The0Self

Who are you? Not you. Who are they? Not them. What is the world? Not the world. There’s no true knowing in that sense, as knowing requires partiality (and separation) and therefore untruth.

yeah that last part definitely resonates a bit. Like that pancake is still water reflecting everything including apparent depth... On the visual level anyway, at least in reference to the states and revelations that can seem to arise on the path.

1. Yes. Bench press without overhead press means internal rotation without external rotation -- stresses the shoulder girdle. 2. Not really. Fine is relative though. In any case, the two exercises are not comparable. But you can do weighted dips instead of overhead press, at least for a little while. A program is rather incomplete without standing overhead barbell press, but dips substituted are also okay generally. Hard to explain why this is the case, as it's rather holistic.

To be God is to know nothing of God. Judgement and caring are two sides of the same coin. It's a story, but the cold and even selfish aspects of your self are actually necessary to be maximally loving.

Only for the me.

Appearances.

Looks good. Very important you get at least 120g protein a day. By overhead raises do you mean standing overhead press? Because if you bench you should also do standing overhead press to avoid rotator cuff issues. The planks and sit ups are not required -- especially once you include chin ups. The curls will not be required once you're doing chin ups. Can actually very effectively get a noticeable amount more delt/shoulder size and strength if you want by simply adding side lateral raises -- several sets of 10-20 -- at the end of the session so you can just burn them out and then leave; just do sets until they're exhausted... like 2-6 sets with little rest... don't do that with other exercises though... it's fine for small movements because they only fatigue the muscle and not the nervous system. The rep ranges you're using are good but for any main barbell movements a better balance of fitness vs fatigue buildup would come from staying in the 5-10 rep range. But for hypertrophy of smaller muscles, higher helps (e.g. side lateral raises 3x10-20). I didn't see you list sets per exercise, but I'll say: 3 is great, except for deadlift. Don't exceed 1 set for deadlift or you will soon run into neural fatigue -- in fact while the deadlift is the exercise with the highest stimulus level, it also has the lowest fitness/fatigue ratio of any exercise... keep it to once a week once you get pretty strong and exceed (lb)405x5, and perhaps even when only at 315x5. And always ramp up for warm ups. At least 2 sets (not including the initial very low weight set). i.e. if deadlifting 405, do 1 set of 5 at 135, 1 set of 5 at 225, 1 set of 5 at 315, then perhaps 1 set of 1-3 reps at 360, then do your one work set of 5 at 405. The backbone is including all the main movements and any less is an incomplete program: pushing, pulling, and a leg-dominant. i.e. standing overhead press, or bench press and standing overhead press (never bench by itself), or weighted dips chin up, or row (or horizontal row) + chin up deadlift and/or squat Optional: anything else; some of the most useful ones are... lateral raises, standing barbell curl For calves, if you're after aesthetics, the best exercise is actually stair climber with weighted vest or pack on.

I had something similar at one point. It was like the aspect of experience that experience itself is designed to hide... became visible -- centerless-ness. But the residuum of the awareness OF that is what makes it so terrifying. End of separation is the end of awareness OF...

@softlyblossoming And btw it’s a bit of a poor choice of words on my part to say abide in I am. Since the only way to actually do that is to ceaselessly search for the I am thereby withdrawing attention from all objects indiscriminately in a rather momentous way. Technically if you’re just “abiding” in I am then that’s a concentration practice upon the object labeled I am / abiding in a false objective I am that is currently masquerading as the true I am i.e. the self. What you want to do here is look for that I am, not find it, since if you find it then that’s not it. This method is just a tool and that’s how it works.

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Disregard everything as merely a springboard for abiding in I AM, including even the idea or experience of abiding in I AM since if you notice it then it isn't I AM since I AM is the subject and not the object. When done with a lot of power and steadiness the I AM will be deprived of its sustenance/objects as you'll be ignoring them all (increasingly more subtle objects and in the end, dualistic experience itself). There will be confusion. No matter. Keep going until there is no question; persist with constant repeated applications of effort (to find what is aware of what is seemingly experienced) until the burden of effort is taken from you without your consent (the efforting I dissolves).

"Atoms" are thoughts or appearances of consciousness. No one looks. There isn't anything separate from the appearance of everything, and there isn't anyone conscious of that from a separate standpoint -- it's an illusion that there is. This merely points, it isn't something that can be believed in and in fact if you do believe it then it certainly isn't what's being pointed to. There aren't two realities. You're confusing absolute consciousness with finite mind of an apparent individual.

Oh, most definitely spot on. Also ability to enter jhanas. And experience with proper self inquiry and witnessing etc. Just the whole consciousness development thing. Eventually the ego was seemingly holding on for dear life without any substances or even intentional spiritual practice for that matter. Like full-on "this ain't what I signed up for" type stuff.

Such incredible results from meditation that attempting to discuss it wholly debases it.

Such a question is rather individual and megavariate. As a teenager, I routinely took up to 700ug and it was great fun... However, once the spiritual glimpses and such were in full swing, 200ug would have been utterly insane overkill -- more like 110ug per God Realization.

Let go of my ego Ego freed from "my"

There is nothing apart from what simply is -- one could call that consciousness. The issue for you, is that you seem to be confusing consciousness with your own finite mind (which itself is merely an appearance of consciousness).

Freedom from delusion Destruction of the illusory sense of personal doership End of the identification with seemingly real finitude i.e. a born separate being who will die Un-realization of the untrue / No longer mistaking the untrue for the true Permanent no-other-ness

The very same Being appears as all minds, but there actually aren't any minds.

Actually, in a sense, yeah. In my view the most important facet of spirituality (consciousness development) is being clear on what you want. If you want to stay up late, do so... but if you simultaneously want to go to sleep early but also procrastinate and stay up late, this will result in suffering and contraction -- contraction which can be alleviated by being clear on desires. Creating (art; music; writing; etc) seems to be associated a bit with desires becoming more clear. Mindfulness in daily life + doing what you enjoy seems to be a no brainer, but that's not like an authoritative prescription or anything.

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@WokeBloke It’s simply that nothing is actually happening. Did Romeo and Juliet actually suicide? Sure they did, but only in a play. Is typing actually happening? Sure, but only in the story of space and time. There’s just what appears, but that doesn’t even mean that anything is actually appearing — in the end, because there’s no one separate from the infinite to know that.