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You want to achieve a minimalist lifestyle. Your friends are peer pressuring you into going out for some drinks! What do you say - Namaste or Yamago? Source: Funny conversation with Loreena

No need to reject what comes from the mind, just observe what comes from the mind. See that it's only a blob of dust on top of you, but it doesnt polute you, you are always pure. You allow it to be, with all its unreality, because you're love.

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For me meditation is self enquiry, the two are not different things. Have you heard of the following: Who is meditating? Meditation is not a doing. You ARE meditation. You are already enlightened. What do these point to? I once watched a video with Osho in which he say that meditation on objects is not meditation at all (He talked about mantras /transcendental meditation). Meditation, he said, is when you are alone with yourself. Not lonely, but alone with yourself. Objects removed.

Same here. It's like a dance between Truth and Ego

Self enquiry cuts you off from the stream of mind and stills the mind leaving only you. This is the very process which if used properly can make you forget even a cigarette addiction like it is nothing. It's one of the ultimate self help devices. (My view) Can you see how it works? Whenever you perceive anything, you don't go towards the object, you try to turn towards the one who is perceiving it (you are that), leaving the pattern cut off, it is no longer fed. PS: Mooji calls it marinating in the Self

Me all the time. Deal with them through self enquiry

I found you becus you're freaking everywhere!! Go on a diet pls Jesus

What Toby said. If you want higher consciousness, then you are still identified with the character and happenings in the movie and not with the screen of consciousness, which is a constant and unchanging, is within and without everything, is everywhere at the same time yet it cannot be perceived by the 5 senses.

I want to add to this: Mantra indeed is used to quieten the mind, just as concentration on breath. This, however is only a temporary ailment for mind. If one wants to be forever free from the depths of Ego, one must go for the path of Self enquiry. Self enquiry is to be done whenever possible, not only in a sitting meditation. Any time mind is not required for some task one should enquire as to whom do all these thoughts arise. This is not to be done in waiting for mind to tell you what you are. Mind already has the ultimate definition that it can use - Consciousness, Emptiness, Awareness, etc... The enquiry is to be done by the very You, the deepest sense of You that you can find within you, the very subject of your experience. Find it. Look for the apparent thinker of thoughts and the perceiver of perceptions and see who's looking.

Nothingness is real and is who I am "Split wood, I am there. Lift up a rock, you will find me there." - Jesus

wtf?

You are smaller than the dot after this sentence. You are also smaller than the dot after this sentence. You are the dot after this sentence -- The funny looking statements above are meant to target you, the subjective experiencer. Notice how the last sentence says that you are basically emptiness - this is not news for you, your mind has heard it many times for sure! What I want to be understood is that if anyone has not given up trying to find the Truth with the mind, it is going to be a losing battle. Why? Because I am claiming with 100% certainty that the dot after the last sentence is everywhere all the time, it contains within itself the entire Universe and yet it is smaller than a point. By surrendering mind in this quest we allow simply being to guide us. We are always ourselves, we are always this all pervading One consciousness. We HAVE to drop the mind in order to experience this. The mind is a bottleneck that will keep us stuck in identification with subtle or not so subtle forms. So let us drop it for this enquiry! Mind is stubborn, but you are so much bigger than mind. PS: Watching Mooji and Adyashanti for help is a good way to learn how one can drop the mind and experience oneness.

Don't those who attain enlightenment have the realisation that they never were born in a physical body to begin with xD

I ran out of rep to give for today This is indeed some good spotting right there I love tennis too! I guess The score is 40-Love

I like that you share my excitement and trust in the power of numbers, it's a first on this forum. I always associate mathematics as the ultimate language (a way of finding truth).

@Snick-The ThinkTank Hehehe while I do think this is can be the correct mapping of the truth on paper, this is still not the experiential truth the spiritual teachers try to guide to, but you know that I'm sure. But I'm looking with this type of explaining to be able to show logical minds that there could be something there that can be uncovered and start the self enquiry process! But it is the very self-enquiry process that gives me this mapping, because I am able to get glimpses. Who And so the enquiry continues As Sam Harris says, I have no more control over the next thought I think than the next word you say. Experiencing that "true 0" (awareness, you) free of content (forms in awareness) should be the goal for every spiritual seeker! (And it can only be experienced NOW!!) Go Snick!

I like it that someone understood/read this I think most people have allergy to numbers. Also I was just hit by the realization that if that which I am seeing is illusion, false, that means it is untrue, that means it is a mirage, nothing, 0 ultimately. It is just perceived as something by the true 0 that we are Mindfucking. So everything we see is the untrue nothingness and the one that sees is the true nothingness, but that which we see is still who we are Just the false us in an ultimate sense

Any number n = 0+n (0 is the formless subject, the truth and n is the dream the formless subject is experiencing) How many 0s are there? It is formless and shapeless, it has no qualities, how can there be more than one of something with no qualities? It's pure emptiness, pure emptiness is behind everything (just as I said n can be seen as only n, but it can also be seen as 0+n, if one becomes aware of awareness)

Yeah, exactly, we are the same nothingness\pure awarenesa experiencing two different infinities part of a bigger infinity. But we're identified with the separate body and mind that we observe, which is an infinity itself, that's why it deserves to be! All infinities are made in Absolute infinity's image. Smaller scale. But the awareness is where we all meet into oneness. And only That is true- that and the present moment experience of that awareness. The experience is of something untrue by itself, but its the awareness that makes it true as experience

@Loreena how are you both 0 and true? This is magic

@Loreena Suppose you identify as the infinity between 3 and 4, this is let's say a human. But you see yourself as not infinity, but as 1 (4-3) and you see things other than you - all the numbers outside 3 and 4. It feels like the numbers between 0 and infinity are so much bigger than you, but it only depends on how deep You have gone within yourself. To detatch from form is to observe all the numbers within and without you as awareness. You realise you are not actually a number or a range of numbers, you are a boolean: you shift from the world of complexity to a world of true or false. You are the 0 underneath every form, and that 0 is the only thing you can be sure is true, because it is you. Also true is the experience that 0, that pure awareness is having. Its the numbers that always change, shapeless and formless truth is always the same - both nothing and everything (0 experiencing all infinities simultaneously). Your life is one of those experiences, but you are unmoved and unchanging pure truth. Because you are. In a sense life feels like 0*infinity - undefinable.

I think there are infinite amount of entities Absolute infinity contains within itself an infinite amount of infinities. Lets say absolute infinity is God and the "smaller" infinities contained within the absolute are the different souls, but it goes full circle, so it is always one, always the absolute. Let me prove this with math. Lets count: 1, 2, 3... infinity Between the numbers 1 and 2 there are infinitely many numbers. Between each pair of the infinitely many numbers between 1 and 2 there are also infinitely many numbers. What im getting at is that The number of numbers between 1 and 2 is the same number as the number of numbers between 1 and infinity itself. This means that all infinities are equivalent, the same. All is one!

I have daily meditation, at least 1 hour with HoloSync and additional spontaneous ones without. Sometimes I just continue after HoloSync ends. Sometimes I would miss my daily meditation due to taking weed - which makes me hyperactive and makes me want to do stuff, but it's like after smoking weed I feel one with what I'm doing and feel super present, it feels like I become what my expectations of enlightened person are, but just for a while of course. In such moments you can see me spamming the forum with my "insights" which just come and feel like core and ultimate truths at the time. When I've smoked weed, I feel so much more free, I do things that I wouldn't when sober - I am able to go out and talk to random strangers on the street and engage them in deep conversations and laugh around with them. Not girls, girls would always think you're trying to pick them up and run. I usually talk to black guys, because there's a lot of them here in London and they seem more open to random conversations on the street than white guys. About the second bit: Today when I was waking up I noticed this, I was moving into identification with my form identity, but there was a gap, which I was able to notice, which was free of it!! I was like, what is this - then I felt my body intensely and felt the need to move my head a bit, because it was stiff. It felt like magic that I am suddenly a human.