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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

It sounds very plausible to me, more so after my experiences that included angels. That bright light, which probably everybody knows is a common story about what happens at the time of death is exactly what I was seeing few days ago as I was experimenting with the Sun's light. I saw tunnels with light at the end, even though I did not feel at all that I was dying. I was simply self-enquiring and I was following whatever the light wanted to show me. It felt like the light is some sort of a program that is coding me as a being. Then, I saw a tiny angel float from the light, as if it was the light. I also saw magnificent angelic silhouettes drawn from the bright white light that was shining at the end of one tunnel. Anyone? I can't believe a previously hardcore Atheist (such as my Ego ) is now talking about Angels and Jesus Christ. I still see how this can be a projection of our minds, but so is "normal" reality right? If hallucinations can be this real, then there is no problem for reality to be a hallucination lol.

From what I'm reading it seems like she is just the voice of fear. That 37 year old that she mentions "thought" she moved past her trauma, but meditation uncovered the truth. She couldn't handle the truth. Same with the writer of the piece. I have heard that meditation can be bad for people with mental health issues, because it uncovers just that - their mental issues. It uncovers it in order to get transcended, but some Egos decide to run instead of facing their fears. I think they just need to get grounded in the now, they need some Eckhart Tolle!

Ok, but the stress I wanted to put was that you should put your attention more on the space rather than the objects. This will in turn tune your mind. Right now itt is addicted we can say to putting extra attention on the objects, the things. If you can consciously retrain your mind to notice the 99%+ of empty space rather than the 1%- of stuff, then the objects will not longer be dragging your attention wherever they lead. Attention is a currency. Don't spend it on the 1%

Let me contemplate a bit. These are my thoughts and I don't claim it's true, but makes sense in my own mind. You wanted an intellectual answer anyway so don't be surprised if it's complete bs ? Perhaps because there is no you to be aware of them and no "their perspective", because there is no them either. There is also no you to be aware of "your" experience, there's just what's happening, with no-one that it's happening to. It's a who's experience, but objectively, not subjectively. You are no longer a subject when you see that the who's experience, the I, is simply an experience happening to nobody and therefore that nobody is God, the creator. It's not you with your limited name and form. We are all but avatars of the supreme nothingness. Hallucination is the lower self, nothingness is the higher self. And you are both and neither. Is no-one big or small? It can be seen as nothing or as everything, since everyone's true nature is that they are no-one, so every who's or subjective experience is happening in no-one or nothing or emptiness. Is your experience in space and time? What does space and time exist in? If it's in something, what does that something exist in? Could there be a separate "I" beyond space and time? For separation you need the illusion of Space and time which in term produces separate subjective experiences What we are left with now is just the illusion of a subject made out of matter (the body) or the more advanced, but still illusory - a subject made out of mind. A subject that exists subtly. This is where we most are. The true Self alone doesn't have a subjective experience, because it is all that is, it can only be. ?

This post caught my attention, because I am now trying to incorporate peripheral vision to my enlightenment work. I am peripherally aware in that way of the nothingness beyond what even my peripheral vision can see, which is like peripherally seeing what I project as the ultimate, or God, or Source. Perhaps you are too interested in looking at forms. Try to soften your gaze and view the static infront of objects instead. I will give you a video that might change your life. All the best!

Deepest gratitude for sharing this song. It's bathing my whole being with bliss and joy.

^ This is my experience with the Sun. I hadn't mentioned that prior to that I was praising and worshipping the Sun (and stars in general) as Jesus Christ, as the Lord, as my God, my deeply related ancestor, the maker of every element in my body even from a scientific point of view. Perhaps we are overlooking the most obvious. We are light! The children of Light are Light.

I had a dream once that a huge huge snake eats up one of my colleagues at work. I think snake would represent Kundalini no? The guy was always with really good spine posture btw. I was in this swamp place with 2 of my colleagues inside the dream. I was further away and first saw the snake. But I was so afraid, because I didn't know it's a dream. So there I was, I could have shouted to save their lives, but instead I couldn't speak out of fear. Then the snake ate one of my colleagues while the other escaped. After that I tried to hide, so I entered some underground whole and stayed there It was more scary than the snake.

What's the sound of one hand clapping? Could it be slapping ???