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@Mikael89 Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death. Eckhart Tolle

Negativity and suffering can be a catalyst to take the plunge so yes you are correct... that was the case for me.

When you just said or is 2 days enough? you just put up a mini roadblock without even knowing it. That's how tricky the mind is. Now it will be just out of Arm's Reach because you have allowed yourself to believe 2 days may not be long enough. Cease believing your story for 2 days. Drop it all become nobody and find out who you really are. TRUST.....

@Jkris yes...think of it like this. When you are an innocent child you are pure and possess self love. As you get older you start acquiring all kinds of conditioned beliefs about who and what you are. Layers upon layers of illusion that we hold on to and call our selves. What I am pointing everyone to, is to completely cease holding on to this illusionary belief of the self. So it's essentially the falling Away of all the layers and labels of Maya and becoming like a new child again. Or to die before you die. That is why it's a completely internal event. To search for the answer outside of yourself is to move away from it. And as long as someone holds the belief that something external has to occur before the realization can happen... it will continue to stay just Out Of Reach.(the way that you ego likes it) With your kind of positive attitude open-mindedness and understanding you will have a better chance than most.

That is correct when you are awake your Consciousness shines through your masks. It's not that you're ego necessarily ever dissolves completely but it can be deflated that's why I use the analogy of asking your ego to sit down in a chair with its nose in the corner and that you no longer require its services. Absolutely good and evil are just conditioned thought patterns. The value given to them are the value they possess for you.

The roadblock is easy to identify when you sit back and observe. Your mind is making it a future event where if you just attain the right knowledge or correct amount of practices it will be the answer. This is not the answer this is the Trap of the mind it will always just be Out Of Reach. Cease adding any more tools to your tool bag and cease carrying around the heavy tool bag. It's not required. This is not just personal information. Dozens of Masters point to this ceasing. Why not try the ceasing to do. There is nothing to lose.

@zeroISinfinity yes continue meditation it quites the mind. Don't make it into a future goal that's a trick of the mind it will always just be Out Of Reach. You can realize it now.

@Mikael89 Think of it as a ceasing to believe who you are not, or a ceasing of being the knower. I know it sounds like an action of seeking but it's actually a non-action, and it is actually very easy once you catch on to it. When I mentioned diving into the abyss in my story, that was the non action of ceasing the hold on to my false self. I hope this helps... words can be very limiting and even confusing in this kind of work as we hear all the time. Remember the ego wants to do do do acquire acquire acquire gain gain gain more more more. Cease acquiring knowledge Cease the Seeking and turn within. Everything you need you already have!! I hope this helps!!

It is absolutely the pathless path to the gateless gate where nobody realizes they're everything.

@ajasatya it's kind of like the mind is programmed to acquire things. Like believing if I can just find that one piece of sacred Egyptian knowledge I will be able to attain Enlightenment...that is the ego or conditioned mind pattern. It doesn't like the answer to turn Within and let fall away. The ego knows that this will destroy it ...that's why it protects you from this with a lot of distractions and seeking outside of yourself. Let's be honest would you want to give your beautiful Ivory Tower of beliefs that you've collected your whole life away in one shot. No the ego doesn't like this... the ego says seek but do not find. This way you will feel like you're making progress while the ego sits back like the little boss whipping you and saying keep seeking it's right around the next corner don't give up lol. 1) cease to seek. 2) empty your glass. 3) turn within. 4) drop the labels/layers of your false self. 5) ask yourself who am I. 6) realize your true self.

@Danioover9000 it's an interesting paradox what you said because that's actually exactly what you want to do cease going on the voyage all together burn your ship and sink it turn within see the truth drop the layers of your false self and then notice what's remaining. Samadhi is to die before you die no person can enter the gateless gate so be nobody. Good luck my friend!! It's right under your nose..

@Mikael89 Lets try this in steps: 1) Stop assuming you know anything about the process. Completely drop any idea that you have about enlightenment. Become empty. Allow everything you think about yourself to fall away. Cease knowing anything. Become like a 6 month old child viewing and observing everything for the very first time. Empty your glass and leave it empty. Almost like you don't even have a mind. Become the not knower. 2) Realize that you are not truly anything that anybody describes you as, not even yourself. You are not Michael the banker from Wisconsin who is often depressed has high anxiety, low self-esteem, and a decent work ethic sometimes. None of those things are really who you are they're just labels Society has created that you allowed yourself to believe. They are just beliefs ideas about who you are there not the truth in any way. There simply opinions and perceptions. 3) Cease believing any of these Illusions about yourself. Simply notice their make-believe and let them fall away, every single layer until there's nothing left because it's all imagination. Something you simply allowed yourself to believe about yourself and label yourself as. None of it is true, strip these layers off for good. It really doesn't require an action just cease believing them. 4) Simply sit in no mind land and Ponder, if i am not any of the things I believed myself to be then who am i really. What is left after all the make-believe Falls away. What is left after shedding all the layers of the false self. Who are you,what are you,what is left? Keep practicing these steps it's all within not without.

The biggest road block to attaining samadhi is thinking that one already knows the path. "The biggest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge"... This can be the show stopper. In samadhi there is a saying... "No person can enter the gateless gate, So be nobody". This can be the hard part for some people, because it requires a "letting go" of ones sense of self, and all belief systems/structures a person is identified with and attached to, including all religious and culturally conditioned notions of the self. Simply put you drop your entire identity, and beliefs you have about yourself, and become like a young child new to the world and ready to learn.( come with your glass empty); ( become the not knower) This is of course where the ego feels the most threatened, because it knows that this will kill it. It will try to resist it in every way possible( mostly distractions). The trick is not to force it, but to ask it to sit down in the chair and that you no longer require its services. The letting go I'm describing also means to drop any past signs or beliefs of who or what you think you are. For example do not cling to nicknames, signs, or old beliefs about yourself that you have already used in your journey forward. The signs are there to point you 2 something, but do not cling and hang on to them to long. They are meant to be used and then transcended/outgrown and dropped( non-attachment/ non identification). Basically these were the hardest things for me to do in my own life, but once I caught on to this and trusted my own instincts, my motivation allowed me to completely drop everything, become the not knower, and dive into the abyss. This path for me has been an awakening in its self, but I can see its a definite permanent lifestyle shift as well. This was something I sent to my very good friend a few months ago..

People who are engaged in religious or spiritual practices such as yoga prayer meditation chanting or any kind of ritual are practicing 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 desire to be more spiritual more awake more equanimous more peaceful more enlightened. Samadhi is not about attaining or adding something more to yourself, its to die before you die.

Nonduality is the truth, duality is an illusion.

This is the craziest s*** ever. Will someone or something please tell me what is really going on. Or The small scared separate self (Maya) that created an idea of a higher power to feel comforted and not irrelevant and alone in a big scary universe. Those are my definitions.

You can find enlightened people on this form. Let your heart guide you. It's an amazing resource to have thank you Leo!!

@Nahm what are you afraid of? Its just a guys perspective. Entertainment for entertainments sake. I wasn't trying to bash Leo... I give credit to Leo for many of my Awakenings, in particular the one I had after watching his Collective ego video. I just thought it was worth a share...

Yes I refer to it as a pregnant nothingness. Labels and beliefs cannot attach themselves anymore because there is nothing there. Thank you so much for sharing that is an incredible story.

@karkaore I choose to live life because life is beautiful. Nothing matters actually equals complete total unbound freedom. Existence will unfold whether you sit on the couch for your whole life or become the president of the United States. Existence does not judge... Yes I agree something much bigger, like we are evolving and waking up to realize ourselves. Like a cell realizing its a cell in a human body, but then realizing its actually all the cells and is the human body itself. Trippy right!! We are waking each other up!! It has been very nice chatting with you...thank you for just being you ?

Yes practices that quiet the mind will work the best. Here is a diagram that helped me realize my true self under the illusion. You should make your own and notice each label you believe yourself to be is just an idea, a perspective a conditioned belief. It is not who you really are. It is not the TRUTH...

Your old structure and your old identity must become the dead soil out of which new growth comes. The first step to awaking is to realise that we are identified with the matrix of the human mind, or the mask. Something within us must hear this truth and be roused from it’s slumber. There’s a part of you, something timeless that has always known the truth. Your divine essence has become enslaved. Identified with a limited self structure. The great wisdom – the truth of who you are – is buried deep within your being. Identification with the ego mind is the sickness, and samadhi is the cure.” – Samadhi Documentary.

Yes each religion is a blind man touching a different part of the elephant.

@karkaore yes everything perfectly contradicts itself and ends back at zero. Between nothing and everything is. Or take the middle path. When I say "nothing really matters", what I mean is there is no one way to live your life or goal to reach unless you give yourself that goal. Existence is the good and the bad stirred into one. The value of life = The value you give it. If everything matters gives you absolute love and Bliss you are home. The best way I can explain enlightenment on an emotional level is, it's the end of resistance and suffering.

Hell is resistance to what is. And repeating that same pattern forever.