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Who would become Limitless Infinity? It's the Revelation that there never was a you, and limitless infinity was already the case seemingly hidden by the illusory experience of being a separate individual attempting to find and grasp what was already everything. Any idea of becoming or identifying as something higher is within the dream story. Nobody becomes enlightened because enlightenment is the recognition there never was a real separate individual within the body in the first place.... it's an illusory experience. il·lu·sion /iˈlo͞oZHən/ a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses. Similar: mirage, hallucination, apparition a deceptive appearance or impression. Similar: appearance, impression, sham, false appearance a false idea or belief. ❤

Enlightenment has nothing to do with fulfilling the grandiose vision of enlightenment that the character is looking to achieve. It's the revelation that the character with all its wants, needs and desires is completely fictional. It's Liberation from the character which is desperately trying to achieve something. ❤

Allowing things to feel exactly as they feel is the beauty. Then there's no need to change a feeling about something... that's the freedom ❤

Notice everything is already the territory ...the maps the pointers the philosophies.... all pieces of the same elephant. You can't move away from it or get closer to it because it's everything. The individual that feels separate within the body attempts to find something within everything. Enlightenment is recognizing that apparent individual is an illusion.... then there's just everything which is simultaneously nothing like you said because the individual that places concepts about everything, is recognized to be just a story. ❤

Yes it's just simply immediately wonderfully THIS. The unquenchable need for a better experience in the future is like a carrot dangling in front of the donkeys nose chasing it. The donkey isn't real and everything is already just carrots. ❤

That seeking never gets satisfied because the seeker isn't a real entity. Its just conditioned thinking trying to find a better so-called spiritual experience in the future. ❤

Enlightenment seems difficult because the ego is not in the business of dropping anything, it hoards its collection of so-called spiritual knowledge/experience and defends it like a guard dog. It thinks by dropping, it will lose its progress on the so-called spiritual path. Enlightenment is the ultimate threat to the ego and simultaneously the freedom longed for. It will fight tooth and nail to have its cake and eat it too. It wants to be there to reap the benefits of what it believes enlightenment entails. But this is impossible because Enlightenment is the end of the individual which believes it can acquire or have it. The constant seeking only perpetuates the belief that there's something to find something to acquire something to be realized something to be embodied. "The ego says seek but do not find" - A Course In Miracles Enlightenment reveals the absurdity of constantly running on the hamster wheel searching for a better experience in the future. It throws out the baby with the bathwater, smashes the bathtub and burns the house down. It reveals the freedom that was always the case but just didn't seem to be. ❤

@OneIntoOne she is good and absolutely awakened. ?

The thinking isn't the so-called issue, its the identification as the thinker. Ego = identification Like someone already mentioned, the subtle habitual self-referential thinking has been going on for so long it's not even noticed. A self-perpetuating wheel of identification.... like a stray cat, as long as you keep feeding it, it keeps coming back. There is nothing right or wrong with this thought identification and to label it as such would just be a conditioned concept.

Well it transcends the concepts of difficult, easy or frustrating by revealing that the very individual which labels anything as such, is just another concept and ultimately unreal. ❤

@Blackhawk because you are running around seeking something that was never missing and perpetuating the belief that there is something to find... kind of like someone searching for their glasses when there on their head. Enlightenment is the revelation that the very individual seeking for a better experience in the future is completely illusory. It's freedom for no one which is already the case. ❤

Is it lmao?

Winning phrase of the day is: LMAO ❤

Yes everything is just what it is. ? Then the illusory individual places an overlay of meaning purpose and value over top of reality and functions from that perspective creating a dreamlike story about what THIS is. It's full and empty simultaneously and that's just another story.

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Haha yeah no joke bro the mind is stubborn like a mule ?

@Raptorsin7 Just focus on the In and Out breathing. When you notice yourself getting caught up in thinking, bring the focus back to the breath. If the thinking becomes overwhelming don't resist it, just simply notice it and then bring the focus back to the breath. Just go for 20 minutes in the morning afternoon and evening when you can. ❤

Well, whenever that feeling of "this is not it arises" hit yourself in the head with a hammer. It will become clear eventually ❤

Nothing is wasted because there isn't a real goal which needs to be attained. It was fun wasn't it? Back in my younger days we would go to barter fairs and trade things for LSD mushrooms and weed. We were partying and escaping the so-called confines of reality. Later it was recognized those confines were never real to begin with. It was always freedom.

? your welcome, it was a futile attempt here to describe nothing. But nothing is known here because nothing is unknowable. ❤

Yes monkey mind and self referential thinking become a runaway train in life. When I is clearly seen to be an illusion the energy that was put into upholding that illusory identity drastically dies down. Here it wasn't a forgetting who I thought I was or how to function in life, but recognizing I was never a real in the first place. ❤

Cool experience ?, What happened here was after a couple years of desperate seeking and lots of meditation, one random day it just become obvious that this ME character that I was identified as, wasn't real. That this I was more of an assumption or concept that just kept playing over and over again in thought. It felt like this weight that wasn't even noticed before was lifted away. Weird thing was it felt completely ordinary and shocking simultaneously. Needless to say life has been a lot less serious since this occurred back in 2018. Liberation from the self that took the dream way too seriously ❤

Yeah that's right. Oneness points to the recognition that the individual experiencer within the body is an illusion. (Adviata) While sunyata declares even that apparent experience of no separation as ultimately illusory. (Ajata) If you're interested check out Robert Wolfe's Ajata Sunyata Project: "The seeming person continues to live out her life (from supposed “birth” to “death”) in a seeming world, in a seeming universe. Yet, in what could be said to be the true or ultimate reality of emptiness, not anything ever has, or could, happen. From the ultimate standpoint, there is not anything that ever needs to be explained. Any questions which arise and any answers are within the Dream–and the Dream is not real. Those who understand this, the sages would say, have awakened from the big Dream. Whether one does or does not, in the end, makes absolutely no difference. But for those who do awaken, all their questions–within the Dream–are seen to be utterly empty" - Robert Wolfe

Sounds like you need a nice long vacation away from them and their opinions. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

You could save money, teach yourself how to live off the land and go off grid. It may be harder but you could work for yourself at least.