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  1. @Joe Schmoe I believe you.
  2. @Joe Schmoe Anything that is perceived or seen is discarded. Total stillness and emptiness is everything- and nothing at the same time.
  3. Enlightenment is no more than the realization that everything is driven by one unified field of consciousness. That realization happens by tapping into that primordial field through the practice of silencing the mind. So who can't experience enlightenment? But the big hurdle is staying in that state of unity at all times and under all circumstances. When the silence finally prevails at all times over the noise of mind, that's full enlightenment or bliss consciousness. Of course that is much easier said than done when living day to day in the real world and the reason so many end up going into seclusion.
  4. @FirstglimpseOMG TM is nothing more than a $1500.00 mantra, a 3 day meditation course and a lifetime membership. Dr.'s are prescribing it more often to their patients that suffer from anxiety. It's proven to be effective by the medical community. Patients take the quick course and their on their way. TM has been around since the 70's so it's nothing new. Conscionsceness and physics is a very interesting subject though. aside from the TM franchise stuff.
  5. @FirstglimpseOMG You may have seen this already? Also, David Bohm with J. Krishnamurti, Einstein/Tagore. All good stuff!
  7. @Names are labels My house backs to dense woods. I often meditate there and than I'll just sit and lose myself in the surroundings with a silent mind. Often all kinds of animals and birds will come close to me as long as I'm still of course. Sometimes even deer walk very close. I don't know if they know I'm there or not? Nothing like being alone in nature to bring out the silence of mind.
  9. Now your talking! Living with the land. Yea, it's probably for the best if Mr. bear doesn't become one with me.
  10. @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
  11. @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.
  12. @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".
  13. @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.
  14. 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.
  15. @abrakamowse I found that just this morning. I never knew either. That is cool.
  16. @abrakamowse July 19th was Guru Purnima. A day to give thanks to all masters.
  17. @charlie2dogs Some see the self as a ghost clinging to body.
  18. @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.
  19. @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.
  20. @JustinS I would love to try a float! Have you?
  21. @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.
  22. @jes There is a joke in there somewhere. A general joke.
  23. @jes No mom, it's not what you think! I'm practicing Samadhi! @Ozzy You have a link to that?
  24. @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
  25. 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?