Breakingthewall

How could be an illusion if there is only unity?

What mind, if there is only unity?

It's very obvious reading you what is your game. I shouldn't answer anymore, it's humiliating to participate

Sure deep sleep is the truth and being awake is falsehood. Go to sleep in the truth then , and stop to repeat non dualistic slogan for escapists

Sorry, now I took my dose of diazepam and I can read you. Lets start again. Tell me , o wise.

Sorry for being rude, you are my non dualistic friend, like a pet who repeat the same lesson, and I love you a lot pet. Don't get angry

Non-dualistic spirituality is simply escapism. It tells you that your human reality is an illusion and that what you are is consciousness; in other words, it tells you that you must create a new mental map and that this is enlightenment. For this, the main tool is Vipassana-style meditation, where you must observe your thoughts, which are maya, and thus identify with the observer, which is empty consciousness, what you truly are. All of this is a mess that only creates spiritual narcissists who are impossible to deal with. It's better to have a drug addict or a workoholic friend than a non-dualist; they are more authentic.

Probably this is the other side of the absolute, the purest, the unlimited without quality. For me it's always with quality, like the unlimited means all the qualities merged, the fact of being is affirmative, it's like brilliant, expansion, glory of being. But probably this could have a part of projection

I believe it's not necessary to break down physically; it's enough to do it mentally. To truly live as if death or catastrophe (for example, a serious illness) could happen in a minute. Which is absolutely true. I didn't, I read some about Ramakrishna time ago and I didn't get it a lot but now thinking about it seems that he's the mystic that really understood the creative power, the positive affirmation that being implies, and the absolute beauty of the form. About Kali, destruction has something like erotic, but I'm the sense of totally giving yourself, like from destruction the new emerges, the pure being in a clean form forged in the pain and fight. Kali steps Shiva because from the absolute, the dance of form always arises, creation without limit, absolutely wild, without control, unfathomable depth from the unlimited vitality of the unlimited abyss manifest itself. Kali is the absolute mystery taking forms, dancing with itself staring you with the face of a demon that hides a god.

To break the shell of the ego, you need, let's say, a special configuration: a tendency toward openness, a desire for surrender, for dissolution, for being one with reality. Even so, it's difficult because the desire to be an individual is always strong. It's very difficult to stop being an individual and become the limitless because you are an individual who wants to be an individual.

Love is just a word that we use to describe a feeling that we have towards something. The point is that this feeling is just being without the restriction of the negative, the preservation. And this feeling is never absolute, it's always "almost". If you open yourself totally to what you are, that is exactly what you are but without restrictions, it's absolute being , unlimited, and it's absolute love, you will say: alleluia! The fucking prodigal son is again at home

Yes it is. If you are open to what being is, it's total, everything. More love than the biggest love that you imagined in your wildest dreams

The matter of love is simple: what we call love is being. As self-preserving (living) entities, we are closed to destruction and open to preservation. What we perceive as preservation, we perceive as connection, being, that is, love. What we perceive as destruction, we do not. This causes our perception to be closed; it's inevitable. If perception is completely open, everything is being, connection, that is, love.

For me the point is that worldly things are the openess. What closes you off isn't the mundane, but fear. Without fear, there is no difference between noise and silence, mundane or divine. Meditation is necessary to break, for a time, the shell that isolates us, but later, it is in action that reality manifests itself. Imo the point is going through the absolute silence , the absence of anything, the total nihilism, to arrive to the total connexion, the perfect dance of creation and destruction, that is the manifestation of the unlimited. That's why I chose Kali as avatar, because the unlimited is always manifested in the form, and is in the form where we are to find ourselves, even that form is pain. Openess at the end means openess of the heart. The heart is the absolute, when the heart is open, emptiness is full because it is. Being is everything, that is what openess means, being open to being, being translate in absolute creative power, and that power is in you and you are in it. It's not silence like tranquil emptiness, it's the absolute glory of the absence of limitations

It's simple, be absolutely selfish. But being absolutely selfish means giving your best, expand your energy, connect with others, taking risks, merge with the whole, giving yourself to the reality. Because anything else is going against yourself.

The angle from which this issue is being approached is wrong. It's not about defining reality as love, but about understanding what we call love. Love is what it means to be alive without barriers. And being alive means being, but in a dual state. Normally, when we talk about love, we refer to the feeling between two beings or realities, which excludes everything that isn't them. This is because we close off our reality in order to survive. We block out everything that is negative for survival, but we open our perceptual field on certain occasions: children, partners, art, etc. Love isn't something special; it's reality without barriers, the unity of being without limits. It's being without closing ourselves off. Being human, closing ourselves off is inevitable. Enlightenment is achieving total openness at certain times. Then you realize that what you are in essence is unlimited being, and what that being implies. Implies everything, and you could call it unlimited love, or call love the fact of being

It's not that he's right or wrong, it's that he never opened the door to the totality in his life and thinks enlightenment is "this." So if someone asks him about, let's say, "mystical" things, he responds with superiority, saying that it's all emotional nonsense. Or if you ask him about psychedelics, he dismisses them because he took LSD when he was 18, so he already knows everything. It's like a blind man saying that sight doesn't exist, and all those who claim to see are just naive children deceived by some guru. It's very easy to see that he's closed due a heavy ego that is attached to the mind thinking that this is the no mind

I wouldn't say that reality is love; I would say that love is reality, and so is the Hiroshima bomb. The ultimate foundation of reality is the absence of limits, and limitlessness translates into being. Being implies creation without barriers, and this force is equivalent in quality to what we call love. Destruction is the other side of creation, and its substance is the same, but we cannot see it because we have an absolute bias toward survival, as the self-preserving structures that we are.

At the end the unlimited power that is being without boundaries is exactly the same than the love that a mother feels for her baby but without boundaries. Then if you say that the absolute is love, or being, you are closer than if you say that the absolute is consciousness. Anyway, if you ask Ralston about it he would answer: aaahyshhh young ignorant and almost retarded baby, you say that because any scammer told you, and you, who are simple piece of shit without brain, bought it, look, buy my book, ok retarded? And stop disturbing. I understand that this message is seductive for many, but I see it bit....well, arrogant. Over all if it comes from a closed mind

Ralston is simply completely wrong from the ground up. For him, there is such a thing as "absolute truth," which is something you come to know when you free yourself from those sticky, false human feelings. Human feelings are an expression of what reality is, only biased, compartmentalized in order to allow the survival of concrete, self-preserving forms, that is, life. The absolute is not consciousness where images appear; that is logically absurd, since "absolute" cannot be something where something else appears. The absolute is the total, and the total is being. Being is affirmative: it is. And this translates into absolute power. Opening yourself to the total is opening yourself to the power of infinite supernovae, not to tranquil, empty screens. Leo is much closer to explaining enlightenment than the non-dualists; his flaw is that he cannot detach himself from centrality (aka solipsism), but at least he understands true substance.

The problem is the word "love." Normally, love means the feeling you have for someone or something. But in a broader sense, it means unity, creation, expansion, and generative power. If you fully open your psyche until not even the slightest barrier remains, what is revealed is the unlimited, and the unlimited, having no limits, is infinite creative power, absolute fullness. This can be called love. Ralston, Spira, and non-dualists in general have a very limited view of enlightenment. For them, it's something mental, understanding what reality is, the screen where everything happens, etc. They are disconnected from life, and they are not enlightened; they are rather endarkened, same than bitter james 😘. They don't want to understand because they prefer to be right than to be really enlightened. A problem of humility

Exactly, it's a process of alignment, cleaning. It's more or less automatic, when you really start to move in the direction of the openess, little by little, old mental habits get broken,a real change occurs. For me there is always some degree of closeness in day by day. As you said, serious meditation is necessary to break through, even for a few moments, the shell of the ego, which then returns. Sometimes it happens spontaneously, but usually there is closeness. The interesting thing is that you begin to perceive the mechanisms that close us off, and if you're even slightly perceptive, you'll see that these mechanisms are very deep and inherent to human beings. For example, the need for solid human bonds is paramount being a human. We could deny this fact calling the relationships "maya", but this doesn't going to make that need to disappear. we live in a society where relationships are extremely superficial, and this is deeply destabilizing. Spirituality is often used as a band-aid or an escape, just like success in any field. When you can't trust anyone, not even yourself, you need to build a network of stories, desires, and fears that keeps you grounded; otherwise, your psyche will collapse. Peering into the abyss of total nihilism, as you mentioned before, isn't something many people want to do. It's absolutely a must in you want to open yourself to the unlimited. You cant immerse yourself in the total ocean introducing only a toe, you have to jump without net.

That sounds like: I write to show that I'm very profound, same time I imply that all the words written in the thread are unnecessary mess for who's very elevate as me . Please, don't disturb my pure and clean silence. Namaste. Ohm. My pure presence is the only enlightenment that you need. Give me some money. This spirituality is outdated. Fewer and fewer people believe narcissists who sell their presence. We need to be concrete, direct, and without evasions.

Enlightenment is something very simple yet very difficult. It is the dissolution of the inner boundaries of the psyche. Boundaries are defenses, created by evolution given the reality of life in general and human life in particular. These defenses are especially subtle and powerful in the social game, where acceptance equates to life and rejection to death (when humans were tribal). Their force is enormous, and facing them head-on without fear or avoidance is a challenge. The barriers of the psyche are not thoughts; rather, thoughts emanate from them. They are real neurological structures that activate when they connect with the situations for which they were created. Behind them lies the primordial barrier: the fear of death, the need to remain. Gazing into the great abyss of total dissolution and opening oneself to it is the ultimate challenge. Enlightenment is not about knowing things, realizing what you are, being consciousness, etc., but about opening your energetic configuration by releasing all barriers and being without limits. only for a moment at first, gradually building up to sustain that openness until it becomes your reality

Both are real. There is not "how real". How real is a stone in comparison with a planet? Exactly in the same level: real. A dream is happening due countless of relationship between fields, etc, same than anything else. Spirituality is not that mess, is being open to your total nature, that is the nature of everything, that is the absence of limits that is. But you are open to it from a limited structure or process that is happening now that is your human nature. Nothing is a "dream" , thats just obscurantist spirituality that confuses everyone