cetus

The hat covers the entire cosmos (time/space is in you). Love that quote!

@Jack River I guess everything plays into it somehow.

@SoonHei It would make for a good profile pic.

@Jack River Man how I wish there was internet when I first started this journey. This is great!

@Jack River Yea, that's a good one too. It reminds me of something I read the other day: "Stay in the feet instead of the head"

@MiracleMan Excellent! Love this one! They're all good tho.

@Faceless Only the headless shall enter into the big booty (the absolute).

@Jack River The emptiness/void rules man. For lack of a better name, I call it " The Big Booty".

@Jack River I'll throw my two cents in here. When one stays in the "I am" eventually the "I am" is transcended. Consciousness itself is transcended. Than all that remains is the absolute. Go back the way you came. Your very first experiance was of the "I am". That is when the story of "you" first started and has continued to be written till this day. What were you before these concepts started? Before the "I am"? Before the announcement of your birth? This is the doorway to the absolute.

@Martin123 I've never shared that before but for some strange reason felt fine doing so here. To be honest I felt as if I was betraying my mom by revealing it. But I knew it was the right time and place to be said.

@Martin123 I can relate to this in a way. Years ago I had a sudden recall of when I was young, If I did something that got my mom mad, I mean really mad, she would sometimes lose it and say "I'll ruin you in the front". WTF? What was that about? Not sure I really wanna know. But being older and remembering that, I wonder what happened to her to convey something like that to me as a child.

@Recursoinominado "You can only watch the events happen. You can't use consciousness to do or undo anything." Just read that than saw your post. Seemed appropriate to share.

@SBB4746 For most it takes much more than a sentence uttered. So 100's of books are sometimes needed. And for a very few, 100's of books are totally unnecessary. I'll give an example: "When you finally realize there is no individual there will be no questions to ask" Are you enlightened now? Has the one who had a "deep curiosity" completely vanished? If so than you are one in a million. If not then reading is a path.

@Gligorije Here's a quote to go with your new found realization. "What changes is not real. What is real does not change" You ask: "What is the world made of?" But who is asking since all is illusion? Are you not the illusion? "When you finally know that there is no individual, there will be no questions to ask"

@MM1988 There are potential risks for users, especially those with underlying conditions. I'd be willing to bet if you told a doctor what you are doing they would tell you to stop immediately. Seriously, what is there to gain from doing this anyway? Is it really worth the risks? IMO you'd be better off trying something like lucid dreaming or astral travel. Oxygen starvation to the brain. That can't be a good thing.

@phoenix666 It's just like in the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy had to look elsewhere to finally realize "There's no place Like Home". This is it! Right now, right here. Here you are. Nothing is spread out over time from past to future as it appears to be. Not at all. You are a singularity and totally complete now.

@Tistepiste It seems your doing fine with the breath work but the focusing on the body turns into a mental activity/over thinking=distraction of sorts. The mind is a clever/ sneaky thing so it will try to throw all kinds of distractions in the way.

@Christer Hi. I don't know if this will be of any help to you but I experienced something that seemed similar to what may be called access concentration. What I experienced was a sudden shift of awareness. I mean it was distinct. It was as if the mind became hyper focused like a laser beam. I can't say exactly what it was that happened. Maybe the brain came into perfect firing order as in both hemispheres were firing in tandem? Was it a shift in brain waves to pure thea or alpha waves? I think a big part if may have been due to the mind becoming perfectly still than perfectly focused. Until that experiance happened I never knew it could even be possible for that to happen. For me it was like discovering a hidden ability. I remember thinking to myself after it happened "Wow i never knew that was possible". Just to add, it seemed to be a hit or miss kind of thing. Like you just have to stumble upon it. As if it's hidden and the brain normally doesn't recognize it. If that makes any sense. Like finding a hidden door. But I believe the key that unlocks that "door" is a perfectly still but focused mind.

@Big Guru Balls Make sure to listen to the rest of it. It's not all about Castaneda. It gets deeper than that.

@Stoica Doru @robdl @Faceless @Big Guru Balls Yea, check this out. It's not just all about what it appears to be. It gets better as it progresses into the audience questioning in the 2nd half. Well worth watching!

@Big Guru Balls That some dope shit there! You know what they say "When you can't dazzle em' with facts- baffle em' with bull shit".

@Faceless Yes It can most easily be identified because it exists in the past or the future. A tell tale sign.

The mental center ego/mind is a formatory apparatus. Identification with the formatory apparatus, also known as "talking in the head" or "staying in the head' is staying centered in the ego. When the mind becomes silent and attuned to the now the formatory apparatus naturally dissipates. @Faceless sometimes refers to this as "Headlessness".