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@LfcCharlie4 I was a very hardcore seeker and burning myself out. One day I was sitting at my desk in my room, and I realized I must have come across the answer already, I listened to hundreds a videos and spent hundreds of hours seeking. I asked myself what am I missing? I kept remembering several gurus explaining it's a falling away process not a gaining of knowledge. I can't remember which one of Leo's videos helped me but it was a deep self enquiry where you kept asking yourself who this person was. The next day I started recognizing the person who I thought I was, was simply a bunch of manufactured ideas beliefs and perceptions I had about myself, none of them were actually true... I recognized one person could think I'm nice one person can think I'm mean another person could think I'm jealous another person might think I'm flattering. They were all just made up ideas and beliefs of someone's conditioned perception, none of these stories were my true self. To make a long story short I recognized it was all just a belief about who I thought I was... all these labels and beliefs I had about myself simply started falling away and I began feeling very light and empty inside. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of the illusory sense the self, and the recognizing that there is no beginning or end to where you exist. Any teacher that is not describing this information I spoke about above either has Financial interest in you not understanding, or does not understand what enlightenment actually is.

Well there is no ME that finds anyone... that's recognized to be an illusion. Remember Enlightenment isn't a gaining of knowledge... it's a seeing through the illusory sense of self, and that apparent sense of self dissolving. The only useful thing that can be found during seeking is recognizing it's a falling away process. Any gaining of knowledge for the illusory separate sense of ME, just perpetuates the illusion otherwise known as Maya. ?

Yeah it's realizing there was never a separate me to begin with and all the suffering that happened in the past was a simple misidentification as the personal self inside the body. Awakening is the personal me falling away. It's also recognized there was never a personal me to begin with. Nobody gets to awaken and keep the personal ME because there never was one. It was Maya all along ?

@mandyjw ❤ it's definitely a wild ride

Nothing matters... Even to say nothing matters is just perpetuating the belief that there is a separate mind apart from Oneness that understands nothing matters. I personally believe that the Mind is subconsciously aware of its own unreality, therefore it takes us on a journey to validate its own existence. This journey is what I call running on the hamster wheel. There are endless ways to upgrade your hamster wheel: They have the Platinum hamster wheel; the gold bling bling boda Ching hamster wheel; there's the new age hamster wheel with the I love the ego sticker still attached; and let's not forget the lowrider hamster wheel that comes with Mexican hamster girlfriend telling you good job essay you're making lots of progress...? The constant seeking isn't the problem, it's believing that you can find the answer outside of yourself which is the problem. What is being looked for is already the case it's already THIS... it's already what is. THIS is what is being search for. The recognition that nothing matters and there's no purpose or meaning to life isn't a bad thing... it's the opposite.. see if something mattered or had purpose there would be a goal to achieve... you see that would not be complete freedom... that would imply a goal needs to be met... No this freedom is so free so meaningless so purposeless we cannot even comprehend... it's absolute complete boundless freedom ❤ it's Love it's Liberation it's Enlightenment. Its THIS... And it has always been the case ❤

He definitely says some interesting things, I generally don't rule out anything anyone says because it usually comes back to bite me in the butt.. I find a kernel of Truth in every statement if understood from a certain angle. Non-duality is simply what IS. When the illusion of the self completely dissolves it's recognized we Are The Source itself and separate from nothing. Here is my opinion of what Awakening is: Completely seeing through the illusion of the self. Recognizing we are the absolute experiencing ourselves. Now in my opinion realization is not liberation. Here's my opinion of what enlightenment is: Completely recognizing the mechanism that creates suffering. At this point the ignorance is dispelled; the tricks of the Mind are completely seen through. Unconditional love is embodied because the mechanism of suffering and feelings of separation is understood. Like Jesus said: "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do". Things are not taken personal anymore because the cause of suffering is completely understood. It's a complete embodying and clearing up of what's recognized during the big Awakening. ❤

This guy is much more awake than bologna octopus

Yeah he seems like such a nice guy but by the time it takes him to explain anything I feel like riding a unicorn to the Stars and saying f*** it I don't care anymore it ain't worth it.... Or just listen to Jim Newman who gets right to the point..

Or, Me me me, Me me me me me me Me me me me me me Me me me me me me Me me me me me me- me (me me me)

ME be like, ME want ME to want ME, ME need ME to need ME, ME love ME to love ME, ME begging ME to beg ME-ME (ME ME, ME)

Well I believe the survival of the body was recognized to be Numero Uno so that became the mind's Main focus... It's really just a matter of swinging the pendulum back the other direction of bit. The mind can be of great service to humanity when it understands it's not the separate entity it once thought it was....❤

If you are truly awake you can dive back into the illusion deep for some good entertainment. Truth like an air bubble will always arise to the surface eventually though.. This is called the Divine game of Leila... dabbling back in Duality for entertainment. I love watching movies to catch the meaning of love as the center of each movie. No matter what movie it is the love can always be noticed.

Yes....Once the illusion of the self is completely seen through there is no going back the bucket never again holds water because the bottom has fallen out without a doubt. The interesting thing about Awakening is once it occurs it's recognized the self never existed it was always an illusion or Maya..... Really its just a big glob of thoughts and feelings getting tangled up together within the human body construct and generating an illusory self out of this glob... when it's recognized it's actually laughable. Like Leo says things aren't taken personal anymore every child is your child. Everyone is you ?

Well there is no going back because the prison cell is realized to be illusory ? You could get conked on the head hard enough I suppose hehe

Haha that makes sense.. I'm glad you enjoyed it. ❤ The hamster wheel can also be described as a prison. You can decorate your prison cell but it will not assist in liberation..

Gosh I always feel like I'm talking to myself, hardly ever any responses...oh wait ?

Everything is pure, everything is perfection there is no right or wrong. Whether awakening occurs or not does not matter. Only a mind creates the need for purpose or meaning. If you can recognize that nothing matters you will be home ❤

"In today's world, the vast majority of people who are engaged in religious or spiritual practices, such as yoga, prayer, meditation, chanting, or any kind of ritual, are practising techniques which are conditioned. Which means they are just part of the ego construct. The seeking and the activity isn't the problem; thinking you have found the answer in some external form is the problem. Spirituality in its most common form is no different than pathological thinking that is going on everywhere. It is further agitation of the mind. More human doing, as opposed to human being. The ego construct wants more money, more power, more love, more of everything. Those on the so called spiritual path desires to be more spiritual, more awake, more equanimous, more peaceful, more enlightened. Whenever there is a desire to attain something, you can be sure it is the ego construct at work. Samadhi is not about attaining or adding something more to yourself. To realize Samadhi is to learn to die before you die. Life and death are like yin and yang, an inseparable continuum endlessly unfolding with no beginning and no end. When we push away death, we also push away life. When you experience the truth directly of who you are, there is no longer any fear or life or death. We are told who we are by our society and our culture, and at the same time we are slaves to the deeper unconscious biological cravings and aversions that govern our choices. The ego construct is nothing more than the impulse to repeat. It is simply the path that energy once took, and the tendency for the energy to take that path again, whether it is negative or positive for the organism". - Samadhi (Maya illusion of the self) Part 1

And paradoxically there is nothing that is not the way either. Before the way is recognized, any step is in the wrong direction. After the way is recognized there isn't a wrong direction. ❤

Lol... I like that ❤ And at the end of the play and while drinking champagne backstage, The Masks will be removed to reveal there was only one actor all along, but it sure was the best show in town..?

All I recommend is meditation and turning within and asking yourself Who am I? And where does this ME reside within the body?

The biggest confusion with ego that I see on this forum is the belief that someone is saying you need to kill the ego. No one is saying you need to kill the ego... that's not how it works at all...❤

That's what I'm telling you to do and stop all the practices talk...? the seeking perpetuates the belief you are separate and lacking something that you don't already have.❤

You are already home my friend you never left it was just Maya all along. The separation from God never occurred it was all Just an Illusion. There cannot be a path anywhere because you are already there and it's THIS and its perfect... all that's required is to recognize it ❤ See the game is Oneness doesn't recognize its Oneness and continues seeking Oneness within Oneness. Oneness actually creates the only Duality that could ever exist by seeking Oneness inside of itself. As long as Oneness keeps seeking for Oneness, it perpetuates the belief that its separate from itself. It's the running on the hamster wheel effect. It's time to get off the hamster wheel and realize you are already home.. There was never a separate you inside the body it was just oneness entangled within the human experience. There is nothing wrong with it, if you want to stay entangled that's just fine, that's just Oneness experiencing itself in the finite. It's all simply THIS...❤