because I see many posts from Christians (I was a Christian in the way that Christianity is understood actually so I know what I am talking about). I almost become a bible thumper. And that’s not good, and is not what Jesus preached. I still consider myself Christian, because I like the way he teaches, but now I understand his teachings in a very different light and more in his original intention, that is the non dual Jesus. Non duality is the basic teaching of Christ.

Religion sadly fell in the same trap of keep thinking we are separated. The truth is difficult to accept. What Jesus taught was not understood but some have understood. Luke 8:8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown." When he said this, he called out, "Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear."

True he asked to repent of our sins. What keep us separated from God? The sin. So the sin is what happened in the original sin. The devil made us sin and at that moment we become separated. Because we knew and we created a god (with lowercase) that is the ego. Repent and know I am.

The word I points to the absolute but we think it is the egoistic I wrongly. There’s only one I who tricks itself in several different and smaller I to experience itself.

I liked how Jesus talked from both points of view when he needed or when he felt it was necessary to transmit his message. When he said "Me and the father are one" he was saying "I am one with reality" or "Reality is one thing so I am that too". He moved from one POV to the other and that made crazy the religious people that finally decided to crucify him. Because they didn't accept or understand the truth.

That's true... you are right. Nonduality, sad, and funny at the same time hehe...

I think the "ego taking charge" is saying the contrary. That's what religious churches preach. They say that the devil was expelled from heaven because he wanted to be like GOD. That's exactly what is taking away people from salvation. Or enlightenment, whatever you wanna call it. If God is two things, then there is something else that encompasses those two things. That thing that encompasses God and the "other" is greater than God, ergo it is God. God is one and everything is in that unity. It cannot be separated.

@Hojo YW :-)

Exactly, that's what I was trying to say when I said "Don't think" but you said it better than me. Just being present and paying attention to reality.

You are separating what is ONE thing... mind and consciousness... that's the root of the problem :-)

I had one experience with the void but I was scared. I think I am ready now for a new one hehehe...

I think this guy explains it very well... I take the liberty of copy pasting this message that I think it goes well with the discussion in here... it's from Reddit from the Non Duality forum: Non Duality - There is Nothing but the ONE MIND - Drop ALL Dogma and Find Freedom! Discussion So I don't plan to make many more posts about anything like this because I finally saw it and I get it at long last. There is nothing left for me to learn, I don't mean this arrogantly. I just mean I get it! I am no longer interested in dogma or meditations or anything else. I have been in Void like states for the past week or so now. I am only writing this to help anyone who may of been lost like I was. Yes it was mind blowing too. It made me realize that the more I looked outside and the more I gained knowledge, the more lost I had become. I now get what Non duality is and what it isn't. It is not about ego deaths, awareness, observers or being observed. Even cliche terms like Enlightenment and Awakening do not touch upon it. It is none of those things and to use terms like these are to create dualities where there are none and to fall into extreme ignorance. All of these terms and concepts are the real illusions we must overcome. If I say today that I awakened. It means that tomorrow I can fall asleep again. I am now in some battle of being awakened vs being asleep. I am the One Mind that is the SOURCE OF ALL THINGS! My mind is the source of being awakened and being asleep. To say I am awakened or enlightened is to stay highly ignorant and to create a duality where there are none. There is no ego to kill, to say I have an ego is to say there is an entity that exists apart from the One Mind. Anything I call an ego, is just a concept within the One Mind. The idea of an ego is another fantasy concept made up and imagined to be some kind of obstacle to be got rid of i.e - it is Complete nonsense. If you believe an ego exists, then you believe in something having some level of independent existence. There is nothing to be achieved, attained, gained or realized. These are all dualities again. Again, you are creating obstacles where there are none. Any of these terms hint that we must seek outside of ourselves to find the One mind, there is only the One mind. We simply need to see the Nature of our own mind, which is the One Universal Mind. Non duality is the realization that everything is merely a creation of the ONE MIND and we all share that ONE Mind. There is nothing else to get your head around or understand. That is Non duality in a nutshell. There is no Real or Illusion either, to say something is real or to say something is an illusion is to create a duality. To say something exists and something does not exist is another duality. Everything is just the One Universal Mind. Remove all your concepts, dogma, rituals and belief systems and simply See this and you then you will partake in the Void. The state where you no longer feel separate or independent, you know you are everything and everything is you. The place where you see that everything is just emptiness and nothingness, all attachment having vanished into thin air. The Void is the place where you truly FEEL FREE! It is not enlightenment or awakening it is FREEDOM from all concepts and belief systems. You simply know that All is just a creation within the ONE Mind. Your mind being the ONE Mind that creates all and is the Only Reality and Original Source of all things. A quote from Huang Po to finish - 'All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which IS without beginning, is unborn (Unborn not in the sense of eternity, for this allows contrast with its opposite; but unborn in the sense that it belongs to no categories admitting of alteration or antithesis). and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance. It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces, and comparisons. It IS that which you see before you-- begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. The One Mind alone is the Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient things, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using the Buddha to seek for the Buddha and using mind to grasp Mind.'

Same thing happens to me with my wife, I am not sharing any of this with anyone anymore... those who haven't experienced it think we are nuts. Lol...

Exactly... everything is consciousness... nice.

But it’s true. He was direct and they said he was saying something different. so sad…