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@jes No mom, it's not what you think! I'm practicing Samadhi! @Ozzy You have a link to that?

@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

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?

@Ayla That's really nice. What else needs to be said.....

@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.

@Anton Rogachevski 13. Know who he is

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".

@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.

@charlie2dogs Quantum memory. Sounds like just another brick in the wall that needs to be knocked down.

I just listen to more of the video. Leo also referenced being like a child.

@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.

@charlie2dogs There is no finding it. It happens of it's own doing.

@joegarland Samadhi is a union. The final realization of what you truly are. A coming home.

@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!

@Anton Rogachevski That's cool! Connecting with Buddha nature. Sounds like a great path your on. Have you seen this.....

@wong chee kwan This may interest you also.

@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?

@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.

@Lorenzo Engel As Leo calls it," our sandbox to play in".

@Natasha You may have seen this already. I watched some of it. What is said @12:00- 25:00 creates a real nice spaciousness.

@Lorenzo Engel Found this and thought it was interesting to listen to. It's not woo-woo stuff, just a little different view maybe.

@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.

Non-duality for daily life.

@abrakamowse Said the tao to the monk.....