Moksha

Consciousness realizes itself through dream forms It's the cosmic game of peekaboo.

It's all about the Tat

Sounds like derealization: Derealization is a mental state where you feel detached from your surroundings. People and objects around you may seem unreal. Even so, you're aware that this altered state isn't normal. More than half of all people may have this disconnection from reality once in their lifetime. When you are in the state of no-mind, what are you noticing?

@BlackMaze ?

@BlackMaze If you have never regretted trusting your intuition, once you recognize it, it might be worth continuing to trust it

@BlackMaze Have you ever had a case where you trusted your intuition, and later regretted it?

Yes, everything arises from, is encompassed by, and returns to God. God is the abode of the cosmos. Some of my favorite pointers: 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. There is nothing that exists separate from me, Arjuna. The entire universe is suspended from me as my necklace of jewels. Lord of the gods, you are the abode of the universe. Changeless, you are what is and what is not, and beyond the duality of existence and nonexistence. You are the first among the gods, the timeless spirit, the resting place of all beings. You are the knower and the thing which is known. You are the final home; with your infinite form you pervade the cosmos.

I will try to answer, but my advice is to think less about the nature of water, and drink it. Consciousness is infinite, it is formless, it is motionless, it is timeless, and it is changeless. The only way for it to experience anything is for it to dream. All creation, all diversification, all forms, all motions, all directions, all senses, all thoughts, all feelings, all perceptions, and all sensations, are illusions that Consciousness dreams, in order to experience. Why does Consciousness want to experience anything? I suppose because it is better than nothing, which is what Consciousness is.

@James123 I agree with you. Awakening is directly realizing yourself as Consciousness, absolutely free from thought. The nice thing is, after you wake up, you get to start using your mind, instead of it using you. Another synchronicity from this morning's meditation: As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Don't worry about anything. Learn to discipline your mind and your senses, and enjoy the goodness that you are. I like synchronicities, so here is something I was reading just now. Notice the relationship between selfishness and suffering. Goodness isn't some moral abstraction, it is simply doing that which brings joy. The immature are their own enemies, doing selfish deeds which will bring them sorrow. That deed is selfish which brings remorse and suffering in its wake. But good is that deed which brings no remorse, only happiness in its wake. Sweet are selfish deeds to the immature until they see the results; when they see the results, they suffer. Even if they fast month after month, eating with only the tip of a blade of grass, they are not worth a sixteenth part of one who truly understands dharma.

There is no door, just the illusion of the ego.

People don't raise their Consciousness. Consciousness raises them. It's silly and arbitrary to assign a number to this. Was Eckhart Tolle 90% conscious at 28, then magically became 100% conscious at 29?

Your intuition is correct. When you are breaking through the wall, it is a long tunnel of darkness. When you finally break through, it is unconditional love and light. You see with spiritual eyes, and realize the sameness in everything and everyone. There is no "better than" or "worse than" any more, just Consciousness doing its thang.

You are at a key insight here. The question of how God as the formless, changeless, reality interacts with infinite forms, change, and illusion is why the ancient gurus called it the Mystery. God's ways are higher than our ways, and God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts. As humans, we literally cannot conceptualize God. The moment we even name it, we miss it. So why try? We can bang our hands against the ice Wall forever, or we can fly the dragon to the other side. Damn, I miss that show.

Being trapped by thought is hell. Being free from thought is heaven. Hope you are a little more in heaven now ?

I like emptiness slightly better than nothingness, because it invokes the question: empty of what? Empty of illusion, but infinitely abundant with Consciousness.

Just messing with you, I wish you the best too brother ?

Who is this "brother" you keep talking about?

I see it in terms of freedom from conditioning. The more we identify with conditioning, the stricter our path becomes. As we free ourselves from conditioning, more paths open to us, into infinite expression.

Every expression, including this one, is an illusion. We get it. Nothing wrong with still enjoying the dream, lucidly.

I am thankful to people like Tolle and Alan Watts for their teachings, but they can only take you so far. At some point, you have to lay the teachings down, and dive directly into yourself.

Do you resonate with different levels of vibrational frequency? For example, Consciousness in a rock, vs. Consciousness in a tree, vs. Consciousness in a Mooji. Maybe "highest" doesn't feel right, because it implies superiority, which is always egoic.

Nothing ever happens in the Transcendent dimension, because it is changeless. Why do you think "you" and "I" are having this conversation? We are Consciousness too, just in different states of awareness. We created ourselves for a reason. Changelessness is so...changeless.

It is just you, but it creates the diversity of dreams, by segmenting itself with illusionary time and space, within itself. Form is nothing more than localized Consciousness. Localization is only possible when there is the idea of time and space.

The best middle-man is the one that points, then gets out of the way. Remember that there is no context in the Transcendent dimension, only in the infinite dimensions of form