Moksha

As long as we can all still laugh at ourselves and others, life isn't so bad You might even say it creates spaciousness for deeper realization

Agree with you that many so-called spiritual teachers (especially those identifying as such) intentionally obfuscate their teachings in order to appear mysterious and wise. Run far away. That said, sometimes the teaching points to the absolute and only appears to be bullshit on the surface. I remember my first encounter with "The Power of Now", and my bullshit meter going haywire. I set the book aside, and it wasn't until years later that I gave it another shot. To my surprise it actually resonated. The teaching didn't change, but my readiness for it did. I sometimes look at things I post in this forum and laugh. If my earlier self read most of what it writes now, it wouldn't just dismiss the writings as mystical bullshit, it would toss them into the fire.

People circle the same glittering diamond at the center of reality, in closer orbits until they finally dissolve into it. Each journey of the absolute is unique, and realizing itself is not restricted to any particular path (not even 5-Me0). When the absolute awakens within a form, it dissolves the demons of the mind. Not only is there freedom from suffering, but the brilliance of being effortlessly flows through you. It is an infinite source that floods you with light and dissolves all boundaries. It is the expression of absolute unconditional seamless love. All words, until you sink into the absolute within and beyond them.

Everyone is born with the third eye, but it remains shut until death for most. It sees down the portal between the relative and the absolute. What opens it? Psychedelics, meditation, contemplation, and above all (for me) suffering. Some come into the dream with the eye already opened, or in a half-lidded state, but it is rare.

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I prefer direct knowledge as a pointer vs. understanding, which feels more conceptual. All words are only pointers and have the potential to distract. Silence is the language of the absolute, communicating more purely than anything that has been said in this thread or anywhere else. @Inliytened1 I have shared my spiritual journey here and elsewhere, but does it matter? Your recent posts in this thread resonate with some of my realizations, for what it's worth. @all: Maybe it's because I so often quote from Buddhist and Hindu mystics that people mistake me for a believer. I could as easily quote from Christian or Muslim mystics. Whether it's my words, or the words from whatever source I quote, look beyond the surface, and see if anything directly resonates with the absolute within. Don't get caught up in concepts, and don't mistake me for doing the same. I hold no beliefs, beyond the minimum necessary to navigate relative reality. I will share something I was pondering last night, and directly relates to what is being discussed in this thread. Please just once, look beyond the words. Keep very quiet and watch what comes to the surface of the mind. Reject the known, welcome the so far unknown and reject it in its turn. Thus you come to a state in which there is no knowledge, only being, in which being itself is knowledge. To know by being is direct knowledge.

I don't think anything about what you are teaching. I've only ever seen two of your videos. You have your own spiritual path, and I thoughtlessly respect it as I respect all inevitable paths, including my own. The paths of you and other forms mean nothing to this path, except when they resonate with realizing the absolute within. The same is true when I ponder different writings. I love the deepening light, but have no judgment toward anything which doesn't increase its luminosity.

@Jehovah increases Nice observations, I agree with you. The infinite internal highway is the ever-deepening direct realization of absolute reality, within the dream. When the dream finally ends for a form, it dissolves and its essence resolves into the absolute that imagines the form. The essence never actually is defined, but within the dream it appears as such. As a pointer, I prefer infinite highway to non-dual highway since the latter can become a conceptual trap. Your insight about the highway never going anywhere, nor the people on it, reminds me: 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.

Within the dream there are infinite forms, states, and planes of comprehension. Beyond is the absolute which is the essence of it all.

As you've probably noticed in the monster thread, there are different perspectives on the value of conceptual thinking I feel it has enormous relative value, as long as you don't identify with it. After talking with a lot of people, I've realized the spiritual journey is entirely unique. The absolute is nothing if not creative in realizing itself. For me, life has been a strange unraveling hybrid of relative- and absolute-identification. I have a Ph.D. in psychology so clearly the human mind is interesting to my character. Still, as far back as I can remember there is a keen spiritual sensitivity. I don't identify with beliefs any more, but for a long time much of me did. It took a lot of suffering, caused by that misidentification, before I finally woke up to the shenanigans of my mind. Now, it is all about deepening the direct realization of being and navigating life from 20,000 leagues under the sea. It is eerily silent and seamless, but looking upward you still see the phenomenal diversity of creation on the surface of reality. From this perspective, every form is more precious because of its obvious transience. You feel the absolute aliveness of each moment, and the flow of experience moves through you like a symphony. I used to spend so much of my life struggling inside of my head. Now, when triggers happen that used to send me into a tailspin, I blink and they are usually gone. I still get annoyed at times, but at least the suffering is under the bridge. Life has become unconditional, and there is so much more space for creativity and productivity. I notice little things, like the taste of cold water or the amazing acrobatics of a pigeon in the sky, and there is sincere appreciation in each moment. There are fewer apparent boundaries within myself and others now. I was still asleep when I first heard this song, but it spoke to me and still does. The lyrics are probably boring to some people, but I love where they point. As the Rush Comes Traveling somewhere, could be anywhere There's a coldness in the air, but I don't care We drift deeper, life goes on We drift deeper into the sound Traveling somewhere, could be anywhere There's a coldness in the air, but I don't care We drift deeper into the sound, life goes on We drift deeper into the sound, feeling strong So bring it on So bring it on Embrace me, surround me as the rush comes Embrace me, surround me as the rush comes Embrace me, surround me as the rush comes Oh, embrace me, surround me as the rush comes So bring it on So bring it on We drift deeper into the sound, life goes on We drift deeper into the sound, feeling strong So bring it on So bring it on Embrace me, surround me as the rush comes Embrace me, surround me as the rush comes Embrace me, surround me as the rush comes Oh, embrace me, surround me as the rush comes Embrace me, surround me as the rush comes Oh, embrace me, surround me as the rush comes Oh, embrace me, surround me as the rush comes As the rush comes As the rush comes As the rush comes As the rush comes

I would rather be it than think about it I don't cling to ideologies, including religious beliefs. Enlightenment is the best part of the roller coaster ride within the dream. There is a limit to which the mind takes you, where you fully realize what you are not. Beyond that limit, the mind is unable to go. It can only be directly realized, and sinking into the absolute is endless, until the dream finally dissolves.

When you realize the same essence within and beyond every form, the idea of arrogance is seen for what it is How silly is it to claim superiority when it is all essentially the same? I am under no delusion that I am superior or inferior to anyone else, including you. We are all absolutely the same, only our forms appear to differ.

The mystery is directly realized, but is not understood. There are no words to describe it. I can write pointing words like light, love, seamless, formless, and depthless but all fall short of capturing its essence. It is the absolute within and beyond every form, but it cannot be comprehended, only realized. This realization requires absolute surrender. Stepping through the doorway is easier when the mind has come to terms with its incapacity to comprehend the mystery. The self must become small enough to fit through the eye of the needle. As long as the mind insists on asking questions like how, why, when, where, and what it will be far too bloated in its self-importance to allow passage. The only question that opens the door is the unconditional willingness to ask what you actually are, leaving all other questions behind and silently stepping through to realize it.

In his book "10% Happier", Dan Harris describes meeting Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra. He felt that Tolle was sincere but questioned Tolle's sanity, and he thought Chopra was sane, but questioned Chopra's sincerity. I agree with Harris People see the enlightened as insane, and the enlightened see people as insane. Choose your asylum.

I understand only what I am not. The human mind is not the enemy. It is brilliant, with the remarkable capacity of metacognition. The only question that matters is, "Who am I?". If sincere, the mind will neti neti its way to the edge of mystery. On the day I received my Ph.D., I realized that the true lesson of all those years of research was how little I actually knew. I have never forgotten that lesson, and have continued along its path to arrive at the same conclusion as Socrates. I know that I know nothing. That admission is the pinnacle achievement of the mind. Don't underestimate the dissolving power of knowledge finally realizing its own limitations. The mind cannot go beyond, but it humbly steps aside and gestures toward the doorway leading within. Stepping through is shedding the cloak of the self, and wordlessly merging with the mystery that is beyond. Call it spiritual BS if you want, but if you see it as such it is only because you have not stepped through the doorway yet. ?

Keeping it relatively real, there is an I to be enlightened

Seeing the layers of reality is a step toward realizing your essence. Most people, especially those before Einstein, see only a proper cause-effect universe that is predictable and comprehensible. Relativity revealed the limitations of Newton's secure universe. It proved, even within the dream, that the cosmos is not absolute. Time, space, and matter depend entirely upon the perception of the observer. Which is scary, considering how poor our perception is It is stunning, and a tribute to the power of the evolutionary process, that the cosmos has the capacity to realize its own impermanence. At the edges of relative reality, extremely large (astrophysics) or extremely small (quantum physics) qualia, the dream begins to fray. We are born with spiritual glaucoma, which only worsens over time. People become blinded by their condition, which further deteriorates with every conceptual layer they add to it. Seeing clearly is the reverse process. Gradually, your conceptions are removed until there is only the direct vision of the absolute through your eyes.

I agree with removing labels and living directly. The mind loves to dissect, categorize, and define everything it sees. This shores up its need for order, within a cosmos that is beyond control. The first mistake Adam made was to name all the birds and the beasts. It is only when you see beyond names that the essence of the absolute begins to reveal itself. The cosmos is art. I pity the critic that stands before Starry Night and analyzes its structure, style, and techniques without setting his brain aside and seeing the essence beyond the canvas. The same is true for laying under the stars at night, which are also art. The absolute within everything is infinite, but the forms that it creates are transient. There is nothing in the cosmos without a beginning or an end. Only the absolute that imagined it is timeless. Your human form was born and will die within the dream, just like everything else. Only the absolute beyond the form is changeless. Nothing transient is real. Nothing intransient is precious. Lucid living is the flow state of the absolute within its creation, making the precious possible without getting lost within it.

I'm glad you see that the purpose is not to answer any question of the mind, but to realize the absolute within, which is beyond all questions. All of the cosmos is art, but be careful not to confuse the art with the artist. Art is only an expression, not absolute reality itself. Enlightenment is the perpetual state, within the dream, of absolute awareness appreciating its creation. If you have realized the light of the absolute as your essence, and are navigating life in awe of your art without identifying with it, you are free and I am happy for you.

Don't conflate the absolute, which is beyond the cosmos, with the dream, which is the imagination of the absolute. The absolute is beyond transience, and the dream is defined by transience. It is true that the absolute is within the cosmos too, but in different apparent states of lucidity. It is my essence, the essence of the dog sitting at my feet, and the essence of the tree outside my window. But each of these forms is in a different awareness state. The same is true among us humans. The absolute has chosen to become lucid within some, but within others it still identifies with the mind. The more you identify with the cosmos, the less lucid you will be. Even the pursuit of realization can become an addiction if you let it. Every addiction ultimately leads to suffering, although some are worse than others. The path out of suffering is letting the light within dissolve your addictions, realizing liberating space, and living in the flow state of your absolute essence, lucidly experiencing life through your form.

Astute personal insight, it will serve you well. Suffering is the result of trying to keep lighting in the bottle from escaping, or trying to force it to return. Either way it is a futile effort, and only results in the entrapment of your attention. Enlightenment is learning to toss away the bottle, and open yourself to the energy of what is flowing through you in this moment. Instead of resisting it or clinging to it, you honor its teaching and allow it to move on. You are in the flow state, where nothing that happens distracts you from your absolute nature. It is seen and appreciated for the transient, phenomenal experience that it is.

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The deeper you realize the absolute, the more clearly you see that you are creating these experiences for yourself. The absolute within knows what is needed, and is guiding itself toward realization and liberation. Being sensitive is a double-edged sword. When you identify with the personality, it is easy to be hurt. But the sensitivity can also help you realize your absolute essence more easily. Despite the challenges, I feel it is a gift.

Yes, the quote is pointing to the absolute. Nothing personal or transient is real. The absolute creates and is within the cosmos, imagining that it is defined by the appearance of forms, movement, and change. Beyond the cosmos, there is no appearance, only absolute reality which is formless, motionless, and changeless. The mystery is how absolute reality intersects with relative reality. It is beyond comprehension, but the nexus can be directly realized. You are in a flow state, where the absolute no longer identifies with the form, but continues to experience existence through the form. All along, what was thought to be you turns out only to be a thought, and the real you is realized. It can be called a state of enlightenment within this moment, but the state itself, where you are still apparently localized within the cosmos in this form, is not absolutely real. The absolute has no state. I don't know if that helps, or just confuses you The point is to remain in the flow state, and live lucidly in this moment. Not only are you free from suffering, but the light of your absolute nature shines through you and increases the quality of everything in experience.

Absolute reality is infinite unconditioned intelligence, entirely free from conceptualization. It is directly realized, and is not an achievement. I'm not sure what you have experienced in your trips, but have you ever been so absolutely stunned by what you see that there are no thoughts, no images clamoring through your head, and no words trying to express the indescribable mystery that you are? Only profound silence. As I told @Breakingthewall, I can't describe it but when it happens there is no doubt. Every question dissolves in the light bursting out of you. I have no beliefs, other than the minimal thoughts necessary to exist in relative reality. To be clear, I am not a Buddhist, a Christian, a Hindu, or any other mind that is bound by beliefs. I didn't even begin to meditate until after my awakening. If anything, I am a mystic, but even that is not accurate because there is too little of me left to identify as such. There is only an apparent form serving as a conduit for the absolute to lucidly experience its creation.