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@SoonHei Dug this up by Ramana -Hope it helps. D: Bhagavan, you always say that the Self is ever present; if I am present then why do I not feel it? M: Do you not now feel that you exist? Your doubt is whether you will for ever continue to exist. Why should you have any doubt? A little thinking will convince you that the destructible part of your being, the body, is a mere machine, a tool in the service of the indestructible, the mind, which is the all-in-all, the knower and the master – you yourself. Your doubts and difficulties arise from your thoughts which perceive the body and take it for yourself. Stop the thoughts which are your enemy the ego, and the mind will remain as your pure being, the immortal ‘I’. *** D: How to reach that centre, where what you call ‘The Consciousness’ – the ‘I’-‘I’- arises? Is it by simply thinking “Who am I?” M: Yes, it will take you up. You must do it with a calm mind – mental calmness is essential. D: How does that consciousness manifest itself when that centre – the Heart – is reached? Will I recognise it? M: Certainly, as pure consciousness, free from all thoughts. It is pure unbroken awareness of your Self, rather of pure Being – there is no mistaking it when pure. ***

@Ar_Senses "It" is pure being. "It" is you without the "You".

@robdl I know this well. When my g-f gets pissed off I make it a point to just stay chill. She then tells me what a "Passive Agressive" person I am. If there's a next time she gets mad, I'll tell her "No, I'm passively aware".

@Basegodmike Sure thing. PM her if you want. I'm sure she'll be glad to help.

@Basegodmike You want to talk to @Emerald about that.

This thread is becoming a "strange loop" driven by "the movement of thought" within "psychological time" and is creating "fragmentation". I "fear" it will soon be locked.

@Nahm I saw it too-was thinking of you.

@zunnyman Here is a picture of what's known as the Bootes Void. It is literally a tear in the fabric of space/time- a true emptieness/void. It is both terrifying and beauliful But how would one know the truth of it unless they entered into it?

Death is waking up and realizing you've been dreaming.

@YaMayka Nothing more I can explain here. Either you set a positive intention for yourself today or you do the work for as long as it takes and than come back to were we are now. That's fine too if that's what it takes.

@MarkusSweden Any luck with your pm'ing issue? Reply here if there is a problem.

@Preetom This is "being" fully manifesting. The sleeper must awaken. Conscionseness awakens unto itself through the illusion of the sleeper. Why it happens this way is beyond me. But just as a hunch this is what feels right- consciousness has no awareness of itself so through this process of awakening it becomes aware of itself indirectly through the enlightened being. This could be why enlightened ppl sometimes feel as if they have one foot in each world. On foot is aware of pure conscionseness as being everything and one foot walks in the world separateness. And only through that contrast can conscionseness be fully realized.

@YaMayka Seems to be a lot of effort going on there. But effort can sometimes be an endless road. Even an illusion. The fact is that you are complete now and lack nothing. If you knew that in your heart to be true, then everything else will fall into place with no effort at all. Try it for just a week. Let your mantra be "I am perfectly complete now and lack absolutly nothing". See if that doesn't change everything. I'm not saying don't read or to stop listening to videos. But when you do, do it as if your just bringing them into full awareness as part of your pre-existing completeness. In other words, you are perfectly complete now. Your just filling in a few unread pages of the already completed book. "In the practice of the way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things until finally you arrive at the place of non action where nothing is done and nothing is left undone"- Lao Tzu

@11modal11 Haha that's funny. I'm sure your not into it just to satisfy the ego but you'd be surprised to learn how many do come into it that way. Than at some point the ego realizes it's been fooled by it's own illusions and usually completely backlashes against awakening any farther. Leo like any teacher has his own way of teaching. Maybe his particular style of "in your face truth" isn't quite for everybody. But that's O.K. too.

@11modal11 I'll be the one to play the devils advocate here and say "social pressure" is the ego and ego is what got you into this from the very start. The ego thought there was going to be something fun to accomplish for itself. Another feather in it's cap so to speak. But now the ego realizes there is absolutly nothing in it for itself so it wants nothing to do with it. As I was writing the above I see you have now written this. See, it was the ego that got you into this and started all the trouble. You were fine before that-right? So you did learn something of value here. Use that lesson in all of life. Maybe for instance you are perfectly happy with the car you drive now. Lets say it runs fine and you have no monthly payments to make on it. Than one day your best friend buys a brand new shiny car with all the bells and wistles and suddenly the car you were fine with yesterday is not so fine today. See what I mean? No need to change what aint broke just to satisfy the ego. If you decide in the future to take on the path again, do so because it's the right thing to do. Not because ego or "social pressure" made you to it.

@kingroboto Sweet! You had a breakthrough from the limited self.

@emind

@Jack River That's a line from a movie. This guy gets arrested and thrown in prison. He's put in a cell and the door slams shut. Than he says to himself outloud "God I wish I were dead". Another inmate comes out of a shadow from behind him and asks "you want to be dead?".

@Feel Good No idea. Never put that much thought into it since I'm not into spirits and ghosts and such. Imagination? That's what I origional said in the first reply "mind is creating a diversion"= imagination.

@Tropic Love The ego feeds at the expence of the bodys health. The more conscious you become of it the more you'll see it in a different light. It's sad in a way. Why would someone harm a tree. Or a flower? Or a gummy fish?

@Your place at Heart Sourcing drugs is against forum guidelines. Please read the guidlines.

@Azrael Would love to get together but I'm on the east coast close to the Philidelphia/New York area. Maybe next time Az. Have a great stay!

@Aaron p You may be taking awareness for granted and looking right past it. Even a simple amoeba has a certain level of awareness to navigate within its environment or it would not survive. Of course you as a human has a much higher level of awareness than an amoeba. Lets put it to the test.

@Sashaj That's the next best thing to eating mom's apple pie. Smelling mom's apple pie fresh out of the oven and having to wait for it to cool. It's the simple things in life that are real. Cherish every moment now. That's where the real magic happens.

@BuddhaTree A piece of mom's apple pie would be nice.