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@abrakamowse Jiva is the source, Maya is the degradation of light. Misinterpreted. Good stuff!

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@FirstglimpseOMG You embraced yourself. It's all you brother. Every bit of it.

@brovakhiin I've done middle of night meditations before. 1to 2 hrs. They can get pretty intense. You'll be tripping your ass off for sure with 8 hrs. It would be interesting though. Lots of lucid dreaming. in and out of various states of awareness. The last time I did it I was in a semi conscious state of awareness at one point and than I suddenly became fully aware that there was a void staring me in the face. Seriously, it was like a black hole in consciousness. That woke me up! So yea, there's lots to explore there.

This looks interesting. Thought I'd share it. What is sleep? By its very nature consciousness is nameless, formless and timeless. Mental patterns, which are nothing but our automated response mechanisms to situations, keep pulling at the nervous system, creating the world of name, form and time. This is the world as it is experienced by all. The intelligent innate consciousness in everyone always wants to get back to this original state where there is neither name, nor form, nor the experience of time. When one falls asleep, the consciousness floods the body and the nervous system, it packs up all the patterns, almost like packing up a tent. This is what is the experience of deep and dreamless sleep. In the sleep state, however, the patterns do not die. They just remain in their seed state. When the effect of patterns and consciousness on the body is evenly balanced, one has the right experience of the world, dreams and sleep. If the consciousness becomes less, and the effect of patterns is more then natural, sleep disorders are the result. Too much of attachment to what is seen or heard, which is nothing but the effect of patterns, is responsible for insomnia and other sleep disorders. If the effect of consciousness is more on the nervous system as compared to the patterns, that is what leads to the meditative state and super-consciousness. Increased consciousness during the day will naturally lead to awareness in the dream state, and then to awareness during the deep sleep state. When one becomes aware in all the three states – waking, dream and sleep, it is called turiya, the fourth state. Finally, when the effect of consciousness is too much on the nervous system, all the patterns get destroyed permanently. This gives the direct experience of enlightenment. So it is very important to flood consciousness into every action during the day, and sleep in the night. This technique is a direct method to bring awareness into the deep sleep state. It needs to be practiced at night in a darkened room, for one full night. The unique thing about this meditation is that it is sufficient to do it just once to heal all sleep related problems. Instructions Sit in a comfortable posture. You can sit cross-legged on the floor or in a chair. Sit in an upright posture with the head, neck and spine in a straight line. You can support the lower back, but do not allow the head or upper back to rest against any surface, otherwise there will be a likelihood of falling asleep. For this reason it is better not to sit on the bed while doing this meditation. Close your eyes. You can also tie a cloth around the eyes. This will give a deeper experience of darkness, and avoid the temptation to open the eyes. Now meditate deeply on darkness. Darkness is the nature of deep sleep. So meditate on darkness. Visualize that you are inhaling and exhaling darkness. Visualize darkness flooding you and everything around you. Visualize it entering into each and every cell of your body, until all that exists is darkness. Repeat the word darkness mentally like chanting a mantra. If your mind starts wandering, bring it back to the experience of darkness. When this meditation is done successfully for one full night, one will have the experience of conscious sleep and it will completely heal disorders like insomnia or chronic fatigue. There will be no tiredness from meditating all night, in fact one will feel fresh, alive and full of energy. However, the benefits do not stop with just better sleep and health. The process given here can be a direct way to experience enlightenment itself. Adapted from the teachings from Paramahamsa Nithyananda

@Vanish I'm not quite done with my stick yet. There is still plenty yet that needs to burn off.

@Vanish I just heard a great quote that I wanted to share with you. "You use a stick to stir a fire knowing that eventually you will throw the stick in the fire too".

Exactly! That's totally your journey. Many roads can lead to the same destination.

Yes, mind is maya but my point is that it is a step-stone to that state of non-duality. Whithout it you´d be like a dog. In a dog there is no-one home, yet the dog can not reach that state. @Vanish I hear what your saying. But it's the conscious mind that created duality in the first place. That's what makes this work such a paradox at first. What your saying is "use a splinter to remove a splinter" But you see the thing is, the first splinter itself is an illusion. I think the best thing is just to remain empty. There is no one to do anything. Things arise in mind, in sleep and in waking. It's all meaningless until there is someone there to attached a meaning to it. (duality) You could work for years trying to get enlightened through all kinds of practice. But in the end, all you really needed to do is Vanish.

You can't think your way into a non-dual state.. To transcend the mind is to move beyond the mind. Than only pure awareness remains within silence. In other words, non-duality only happens when no one is home. No conscious mind to fill in the dualities. All that remains is what is. For instance, have you ever been so immersed and at one with something that you completely forgot yourself? That was pure awareness. Transcendence. It only happens when you not looking.

Trump finally managed to do something right!

You are referring to an infinite physical universe with planets and galaxies and suns. What if there are infinite numbers of other universes that are physically infinite? Infinite numbers of other dimensions for infinite numbers of infinite universes to exist in? There isn't one. That is the mind making our universe/ planet "fascinating". They are infinite in numbers so they cancel themselves out to the point of being nothing at all. True infinity.

@Vanish Mind is always dualistic. Non-dual states are only found when the mind is transcended. @Orange If you had a true non-dual dream, you may not remember it at all. Deep sleep may be the most non-dual state we have day to day.

@Afonso Yea, this is important. When you get this feeling again try and surrender to it. I know it feels freaky but that is a good thing. Awareness may be trying to become liberated from it's confinement of being at your body location only. In other words what is you is expanding. Think of awareness being like a bird hatching out of it's shell and into the light. Your body and mind are the shell that must be broken.

@Live Life Liam How did you get so wise at your early age? You see a lot.

It is only when a mosquito lands on you testicles that you realize there is another way to solve problems without using violence.

@barry Two twenty's is good for starters. Than work yourself up to more time in a couple of weeks. Maybe two thirty's. If you took a TM meditation course I think they suggest 2-20's per day. You would save yourself $1500.00 to boot.

@kuwaynej Look around under your feet and you never know what you may discover. All joking aside, find someone who knows what they are doing when it comes to picking them. Proper identification is key.

@kuwaynej Are you kidding me mon? You live in a garden. I recently vacationed in Negril.. a big party spot in Jamaica consisting of a 7 mile strip of beach. It is a beutiful place, and a great setting for a great trip. I dont think a bad trip could exist in such a pristene environment so anyblaze.... I decide to get some shrooms from a trusted local. In jamaica, they RUN up to you with goodies for CHEAP, anything you want. Just so you get an idea of how cheap, an ounce of sticky kind bud is about $10-15 depending on how much time you spend bargaining. So I told the guy, get me 20 US worth of the best shrooms. He ventured towards the Mountains to pick my little babies fresh. These shrooms were quite large, about 1-4 inches around, tinted blue stem, and the size of the bag was the kind that 12 oz. beers come in. It was filled to the brim. I would say the bag weighed a few ounces, but i didnt care HAHAH I ate them immediately, as this was my FINAL night in jamaica mon. It took forever to eat this obsurd amount of shrooms. I didnt eat them with anything, just straight down the hatch. I ate so many of these little bastards, not only did i lose count, i was FULL. Having many trips under my belt, I was not at all worried. For some reason I have a high tolerance to the psychoactives within shrooms. So my trip: The first effects cam immediately after we smoked a spliff, i remember it hitting me very suddenly- everything was dancing- there was no turning back now. The curtains on the windows were breathing, my laptop is looking BUG- windows 2000 looked like windows 95 and Im -good- with computers... for some reason the start menu was old school, and embossed on the screen. I cant explain most of this with ordinary words but anyways at About T+30 min i am t-ballz (my nickname on shrooms) i remember taking a walk down to the beach, at this point things are talking to me, me vision is my sound, my sound is my vision, my sixth sense (the one u get when you know someone is near you, is now my touch - LITERALLY... so after who knows how long, I end up knee deep in the water gazing up into the stars. One can only imagine what or who i was talking too. I never thought the world could look so fuckin cool. The stars didnt do enough for me though so I moved on. I remember seeing my friend, who was on E, which I dont do, and he asked if I wanted to watch the grammie awards with Eminem, so we went back to the hotel room. If anyone else saw this shit tripping PLEASE tell me if you thought the same thing. Eminem had some sort of mystery frequency in his voice. I swear to god, it was like a high pitched lisp. After that, my memory started really going. I went out to sit on the porch in a hammock style swinging chair, I was handling myself quite nicely considering the dosage... i just wish i could tape record what i was seeing, ya know, because i'll never satisfy myself in any trip report!! THY SHROOM GODS LUV THIS. The visuals were really intense- everwhere i looked there was something new to fuck with my brain... cats wandering.. reggae music in the distance, it was so ill. I wish i could remember more- but i can guarantee that I have to be on the top 10 list for "most shrooms ingested". Shrooms are the best.. thanx for reading my ramble. Next time your in jamaica... eat some, trust me :0

@SLICKHAWK I get that too sometimes. The "water" is the ocean of awareness. Sometimes so strong that you can almost feel it exerting a pressure.

@kuwaynej That sounds about right to me! One slip of not staying conscious and the mind goes right back to running on it's default mode network.

@Principium Nexus The individual is an aperture through which the whole energy of the universe is aware of itself, a vortex of vibrations in which it realizes itself as man or beast, flower or star – not alone, but as central to all that surrounds it. These centers are not, as may seem, apart from their surroundings, but stand in mutual relationship to them – center to circumference – in the same way as the magnetic poles. It is thus that each center anywhere implies all other centers elsewhere. The individual is not, therefore, only a center. He is the entire surround centered at this time or this place. Alan Watts

How would I resolve that? Any idea?

Anybody know why I get a pop up that says "There is a problem processing the up loaded file?" I found a picture I wanted to post here.