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When its clearly seen without a doubt that the individual within the body is an illusion, whether or not self-referential thinking still arises doesn't matter in the slightest because it's recognized as just being remnants of past identification as the doer and thinker of thoughts. It's a disentangling from the socially conditioned matrix of mind known as ME. Freedom from and for no one... so to even call it freedom is still a misunderstanding. It's beyond the idea of an individual that could be free or imprisoned. ❤

Enlightenment illuminates the futility of an unreal individual chasing Freedom within Freedom / wholeness within wholeness. It's an ordinary and extraordinary revelation that nobody arrives at. ❤

@Alysssa Enlightenment is the revelation that art is all there is whether or not it's pursued by an apparent individual.... so in that sense it does not matter at all. It's so in your face and already the case that it seems hidden. ❤

Look directly at this "I" that so wants this to become something. What is "I" ?

Another way to look at flow state is when you practice something so well you don't have to really think about it anymore.... the body knows exactly what to do and has numerous ways of getting it done... kind of like muscle memory. Michael Jordan was a perfect example of constantly being in the Flow State... he practiced and trained so much that it looked easy for him.

A real and unreal complete play of life.. It's everything exactly the way it is. Sometimes it seems hectic and chaotic other times it seems calm and flowing. Within everything all descriptions apply.

Yes and these conditioned patterns are created within the dream story of being a separate individual. When so-called Awakening occurs it illuminates the rather hilarious futility of an unreal individual trying to find wholeness within wholeness. The apparent problem is that the sense of self wants to be there to experience enlightenment... it wants to be front row center of course because it cannot fathom its own unreality. The ego is Its Own Worst Enemy. It wants to find wholeness and simultaneously IS the experience of separation... that's the cosmic joke. An unreal individual seeking something that was never missing in the first place is the cosmic joke. ❤

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. ❤