VeganAwake

"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...❤

There isn't anywhere it's not. It's the canvas and the artist.

It feels like some kind of unknowable Smart Energy with no limitations. Pure potential with no beginning and no end, it's what IS. Some kind of pregnant nothingness. It's an everything and a nothing. There is nothing that it's not, it's the all encompassing. It's absolute perfection. It's infinite. It's meaningless and means everything. Its THIS ❤

@LfcCharlie4 ❤ thought u would ?

@LfcCharlie4 hey shipmate haha we say that in the Navy.... I had a feeling you would really like what she has to say ❤

You said it as perfect as language can allow ❤ Thank you my friend ?

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We are in good company. ?

Sweet...perfect...? It's going to be a good evening❤

Ahh love you guys 2 ❤ Just a miller lite lol ? Haha I typed in frown and this is what came up...? haha.. I was joking with the teaming up on the vegan thing ? love you both hehe

Yes totally agree Different Strokes for different folks.. from what I've read about him he's a true master ❤ A glimpse or a mystical experience doesn't usually cut it though, the illusion(Maya) has to be completely seen through and embodied sort of speak. The ego does not give up easily... Anyone can return home it's just whether you were truly riding the ox or not. PS stop teaming up on a vegan that's weak sauce..

Right... yeah I fell asleep watching a non-duality video on YouTube and woke up to this guy... his words were so true it woke me out of a deep slumber...had to share ❤

@LfcCharlie4 Thanks for sharing that with me ❤ and I understand you using going full circle term now. ? I've read similar books, their post Enlightenment guides. In this books case the Absolute is referring to THIS. I totally agree non-duality and duality that are just words pointing... their meanings are only as good as the understanding that THIS or the Absolute is all there is. It sounds like we are actually in very similar circumstances. What I find quite interesting is just within the last month I have basically been settling back into normal life. It's been a return home as the same person and at the same time completely new. ? The only concern I would have is for people reading this book who haven't completely seen through the illusion of Maya transitioning back into duality as a way to escape the difficult work of completely seeing through the illusion and untangling from social conditioning and snapping out of The Matrix. It is similar to what I was talking about with trying to bring the ego with you through enlightenment... it simply does not work that way. The ME can never become Enlightened, because Enlightenment is seeing the ME never existed. ❤

If you believe everything is the self or one that's describing non-duality not duality. It's difficult to fully grasp Oneness or non-duality from a dual perspective. It's kind of a mind f*** because people will be describing Oneness and trying to embrace it while still believing there a separate self. You can believe you're a separate Drop in the Ocean all you want but that doesn't make it true. The separation never occurred. ❤

To see perfection in everything ❤

Haha this was hilarious. ❤ Nice post ?

okay I got you bro yes the limitations of language and typing out that language can confuse things easily... a lot of what we are saying is very similar. Where I think we differ is what you describe as the personality, I describe as the human bodies conditioning and Oneness. When I had my first Awakening I recognized the personal sense of "ME" I believed myself to be was an illusion. Not kind of an illusion... Not a partial illusion... not 50% me 50% conditioning. A 100% complete seeing through the illusory sense of self otherwise known as Maya. It was recognized that not only does Travis not exist currently, he never existed period. When this was completely seen through... the personal story of Travis dissolved... and just because I believed in the story of Travis does not make it ever true. There has never been a Travis or a Charlie looking out of these human bodies eyes. It was a mistaken identity. Oneness, God or the Absolute is experiencing itself through our bodies. Duality is an illusion because there was never a separation to begin with. It was just Maya ❤

Here are some takeaways from everything I said and the message that Jim Newman points to in bullet points: 1) There is no separate ME inside the body somewhere that is an illusion. 2) After Awakening occurs it is recognized the separate sense of me never existed. 3) Everything is real and unreal, it is everything and nothing appearing as the absolute. 4) You can play the character but that does not mean that's Duality...it is still Oneness pretending to be separate.( Duality is an illusion) 5) There's nothing experienced outside of THIS. If you've experienced something outside of THIS let me know. 6) Any experience outside of THIS is unknown. The experience of knowing is created by the separate sense of self. 7) The separate sense of self will never feel complete it will always seek something outside of itself to feel whole. Recognize its an illusion. 8) The conditioned body will still operate without the sense of ME present. Notice it will still turn its head when it's called, it will still jump out of the way if a snake is about to bite it, it will get food and water when it's thirsty or hungry. It can essentially run on autopilot and be observed doing so, it's quite interesting. 9) Nothing matters... there is no purpose or meaning to anything... only a mind creates matter, meaning and purpose. The personal ME lays down an overlay over reality and judges it and believes that it should be a certain way and sees it from its perspective. It believes that it all needs to mean something. 10) There is no free will or Choice things are just happening and the separate sense of me creates a story and makes it seem like it's in control of what's going on there is no control... but simultaneously is boundless freedom... Its THIS!! ❤ Fuckin nailed it...yeah right on oops that was my ego ?

@LfcCharlie4 I get what you mean bud ❤ I can spot the ego from a mile away because I used to be one. The ego is licking its chops and smiling when it hears you say life just begins at 1000 and there's so much more to do... this is quite literally what the ego does and how it survives. It knows if the seeking ends it will be out of business... Separation, guilt, incompleteness and Lack are the ego's business partners. Okay I'm keeping this one short bud... There is no one way is better than the other it's all part of THIS!! And that's completely fine...❤