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cetus replied to Applejuice's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Applejuice The key to happiness is unconditional love and acceptance for what is. -
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20180530T235959&p0=127&msg=Leo's+30+Day+Meditation+Countdown&font=sanserif
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cetus replied to Arkandeus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Nahm That's a keeper! -
cetus replied to cetus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Final re-entry at T- minus 11 hrs. 13 mins. 45 secs. Leo will need time to re-acclimate after being in zero gravity manifestation for a month. -
cetus replied to Applejuice's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Applejuice All separation exists only in the mind. -
cetus replied to Applejuice's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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cetus replied to Applejuice's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@zoey101 I never read much of the Bible growing up but I remember hearing a saying "Unless ye become as little children ye shall not enter the kingdom of God". Something like that. -
cetus replied to Applejuice's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@zoey101 "Just remove the doubt. It's that simple". So true! -
cetus replied to Applejuice's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@zoey101 You'll love this short video. -
cetus replied to Viking's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Viking Listen to what is said here @ 7:20. Sound familiar? -
cetus replied to Viking's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Here is just one vid. on the subject. -
cetus replied to Viking's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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cetus replied to Viking's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Viking What you describe sounds like your common hypnogogic nap. A trance state that opens the gates to parallel realities. -
cetus replied to cetus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Empty I'm sure it will be interesting. I think the hardest for Leo will be conveying what happened into words and for the rest of us to be empty and open enough to hear what was said beyond the "words". It's gonna get interesting. A completely new paradigm for some. -
cetus replied to B_Naz's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Faceless I watched this the other day and thought maybe you would find it of interest. -
cetus replied to Vladimir's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Vladimir Search HPPD. .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_perception_disorder -
cetus replied to Bryan Lettner's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Bryan Lettner Good question. Don't believe so because potential arises from an infinite source. An empty ground state pregnant with all possibilities. Manifestation could be anything happening within infinite realms or realities that we can't even think of. This reality we experience is just a minute sliver of infinite possibilities of manifestation. What is most important here is direct experiance of the ground state itself. Than you see that it doesn't matter if something has manifested into form or not because it exists as potential. The ground state (Tao) is both empty and complete. -
cetus replied to Jarrad's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Jarrad The age old question. Why am I here? -
cetus replied to Moment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@blazed I just read this and it sounds a lot like what you experience. By Andrew Z. Cohen 180 One of the many miraculous functions of meditation is that it is a portal to a different dimension. When you go deeply into the meditative state, your awareness detaches itself from the thought-stream. Then your identification with emotion, memory, time and body begins to fall away. You become aware of something very mysterious. Imagine that you had been fast asleep in a small dark chamber and then you suddenly awakened to find yourself floating in the infinite depth of a vast, peaceful ocean. You literally become aware of a new dimension, when moments before you had experienced yourself as being trapped, a prisoner of your body, mind and emotions. When you awaken to this new dimension, all sense of confinement disappears. You feel that you have access to the whole universe and also to that which the universe exists within. You’re aware of body, mind, time, and space, but there’s another dimension that extends in all directions, unlimited by any of it. Meditation is the portal to this dimension, a door to the realization of limitlessness. Why is this experience significant? Because the infinite context you awaken to is not just a quiet place inside your own head. It’s a deeper dimension of reality itself. Life, death and everything in between, reality as a whole — the seen and the unseen, the known and the unknown, all that ever was and ever could be — is made up of both the manifest and the unmanifest. But most of the time, all we are aware of is the manifest dimension, the domain of time and space and becoming. Meditation will give you the direct, conscious experience of the unmanifest dimension, which is the ground of being itself. The “ground of being” is empty. It is an objectless, timeless, spaceless, thoughtless void. But everything that exists has come from this no-place, including you and me. Paradoxically, while empty, this no-place is pregnant with infinite, unborn potential. It is the ground we all emerge from, the womb of the entire universe. When something came from nothing, 14 billion years ago, the nothing didn’t disappear. That unmanifest, unborn dimension is the ever-present ground out of which everything is arising in every moment. And meditation allows you to know this ground within your own experience. Even in the awareness of the body and the movement of thought, beneath it all, in the state of meditation, you become conscious of a current of stillness that is the echo and the reflection of the ground of being. There is a great mystery there. In the infinite depth of that emptiness, there arises a knowing, a pure knowing itself that seems to answer all our questions and relieve us of all our existential doubts. Whenever we journey far enough beyond the conditioned mind — beyond thought, beyond form, beyond time — we will always discover this same mystery. That is why we meditate, so we can awaken to the instantaneously liberating nature of the ground of being. The more profound is our experience of the ground of being, the more we begin to emanate that mysterious knowing which is enlightened consciousness itself. -
cetus replied to Moment's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@blazed Ever surrender while having that blissful experience? I did to see how deep it could get and I completely vanished. Not even the witnessing of pure consciousness remained. I don't know what that is even called. Cessation maybe? -
cetus replied to Enquirer's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Enquirer Either you've been listening to the wrong people or your listening in the wrong way. When enlightenment happens there is no one who becomes enlightened. Consciousness awakens, not somebody. Goals of achieving no-self is illusion and just more bolstering self. LIsten to what Adyashanti has to say here @17:00 about no-self. Give it just 5 minutes. It's really good stuff! -
@MarkusR If I could step back in time I would show this Video to myself and say 'this is enlightenment in a nutshell'. "There is no one to awaken. What is really happening is reality is awakening into reality. Consciousness is awakening into consciousness." Than I'd tell myself to take the time to sit til the mind becomes so empty there is no longer anyone there. Not even the realization "there is no one there" remains. Sit in nature long enough with a still mind and enlightenment is guaranteed to happen. Just not to you. But it does happen.
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For whatever it's worth just thinking about dark night bought on a bit of an ego death/dark night experience for me. It's all good. I feel quite humbled now. Calm and peaceful. I contemplated the gates picture and it always gets the ego by the throat. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. At that point all that can be done is to humble oneself. To surrender and pass through the gates completely naked. I recall Leo saying from time to time "I love fucking with my ego".
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Here's a picture I shot titled "Dark night of the soul"