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  2. Now your talking! Living with the land. Yea, it's probably for the best if Mr. bear doesn't become one with me.
  3. @Names are labels Take a break. Go out and do something you love to do. Something that has truth in it. Make doing that your practice for now. taking a break can be just the thing to balance everything out. You reminded me it's a good time to enjoy. I may need to go camping very soon. Be one with the bear. hehe
  4. @Mat Pav You feeling it? Yea. You got me smiling too. I was feeling the collective consciousness of the plant as a whole. Yes, it just pours out. These experiences are very meaningful in some way I can't explain. Not just on an individual level but they seem to also resonate deeply through the very fabric of existence. Everything comes to life and just pops out. Do you ever wonder if all the searching for enlightenment is falsehood in a sense because it's really more about just remembering something we forgot about? Like that should be the experience all the time but something obscures it from our view more often than not? It sounds like you found that something missing and everything is suddenly just there where it's always been.
  5. @John " I reached a tipping point, I had no other choice but to either surrender my ego, or spent the rest of my existence under it's torment".
  6. @Patrick Hi Patrick. It sounds like you had a realization to some degree by your statement here. The ego throwing up resistance any way it can to protect it's fragile self. Your realization gave contrast to that ego by bringing it into the light and exposing it for what it is. This is a big part of the practice. Leo said in one of his video's "He loves fucking with his ego". If I may suggest, the next time it shows itself by putting up resistance, just laugh in it's face. Doing so will result in the liberation from it.
  7. Don't worry about suddenly losing anything. That's not going to happen if you don't want it to. If you do have an awakening, live the middle way as explained here. An expanded view of the true nature of everything.
  8. @abrakamowse I found that just this morning. I never knew either. That is cool.
  9. @abrakamowse July 19th was Guru Purnima. A day to give thanks to all masters.
  10. @charlie2dogs Some see the self as a ghost clinging to body.
  11. @spicy_pickles Great start. Any amount of time that you punch a hole through the noise in your mind to get to the stillness is good. With practice that time will extend itself. Also that silence will become more familiar and easier to attain. Here is a nice guided meditation you may find useful also.
  12. @Consept Just this weekend my girlfriend was asking me why I meditate and pursue enlightenment. I had to resort to using higher/lower self so that it could be understood within a conceptual framework. It made it straight forward without getting too deep. I told her the lower was the self identity/body and the higher self is a spiritual self that is everything and has no beginning or end. I kept it real simple. Probably for the best.
  13. @JustinS I would love to try a float! Have you?
  14. @Mary Don't be the meditator, be the stillness. It's all about the "letting go". The letting go of the you that is meditating and transcending into stillness. If you decide to meditate again, find that stillness within you and allow it to consume everything. Surrender to it by falling into it's depths. You are stillness, not a meditator. So no matter what choice you make if or not to meditate. Either way eventually there will be no "you" meditating.
  15. @jes There is a joke in there somewhere. A general joke.
  16. @jes No mom, it's not what you think! I'm practicing Samadhi! @Ozzy You have a link to that?
  17. @Leo Gura Can Samadhi be experienced with everything in the field of view or just one individual object? This I'm a bit unclear on. Or is one object used as a practice and than expanded to the entire field as the practice improves? When oneness or union is experienced in meditation, isn't that also Samadhi? ** I found this just now. Thought I would add it here if anyone is interested. Apparently there are different levels of Samadhi. http://selfknowledge.com/109718.htm
  18. Imagine for a second we made everything stop. All our beliefs, all our wants, all our thoughts, everything! A radical call to inaction. What remains?
  19. @Ayla That's really nice. What else needs to be said.....
  20. @Mal Manifestation seems to be a process of unfolding. The perfection of what is formless expressing itself through the imperfection of form and change. I remember you saying to me once that it is all a "dance". *Notice how Shiva dances on the back of ignorance and self.
  21. @Anton Rogachevski 13. Know who he is
  22. Sure, that's because they spend their life never knowing that something has been missing. Or they just forgot about it. Maybe at best writing it off as a childhood illusion and only that. Something long gone and far removed from their daily adult life. And than maybe, just by chance, someday they suddenly experience it again out of the blue. Almost to say "holy shit, I remember this well".
  23. @charlie2dogs If the same innocent child who experienced a deep oneness gained an "understanding", the experience would never happened again. Sometimes it's best that things remain as "not" understood. That's when it happens. There is absolutely nothing you can "do" or "understand" to make it happen. It's like the northern lights.
  24. @charlie2dogs Quantum memory. Sounds like just another brick in the wall that needs to be knocked down.
  25. I just listen to more of the video. Leo also referenced being like a child.