Breakingthewall

And? What appears are local excitations of the fields of reality ruled by laws that are the framework of the universe, creating local patterns of increasing complexity within an ocean of entropy. Physics describes it quite well.

How could be an illusion? Physics describes the equation that this universe is. The logical relationship that makes reality existing as we see. Where is the illusion?

Form is not a drop in the ocean; it is the ocean in a drop, you know the famous phrase. This is because there isn't an ocean formed by many drops, but rather each drop is the ocean in the form of a drop. Put another way, form is not an illusion but the inevitable manifestation of being. Denying its reality and defining it as an illusion closes you off, and what we seek is to open us up.

Unlimited being is the fact of being because there are not limits, affirmative drive without opposite. Calling it "nothingness" is just confusion because it is. It's not a mystery, it's obvious, it's the inevitable consequence of no restrictions and we are that. Any name that we could give has the sole purpose of allowing ourselves to being open to this reality, and nothingness is a term that implies exclusion and closure.

Of course, also physical suffering, less better because we are humans. The problem is defining it as false and the absolute as absence of suffering when we see that suffering is. This is not self help, this is the real opening to the unlimited. Spirituality tells you: extinguish your candle to find the truth. Imo that's not the truth, it's just anesthesia

To say that the essence of reality is nothingness is the quintessential Buddhist evasion. The essence of reality is, obviously, unlimited being. Unlimited being is the inevitable consequence of limitlessness or absence of restrictions, and being unlimited has no opposite, such as non-being or nothingness. Nothingness is merely an idea; it is impossible since it would require being contained, limited by something . Being is absolute, because non being don't is. Quite simple imo

Liberation? Where can we find that liberation? Our Master himself has joyfully taken upon himself the bonds of creation; he is bound with us forever. Tagore. In other words: Buddha, stop being a pussy scaping from suffering because suffering is the reality.

Stop singing and counting your accounts. Whom do you worship in that dark, lonely corner of your temple, with all the doors closed? Open your eyes and see: Your God is not before you! “He is there, where the farmer digs the hard earth and where the stonecutter breaks the stones. He is with them under the sun and the rain, his garment covered in dust. Take off your sacred mantle and, like Him, go down into the mud of the earth!” Tagore

To say that reality is dreamlike implies that there is a dreamer, a mind that creates reality. The very word "reality" implies that there cannot be a higher level than it; nothing creates reality, since that creator would be "reality," and reality would be unreal. This is a flawed formulation. Try this: reality is unlimited being, and its inevitable quality or manifestation is unlimited dynamism. Manifestation and essence are one, there is not substance without form, no form without substance. Forms are absolutely real, because they are the reality. Defining them as "love" is condescendence. Is putting yourself, a manifested form, above the reality naming it, like if the reality is a fool kid to be defined but here you are "essential peace sublime full of love" (in Sanskrit) to forgive the reality and defining it from inside that reality, in exchange of being idolized

The permanent cessation of the separate self is unnecessary and a myth. It is enough to completely dissolve separation in meditation and, in daily life, perceive the transparency of separation. But separation exists; it is real. All those non-dualistic teachers who go to the forest do so because their mothers feed them. Without their mothers and their bottles, they would face the reality of life. All that would be absolutely legitimate if they would admit the reality of separation of the form and the intelligence of the reality finding the optimal possibility, but no, they affirm that everything is illusion Then we could say: there is no separate self if others who work hard feed me, since I deserve it and they are unconscious fools. Then, since nothing matters, I give lectures and write books to earn millions and be idolized. I do this work because I don't care. Ah, from now on call me "primordial peace of the morning full of spring dew". In Indian, please.

What is perfection is the fact of being, not the form from the human perspective . Both are compatible. Perfection of being, suffering of human form. Suffering is just another arising, but feels bad being human. "Feels bad" is an arising, same than any other.

Who knows, maybe it's possible understanding the ultimate reality by science. In fact seems quite possible. Think that anything that arises are logical relationship, that is mathematics. An universe would be just a possible equation that arises because nothing restrict it, coherent enough to be stable, and maybe absolutely all of possible universes must have causality and relativity to appear as a manifestation, for example, and this implies time that implies mass. Just a possibility, seems that logical mind is unstoppable in its possiblities.

Imo It's not as simple as saying you're causing your own closure. If you're a woman in Afghanistan and they sell you to an old man when you're 11 so he can lock you up at home and rape you, things get complicated. Reality is wild, nothing is guaranteed

I wasn't mistaken, just I couldn't remove the emotional and mental barriers that are inherent to human condition. The reality was the same, just existing, but if you are immersed in the emotional human density it's not easy to make everything clear enough to be able to open yourself to the unlimited nature of everything .

It's crazy how some scientist like Penrose, Einstein, feyanman, plank, bell, achieved the incredible level of understanding of this reality. But I'm not talking of that but about the basis of reality. That's obvious, the unlimited is, and you are that because everything that is is that. If the emotional and mental barriers fall, it's obvious, you realize the unlimited being it. . Then it's also obvious understanding that any possibility is just a possibility, and see the depth and the beauty in every moment.

This is the reality, not another. The perfection and beauty of the very fact of existing is absolute. The unlimited is, and this is it's manifestation. What we have to do is opening our heart and mind to the absolute fact of being and perceive it's limitlessness. Form is overwhelming and could seems dark, but it's always the absolute glory of being.

The United States has been the country that has led the world to where it is today. Its flaws and mistakes have been enormous, its miseries and hypocrisies profound, as is human nature, but its drive has been brutal and the direction it has taken has been positive. Other empires, such as the British, Ottoman, or Soviet, were far more brutal. Now the United States is slowly declining, but what it has created is not declining; it is rising with a force never before seen in human history. The United States has been the catalyst for a phase change in what it means to be human. Don't see what US has been for the human kind is being blind.

You can know and understand everything because it's very simple. You are, if you are totally open to this fact you will see that this implies everything. Then from here you understand that everything that is happening is just a possibility taking place. And that is, congratulations, you understand the reality.

Spirituality comes from Buddhism, and Buddha was a guy who believed life was flawed and that the goal was to escape it. To do so, one had to cease all attachment and desire and extinguish your candle. In short, for the Buddha, reality was flawed, but he knew how to correct it. And this is what they call the absence of ego, thinking that the reality is wrong and you are right because you don't like suffering. Zero ego, well.... All this is a mistake, real spirituality is opening yourself to your ultimate nature, not denying the human structure. The ego exist, same than suffering. They are not illusions or dreams, are the form that reality takes now. You shouldn't extinguish your candle because that candle is life, it's better make it burn free and aligned with the flow of reality.

The ego is truly just an adaptive survival mechanism. Every animal is perfectly adapted to its environment; things are clear and haven't changed in millennia. For a human, the jungle is society in constant flux and perpetual friction. The price is contraction and suffering, the benefit is accelerated evolution to unprecedented levels. Spirituality tells you: all of that is illusion, stop, do nothing, you already are everything. All the while, you are fed by those running on the wheel. It would be interesting to see what would happen if they had to survive without help; perhaps the illusion would seem real. Imo the real point is not "transcend" the ego but align the ego. Denying the ego is just evasion because the ego is not a mistake. Thinking that the ego is a mistake is going against the flow. .

Maybe that's what we are in essence, but our actual manifestation is an evolving being with a brutal, dynamic drive. maybe in the AI era, humans as we know them will no longer exist. The possibilities are enormous. Would be interesting to see it

Then why is he working hard? Im not saying that he's working to build a character, that's stupid in anyone, but any life without direction or purpose feels sterile. You can live without it if there is no choice but if you can you will expand yourself, evolve, help others to evolve, I think that's the nature of life.

Adyashanti has been working very hard as a teacher and writer. I think that human being always aims in a certain direction. Look at Buddha; he attained enlightenment and then founded a monastery, a school, his life had a purpose , a vector. Life is always evolutionary, never static.

True but psychological suffering still exist without story. Humans need human connection, purpose. Humans are collective beings. That's why nisgardatta becomes a teacher. Some love loneliness, same that there are autistic people, but this doesn't implies that they are enlightened

It depends, psychological suffering is just suffering. If they lock nisgardatta in a room of 2x1 for 3 years, would he suffer or not? Would be psychological suffering? If someone tortures his son in front him, he would suffer? The point not having psychological suffering by default, but many people haven't and they aren't enlightened