Arthogaan

In that context I agree

But isn't it fundamentally connected? Because I AM, always for eternity, It means thate there ALWAYS is a possibility to focus on this AM-NESS.

That is a direct experience when you are conscious enough on high doses of psychedelics. Yes, I agree that it cannot be put into words, but what I claim is that my pointers are "definitely more useful for pointing you towards the absolute truth" than yours. So when I say "there is free will" I am ultimately just telling you the opposite of what you believe right now in order to shake you out of your current belief system. The thing is that direct realization, direct awakening leaves you with the fact THAT YOU ARE THE CREATOR. What is a fairytaile is believing in nameless thing or reality just being reality and that there is no Self. That's just stories in your Mind.

I am speaking from more absolute point of view. You as consciousness also chose to imagine those biases into yourself. And I agree that there are thoughts/choices that we do not have much agency over. But still even when we did not sleep for 2 days, are extremely hungry and cold, we still have the option to be focus on beingness itself. Isn't it magical? That there always is this choice. Doesn't it show that there is a free will at the core of it all? And after we focus on that we immediatelly gain more control over our vibration and our thoughts. After some time we can even choose our thoughts and start to transform preferences. I don't know if that counts but I did not eat anything for 7 day once hihi

What I am saying is that it does not take time, and therefore you can only choose. You cannot choose to choose, because that doesn't make sense just like trying to try doesn't make sense.

I just wanted to share a snippet from Bentinho Massaro's instagram which I found beautiful """ Remember, over and over and over and over and over again, that all there is, is God. And therefore, everything is included. It’s simple. Apply this to everything without exception: only God is. Only God exists, without exception. This will submerge the mind, not into any sort of sleepy state, but more like a merger, a blending. It will blend the mind with a non-conceptual naturalness, a non-conceptual inseparability—a lived, direct perception or knowingness of unity. And in this direct perceptual knowingness of unity, this instinctual remembrance, there is no room for a separate mind bubble (even though this unity is all-inclusive). This doesn't mean there are no thoughts, per se, but in that moment, the ability to think and reason and seek through the mind kind of dissolves. You could say it has reached the ocean—even if there is just a glimpse of that, even if there is just a miniature sense of that. For that moment, when you're in the clear acknowledgment that there is only God, without exception, literally everything that's part of your palette right now, part of your canvas right now, equals God. """

Haha. Yeah, and you believe that you have no choice, and that is your choice, of course. I will try to explain it better. Choose to choose only makes sense if I want to choose something in the future. Let's say I want to choose to meditate in 5 minutes. But I can't choose it now because future is a projection, this "in 5 minutes" has to come into NOW and only then I can choose to meditate. Because along the way of those 5 minutes I could make other choices in the NOW, which would render the previous choice false. So it only makes sense to choose now. It's like a lazy person would say "I am trying to try to clean my room" to which his enlightened mom says "dude, what do you mean trying to try? Either you try now or you are not trying. You cant try to try".

Sorry, I am not sure if I understand your question. Because I can think of nothing, that's what meditation is.

You have the choice in this very moment, but later after the choice is made, as you said "you think about it" and you can delude yourself that you had no choice. Which just prove your free will. You have so much free will that you can even choose to believe that you have no free will.

Had too google that one. I am not that smart. Care to elaborate?

I can choose to quit my meditation and be swayed into monkey mind.

Choose to choose doesn't make sense without the notion of linear time. There is only NOW, and I CAN CHOOSE to meditate NOW.

Yes! And notice the word "can" in your sentence! This "can" is the proof of your Free Will. You CAN choose to observe and meditate.

Yes. And You are too.

Pure, ego-less Consciousness/God.

This is a monkey mind thinking about the experience that happened in the past. That is conceptualizing, ego playing it's games. The direct experience is that you can make a choice to respond or not. Ideas about some factors in the brain are just stories. Just as brain is a story. @Someone here

You can always choose to focus attention on the beingness itself.

You chose to respond to my thread. And then you chose to delude yourself that you didn't decide that, that it just happened.

Exactly.

You chose to respond to my thread. And then you chose to delude yourself that you didn't decide that, that it just happened.

Let's be so charitable and assume he actually does. Then wouldn't you agree that this pointer is pretty poor as most people will be stuck in an "enlightenment" with emptiness facet but no love facet? Because that is exactly what happened to me on my journey after listening to old Leo and Jed Mckenna. I was stuck for a long time in this raw, kinda dull enlightenment of no-self. Love is just the best word for Love.

Yup. Then wouldn't you agree that disagreeing with someone on the forum and then just saying that I have to increase my consciousness to understand is kinda pointless? Everyone could write the same.

God = Imagination = Reality -> this is what I am trying to point to when saying God imagines reality. Words get tricky. I agree that there is no process of doing and result. Because God=Imagination=Reality then you could have some fun with words and as well say those 3 things: 1) God gods god. 2) Imagination imagines imagination. 3) Reality realits reality. Which is all the same as what @Bazooka Jesus wrote: "Reality is" - but all of the above are different perspectives. And of course GOD = YOU, Imagination = You, Reality = You.

I am speaking from direct experience and my current understanding. If you want to assume the person you are speaking with has smaller understanding of God and just disagree by saying "you just have to raise consciousness bro and then it becomes obvious that you are wrong" that's fine.

Great elaboration my dude. Just like in nightly lucid dream, if you dream up the dream with no pain and no suffering it is very easy to realize it is a dream and that you are God. But when you turn on/imagine the pain of the body, the hunger, the drama the dream becomes very juicy and GOD (you) forgets that it is only a dream and therefore it is more immersive.