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Seeing That Frees by Rob Burbea. There is no liberation though, because there's only liberation -- perhaps keep that in mind. But the jhanas are a hell of a fun time. Actually so much fun it's impossible to describe. Self inquiry can also encourage quite a bit of apparent effortless peace and satisfaction. You never do any of it though, because there is no you.

@Someone here Well see now that'd be duali.... I kid, I kid ? lol!

Sure, but in that view, parts of wholeness seem to be reified as real -- made into things. Observation implies a real subject and object. No thing is real -- there's just emptiness/boundlessness appearing as everything. Everything is no-thing.

Two apparent points of view / perceptual systems. They aren't real. Nor unreal, but only in the sense that it's emptiness/everything appearing as something -- there isn't a something. I might've missed some context of what you wrote though idk.

If you know you have no awareness, who has no awareness? If you don't know you have no awareness, who has no awareness?

________ is all there is. Doesn't matter what you call it. Call it consciousness if you want, but consciousness implies knowing, which is dualism. So it might be less misleading to say all there is is unconditional love; empty fullness; no-thing; everything. There's no real movement, knowing, or anything else -- only the appearance of that, which is all there is, and it neither moves nor knows. It is neither real nor unreal.

There is no downside to continuing your meditation practice. Just do an hour first thing in the morning or something. It just makes everything else easier. No need to get obsessed with it. Just do it.

When your ego dissolves suddenly, you’re crawling on the floor begging for mommy because the insight is so profound and threatening. During ego death, you just aren’t there. This is a glimpse. When the me falls away completely, nothing happened. Nothing is real.

By love I mean the _________. Not love as in need. Love as in nothing; emptiness. Unconditional.

Isn’t it amazing?

I Am is emptiness (love) appearing as I Am.

Love isn’t not anything. Everything is an appearance of love. And nobody knows what love is. @SoonHei

Indeed.

Because there isn’t anything else. This is it. There isn’t a now. This is emptiness appearing as form for fucks sake!?

Because it already is ?

Phenomena arise dependent upon conditions; what arises dependent upon conditions does not arise. There is only liberation; there is no liberation. Need is suffering; there is no suffering. What's happening is what's not happening. Nothing thing'ing can appear as knowing; nothing is known. All there is is ___________.

Consciousness = Relative Truth = ego X selflessness = love = purpose (quantifiable) Liberation = Absolute Truth = no need = unconditional love = completion (undefined) But the absolute and the relative are the same.

That seems to be correct, since "exist" is a dualistic term and awareness is also dualistic. What is, though, has no need of an awareness of it, it's already what is, and it's unfathomable, and it's everything.

However, the experience that there's something beyond the appearance is dualism. There is nothing else other than unbounded everything. These words are everything, the past is everything, the future is everything, typing is everything. That's what they're pointing to.

What you're referring to is personal enlightenment, as well as deepening of consciousness -- fueled by skillful detachment from experience. Fantastic stuff can be realized. The most liberating thread is probably the path of realizing the emptiness (unfathomable-ness/unknowable-ness) of things, all the way. The ego can only thrive in those conditions though -- that's not a problem and there's no need to expect it to dissolve. If you're expecting an event to take place, you are dualism. There is no event. It will never happen because it already is. When it seems to happen, what will invariably be recognized is that it didn't happen. It isn't that you're already enlightened, you just are what you seek, because there is only freedom, and no you.

No need for enlightenment = enlightenment. Nobody knows they’re enlightened — there’s neither doubt nor certainty. Continue to allow to happen whatever practices seem to work. What you described sounded like a stage — the witness — wherein you’re very transcended and it’s fun, but it’s still quite dualistic. All knowing is dualistic, including knowing where (and that) you are.

There isn't someone. Nobody knows they’re awake. There are no individuals to guide, and there’s nowhere to guide them to. It’s the joke that nobody gets: there’s nothing to get.

Serotonin storm/syndrome can result from mixing 2 or more serotonergic substances. SSRIs are generally not as likely to cause this as MAOI’s (including supplements like st Johns wort), but they still can and do. It’s mainly when dealing with 2 or more serotonin releasing agents like Zoloft + MDMA. Much less likely with LSD, but can still happen. You want to avoid it at all costs too; you look possessed from shivering and shaking so hard; heart beating like it’s gonna explode; intense forced vigilance like you’re fighting for your life...which feels like it’s about to disappear right then and there... not fun. SSRI’s and psychedelics really just don’t mix — if you just started taking the SSRI, your tolerance will be low and you’ll be in danger of serotonin storm; if you’ve been on the SSRI for a while, your tolerance will be high and the psychedelic’s full effect will be thwarted. Just an all around bad combo.

That infinite absolute freedom is all there is. It’s not consciousness either. Unless you say all there is is consciousness, but that wouldn’t be consciousness with any knowing. Knowing is separation. Free will is separation/duality (I can make a choice right now between 1. acting and 2. not acting in this way, etc) — creating 2 when there is never 2; knowing the unknowable. There is only everything: nothing happening; empty fullness; relative absolute — nothing is (appears as) everything. The unspeakable appearing as the particular, the timeless appearing in time, the unlimited appearing as the limited.

It’s the other way around.