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@BlessedLion totally understand. You may need more life experience. And life is a lot of suffering LOL. So pursue it but don't set false expectations - it happens when it is ready to happen. For me that was decades. Live your life at the same time.

Just pull out your hand. Look at the finger. It's just a finger. Look at it again but be conscious it's the whole hand. Quite simple actually.

@zeroISinfinity No one is wrong and no one is right. It just is.

@Joseph Maynor that's relative. It appears some people meditate for decades and cannot.

@themovement no because Truth is prior to evidence. You are new here but that's been said here for a while. You can discover this for yourself by becoming it via mysticism - IF your mind is open.

@Truth Addict there is no point that's the point And also there is a point. It is relative to how you want to look at it.

@Mikael89 and you shouldn't. Truth is not a belief. But don't take anyone's word for it. Do the practices and validate it for yourself. It has been explained many times to not take Truth as a belief.

It's not they are beta..it's that they understand Oneness. They don't care what others think because they are conscious that they ARE the others. They're the whole chabang. Try and grasp that.

No you guys don't. You just need to Be. Free of thought and it can happen. God doesn't care about your problems.

@zeroISinfinity precisely. You as Zero are an illusion..it'sis the only way you can exist - thru illusion. So actually you don't exist. Your just Infinity! ZeroisInfinity is the perfect name.

@Zigzag Idiot i wholeheartedly agree that suffering is spiritual growth.

@Jkris It's a process. One Awakening will not rid you of addictions, but as I mentioned, you have to die to Awaken - and you will come back a different form - but the differences may be slight. The more Awakenings One has the more the form is altered. Therapy and things of that nature are within duality - it can work within its context - but it cannot compare to God realization. In the end with therapy you are just talking to yourself and ultimately you must fix your own problems. Any who dispute this have not awakened. With ego transcendence you can lose the fear of death. It is possible. It is also possible to view the fear of death, while you still have it, as healthy - because you are conscious that death is Bliss - and also conscious that you as the ego still fear it.

Form is form. It is a particular way. It can be short, tall - skinny, fat. It can have illness..it can be "healthy". It is a particular way. Enlightenment collapses this particular possibility into pure potential. But as pure potential you simultaneously have certain realizations as the Absolute. During this blissful non-dual state all form dissipates as does all related with form. God is Absolute perfection. On the gradual collapse back into form you have passageway into the formless. You have broken through the gateless gate or impenetrable barrier. This pathway is now open. Awareness expands. The miracle of Oneness happens. As you are no longer the same form - your old form died and now you are reborn as new form - so too has all things related to your form. This can include illnesses. There is change everywhere in your form. Because you are now a different form.

Yes your ego will come in and want to twist enlightenment for it's own deluded needs simply to move you away from ever discovering Truth. The simplest answer is to be in a state of not knowing. When mediating simply try to be present and free of thought. Notice thoughts will appear but just let them go and bring awareness back on awareness itself. This will allow you to connect with Being - the formless. For me the path was to start with self inquiry that allowed me to become conscious that i was consciousness. But i did the do nothing no mind meditation as well and still do. That's all i do these days. If egoic selfish thoughts come in go meta and dismiss them. Then move on. Keep the mind open and do not be triggered by your own ego.

@Hellspeed maybe its completely unrelated - i have OCD and have been gradually more conscious even without enlightenent. But after liberation it seemed to become much easier and less severe - and that is simply through the miracle of God realization. This whole thing including yourself is being imagined by yourself. God can do whatever he/it wants. So be careful to put limitations on God.

Enlightenment will not cure you of your addictions, mental illnesses etc. But you will be more conscious of them and more self aware of what triggers them and when they happen. That in itself as well as realizing you are God can lessen their severity to a degree but it will not be the cure. You will have to do your own work on that which can take decades. So yes it can help but isn't the end all be all fix.

@karkaore Yes. Think of your ego as a possibility which plays out in some type of form or particular way. When you have the first awakening/mystical experience/mystical shift in consciousness. The ego/relative/duality collapses leaving non-duality - pure Being/pure potential. In that state you are pure isness. Ultimately you will collapse from the Absolute back to the relative. Back to your ego. From the Ego's perspective now you can only imagine the experience of Pure Being. You are not being it any longer. Yes you are being it, but as form or a particular possibility which is within the formlessn or Infinite Potential. The formless just is itself (no form) After many awakenings and many realizations you are really opened up and can feel Kundalini or Being all the time. You also have a sense of non-dual awareness. (There is more to that but i won't touch on here) But you still cannot be pure Being (non-dual formlessness or pure potential) while you are being a particular form or possibility. Thats what i mean by being in your current dual state.

It doesn't stop there. You should be skeptical of your OWN mind! Have you seen his series on Self Deception?

@karkaore its concept and imagination for you currently. But it's there because you are open minded. (Even though you are Being IT right now) And notice too unless you are presently in a non-dual state it is concept to those who are enlightened. And when you are only Being or Formless you are not form. The difference with enlightenent is that you die and become the Absolute. As the Absolute, Absolute Truths are revealed. You are reborn but no longer the same. However when in dual state those Absolutes are still concept to you...it's just that you are aware of them as Absolutes. That is non-dual awareness without being the formless. It's very tricky.

@Rilles are you sure you can stomach the realizations that will come after death? Be ready

@Nahm Disclaimer - God is now entering the realm of duality with this post. "I" Love you too! If i did misunderstand then dually noted.

@Nahm who is there to convince? We can play these games all day and see how language simply dissolves and breaks down. It cannot capture the Absolute. Lets not conflate relative/duality with non-duality the Absolute.

@Neorez right is relative. But there are Absolute Truths which is identical to the One Absolute. All is One.

Listen to music while meditating. Sit with the feeling of Kundalini or Being as i call it and try to be free of thought. Try to not know. That is Love and Love is Bliss.

Indeed the raw feeling of Love prior to thought is the same Love as Absolute Love. Its when you make it relative through thought that it splits into the part. Nothing wrong with the part either.