Moksha

Enlightenment is just another state of Consciousness. Everything, from rocks to animals to aliens, is Consciousness. We are a sleeping titan with moments of lucidity, but the moments themselves, of awakening to ourselves, are also part of the dream. How can moments actually exist, when time is an illusion? Ultimately, the dream, regardless of what form it takes, is nothing more than imagination, within the supreme reality of us. We are the abode of the cosmos. The cosmos is our dream. Sound insane? Mission accomplished

Enlightenment requires sublime intelligence, diligence, and surrender. Animals are incapable of this, as are most humans. Presence though, is something else. Animals are beautifully present.

In ultimate reality, there is no "one", no separation, and no superiority/inferiority. It is all the same. Consciousness dreams, in relative reality, which allows individuals and perspectives to exist, within the dream. How could ultimate reality make "sense", when it is beyond time, space, and the logical human brain?

Love is just a moniker for non-duality. In the spiritual sense, Love is far more profound than the emotion we feel as humans. It is the actuality that everything, and every nothing, is the same Consciousness. Sub Ek: It is all the same. Given that, how silly is it to feel superior or inferior to someone else?

If I may offer one insight: spiritual growth is inversely correlated with suffering. It is not about attaining, achieving, or accomplishing anything. It is about realizing, and being. Peace, sincerely.

Advanced? Teachings? Complexity? Open your eyes and see. It is so very simple, yet so difficult for the conditioned mind to grasp. Why are people constantly clutching for mind-blowing experiences? It is already here.

Alcohol and psychedelics are both substances. There is no absolute answer. In some cases, it can help, and in other cases it can become an addiction.

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People often require extensive suffering, to be willing to see the ego as the very source of that suffering, and to let it go. The ego thrives on conflict, and its sustenance is the energy that it steals from your true nature. It is all about judgment and struggle, and it will fight tooth and nail not to let you find peace. The way to defeat the ego is not to fight it, but to see it for what it is. When the ego crawls out of its corner, as it inevitably will, allow it to scurry across the spaciousness of your Self, without identifying with it. Attention amplifies, so don't attend to it. Instead, attend to the Consciousness that you are.

There is no place of peace for the ego. It is incapable of peace, only endless insatiability. It is not about being in a loving environment, but about finding the love within yourself. Victor Frankl did this in a Jewish concentration camp, of all places. One might even argue that places of pain are more conducive to awakening than places of peace.

Awakening is an internal journey, and can happen in the most unlikely of places. Focus on the journey rather than the place. Once you do awaken, you will laugh, as you realize that places are only imagination Ultimately, there is no time and no space. Relative reality only exists within the infinite, changeless, timeless dream of Consciousness.

I can't answer your question, because I never hid any posts before I became a mod. I can tell you that as a mod, I am able to see hidden posts. So they don't just disappear. I agree it would be nice for people to be able to see and unhide their posts, if it is possible.

From the perspective of Eastern wisdom, "spiritual genetics" is nothing more than the accumulation of experiences along the journey of many lives. It's just another word for karma.

I was referring to spiritual growth. Survival in the relative world happens for right- or left-brained people, as long as they choose a profession that aligns with their abilities and passion. Rather than pursuing "right-brain thinking", my advice is to increase the luminosity level of your Consciousness. The more present you are, the more clearly you can channel the infinite intelligence that is your ultimate nature. Artists seem to do this intuitively, but it is possible in any profession. Spiritual growth is universally empowering

@Godishere I agree that psychedelics can provide a profound glimpse of ultimate reality. I mentioned pivotal spiritual teachers that have extensive experience with psychedelics, and have spoken to these benefits. My point is that all of them say that there is far more to awakening, beyond the momentary glimpse that you get on a trip. True spiritual realization requires work. Momentary seeing is different from perpetually being. I have never taken psychedelics, but I see the seamlessness and the sameness in all things. How is that possible? Perhaps, trust that the traditional path may not only lead to awakening, but as a side benefit, may more naturally align with your readiness to awaken.

Doesn't matter if your brain is wired right or left, although perhaps more creative beings find it easier to channel their true nature as Consciousness, since all creativity arises from Consciousness. Awakening is the realization that you are not your brain, regardless of its inclinations. It is the letting go of thinking, as a defining aspect of who you actually are. You are the spaciousness within which thoughts arise, but thoughts themselves are only products of the conditioned mind.

@Inliytened1 Consciousness is such a sadist

Awesome, thanks for sharing. ? I disagree with him that Joe Biden is in "fairly serious cognitive decline". The guy stutters, and sometimes people misperceive that as lack of cogent thinking. Otherwise, spot on for most of his observations.

Suffering is the ultimate psychedelic. It will jailbreak your mind, when you are ready. I have never dismissed the power of psychedelics, but have no desire to try them myself. The serious teachers that I have studied, like Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, and Ram Dass, have extensive experience with psychedelics, and have found that psychedelics alone were insufficient to truly awaken them. They can show you the potential of the spiritual path, but ultimately the work has to be done. I had thought of psychedelics as a spiritual path, and now he was pulling that conceptual rug out from under me. From the place of oneness where Maharaj-ji sits, psychedelics are just a fragmentary shard of a vastly deeper reality. He showed me they are a limited window, all the while reflecting back to me the deeper place of love within myself… It was good to visit Christ, Maraj-ji said, but it was better to be Christ. "This medicine won't do that," he continued. "It's not the true samadhi, absorption in God. Love is a much stronger medicine." - Ram Dass

Not sure, but Sadghuru is worth around $25 million. Like I said, it's not about being rich, it's about being attached to your wealth.

Ultimate Consciousness is changeless. Time and space are dimensions within the dream that Consciousness creates. They are imagined, because without them, there can be no story. The you that feels and seems so unconscious, is a ripple on the infinite ocean of Consciousness, which is who You actually are.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a Self-realized mystic who wasn't a minimalist. Not to say all of them are materially poor; they simply see the ephemeral nature of things, and don't place much value on them. There is nothing wrong with being rich, as long as you don't identify with your wealth. Unfortunately, for most people, materialism is a trap. Rather than owning, they become owned. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. - Matthew 19:24

Siddhis are rare, but they can happen with human beings. I see them as solar flares from the ultimate plane of Consciousness, spicing up stories with their energy. Walking on water, multiplying fishes and loaves, and returning from the dead are just that....stories within stories. Imagination has no limit. That said, don't count on doing any of this within "your" own story, unless You as Consciousness desire it. Just because you have realized your true identity doesn't mean you are unbound by the restrictions of your form. Apparently, Consciousness prefers miracles to be the extreme exception, rather than the rule.

How can there be a "first duality" when ultimately, time and sequentiality are an illusion? Ultimate Consciousness is the uncaused cause. It is outside of time and space. It never became dual, but it creates the illusion of duality, within itself. Duality is nothing more than the changeless, creating the story of change. My advice: don't try to understand it. It is called the Mystery for a reason. It is beyond the capacity of the human mind to comprehend it. Obsessing over it is binding yourself to the hamster wheel of intellectualization, which will never free you from the conceptual cage. The only way to be free from the cage is to realize that there is no cage, and indeed there is no "you" within the cage; ultimately all separation arises from the imagination of Consciousness.

Yes, I agree that it is more than just a game. It is creation. The sincerity of the story is the beauty that it creates. In games, there is a winner, and a loser. Art is ineffable beauty. Consciousness is the ultimate artist.