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Thank you for your comment and yes you are right to be wary anything anyone says can be contradicted and will return to 0. That's why words cannot describe enlightenment, the great way the pathless path or the gateless gate. Any direction other than the middle appears to be the wrong direction, and simultaneously there is no wrong direction. It's a paradoxical mind f*** we're at the end of the day I just surrender and be. I did mention my perceived limitations were in my experience. Obviously someone who has all the answers needs to ask no questions. I'm simply here to help and just another sign pointing...always trust in your heart at the end of the day. I honestly love how dedicated you are if you ever want to chat hit me up on private message I'm around ❤ Have a good day my friend!!

From Samadhi movie: 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. It’s important to note that when we accept reality as it is, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we stop taking action in the world, or we become meditating pacifists. Actually the opposite can be true; when we’re free to act without being driven by unconscious motives, then it is possible to act in alignment with the Tao, with the full force of our inner energy behind us.

The gateless gate is referring to Enlightenment itself...it is the description of when you fully drop the egoic self agenda and who you think you are and realize your true self that its always been. There's a saying in samadhi nobody can enter the gateless gate so be nobody. The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.( this is a good one too)

Sure we have free will I can decide whether to have a cup of coffee or kill myself that's pretty free. "The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself." Albert Camus I'm not suicidal or anything I just found that interesting. Enlightenment is freedom from your own mind freedom from the egoic self agenda... a person is no longer a slave to their mind ...you are free to be yourself like a young child deciding to play with a certain toy just because he or she wants to. Just being is enough and yes it feels free. I could strive to be the president of the United States or be a couch potato for the rest of my life. There are no shoulds or should not's... no ego that needs anything, if I do something it's simply because I just want to and if I don't it's because I don't want to, simple as that. Enlightenment doesn't give you all the secrets of the universe and God and anybody that claims that it does, I would be weary of. You feel complete and fully conscious and one with the divine but it does not give you everything in my experience. Enlightenment was less than a year ago so I will keep you posted if I find out anything else haha. as far as free will it really does depend on what your definition is. They're obviously biological limitations like being human and living on a planet with gravity and of course the rules and regulations of your Society.

I understand yes it sounds like you are accepting the present moment which is great. The resistance to what is is what causes a lot of pain and suffering. Just realize that you are not the story you've allowed yourself to believe about yourself you are already Enlightenment itself and just haven't been able to see it. Continuing quieting the mind practices and turn within and continue asking yourself who you really are that's my best advice. I'm glad to hear you're so accepting of yourself ❤ ...

Yes meditation is a great tool to still the mind noise. Nothing ever spoken is actually Awakening the map is not the territory. The message I posted is about dropping the egoic self agenda and surrendering altogether. Who you really are is something that doesn't change. Remember something I've told you in the past the biggest obstacle to Discovery is not ignorance it's the illusion of knowledge simply put if you think you already know the path you will not go through the difficult task of dropping the egoic self agenda all together. This work requires a full emptying of the glass not partial. Remember at the end of the day nobody becomes awakened because you realize you are nobody. This work is definitely not for everybody like Leo says. I also post multiple things because everybody reacts differently to certain material there's not exactly one way to awaken. I love how dedicated you are and yes meditation is a very helpful tool ❤ ❤ PS.. my work is true enlightenment material.

I love you all ❤ The path to freedom is not self improvement, or somehow satisfying the self’s agenda, but it’s a dropping of the self’s agenda altogether. Some people fear that awakening their true nature will mean that they lose their individuality and enjoyment of life. Actually, the opposite is true; the unique individuation of the soul can only be expressed when the conditioned self is overcome. Because we remain asleep in the matrix most of us never find out what the soul actually wants to express. The path to Samadhi involves meditation, which is both observing the conditioned self; that which changes, and realizing your true nature; that which does not change. When you come to your still point, the source of your being, then you await further instructions without any insistence on how your outer world has to change. Not my will, but higher will be done.

Before it becomes possible to awaken, it is necessary to accept that you are asleep, living in the matrix. Examine your life honestly, without lying to yourself. Are you able to stop your robotic, repetitive life patterns if you want to? Can you stop seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, are you addicted to certain foods, activities, pastimes? Are you constantly judging, blaming, criticizing yourself and others? Does your mind incessantly seek out stimulus, or are you completely fulfilled just being in silence? Do you react to how people think about you? Are you seeking approval, positive reinforcement? Do you somehow sabotage situations in your life? Most people will experience their lives the same way today as they will tomorrow and a year from now, and ten years from now. When you begin to observe your robot-like nature you become more awake. You begin to recognize the depth of the problem. You are completely and utterly asleep, lost in a dream. Like the inhabitants of Plato’s cave, most who hear this truth will not be willing or capable of changing their lives because they are attached to their familiar patterns. We go to great lengths justifying our patterns, burying our heads in the sand rather than facing the truth. We want our saviors, but we are not willing to get up on the cross ourselves. What are you willing to pay to be free? Realize that if you change your inner world, you must be prepared to change the outer life. Your old structure and your old identity must become the dead soil out of which new growth comes. The first step to awakening is to realize that we are identified with the matrix of the human mind, with the mask. Something within us must hear this truth and be roused from its slumber. There is a part of you, something timeless, that has always known the truth. The matrix of the mind distracts us, entertains us, keeps us endlessly doing, consuming, grasping, in a cycle of craving and aversion with constantly changing forms, keeping us from the flowering of our consciousness, from our evolutionary birthright which is Samadhi. Pathological thinking is what passes for normal life. Your divine essence has become enslaved, identified with the limited self structure. The great wisdom, the truth of who you are is buried deep within your being. J. Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of one’s health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Identification with the egoic mind is the sickness and Samadhi is the cure. The saints, sages and awakened beings throughout history have all learned the wisdom of self-surrender. How is it possible to realize the true self? When you peer through the veil of Maya, and let go of the illusory self, what is left?

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-protein-combining-myth/ The Protein-Combining Myth Michael Greger M.D. FACLM April 25th, 2016 Volume 30 The myth that plant proteins are incomplete, necessitating protein combining, was debunked by the scientific nutrition community decades ago. All nutrients come from the sun or the soil. Vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin,” is created when skin is exposed to sunlight. Everything else comes from the ground. Minerals originate from the earth, and vitamins from the plants and micro-organisms that grow from it. The calcium in a cow’s milk (and her 200-pound skeleton) came from all the plants she ate, which drew it up from the soil. We can cut out the middle-moo, though, and get calcium from the plants directly. Where do you get your protein? Protein contains essential amino acids, meaning our bodies can’t make them; and so, they are essential to get from our diet. But other animals don’t make them either. All essential amino acids originate from plants (and microbes), and all plant proteins have all essential amino acids. The only truly “incomplete” protein in the food supply is gelatin, which is missing the amino acid tryptophan. So, the only protein source that you couldn’t live on is Jell-O. As I covered previously, those eating plant-based diets average about twice the estimated average daily protein requirement. Those who don’t know where to get protein on a plant-based diet don’t know beans! Get it? That’s protein quantity, though, but what about protein quality? The concept that plant protein was inferior to animal protein arose from studies performed on rodents more than a century ago. Scientists found that infant rats don’t grow as well on plants. But infant rats don’t grow as well on human breast milk either; so, does that mean we shouldn’t breastfeed our babies? Ridiculous! They’re rats. Rat milk has ten times more protein than human milk, because rats grow about ten times faster than human infants. It is true that some plant proteins are relatively low in certain essential amino acids. So, about 40 years ago, the myth of “protein combining” came into vogue—literally, the February ‘75 issue of Vogue magazine. The concept was that we needed to eat “complementary proteins” together, for example, rice and beans, to make up for their relative shortfalls. This fallacy was refuted decades ago. The myth that plant proteins are incomplete, that plant proteins aren’t as good, that one has to combine proteins at meals—these have all been dismissed by the nutrition community as myths decades ago, but many in medicine evidently didn’t get the memo. Dr. John McDougall called out the American Heart Association for a 2001 publication that questioned the completeness of plant proteins. Thankfully though, they’ve changed and acknowledged that, “Plant proteins can provide all the essential amino acids, no need to combine complementary proteins.” It turns out our body maintains pools of free amino acids that it can use to do all the complementing for us, not to mention the massive protein recycling program our body has. Some 90 grams of protein are dumped into the digestive tract every day from our own body to get broken back down and reassembled, and so our body can mix and match amino acids to whatever proportions we need, whatever we eat, making it practically impossible to even design a diet of whole plant foods that’s sufficient in calories, but deficient in protein. Thus, plant-based consumers do not need to be at all concerned about amino acid imbalances from the plant proteins that make up our usual diets.

@Aaron p ❤ ❤

My claim is that Queen was a perfect balance of masculine and feminine energy in every single way and equals 0... What do you guys think?

Before it becomes possible to awaken, it is necessary to accept that you are asleep, living in the matrix. Examine your life honestly, without lying to yourself. Are you able to stop your robotic, repetitive life patterns if you want to? Can you stop seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, are you addicted to certain foods, activities, pastimes? Are you constantly judging, blaming, criticizing yourself and others? Does your mind incessantly seek out stimulus, or are you completely fulfilled just being in silence? Do you react to how people think about you? Are you seeking approval, positive reinforcement? Do you somehow sabotage situations in your life? Most people will experience their lives the same way today as they will tomorrow and a year from now, and ten years from now. When you begin to observe your robot-like nature you become more awake. You begin to recognize the depth of the problem. You are completely and utterly asleep, lost in a dream. Like the inhabitants of Plato’s cave, most who hear this truth will not be willing or capable of changing their lives because they are attached to their familiar patterns. We go to great lengths justifying our patterns, burying our heads in the sand rather than facing the truth. We want our saviors, but we are not willing to get up on the cross ourselves. What are you willing to pay to be free? Realize that if you change your inner world, you must be prepared to change the outer life. Your old structure and your old identity must become the dead soil out of which new growth comes. The first step to awakening is to realize that we are identified with the matrix of the human mind, with the mask. Something within us must hear this truth and be roused from its slumber. There is a part of you, something timeless, that has always known the truth. The matrix of the mind distracts us, entertains us, keeps us endlessly doing, consuming, grasping, in a cycle of craving and aversion with constantly changing forms, keeping us from the flowering of our consciousness, from our evolutionary birthright which is Samadhi. Pathological thinking is what passes for normal life. Your divine essence has become enslaved, identified with the limited self structure. The great wisdom, the truth of who you are is buried deep within your being. J. Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of one’s health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Identification with the egoic mind is the sickness and Samadhi is the cure. The saints, sages and awakened beings throughout history have all learned the wisdom of self-surrender. How is it possible to realize the true self? When you peer through the veil of Maya, and let go of the illusory self, what is left?

Yep give the meds a shot...nothing to lose everything to gain...

Daddy, he once told me, "Son, you be hard workin' man" And Momma, she once told me, "Son, you do the best you can" But then, one day, I met a man who came to me and said: "Hard work good and hard work fine, but first take care of head"

I thought it could be helpful to mention that a few months prior to some of my biggest Awakening experiences I had done a 90-minute float tank session which seemed to help me really let go afterwards during my meditation. And also that I was meditating more frequently than for long periods of time.. for example I would meditate for 10 minutes every few hours throughout the day on top of my 20 min evening meditation. The quieting of the Mind throughout the day really seem to help me now that I'm thinking about it. I didn't want to forget to tell you all. Maybe staggering and mixing up your meditation practice is a good idea every now and then. I would definitely recommend the float tank although nothing is really a prerequisite for awakening it's just what helped me. PS the float tank was cheap and at one point I felt like all my muscles gave in and I turned into a baby in a womb and kind of curled up it was really wild. Amazing relaxation experience though all together. Have any of you experienced anything like this after the float tank or just during meditation?

@The Don thanks for sharing great topic I was curious do you take medication for your depression?

A serious must see....

Thank you ❤ ❤ I am nothing and everything I am the never step in the same river twice and simultaneously the entire ocean. There is no story here just being. We are the that in which we are searching. Perfection forgetting its perfect and seeking outwardly for answers...turn within and Remember Who You Are!!

He has such a great message to stay present and remember who you are!!

Yes I believe Enlightenment is all about being free to be yourself and just do in the spontaneous moment without being attached or requiring things to be a certain way.. they are as they are... dropping the resistance to the current situations. Keeping on the middle path in the present moment as the Observer. It's a beautiful pathless path.

I did this as an experiment to see how I would feel if I believed there was no afterlife or consciousness that continued after physical body death and strangely enough I was fine with it. Either way I've realized I've surrendered to what is so the worry and suffering simply are not there. Interesting right!! Thank you for your comment ❤

We are purely coincidental Evolved Smart Energy from the big bang. There is no meaning to life no purpose it is sheer luck that we are alive evolving and conscious on this planet as of now. We will not continue living on forever, when it's lights out, its lights out. If there is a God it is not involved in our lives and evolution whatsoever. Everything is not about love that's just made up fiction to make ourselves feel warm and comforted inside. You are on a floating sphere of luckiness and need to stop worrying about s*** and just live. We have evolved from our great ape ancestors and that's why we are one of the few mammals that can actually die from being vitamin C deficient. We are naturally frugivores and meant to eat mainly fruit and plant foods, and this is why when most people switch to a raw vegan diet they have so many health benefits and can reverse heart disease. Our egos are simply dysfunctional survival mechanisms that ran rampant and should still be tamed and seen for what they are. The Bible is a made-up story from idiots that didn't know what they were talking about. I wish I had better news for most of you although in a certain aspect this is the best news ever because now you can stop wasting the present moments and go and enjoy your life stop worrying about getting enlightened and all this nonsense it doesn't matter. Go live life you are free I tell you and in a since you can call yourself Gods because we are the most evolved living creatures in the universe. ENJOY!!! Ps this was just a thought I wanted to put out there. Its not my truth. What do you guys think?