Anton Rogachevski

@cetus56 I've enjoyed the video very much and I literally felt shivers when he told about the tale with the father and the child. It's amazing to witness such calmness and spontaneity. He really goes deep into explaining and showing us the many traps of attachment. By the way did you try the meditation? @Arik I'm always so pleased to receive your posts. And I like very much the way you describe your method. I've tried it and i'll keep trying to try and connect more with it. Never heard of Moiji, would you recommend your favorite talk? By the way how long have you been practicing meditation overall?

What happens to the higher and lower self once you are enlightened? Do they remain seperate?

As Alan Watts beautifully put it: "If i can pick pocket you abd sell you your own watch, then you probably deserve it"

I see a guy that flirts with my girl on facebook and I'm clueless on what to do. If didn't say anything i would be inauthentic, and if i did i would come out as jealous. So what is happening?

@Donald That I'm jealous. Isn't it good to talk about how I feel with her? My fear is that keeping it inside is not being true to myself.

We all know the good old saying that "happiness comes from within" But doesn't it suggests that the so called inner world and outer world are seperate? So how does one find happiness in this illusory seperation?

@Khin @Andre But we always read that the self is an illusion and there's no you SEPERATE from the outer world, which means you are also the outer world. Thus "within" supposedly can be anywhere. My theory is that while the outer and the inner are inseparable you are simply unsynchronized with your true nature, and that seperation is exactly what keeps you from being happy. So the the happiness is the connection. You trying to change the outer circumstances is failing cause they don't need to change. So the "outer world" is you! and is within! it only takes you to get out of the way and realize it.

@Saarah I think that once you start self inquiry you will see the holes and limits in rationality. It's impossible to grasp it until experienced directly. Good luck

@Arik Very insightful I've had a thought since i posted here that actually counting is controling. And when i try not to count i actually feel the need to regain control.

Is wanting to hear your s.o say that he or she needs you healthy? We say that neediness isn't good for us, but what if we hear from our beloved that he doesn't need us?

@Saarah Thank you so much for these insightful words. I guess after being needy for so long, it's hard to see how can things come to you without needing them.

She does give something, the feeling of being needed by someone, of being important. @reez

I suppose that the fact that ego itself is illusory, doesn't mean that there are no feelings, in fact they are felt stronger after the release. It's the ego that wants to act stoic and say nothing hurts it, but in reality we are very sensitive and vulnerable.

of course not : ) but in terms of reality what separates him from the bird?

@Mary The daydreaming part is your mind speaking out all the info that is echoing inside. Imagine a cave, you shout inside, isn't it inevitable that you will hear an echo? It's as out of control as a thought coming to you while doing nothing. Actually it is the cleansing that will eventually let you quiet down and be aware finally. Imagine your mind is a patient, and you are it's therapist. Let it speak and don't say "I shouldn't think, im meditating." because this is actually the part that is most effective in releasing the drama. Good luck on your journey : )

Thoughts by themselves are real, yet their content, or rather story is of illusory nature. You will feel it one day when your awareness increases dramatically, it takes a lot of practice. The need to understand, accept, free yourself, is the need of the ego. The only way to be free is to inquire into the nature of it by self inquiry until the need to associate yourself with anything at all will dissolve. it's very hard for you to imagine after a lifetime of being a self, to realize that no such gadget is needed. The need to identify yourself with anything at all comes from that same need, the fear of losing identity. Although it is a good idea to connect to your body sensually, and being aware of it without calling this phenomenon by any name. your body is as real as it gets, and theoretically the only reality for you, but let not the beautiful concepts fool you into "thinking your way" into this state. I've caught myself doing it a lot after listening to beautiful ideas by Alan Watts : ) The fact that your awareness is actually the whole works, means that maybe you won't hear, but any other being will, but what separates you from them, even after death?

I would like to tell you about a technic I've developed for self inquiry. I haven't seen it anywhere and it came to me as a sudden insight during meditation. I won't take credit and all I want is for you to try it out and tell me about your experience. Breathe and get into the present moment let yourself sink in for a good 5 or 10 minutes. Now while letting the mind do it's thing try to capture the closest seperation you are experiencing. Good. Now find it's opposite and focus on both. Get a good feeling of them and now start alternating between them back and forth. You may speak it out loud or in your mind and see what happens. I imagined it like the yin yeng spinning at first and it felt like the seperation was slowly melting, slowly turning into a clear state of mind. The cool thing is that you can find a whole lot of them, and do those that feel most real and concrete to you. Here are some examples you may use: Self other Yes no True false Nothing something Someone no-one Inside outside Internal external Here there Everywhere nowhere Is isnt Being doing Reality imagination Existence non existence Voluntry involuntary Let go hold on Let be resist Let go control Similar different Unity seperation Reality illusion I hope you enjoy it as much as i did and reach new heights : ) At first i felt a little unsure if i should share and feared that it will be ignored and missed. But the thought it could bring benefit to someone really convinced me that i should post. Thank you so much for reading.

@Zephyr I believe what you are describing is mindful meditation, which is beautiful and i'm also practicing it : ) But the process i'm describing is a type of self inquiry, which is different in a sense that you are investigating actively into your own mind by asking questions. Watch Leo's video on how to become enlightened to learn more ; )

@brovakhiin Thank you for highlighting such an important matter for me : ) i guess having some experience in meditation allows you to get a sense of it. But interestingly enough when i say "nothing" to you, it's quite clear to you as a concept. The NOTHING you are talking about is something in between, and it's exactly what we might get a glimpse of by spinning these concepts. See that whenever you say no self, nothing, non existence you are quite sure that you know what i'm talking about and the fact that it's so, means that you are believing that you know what they are. this is the power of the grand illusion (maya) : ) Keep raising you doubt and keep asking and inquiring deeply!

so i will return your question and ask you this: how do you know for a fact that it's wrong. (also wrong-right what a tricky duality it is, let's add it to our list : ) the thing is that it's not impossible, but is that it's irrelevant in the first place, and arises out of a need to understand what cannot be understood. ask yourself, what is a "question" what is an "answer" are there even right answers? isn't it basically noise? It's good because it's useful to us. We as humans need conventions, so that we know for example where to meet. (although coordinates don't exist but just a measurement instrument glued onto reality) Thanks to it, i could tell you: "no don't go there it's a bad place." and isn't it wonderful that you would know what i'm talking about?

@Telepresent Imagine a back yard and a fence separating your side and your neighbor's side. Is the fence yours or is it his? Or are the two the different sides of a single fence. Also the other is always implied by the first. Lets say that saying that something is beautiful implies that there's also ugliness They are inseparable and in fact one, but our mind sees things as separate. I suppose it's an ancient mechanism of survival. For example the ability to separate objects from background gives us the abilty to identify them. But there's no real seperation. We see good and bad as things that might be beneficial or dangerous. It's a good thing, but as any other good thing too much of it is starting to cause confusion.

Through deep self inquiry it occurred to me that we as humans like our language and we give a lot of meaning to words. So when we try to get a good feeling of our presence it might be useful to know all the back doors through which the ego is evading our awareness. I'm working on a list of all the words that the ego will try to use in order to stay hidden. For example: "if im not I, then i am myself". Later this list will help you in the initial phase of getting in touch with the feeling of I So i ask for your insights into this by helping me expend my list. The many masks and backdoors of the false self: I Me Myself Someone Someone's Person Man Human Presence Being Conscious attention Experincer Preciever Awareness Thinker A body A mind Owner Organism Electrochemical activity Life Individual Thank you very much, i would love to hear your opinions and experiences : )

@cetus56 Like a father that left his children to play in the sand box. So we build castles of concepts to form new models of reality, trying to impress everyone, and hear that our castle is the best, and all others are stupid and suddenly an older kid comes and destroys it all. We keep building again and again throwing sand in the wind arguing which castle is better, mine or yours, until we get so tired of it. That we look aroud and see that we are in the most amazing amusement park we've ever seen.

@Ayla I think we are losing ourselves in words. The whole point of this post was to see that being attached to words can support confusion. Believe that belief is false. Just like the old paradox: This sentence is a lie. I think that the existence of such paradoxes in logic suggests it's falt. We transcend logic here. So let past be past : )

@charlie2dogs Anything I would say including this very sentence cannot be the right answer. As I said before I don't know that i don't know. Following this arises the question what is "to know"? Or can you know anything at all? But i guess we gotta keep asking till the mind is convinced that it can't answer. Mine still thinks it can so that persistence is what i would call ego.