The0Self

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.

Story: If you were to either trust fully or not know fully, you might actually die, but you’d be God and have no need. Of course that’s already the case so don’t think you’re getting somewhere by understanding.

Because it already is.

The thing you responded to with “ok I see” is basically synonymous with the thing you prefaced with “what about”

Everybody wants enlightenment. They want enlightenment more than anything. But ultimately, enlightenment is not want-able because it’s all there is. You can’t want what’s already happening — that’s tantamount to the apparent me dissolving either partially or completely (what some may term ego death).

? Obviously there is in fact no final enlightenment, because final enlightenment is all there is. But nobody wants final enlightenment. Literally nobody at all. And nobody will, ever.

Nvm. I agree with you entirely in any way that may appear to actually matter, though it would only appear to matter, in that case.

? Either works. Or doesn’t, depending on your viewpoint in that particular duality.

Right as rain.

❤️ ? It will always, because it already isn’t.

You are a devil. There is no devil.

Sounds like bodybuilding. But instead of blast and cruise cycles with GH, androgens, and insulin, it’s blasting and cruising cycles of psychedelic experiences — or just experience in general. Experience is the engine for the dream’s apparent continuation. Well, for consciousness expansion, psychedelics can definitely be useful, but there’s no need to try to get anywhere — there isn’t anywhere else, the illusion you’re trying to overcome is that there’s 2 of anything; 2 places or times or ways you can be. There’s only everything. There’s nothing else. The trap is trying to know the empty; the unspeakable; the infinite; the unknowable, which is all there is.

There is only everything, which leaves no room for anything that could apply to everything; the infinite — including limits, rules, awareness, meaning, or purpose.

That’s what is. As is everything. So there isn’t anything else.

It’s more meaningless than that than you could ever possibly imagine. Like 1 trillion times more meaningless wouldn’t even scratch the surface of the nothing that is.

Turn that confusion upside down, into a non-understanding, and you’d die. Not that it could ever happen, because it already is.