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except coming here wasn't conscious. it was in the dream of a much larger. once you become conscious of this. then yes, you can consciously create and get where-ever you need to go.

there's no "after-life" there's just life. structurally and fundamentally, this life right here and right now is no different than what you may call "after-life"

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

There isn’t a path to follow. You are the path itself. Forget about the path altogether and just find out who you are. To know the Self is delusion. To be the selfless Self is truth.

beautiful! ?❤️ ?

Don't look for me in human shape. I'm inside your looking.

@molosku the TV does nothing. The CD in the CD Player connected to the TV makes all the effort. The TV is just ON.

Can you imagine a thought without thinking it? Can you find a starting point in this dream of others? The story is writing itself, the self is being dreamt, and it thinks it can understand the imagination that it emerges from.

All this time looking for wetness, while dancing in the rain.

Mind is logic Self is Magic

The death of Fear is the ONLY death.

There's no I - but there's a YOU.

@Schahin The ego. Selfishness. There's no limit to what one will do when the ego is in the driver seat. That's the answer to your "why."

Freedom from the madness of being me can apparently happen, but not to me. You are not mad, you... the one who is looking for sanity is the madness. Even if you saw what you were doing... which you probably already do... it would make no difference. Life seems to happen to me or not. If life seems to happen, but not to me... you won't even know. You'll no longer know anything for sure... the way you used to be certain of what you knew. Not knowing, and being OKAY with not knowing is the freedom and peace you long for.

The ( you ) is made up by the brain and it is literally impossible to know why, because the (you) is this thought.

The mind can't understand that it never existed. It's beyond understanding. We don't exist outside of these thoughts, these walls of beliefs, we simply are the fragrance aware that we are aware.

Who (as this ever present momentary) Could arise (as this ever present momentary) And where would they go (as this ever present momentary) To find (but this ever present momentary) The waters are always fresh

You wouldn’t use a microscope to study itself.

The brain is like Harry Potter trying to see the book he is inside of.

Your eyes are being shown your brains dream of separation.

@Pernani yes. the key is balance. when you hear "you don't have control" it means to an extent... if i were to ask you right now to raise your right hand, you can raise your right hand at your will - can you not? you can also choose to dance in public or not. so you have free will to an extent which is dependent on your circumstance and the level of master over your body/power of will. a baby does not have much master control over how to move his body etc. a baby/kid does not have much control over if a fart is to be held or just letting it rip. but you have that conscious and deliberate control. so don't be confused about not having that control and the ability to make wise choices along the way. also. you have no control over your heart-beat... infact, that is such an effortless process that it is automatic for you... so there are degrees of the master of effortlessness. breathing is also effortless for you. without conscious awareness it happens on its own. at the same time, when something has occurred, don't waste much time in dreading it - just keep moving forward and on. this is trusting the path and the process. you can drive the car, you can steer it clear of obstacles on the road and pothole etc. but if the road ahead simply is all broken, then you cannot steer clear because the whole of the road is an obstacle. in those moments, trust the path, the power, the one - have faith and miracles will come and save you.

@Giulio Bevilacqua when you dream at night. are you just the person who appears inside of the dream? upon waking, you can understand and intuit that you were not just the person who was walking/talking in the dream, but you were everyone/thing inside of that dream. all of it was you (your mind). same way. right now, in this "waking state" the ultimate/real you is not just Giulio, it is all - me, Leo, this website. everything. hear these words as you read them silently in your head. you aren't that sound which is reading these words. you are that thing which hears them as they are read. that thing is ALL. that thing is like the Giulio sleeping on the bed enjoying/watching the dream world during his sleep and yet not inside of the dream-world.

@molosku lovely. when i read the thread, and before i clicked it, that book example came to mind. and looks like it came to your mind as well the heck am i saying... your mind is mine!

pretty much this ^ +1

@Pernani tbh. there's no guarantee on way or another as @Serotoninluv said. you may have a smooth sailing or rough waters towards your goal. i like to think of it as starting at a point on a circle and going either clockwise or counter-clockwise. both ways will eventually bring you full-circle back to the same point. i can't recall the exact quote but i think ramana maharshi talks about going the way directly or via knowledge. one path is thru devotion/love of the god. very-much of the man moving towards god and merging into him and the other path is man-losing himself to find god. one is via the man becoming everything = god the other is man losing all and becoming nothing = god clockwise counter-clockwise GOD = everything = nothing both ways, suffering is not avoided technically... because there's no sure-set path that doesn't involve suffering. the 2 ways there can be seen by examples of let's say eckhart tolle/adyashanti... whereupon complete defeat/surrender and letting go - dying to their self - revealed the truth of god. vs sadhguru jaggi who was sitting in meditation, all well in life and just merged with god and felt one with existence/everything. not to say it wasn't WONKY for him. but not your traditional "suffering" there