Moksha

Does Consciousness contrive? Is there a pattern to its purpose? Is it infinite randomness, or intentional creation? Realize who You are, abide in This, and flush...none of these mind-questions matters.

The mind is the ultimate blind spot for enlightenment. The heart comes closer, but it is still a blind spot for enlightenment. Being is beyond both thinking and feeling.

Please keep it civil, folks. Remember that beyond the personality, we are all ultimately the same This thread has run its course.

As a dad myself, I hear you. I "love" my children, but I can still suffer. From the ultimate perspective, the way to no suffering is to simply realize Yourself. It is not so much about "loving" everything, as it is about realizing that everything is Consciousness, which is Love. What is the difference between "love" and Love? "love" is the emotion that we feel toward our family, our friends, our puppy, our country, or our religion. It is as transient as thoughts are transient, and just as it is born, it will also die. Love is the ultimate reality that everything, and every nothing, is Consciousness. Sub ek: It is all One. Love is intransient, seamless reality, and it has no beginning and no ending.

Direct experience is the only way to Self-realize. Everything else is egoic, because it arises from the conditioned mind. It is the purest realization possible. Consciousness becomes aware of itself, and realizes that it is not the thoughts that it fooled itself into identifying with all those years. Moreover, it is the realization that those thoughts have always, inevitably led to suffering. Identification with the conditioned mind is hell, and until you directly realize that truth, you will remain trapped in the conceptual cage.

I agree that the cycle of creation and destruction is intuitive, however I see the yugas as representing this insight metaphorically, rather than a specific number of years. Time is inherently conceptual, and thus not directly verifiable.

First impressions, I disliked Sadhguru. Sporting a beard and robe, jetting around on his egocentric motorcycle, lecturing at people rather than teaching, turned me off. I still think he has an ego. That said, after watching a few of his vids, the core message resonates. Is the guy for real, or an Indian Tony Robbins? I don't really care. As long as his teachings convey wisdom to my soul, I am thankful.

You can be sure of nothing, until you let go of you, and realize that You are everything.

People have awakening "experiences", but enlightenment is something different. It is a journey, not a destination. On awakening, it feels, in that moment, like the end of suffering. The more awake you are, the less you suffer, because you see reality truly.

The duration of a yuga isn't the point. Time is only relative, anyway. It is the deeper realization of the infinite cycle of creation and destruction. The Day of Brahma ends after a thousand yugas and the Night of Brahma ends after a thousand yugas. When the day of Brahma dawns, forms are brought forth from the Unmanifest; when the night of Brahma comes, these forms merge in the Formless again. This multitude of beings is created and destroyed again and again in the succeeding days and nights of Brahma. But beyond this formless state there is another, unmanifested reality, which is eternal and is not dissolved when the cosmos is destroyed. - Bhagavad Gita 8:17-20 Day of Brahma (in Hindu myth, a period of explosive expansion like the Big Bang dividing prakriti into the gunas; each Day lasts for 1,000 yugas, which equals 4,320,000,000 years; for this near-eternity of time the universe lives and grows; then it dies and lies dormant for an equal time, before the new Day dawns).

The soul of Star Wars is captured in the original trilogy, IV - VI. It is about good vs. evil, personal discovery and growth, and the ultimate connection between all things. Consciousness told a damn good story, there.

Nah, it was more of a parabolic curve. Fantastic > horrible < Ok.

Yobi One Kenobi? Works for me

Awakening is not about moving through stages; it is so much simpler than that. It is the direct realization that You are not your conditioned mind. You are not your habits, your compulsions, your eccentricities, your addictions, or your attachments. You are the endless screen, upon which these things project. Everything else is transient images. These images comprise the ego, and they continue trying to tell the story of You. In the moment of clarity, like intermission, the screen is clear. The ego scurries into the dark corners, waiting patiently for you to fall back asleep. And eventually, most likely, you will. The secret is to learn to stay awake. It's like turning the light on in a dark theater. But why did we want to go to the theater in the first place? Maybe movies aren't so bad, as long as you realize they are only movies.

I would tell the alien from Mars the same thing I would tell the human from Earth. Want to find God? Look within.

You let go of beliefs by realizing that you are the field of Awareness, across which beliefs come and go. You can allow them to arise and dissolve, without being defined by them. They are the result of the conditioning of your mind, and they are not you. Don't allow your attention to be pulled into their gravitational orbit. Awareness amplifies everything it attends. Instead of attending the beliefs, attend the space between the beliefs. Realizing that space will set you free.

Yes, within relative reality I usually avoid ultimatums like "there is no I", because they can be a copout. Just checking to be sure "you" understand that the I within relative reality cannot imagine and experience anything it wants, because it is still trapped in relative reality. Only what Tolle calls the "Deep I" can do that, because it is ultimate reality. There are a few cases where people surpass the ordinary bounds of relative reality, through siddhis and such, but they are rare.

@aklacor727 Only you can leverage peace of mind vs. love. Children are the closest I have come to unconditional love. Yes, they will stress you, and they will grow you. Growth cannot happen without stress. But how many people can you honestly say, you would give your life for? Children will create stress and worry. Guaranteed. And yet, who would you give your life for?

Isn't relative reality, in its subjective-directionality, hilarious and beautiful? Sorry bro, but Mandalorian is the ? Go Grogu!

As a dad, it is one of the most challenging, yet spiritually catalyzing things you can do. Kids will make you grow. They will teach you patience, selflessness, and unconditional love. Caveat: They will drive you crazy in the process ?.

@Elevated ? the Mandalorian, def better than SW 1-3. Looking forward to The Book of Boba Fett ⚡ God, I guess I really am a geek.

Fantasy > reality > fantasy.

If it brings you closer to You, karmic merit. If it takes you away from You, karmic demerit. Guilt is the best trap the ego has created. Instead of feeling guilty, go with what makes you feel integrated. What resonates with love and serenity?

I'm all about the Force. Unfortunately, George Lucas went to the dark side. Still trying to forgive him for episodes 1-3.

There is no I.