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If you're in prison, why not escape

Yeah and maybe asking yourself who is meditating more often if you haven't yet @Simon Håkansson

To me being addicted to meditation is like being addicted to water. Some things are ok ???✌

Literally me when I read it. Just not as cute. @Natasha I'm very happy to hear ? Today I cried too much, first there was this documentary of a woman that endured concentration camp and now this ?? happy endings. She outlived Hitler, you outlived cancer. Just awesome.

I can give you teachers, you can watch as many videos as you need: Rupert Spira, Mooji, Leo and recently Bentinho. Oh, and of course.. Ekhart Tolle! And Ramana Maharshi, don't know how I forgot @egoless I like this one I just found if you cant find any short mooji vids. But I love watching entire satsangs too, its lovely. @egoless

Watch this from the 14 minute mark, it should answer your question.

This video illustrates the deeper truth of awareness - imo watching this should give an awakening on the level of mind at the very least. Continue your practices and enjoy! Namaste fellow spiritual junkies ?

I don't know. What is enlightenment but end of suffering by knowing your true nature? The rest is dream, be it "physical" or beyond.

I don't see prosperity and God as mutually exclusive. For me, with the proper education in looking inwards, materialism is not a problem at all. I like having money, otherwise my dream would be a nightmare. I don't like having nightmares, even if I dont identify with them.

One can be enlightened and not spiritual (most are). But why.. Spirituality is fun :-D Did you see in Bentinho's drawing, spirituality was written out as the infinity symbol... For me you need spirituality to realise you are enlightened and for that to make sense on a deep experiential level.

Unless your karma is a lot of pain. Don't want to close my eyes for the many starving and homeless for whom it seems life is not built around. Only for the few lucky to get born or live in a first-second world country. If you live in say Bulgaria(well its not the best example but close), your higher self will have a bit tougher time manifesting you a job so you better hurry.

Top 3 for me currently (but most of the spiritual books out there are great!): The power of now- Ekhart Tolle (as you mentioned) The end of your world - Adyashanti Being beyond belief - Mike George (currently reading this one and it is letting me become aware of my false beliefs)

I found this video extremely clear and profound. I think Roger really deserves to have more of an audience, because his videos are always of the highest standards and he seems like an amazing teacher.

Suffering is the fire which put me on the path, staying on the path because of curiosity and desire to know who is on the path or off the path in the first place. I.e. exploring myself

However being, or being aware is limitless. From my inquiry it looks like I am not that which appears in nothingness, but the nothingness itself. Now I need to stop talk and be a good student

Samsara has egos, reality has truth is my opinion. What is the pineal gland but a concept in awareness. If you're the pineal gland in your experience thats interesting. Not gonna do your inquiry for.you,im far from a teacher, I am a bad student still

I want to add here, dont stop at what your feeling is. Now investigate who is having this feeling. Ego is not my interest, my interest is knowing who I am existentially.

That might be true if there was evidence for a body other than the knowing of it. The sense of having a body is clearly inside your awareness. This is the paradigm problem again

I told you I am not investigating ideas, but the one to whom the ideas appear. Thats the essense of my inquiry. Let me give you a taste of one of my favourite type of self inquiry : I like to visualise something with closed eyes (from as simple as a dot, to a face or whatever) and then contemplate what is seeing that. It's like the eyes trying to see themselves. Then I simply hold awareness on that presence that is seeing the object of visualisation, because I've found that this is the best mirror I can put in front of it, as it cannot be seen as an object, as it is always the subject. Putting awareness on awareness is the best mirror for awareness to know itself. I do this also with sounds "Who hears?", sensations, etc, everything can be used for this practice. If you hold a mental image of truth or who you are, dont be interested in that. Be more interested in the one to whom they appear.

There is only the present moment, nice try though hehehe! Initial inertia for what... I am always aware. Ego is only an illusion, it's just as real as Santa

OH i am aware of the truth. Thats when maturing begins. If you are aware that you are aware you are aware of the truth

I've never taken psychedelics and my first trip will be end of this year(but not 5meo) . Leo has stated that taking meo is like taking a concentrated dose of awareness as far as I can remember. You become more aware, more yourself - probably because it's removing the fog of ego (ego death). Who knows - a dream substance helping a dream entity to transcend the dream doesnt sound so outrageous to me! I started doing spiritual practice to improve the quality of my life, but to be honest now it is just super interesting to do this investigation into my true nature.

There is a sense/feeling of self or I-ness, sensations, but that is also seen in the wider space of awareness which encapsulates my entire experience, which also includes any and all identifications with subtle form I might still have -as long as it doesnt remain an unconscious belief. You are asking about the content of my experience when you should stop asking and practice for yourself. It's a process of dissolving, it's not instant, that's why it requires practice. It's only the beginning for me. To new beginnings!

Nobody is enlightened @egoless The practice to find you are nobody is Self inquiry

That would depend on your paradigm. If you believe the thought (even unconsciously) that you are the body-mind, there is an outside you and you are a spec of dust in an infinite universe. This in my view is the dream.