Spaceofawareness

Everything is changeful, even this state you are in. The mind will eventually return to its default state. If you don’t engage in this hyper awareness state it will eventually subside. Can you notice these reactions within you? Rather than going along with them, can you simply observe them? Because that is what you are, this observer. If you can notice them, before they become panicked, you will remain outside of them in a sense. See if you can get to a sense of peace, quietude. If you can find that place, you will begin to radiate joy. As someone mentioned, if you can drop into the heart, you will be in a much better place.

By creating us in his image?

I don’t think materialism is delusion, but it is blindness. It’s blindness to an entire aspect of your reality. but for some I think it’s necessary, though it must inevitably lead to awakening.

@VikingIt’s stress. What worked for me was mindfulness throughout the day, which eventually led to spacious awareness, which is free of all tension. Try to completely relax your face. Close your eyes and just sit quietly, just observing the tension in your head. As you do this, focus on your breath as well. Allow the tension to just be as you observe the breath. Can you notice the actual sensation of this tension? What does it feel like, without putting words to it. as you do this, slowly feel the tension relaxing, little by little, melting away. now this next part is important. As you relax, feel a smile on your face slowly appear. Become mindful of THAT. Remain mindful of this smile, just rest IN it for a while. Do this for as long as you like, as you slowly release the tension there by allowing this smile, which is not only on the outside, but also inside, to melt away the tension. If it’s done right, and it should not be an effort full doing, but a relaxing into this, then you will feel the tension becoming at least manageable. Try to continue this throughout your day, whenever you have moments to zone out. It can be done eyes open or closed, but maybe try closed first. other things I would suggest, try to cut down your screen time, phones, computers, and try increase your “being” time in the day, physical activity is ideal, but if you can be mindful while doing it even better, walking through forest etc. Good luck, and know that this peacefulness is what you are, the tension is just a sensation appearing in this bliss which is you.

I think a more true thing would be to say, nondualism IS, rather than I am nondualist.

My opinion, you are holding on too tightly to the thought of attaining enlightenment. It’s like to remain in presence, it’s a non doing. Although I don’t feel like I know how or what it’s like to be “enlightened” I do know that the part of us that is motivated to achieve is the very obstacle standing in the way. I feel you should remain in awareness as much as possible, but I agree you need to return to your body, to your emotions, and to life, and find those parts within you, the awareness. Transcend and include. Don’t cordon off, welcome it all.

@Carl-Richard no I don’t. I remain aware of them. Like I said, thoughts arise, and actions happen because of them. Thoughts are related to future oriented goals. Beyond that, they do not intrude in an unwanted manner, they may arise occasionally, but they are noticed mostly.

In the past I have felt a “presence” which seems to be awareness. But now that presence doesn’t seem to be here, or it is somehow veiled or covered. The presence always came with a sense of internal happiness, or contentment. But now there seems to be awareness of everything without a presence. The presence used to help me remain aware also, as it acted as a continual reminder of awareness. Should I try to get back this presence somehow, or, be content with awareness as it is now. The mind is very calm and still, no intrusive thoughts. Thoughts arise and are responded to when they need to be. Awareness is not as sharp and focussed nor vigilant as it has been with presence.

@seeking_brilliance thank you. That might be right. There has been a lot going on the past six months. I’ve slipped back into thinking and planning the future rather than letting it unfold. It’s unfortunately necessary if anything is going to get done (I have expectations). @Nahm thank you. That’s exactly what I needed to hear. The mundane was so not mundane when I wasn’t preoccupied.

Does anything happen in this void?

If you become the space in which a person appears and responds to the world, this seems okay to me. From time to time, awareness inhabits the person completely, other times, the person is seen from the space of awareness. But the person needs to engage with life, don’t get lost in the space, allow the space to be that in which life unfolds.

I wouldn’t call him a fool. But maybe short sighted and blinded by his own knowledge of the brain. And I would agree that he, and every other psychologist, neuroscientist, cognitive scientist and especially computer scientist and AI proponent has no clue about what consciousness is. Those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know. But hey, if he discovers something useful in the meantime, I’ll be happy for him. I’m not holding my breath though.

As soon as awareness exists, so does memory, even for the shortest time. So with time there is unfolding, I.e. happening. The etymology of the word moment comes from a word meaning “momentum”, and “movement” which implies change over time. Even the word moment implies time, for there to be change, therefore it implies a happening. There is no moment without happening. For there to be a moment, there must be something happening.

I remember something sadhguru said about astral projection and communicating with someone remotely using the mind. He said yes it’s possible, but nowadays, it’s easier just to use a mobile phone. If you want to see, just open your eyes and it takes no time at all, rather than putting all this work in just to see your room with your eyes closed. More important things to work on.

And what is everyone’s obsession with Mooji’s feet, every time his followers mention it I get shivers.

Are you saying, that the impossible cannot exist?

It is the senses without any additional interpretations. Pain is a warm sensation, or a sharp sensation, pleasure is a tingly sensation, etc. You are stripping away all of the additional interpretations to sensory data and focusing on the raw feel of it.

I have a feeling it is because any form of effort will be the wrong direction from where you need to go, and leads you away from what you are. What really needs to happen is a relaxation. When you are calm and relaxed, the clouds clear and you have the opportunity to see your sky like nature. From there, you can realise this more and more, until you become the sky in which clouds pass, then you will never miss it because you are it. Turn the light around.

Imagine a shiny jewel with many polished faces. That is awareness. Your awareness occupies one of those faces, and has its own unique perspective and reflections, as do all other points of view, but they are all faces of the same connected thing. That is how one can view the sense of being a separate and distinct awareness.

@andreasj if “you” could have been a female, then consider that what “you” truly are, can not be classified by male or female. Nor the colour of your skin, or the language you speak, or the job you do. So if you are none of these things, what are you? And what is this existence in which “you” seem to be the main character.

Time to return to the world through those eyes and see what can be done, for the hell of it.

@StarStruck different people have different needs for socialisation, some can get by with a little, others need people more so. Its not just the ego’s need, there is a deep survival need to commune with others. Ultimately, if you feel like you need to see people, why deny yourself that need? On the other hand, if you feel like you need space and time to yourself, by all needs, seek that.

I think you become more aware of what is going on in your head, you own thOughts, urges, you become more self aware, but also you become more aware of yourself as awareness, almost like it follows you around. You also have the realisation that everything you experience, even the world “out there” is actually happening “in here”, and then the sense of inner and outer world becomes shakier.

You were not born yourself, “you” was created over time, and is continually being added to and taken away from. This is the part of you which you might think could be different from someone else. But the other part of you, which is not created, which is not removed, that is the same in all people. So to ask the question when referring to this, why were you born as you and not someone else, is actually nonsense.

You brain has learned responses, and over time it forms these responses by observing outcomes based on previous behaviour. This is essentially the storing of cause and effect as memory. This allows future action to be shaped by expectations during similar situations. For example, if you are a small child and you have no concept of hot, and you place your hand on a hot iron, your action, touching a hot iron, becomes linked to the feeling of intense burning pain. This link is formed and so you learn to never touch a hot iron. That is an immediate effect. But sometimes effects aren’t always apparent so readily, and so consequences of actions need to be explained by an outside observer which has knowledge of such things. Imagine you are a teenager who never washes their clothes out of laziness, then because of this they no longer have any clean clothes to wear. An adult parent will explain to them that, due to the repeated behaviour of failing to wash their clothes, they now have no clean ones. Slowly you learn to extend this causal sightedness further and further into the future. As this knowledge of cause and effect accumulates in a person, so to does responsibility. As a person gains this knowledge, they also inherit the responsibility to do something about these issues. Now this all being the case, you being awareness are ultimately not the doer of actions, you simply witness them, making you not responsible. But your body and brain are responsible. And you being this limited awareness are kind of forced into this limited expression of awareness from this singular perspective, and so, unless, as the awareness you enjoy observing pain and suffering, it is in the best interests of awareness for the body to do what should be done within its causal knowledge and capability, which means taking responsibility wherever possible. As the awareness all that needs to be done is to witness these facts, and hope that the brain will realise it is in the best interest of itself to take responsibility. Life tends to get better when one does this, problems evaporate, bills get paid, etc. So if you want a less problem filled life, hopefully your brain will realise taking responsibility is actually what’s best. Now you as awareness can just sit back and watch as things get better, but knowing that ultimately it is all just a play within you, no matter the content, but, since it seems that the body is the vehicle for this awareness, at least for this limited time here, that the body should help itself.