Preetom

this is sad...god seems to have severe amnesia

These kinds of thoughts are exactly what need to be deeply scrutinized, challenged and seen through. Or else they will keep bothering you down the line.

In other words, whatever I assume/think/believe, becomes my knowledge. Mind blowing stuff

The dying part is mostly the overdramatization created by ego. Its about facing that irrational fear over and over again until one ceases imagining oneself as a form.

Yes! This is the unmistakable sign its working. Keep going on.

Cant help it! The regular joe finds this as the most popular subforum and thus targets it to forward his/her agenda ?

Goodness gracious...if you find something that you 'think' helps you, then by all means follow it. Whats the point of shoving it down everyone's throat as well? Dude you sound like an absolute loser like the story where the fox who got his tail cut off, schemed to convince the rest of the foxes in the jungle to cut off their tails as well; just so he doesnt remain as the odd one out.

Love=things going my way

Complimentary video from few months back

maybe you are muting the video player or your master volume you got this!

oww oww oww So it seems like the death of love is the beginning of true Love

One cant really love as long as one sees an 'other'

Cant help! Just Elliot hulse fanboy things

indeed. The only thing to do is to make oneself a good prey

memory: the weaver of illusions

The ''level of awareness'' term never made sense to me, so I better not comment on that loose term. One thing I try to remind myself before making claim is that all these distinctions and maps are never for the enlightened one; they are only for the normal people(including people faking enlightenment). They are all made by people and consumed by people to make some sense as they are so curious about the ''enlightened state''. Take this example. Did Ramana Maharshi run around, arguing with people, reading scriptures and being confused about whether God exists or not; whether there is nothing or everything; whether enlightenment is with or without body; whether there are levels of enlightenment or not; whether there is karma or how to burn karma; whether there is something more to attain and know or not; whether this powder will show god or not; which is the most accurate map/model; what is the best course of action, morality, values etc? No! It's always the people who are divided and deluded on all these topics. So the ball is on their court.

''Oh monk, when a fire is extinguished, does it go south, north, east, west, up or down?'' - Buddha ''What to do now?''- who asks this question? This is what most people don't like to hear. The individual life is over. The flame is extinguished. 'Nothing' happens after that. But this is so paradoxical and sounds misleading that a real sage doesn't usually talk about this, it's quite impossible to talk about it as well.

What you've encountered is the primal signature of ego in the body. That sensory charge IS the ego, energetically speaking. Almost all of our activities, distractions, thoughts, feelings are designed such a way that we are always distracted from discovering it and seeing it as it really is. Almost all our activities, thoughts and reactions are on behalf of this ego, the false subject. It sustains this entire illusion by the constant primal message that I am inside the body, I am located, I am thinking, acting, doing, I need to secure myself so on and so forth. This is what needs to be done. The sense of I has to be dis-entangled from this ego sensation once and for all. And by doing that, the 'I' will automatically attune itself to what it really is, pure Awareness/Being. This needs to be seen clearly over and over again until this lifelong habitual tendency to regard a sensation inside the body as 'I' ceases. Contemplate these questions. 1) Is this sensation aware? Is this sensation aware of other sensations, thoughts, sights, sounds? 2) Is this sensation alive? Is it this sensation which is going through life? Did this sensation grew up, got married, had kids, has likes and dislikes, makes decisions? 3) Am I aware of this sensation or is the sensation aware of I? 4) What happens to 'I' when this sensation comes and goes and fluctuates? Do I feel myself coming and going, phasing in and out of existence along with it? 5) How is this sensation related to me in any way? Why do I consider it as me or as a part or me? Why do I regard this insentient, dumb thing as me? Can I exist without it? Through these precise scrutiny and clear seeing, one's system start waking up from it's own folly. That's all thats needed. And when the extreme energetic charge of me-ness evaporates from that sensation, then it will collapse completely or remain like an insignificant shadow unable to affect you and your life ever again.

The problem of science is that they are not scientific, rigorous and scrupulously logical enough! If a knowledge is rigorous and honest enough, when knowledge is turned on knowledge itself, knowledge gets transcended. The way usually scientists do science and acquire knowledge for decades and yet never bother to question the mechanism of knowledge itself, is similar to the deluded fool who spends the dollars left by his parents without ever understanding the concept of value or worth in the first place.

Exactly! That alone should be enough to create doubt inside you regarding the depth, honesty and thus possibility of serious errors due to inadvertence in any particular field.

Go ask scientists and mathematicians to explain to you the problems/limits of science. See what sort of typical responses you get

You've already read enough scriptures. The purpose of reading scriptures is not to only read scriptures, as if it was some sort of trophy which increases one's worth. Make the truths proclaimed in them as your living reality. And the texts I mentioned were written by Sri Adi Sankara and I usually read the translations made by swamis of Ramakrishna Math. I find them very straightforward, logical and self-explanatory.

Yes I'm very familiar with almost all of Rupert's system and explanations. The 'yoga meditations' are really modern repackaging of teachings from Kashmir Shaivism. If you look at a classic , practical nonduality text like Drik Drishshya Viveka; there are 2 kinds of samadhi explained there. Internal samadhi(disidentifying from the ego and being established as one's true Self) and external samadhi(seeing that this so called universe is nothing but one's own Self). Now my take on this is actually the opposite of what these instructions 'seems' like in the surface. It gives an impression like there are 2 distinct parts one needs 'do', complete 100% to finally call it a finished project. But really this is not the case. The external and internal Samadhies; even though they sound like 2 different things, really lead to the same destination. At the point of Samadhi/Being/Absorption, there is no inside-outside or me-world duality anymore. You can verify this for yourself. When you are absorbed in Being/Awareness, you never feel like ''Oh I've completed the first half and now I need to jump outside and integrate the world now as well''. You'll also notice this trend if you read classic scriptures like Vivekchudamani, Drik Dhrishshya Viveka, Aporakshanubhuti, Atma Bodha etc. These texts goes pages after pages long, going into pinpoint discrimination and scrutiny between the Real(Self) and the unreal(ego/phenomena)...to finally establish the infallible supremacy of the Self. Now when this long, arduous process is done, do they go into this seeming 2nd part as similarly long process? No! Instead, the entire universe is reduced within few verses and proclaimed as nothing but the Self. So the universe and all phenomena are unreal as 'things' but are real as only Awareness/Self. So in the end, the bottomline is that one needs to sink into Being. Doesn't matter if one is going through the external yoga path or internal extinction path. These 2 distinctions are there simply for a teaching or mapping out purpose for the seekers. But he who sees a solid, firm distinction between the two as if they are two separate processes has mastered neither. Rupert understands this very well and he usually encourages his students to experiment with both to see which ones hits on the money more. @Consilience Thank you for the compliment and sharing your understanding. Blog? maybe one day. After I've demonstrated this truth once and for all for myself and get a deeper understanding of whats really going on here. I don't wanna delude people ...You are like the 21st century Jesus Full of cryptology and bold claims haha Anyway I'll just leave a little prayer for the 18 million cancer stricken ''egoless enlightened'' folks all over the world every year