Preetom

I'll leave you something from Maharaj. I've read it so many times, it is fairly in my memory now ''The seeker is he, who is in search of himself. Leave all questions except one. Who am I? After all, the only thing you are sure of, is that you are. No one can legitimately deny their own existence. In order to know what you are, you first have to know what you are not. Clearly see everything you are not. Body, mind, memory, time, space anything perceivable or conceivable, is not you. The very act of perception shows you that you are not what you perceive. The sooner you realize that you cannot be described in any mind language whatsoever, the sooner you'll come to the end of your search''

So you are ultimately relying on other people's comment to validate whether you've finally got it or not? would that be something direct or indirect?

If you are 99% happy, don't sell yourself short yet. Keep gaining clarity about that 1% unhappiness. Btw have you contemplated what happiness really is?

@Aakash Reading your posts, I assume that you have am incessant fascination of trying to describe yourself or Reality with models, words and intelleculization. Haven't you had enough? Can you open yourself up to a possibility that you can never 'know' yourself through an act of knowing or understanding, yet you will be 100% yourself? Are you okay with being yourself as you really are without knowing about it or any desire to understand it?

There is no other way. The more I do self-inquiry, the more I see that literally everything is just more distraction. Any thought, fear, doubt, desire, reluctance however grand or shallow, it's not it. The mind is such as a tricky thing. The moment it creates a maze, it gets lost into it obliviously. It boils down to 2 choice really. In or out. Self inquiry or more monkey chatter. Winternight, how were you able to pull this off? Did you only do the formal technique of self-inquiry in the final 1 year for the first time? Or were you trying for years and in the final year it really had the traction?

great. Seek yourself until you're clearly shown that you can't be sought or figured out or understood in any way. Any way you define yourself, you limit yourself as something you are not

if it doesn't spoil your peace then I wouldn't call it seeking in the first place. on whose behalf does seeking arise? What do you take yourself to be?

It is the same. It only seems a little different superficially and maybe at initial stages. But eventually you reach the same 'place' whether you are doing self-inquiry, witnessing or do nothing meditation : 1) A state where you are relaxed but yet fully aware and alert (not blank or sleepy) 2) 'You' are not attached to any particular phenomena. You are being as you are. Just depending on the current situation, you can apply different techniques. Self inquiry is great for belief and thought deconstruction. Witness is great for all day awareness during other activity. Do nothing meditation is great for intentional surrender during a sit. But eventually they will lose all distinction and only a lucid, pure, unattached, thoughtless observation will prevail

Seek as long as you feel like it. There is no other way. That seeking will have to exhaust itself. So it's better to utilize that seeking in the inner realm than seeking for pleasure I was talking about Soonhei's situation, where he is already in peace and yet the non duality jargon is bogging him down

The point of self inquiry is to make the mind see it's own shallowness, limitations and utter inability to be at peace to such a depth over and over that it finally surrenders it's folly. Keep the good work

@SoonHei If you are happy without the seeking/fearing dynamic, stay there in that happiness. No need to figure this stuff out. It's only gonna spoil it

How do you know all this? You must have been aware or witnessed this dynamic going on, right? And if you can 'witness' it, then that means that formless 'I' is no longer an 'I'. da ta

If you see a Bubba, go fishing shrimps with him

''This stuff will kill ya sonny''

Will do. Thanks for everything

From delusion to enlightened master Nahm

''The Enlightened Master who did 1000 5 meo DMT trips'' Who is gonna be the character of this book for the very first time? Would he/she survive till 1000 trips to talk about it?

''The fool who persists in his folly will become wise'' - William Blake

@Aakash In hindu tradition, the primary job after self-realization is being grounded constantly in Being..which eventually leads to a more and more Satvic mind-body. A satvic body-mind is the most perfect conductor to channel the bliss of Self. Better the mirror, better the reflection.

They arise out of decades of habit and remaining momentum. Stay enlightened for 5,10, 20 years they'd slow down and eventually disappear

''There are few things more dangerous than an ego which thinks it is God'' - Adyashanti

Enlightened gooroo by day, deluded fool by night, batman on Sundays

@winterknight How did 'I' ever come into existence/being in the first place?

@Leo Gura How did 'I' ever come into existence/being in the first place?

First of all, none of it is intended to disrespect Leo or anyone. Just sharing my own view. The way Leo talks about the Absolute- I mean things like infinity, god, how a chair is infinite, how the 20 years old memory still existing now, how his human body is literally God's body etc and etc; don't these declarations subtly imply the existence of an independent universe with strict laws and regulations out of which nothing exist? But is that really our experience? Is there really such an ultimate universe or is the universe something seen while we are in the waking state for 16-17 hours a day, that too only 60-70 years we are alive? Aren't all our ideas, concepts and reasoning itself depended on the state we are in? Our waking state logic/reasoning and the dream state logic/reasoning are oceans apart. Why all this struggle and hiccups to explain all of Reality in terms of only this petty waking state we are in? This line of expression easily leads one to fantastical thinking and more imagination. There is a saying that God's language is silence and the rest is poor translation. Leo is well aware that Truth cannot be communicated. But why such conviction behind the words and taking them dead seriously? The talking mind is such a pernicious bitch. At first, it won't shut up and thus prevent the silent Truth to be realized. Then even after a glimpse of Truth happens, it won't shut up praising the Lord's glory in it's same old deluded expressions and imaginations Help me out of this friends