Dodo

When "you" pray to God, it's your body-mind praying to you

I'm never going to give the guy his enlightenment, because it belongs to ME!!! PS to others, whats wrong with being an authentic dick. We do need those! Being part of the same body doesn't mean we are the same part of the same body! PPS: I am a Pinky finger, pinky promise PPPS: All spiritual teachers are index fingers because they point a lot

Jamie Staples, is this you? Who are you (see, im staying on topic )

Or mind cannot be found in the present moment when inveatigated deeply actually, mind is like always couple milliseconds lagging in past? Sort of like the tail of a commet?? This makes a lot of sense to me actually!! Thanks, my mind needed to know visually why it is unreal and now it can agree with the theory again

It seems like reality includes the mind right now though, doesn't it? Without the mind, we won't be able to write these posts... It's real because it IS, right? Even though it might not last forever, it IS now?

For me it's too late, I already had a dream about zombie apocalypse But in that dream I became a toy helicopter and flew away. The dream turned into a MMO game and then I traded items with some bikers, by trade I mean they stole my items, but left me their bicycles. Man I really do wish this dream doesn't come true! What am I to do with no items and two bicycles in an MMO game Forgot to mention I was being shot at when I was a toy helicopter... Sigh... There is no escaping. I've dreamt a lot of other apocalyptic dreams. Maybe there is an entity somewhere which takes in all those negative shit we project and doesn't allow it to become reality

YEAH it's amazing, but dreams sometimes really do predict future. Once I dreamt that we were getting salary promotions at work and the next day! they gave us bonuses! Lol Great to hear that you are getting closer to yourself and communicate with your subconscious, which is your iron throne tower that you sit on. <3 Much love, I am trying to reconnect to that, since I've lost it recently due to unconscious behaviour.

Ok, here's an example: I can say with cerainty that it is better to be free and happy rather than to be a slave to a system and depressed. So my point, why if consciousness is pure love and joy etc, why would it create a dream of slavery, suffering and inequality. The pc games humanity creates are always balanced out. This is intelligent design so that the game is fair. This game of life seems far from fair and this seems to me like the act of unconsciousness. So maybe there is ultimately not only one as spirituality says, but two: Consciousness and Unconsciousness - the good and the bad, God and the equally strong Devil. They both express and fight for this plane... This seems like much more reasonable scenario to me, because if all was one, I'm sure it will figure out a better game design, if it had a choice

Yes but my point is, why is there even a baby, if pure consciousness state is pure love, joy, and all those things... Why is there life at all, if pure consciousness can exist always in itself perfectly content and happy.. I dont even know how a non entity without attributes can even experience anything, maybe thats why it twists itself into illusion of form and separation, in order to be something at all - meaning that maybe being pure consciousness without a medium is not great at all.

I don't have any evidence for there being a separate you that could leave the body. I dont believe in souls, but im just speculating. I never like when someone is flashing about statistics as if they know absolutely everyone who got enlightened.. I call total bs!

I've had a lot of suffering related to money due to me being born in a very poor country. For me people in more developed countries with proper minimum wage do not understand how shitty it is to not be able to live and to have to do twice the work for half the reward. Some people need to see how it is when the coin is flipped to realise just how happy money is making them by the shitty things they are NOT experiencing. (Unfortunately, you can never know that which you haven't experienced) There was a time when I played poker for extra income that I hit a big one, and I had made like 3000 dollars, I was elated, the smile couldn't drop from my face! For a person in US that is probably a badly paying job... I did walk around in this elated state, and there were a lot of egoic thoughts, like oh I made more than this guy, more than that guy, it made me super happy to have at least that going for me, if not anything else... Of course this is now an olde paradigm, but still, money would make it super easy for me to pull of an Ekhart and just stay in parks with myself, and do my other enlightenment practices and not have to worry about sitting in a chair at work, thinking about things irrelevant to my spirituality - wasting time basically - being a slave. For me freedom is being able to do whatever you want at any time of day. Sad truth is humanity is creating a system of slaves.

Indeed, but just not being obsessed with an object or not being attached to it, does not mean it does not make you happy. Yeah, for the continuous happiness, we need to find the true self, but I think I will have better chance to do it if I am not worrying about my survival. Not worrying about your financial survival is already happiness, because it's the absence of suffering

Toilet paper DOES make me happy. You have no idea. Especially in public toilets, I wouldn't be able to sit otherwise I really think we take such objects for granted. That's being entitled isn't it

My mind cannot handle even 1 level of consciousness

I would say yes, having money will make me content and happy. Or the false me. Do I really want that? If I'm perfectly content in an illusion, I will be less inclined to find the truth, in fact I wouldn't have an incentive to. Btw, money makes me happy just like having a bed, a roof over my head and food etc. So basically anything that helps my comfort and survival makes me happy, the problem is that most people are not thankful for what they have and it no longer makes them happy. This is a personal issue, though, so I would say money does make you happy if you understand what money allows you and if you are thankful that you have it. If it makes you UNhappy when you lose it, whatever it is, it makes you happy while you have it, even though you are overlooking it. You just don't appreciate the freedom it gives. :)))) And yeah, this is my mind, Ego, speaking. My heart says pump, pump, pump *insert cricket noise here*

Watched 30 minutes of it, very helpful video!

When I've had this happen to me after standing up, it just feels amazing, I often think at such moments whether it's an enlightenment experience beginning I try to hold myself standing up and it just feels too good, but I slowly start falling down, at some point I wonder whether I'm dying even. Don't have answers for your mind!

Actually I find it more comfortable directly on the ground outside. Just find a place where it is kind of tilted, but even if it's not, if you sit on grass, that is already a nice nature cushion for you. But I do find it much better to sit on a slight angle facing downwards. When I do a half lotus sit directly on the ground at home, or even on my yoga mat, I can hardly do more than 30 minutes, that's why when I have a long sit at home, I do it on a chair (like when I listen to HoloSync).

I had a bad experience as at one point some dude came near me and started smoking, so I couldn't enjoy the fresh air for about 20 of the minutes and my mind obviously found it worthy to bitch about. But no matter whether pleasant or unpleasant, the main goal of mine is to question the subjective experiencer. I cut it 3 minutes short, because I had to pee suddenly. I tried the Who has to pee, and the answer was I. <3

In position and ready to go!

Going to be returning to the heart!

People have different subjective experience, each of us unique, we see the now from a uniquely different angle. Why do I feel so alive, why do I feel so present, If I am not... I am! I Wake up to my existence! I am no longer denying my existence by slouching around I MEAN ISNT IT A MIRACLE THAT WE ARE ALL ALIVE AT THIS MOMENT? LOOK AT YOURSELF. ISN'T IT FUCKING AMAZING THAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY EXISTING AT THIS MOMENT? IN THE PRESENT MOMENT? THE NOW, NOW You are alive??? WTF This is amazing. EMBRACE FULLY THAT YOU ARE, BECAUSE YOU ARE, DON'T CARE ABOUT FUTURE.

I am going to do it in nature, with earplugs for extra silence and deep breathing of the fresh air. In through the nose to the diaphragm, out through the mouth. Deeper and deeper into the now. Going to try sitting in a half lotus for about an hour using the Calming mudra, because my hands need the extra rest.

First Mooji!

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