The0Self

I dig what you're saying, but that's not happening here. I use I as an expression all the time and there is never the thought "I am no one" or such. There's just typing, enjoyment, floors, roads, etc appearing for no reason with nothing behind it and with no reality or unreality seen by anyone as important or meaningful to someone separate from what happens. There's just what appears to be, and nothing else.

Good to see you're back! Sounds great! There is still a fondness here of those wonderful experiments with emptiness. The final and ultimate ungroundedness is never, ever caused. It can apparently be recognized that everything was always equalized. Boundlessness blindly being all there is. The destination never left, because it will never arrive. You know those things you just can't bring yourself to believe but they resonate anyway? How about this: There never was a you, separate from everything, and there isn't one there now. Not saying there isn't an apparent shift that can happen, but I am saying that shift isn't real. It's quite radical, and one thing in particular that's both seen here, and also would've been seen as far too radical to me as a seeker: even looking back in memories, the me simply wasn't ever there.

I did find that the clearest and most effective instructions for me were from https://www.youtube.com/c/SiftingtotheTruth One point of confusion might be when he says "ignore all thought" -- What he actually means, said a different way, is ignore all experienced objects (everything). It's just self inquiry. Energy appearing as self inquiry. But those instructions will likely involve more insights and less confusion than many other instructions. Not saying it's the best possible instruction that is or can be but it's the best I found, apparently. If you don't know how to do it, I'll just say: it's almost always simpler than you think, and takes more effort than you think. In general that's just how I see it, NOT saying it's right or wrong.

You may not need grounding, but the body does. Perhaps let the body function as it does in the way it pleases and in a way that will allow it more well-being. Not that there's anyone to choose, but maybe something will see that the insanity is not yours.

Absolutely. And twisted/crazy/fucked-up... of course (is it any surprise?) is not exempt from the theme of going full circle. (Actually, it is quite a surprise, but perhaps the point was made... but it's impossible to eff the ineffable.) Insanely unspeakable profundity -> absolute profundity -> = absolute simplicity/ordinariness. This is breathtakingly ordinary and simple. It just happens to have no limit, so it can appear as unfathomable complexity -- that's amazing. And of course there's absolutely no intention for this to convince anyone that ordinary is better than extraordinary, because they aren't two anyway, nor is anything really.

While I wouldn't say this is false, it's not strictly true, because the my/I referred to does not have anything (since it is the illusory dream itself), including an imagination. In that sense you could say there is only imagination, but it's not controlled/guided/caused by something separate from it. There's just boundlessness / the infinite / unconditional love being blindly itself, which is and is not.

Consciousness is always evolving... in the dream of the evolution of consciousness. The apparent you (not real you) is consciousness, which is separation... but what you really are is nothing, appearing as everything, with no separation between what appears, and no real play of opposites... which the apparent you seems to live in. There's no separate you conscious of what appears, there is only what appears, to no one. There's a incessant open invitation for what you really are (all there is; what is and is not) to see that all the suffering and the happiness that arises... is not yours... They just are what they are -- which could be (woefully insufficiently) described as emptiness being full, or what appears to be happening, without other... nothing else, including some other happening, or something else which could be known, or something which could know the known or know what's appearing (which is of course appearing for no one separate). There is no space between this body and this screen that's apparently being seen. The screen and the body are not two. There's no real distance at all, there just is what's appearing. It's actually too obvious to get, but "too obvious" in that sense does not mean "it's easy to get and someone still isn't getting it," NO, not at ALL... It's actually TOO obvious to get -- no one CAN get it because there isn't anyone separate to do so!

The levels can always be higher in the dream. But liberation, which is all there is already, has no higher level, because it’s obvious that the only thing that experiences levels (or anything actually happening at all) is illusory.

Acutely. But yoga can increase self esteem. Testosterone level is not that important anyway. It’s actually kind of rare for it to be low and if it is low, there’s basically absolutely nothing you can do other than either stop consuming substances that shut down hormones (worst offenders are calcium channel blockers and opioids), or start taking TRT. And when these studies show that some things increase or decrease test level, it’s usually going from like 300 to 350 (can’t remember the exact units, maybe ng/dl) — not gonna be much of a difference. And really the only things that’s make a significant difference are sleep and stress, so if anything meditation and yoga help testosterone level. When men look at babies it lowers their testosterone production... momentarily... so in the long run it makes NO difference. It only matters when it’s extreme, like someone with low T of like 50 going to 1200 (by injecting at least 140mg testosterone a week). You’re misinformed on this one man. I can go on if you’d like because I had quite a bit of experience with this is my life.

Satisfaction is the dream of there being something other than what’s appearing, called fulfillment, which one can obtain more or less of, through their own free will and choice. See, the possibility of fulfillment in the future, which like you say is just an idea/word, automatically confirms that there is un-fulfillment now. Satisfaction can appear for a time but it’s temporary, and even while it’s happening there can be the subtle sense of “I don’t want this to go away,” if there is apparently me/duality. In that sense, separation is almost always unsatisfying, even if only subtly.

Which no activity will cause. Which is why I thought you were either joking or misinformed. It's a major alteration in homeostasis, not something yoga is going to cause.

No idea if that was a joke or not, but the guys with the highest testosterone have the highest estrogen usually. It's the balance that can be a problem but this is usually only an issue if carrying a lot of extra fat and even then usually not. But no activity is going to make you produce significantly more estrogen; certainly not as much estrogen as a high testosterone male ... unless you already have high test, in which case your estrogen will be somewhat high as well.

It's a summer home that my sister and my parents and I share but there's usually never anyone actually living there. Yeah I know, it's like the nicest view ever lol.

Yes, no thing could be infinite. But there aren’t any things anyway, so that’s redundant. ? And of course there’s no process, in fact I’m afraid there's nothing happening... There’s just nothing being everything — boundlessness appearing without cause or meaning.

It’s essentially just a random picture of nature in my own backyard. Might change it again soon.

There's no past or future, and no separation to understand in. Just timeless isness without any constraints such as cause or meaning.

Well, there is actually no purpose. Or meaning. Or cause... And just to be clear, it might seem like one could maybe get their head around that and imagine what no purpose/meaning might be like and actually get close... But no. No meaning at all whatsoever has an utterly exactly 0% likelihood of ever being imagined. It would blow the mind out if it were capable of grasping it, which it isn't, which is why it would get blown out -- it was never there anyway, we're not talking about something real here.

Even that is a case-closed in the loop of self-reference. There isn't anyone who knows what exists, yet the apparent one can only know what exists -- from a separate standpoint / as separation. There's just what appears to be happening, without separation, which can't be known since knowing only operates in what's actually happening in my awareness.

Yeah.. This was apparent in my response. No one can know what this is, which is why all you'll ever see me do is basically negation. If I seem to be claiming anything, it's not me doing it, and it's a story anyway, so there is absolutely no claim on what this is, or if it is. Just apparently negating held beliefs of apparent seekers, for no reason.

Obviously? Lol that was the damn point of my response! lol lol that was literally the point. wish I had access to the crying laughter emoji Which (whether psychedelics, or even insights of any kind, are of any value or not) of course is not worth talking about, but neither is anything else, and so the appearance is complete anyway. No idea what I'm even saying. This is already complete. But yeah I was agreeing with you apparently.

You weren't responding to me were you? Because if so then you didn't read what I said. I was precisely pointing to God realization merely being an appearance of boundless energy. It has no meaning or value and it's simply freedom appearing as that. I was literally saying that psychedelics have no value.

On point. Very much seems to be the case.

In my story I was about as deep into the psychedelic experience as one can apparently be. 500mg 5-MeO-DMT inside of a week or two, sheets upon sheets of LSD, etc etc... Tons of God realizations where there's just timeless infinity, lots of flashy stuff... Jhana (without psychedelics), fun meditation states, profound insights, etc... It never ever leads to already just what's appearing to happen without any cause or meaning or limit or other (and therefore anything better), which is peerless freedom...

Technically, it's nothing, apparently speaking/appearing, to nothing else, a description of what nothing is -- freedom; all there is. And actually, that's technically all that ever happens, if we're going to be as perfectly imperfectly precise as possible.

Well in the end we can't say anything at all because there isn't anyone separate to do so. There's only boundlessness appearing to be. Appearing as people, sex, walls, anything.