Moksha

Enlightened people don't lose enlightenment just because they work for a living. They are actually happier and more productive than unconscious people. Eckhart Tolle talks about publishing The Power of Now, and having no idea if it would appeal to any more than a handful of people. If it didn't, that was totally ok. He would have happily lived as a tomato farmer. That is what a modern Buddha would do. Your only task is to stay Conscious. Consciousness is not going to guide you to starve to death, at least not until your dream is done.

@lmfao I agree, and the same change in flux state seems to be true for space. In meditation, or any other Conscious experience, the flux state becomes more aligned with reality. Time and space are illusions, and the more Conscious we are, the closer we come to transcending them. Our awareness expands outward, and the illusions of sequence and distance collapse, until we realize the unitive state of Consciousness that is reality.

@Corpus In The Dhammapada, Siddhartha made an intentional choice. He realized impermanence, and decided to discover permanence. It feels right, but every story is only a pointer anyway.

@Javfly33 The ego loves posing as a Buddha, and yes there a lot of BS Buddhas. If you think you are a Buddha, let go of that thought, and be a Buddha Consciousness creates things for a reason. The Buddha taught others because Consciousness wanted that. He knew that everything is a dream, but Consciousness still loves to dream. Probably more than anything else, it loves waking up to itself within the dream, and teachers help that happen.

He was a prince who chose to become a pauper in order to become a teacher.

@cuteguy Synchronicity is the collision of dream forms

What would be the medium for the connection? Consciousness is the underling fabric connecting everything to everything. I love the ocean analogy. The ocean of Consciousness manifests itself through infinite wave formations. The formations arise from the ocean, and are an expression of the ocean, but as separate formations, they are transient and unreal. The rolling tide is nothing more than Consciousness dreaming.

Yes, we are the same Consciousness. How could we not be connected to each other? Waking up is nothing more than realizing that connection.

The Buddha came back because he loved others and wanted to help them. He fully devoted himself to that dharma. That doesn't mean every Buddha is the same. There are Buddhas, here and now, engaged in the world of doing. Not every Buddha sits in a cave and starves.

It's not an assumption, it is a direct realization. Have you felt the spiritual connection with others, beyond your five senses? If Consciousness didn't connect everything, how could we directly resonate with other people, with animals, with trees, even with rocks?

We are all the same Consciousness. Personalities are pretend. The idea of "my sensations" is only possible because Consciousness dreamed you.

There is only one Consciousness. Separateness is an illusion. Consciousness manifests separate forms through dreaming, yet it is also awake.

In the dream dimension, there has to be some layer of ego for the illusion of a separate self to exist. For enlightened people, their ego is very thin, to the point of translucency. They realize themselves as pure Consciousness, but wear a thin layer of ego to continue being in the dream. When they decide to let go of that layer, I feel they return to being pure Consciousness, entirely awake.

Maybe humans evolved to experience flux at a certain rate, and other forms experience flux at their own rates. We know from Einstein's theory that a faster moving object experiences time at a slower rate than a slower moving object. As we approach becoming light, time should move slower in the relative dream dimension. When superhumans happen, maybe their experience of flux will be so slowed that it approaches timelessness. Some of them have already happened, and I sense that when they realize timelessness, they are reabsorbed into pure Consciousness. Even more rare, some of them come back to tell us about the experience. Collectively, once Consciousness maximizes its creation, maybe it does a reboot, and everything starts all over again. Someone posted a cool TED talk from Donald Hoffman yesterday. His research shows that evolution selects for fit, rather than for accuracy, in perceiving reality. The experience of flux must correlate with survivability. My sense is that there is no change, movement, diversity, boundary, space, or time in Consciousness. These phenomena only exist in the dream, and everything Consciousness dreams happens infinitely, always. I suspect that Consciousness chooses to keep the dream alive always. So time and space will always exist, as will the endless multitude of evolving and ultimately devolving, created and dissolving, form identities, within the dream dimension.

Maybe you are stalking us? Maybe you are us??

Since time is an illusion, and since Consciousness is infinitely creative, I suspect that all dreams always happen.

Exactly It's like circling a diamond, and observing it from different angles. No matter which facet you view it from, it is always the same gem.

Consciousness is funny that way; it's never what you think it is

@Dodo When you mention Simon, remember that he denied Jesus, but ultimately became his chief disciple. It is the story of us all. Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter Sometimes we take a step backward, in order to better launch ourselves to the other side. Take good care of yourself. Consciousness created you for a reason

Buddha realized enlightenment as emptiness. His path was to strip away everything that he was not. Jesus realized enlightenment as abundance. His path was to love. Two teachers, pointing from different perspectives, at the same ultimate truth.

I can't think of a better metaphor for the ego. The ego is the devil posing as the savior. It is the great pretender. It whispers from the shadows that it will save you from suffering, only to stab you in the back when you aren't looking. The only way to free yourself from suffering is to die before you die.

@Beginner Mind Isn't sanity beautiful? When you focus your mind like a one-pointed star on this, suffering dissolves. Why didn't we learn it sooner? Maybe because we hadn't suffered enough, or meditated enough, or taken enough psychedelics, or...enough with the enough, and let it be.

@allislove Enlightenment is a fiery love bomb?

Consider that memory is a concept of a concept. It is a form experience of a form experience. A dream within a dream.

James 2: There is wisdom in the bible, as there is wisdom in other scriptures. God wakes you up, and then God works through you. God is you. That is the true message, not only of Christianity, but of Eastern religions too.