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What you're describing here is that you aren't any thing in particular, you just are. Not any "thing" that is present. Just "I am" -- as in not any particular existent thing.

Bhante Vimalaramsi's technique. Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation, as he calls it.

^^^ @Ulax I approached Metta in quite a similar way to Nahm's comment. Learned from Bhante Vimalaramsi. TWIM is the practice I'd recommend if one has already decided to practice Metta, fwiw. It seemed to be associated with very highly agreeable side effects. Just good all around.

Something implies finitude, which is not actually something that exists beyond an appearance of the infinite. "Nothing" is just an idea. "Absolutely Nothing" (but not merely the idea of such) might as well be infinity (by definition and by necessity, all there is) since it has no qualities and therefore has no limits.

I don't have much experience with salvia, but I have plenty of experience with both ketamine and 5-MeO-DMT -- they can uncover the same glimpses, but via radically different experiences.

Certainly. Higher jhanas can blow out psychedelics. However if one can enter jhanas, their psychedelic experiences will likely be more intense than the jhanas. That was my experience when seeking.

Seems to be the character displaying the sense of loss and gratitude that comes with apparent liberation. I have no doubt that character is liberated -- in the story of course; in the end this stuff is impossible to talk about in a solid sense since there is nothing actually happening in time anyway, and in the end there is no one to be liberated (which itself is apparent liberation). Remember though, the liberated one (free from all delusion) is never the one speaking to another. And there is no such thing as other anyway, already. I find it interesting that people seem to find her inauthentic. I see the exact opposite.

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Look for the I (your self) who is aware of whatever appears. Hold it. If you catch it, who caught it? find the I who is aware with such intensity that the I cannot connect with objects. Revealing effortlessness and spaciousness. You fall out of that state. Go back. Inquire into who it is that goes in and out of it.

If you like her you'd perhaps like Lomakayu -- Medicine of One. I did especially love listening to Samaneri Jayasara's readings of Meister Eckhart.

Turn the other cheek or give em one right back. Doesn't matter. This itself is not a judgement, but if you judge someone else you're actually judging yourself in a sense (more like literally, but also in a sense).

What I am is never exactly revealed. Or, one could say, it's revealed that I am undefinable infinity. Or rather all existential questions are revealed to rest upon false assumptions -- namely: that there is a reality in which contingent things really happen. It is well within the capacity of boundless infinity to appear as a reality and a complete universe, without that universe actually even needing to exist.

There can simply be the obviousness that there's no one who has ever done a single thing ever nor will there be nor could there be.

Yep. That's "being stuck."

It's a gateless gate. A pathless path. An endless end. A beginning-less beginning. That there is no reality, no finitude, and no separation in the first place? I'd certainly say that's both a tragic and hilarious cosmic joke!

@softlyblossoming You know that you are, and it needs no evidence. How do you know that? Seek for it. Hold it. You can't grasp it because it's not an object. Hunting for it involves retracting attention from experience itself. If you think you've got it, what knows you got it? Look for that. Continuously and literally eventually at all times, which is impossible but that is actually how the practice culminates -- it's recognized that you were trying to do what was already the case. It doesn't make sense, but to make it simple just continually hunt for your self. I know I am. How? Who knows that they are. When this is done continuously a spaciousness is revealed and it can be a bit strange almost as if there's no longer someone looking out at a world.

Surrender is being blown about like a feather, without action or inaction, but it isn't something new. It is a technique in which one relaxes all voluntary effort (action and inaction) -- i.e. if effort is already happening, then (counterintuitively) non-surrender would be voluntarily relaxing that effort. But the "practice" of surrender is not actually a technique, nor is it even a practice -- it's a pointer... This is because you are already 100% surrendered, so to speak. There is no one separate from the infinite who could be un-surrendered, that is.

It's in the story, but you could say one would have to cease being aware of objects (or the not-self), which would automatically bring about focus on the underlying constantly changing stillness which is infinite, everywhere, and nowhere, forever. There would no longer be the sense of other-ness.

All is one. When one is enlightened, all are enlightened. Paradoxical? Not so, since... Infinity holds infinite infinities.

There are no centers. The infinite is all there is and it's unknowable. And not understandable. It actually doesn't make sense.