Breakingthewall

That would be like saying that being at home is false and that going to the mountains is real; it's a confusing mental map. I'm not closed to the unlimited btw, lately it's becoming like normal in some extent. The point is not falsehood vs truth, it's closeness vs openess. What I meant before with psychedelics was getting states of total dissolution, I did some from then, I think I'm done with psychedelics for a while this is the idea that reality is illusory. The absolute is not peace or emptiness, is power, vitality. Formless doesn't exist, when you talk about formless you are talking about a form that is not a square or a circle, but has properties, the property of existing, and that implies everything The space and time will pass and another combination will appear. It's not that the mind believes in separation, it's that is closed by the inherent emotional density of being human. the mind can see the flow of the existence and become one with it because the mind is the flow of existence, you don't need to believe in separation to perceive the dance of reality , the flow that happens is real. It's not false, it's just the manifestation or the unlimited that is always happening Anyway, when you say believing in separation maybe you mean this, but I think its not believing, it's closeness that happens for fear. Being human is difficult Then you perceived that was not formless, was grace as you said. It's an affirmative property, is positive in the sense that is. For me the point is being open to what reality is always at least in some extent, if not life is total shit. Nothing worths if you are closed. I get sad, in lack, isolated , miserable. Then you are careful to not close yourself.

Maybe you didn't read well, he said this:

The point is being open to the true nature of everything, that we are closing with our psychological structure. How does Advaita or non-duality address this? By establishing that everything is the same essence and that the self is an illusion. It's something you create through mental activity. Who is this "you" that creates the separate self through mental activity? A foolish ignorant who has made a mistake? Or perhaps billions of years of evolution from complex molecules to the stable process of unimaginable complexity called human? Who says that's an illusion? Why? It isn't; it's the structure that reality is now taking, giving rise to the fact of perceiving itself. Enlightenment is ceasing to perceive only the mirror of the psyche and perceiving the Absolute, and Advaita practitioners are in a mistake. They say that the Absolute is pure consciousness. The Absolute is the total source, the absence of limits that lives because it has no limits and that manifests in universes, dimensions, and everything that is possible. To open yourself to it, denying what exists by calling it an illusion is an obstacle, and saying that everything is one is irrelevant. If you are in total silence, the illusion, the absence of two, etc., all become irrelevant; it is simply "I am," completely devoid of content. And there, an action can occur: the opening to the totality. This won't happen because you think everything is one because you aren't thinking anything; it will happen because your heart, in its essence, is such that without articulating it, it says: I surrender to whatever comes, to torture, emptiness, death, total nihilism. I give myself . Kill me. It has to turn its emotional gears for a moment so that they align on that frequency, for a moment. It doesn't have to be like that all the time, but it needs to have that tendency, and at a given moment, that tendency materializes in a moment of total surrender. All of this has zero relation to the ego being an illusion and all that. Then if the openess happen, all the structure begin a mutation to become transparent, millimeter by millimeter the movement is to less density instead to more density, until the source starts to be your reality, you become more transparent little by little because it's a total change that can't happen in only a moment

Tolle understands it backwards. To begin with, Tolle hasn't healed anything; he had a mental breakdown one day due to extreme stress, and the next day his self was deactivated. His default mode network stopped functioning as an extreme defense mechanism, and then he tells you that there's something he calls the pain-body, which is the accumulated trauma of your life, activated by your thoughts. Then, through meditation, you can observe it, integrate it, and thus it disappears. It's the other way around. You don't remember your cousin slapping you and calling you an idiot, and then you activate the pain-body. The point is that you haven't been able to conquer your place in society and in reality; instead, you've cowardly adapted, feigning an autonomy and power you don't possess. So your system, which has evolutionary mechanisms stemming from war and slavery, knows you're in a weak, insecure position, that in savage circumstances you would be abused and intimidated. And to manifest this, which is your reality, it evokes your nice cousin urinating on your face. Because your system knows that you are in a very insecure position and that is screaming you: danger. If you had truly earned your place, it wouldn't matter to you. It wasn't that traumatic, it wasn't like the Siege of Stalingrad; it's a symbol that you're still a coward. If you stop being a coward and earn your place, that disappears, but you have to earn it, and that requires drive, courage, struggle, and absolute assertiveness. Otherwise, you'll suffer. This is life, not a video game where the ego decides what to feel. You are the tip of the iceberg of a vast tide called humanity, forged in war, oppression, conquest, and also in genius. Tolle is a painkiller; it works while you're reading it, but then you go out into the world and it's useless.

Incredible, 1 hour ago I thought about you, and I didn't though about you since you stop posting here

A question, if nothing matters, as your profile picture says, why are you vegan?

@James123 did you read what I wrote? Read this quote of nisgardatta maharah, as he has authority maybe something can penetrate in the shield of narcissism that protects you from your inner fear to be not enough. Read: When the 'I Am' dissolves into the Absolute, all traces of individuality disappear, but what remains is not the emptiness of a corpse. It is the original source of all life, a state of pure dynamism and unlimited potentiality that needs no witnesses to exist. In that state, you are not conscious of being alive; you are Life itself flowing, a fullness so massive that the birth and death of entire universes are merely tiny bubbles rising to the surface of your own being Nisgardatta (authority) maharah

As we could see again, you prefer being superior than being open. Your choice.

The body is gone, but the source will flow always, it's impossible anything else. The human structure is not an illusion, is a manifestation of the absolute and it's perception is the perception of the absolute. It's totally obvious, can't be anything else. I know exactly where is your problem btw. I remember perfectly your two trip experiences with 10 grams of dried mushrooms. You reached the point of total emptiness and stayed there for hours, but the revelation of the limitless didn't occur. I've told you this many times, but your primary need isn't openness but superiority, which is why the opening didn't happen. When you're in absolute limitless emptiness, you can still feel, right? You can have the sensation that this emptiness is terrifying, or sad. It's at that moment that you have to make the movement of surrendering the self, of wanting to disappear into the void. Then, perhaps, sometimes, the opening occurs, and the absolute is revealed. Then your life changes forever. The prodigal son who was wandering in the dead desert has returned to his place, to the totality that lives.

Of course, you can be open to the totality, but your human system would work perfectly. Even you perceive yourself as the fullness, the vitality and the not originates, you prefer living in a good house surrounded by good friends than being a homeless alone bitten by the rats, because you are a human that evolved for avoid that shit. If your destiny is being the homeless, that's life, but If you can choose you will do without doubt, and do what's necessary

I learned it by opening myself to the total Source, and I see it clearly right now, same clear that I perceive my body. I see that it is the unlimited, and the unlimited, being unlimited, emitted potential in all directions. That potential was simply the fact of having no limits, but it is the inevitable cause of everything possible being. Let's say that the absolute void is like an infinite computer that emits mathematical equations, that is, possible relationships, and the moment the potential becomes possible, it is. It's not magic, it's just inevitable. The unlimited can't be stable, can't stop flowing, precisely because it's unlimited. The Source is total vitality only because it has no limits, and that is precisely what you are. It is not a god, nor a self, it's open, period. That which is absolutely open cannot be closed. What would close it? It's impossible.

When you die, James123 disappears, and we all say, "He was a great guy; it's always the best ones who leave us." Then countless births occur, universes emerge, others collapse, and the limitless fractal of reality keeps turning. James was just a form, an expression of the Source. The essential thing isn't James passively-aggressively saying "peace, brother," but the essence of James, and this essence is total. Perhaps there is something like reincarnation, perhaps not. Probably some kind of continuity of form, not "you," but a structural memory of this form. But what you consider "you" is only the dual structure that allows perception. That is just one form; there are infinitely many like it, so you can immerse yourself in infinity and die peacefully because you are nothing more than one of the expressions of your true nature. Just let it go yourself, what you are is the unlimited ocean, and forms are going to emerge for the eternity

Agree more or less. Enlightenment is the openess to the nature of the reality. What closes is the human psyche. The total openess is only possible for a moment, when your psyche disappear, but you cant live in that state. Being enlightenment means that your psyche is aligned to be transparent enough to your true nature, but still a psyche. Enlightenment starts with a glimpse, a total opening in a moment. Then a process starts until the enough transparency is consolidated

@gettoefl this quote of nisgardatta is perfect. When the 'I Am' dissolves into the Absolute, all traces of individuality disappear, but what remains is not the emptiness of a corpse. It is the original source of all life, a state of pure dynamism and unlimited potentiality that needs no witnesses to exist. In that state, you are not conscious of being alive; you are Life itself flowing, a fullness so massive that the birth and death of entire universes are merely tiny bubbles rising to the surface of your own being. This one of Hawkins is also good. The presence of Reality is not felt as a continuous electric shock, but as a background of intrinsic vitality. The physical world is perceived as a hyperrealistic high-definition film, where every object shines with the energy of its own being. The observer has become transparent; there is no longer anyone there 'watching,' only the unfolding of existence. I paste my text in Gemini and asked for similitude in spiritual literature. Those for me are what enlightenment means. Enlightenment is not more than that, but that's everything. No god, angels or mystery, just what reality is, inevitable. the power of the unlimited happening, the unlimited life. Not a Buddhist peace but a expansion of freedom, creativity, power. And its clear that it's what reality is, and you are that in the form of a human that can be conscious of what he is. But over all what you are is that unlimited life that emerges without end and the human is just a transparent structure that is happening now, a possibility taking place

Then for you now it's the same that your family is burned alive than eating an ice cream? If anyone tells you: choose one option. What would you ask? Maybe the ice cream? Then we have a self there. The fact of choosing is precisely the self. Why saying that it doesn't exist? It exists, it's the fact of your preference . It's a construction of the reality that is happening now. Denying it is like denying the body . The self is the human software that protects itself and prefer and choose because it knows that is an structure that can be harmed. Also is the fact of knowing that you are, you exist. It's a fact impossible to deny.

The step one is not just removing meaning, is being absolutely empty of yourself, of anything except the fact of perceiving yourself. It's impossible removing it because it's the fact of existing as a conscious being. It's not the idea, but the fact. Step two is opening and this is the difficult one. The first one is easy, the second not so. It's something that can happen, needs that your inner disposition is giving yourself to the reality, open your heart to what is. It's not like you think: I give myself etc, it's that your real inner disposition is that. No greed, openness, surrender. If the openess happen, it's not something that you realize, it's not in the mind, it's all your being that opens to it's unlimited nature.

the point of those words was describing how it feels a total opening to the source not a description of what reality is. I told that was subjective. Anyway contraction is also reality happening, same than destruction. Are potential developing, an equation taking place because it's possible The source is unlimited potential ,period . It's absolute power, and it permeates everything. The point is not knowing it, it's being open to it. The difference is total.

That seems to be the case. The Iranian victory is complete, since the only possible victory for the US/Israelis would have been the fall of the regime. Without an internal revolution, it was impossible to defeat Iran. I suppose Israel and the US had a plan for that coup to happen, and it simply failed. The positive aspect of this is that it demonstrates that war today is a bad business; any army with modern weaponry willing to fight can cause enormous damage. The negative aspect is the fate of the Iranian dissidents. The regime has been strengthened, and Iran will have to remain dominated by a military oligarchy. EEUU and Israel will claim that everything was a success, that they destroyed what they wanted to destroy and then wait for the next movement of iran. Less power for EEUU, less legitimacy for Israel, more legitimacy for Iranian regime.

Over all when "awakening" is just an history that they tell to themselves. Spirituality is where the narcissists find their last refuge.

The mind is as real as the body. Imagine the quantum synchronicity that must occur in reality for a mind to exist. Ask Ralston if a city is real or not. The mind did it. How could something unreal do something real?

Fear is a reality that's sure, no one is free of fear. I think that the point is facing our fears, if not you are trapped

Most of humans feelings are about inclusion, exclusion, valoration, being enough, being better or worse, being humiliated, feel alone, fear death, poverty, sickness. Those feelings close. Feelings of acceptation, desire to give yourself to the reality, love reality and love yourself because you are the reality, those feelings open

spirituality largely stems from Buddhism, which classifies feelings as maya. The practitioner's goal would be equanimity, which is a flat emotional structure. The idea is that emotions create a dense mental structure that hinders clear vision. Equanimity allows for the perception of the absolute. Taoism says something similar, differing in its concept of the absolute. Christianity, for its part, exhorts you to love; you must love even your enemies. This is another form of equanimity. If you love everything and reject nothing, your emotional structure clarifies, and the whole can be perceived. Islam exhorts you to total submission to God's law and to love God. In this way, supposedly the structure also clarifies, and you would become, in the best-case scenario, a Sufi like al-Hallaj or Rumi. The point is that humans have for default a very dense emotional structure. This structure is what serves as the foundation of society. Human emotions are absolute; without that force, human evolution would never have occurred. The problem is that emotions blind you; you only see emotions. They are a biological vector of enormous power that compels us to go to war or to fuse the atom. Without them, we wouldn't be human. I think it's possible to achieve a structure transparent to the absolute without flattening emotions. You have to align and understand your emotional structure very well, and then you can hack the system at certain moments to put yourself in a mental position where life and death are the same for you. Then, sometimes, the totality manifests itself.

Sure, that's the point of talking about those matters. What's annoying without doubt is when anyone talks from the need of being right, not from the analysis. It's easy to check it: you can show a mistake in his analysis, if the person reacts defensive, not responding, changing topic (or saying peace brother 😅), it's that is speaking from the ego, but if they answer showing the argument from another perspective, admitting mistakes, then they are talking from analysis. Sometimes it's irritating read someone who talks with too much certainly, but that doesn't means that they are talking from the need of validation or to be right.

It's a complex matter. Some spiritual teachers believe that they are enlightened and teach that enlightenment means realizing that the human mind is an illusion, then everything become whats called spiritual bypassing. We are trying to talk about the matter, how it happens, where is the mistake, etc. If you come and insult the people who's trying to understand this wasting time and processing, maybe for you it's funny, over all insulting from a screen, but as you are a moderator, would be nice if you stop insulting. It's a tendency that you have, and sure for you it's funny and innocent, but there are people who doesn't like being insulted. I think you should be kind and understand those too sensitive people who don't like being insulted and be kind and stop insulting. Just a suggestion