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99.9999999% of most people's daily activity is orientated towards self-preservation.

What poster would you hang today?

Eating from the Tree of knowledge represents the beginning of conceptual knowledge which partitions Adam and Eve from pure consciousness. Imagine for a moment going from pure consciousness to self-consciousness.

I am neither born nor can I die. I have nothing to remember or forget. You are beyond experience. Ever unborn and deathless. Reality is not an event. It cannot be experienced. There is no such thing as the experience of reality. You can only appear to be what you are not. What changes is not real. What is real does not change. You are neither the body nor in the body. There is no such thing as body. The absolute doesn't know itself at all. The I am-ness is part of the play. You are prior to the I am-ness. The world and the mind are not real. But I am not those. I, as the absolute, never had any experience that "I" was alive. Timeless. spaceless existence. It doesn't know it is. That is reality.

We are not bound by physical limitations here. You are much more then that! It's hard to understand but physical limitations are just one example of infinite Love expressing itself in infinite ways.

People sometimes ask, "what is the meaning of life? I respond, what is the meaning of 4th grade? -to graduate to 5th.

Put him on a short pier and tell him to take a long walk?

I exist only as a reflection of the mind. Mind falling away........

Is there anything more after Samadhi? Less is more. Surrender to the "experience" of samadhi and you vanish. It will absorb you and leave no trace. Poof!

You are your karma= It's all you.

@Santiago Ram Road trip!

It would be interesting to see what comes out of a mound of clay, or whatever medium after 3-4 days of meditation. Something to convey the insight in manifest form.

The story of Adam and Eve is similar. God warned Adam not to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. "Knowledge" being the knowledge of the egoic self-separate from reality. Hence the sudden addition of the fig leaf as Adam and Eve then became "self-conscious".

Turyatit beyond presence and absence.

The best way to describe nothingness on a metaphysical level would be to say that it is absent of all content -yet full. By "full" I mean full of potential. Infinite potential ready to be unleashed as content.

Do you control the dream? Or does the dream control you?

When I was a child, 4-7 y.o. I would sometimes experience moments where I was one with reality. Looking back perhaps it was moments of becoming fully conscious. Whatever it was it was a state of absolute perfection that I'll never forget. Many experiences of Daja Vu also up to the age of 10 then they became more infrequent over time.

That's exactly what I meant.

@Princess ArabiaYea right. See my edit*

@Princess Arabia They are not two. Self and other (reality) arise mutually. *Who or what said that?

Nisargadatta quote: "There is no such thing as the experience of reality" Makes most go Humm....Say what? *Infinite imagination may be the best way to describe the experience of reality.

@The Crocodile That's what I love about both Don Juan and Leo. They use the brutal honesty like a laser to cut through the B.S.

@Misato Katsuragi You saw through the illusion of the ego, and the ego didn't like it. But in that moment, you were more awake, more alive than you have ever been. For the first time you weren't sleepwalking through life behind the eyes of the ego. “I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been sleep.” ― Walt Whitman