VeganAwake

Staying at the Roadway Inn or staying at Four Seasons! ♥

It's just another word describing enlightenment like liberation, nirvana, samadhi and such!, ♥

I would imagine Insanity to feel heavy and burdensome. Where as enlightenment feels light and frothy like a vanilla cappuccino free floating! ♥

Yeah the body will still experience physical pain and avoid it.....there just isn't a you inside of it doing that or experiencing anything.....it's an illusion of self! ? ♥

Oh it's much weirder than that. There isn't even a you in which could escape it! Nothing is actually happening even though it appears to be. It can't get any more absurd! ♥

Well the individual that thinks it's currently alive and will eventually die and thinks that finding answers to these questions will somehow be advantageous to it..... is an illusion of self meaning it's not real. So in that sense nothing matters in any way at all and that's the freedom Enlightenment reveals. It can also seem stupid ridiculous a waste or whatever... ♥

THIS is already the end and simultaneously nothing ever started/happened, the individual that feels like it's moving on a progressive spiritual path from birth to death is the illusion of self or maya. This entity called 'ME' is already not there! When that physical body dies, the illusion of self will never even know it seemed to exist & it actually didn't. Liberation is freedom from these conditioned concerns but for No One! ♥

Well Its always just what seems to be happening! Watching TV, drinking a beer, becoming a mouse, being bored, making a video ? ♥

It can just be a simple recognition that the individual desperately attempting to wake up, isn't really there! It has nothing to do with someone becoming enlightened....it's the end of being a separate someone altogether! ♥

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It's the end of suffering in the sense that it's the clear revelation that the sufferer was an illusion of self identity. So it's not that a someone stops suffering, rather it's the end of the needy someone altogether..... it's the end of the individual needing things to be one way or another! ♥

Bro something you have to understand is there's no real traps because there's no real meaning or purpose to apparent reality. You simply can't go down the right or wrong path when there isn't one to begin with. So what if someone is trying to push their beliefs and concepts on to you, you already know they're just concepts and beliefs..... I get it, there seems to be paths closer to truth and further away from truth.....it's all BS. The idea that there is somebody doing the right or wrong thing is the illusion of self! The Matrix or dream story is literally the experience of being a someone going down the right or wrong path. ♥

If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. - ET ♥

Enlightenment doesn't answer any how's or why's, rather it bluntly confronts the apparent questioner with "who is asking" What is this 'me' character that wants to KNOW so badly, what does it consist of? Like taking a fresh outside look at these inner behaviors and needs! ♥

The seeking for something called Truth ends up being a completely egoic driven endeavor..... it's always about "if I know the truth MY life will be better" and it will even disguise the purpose of said endeavors as also making everyone else's lives better as well! The sense of self is the constant need or desire to try to make things better than the current experience. The seeking literally makes it seem like it's somewhere else....it's actually hilarious when the whole apparent predicament is seen through! There's nothing right or wrong with being content or discontent.... yep it's that free! ♥

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Awakening is the end of the personalized experience of "I am here" "I am witnessing" "I am real" & "I need to know THIS". What apparently happens is the "sense of being a someone" dissolves and then there's just BOOM, an explosion of light, color and sound, seemingly empty & simultaneously full, but for nobody! Immediately empty of meaning and purpose & yet full of phenomenon. Liberation isn't freedom for a "someone" to experiences or attain, it's just pure freedom realized as having always been the case. And since it's already the case, there isn't a real need or a real "someone" in which could make what's already happening, happen. It ends up being an indescribable non-happening or unbecoming! Enlightenment isn't the end of the apparent physical phenomena, it's the end of the needy "individual" experiencing separation and lack. It's the end of the "someone" which never actually existed! It's the end of the "truth seeker" that so desperately wants to know How & Why. It's even the end of the concept of infinity because there is nothing and no one for something to be infinite for! The cosmic joke of so-called enlightenment is that when it seems to occur, nothing actually did! It's just what seems to be happening THIS. ❤

Bahaha..... this is why I love this forum! I f****** love leo's brutal honesty sometimes. Should do a Q&A episode of people on The Forum asking questions and you answering them. ♥

Well it's just that it's not a teaching or a belief system, it's the end of a "you" in which could hold or have a belief system....it's the freedom from those conditioned and conceptual belief systems. Enlightenment is just not a something that a someone attains or reaches after enough meditation or spiritual practices. It's the clear recognition that the very individual attempting to find or become awakened in the firstplace, isn’t real & never actually existed.....it only seemed to be!! It's the end of the veganawake character that would dislike a post. It's fairly rare from what I've seen ? ♥

It's the physical and mental experience of being a real individual(me) localized as or within the body. That very same illusion of self will also identify as the higher self or as god or whatever it needs to keep itself intact. ♥

Empty and full Empty of meaning/purpose, full of everything!

There isn't a you that's confused or could become awake! That's the revelation....that's the freedom! ♥

Reality is infinite and described often as singular or one because there never was a real separate individual to begin with.... not in this body and not in any of them, it was just an illusion of self, an illusion of ownership and doership! Reality is unknowable in the sense that it can't be described or put in a box and checked off as understood or hung on a nail. And there is no answer to why that is needed! ♥

Yes it's as if it places an overlay of meaning purpose and value over top of reality and functions from that perspective.... Everything feels personal! The sense of self will create all kinds of mystical and fantastic stories about what enlightenment is or would be like....& it thinks there will be a firework show when it's finally attained! ♥

Nah bro that's just spiritual ego which simply can't fathom its own unreality! Enlightenment has nothing to do with learning a bunch of spiritual concepts/beliefs and attempting to make sense of it while convincing apparent others of its truth. It's the end of those attempts through the clear recognition that the attemptor was never real from the start! The biggest problem for the ego is death, so it will create any kind of delusion in which it can convince itself of its eternal existence! And the cosmic joke is it's already not real! ♥