VeganAwake

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?

Rupert Spira thinks that the meaning of life is to find happiness...he is a smart man!! For me personally existence = meaning = being...

Those are good ones...yeah definitely no limits to the potential. Thanks for sharing ❤

I guess I would say my meaning to existence is existence itself as in you can't lose or win so it's just neutral. Zero for me, being and isness is enough. It's just nothing and everything.

@Beginner Mind also along with staying present remember to accept your current situation... a lot of pain and suffering comes from resisting the present moment like Eckhart Tolle talks about. For example if you don't currently feel happy just accept it, don't resist it. In a sense this brings true happiness. There can't be good without the bad there can't be light without the dark there can't be up without the down and so on.

@Thewritersunion are they yin and yang lol I crack myself up. Life is good!! No seriously what are your 2?

We definitely need to balance things out there could be a way where we can let the animals live out their whole life help us fertilize the plants and not keep breeding animals just to use them as food. They should be able to walk on a path eating lots of tasty plants along the way shiting and fertilizing the soil somehow getting a chance to mate naturally things like that. Maybe the future really is that lab meat.

@King Merk This is an amazing video that does a great job describing some of what you have been asking. Yes you're right it's a falling away process not a gaining of knowledge... I like the way Osho explained it: The further the distance is from your current self to your future self is more space for the ego to grow. Great inquiries ❤ ❤

Jesus says: Unless you are born again you shall not enter into my kingdom of God. A kind of rebirth is needed. The ordinary birth is the birth of the bodymind mechanism, but your spirit is only a potential - it has to be actualized. Abraham Maslow has called this process self-actualization. Gautam Buddha would call the same process "no-self actualization." Abraham Maslow has no idea of the ultimate; he is thinking about it, speculating about it. He has stumbled upon a certain truth, but he does not know how to express it. He has not experienced it himself; it is only an intellectual understanding, hence he calls it "self-actualization." But in that ultimate flowering the first thing that disappears is the self. In fact, the self is the only barrier for that flowering. The self is the hindrance, not the help. The self surrounds you like a wall; it is not the bridge. When you are really born, born to life or to God - to me both are synonymous - you are no more, no more as you understand yourself to be. A pure emptiness prevails, an utter void prevails, a silence which is soundless. A music is there certainly, but without any sound. The Zen people call it the sound of one hand clapping. That no-self is your original face. When you are not, you are, and you are for the first time. If Abraham Maslow had experienced the ultimate state of flowering he would never have called it self-actualization; he would have called it "no-self actualization." You are born as a self, as an ego. This is the seed and the seed has to disappear before the sprout can start growing. The seed has to die in the soil; then and only then the life that is hidden inside the seed will start manifesting itself.

They can already grow meat in labs and I'm sure soon they'll make it with higher protein and less saturated fat with lots of extra amino acids for healthier consumption. Sounds kind of weird but that will probably be the future of meat consumption or it will just go to mostly plants like the impossible burger or something like that.

It's meaningful in its meaninglessness enough said hahaha.... we're all saying the same thing I think?

@King Merk you have experienced truth my friend don't doubt yourself remember the ego always wants more more more. The further the space from your current self to your future self is more space for the ego to grow. Let things unfold on their own they will. If you've had the Deep realization you described it will happen regardless. Good luck my friend!!

For me I feel like the whole eating meat process(the way most people do) is unnatural. They breed these animals take them away from their mothers almost immediately and then fatten them up as fast as possible to turn a profit. I honestly feel like I love animals too much to eat them when there's other options. This is a very tough topic to describe for myself I feel like it almost goes beyond my understanding.

A lot of talk on here about right or wrong doings and self-improvement you are already perfect there are no right or wrong paths or anything that needs to happen, but if you choose to change something about yourself that is fine also, the important part is that you understand you are already perfect, action and non-action are the same. There is only the Dao this is what's understood. There are three options when it comes to controling the present moment... the option to resist the option to accept or the option to attempt to change the current situation. These are the controls we have. Don't forget it's just a game!!

we are free we are free it was your own mind holding the jail cell key we can still play the Divine game of Lila and it's fun and it's good enough for we...