Moksha

Perfect timing and very helpful for me, thank you. ?

I just now went through this exercise. I feel that Consciousness brought it to me at the right moment. Thank you. ?

Everyone is right Ultimate reality is nondual. Imminent reality is dual. The entanglement of the two is the mystery of God.

Very happy for you, @Elham. I'm at a crossroads myself, and wondering where Consciousness will take me. Please Consciousness, not the morgue or pest extermination.

@Breakingthewall Thanks, that is helpful. Isn't it funny how even a false anchor can provide stability? Sometimes I feel like my brain is rewiring itself, and in a sense I guess it is.

It's interesting that you mention vertigo. I never used to experience it, but it happens fairly often for me now, when I am most spiritually aligned. I sometimes have to literally stop, and distract my brain by doing something inane for a while. If you don't mind me asking, does that happen to you?

Please keep it together, @Jo96. I'm not ready to dissolve just yet. ⏳

Maybe what he meant is that these bodies Consciousness inhabits are already dissolving into dust. In 100 years, every set of eyes reading this thread will be dead. Realizing the impermanence of every thing, is the path to realizing the permanence of no thing, which is Consciousness itself.

Enlightened people are always awake. Sometimes it is a catastrophic awakening, as with Tolle, but usually it is a gradual awakening, like the sun rising into the sky. The more you practice vigilance, the fewer naps you will take.

Consciousness. It creates everything and dissolves everything.

Amazing, isn't it? ?

The Buddha couldn't have said it better. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm. The immature lose their vigilance, but the wise guard it as their greatest treasure.

Relatively ridiculous, yes. Ultimately ridiculous, less yes. Every answer is ultimately ridiculous (including this one).

Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room: Thinking God The Situation: Being God

@Amaal Reality is simpler than your mind is making it. Consciousness is all there is. Everything else, including you and David, are nothing but dream expressions of the same Consciousness. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles)

Maybe this is because in dark settings, your physical senses are less engaged. Fewer distractions to entrap your mind, and more room for the light of Consciousness to arise. This is one of the reasons some people meditate with their eyes closed. I also find that being in nature, especially without naming anything, Consciously resonates.

I feel that awakening is just the first step of the enlightenment journey. Realizing yourself as Consciousness is beautiful, but there is still so much deconditioning to be done. This is a gradual process, but it too is beautiful. I wrote this yesterday and wanted to share it here: *** The Bonfire Consciousness strikes the spark of my undoing, Catching in the kindling of thought, Consuming it to soot, intensifying, Crumbling the timbers that it wrought, Purifying fire ever rising, Burning through the ropes of my desire, Devouring the karma of my making, Soul wind stirring these flames higher, Scattering the ashes of my suffering, No illusion left, only the fire.

The ego doesn't awaken. Just the opposite. Whenever you are awake, the ego runs for the shadows. It can't continue pretending to be solid, in the light of Consciousness. First chance it gets, the ego will sneak out and trick you into reidentifying with it, thus resolidifying it with your energy. Vigilance is required.

No interpretation required. No thought required. No desire for awakening required. No beliefs required. No names required. No ego required. No self required. No trust in the words of others required. Consciousness becoming aware of itself, and nothing else.

Awakening isn't a secret, so much as a realization. It is the absence of thought, the receding of the senses, the opening of your spiritual eyes, and the direct realization of the same Consciousness in everything.

I don't practice meditating much, but most of my life is a meditation. The effort is in staying centered in Consciousness, and allowing its light to dissolve your conditioning. The result is worth it, but it does take courage, integrity, and will.

There is a way to directly confirm the sameness of Consciousness.

I have experienced some weird things, but not to the point of feeling like I couldn't control my body. One time, it felt like a disidentification with my body, where I realized I was in this meat puppet thing and could pull its jaw strings, but I wasn't it. I also felt kind of bad when I tugged the strings, because it seemed disrespectful.

Touche Of course you are right. Ultimate reality cannot be known, and we are fools to name it. We can only directly realize it, trust it, and love it.

Your ego missed you too. It is a sneaky bastard, hiding in the shadows when you are Conscious, and waiting to jump out when you finally start to feel safe. My suffering has reduced 95% for the past 6 months. Even then, I have had some ego attacks, accounting for the remaining 5%. It is going for the jugular now, playing the strings that go the deepest. I have realized some fundamentals about my personality that I never truly understood before. The deconditioning is disorienting sometimes, but I am determined to ride it out. Fucking ego has to (mostly) die.