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@Violina Have you thought about maybe taking a break from enlightenment work for a while? You can always come back to it when you feel the time is right.

@SoonHei Have you seen this.

@chakra_7654321 Here's my favorite OM meditation to listen to w/headphones. From what I've heard Om is the vibrational sound of the universe.

@SoonHeiSo true. It can't be defined or contained by the mind. It's well outside of all that limited jazz. Not to say the mind still can't enjoy the ongoing show.

@SoonHei In dualistic terms- this reality we share has a beginning and an ending. We experiance space, time, matter and ego for a short while. But the true reality that is infinite and changeless is found inside us not outside. If you look inside you will find it. It's always there in it's changeless state. It is literally an absence of all that is known. It is the wellspring of all things. Yet it contains nothing. Where would an artist put the paint if there were no blank canvas?

@Dodo Thanks. You got it! The quote is Nisargadatta- "Prior to Consciousness".

@SoonHei It's hard to put into words. Like you may think for instance that you are in reality. But that's an illusion. You are reality. Not "in" it. Reality is you/you are reality. No separation. That which has no beginning or end as the experiance of reality. If you wanted to think of it dualistically one could call it "the infinite side of reality".

@the_end_of_me Yea- my bad. It's jhani (enlightened - a god).

@the_end_of_me I probably spelled it wrong.

@SoonHei This whole reality is you. From the largest galaxies to the tiniest speck of dust.

@SoonHei No two paths are ever the same. Learn what you need from others but only self inquiry and surrender will give you direct experiance. Go inward. It's all in you.

@the_end_of_me You in good company. It reminded me of this.... We are not able to understand the state of the yhani if the yhani has become one with the absolute. We don't understand how a yhani can be parabrahman and be here also. A yhani can transcend consciousness and be the absolute on demand. He can come into consciousness because that perticulay body is still available. Through that body communication takes place with the beings in consciousness.

Yea the ego can always have a backlash and revolt against liberation. But if you let go naturally and not forced by drugs I'd say there is a lesser chance of a ego backlash. It will still take adjustment tho. Integration. That's where the real work can start. Before an awakening happens your mostly searching around in total darkness and not sure what you're looking for..

@SoonHei Yes!

@SoonHei It happens when you let go of the illusion of this reality as being real. When you do a higher reality is revealed to you. I know that sounds kind of scary to let go of reality. That's why so few awaken. Compassion becomes prevalent. Love, peace and bliss. Sure that too. But there is no ownership. Yes love would be infinite. But not the kind of love that depends on physical circumstances. This love is from the absolute. That "higher reality" which is infinite and so the love is also.

@SoonHei Sure you can still enjoy "the movie" after awakening. Nothing changes in reality except for the way you see it. You will know it's a movie when others see it as a reality of true substance. But if it were real it would not change. So reality is illusion. Consciousness is a waking dream state. And just like the dreams you have when you sleep sometimes you're aware you are dreaming. And sometimes you are not.

@SoonHei This should help answer your question @ 1:13:00

@Arkandeus Funny b-c I getting more moments of- "wow I'm not really in my bathroom" "wow I'm not really writing this message" Ect, ect-

@Bryan Lettner Be empty awareness.

@Cameron When you realize no answer is the answer why would you continue to ask again and again to come to the same conclusion again and again? That's more the definition of insanity than a strange loop.

@Salvijus Sleep is not meditation.

@Neptune2020 As long as we imagine ourselves to be separate personalities one quite apart from another, we cannot grasp reality which is essentially impersonal. First we must know ourselves as witnesses only. Dimensionless and timeless centers of observation and than realize that immense ocean of pure awareness which is both mind and matter and beyond both. Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time. You imagine yourself to be at a certain point occupying a certain volume. Your personality is due to your self identification with the body. Your thoughts and feelings exist in succession. They have their span in time and make you imagine yourself because of memory having duration. In reality time and space exit in you, you do not exist in them. -Nisargadatta

@Jonson Reality is a fluid situation from the point of the observer. In true reality nothing is happening. Reality just "is".