cetus

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  1. @charlie2dogs Wait for it and it won't happen either. That would be no different than " trying to find it". Children can often experience this out of nowhere.
  2. @charlie2dogs There is no finding it. It happens of it's own doing.
  3. @joegarland Samadhi is a union. The final realization of what you truly are. A coming home.
  4. @Anton Rogachevski Glad to hear you connected with it. I had a deep stillness after watching it the first time. The match and the flame part got me. I didn't try that exact practice yet but I do something similar. Often I just sit in nature and make like a Buddha. I vanish into the surroundings. The Tao Te Ching is powerful also. #20 "I am like an idiot my mind is so empty". That one seems to come natural for me!
  5. @Anton Rogachevski That's cool! Connecting with Buddha nature. Sounds like a great path your on. Have you seen this.....
  6. @wong chee kwan This may interest you also.
  7. @Salaam Yes it does. The atom itself is 99.999999% empty space. So when Salaam see's sand or a rock, what is mostly there?
  8. @Salaam Where does the rock and sand end and I begin? I used to know the answer to that. what has happened ? i am like an idiot i am so empty.
  9. @Natasha You may have seen this already. I watched some of it. What is said @12:00- 25:00 creates a real nice spaciousness.
  10. @Lorenzo Engel Found this and thought it was interesting to listen to. It's not woo-woo stuff, just a little different view maybe.
  11. @Lorenzo Engel Almost 35 years ago I had an awakening experience. It was for me anyway. A realization to something that I had never considered possible before. Something that would have seemed absurd until that experience happened. It was the realization that what I had always thought to be a separate "me" within this world was an illusion and everything in the universe was really one thing happening. There was no internet to get information from at that time. I was wondering what that was that I was experiencing. I knew it felt true compared to what I previously thought of as a self. So I searched around local book stores and found something called "enlightenment" or "cosmic consciousness". There's a phrase they don't use much any more. After 35 years what I have personally experienced has been pretty much more of the same to varying degrees of no-self and connectedness to everything. I practiced meditation and I use to be waiting for the "big" life altering experience to happen. I thought that first awakening was just the beginning to much bigger things. And it is, but on more of a subtle level so far. For the most part I now see that the initial awakening was pretty much the major part of the awakening. Sure it is still a continuous unfolding process, it's a life long journey. But it's still more of the same original awakening being built upon. I'm not saying that's enlightenment and I could be missing something huge all this time. And I know I still have a long way to go. But I am no longer expecting another "big" enlightenment experience to happen that takes it to the next level suddenly. It seems to me now that what it's all about is simply resting as awareness. So that's my personal journey. So far........ ** I know some people say they have experience extraordinary things happening like meeting multi-dimensional beings, astral travel and such. I'm not saying it can't happen, but personally I have no experience of anything like that. Are there other realms of existence? Could we be multi-dimensional beings or something more than what we normally perceive ourselves to be? I guess it all depends on who you ask. It's a mystery I personally don't have the answers to. If something extraordinary does happen that suddenly changes everything, I'll let you know. Till than, I rest as awareness the best I can.
  12. @abrakamowse Yes, there is a place where all questions become totally redundant. Any question asked is like painting a red rose red.
  13. @abrakamowse That's good stuff- quantum entanglement! I know it's all happing only within the realm of the manifest. But still it's really cool to play with the possibility on some level. Think about every thought and action you make is known throughout all existence.
  14. @abrakamowse Like the double slit experiment, a wave becomes a particle only when it's being observed. So what is it really? Does anything really exist? haha
  15. @abrakamowse Yea, your right. I will add that once I did vanish completely. Total non-existence of everything. Not even a silent witness remained. It's really hard to say what that was.
  16. @Salaam Staying within the manifest realm of different dimensionality's, do you think there is one unified field that connects everything like the Higgs Boson?
  17. @vizual I was thinking along the same lines after leaving that reply. I do sometimes perceive everything as one field of something. That perception happens especially when the surrounding field of view turns flat or 2 dimensional. That's probably just the mind though.
  18. @Natasha Yea, I see what your saying. Something that transcends the known manifest realm and is prior to it.
  19. Isn't it the very nature of the dualistic mind that creates what is referred to as existence? A bird, a tree, a sunset ect. Just asking because I'm not really sure. If existence was truly seen in a non-dualistic way, what would it look like? Would everything be seen as one field of light energy or vibrations something we can't comprehend?
  20. @abrakamowse In what little experience I have, there seems to be always something that remains. Like a silent witness or something. Even when the no-self is being experienced, what knows that? I question this every time it happens. It feels like there shouldn't be anything there, but yet there is.
  21. @Greer Hi Greer Have you ever considered a "float tank" experience?