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@Sagatarius If that's true then @Paul92 should come out of the shadows and talk to us here. Paul: It's all cool man. Talk to us. Being a missing person is serious stuff. It's been almost a year since Ryan Shtuka vanished for real. People truly care. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/weight-of-silence-ryan-shtuka-missing-sun-peaks-1.4897550

@SoonHei One of the ox hearding pictures must depict this. Not sure which one tho "the seeing is getting stronger" -Riding the ox maybe? If so then next comes both ox and rider disapear. "all of them including this" "Stay in the I am and in doing so you will trancend it" -Nis

The most miraculous thing about the universe is that it even exists. From the vastness of the universe as infinite space to the most minute particle and everything in between.

@GabeN This is an excellent topic start! Got the cosmic sense going on strong here. Cosmic Consciousness abounds- Love it!

@SoonHei That's a good practice as you can do it where ever you are and at any time a thought arises.

@Anton Rogachevski The old adage "can't see the forest through the trees" fits well with enlightenment. We look for something "hidden" in the forest called enlightenment not realizing that enlightenment is the forest.

@F A B A wallpaper download, a youtube of nature sounds and a good imagination is all I can afford.

@Cepzeu Wow! That doesn't give you a whopper of a headache or make you dizzy?

@F A B Talk about traveling: this picture so happened to pop up and I was thinking how nice it would be to travel to this site in Thailand

@Jack Walter Leon Pain is an inevitable part of life. Spiritual practice teaches us to open to pain, to accept it as a part of life. Our suffering comes from not accepting what’s happening in the moment, be it pain or pleasure or peace of mind; from trying to avoid the reality of life. Most of our suffering comes from that place where our personalities have separated from our true selves. We generate all kinds of neurosis to mask the pain and loneliness of that separation. -Ram Dass

@Amun Thanks-that's Ram Dass. When he first started his journey he asked his guru "what is my path, my practice, my sadana to enlightenment?" The answer he got was: "Always be at service to others".

@Jack Walter Leon Don't put so much stock into what other ppl think. They are not you. You gotta do what feels right for you and you alone. Don't worry about fitting in either. This is the root of the problem. Just as a word to the wise: no need to discus any of with with ppl who don't understand. That's just asking for trouble. "When you care what others think you are their slave" Wise words from the Tao Te Ching Your mind is heavily invested in this too. That's a problem. It's taking you on one hell of a roller coaster ride for sure. Get yourself centered at your core being. That part of you that has always been true. Think of an axle and a wheel. You be the still axle at the center while everyone else is stuck riding on the outer wheel going round and round.

@F A B Sorry!

@F A B Read the forum guidelines. No cool stuff! No dancing! No traveling! No partying of any kind!! - Just joking! There's nothing wrong at all with any of that. By "partying" if you mean getting sloppy- shit faced drunk that's never a good thing. But besides that- no problemo!

You could over write it by repeating a mantra silently or out loud till it subsides. Just a thought.

Consciousness is the ultimate unified field that science is searching for. Look at the double slit experiment. look at "spooky action at a distance". It all points to consciousness being primary. Science will grow by leaps and bounds once it admits that consciousness needs to be taken very seriously in any formula. No lab experiment has ever been carried out without the presents of consciousness being there first. John Hagelin deserves to share the Nobel prize for advancing science in this area along with David Bohm.

Ram Dass is one amazing being who has that love, that burning to connect with other beings exploring consciousness. With his humble heart he illuminates the way out of darkness for whoever wants to see. Today he lives in Hawaii and spends his time bringing comfort to the terminally ill with nothing much more then just sharing their presents together.

@Amun This is some serious mental masterbation.

@bazera Or another way to look at it: let go of the "circumstance" of being you.

@Cepzeu Deja vu is a moment of clarity where one is experiencing reality not only in it's manifest form as but also as the non manifest simultaneously. Right this moment the potential for infinite possabilities does exist in their formless state. The potential for what you will be doing in five mins. or 5 days or 5 years into infinity already exists. Did you ever see something for the first time and yet it seems so familiar? And you know that feeling of familiarity was coming from a place outside of time and space. The formless and the form realized as one- the potential and the actual.

@Jack River

@bazera When you think about it it all happens quite naturally given the right circumstances. Right now the only thing keeping you from having that glimpse is you.

@bazera It is possable to have a glimpse but highly unlikely without doing the practice as a foundation. After a first glimpse of awakening I read a lot about NDE's (near death experiences) because it seemed so similar to what I experienced. Usually when ppl have an NDE it's because of a horrific incident that happens to the physical body like a bad car accident for instance. At that moment they will let go of their body because of the dire circumstances and have a life changing- trancendent experience as they are liberated from the confines of the limited body/mind. So that being said: could you let go of the body/ mind to experience what lies beyond without there being a dire circumstance involved? Or will it take much practice? And of course we are just talking about a "first glimpse".

@andyjohnsonman Give faith a chance for the sake of faith alone. No concepts or beliefs. just giving everything away to total faith. Even the idea of the self give to faith. Experiment on your own and see what happens when you surrender everything. Who knows, you may even get a glimpse of the absolute.

@PretentiousHuman It is just don't tell the ego or it will take possession of self love.