Kuba Powiertowski

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To say it more straightforward: it is way easier for an ego to hang on to "omniscient, omnipotent God-realization" than implement Love-realization, which is nothing more, but the ego's death

Direct experience - a sacred phrase, a magic key. Are you sure? Experience is one thing. And then what the mind will do with it is the latter. In its nature, experience is changeable, like all existence, which can only be known by direct experience! The problem with the human mind is that he tries to freeze (to quote Sri M) those experiences that made him feel good, unique, and even divine. Observation, observation, and one more observation of one's mind. How does it function? How does it play? How it creates, paint, and guide the narrative to make you feel fabulous and divine? Observing my mind, I keep reality constantly bending to suit my assumptions, beliefs, and convictions. Most come from direct experience. But what of it? Did I understand what I experienced holistically and comprehensively without prejudices or assumptions? Is the most profound reflection that I can, e.g., on the subject of infinity, an experience? I think so. Everything is. Direct experience is the only way we get to know. Can I say I have full knowledge of any topic, or do I know 100% about someone or something? I leave these questions open to you. I have gotten to the point where I know deep within myself that the so-called death of my physical-material body is not the end - not even me because I don't know what. I also don't know what will happen next. I don't know if anybody knows this. Honestly, hand on heart. Even the mega-advanced monks and bodhisattva yogis. Am I afraid of what will happen? Of unknown? Of unexpected? Indeed, still, yes. However, I recognize the illusion of fear more and more. One more important thing: Sri M talks about four principles - reduced from perhaps 28 - for western Kriya Yoga practitioners: 1. Practice daily, 2. Try to remain faithful to the Truth - hard to do. 3. Try not to hurt any living creatures, including people - regarding the case of a vegetarian, Adolf Hitler 4. Try not to eat meat. But if you are a vegetarian/vegan and someone close to you or a stranger has prepared an excellent meal containing meat out of the heart's need, then eat this meal. Out of respect for the gift of someone's heart, someone's work. No matter how venerable, your assumptions and agenda cannot stand above the gift of someone's heart. Of course, you can pointlessly stick here, giving some nonsense examples. The point is that even as you sincerely feel you are God and everything is an illusion, you do not have to write or say publicly that, for example, Christ did not exist and Buddha was not enlightened or that someone else's parents did not exist. For someone suffering, Jesus, Buddha, Allah, or Manitou can be a refuge, a source of hope, just like someone's mom or dad, with whom being around gives a lot of joy and not much time has left together. That is love and compassion in action, not only in enlightened statements and speeches. Please think about it. As well as what you can be 100% sure of, except that you are. P.S. what about Love - Realization instead of God - Realization? It's the same.

@Someone here. I don't know if you understand what I mean. All I'm saying is that the only thing you really know that you feel deep down inside is that Love is the most important thing. That's all that matters. But not as a concept. As an action. It is being compassionate, empathetic, serving, and caring for others. You know this is the essence. You are giving yourself and accepting yourself and others as they are. You feel it is the Truth, the Freedom, the Way. I observe that God-realization is much easier for the ego to swallow than Love-realization, and it's the same thing. It is simply in our subconscious that we have coded the concept of God as omniscient and omnipotent, which is the identification of the ego. It tries to squash the experience of Infinity and Unconditional Love into the world of its limited concepts. It is always a caricature. This action results in beliefs, assumptions, assertions, and statements, sometimes effectively blocking the essence of what is at stake. And it's about being what you really are - Infinite, Unconditional Love. In practice, not in theory.

@Someone here or any belief?

@Jake Chambers there's again the same question: how many scientists are ready to truly understand and integrate these discoveries into their worldview and work? It'a an open question. Time will tell..

@VeganAwake I don't consider enlightement or awakenig as a one-time event. You wake up and that's it, you are free once for good. Spiritual path is a process to me. Process of inner expansion, increasing inner love and acceptance for all Creation or Imagination as you wish. Process of gradual letting go an ego resistance, attachments, judgements and firm statements as the knowledge of not-knowing arises.

@puporing almost F-orgotten nowadays...

@The0Self It's all about moment and context

@amanen @Breakingthewall @Razard86 @Inliytened1 what about creating a list of things that do not fit your theory/idea of enlightenment/awakening/god realization? That could be a very interesting list and finite at least, I suppose.

@amanen list is infinite, by the way. @Dorje Chang 100% agree with your statement. The thing is, we are not able to change anybody's beliefs. When the ego gets welded to an idea, only the corrosion of the weld can change it. I consider this place as a mirror of my own welded beliefs and assumptions. It is somehow essential for letting things go - here, mainly ideas. Sincerely - watching how ego can get inflated, you gradually realize a total meaningless of ideas, claims, and statements - no matter how enlightened they might seem. What matters is love and compassion for every living being—staying simple, humble, and modest before the majesty of creation. Amen & Sat Nam

@inFlow That is a wise approach. Nadi Kriya is a good one to start with. Then before doing more challenging stuff, Detoxification Kriya is very good for cleansing your system. Don't force yourself, let the process guide you. Be prepared for many various sensations and symptoms both on the psychical and psychological levels. Chanting mantras during meditations with an understanding I have found crucial for inner balance and protection from distraction. Before Kundalini practice we chant: Ong Namo, Gurudev Namo x 3 - bow to the beloved Highest Teacher and Wisdom within You then: Ad Guray Nameh Jugaad Guray Nameh Sat Guray Nameh Siri Guru Dayvay Nameh - which is essential for making connection with our Ancestors that give us protection from distractions 3 x Sat Nam ends practice. Sat Nam means I am the Truth. "I" is the Truth. There are hundreds of meditations with different mudras and pranayamas that follow different Kriyas. But some are very universal and powerful to practice daily. When You tune in with them You'll get access to the source of great inner power, strength, and endurance within You: Guru Mantra: Om Namah Shivaya Mantra: Sat Nam my Friend

@inFlow After six weeks of Detoxification, Kriya, I was utterly wasted. Dizziness and spinning sensations were something normal after a few days. After the Great Sadhana Set Kriya, followed by Kirtan Kriya, sensations were indescribable...

@inFlow What type of Kriya? There are hundreds of Kriya practices. Do you practice regularly daily? As you should early in the morning or eventually in the afternoon with an empty stomach for at least two hours? Kriya Yoga (including Kundalini Kriya) is a very advanced practice that simultaneously works on many levels of your existence. But I assume You know that. Well, once you have decided to devote yourself to this path, you'd better follow what this guy below tells you, but there's much more to that—tons of stuff. It's a full-on journey, but you may get seriously damaged if you treat it like a recreation. Be careful and take care, brother. Sat Nam

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@Inliytened1 I assume You are honest, speaking from Your Heart and staying with the Truth. Thank You. Sat Nam?

@Inliytened1 Yes , of course. But my question is: how can something that is limited to localized perception of being human, realize being infinite? I am not talking about this deep sense of oneness. For such realization Consciousness must drop its ego cage - it might be hallucinated, doesn't matter. No matter how small these limitations might be hallucinated - they all must be broken. You must awaken completely. But are you still a human then?

I sincerely feel that you have reached / touched this understanding. Maybe not only you here. Seriously. Me - not. But even from mine POV existence is still fascinating on so many levels and this is what keeps me going??

But even that does not set you free from experiencing being human. Only acceptance of everything that is. This acceptance expands you to the point where another question can be asked: are you still a human??

The next question is: why one do need such realization or feeling(?) of this kind? Out of what such a need is born? Curiosity, suffering, mix of many tendencies? Maybe realization that Supreme Witness is capable of creating things which are far beyond human imagination and comprehension points out that human experience is only one among many, infinitely many?

@Leo Gura Question arises: is there anything like Full God-Realization, where God's Core - Infinite Uncoditional Love is never ending perpetum mobile of creation / exploration / manifestation?

Relax, I'm not claiming anything. I wonder if Infinity can be understood. Can I ever understand God, me as God, or Supreme "I" as God? Understanding seems to be a never-ending process, from the point where human understanding has gotten so far. I already can smell paradox from here

Consider that you, too, are, experiencing an avatar that uniquely aligns with what I would call psychedelic energy.

I'm only supposing that I may have a clue about what you are referring to. When a human says "everything," it is always a human's conception of "everything". Like with Infinity. Our human conceptions, nothing else. But it is possible as you have broken through or expanded out of boundaries of human experience, even in a multidimensional sense, you have reached the realization that is not comprehensible for human capacity. Anyway, the Buddhist approach is most welcome among some modern scientists and philosophers of the mind, as it reaches the point of ceasing even consciousness in ordinary meaning. Even some materialists are OK with this statement, in significant simplification, of course. Almost every scientist working on the hard problem of consciousness is sure that during the deep sleep phase, there is no sign of activity of consciousness. There's a brilliant discussion between Rupert Spira, Bernardo Kastrup, and Christopher Koch on this subject: I have found a way to realize Supreme Witness through lucid dreaming. Remaining in the so-called waking state, you are trying to catch this moment of switching/entering the so-called dream reality using deep breathing techniques. When you master this to some extent, you enter a "dream scenario" with more and more expressive outlines. You may visit the same place, meet the same beings, entities dream after dream. Actually, you are not resting but keep on playing a character in a different dimension. There is still activity, sometimes even more extensive than in a waking state. But then, suddenly, everything is dropped into some void, which is not a void. It's full of bliss. Then "you" rest properly. I was trying to catch this moment from inside a dream, but it's one paradoxical strange loop, like a wave trying to catch an ocean. Hilarious experience, anyway. I have found that dropping this activity is much more challenging in a waking state, so you need to tune into a meditative state. And so I drifted in digressions; forgive me.

@Leo Gura Ok, but still Supreme Witness realization is absolutely crucial. Otherwise you may completely be lost in the experience. Or am I wrong?