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Looking for it implies not having it right now - correct? Yes. So with law of attraction, it is knowing-feeling that you have it. Allowing the law to do the rest. It's not as straight forward as it may seem though.

What these words attempt to point at is not a what. So they don't really point at it.

@Rasheed well with law of attraction... It's like all about letting go of wanting it. As long as you have done all that needs to be done, simply shift your focus on the fact that you have already got what it is you're looking for. The feeling of that. Authentic and true and whole. That's what's needed.

@Vaishnavi good YouTube channel ?? @Matt8800 love u bruhh

@kag101 your hand is not your foot. But both of what you call the hand and the foot are part of the ONE BODY. So from the POV of the body, pointing to the hand can be called "the body" and pointing to the foot can also be called "the body" So hand = foot = body Yet. Hand is not what you call a foot and foot is not what you call a hand. The hand thus exclaims, "you're not me"! While speaking via/as Hand-Consiousness. Vs Speaking from the Body-Consiouness one would say, "I am you and you are me, there's only US, as One" Or one might say, "wadddduppppppppp sonnnnnn"

@Consilience @Alex bliss It is like if an actor is breaking the 4th wall during a film... Like imagine if Leonardo DiCaprio were to say this line in Inception where he would be speaking as his character Cob : "I remember when I was on the Titanic ship in my past life... My name was Jack" Imagination: from Cob's POV in the inception world time-line. Cob is only Cob. Real: from Leonard DiCaprio's POV. Leo was Jack in Titanic and is Cob in Inception. The POV where we look from determines if it's real or imaginary. Since both POVs are available and valid simultaneously it is both real and imagination, simultaneously.

Courage, rage, warrior heart! Love it. Face those fears in the fookin face and eff em up! And then you may get to a point where you see you were always only afraid of your own shadow

Once there was a King who was rich beyond compare. He took a walk through his massive kingdom and stopped at one of his lakes. There, he fell asleep, and dreamt that he was a beggar. The dream was quite vivid, and in the dream he suffered terribly. Upon awaking he realized he was a King and not a beggar. He was confused, and began questioning himself, “Am I a King dreaming I am a beggar, or am I a beggar dreaming I am a King.”After consulting with many sages, The wisest of the wise approached. The King asked, “which is the dream?” He asked, “Am I a King dreaming I am a beggar or a beggar dreaming I am a King, which is the dream? The sage replied, “They are both dreams”.

Lucid Living Only LIFE, as You.

@Hypnofrik your cheek doesn't hear anything Your ear lobes don't taste Your hand doesn't feel YOU do. Sensations are felt by YOU via the body. Just as sound is heard via the headphones. Feeling one with the whole is felt as you alone. Feeling ONE with it all isn't felt as you touching a table or tasting an apple. You are ONE with existence. No feeling oneness WITH Everything. Rather being EVERYTHING.

You're only fooling yourself. You must try your best to let go of this world, if you want to make spiritual progress. By letting go of this world I don't mean you have to go live in a cave and ignore everybody, I mean mentally. This all begins mentally. You have to mentally make the correction within yourself. As an example: You go to a school room and you look through the window in a school and you see a teacher adding on the blackboard, two times two is five. That's the wrong answer. You have no right to go into the school and beat up the teacher. I guess that's what they do now. You can go to the teacher and become angry at the teacher and scream at her and say, "Look what you're writing down, two times two is five, this is wrong!" Of course in her words, she is just trying to show the class. You really don't know what's going on, you're seeing a partial picture and you're judging by the partial picture. But your duty is to make the correction mentally. You see the difference? Mentally you're saying to yourself, "Two times two is four, not five!" And once you're made the correction you're finished with it. That is how you should live in this world. When you see disharmony, man's inhumanity to man, wars, all the nonsensical things going on in this world, you mentally change it, by knowing the truth about these things. The truth is there is only Brahman, there is only the absolute reality and you are that absolute reality. There is only the one and you are that one. As you begin to do this day after day, make mental corrections, the day comes when you no longer have to do this, for you now live in a higher consciousness, where there is no disharmony, no confusion, no chaos. You have lifted yourself up to a higher plateau. Even when I say there is no confusion, no chaos, no disharmony, I'm not saying it will stop being like that in this world. This world will never change, this world is the world that we see. This world goes through certain universal karma and it has absolutely nothing to do with you. This is why you learn to leave the world alone. You learn to leave people alone. You learn to leave yourself alone. It all starts within yourself. If you're not satisfied with yourself, if you do not love yourself, how can you possibly love other people? Or be satisfied with other people? You will always find fault. That fault comes from a deep dissatisfaction, probably since you were a kid. How do you remedy this? By staying the mind on God, on Brahman, on consciousness. How do you do this? By inquiring, "To whom does this come? Who sees these things? Where do these things come from? Where does everything come from? Where do I come from? Where does the sky come from? Where do the trees come from?" If you do this often enough, you will be taking a step backward from this creation. You will become the screen, the screen of life, on which these images project themselves. But you always remember that you are the screen and you're not the images. You will be able to observe the images and smile. You'll see all the images fighting with each other, shooting each other, killing each other, being happy sometimes, being sad sometimes, going through all kinds of experiences. But you will smile and you will not identify with these things anymore. You have risen. You have risen to that place where there is only the screen. The screen in this instance is boundless space. Boundless space when you look all around you, you see air. It's nice to see the air, and you say this in the air. But it goes further than air, it's boundless space. Boundless space is the screen of life, consciousness. And everything that you see with your eyes or with your senses is a superimposition on boundless space. In other words boundless space is like the book without the print. When the print is on the book you forget about the boundless space you forget about the white pages in the book. You now focus on the images which is the print. The print is not reality, the print is an effect. Reality are the white pages or the boundless space or the screen. You must ponder these things day and night. When you ask yourself, "Who am I?" The picture of boundless space will come into your vision, the screen. And one day you will discover that you're not this world at all, for this world does not exist at all. It never existed it has no validity. Where did it come from? How did it begin if it just appeared like a dream? In the dream you don't have a beginning, the world just begins at any place, any spot. The dream just is, there is no beginning to a dream. And so it is, there is no beginning to this world. This world has no beginning it never began. It came out of you because you are consciousness. You are pure awareness. Anything that exists came out of you so-to-speak. When you begin to inquire, "Who am I?" you're pulling it back in. The more you inquire, "Who am I?" The more you pull the whole universe back in within yourself. You are the one. There is noone but you.So you can see how foolish it is to become angry over something, to judge something, to think something is good, something is bad, something is right, something is wrong. You are supposedly truth students. Students of the highest truth. You can never get anywhere by judging this world, by coming to conclusions, by taking sides, by feeling angry. All it does is keep you back into humanhood, pushes you back into humanhood, thousands of years back. Yet, sooner or later you will find yourself. We're all hell bound for heaven, so-to-speak. But take a look at what you do with your life everyday. Catch yourself, watch yourself. You have to become very diligent. Watch your thoughts everyday. Watch your actions, observe yourself in action, observe what you do. Observe what is important to you. Where your mind is most of the time. Are you feeling sorry for yourself? Do you feel depressed, discouraged about something? How can you? When you realize that you are a God, how can a God become discouraged or disappointed? You must always look at yourself as a God. You're not a human being with problems. It's not really you. You are Brahman, nirvana, sat-chit-ananda. You have to feel this in your bones. You must keep going deeper and deeper and deeper. Never let a day go by that you do not think about these things. There is an adage, if you think about God, God will think about you. This is true, if you think about reality, reality will think of you. But if you sink to the lower depths of society and think about all confusion and nonsense what do you expect? That'll think of you. That will become your teacher and guru. It's your choice. This is the only freedom you've got remember, everything else is preordained. Everything else has been mapped out. If you would only be aware of this why would you worry about anything? And realize everything is karmic that you see. Under the laws of Ishvara, the God of karma, there is really nothing wrong and nothing right. Things are just the way they're supposed to be. Now can you see what I mean when I say, "All is well and everything is unfolding as it should?" Everything is in its right place just the way it's supposed to be. There is no mistakes. If you don't like the way things are then go have a talk with Ishvara, tell Ishvara your troubles. But when you start to flow with the universe instead of fighting it, not trying to change things to make them your way, you will find that all is well. Very well indeed. So the only freedom you've got is to make a choice. Whom shall I follow this day, God or mammon? Who the heck is mammon? You have this choice to go toward freedom or go in the other direction. This is the only freedom we've got. We have no other freedom. So be happy. Robert Adams, T227: “Who Am I?"

@Bridge to Infinity What is consiousness? It's like a sand castle asking what Sand is. Or a piece of gold jewelry asking what Gold is. Consiousness is what the substance of reality is made up of. Consiousness is so there is. Just like with sand, you can make an infinite # of objects. All are made of sand but the resulting object/distinction is not sand... "Bridge to infinity" is a Sand Castle who is asking what Sand is. It is YOU!

The prank begins and a story is born. it is believed in. the illusion is being maintained. all those who fall for the trick suffer/react from the story... then slowly... the truth is revealed. this is the death of the story. death of the illusion. and awakening has occurred... leading to LAUGHTER Do not search for enlightenment as a state/experience. It is simply coming to know the Truth. Being aware of the Truth. As you can see from the video... It's obvious why laughter (which is what often happens during Awakening) during is the only thing left to do upon having the realization

Notice. In each of those situations the circumstances did not change whatsoever. However, the whole thing was seen for what it was. Awakening or enlightenment does not change the situation you were in whatsoever, but it gives you what you need so that you can change it effectively. Create the change. Take the action. And enjoy the ride.!

This is the mortal dream and all the nonsense going on will keep us dreaming longer and longer. The foolishness that´s going on, the fighting, the anger, and all the nonsense going on with every day, keep us bound to this mortal dream. • In other words, when you're sleeping, you're dreaming, and dreams seem real to you, then you awaken. So it is with this world. You're dreaming the mortal dream. You think it's real. You get involved in it, and you're caught up in it, and it gets worse and worse. You just have to realize it's a dream and wake up. And what happens when you wake up? You do not find yourself in a place called heaven, in a strange land. You'll be as you are. When you awaken, you will function as you do now. Except you'll know you're playing a part. That's the only difference.The only difference between you and an awakened person is that you figure the part you're playing is real. And to an awakened person it's a play, a show, a dream. Does an awakened person take a part in the dream? He plays the part that was given to him or her. But he is always happy, always peaceful. For it's all an act on the stage. He's playing a part. So why get angry, why get upset? As you get angry and upset, you know it's a part you are playing, it's a part that you choose. To be an angry person, an upset person, as long as you know the part that you're playing is not real, it's okay to be upset, it doesn't matter. For again you know it's only a part you're playing. But when you think it's real, then you get pulled back into the mire, and you have to start all over again. In other words if you want to become free and liberated in this life, you don't have anything to do with the part, the play, the movie. It’s all good indeed. But when you get caught up in it, then you have to play the part again and again and again. It is called karma and reincarnation. As long as you feel the world is real, people are real, things are real, you have to keep playing your part over and over again. But when you get to the point where you give up, and just focus on reality. You focus on reality when you realize it's all a dream. Then you become free and liberated. So freedom and liberation, it's not something foreign. It’s not far away from you. It’s right where you are, and where you see life. That's all awakening is. So you observe the life. How do you see your life right now? If what you can say about yourself, you feel bad, you feel limited, slighted, upset, then you have to turn around by realizing that you have chosen this world of play. You have chosen this world. It’s your play, and accept it. But do not react to it. It's reaction that causes the problem. We´ll keep on dreaming until we let go. Stop fighting. Become non-attached, then we´ll awaken and be free. Robert Adams, T245: Consciousness Is The Silence

@Mikael89 don't think it's a book. It is a "talk" So maybe a transcript of a meeting that was held. A lot of Robert Adams content I share is from his talks. I found the postings under a Facebook group i am in.

from a broad enough perspective... even gravity seems to do what it does because of placebo all in all, placebo can certainly be a powerful factor across many area.

@Nemo28 gimme a kiss you/me

there is no distance from where the infinite is to here... so there's no question about "coming back". The infinite is already here, as this. Would it be an eternal I AM ness timeless presence that I am right now? In your question about, you say that you are that right now and then ask if it "would be"... There is no would be. As it already is that. I think you're maybe asking about individuated "experience" POV. From what I understand, yes. Once you awaken to your eternal-nature of I AM NESS - then that is never forgotten, overlooked again. From that point forward, there's an unbroken awareness... to infinity and beyond. So, what manifests as/before you will continue on, but you will remain ever-aware in your eternal abode. Note that it is a transition. The shift/understanding is immediate, but the embodiment and then ultimately merging into the non-doership and formlessness state takes "time". A huge shift will be made after the end of your life in this human body. So, realize your true-self now! and that's all you need to do. KNOW YOURSELF!

Someone has asked me to speak about the dream state versus the waking state. So I'll mumble a few words about those things: First of all, to a Jnani, to a Sage, there's no dream state and there's no waking state. None of those exists for the Sage. But for the ajnani there appears to be a dream state and a waking state. And the remarks that are made is this: "The waking state appears to be long. It appears to go on forever. But the dream state ends." And as a matter of fact, you have about eight, nine dreams a night. You usually only remember the last one. So how can I say that the waking state is a dream state also? Well, let's look at it this way. In what you call the dream state, you were born, you go to school, you get older, time passes, you get married, you have a job, you grow older, you're eighty-five years old and you start declining. This is the dream that you're having. Now, if I came into your dream state and I told you, "You're dreaming. You're not really eighty-five years old and you were never born and none of this has ever happened." You would throw rocks at me. And you'd say, "What are you talking about? A century has nearly gone by. I remember when I was a little boy or a little girl and now I'm an old lady or an old man and I've got cancer. And you're telling me, this is a dream?" You wouldn't believe me. I tell you, do not concern yourself with your cancer or your state of eighty-five years old. Do not concern yourself with what's going on in your life. Rather, look within yourself for reality. Find reality and everything will take care of itself. Again you'll throw rocks at me. You don't want to hear anything like this. You say, "I've gone through all kinds of experiences in my life. And you're trying to tell me it's a dream? You can't fool me, this is not a dream, this is real!" Look I could even pinch you and you'll say, "Ow!" But then I say, "Remember, this is a dream pinch! It's all a dream." But you still won’t believe me. Then when I leave, you awaken. You awaken to this dream state. This state, what you call the waking state. And the dream is all gone, it's all finished, like it never existed. And you laugh. You were never born in the dream, you never went to school in the dream. You never got married in the dream. You never became eighty-five years old in the dream. You never had cancer in the dream. You've awakened to this state! Yet you say, "This state is longer." It's longer because you're having the dream, that's all! Remember when I was in your dream, when you were eighty-five years old? To you it was a long dream. You went through many experiences. You went through eighty-five years of experiences and they all seemed very valid to you. Yet it happened in a split second. It happened in a split second, all the years, the experi-ences, the cancer. It happened in a split second and you awake, you awaken to this state. This state is the same thing. This is also a dream state. Not any different than the dream state that you dream at night. Same thing! It's only another dream. And you will only understand this when you awaken! A person is no longer in the dream state, no longer in the waking state, they're in a state of sahaja samadhi between the waking and dream state. There is really no state for a person like that. But to the ajnani, he believes that a Sage is in the waking state like they are. How do you get out of this, the dream business? How do you transcend those both states? Simply by going beyond them, you go beyond the dream state by realizing that when you react to conditions, to person, place or thing, you are perpetuating the dream. You can tell where you are by the way you react to life. If you believe that your body's getting older, that you're a person, that you have problems, you react to life's conditionings, then you're caught up in the dream, just like any dream at night. All kinds of conditions befall you and you believe it's real and you react to them. As long as you react to them you will never get out of it. You feel angry, you feel fear, you believe something is wrong some place. Then you can never get out of the dream. In other words, you'll go from one dream to the next. This is called reincarnation. It's one dream after the other dream. It never ends. You take on body after body after body, always dreaming, always reacting, always believing something is wrong, something is right, something is good, something is bad. And again, as long as you believe this, you'll never get out of it. So the way to get out of it completely is to realize that there is an observer who observes both states. The observer observes both states, the dream state and the so called, waking state. Now remember this is for the ajnani. For the Sage nothing like this exists. For the ajnani, you have to think to yourself, "Who is the observer? Who created this?" in other words, "Who made all this up? Who created the so called dream state and the waking state?" And if you think real carefully, it's our old friend Ishvara, the god of karma. Ishvara has been playing with his leela again. You tell Ishvara to stop playing with his leela and he won't listen. He's feeling these states. Ishvara, for some of you who don't know who he is, he's a personal god that you have created out of your mind. When you believe that you are a body, then you created god in your own image, and we call this god, Ishvara, the god of karma. It is he who dictates all these things, what's going to happen, what karma you're going through, how many lives you're going to live. Now, here's the secret, if you get rid of Ishvara, it'll be finished. You'll be free!You've got to kill Ishvara. Ishvara has to be removed, totally and completely then you'll be totally and completely free! How do you kill Ishvara? By laughing in his face "Who are you? Where do you come from? You can't frighten me any longer. I no longer accept you. You're part of my mind, my imagination. You're part of my false imagination! You do not exist!"Now, I bet some of you here are afraid to do something like this because you think you are insulting god. What kind of god are you insulting? A god that you made up your-self! You created this god. Where else would he come from? Is there a god up in the sky looking down at you throwing lightening bolts, saying, "You're a good boy, you're a bad girl! I'm going to punish you. I'm going to reward you." Do you know some of you really believe this? Yes, while I'm talking to you, some of you really accept this. And you're afraid to get rid of this God. But can't you see this very god is keeping you in bondage! It's this very god that makes you take on new bodies, makes you believe that you're a person, with problems. It is this very god that makes you worry about your body or about your finances, concern yourself with the world situation. And this god laughs while you cry! You're concerned about this. You're concerned about that. You're concerned about everything. Only when the god is removed will you become free It's up to you to remove this god. You've got to do it, nobody can do it but you. This is not blasphemy. Blasphemy is when you're believ-ing that the Self that can hurt you. When you believe in problems, when you believe some-thing is wrong, that's blasphemy!But it is virtually impossible for anything to be wrong for this whole universe the whole world is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. It has absolutely noth-ing to do with gods or goddesses, or karma or reincarnation or dreams. These things are part of human thinking. When you realize you're no longer human, they disappear. You must become inhuman. It is up to you to do this.You have to ask yourself the right questions. Many of you are afraid to question yourself. You're afraid that god is watching you and you'll be punished. Yet, some of you actually believe this. But I say to you from direct experience, there's no god at all any-where in the universe that can punish you or wants to punish you or has tried to punish you. If there's a god that exists, he's too busy screwing up the world to think of you! (laughter) What big egos some of us have, we think god is looking at us, judging us. We're so important, we're being judged, by an anthropomorphic God some place up in the sky. We're so important, aren't we? That this mighty god is punishing us personally for being bad little boys and girls. Get rid of all this, once and for all! Remove it from your mind! Empty your mind totally of this kind of thinking.There is only pure awareness, absolute reality and that is you right now! Right this moment! Don't think about it, just be it! Do not attempt to analyze what I'm saying or try to figure it out in any way, just be it! What I'm talking about you can only be. You can't think about it. When you begin to think about it, the truth about the matter disappears. Then you get caught in the body, in a thinking body. Yet, there's no time or space for any thoughts to exist. For time and space themselves do not exist. So where can you think? There's no place for you to think. For the thoughts have to move. And there is no room for thoughts. But what I'm telling you is that you're absolutely free right now. Absolutely liberated right this minute. You are. You are the entire universe right now. You who was never born, can never die. You are the one, right now! This very moment! Feel it! There is nothing else. How wonderful it is to be totally free. Free of praying to gods for your salvation. Free of thinking of a body that needs care or you have lack or limitation some place in your life. Be free of this kind of thinking. I know some of you are saying, "Well, it's okay for him to say that. But the doctor told me I got cancer. I got AIDS. And I have no funds in the bank. My wife or husband left me." Who are you talking about? You're not talking about the real Self, that you are! You're talking about somebody who doesn't exist! You're speaking of a dream person! That's here today and gone tomorrow! You're not speaking of the Self. Wake up! Try to understand what I'm saying to you. You are the god! You are the Brahman. You are the Self. Stop thinking of yourself as a mortal being, once and for all. Stop it! Cut it out! Behave yourself! Wake Up! Know who you are. Change your mind. Lift it up from this nonsensical thinking, and allow the mind to think in the heart. The heart will open up as a rose does with its calyx to the sun. And you will begin to laugh in joy and ecstasy, that you are the one. The one that is beyond time and space The one that is beyond reality, beyond causation. You are that one. Awaken to it, now. Wake up! Don't just sit there like a lump of manure, wake up! Who do you think you are? You are the god, remember this always. The only god that exists! There is no other god but you. Robert Adams, T235: Get Out Of The Dream Business

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'Enlightenment' is when a pixel realizes it is the whole screen... Which really just means it actually 'becomes' the screen. It is also understood that it was always the whole screen. Pixel was seeing out of a limited point of view vs the whole screen sees the full picture and IS the full picture. And this realization can be huge or it can be as simple as finding your glasses on your face after having looked for them in your entire house (while overlooking and looking through them). So don't "expect" fireworks! There maybe fireworks or there maybe just laughter or there maybe whatever might happen to you. Part of what maybe stopping you from seeing/knowing the Truth is how you picture it to be. It's not an experience. It's an understanding which dawns... Is seeing what you initially thought was a snake to be a rope an "Experience" ? The one who simply sees the reality of the snake to be the rope can be considered Enlightened. Does that person have fireworks when this happens? No. But insights and understandings are downloaded after seeing this new found prespective... The TRUTH Don't look for fireworks. That's what's stopping you... Because YOU are the firework! And this realization can be huge or it can be as simple as finding your glasses on your face after having looked for them in your entire house (while overlooking and looking through them). And this can result in laughter as well. It might also be shocking... All depends. No ONE particular way it occurs. And So don't "expect" fireworks! There maybe fireworks or there maybe just laughter or there maybe whatever might happen to you. Part of what maybe stopping you from seeing/knowing the Truth is how you picture it to be. It's not an experience. It's an understanding which dawns... Is seeing what you initially thought was a snake to be a rope an "Experience" ? Or is getting up in the morning and then seeing outside your window to find it's raining. Is the fact that you know "it is raining" an experience? It's just a knowingess. And that knowingess is timeless. Just like right now you KNOW that you're a male/female. The one who simply sees the reality of the snake to be the rope can be considered Enlightened. Does that person have fireworks when this happens? No. But insights and understandings are downloaded after seeing this new found prespective... The TRUTH Don't look for fireworks. That's what's stopping you. You are the firework!

What are you anticipating you will find? What are you looking or waiting for?

@Blissout use that intellectual level understanding and live it. Depending on your relative level, total TOTAL Enlightenment may not be what you want just yet. Is that what you truly want right now? Or some resulting side effect you expect out of it? How's the embodiment of the intellectual level going? You have any changes/progress?