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I thought of this when I was contemplating and I thought to share. The purpose is to demonstrate that the Self is independent of states of consciousness. Clench your fist and bring it up to look at it. Imagine the hand to be the "I" - the first person pronoun that you use to identify with objects, feelings, and emotions. Imagine the act of clenching your fist to be the "am". Now imagine a state such as happiness or sadness, and imagine that you are tightly holding this state in your fist. This is analogous to saying "I am happy." or "I am sad." Now, once you are comfortable with this and can imagine it clearly, suddenly open your fist - which makes it so that the fist (the am) does not exist anymore. Not only have you let go of the state, but also you are only left with the "I". Now lower your fist out of your vision and simply be. This is the Self.

Recently I've been feeling incredible pressure and energetic activity in the crown chakra, like something trying to break out of the skull from the inside out. I'm not asking for suggestions and advice on how to deal with this. I'm good on that front. Just want to hear some of your experiences with this phenomena. Peace.

What exactly is the question?

Yes. This. This is why we say enlightenment is a very simple thing, and that the challenge we face in trying to explain it to others is that it's a very simple thing. The human mind has the tendency to complicate things to oblivion. All it has to do is to shut up for a minute and then it will see.

A quiet mind.

@Hellspeed I am familiar with the concept that the crown chakra is not an actual chakra. Interesting to associate the pressure with release of blockages @Elysian Yeah i have pretty similar experiences with Kundalini. Last night i had some very intense Kriyas and I think i gained the ability to chant unconsciously.

I'm sharing this just because how funny it is to experience it. It really makes me chuckle. When in a deeply meditative state, words can become indistinguishable from other sounds, in the sense that meaning is no longer inferred from them. So you can hear a person who is running their mouth off vexing poetics and yet it's no more profound than the sounds an orangutan might make. I hope you can experience it and have a laugh.

@SoonHei Your question is a very interesting, and quite honestly one of the better ones i've heard regarding enlightenment. Yes, mooji is correct to say he is here forever. Ramana says the same thing, and I will say the same, as it is truly how I feel. However you are asking about the mechanism that goes into reincarnation, and for that, I have no answer. The sages and the scriptures say that when you pursue enlightenment in one life, even if you don't reach it, you will be born again in circumstances that are more conducive to enlightenment. I have heard this from very wise sages. But I say, let's just be silent on the matter because it is the most truthful.

It's okay to use "I" in conversation with others. That's just how humans communicate. You don't awaken in your current body-mind. You are already fully enlightened. All you have to do is to get rid of assumptions that you "are" a body-mind, and all its attachments. Your true self always is, always has been, and always will be. To know it as you know it now, there needs to be a body. But it knows itself by its own light. Every night when you go into deep sleep, there is no longer the body nor is there the mind, still the Self remains, even though there is no-one to experience it. If you ask yourself "where was I when I went to sleep last night?" The answer to this question is immediately apparent, and it's the same answer that applies to your question. However don't look for an answer in words. Just be, and it should be clear. Sages say that you will be born anew into another body, and that you can, in this life, remember your past lives. However I cannot comment on this. Sorry! Again, enlightenment is not something that occurs in the future. It is already here. It's just a matter of you being aware of it. I have also heard this. It makes you wonder!

@i am I AM Haha that's a nice face, but no, in the words of great Alan Watts: the maya world has been seen to be the same as the nirvana world. There is no duality.

@i am I AM It has? How so?

So i gotta say, just by looking at that part of the first video where Leo is saying "i'm not in control, it's out of control..." has my chakras begin to vibrate quite intensely.

Neville Goddard has several books about imagining things into existence. I do think he predates The Secret. I have tried both this and lucid dreaming, with no success. Regardless, self-realization is the ultimate achievement. Everything else is illusion.

There is no one called Trump. There was no one called Hitler. There was no one called Buddha. There is just the Self. Diminish the thought that believes there are separate entities. And it will be revealed that there is just the Self.

Do these dreams happen on their own? Do you follow a certain methodology to make them happen? Are you actively chasing lucid dreams?

Yes.

These are all beliefs, let go of them. You have never been anything but the Self, and have by your own power created all this world, including your body and the regulation of its physiological functions. Let go of all attachments. Surrender. That's the only advice that will work. Everything else is chasing more illusions.

@Nadosa Perhaps. Yet perhaps it is only as difficult as you make it out to be. Regardless the outcome is well worth it. Every human being has the god given right to live a life of bliss.

Then why complain about the depression and the sadness? After all, these fleeting states amount to the excitement and drama of life. Give it a try. What you call boring might end up being bliss instead.

For who do all those thoughts/emotions/feelings arise? Who is the subject? Saying that "I seem to be stuck..." amounts to saying that I am a thought, which in case "thinks" accepting reality seems unfair. Being stuck in the egotistic paradigm is what causes you to not realize your enlightenment. The word "I" and believing to be this "I" is what creates duality in the first place. Realize this and all worries disappear in a blink of an eye, and is replaced by bliss.

Who said there is an I who did self-inquiry? For whom does this perceiver exist? What is "my skull"? Who is owning this skull? Search for that.

I am this, I am that, I got this, I want that. Imagine life without this paradigm. You can even try it. Every time there was a thought that involved the first person nominative, say simply stop it. How would life be?

@2018 The absolute is what you are. You are not "spirit" or "soul" because those are concepts, no matter how vauge or spiritual they might sound. The absolute is what you are when all false identification has been removed. The absolute just is. Its existence is self-sustained. Everything else is a display within the absolute. The absolute underlies everything. In the absolute, there are not "things". There is no "I" there is no you, there is no "vision" there is no "hearing" there is no "thought" etc. In other words, the absolute is what it is. THAT. One who has realized the absolute says I am what I am, but only if pushed by the unelightened to describe itself.

The word consciousnesses is thrown around so wily nilly, that it's very hard to understand what its meant in each context. Regardless I have one question though: Sat Cit Ananda?

@Dodo There is two levels of identification here. Identification with thought, and identification with the body. Things to consider: First, regarding thoughts: having an empty mind is not the same as not identifying with thoughts. In fact, the mind could be very busy, but as long as there is no identification with it, then it's of no issue. In the absolute, the mind itself does not exist, nor do thoughts. For this to occur, you have to realize how thoughts are not reality, but an attempt at dividing reality into pieces. These pieces, are concepts, or thoughts. They are not the real thing, but mental representations. And Thought of thought is itself a thought! The sages say, that you are already enlightened. All that you have to do, is to get rid of believing that you are not, which is realizing that concepts you hold and believe to be are not the truth of who you are. Another way to put it, is that ignorance (as opposed to enlightenment) is only distraction with concepts. Second, regarding the body: Again, the idea is not to get rid of the feeling of hunger, or the need for food, but rather losing identification with either of those concepts. In the absolute there is no such thing as 'feeling' or 'need for food'. Reality, you, simply is. That's we say, I am who I am. Nothing more, nothing less. But again, even "I am" does not exist in the absolute.The point is that reality exists by itself, independent of the various forms and names attributed to it. Realize this.