Breakingthewall

@Jowblob to me your mistake is obvious, you take lsd trips to understand reality, see what god is, all that, when all you have to do is stop valuing things as good or bad, and flow. everything that is not flowing is ego, greed, desire to grasp reality. Forget knowing, just let it be. get yourself out of the way, and allow reality, that is, you, to be. then your problems and your worries will end and you will be free. it's pretty simple btw. You will know when you get it when you can do lsd and everything is dance, beauty, joy, freedom. That is reality, but you are there with your greed judging that everything is wrong.

Awakening to reality is Abandoning the dream of the conditioned mind, to begin with, and after that, going deeper into what reality is. If you have opened up to now, you will only want to open up more. And also be an alcoholic? impossible. no addiction. any addiction is a need to escape from the now. what you want is exactly the opposite, to merge with him now as much as possible. There are a lot of deceived people, maybe watts was one of them

@Osaid What you call enlightenment is transcending the ego mind. self-referential, comparative, evaluative and limiting mental activity, and open yourself to the now and be the now. I think what you say is the most important part of the spiritual path, realizing reality, but not the end. enlightenment is more, and I say it only for glimpses. I can be in the state you speak of, and it is the end of self-inflicted mental suffering. Maybe I can be in this state without psychedelics for a month, after continuous spiritual work. But I know this is just the beginning. I can align with reality more perfectly, I can understand more deeply, I can open to the now more detachedly. And above all, I can realize the absolute and be the absolute in a total way. this is where you recognize yourself as existence and joy overflows

It depends of the thought. Thinking clearly is essential to having a good life. thinking wrongly can take you to hell. Thinking is or main power. If you think that there is a guy who wants to kill you will have a physical reaction, because the root of the thinking activity is survival. You will be thinking non-stop until you find a solution. this is the human essence. The problem is if you think incongruent things, if you have repressed emotions and have a distorted subconscious that generates anxiety and looping thoughts. that is that you are thinking wrongly and you have to find the cause Thoughs are phenomena that appears is the experience, like everything else. We should understand what they are and use them properly. we are not the content of thought but we are the activity of thinking, like the activity of breathing. we must know when to detach from thoughts, when to immerse ourselves in the activity of thinking, and above all, how to think effectively to develop our potential

conceptual knowledge is something very useful and it is what makes us live so well in houses, move in cars, cure diseases and all that, instead of being hungry and escaping from lions, but we have to learn to turn it completely off at will. if not, it becomes too prominent, traps you, completely contaminates the experience, filters it and makes it dead, ugly, sad, anxious. If we can to turn off that facet of the mind, the experience turns deep, coloured, magical, full of life.

the thought is real as any other physical manifestation, and it's a great part of the experience. The thought is real and the mind is alive. What is the qualitative difference between a thought and an image projected by the retina in the brain? both are experience, both are a representation of reality. both have the function of survival and evolution. the mind will always think, the thing is to do it at the right frequency, understanding which are the activators of thought, its bases, and eliminating all the useless noise, the dysfunctional rubbish. the mind is a very complex piece of software, it needs deep understanding and proper maintenance

the mind has to take a important step, switch to another frequency. looking within is not to analyze oneself but to break the conceptual bubble and open up to unlimited breadth, peek into the truth of existence and be one with it. Only in this way will the human being stop being a maladjusted and suffering entity, and will be able to reach his true potential.

The human mind is the next step to physical evolution through the gene. All evolution is driven by competition, the struggle to survive. Through this struggle, life, which is the reality having an experience, passes from photosynthetic bacteria to elephants. Life competes against itself in a fight to the death, in which there is only one rule: survive. Anything is allowed. Killing is absolutely legitimate and desirable. It is the basis of life. The goal of life is to experiment, and the struggle gives the necessary drive for creation. Suffering and death are simply tools of creation. From this competition the gene grows in complexity creating magnificent designs, different experiences, but always limited by matter. Evolution is slow, each generation contributes its grain of sand. The human mind is life that has been freed from matter in a stroke of genius. The mind is life, its impulse, its evolutionary thrust is the same as that of life. But it is not limited, since it is not "something". The ego mind is the stream of thought that each individual constantly and uninterruptedly creates. This flow has the same bases as any other form of life, it is a survival tool. It distinguishes, like any form of life, between good/life and evil/death. Through language, the mind communicates with other minds, modifying each other and creating a common mind. like a cloned bacterium, ideas are cloned. If collaboration is adequate to promote survival, the idea that collaboration is desirable and individualism undesirable will be cloned and spread at great speed among the mental streams of individuals. This idea is supported by survival, so it has enormous force: the force of life. In harsh environments, the ideas that will develop will be rigidity, uniformity, loyalty to the group, individual sacrifice. In softer environments, ideas will soften. The evolution of the collective mind is fast since it is not limited and ideas with development potential are continuously disseminated, modifying the mental flows that receive them quickly. The human mind is ultimately the reality, and as such has the potential to fully comprehend reality, since it is the reality. Animals also have a mind, they are mind, experience, just like humans, but a mind tied to the physical, dominated by instincts, tied to the gene. The human mind has been released from the physical, it has freed itself and is an entity that evolves independently of the physical, that is why it has the ability to turn inward and see By default the human mind is completely focused on the evolving flux of though, as this is what it primarily exists for, to be a serial processor that receives, processes and transmits information to favour the survival. In certain cases, some units have the vital impulse due exceptional circumstances to stop the flow of thought that defines the exterior and favors adaptation to the environment and turn inward to look at themselves. This impulse, as most of impulses, is done by suffering and fear. The first step is to be able to remove the mind from the bubble created by the flow, which consumes most of its capacity, and to be able to focus. Establish itself in the now by eliminating the past and future, which are fundamental ideas for the structure of the mental flow, and thus be able to look at itself, into the unfathomable abyss within itself, which is the totality of existence, and understand it. The reason? Because the reality wants it, like everything else.

Attachment to thought is something fundamental in the human being, it could be said that it is its essence. For thoughts to generate evolutionary movement, they must have an irresistible attachment base. There are thoughts that make thousands of men run in the direction of a trench full of machine guns, for example. The problem is that although this attachment to thought generates movement and strength, it is a source of suffering. it creates a living and real conceptual entity, only not tangible but real, and very unstable. unlike an animal, whose form has been tested for hundreds of thousands of years in contrast with it's environment, the form of the conceptual entity is always new, unstable, unadapted to a changing environment. this living conceptual entity (as alive as the body) suffers, and wants to stop suffering, to do so it seeks new ways. the ones we seek, the next evolutionary step in the very fast evolution of the mind

Here and now is the absolute truth, the existence, but your experience makes it seem relative. you have to dismantle the illusion of temporality that the mind creates and immerse yourself in the now. and eventually, if you let go everything, the now will manifest for what it really is. obviously everything is the absolute truth, hence the word absolute, there is nothing else. the thing is to realize it the problem is the concept "experience", which implies a self experiencing something, and that is precisely the appearance, the illusion

@KatiesKarma your friend is smart. Here everyone confuses the absolute truth with experience, and the experience is the illusion, it's not false, it's relative. infinity is nothing, if it is something, it is because it is relative. absolute truth is beyond description, it is a revelation, nothing can be said about it. is the total void. Being the absolute void is the truth, and it is the liberation. but that empty sounds bad, like something negative. it's the other way around. it is empty because being infinite, it has no limits, it is everything, but it is nothing because can't be contrasted. To get to that, you have to get rid of all ideas about ultimate reality, and here there is a lot of corruption with God, love, that you hide from yourself because you don't want to be alone, that you play and imagine everything as a set for fool you, that you are a little pink pony, you, you, etc.

No, it's real. you can get out of the appearance of human experience and realize that you are the cosmos, and beyond, the flowing infinity, and still beyond, the absolute void, immutable. that is imo the ultimate reality and it is not experience because it does not happen, it is. This is not definable nor can you remember it, it is something that you recognize yourself in when it is shown, even a second is enlightenment. what I want to say is that the opening to the now is the first and fundamental step. the exit of the mental flow bubble, aka suffering. Now is when you can start doing a real spiritual work, fast, beautiful. Now is when a little of lsd works wonders.

That's why the 5meo was so difficult to you. was exactly the same for me. two puffs of weed, and distortion, confusion, noise. I have had to vape 5meo dmt many times, more than 50, 70, I don't know, to gradually align what was distorted. In addition to meditating daily, doing mushrooms, etc. I intuitively understood that there was a distortion at the root of my psyche, it had to be equalized and the only effective way was to dissolve my mental pattern and by doing so, see, understand. now i can smoke weed and my mind is empty, spacious. reality dancing. lsd the same, and 5 meo very easy, it no longer seems to me an interesting substance, it's like its work is done (but maybe malt could be very interesting). I recommend to you breaking up, over and over again, with free base. The benefits are huge

there is only one real happiness: realizing your true nature. Let's say that if you are completely in your true nature, like a Buddha in perfect meditation, your happiness would be perfect, total. what we call happiness is being. If you stray one millimeter from that perfect alignment, your happiness would be almost perfect. so you go deviating because the fact of being human and putting layers, until you reach a level of opaqueity in which you are very far from perceiving your true nature. you feel unhappy, anxious, there is no rest for you, only addiction, compulsive behavior, give you the illusion of going towards something, since where you are burns. but you are always in the same place, what you have to do is make the veil more and more transparent, understanding what is the veil, how your mind create the opaqueness

You are defining enlightenment as the state of a 4-year-old child, or that of a cat. that is to be free of the human ego, the first step, but after that you remain trapped in the experience

Of course, life is basically war. kill to steal the other's energy and live. Based on this design, it is normal for humans to be the way we are.

There in not my experience, just the experience, and it's hiding something: the fact of being an experience is just appearance, and the you a fiction. But not the conceptual you, the you who is a perceptor. It's being created by the appearance, so it's just apparent. But let's see, just starting to see, maybe I'm wrong

You don't understand what Im saying. I'm not operating in the conceptual mind, I'm in the real experience, but deepen in it. The experience is not just stop thinking and interpreting, that's the first step. The experience gets deep in itself.

I experience that state 50% of time, just started with a few moments and is becoming more widespread and common. I was a different person a month ago. I realize that there was suffering in mind 24/7. How I could bear that shit? . Now I can go into the flow, be directly more and more easily, but there is more. the experience can be broken and the door opened. that's the unthinkable, your true nature. But it's not easy. Yesterday for example I vaped 20 mg of 5 meo two times trying to open the door. I realized that you can't force it. Can happen sober, with a bit of LSD, on maybe never more again. Don't you have the feeling that there is more, that something is hidden?

I experience that state 50% of time, just started with a few moments and is becoming more widespread and common. I was a different person a month ago. I realize that there was suffering in mind 24/7. How I could bear that shit? . Now I can go into the flow, be directly more and more easily, but there is more. the experience can be broken and the door opened. that's the unthinkable, your true nature. Don't you have the feeling that there is more, that something is hidden?

@RedLine I think what is being said is that you have to stop wishing in order to wake up. Is completely true. if you wish even a little whatever, the door closes. then, you cannot keep the door open for a long time, only the time in which you do not want anything, nor do you have any bias. the complete end of suffering. if you do this for 5 minutes a day, that's already a huge achievement. with that, the rest of the time that will be very close the surface. But in a couple of days it fades.

I don't think so. You can't be in that state, you would go down the street drooling. I'm talking about opening and stopping the experience and manifesting the infinite and being the infinite, everything, the source, the pure reality, your true nature. The Revelation. that's enlightenment in my opinion. But who knows, I'm talking by memory, so that's ego.

@Osaid id say that you have freed yourself from conceptual thought, from the layer of the ego that represents reality and filters it. you can rest in being without needing to hold onto the false imaginary grip of the conceptual mind, which filters everything, which with its flow creates a bubble that encapsulates you. then you live inside a capsule that isolates you. It is human madness, the price of having a mind. but once you realize that and you can remove the bubble, stop interpreting every moment for 24 hours (horrible to live like this) for me there are moments that I surrender to now, completely, I stop living in time, and the now it opens. the infinite, now, flowing, and your mind opens, like a plant, everything is real, you perceive existence now, what you are, without any interpretation, and suddenly, the absolute. the infinite emptiness, the totality of existence, the eternal smile. I talk by memory, because it's just a moment sometimes. It's the perfect joy, the nirvana, the freedom, the perfection, the true nature, so I'm all day looking, where is the lock? How to open my mind? Even in silence, it's closed, just in some moments get open.

Very lucid post. Could you explain how was the enlightenment?

But there is more (as Leo says) . Then you start to perceive what existence is, it's flavour. You start to see, to perceive the cosmos, the movement. Then you perceive that you are the movement. You are the cosmos, so....god? You are the depth moving, dancing. Maybe Leo is right and he open himself to the reality in a great level, maybe he took a wrong way since long ago.