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Yeah I like that, but that's why I said that they are already in Rome. It's not like just because they don't lead to Rome you shouldn't walk them. There is nothing else to do It's not like the shoe is walking away from the shoe if it walks a path. No... The shoe is the shoe if it walks or if it doesn't. As long as it doesn't look for itself at the end of the road, but it knows it already is the shoe while on the road, it can walk any road it freakin wants! Now that's freedom ps: I took rat poison to find rome at the end of a tunnel, biggest mistake ever. All because I had this belief I am attached to the body being alive. I'm a bad bad ego. Stupid Ego that doesn't know it's already in Rome! So nowhere to go <3 namaste

I hear you, but once you know where to look, every experience can be practice - then we can get soooo much more progress, otherwise, as Leo said, 30mins-1hour a day of meditation isn't enough. It's not like you can forget that the now is here. For me it's about incorporating the practice so you can do it 25/8 whatever is happening. Ofcourse in formal meditation, one can go deeper, but what is deep anyway. If my ego wants to be the "deepest" meditator, perhaps then I would want that. I will quote someone not usually quoted, but he is profound nonetheless - "Follow what excites you" - Bashar Let's say, You're in Rome, but you might still prefer one road in there better than another

How is this true? Is this not one of the human limiting beliefs that we need all the hussle and tussle in order to "deserve" something of value? What if everything is meditation, including the hard and easy paths? What is meditation.. Does any situation exist outside truth? Easy path, Hard path, walking any of those you can still observe and look for the space of knowing in which it happens. Truth is Pathless! The paths are for the movie's sake. The screen is the same always and present in easy or hard paths. @phoenix666I would not say all paths lead to Rome, but perhaps all paths are in Rome already :-D What's left is to surrender to Rome and it's eternal unchanging nature. No matter what. Honing in on the unchanging space of now can be done even while eating cheetos on the couch @cirkussmile its not like the now dissappears when you're not in meditative posture. It can be done even while writing an Actualized.org forum post. It can be done always.

@egoless if aloneness was ultimately that great we probably wouldn't have this illusion of twoness. I have this memory of "death" where I was in this white space, completely alone following a life in which I had strived for it so much, it got delivered and it was my biggest nightmare. Returning to the ones close to me, this desire, made me suffer undescribably. It was hell. I was alone for eternity as far as I knew. It was worse than hell, at least in hell you'd see other souls with the same fate and you won't feel that excruciating pain.

There is no him to be enlightened the story of a "him" is made of thought, "I am content" How do we know thought is not real? It is in time. How do we know time is not real? We don't, but we also dont have evidence if it apart from mind. All we have is this moment in reality and when I say this moment I mean now. Now is empty of all content. The content is made out of mind, because it has a beginning, it changes and has an end. The now empty of all content is the only true reality and the only true self one can be. So even talking about an illusory content being enlightened is to believe that the content has any reality at all apart from being a projection on the screen of Now. Mind is in time Time is in mind They give each other validity and appearant reality.

How to attain the now, it just is, my job is not to stray away from it in thought stories

Yep!

But I have a question here, what if someone is authentically low conscious?

Don't waste it on threads like this ? jkjk

I haven't read this book, but I just had a short insight into "not knowing", so this thread seems to be a good place for it. Insight: The issue is not "not knowing who I am", the real issue is "not knowing that I don't know who I am", because then I cannot find the answer, as I am filling up the answer sheet with my projections and not with the actual answer- me.

I am listening to a lot of C# recently as Bashar has said it is the tone of the Earth ? Will check out link when I get home

Talking about eating ice-cream or analyzing it / writing a PhD on ice-cream will not give you the experience of eating an ice-cream!

Who created my dream last night? It wasn't me, because me as a character in the dream knew nothing of the events about to take place... If my mind created the dream it was definitely my subconscious mind. Could it not be that the same entity- the subconscious (or collective subconscious) is creating our reality (collective dream) right now? Perhaps the subconscious (The creator, God) then is not an aware entity - because it is operating below awareness. Therefore this leaves that it is operating like a program, and perhaps we are the programmers as the light of awareness.

Check out Wim Hof if you want to be more resilient. But you'll probably still have to eat Until we find a way to eat the sun and Leo makes a vid about it

I want to prescribe to you a book! Courage by Osho. It's been a huge boost of confidence for me besides all the amazingly deep wisdoms Osho has to offer in this one. Btw I'm 25, but truly we are all as old as the universe

@haai14 you said it very well - be the moment, not any content in it. The Ego, or the sense of self you take yourself to be is only another content appearing in the wider space of awareness or the now. Go in meditation. Look at videos by Mooji and Rupert Spira for more clarity.

Sorry, you did not ask for self-inquiry, you want mindfulness. Are you interested in self inquiry?

If judging persists, ask yourself, does that space judge any of the experiences within it? Or is it simply another content in that space that is doing the judging? The content in that space cannot be you, because the rest of the experiences are not reporting to that one, they are reporting to you. So yes, you got it

Let thought be there, since it is. Be aware of the thoughts but do not attach yourself to them. You are not the thoughts and also not the one creating the thoughts. They are a phenomenon in your wider awareness, just like any other. See that they appear in the same space of you as do all other sensations. A sound outside and a thought within both appear in your awareness no? What is this place where all your experiences appear? If the answer to said question comes as a thought, it also is not the space itself, since it also appears in it. Be that space, you cannot know it. This is how to connect with the higher Truth.

Mindfulness is the art of allowing whatever is in awareness to be. Gently noticing and not attaching to anything that is noticed. So you may notice it's not only your thoughts there right now,there are also sensations, sights, sounds, feelings. Just observe with detachment, meaning, don't pay more attention to one thing and follow it. Allow all to be there as it appears, but don't go after or try to hold on to anything, which includes thought patterns.

For me, following the wisdom teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Rupert Spira, the best way to deal with the psychological pain associated with physical pain is to acknowledge it's there and surrendering/accepting that it's there (otherwise you are fighting with what is) while at the same time noticing that it is not happening to you, but is simply a happening, it's there, just as valid as any other happening (like your entire ego structure) . And just as subject to change as any other happening. Even looking at the pain more deeply and being interested by what it actually is can be a great tool. "Hello (darkness) pain my old Friend, I've come to talk with you again" Befriend/accept pain, Befriend/accept ego too. Ego thrives on resistance. Ego cannot accept pain, because it is threatened by it, only you can. "Have no enemies " - Jesus

Lol, forgot to mention I too was Atheist and watching Sam Harris I was/am big fan. We have almost identical storyline <3 Soul family?

For me, it was all about lack of money and youtube. I wrote on youtube: How to be happy without money. A video popped up. It was shit basically. But in one of the comments... "Guys, you should check out Eckhart Tolle" The rest is history now!

@Max_V perhaps you're shown mini enlightenment - everything in dreams is simulation. Perhaps also reality is a simulation, but it's a more real simulation. I had a very interesting dream this night. It had to do with my desire for money. The entire dream was so elaborately made that it made me think deeply.... Who the fuuuuuuuuck made this dream. It also felt like a deja-vu! A huge deja-vu at the end when I was running with full pockets. It was also the way it was because of the Ego (Me - Dodo) being the main character, with his likes, dislikes and wants. It felt like the waking me. In fact the dream was so realistic to me that I thought it was reality while it was happening. The first thing I remember was I put 20p in a roulette machine - It was some sort of a fragmented roulette machine where numbers were everywhere and there were blocks that pushed the 20p around until it landed. It landed on 0 - So I lost. The next thing I know, the machine is trying to gobble my 20p, but instead misses the hole and I decide to take the 20p and put it in again to play with. BANK ERROR (thanks, monopoly) occurred. I remember vividly how I remembered within the dream "Wow, I played monopoly just few days ago and I was wondering why these types of errors never happen in real life" - which is a factually correct memory - it was like I was the waking me (ego) more than ever before, the entire dream - connected with my memories, desires and etc. The coins started dropping from the machine at a huge rate, making strong noise, but the guy that worked there either made himself not notice, or he was not hearing well. I started putting all the coins in every pocket I could find. I filled up 4 pockets full of coins and started running out of there. I felt like it could be 1000+ in coins, the prospect of which made me feel very good. Also the prospect of stealing from the thieving casino. So I start running and this fear of getting caught is there, lurking... I have a huge deja-vu feeling. It felt like I've been running in this same place before. I knew there was real danger of getting caught, so while running, this Eckhart Tolle wisdom came to me - to accept all possibilities and surrender to what is. Be ok with not getting caught, be ok with getting caught. It is what is. Or as Osho says: "Gold or no Gold, it's all the same, so always choose the new". I dropped that fear and ran more, I think I escaped. I woke up and I can't believe this was a dream. I thought this actually happened lol, I was so sure and felt so happy I had just won so much cash I bet this here has a lot to do with this dream as I listened to it 2 days ago:

What about this? I have had fears relating to judgement day, which actually fueled my meditation. I would wait on the line for judgement absolutely naked and hated by everyone (which was the worst thing ever). I know how to transcend that now. I will just accept the now Also I have this expectation of God asking one question: What do you know? And I would have to answer with my highest truth... Perhaps I will say, I am nothing