Moksha

Wisdom helps you experience the dream lucidly, without suffering. It enhances every perception, sensation, and interaction. Food tastes better, relationships become less controlling, and nothing really bothers you any more. It is the deepest path of living within the dream. BTW, slow thinking brings you closer to awakening than frantic thinking. Consider it a gift to yourself.

Mental suffering is misidentifying with the conditioned mind. The unawake absolute tries to find happiness and meaning through experiences, only to dig the hell pit deeper. When you turn your awareness inward, and directly realize the absolute, which is who you actually are, mental suffering dissolves. You allow the cosmos to flow through you, unconditionally and without resistance. It is joy, free from thought interference.

He's integrating more. Seems pretty sane to me.

Synchronicities and insights are bursts of light along the way that hint you are on the right path.

The path is directly inward, but the challenge is that entering the limbo gate where it leads requires lowering yourself completely to the ground in order to fit through. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it.

It's the treasure hunt that you created for yourself. You can demand that whoever hid it takes you directly to the treasure, but where is the adventure in that? You might as well have kept the treasure to yourself, and decided not to play the game in the first place. ?

It's a deepening dynamic within the dream. The more evolved the form, the greater its capacity for both delusion and realization. Suffering hell (i.e., entrapment in the conditioned mind) is the prerequisite polarity for enjoying heaven (i.e., the unconditional flow state of the absolute within its creation). Beyond the dream, there is no hell or heaven, only limitless supernal being which is beyond the boundaries of any dream.

People study it in monasteries, ashrams, and sanghas, sometimes their entire lives, without realizing the raw freedom of unconditional surrender to the absolute. Clinging to life is like holding water in your hands. It seeps away, until it is entirely gone. Instead of trying to save the water, lower your hands and realize you are already fully immersed.

Directly realizing timeless, changeless, unconditional being is not only true knowledge, but the only knowledge that is beyond the grasping of the egoic mind.

Every teaching is meaningless until is directly realized. There is no clearer clue to god than being god.

Welcome to the flow state ⚡

@Water by the River Despite hearing this song throughout my life, this is the first time I've truly seen it. ? The reality beyond division, understanding, and experience is the beauteous source of godly lightning we call love, light, and joy.

I like that. All three levels of the ego are transcended by direct realization. Appearances still come and go, but you no longer identify with them. You can still navigate from a distance through the dream, but there is absolute awareness that you are doing nothing, thinking nothing, and identifying as nothing. That is the true flow state. The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge. The wise, ever satisfied, have abandoned all external supports. Their security is unaffected by the results of their action; even while acting, they really do nothing at all.

If boredom wasn't a thing, none of us would do anything, think anything, or attach to anything. Not that we are doing, thinking, or attaching to anything in the first place.

@Water by the River @Bazooka Jesus So much for the stereotype that Krauts are stolid and concise.

True dat: I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

@Yimpa @Breakingthewall So little time, so little to do, so many places not to go...

@Javfly33 He just called you a fly catcher. You are the space within which the jav-fly flies. ?

Is it possible that absolutely nothing is absolutely aware, regardless of form consciousness?

Hallucination is the absolute imagining differences, directions, densities, and durations. There are hallucinations within hallucinations within hallucinations. Lucidity is the absolute realizing its seamless, intransient, weightless, timeless essence. There can be lucidity both within and beyond hallucinations.

Well said. Sometimes the ego is so insidious that it insists it is all reality, whether veiled or not, and as such is eminently worthy of worshipping itself. The devil is in the relative details, despite its declamations of absolute love.

@Water by the River I generally like Ken Wilbur, but this quote is rife with potential misinterpretation. I know you already realize this, but some of the folks here on the forum may not. To understand ego death and absolute realization requires a clear definition of what ego is. Ego is NOT the human mind, with its perceptions, drives, and desires. Enlightenment precludes none of these phenomena, nor does it imply that people become mindless automatons. Ego is IDENTIFICATION with the human mind. It is blind enslavement to perceptions, drives, and desires in the false conviction that these attachments will lead to happiness. It is inevitably suffering. Lucid dreaming is the unconditional intersection of the absolute with the relative. It is god experiencing its creation without losing itself within it. Wilbur is right that mystics change the world. Their motivation is not misidentification, but is the pure channeling of the absolute into its cosmos. The mind is not abandoned, but is deconditioned and transfigured from an oppressive demon into a companion dragon that will take you into depths and heights that would have been impossible in the unawakened state.

This is a common misconception. Enlightenment isn't repressing emotions and experiences in stoic withdrawal. Just the opposite, in fact. It is allowing the cosmos to flow through you, without clinging to it, or misidentifying it as who you actually are. In the flow state, emotions and experiences are actually enhanced, because you are free to fully enjoy them for what they are.

It's true. I mentioned a while back that I had a long conversation with a member of the forum that I consider to be awake. Can you call it a conversation when the majority of it is full-on eye-wiping laughter? Silence may be next to godliness, but laughter runs a close second place.

Genuine laughter, despite the doom shadow, can be leveraged to remove the mask. The ego takes itself so seriously. @Bazooka Jesus You out there?