Breakingthewall

amazing. I'm researching on him and he was kind of a genius. his memoirs have just been published. he dictated 10 volumes on the condition that they be published 100 years after his death

@Girzo have you ever try al lad?

I'm not sure, but I think that for this you have to be born. you have to have a fire inside that wants the truth, because if you don't you will stop before.

It is not a matter of profit or interest, it is about total honesty. If you perceive in you a deep desire for honesty, integrity, truth, there is only one way for you. the rest is poor, miserable, fake gold to adorn and lie

I think that it is apparently changing but its essence does not change. memory allows us to have a vision of before-now-after, in order to function as humans, but this separates us from the essence of reality, from the eternal present. No matter how much it changes, if you are stuck in the present, for you it is simply reality, the same all the time. approaching that is what you try meditating, if the mind stops there is no apparent change, and the essence is closer

It seems to you that it changes because your memory contrasts it. If you had no memory it would always be the same. present, and you would be that

I understand you, it happens to me similar. But at this point, the only possible way is to go deeper. What do you care if human interactions seem pointless to you? you have the reality to keep you company. that of solipism is idiotic. your depth is such that it is company to spare for all eternity

but to what extent can you be enlightened? I guess quite deeply. I see reality as about to dissolve, a screen of color, like a set behind what is emptiness. I talk to people and I see their emptiness, they are just forms ... like me! but what is behind, that void, seems unknowable . it is nothing, it is completely impersonal, not human, but somehow it has to be intelligent, it is enough to observe the apparent reality to deduce the intelligence of the absolute. But how can the absolute be intelligent if it is nothing? because obviously, it is not "something". We are the absolute right now, and it's impersonal. Is impossible to understand that there is void, nothing, like an abyss. Think about that is insane, maybe that's why the mistics always says that it's uncognwable. Except Leo, of course

Possible. you have to understand how thought creates the self, and the falsehood of the self. 90% of thinking is an activity to maintain the self. once you realize its falsehood during meditation, the thought stops. After (minutes, hours) it begins again, it does not stop forever, since the self returns, but one can spend time completely merged in the present, without thoughts that create the fictitious separation. in my opinion the purity of those moments are worth more than a lifetime of ego. It is essential to achieve this and cultivate it, even if it is necessary to meditate 4 hours a day. compulsive thinking sucks big shit, it's not life. the purity of the absence of thought is paradise.

I don't think God did this because he was bored, he did it because he could, and maybe for something else. artist spirit

It is hard to realize that you are not someone. You think, when I wake up I will realize that I am not a pathetic human, but God almighty. but you wake up and what you see is that you are empty. everything you believe, think, feel, is pure illusion. you are not an individual. you are the reality, empty of content, where nothing really happens. (Sure there is a infinite god of love, i don't doubt, but i never realized it) But with meditation, embodying that emptiness every day, you find it enormous advantages. nothing can happen to you, nothing bad has ever happened to you. you won't die, and emptiness is brilliant purity, and the illusion is here to enjoy it every second. And there is not loneliness. Only the ego can feel that. the old shell does not deserve you to cry for it, was mostly sadness and dissatisfaction One advice: don't talk about these things with people who are not interested in it. It will be as if a friend of yours a few years ago, every time he saw you said: have you already found Jesus in your heart? is the friend who never fails you

Exactly. When I die I will not go anywhere, I am already here. I am you

there is no solipism because you are not alone, as you are not the individual that you think you are, having an individual experience. It only seems so to you because of a strange trick. there is only one, but it is not you

that is a concept, an idea. No idea is real, but if you need to have an idea have this: you are existence itself, complete. There is only one being, not in the universe but in the entire existence, and it so happens that that being is you ... neither more nor less. It might seem like self-help nonsense, but that's the way it is

In my opinion, that of solipism is an unfortunate concept. If you do 5meo you will have the realization that only you exist, the rest of the people are your fantasy, and you are creating them and the past in real time right now. the point is, that's real from a materialistic perspective. you, as a material individual, create the universe with your mind, and you are creating the past right now. the past evidently does not exist, it is only in your mind. but that does not mean that it did not happen! also it does not matter, the past is ego, the others are ego. What does it matter if they exist or not? only create anxiety of people who incorporate it as a concept. it does not matter if they exist or not. They are relative, they are your experience from birth, it is what you have to see as illusory, it is not you, it is a creation of your mind ... even if they really exist. What does it matter if they exist or not? for you, they are something mental. If you die now, what would this whole experience have been like? the same as nothing. but obsessing over whether they "really" are or not ... I don't see any sense in it. if they are, they are you, but with a different costume. like flies or fish, all manifestations of the same existence. just as valid or not valid, but more beautiful. Maybe it's more useful to adopt the solipsistic point of view to realize god, and I don't understand it yet

What cheap assembly. His hand falls and they already give a fact that he is dead, and directly to the coffin to bury. all in a messy room, 5 minutes for mashamadi, we have a busy day and there is a queue

yes, the experience is the ego. the ego is you, basically. as @Inliytened1 and @The0Self said at an absolute level there is no differentiation, it is the same to see your mother being tortured than to give her a birthday present. nothing happens, everything is appearance. it's on your mind and it's only real on an apparent level. that's what spiritual work is about imo, of being able to detach from the apparent to identify with the absolute, to be able to enjoy the apparent

Yeah yeah, that is the question. what is the ego? imagine you are one year old. you are a blank screen, pure happiness of being undefined. there is no ego. only empty consciousness. second by second, day after day preferences accumulate, hunger -food, cold heat, mother-loneliness, acceptance -rejection. in short, life or death. they create a solid, very strong pattern with a life of its own: the ego. This pattern will completely monopolize the person, becoming dominant, since survival is essential. you can consciously soften, relax, because not everything is learned truths. the appreciation of beauty is not learned, it is prior to learning. but the conservation of life I think is learned. perhaps there is a pre-ego part, an impulse to preserve what is. Knowing that one person is different from another, and is your mother, is ego. Knowing that if he drowns he will die and you will feel his lack is also ego.

@Mu_ it is very difficult to tell where the ego begins. and I think it is almost impossible to reach a state of total egolessness, so what I said is speculation. But from my experience, without ego there is no concern for oneself or for anything. If my mother is drowning, would I fight hard to save her, but wouldn't that fight come entirely from the ego? I think yes. the ego is valuable, it is what makes us survive and relate. is desirable, what is undesirable is that it hypertrophies

I and you are the same but our ego is different. Your ego can teach mine to be able to turn away

Non ego say nothing, so it's indifferent

Since the egoic perspective it's absolutely important, but without ego, it is completely indifferent whether your mother drowns or not

Agree with you, all those ideas about god are ego.

I am the only one who creates the apparent, and you are the only one who creates the apparent. only I exist in the universe and you are my creation, but only you exist in the universe and I am your creation. what is this? some kind of loop of madness? because as Leo said, I am you. and nothing happened yesterday. we are creating yesterday now. This all seems very real, it matches what others have seen. But isn't it a delusion caused by psychedelics? specifically the 5 meo. anyone have these realizations without psychedelics?

I have had this realization doing 5meo, twice: I only exist, I am inventing everything, it is all imaginary, the past never happened, it is all an invention made at this moment, I am the only creator of everything, and the rest of the people .They are an invention of mine. I am alone, standing in no time, since always, without movement. Everything that you are saying in the forum, I have created it, you, the one who worries because Ieo said that no one else exists, you do not exist. ok, but is this real? why is it going to be real? It seems so, it is true, but it may be a delusion