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HAHAHAHAHA This is so good

I am dying of laughter rn Laughing out of your mind is an amazing experience omg! Laughing out of my heart is even better :D:D:D because it is a self sustaining laughter, at some point you laugh because you laugh and just BURST :D:D:D

I feel a hole in my entire body

Lose your mind and let it assimilate, that you are God, Consciousness. You literally have the best seat in the house. You're inside pure art. Stop and look: every picture you see is like a Picasso painting, but only 2747382746728474627 times better, because you are there, looking at it. Letting it be. Peace. Art wants to be seen, so it's your job to look and assimilate this beauty.

The first word came from no mind You have to learn words to use them. You have to learn truth, to use it.

I am expressing the present moment, join me!

Everybody is expressing their inner world, whether it is unconscious or not.

Dive deep into that inner world and find yourself there. Save yourselves from doom.

@Sevi Wow, the meditation went smoothly here too, I was enquiring and felt free. I went on to doing visualisations, drew the Om symbol as if I was drawing on paper (I have been practising to draw it nicely) then watched it, all the while enquiring. Tried doing REM, expecting to induce a dream, but I guess im doing it better in sleep Now I am sitting on a tree and it is so peaceful around here. Wonderful!

REMINDER: 20 minutes till the start time

I've watched it before, but didn't really see how big this is.

I actually picked up on that when he talked about subject and object, but that is not a reason to claim whether he had a deeper understanding or not. He is giving a talk, there is a certain audience he is talking to, so the deeper things that one can only discover for themselves he might have wisely left out as to not to confuse his audience. After all he was not a Guru, he proclaimed himself as a spiritual entertainer

Enlightenment is the end of suffering, not a psychedelic experience / something flashy

Yes indeed, the question Am I aware that Rupert suggest is actually in essence the same, that's why I said it's self enquiry with different scents, resonating to different conditionings! It's beautiful

Yes, as it leaves room for the mind to take and interpret. That is exactly why I like Ramanas original teaching way more even though all points to the same awareness free of thought. If one doesn't know how to stay as pure awareness, that means mind is there and needs to be untied. The one doing the untying is the mind itself, but you are the one that sprinkles the seeds @electroBeam

This is Self enquiry, it is the direct path. Many spiritual teachers have made self enquiry with their own scent - like Mooji. They point to the same thing. I've been raving about Ramana's self enquiry for the last couple days because it's in my opinion the best version, because it gives the mind a proper suicidal practise while you are allowed to look at yourself. The thought Who am I destroys all other thoughts, because you actively detatch from what pops up in your awareness as thought and try to go towards that awareness which is you, but the moment you make that into an object "There I am", you are already the one who is looking at that too. Holding the I, the apparently "personal awareness" clear of thought is actually Ramana's teaching, but Who am I is used to stop the mind when it tries to attach to something.

Well why not be spontaneous and make it both today and tomorrow I mean whoever wants to join, whichever day you're free, it's fine, we don't really need to plan that much!!! 1800GMT today and tomorrow sounds good! Anyone that can make it - great!

Hey yeah i'm up for it!

Wisdom bomb from my fav show.

Would you believe me if I told you this is your ego's attempt to handwave it's own illusory nature?

Enlightenment is not about achieving Enlightenment, it is about un-achieving falsehood. What best way to cut through falsehood, than to cut through the root that feeds the tree of falsehood? If someone cuts branch by branch, they indeed will need to have a lot of patience. Egoic thoughts are delusion. You know they are delusion, because they claim to be thought by you. That cannot be the case, because you are simply seeing thoughts popping up in your awareness now. So we do not need suppress egoic thoughts, no, they will pop up ofcourse! This is good, because if they didn't pop up, you wouldn't be able to follow them to their source and observe that entity which the thoughts so silently claim is you. Egoic thoughts do not mean "I want bla bla", egoic thought is any thought which you strongly feel is coming from You, even though you have 0 evidence for it in your own experience. The goal is to cut that one, that one is the Ego. I hope my understanding is helping you in a non-vague way. Finding the root is the tricky bit, but you have a lot of help for that given to you by all those enlightened masters out there! Just get stuck in and go for it

I can agree with that

Better to say, look away from the thought by holding awareness on the awareness that attaches to the stream of thoughts

it's bad advise, because it's not him that is thinking in the first place to stop, just sayin