VeganAwake

There is no purpose for anything. The illusory sense of self places an overlay of meaning purpose and value over top of reality and operates from that belief. This is essentially what creates the dream story. An unreal individual operating from an unreal perspective...❤

Empty the glass and through it out ?

What is "I"? What does "I" consist of? Where is "I" located? Can you put your finger on it? Or Is "I" a mere concept or assumption of thought? "I" or "ME" is an illusion. A misidentification with conditioned thinking. So the Seeker starts out on a journey from a skewed perception to begin with. Sort of like starting on a quest with a map of the wrong territory. I never finds what it's seeking because I isn't real. Needless to say it's quite funny when it's recognized ❤

There is no "MY" journey or "MY" enlightenment, that's literally what is revealed. And how can that possibly be described? ❤

Who is asking?

Yep we place an overlay of what we think we understand on top of reality and operate from that perspective. In truth its truly unknowable ❤

There isn't a better point to reach, that's just more illusion. It's not about finding something, it's the collapse of that which thought something was missing. ❤

If you were born in Afghanistan, you would be a completely different ME, with different beliefs, ideas, thoughts, and concepts. If you were born in Alaska, you would be a completely different ME, with different beliefs, ideas, thoughts, and concepts. If you were born in Japan, you would be a completely different ME, with different beliefs, ideas, thoughts, and concepts. When this is clearly understood, its recognized there isn't actually a real YOU!! There is only a socially conditioned idea of who you think you are. If you take away the conditioned idea of who you think you are, What IS Left? Don't think! Look and see! ❤

And whether it was an enjoyable stay or not, it's all you will ever experience. Let that sink in! When the body dies, there won't even be the slightest remembrance of existence. And this is the last thing the sense of self wants to hear...but regardless, it is the case ❤

Yep, Nothing needs to happen or not happen. Its doesn't matter because there is no ultimate goal for anything. This literally can't be done wrong...Or right ❤

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Yep, There is no one which could find something called grace and no one which could be deluded. There isn't a better position for ME. Because Me isn't real. ❤

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It seemed to start with an unquenchable thirst for truth. The months and months of meditation seemed to disrupt the habitual ways of thinking and looking at things. At some point It just became obvious that the 'ME' or 'sense of self' was just an accumulation of conditioned thoughts and assumptions rather than a real entity. The closer it was looked at, the more obvious it became. It was so obvious, it felt shocking and ordinary simultaneously. A radical shift in perspective is one way to describe it, but it's the end of individual perspective and experience.... because the individual is recognized to have never been real. There is literally nothing behind the eyes looking out at apparent reality. There's nothing or no one behind the eyes. ❤

The end of the need for anything to be other than what it is.

A non-happening or no thing.

No one wakes up, the dreamer is just simply recognized to have never been. And nothing recognizes this, so recognizing it, is also part of the dream story, which never actually occurred.

I is a product of the conditioning and seeks because it feels incomplete or separate.

There is no one left regardless of how much the ME wants there to be... there's no one there now And it can't really be put into words. And until it's seen directly, it will just be the sense of ME believing it intellectually understands this message. ❤

Yes, thoughts still arise after enlightenment, the difference is there is no longer a ME claiming ownership of them. "Phenomena are not objectively existent and are only established as existing through subjective destinations and thoughts.... in short, it is said that though there is no phenomenon that is not posited by the mind, whatever the mind posited is not necessarily existent ....if we become familiar with this, the objects viewed --self, other, and so forth-- appear as illusion-like or dream-like falsities, which although not inherently existent, appear to be so" - Dalai Lama

There's been a lot of questions about what Awakening feels like. This video was very accurate in the description, but every experience is a little different ❤

It wasn't directed towards anyone, it was a blanket statement for the entire thread. Yeah you got it though ?.... it doesn't matter in any way at all. ❤

It's freedom from the socially conditioned mind. But that doesn't make it special. In fact it's so easy and ordinary that it's constantly overlooked. ❤

Enlightenment is not an achievement though...it's the loss of that which believed it needed to find or achieve something. ❤