Moksha

The road to hell is paved with clear intentions I don't speak to anything except my direct experience, and the deeper I realize the absolute the more lucid, silent, and free I become.

@SOUL ?️? @Yimpa Ignorance is underrated. It is the next best thing to being here.

There is no absolute point of view. There is no solution, only dissolution. It isn't about comprehending something. It's about letting go of false comprehension.

Why cling to any map if you have already arrived at the destination? The map is useless at that point and can be burned.

I'm glad psychedelics have helped you transcend the ego, just pointing out that they are not the universal or ideal path for everyone. More important than temporarily transcending the ego is remaining in the silent absolute as the perpetual flow state within the dream. Maybe it happens for some on psychedelics alone, but if so I haven't seen it. It seems an endless roller coaster of highs and lows, with no enduring direct awareness.

The ego is illusion. It is false identification with the cosmos rather than direct realization of the absolute. What dissolves is not the mind, but identification with the mind. Unconditioned, the mind becomes your steed rather than your master. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. - Rainer Maria Rilke

The understanding that has to happen at the deepest level is that desires are inherently transient, and identification with them leads to blindness and suffering. Direct realization dissolves identification with desires. You are not your desires. You are beyond them, but to see this requires surrendering the attachment to desires, and the absolute directly realizing itself. You can still enjoy the cosmos without identifying with its forms. You directly resonate with its essence because it is who you actually are.

Any peak state is inevitably going to be followed by a valley state. It goes with dualing the cosmos. Sink into absolute silence, which is beyond any transient state. It doesn't mean you can't celebrate life in the process. To the contrary, it liberates you from the party downer of yourself.

I awoke without psychedelics, not because I am superior or inferior, but because the absolute chose this as the inner pilgrimage to itself within this form. People awaken in many ways, and just because psychedelics has helped you doesn't mean it is the universal or preferable path for everyone else.

@StillnessSpeaks There's an inverse correlation between identity and freedom. The more boundaries the mind creates between you and others, the stronger the bars become on your self-made prison. Freedom is letting go of identity and boundaries, which is absolute love. @BlueOak Yes, the essence of every person, every animal, every plant, and every other form is absolutely the same. Realizing the seamlessness of reality dissolves every identity. For most of us, this isn't a one-time realization, but an ever-deepening release of the false idea of separation and resonating with the absolute within, between, and beyond forms.

How you get here doesn't matter, just stay here if you can. An entire lifetime of profound insights won't keep the gate to the Absolute open until you are truly ready to pay the price of ego death. Few are willing to let go of their desires and fears to that depth.

@BlueOak No, people don't experience this daily. The vast majority are oblivious to their absolute nature. Many have thoughts about it, but few directly realize it. When they do, it dissolves identity.

See my earlier post to @Breakingthewall in this thread. Pain is endemic to living, suffering is not.

@BlueOak What do you see as the difference between losing yourself within an identity and remaining lucid while performing whatever tasks are required (stacking shelves, writing books, riding the bus, etc.)? The absolute lucidly experiencing life through a form is like sprinkling salt on an otherwise bland plate of food. It enhances the quality of every phenomenal experience, even stacking shelves. Have you experienced this yet? If not, try being lucid during any task that you would otherwise consider to be mundane. Instead of letting your mind wander, or being bored, or wishing you were anywhere but here, unconditionally allow whatever is happening and notice the energy of it flowing through you. Instead of judging the moment, embrace it as the reality which the cosmos (which is also you) is presenting here and now. Everything resonates when there is no resistance. Why? Awareness magnifies whatever it focuses on. If it is entangled in phenomena, it believes itself to be a prisoner of its circumstances. If it is Self-aware and flows freely through the form, it enlightens every experience. This joy becomes deeper the more free the absolute realizes itself to be, like a river bursting through a log jam until every blockage is cleared.

Do you feel it is possible to perform a role well (Boss, Bus Driver, Friend) without identifying with it? What if no matter what activities you are doing, rather than losing yourself in the experience, you remain centered in your absolute nature? Can lucidity enhance the quality of what you do, by allowing the expression of freedom, creativity, and intelligence through your form?

Not all identifications are equally damning. You need a little identity to remain within the dream, just much less than most people realize.

That's true for most decisions in relative reality, which relies on the illusion of memories and anticipations. There is also the absolute flow state, which can inform decisions in the moment beyond the belief in a past or a future. It happens sometimes, even for people that are not awake in general.

Required by whom? You can still be lucid while doing whatever is required. Masks are false identification, always. The finest performance on the cosmic stage requires no mask, no props, and no audience.

@OldManCorcoran Instead of relying on the memory of an insight, why not realize the absolute now? In the moment that you unconditionally accept what is happening, without judgment, clinging, or resistance, simply letting the energy of this flow through you, you are free.

Next to telecommuting, getting a home gym was the best silver lining of Covid.

Awakening helps with that too Identifying with phenomena is the human condition, and most people are insane without realizing it.

I understand seeing yourself in every phenomenon. What I'm wondering is whether people on psychedelics directly realize the absolute, in utter silence, entirely free from phenomena. Can they simply be without the compulsion to try on another mask, or without commenting on the amazingness of their experience? I've only seen a video of one person on psychedelics, and they weren't silent, but that doesn't mean this doesn't happen. If realization does happen directly, I see no reason why psychedelics can't also be a gateway to the absolute like other practices. The secret is not seeing, but learning to keep the gate open without requiring external supports. Eventually, every method (psychedelics, meditation, whatever) must be released back into the river once you get to the other side. It's all about integrity.

I read an abstract yesterday from a study on perpetual psychedelics. Classic Matrix. You can chain your arm to a needle and live in apparent nirvana your entire life, but how is that freedom? Why not surrender to experiencing the cosmos unconditionally? You get lucidity with the freedom to fully enjoy the dream.

Have you ever read "Man's Search for Meaning"? It's amazing how free a person can be, even within the most convincing cage.

@at_anchor What about the price of letting go of the belief that anything outside of you can fulfill you? Are you willing to surrender the illusion that a new car, or your next job, or finding your true love will bring anything beyond transient pleasure?