Ishanga

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  1. This has all been explained and realized way before You and I ever existed physically on this planet, these sorts of questions have been around for a very long time. Just do some research, Reality is not imagination, that is Your Mind playing tricks on you, combined with an Ego complex that say only "I' exist. Your subjectivity is Yours alone, everything You experience happens within You, so in a way only "I" exists, but we can see that there is others, other ppl, places and things, that exist whether You or I are here to perceive it, its just we can experience Oneness very profoundedly within ourselves, just don't mix this up with the egoic "I" that we all use to survive within a society...We are not the "I" or individual body/mind, but we have to deal with it all while here on this planet and dual existence of sorts...Love is just an emotion, you want it because its very sweet and pleasant, whatever ppl are deprived of they want, some want Love, some want Power, some want Fame, some want Realization...Realization is the highest desire and want...
  2. God is infinite Inclusiveness, expressed via infinite forms which create diversity, its all on levels of perception and reality.
  3. I wouldn't say that bodies and minds are "Pure" Imagination, this is top level down sort of thinking and realizing, top level down is non duality teachings and Ramana and such things, where there is only one existence, one reality and only permanent things exist, everything else is considered non existence because its non permanent, but drop a brick on your foot and tell us what it feels like and if that pain is imagined lol...you won't do it because you know its going to hurt...
  4. Yes agreed, Enlightenment is in a way just the beginning, it brings us to a Realization, true Enlightenment means one loses their Individuality, now this realm we are on here on this planet is all about Individuality, Diversity, Duality and sorts, of course there are places of Oneness and such, but this is what this realm is about, when one reaches the State of Enlightenment they will lose that, their gone bodily/mentally, and merge with oneness, concsiousness and all that. But there are those Masters/Guru's we label them that are there as well but still Embodied and here dealing or creating Karma and know the mechanics of Life and how it all connects. I'm connected with Sadhguru, he is one of them, there may be more, but no public figures like him..they are help to help balance out things and bring anyone willing to strive to go thru the Enlightenment process as well...
  5. There are others, other bodies, other minds, we as Humans just have the ability to feel/experience Oneness, in a physical way we show by hugging, cuddling, and other such acts, but actors do this all the time with others but have no personal or real feelings towards the others, its just an experience Your having, which is good and fine, just don't make it about "I". When I went thru these states it was just about having Bliss, having Oneness of Experience, everything is me, I am everything, then trying to share it, either one takes it in and accepts it or doesn't, that doesn't involve me. Only in the realm of Oneness, where all possibility exists, there is no individuality there, but here there is, we just have the capability of making our fundamental experience that of Oneness, will still embodied and dealing with everyday life and having to survive another day...
  6. @Scholar You only want Love because it is pleasurable, you avoid pain because it causes suffering over time, non pleasureable, Peace is 0 on a scale of 0-10 on the pleasure scale of intensity, Love is about 7, Bliss is 9, Esctasy is 10, devotion is above Love, its 8 I would say:)
  7. No its not that, Loving Yourself, needs two entitites, the one loving and the thing being loved, this is egoic, creating two inside of You, the mind can create two or a million, so logically it doesn't work, especially for Spiritual purposes, it just sounds to me that Your just in great spirits, and love is pouring out of You, which is what we all should be feeling all the time, it has nothing to do with Loving Yourself lol.. that is just modern day new age BS which is full of holes, half truths and leads one further away from Truth and Reality..
  8. Everthing Your 5 senses bring into Your brain, especially the intellectual stuff from hearing and seeing, from videos, books, lectures and so forth, it may be reality and truth from whomever it is coming from, but its a story for You, this is where belief begins and leads us down roads we shouldn't go, only when its a real experience for You alone does it become reality and not a story of sorts..Ultimate reality is "God", but there are levels to reality that come when material/physical existence and duality come into play. If all we ever had was God realization as our experience, humans would not exist or care about surival in any way, therefore we have those living like animals today and those living like Gods today, levels of experience and realization are definitely the reality, we are possibility/potentiality machines, its our ability to use our Free Will to decide with Awareness how we want to be and how Realized we are here and now..
  9. I think most everything is pseudoscience today, the normal scientific community is corrupted by corporations, they only research and present findings that enhance the corporations sponsoring their projects. Whatever Science comes up with today, they report as this is the way it is, then 10 yrs later they find out pretty well none of it is reality or truth, but they explain it away as they are always researching and find out if their theories are true or not, but with ego's present they identify and fall into the trap of believing, I see it happening all the time, and her is Wolfgang Smith, world reputed Mathmatican and Phycists saying the samethings about modern day scientist and science in general, its mostly all BS..
  10. If Your into Chi Kung, I used to teach Wing Chun, it has a basic form of chi kung attached to it but its not what it is there for, research Adam Chan, he's a high level Martial Artist, one of the best I have seen, modern day Bruce Lee but better in many ways, he's gotten to the point of Spiritual Realization, where he no longer has to practice Martial Arts forms or specifics, but mostly now only practices chi kung, and it has brought him to a new level of actualization, just thought to share it for since Your into Chi Kung, he's out of Vancouver Canada, very good guy:)
  11. @Circassia To Rostov We have a natural fear of pain, especially this sort of pain that is intentionally inflected upon someone by another. Why does it happen? Because the Torturer is not feeling any sort of connection to the one being tortured, simple as that, most of the ppl of the world live like this but are not at that sort of extreme level of disconnect. Belief can be dangerous, but we are on a internet forum where all we have is logic, intellect to communicate with, so I do believe in reincarnation, there's lots of evidence of it, but Enlightenment is the end of the cycle of birth/death on a physical level for sure. There may be other realms above this, that is all debateable, we are here now in this realm and have to make the best of it. Don't live via belief or past/future memory/imagination POV, just be in the Now, you can learn and become wise from the past and plan for the future, but if You are in fear that means You living in the future, which does not yet exist, so that in itself is a form of insanity. just find some method or practices, stay with it, get to a point of Peace within Yourself, don't bother with notions of Enlightenment, Reincarnation and such things, just be at Peace with what is, then go on from there naturally...
  12. Just because You have a feeling of Oneness within Yourself, which is the only place you can have it, in the end everything is subjective because all experience happens within You, at the sametime we are just individuals, with individual bodies and minds, that can have Enlightening experiences but there is an objective world out there, separate from our individual body/mind complex, no matter how your inner experience is, others are not having it or may never have it, so in most ways you cannot manipulate others or things outside yourself, although I have researched that this is also possible on some Guru/Master levels, like a jedi of sorts, but most ppl that realize Enlightenment also lose their individuality Body/Mind complex as well, only Guru/Master level types stay on in my understanding. So the key to it all is that our potential/possbility within ourselves and everyone is the same, if we make the fundamental experience that of Oneness/Connectedness/God Realization, then the world would be a better place, right now the opposite is true, most everyone has an experience of Separation and Division, this is due to wrong identification, they think/believe they are the body/mind which is all individualistic, not God Realization experience...
  13. @Davino Well yes but its not the Ego directly that is the problem, its believing or experience it as You, so we have to get more fundamental, if all of us had no Ego, then how would you deal with other ppl, other personalities and identities and situations, its bad enough as it is, but with no ego's, I don't know really how it would be, its a tool and something to use to function in society better, I think either if we had no ego then we would be in a sense of oneness and bliss all the time and our species would not have survived this long or it would have continued to be chaos and such war like environments all the time everywhere and hence again would would not have survived as long..What is saving us is laziness, ppl are addicted to media, internet, entertainment and drugs/Booze, it causes problems but the vast majority are out of touch and do nothing with their lives, hence why we have a lonliness problem as well...
  14. Ego is needed in a society, it is neither good or bad, like Your body or mind complex it is a tools of sorts, when alone drop it, but it is not You, identifying with it like I said is the problem, identifying with things You are not leads us to where we are today...
  15. @Scholar Are You really Loving Yourself, or are you Blissed out? I think You are Blissed Out, this isn't Love for Yourself, but just a great intensity of pleasure. When I read what You wrote, it is great that You are feeling intense pleasure within, that You see Love as a vehicle for making this world a better place for all, but when I read I just love myself, I can just hug and cuddle myself, this makes me cringe lol, it become egoic and narsasstic in nature, it becomes about the shell of the body and mind complex. Stick to the great intense feeling of pleasure, and love You want to express to other, get rid of these feelings of I and cuddling self and such things, it gets you too trapped into yourself, just express Your love to others as much as possible, make them the priority, but its a process for sure, good going, glad for You:)
  16. He's basically talking about Dharana the sixth limb of yoga. This is one pointed focus, first on a object of choice, you practice this (after completing/mastering the first 5 before the 6th step), then afterwards your focus is just there, and can be maintained at will, when this happens then comes contemplation with no judgements, after this comes Samahdi where You experience oneness for periods of time, there are like 7 different kinds of Samahdi, nothing new in what he is saying...
  17. @Keryo Koffa Natural Happiness, where it is your base state, which is what we are made for is not good for the Economic system we have set up in the world today, being naturally Happy means less buying of goods and services, food and shelter do not make up the majority of the economy, plus being Happy keeps us healthier and big pharma would lose out big time and their one of the top industries world wide (2 trillion + yearly), so we are conditoned to be miserable in many ways, its better for Business...
  18. @Breakingthewall The word "God" is a bad word to use, it has too many misinterpretations, and individual definitions nowadays. When I hear that word, what pops into my head is the God of the bible, a supreme being of sorts in another realm that is the creator of the universe and supposedly loves every human but demands you obedience and wants you to love him, which is nuts...much better to use the word Life, Source, Grand Intelligence, Brahaman, as its non personified and not about judgement or slavery...
  19. We have to realize that existence, both material and non material, physical and non physical is happening on many levels and layers, when You say "I am Everything", what do you mean by this? Your Body is not my Body, your Mind (its patterned thoughts, ideas, concepts, experiences, memory, etc) is not my mind, so first define what this "I" is.. On the most fundamental Level we are all the same, we are Life, some call this Soul, Source, God, Intelligence, etc,, but that is the fundmental. Life is what allows all of this material and non material existence to happen, whether it is in the form of a plant, tree, insect, human, or ghost, spritual realm that is not seen or sensed, this is what Life is, as Human Beings on this planet we have the most ability to be Conscious and Aware of this within ourselves, when one does become Aware of it that is what we label/call as Enlightened. But we are Embodied with a Body/Mind complex, and we live in Dual world, where Paradox can live. Onnesss, the source of the Spritual realm, is where all possibility lives, but there is no Individuality/duality to perceive like we have on this Earth and plane of existence. So although we can experience Oneness within Ourselves, and eventual meld with it completely (when we do we lose our individuality), before that we live on various levels and layers of Reality. Its only a matter of how Conscious/Aware one is, how close the Truth they are living/experiencing within the only Moment that exist which is Now.
  20. On the most fundamental level we are all the same, we all breath, desire, have egos, and even more fundamentally we are all Life, but on other levels, like the level we are functioning at here on this forum, we are NOT the same, as it is all ideologies, concepts and mental games and egos at play here. So when it comes to general things like how to know the true nature of what we are, we can say certain things/methods apply to ALL, like are you sitting right, breathing right, thinking right, understanding right, being now right or past/future orientated, etc... but we specifics, like what is the nature of this thing we label as Infinity, there are no answers anyone can give you to leads to truth, it is something you can not understand, but you can experience..Understanding intellectually is only to develop curiousity within the Spritual path so one eventually does the real work or Sadhana to know Truth that is always within themselves..
  21. @Keryo Koffa Your trapped in Your mind, thinking pattern way too much, your thinking about Life, not living Life, experiencing Life as it is, just thinking, which is an endless loop of meaningless thoughts generated from the societies garbage bin we call our minds...
  22. Infinity, like the World, is just an idea that is in your mind, via education, learning words, ideologies, culture and so forth. Ppl here and all over talk about the "World", and "Ppl believe this or that, or are doing this or that", this is just a strong idea you have, its not reality in allot of ways, its your 5 senses bringing into Your conditioned Mind information, via Your conditioning you come up with ideologies to explain away what it all means, but You or I do not know the reality of it. So don't concern Yourself with "Infinity" what it is, what it means, because when someone comes with an answer, its just another idea or story for you to include in your Mind. Just be the highest potential that you can be, you'll never get there asking more and more questions, and receiving answers from outside sources. all the answers to the most important questions are within you, find the place where the answers are and all questions disappear...
  23. Danger has always been present in Human history, it is just now we are more enabled via science and technology than ever, before it was only a handful of ppl that could have been hurt or killed in a village somewhere, but now that the economy is so connected, or with our nuclear weapons that when somone goes off the rails that has power, we can all suffer for it. What to do about it? Well first don't take yourself, or your life too too seriously, take it serious when need be, provide food, shelter the basics for yourself and family, but in the end, even when going out to get to work if you live in a urban environment, there is danger, so life is very fragile, don't take it so serious that you become sick or bitter/angry over it, Second, make Yourself into what you want to see in the world, live a Joyful and Healthy life within each moment, don't suffer or create suffering within Yourself because there are others suffering, just be the highest possibility that You can be now, then go about your business, influencing those that are around you that can see your living a high possibility life...
  24. Spiritual Path has nothing to do with Your Emotions, Emotions come from Mind, You are not the Mind or Body. Body comes from Food/Earth, Mind from your 5 senses which are survival tools, Spirituality is about coming intouch with that aspect of You that is non physical in nature, so why would it bring You to a sociapathic path???