WelcometoReality

If meditation is a distraction then what isn't distraction? You sit and become conscious of being conscious which is what I would define as not being distracted. If you do something without being conscious of being conscious that's distraction which is the state of 99.9% of people. (Yeah 69% of statistics is made up I know)

Yeah, it could be a way to run from those feeling that come up when you're still. I don't see the creativity to being a problem but the running away is. You might be running from that your whole life unless you face it. It can be very challenging I know but once you stop running the intensity of it starts to lessen and it gets easier. ?

@MsNobody what happens if you sit in the sofa. Take a couple of deep breaths and don't do anything.. what feelings come up?

It's funny now. But it seems so true at the time. ?

Yep certainly could be an indicator. Fair enough I'll shut it then. ?

@Carl-Richard I did the survey and found the question about remembering people's names interesting. Is it used as a measurement on consciousness? I wonder if it really is a good measurement.

Just because someone had a profound awakening experience doesn't mean he has embodied it. After my first awakening I had alot of anger coming up and became very reactive towards people. To be honest I felt like I had taken a huge leap forward with my awakening but then ten steps back with all negative emotions that came afterwards.

@Holygrail Yes I agree in that the underlying feeling state impact the way we rationalize. The feeling state impacts the way we view reality like sunglasses we're not aware that we have on.

The realization will continue to deepen. Just be whatever comes natural to you.

@Ulax I would call it noting and can be used for feeling or other sensory inputs aswell.

Why is this plant growing here and why are it so ugly. Why couldn't it grow anywhere else. Why did it choose to grow right here besides the entrance of my house. Can you see how futile these questions are?

Do yourself a favor and discard all this and start from scratch with your own direct experience.

He could. But they aren't true for him until he has realized them for himself. So there are no absolute truths. Only half measures into conveying your own.

I see. Nice to meet you God. ?

How does it matter what you and me see to someone who haven't realized what you're talking about? Should he believe what you're saying?

Care to elaborate? Yeah that's what I'm saying. Only this momenent exist. So whether you experience infinity or not that's it. If you didn't care so much about infininity wouldn't it be even more freedom?

But in your experience of finiteness aren't that the first hand experience that you finite and the belief that you are infinite? ?

I wonder if he even was God in the first place or if it was just a dream.

If he forgets he is God then he isn't God. He's a human being. ?

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So you assume he's not awake based on videos he posted, what, 3-4 years ago?

What's the rush? ? Meditation, Mindfulness. There are many ways but it's not from here to there. It's from here to HERE. A deepening into HERE.

For me there was a desire to leave my family too and go live in the woods somewhere but I did stay. That's something I'm very grateful for today because they do give me great joy to be around. I think that for a time after an awakening I tended to get very easily triggered and it hurt so much. As I worked through those triggers they weren't much of an issue. I had the tendency to try to "protect" myself from triggers but what I really protected was the part of me that hadn't already awakened.

@Holykael The jesus story is a map to awakening. The crucifixion is the death of the separate self and what follows is total unity with god.