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@Galyna This is true. But we can observe consciousness at rest in it's pure state. And what a blissful state that is. Pure perfect empty awareness. It's like an oasis within the mind.

You say you studied for a year. That's a lot of knowledge stored up. See that on it's own merit. Don't let mind override that knowledge with a lot of imagined doubts and the knowledge will be freed to flow out on it's own. Step back from your situation and take a new look from the outside. Now ask yourself calmly, is there all the knowledge that is needed? Is anything missing? Is there any area that could get a second look? Again, just calmly look over the whole situation in a detached way and you will do just fine.

I'm listening to it again because there is just so much there. I'm digesting one thought and missing what's being said next. I'm hitting pause after almost every statement. Haha

@stephanie @Infinite @NatashaWhat is discussed here @ 32:00 is also on point with what you are both saying. I was just watching this and I read your replies after and it all all chimed . Synchronicity? "Is it possible to perceive without the movement of memory"

I would imagine that an enlightened person who lives in modern society would blend in seamlessly. That could be anything from disappearing into the crowd to shaking the cage >Leo haha

@DizIzMikey Everything around you is existence happening. Existence is bathed in nothingness. Look deeply into the meaning of "nothing". Do you find something special there? It's void of objects. Imagine, it has knowlage of everything -without containing a single thing. How sweet is that? Sounds like Heaven and it's all happening as we speak.

@DizIzMikey I was just reading you views on nothing really exists. Here is something I would like to share on that point. Yesterday was an interesting afternoon. For about four hours I was experiencing existence from the opposite view than what is normally perceived and it changed the whole game. At this moment I am sitting in front of a computer occupying this space. I am experiencing myself within this space. If I move outside, I would be occupying that space. Follow me so far? But yesterday it was quite different, I was not occupying any space for a couple hours. Instead, all that existed was the space. I went out into the woods to sit for a while to give that space a chance to really pop open and reveal itself. It was not "me" sitting in the woods, there was only the woods. Awareness and existence became one field with no separation. When I looked deeply into the existence of the surrounding woods something amazing happened, existence was looking back at me. And it was smiling. Almost as if it where saying "I see you too". So I guess what I'm saying is that existence does exist. Very much so. In a very different way than how mind perceives it. Mind never truly occupies a space. But this space is what we are. This "space" or existence is connected to everything. It is a unified field of awareness. It contains everything, including what is happening beyond what the mind is directly experiencing at any given moment. Trust in knowing it's always there as a silent universal presence.

@stephanie I was also digging around about enlightenment. Do you know what I discovered? I don't occupy this space, This space occupies me.

@Naviy This is a brilliant talk by physicists David Bohm ( as Leo speaks of in his video ).

@Ross Yes, it's not the meditation. Meditation is often prescribed at addiction centers as a tool to help overcome addictions.

@Lorenzo Engel I experienced the same thing back in August a couple of times. It felt as if I was floating out of myself and I would pull back. Than in September it happened again but this time I surrendered to it by letting go of everything. That was when a breakthrough happened.

@Locomike The fears arising could be the ego's way of defending itself so it is not seen for what it really is as an illusion. The ego self doesn't like to let go of it's reign. It wants to hold on and stay in control at all times by any means possible. Go through those fears and doubts and out the other side. This is where the real work starts and often takes us out of our "comfort zone". But doing that over and over in itself will tare the ego to shreds. The colors and images you understand. Treat them the same as thoughts. Let them pass. I sometimes jump with sudden loud sounds during meditation. That may be due to the fact that when meditating we "let our guard down" and become wide open and hyper sensitive. As far as these experiences "not being what you were looking for", what is, is what is. This work is not easy if mind is allowed to stay in charge of what is happening. Especially at first because it opens up a completely different view of what is true. There will be pains along the way for Mr. mind. That is the progress happening. Everything that arises within mind is an illusion created by mind. With practice, when a fear or doubt arises that causes distress, you will see that as a great opportunity to transcend the mind and move into a greater realm beyond what the mind is capable of. You will become freed from the fears, doubts, distractions and limitations that the mind endlessly creates.

@Naviy Before I started meditation, "the screen" was always full of content, overlaid with thoughts and perceptions. Now through meditation the screen is experienced as blank, it's pure state. What a stark difference. In daily life there needs to be some amount of content (mind) on that screen to interact with others and be productive. In meditation the screen becomes blank again of all content. I see the mind as a tool now. When the work is done, I put the tools down and the screen becomes empty again.

@Khin Thanks. That's my little monkey mind with a thought banana.

@Arik I was thinking about all this last night. It seems to me that mind is always going to be there. It's the operating system for reality. The monkey mind can be bought under control. But mind and a sense of self will always exist to some extent. When I meditate, at first I'm in mind, than I get up and leave the mind behind (so to speak). I move into another room. Mind is always there, but it's sitting in a different room than where pure presence is sitting. I'm not sure if that's a great practice, but for now that's what I do. I get up and leave minds company. I'm sure there is a slow integration happening where that silent witness becomes even more prevalent even when I'm with mind. If, just "if" we are supposed to have minds, could there not be a perfect balance of mind and pure awareness working together in harmony? Think of all the good things that mind has to offer. It adds "life" to the raw experience in so many special ways.

@Arik I think what you may be referring to, I call "The silent witness"?

"You can feel it when you ask "Who am I?" and just be there for a moment." I just followed that. It's kind of a silent "hang time", suspended just before the mind gets a chance to jump back in. Is it like that?

@trayford32 Sure, go with what flows. Do you have a choice? haha The lucid dream happened almost on it's own. I had to use the bathroom in the early morning. I got back into bed and I stayed aware that I was falling back into sleep. But I followed it and started to create images and colors at will. It than became free flowing and happening of it's own and I just observed. I guess I opened a gate in my mind. It was wild! Than I fell into deep sleep and that was that. But it was great while it lasted. I can still see it, sort of. What a canvas! Too bad I can't share it!

@trayford32 It was all just artwork hanging on the walls of my mind (the canvas) . I guess it was flowing out of the sub-conscious?. But I thinking afterward, I wish I were an artist. Do you think lucid dreams could give some artistic inspiration?

The odd shapes I was seeing in the lucid dream seemed as if they had a purpose to them. Something that was beyond comprehension.

Just to mention this for all it's worth, I was lucid dreaming the other morning. I was aware of what was happening and conscious that I was in a semi dream state. I started to create images that looked not to different that your art piece. All those colors and some that I'm not sure if they exist. It that's possible? The colors were about the same but the shapes were different. More rounded and globular but it was as if I was floating through your artwork.

@trayford32 I was having the same discussion with someone close that is an artist just this week. She said she has tried to communicate that through some pieces she has done. Yea, Dali was quite the character for sure. It was said that "He would enter an altered state of consciousness by the obsessive contemplation of an object until it lost all association".

@Rodrigo Thanks for the great idea for my profile picture! Love it!

@trayford32 Excellent work! Salvador Dali's works also convey the breaking down of the ego self and conceptualizing mind . That is the way I interpret them. "Soft construction with boiled beans" is a good example.

@Isle of View @Rodrigo What should I do? What would be your minds suggestion to stop my mind that thinks it's a monkey mind?