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You and God heheheh

This. Also I want to add that becoming aware of awareness is like building new muscles. At first it may look like nothing special or that you're not doing anything, but if you do it diligently and long enough, the results cannot do anything else but sneak up on you. @Ilya Also with this analogy, at first it may be a pain in the ass to do it, but later it becomes the most joyful thing to work out.

The experiencer: Awareness, no form, nothing. The experienced: What I am aware of in the present moment, currently including but not limited to being a body-mind living in a world of form, my present moment everything. The experiencer is real, but nothing - Yin The experienced is a dream, but everything - Yang The experiencer and the experienced are one - Yin Yang

Before going to sleep? Do you mean while going to sleep? Well, it usually starts with a visualisation (anything) and I hold continuous awareness on the empty seer, which is me. When time I did this few days ago I experienced flashes of light and later in sleep paralysis I experienced the weirdest freakiest super real thing of my sheets moving as if they are alive

I like self enquiry while going to sleep. What better time to see who you are than when you are free to completely let go of all your tensions etc. I find the previous posts quite helpful, I'll also incorporate some of those things before a formal sitting.

I find myself hugging trees and placing my hand on them, feeling their immense being. Also my hands feel so tiny compared to their magnitude. Teach me stillness trees, love you

I want to give 10 reputations...

I recently feel tingling around that area. I've done quite a bit if third eye meditation that Prab posted above. But had recently stopped it due to fear of hell.

May I suggest that you are always aware effortlessly. You are just not aware that you are aware usually. As Leo mentioned, as you go deeper in self-enquiry you will find that awareness is actually no thing or nothing. Now isn't that fucking interesting????? That, which knows everything in your experience, you, is nothing... Now that's trully worth investigating further.. What could be more interesting?? Something that at the same time is and is nothing. Like wtf, this is sooooooooo interesting and what's best about it, its always there for you to contemplate, because it is you.

I saw this one couple days ago. It's new http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/07/29/stunningly-complex-new-crop-circle-appears-in-cley-hill-warminster-july-18-2017/

Do you think crop circles are trying to communicate something?

I love my mudras, I had bought a nice set of mudra cards and been doing them for like two months now. I'm going to check out and learn some more from the link you posted, thanks!

I teared up a little today when watching the first episode of a kid's show called "Dogstar". "After thousands of years of wars, pollution, undrinkable water and silly cartoon shows, humans are forced to leave Earth and move everything and everyone to a new planet: New Earth. But not everything goes to plan when the Dogstar, a giant space ark containing all of the world's dogs, becomes lost in space. On New Earth, the evil Bob Santino makes his fortune selling canine replacement units, Robogs, and plots to ensure the Dogstar is never found. But the Clark kids desperately miss their real dog, Hobart, and begin a quest through space to find the Dogstar - with Bob in hot pursuit."

Hi Waterfall. You seem far too deep in spirituality for depression to have a soil to grow in. Don't worry. Watch it play its course, in the meantime go deeper into who you are. There's infinite depth to nothingness. It is everything. You are everything.

"The great science of living happy is to live only in the present." -Pythagoras

My translation of some profound Giordano Bruno quotes I just found in a Bulgarian book of wisdom quotes (If you have the originals, please share): "If the world has an end and beyond it there is nothing, then I ask: Where is the world? Where is that which encompasses? What shall you accept beyond the world? If you say: There's nothing there - then heaven and earth are located in nothing, therefore they are not located anywhere." "Everything is in everything" "The world is a greatness, which has everywhere it's center and circumference."

As I was going to sleep yesterday an was "resting as awareness" I saw two short glimpses of intense light, as if I hit a spot where a light bulb switched on for a moment?! After this I was dreaming something... Or was I? I became more and more aware that I am half asleep in bed and while still with closed eyes I felt everything was moving, as if it was alive. My sheets were moving and also it felt like I was trying to get outside of my body. It felt too weird and scary so I opened my eyes and everything returned to normal. I swear this all felt super paranormal and real. Oh boy! Anyone had similar experiences? Ps: Also now out of nowhere these lyrics are stuck in my head: "I keep going to the river to pray, cause I need something that can wash all the pain..." without listening to it recently. Last night I did fall in a spontaneous prayer in front of one Jesus statuette at home asking to know who I am and to be forgiven... Wow.. This trip to Bulgaria is getting interesting from day 1.

Why not transcend it in the middle or the start? What is this end? It's always now. Now is the only point Ego can be transcended. We are not using Ego in my experience, we are deeply identified with something we are not and that is Ego (what I think I am right now). I am only beginning to wake up. Pardon me if you're operating on another level which I'm yet to understand.

You jump to conclusions. I asked you whether truth has to be useful, i did not claim truth is not useful or that truth is useful. Maybe there is no purpose and everything just is the way it is, because it is the way it is. Maybe you need to begin dropping your rigid concepts? Or maybe not. You decide. I am giving my view. Contemplate what is it in you that is so attached to your view being ultimately correct. Why do things have to have a point? May I suggest that it is exactly Ego that wants hierarchies, structures, progress, achievements, enlightenment or to be spiritual in some magical way. Who says being an average person who does nothing is not in itself magical enough to be called spiritual? Ps: I am also contemplating the feeling in me that is urging me to respond and defend my point of view, because I see it as true from where I stand. I acknowledge it's hard to see your own beliefs as false unless you really look at who you Trully are.

Useful for what? I dont understand what do you mean, does the truth have to be useful for something? What do you mean by me making everything relative? Im just saying how I see it from my point of view. What else could I do? For me spirituality is Being. From that point of view Everything is Being, therefore Everything is spiritual. You are free to have and pursue other definitions of spirituality however, for which not everything is spiritual. It all depends on your definition. I am arguing my point, you are arguing your point, but we obviously mean different things when we think of the word Spirituality. That's why we disagree. Doesn't make one of us more right than the other, unless there is an absolute definition of Spirituality.

The peaceful warrior is one of the first books about spirituality that I have read, it was awesome.

Awareness means to know, but not only to know /something/. It means to know the presence (existence) /of something/. I have not made the clear connection between the two until today after contemplating my experience and re-watching a ton of Rupert Spira videos. Inspiration for the following hit me in the shower - then it must be good! When we say, "I am aware of something" we are actually saying "I know the presence of something in my present field of perception" In the following: { } indicates subject (perceiver); [ ] indicates object (perceived); <=> means equivalent {I} am aware of [a tree] <=> {I} know the presence of [a tree] {I} am aware of [thoughts] <=> {I} know the presence of [thoughts] {I} am aware of [sensations] <=> {I} know the presence of [sensations] etc.. And now the good part, which is important to be practiced through various self enquiry methods: {I} am aware <=> {I} know a presence (when not moving out toward an object) {I} am aware of awareness <=> {I} know the presence of a knowing presence (no object) {I} am awareness <=> {I} am a {knowing presence} (no object) If you prove that you are a knowing presence within your self enquiry, you have proven that you are awareness. Now be who you are. Do you know experientially the presence of a knowing presence in your experience right now? Yes, I'm talking to you, Atman!

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