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Probably because you have a rigid belief in place. Seriously sometimes teachers have to point out different aspects based on what the energy of the moment needs to express. I have experienced Twin Flame connection and I know it is not an ultimate truth, it is a relative one. Maybe he was just expressing a deeper truth.

Don't know if youtube algorithm or Universe, but this was exactly what was needed.

yah, first mistake is using it as a name.. Besides the point But this is a thread about jokes so.. Here is what the real Shunyata want to tell you:

I really need to explain a joke to you? Be the Shunyata! Notice the book, this is an image of how knowledge is more powerful than the unconscious monsters / negative energy. Bro! True Shunyata has no questions, you will know once you let go. Don't just pretend to be the Shunyata <3 Can't fake this just by putting on the name mate!!!

lets get back on track after small detour. I am still doing 100 days and more.

That's why both "Oneness spiritual people" and dualists have beef with nondualists! Nondualists appear so damn paradoxical to both the monist and the dualist, because it includes both sides of the coin. Mmmmmm I think many of us confuse Nonduality with Monism, me personally I had never even heard about monism before this video I'm not going to lie. Pretty good stuff.

Everything happens in your awareness. Soul perhaps is a more heart-centred expression of awareness. Or do you mean by soul the awareness that knows body and mind?

More of the same, from another perspective

The video is humbly written as "Doorway to now", but it has many names. It is That, which the spiritual search is all about. This is it. Once you are here, you are That. You are here. You are That. <3 This video is just so beautiful. But it will go too

Not only are they free from devilry. They are angels with strong spiritual power. The light shines so beautifully. They are a perfect expression of the divine and them not knowing makes them so much more pure than any enlightened master who knows. But hey, this is just my heart speaking. This will look foolish on the level of the mind and I accept that. Love is not about being right, I guess. But this is the way I see it, so we might need to agree to disagree.

ok But they feel pain and don't experience a psychological suffering. They can quickly switch to happy mode without clutching and holding on to the past. When that suffering of psychological time is removed, or before it even existed you are enlightened. Nothing special. YOu just live in the moment and let go of psychological time and events. Let go of all the stories, stories are in time. Only the eternal remains. The timeless remains. And it's never been anywhere but here. There is nowhere to go to get enlightened. The human, I hate to break it to you, is never going to be enlightened. Only the changeless is Enlightened. Suck on those lemons! <3 But love is the highest power in this Universe, it is the mysterious truth everybody is talking about and nobody understands. Love you bro - sending you Love from Beyond Time and Space.

@Member TLDR: Ask yourself: Do babies experience psychological suffering? Then you will understand they are enlightened by the definition of the Buddha himself.

This forum in a nutshell: Person A: You are ignorant. Person B: You are projecting. Person A: You are projecting that I am projecting. Person B : You are projecting that I am projecting that you are projecting. ad infinitum

Babies know the true self, as they do not yet have a localized sense of self developed. Pre-egoic enlightenment is still enlightenment. You only do not understand this because you have a belief of enlightenment as being some special state for the human, not the space in which the human itself happens. Enlightenment is the most authentic You that You have always been. That you "was" you when you were a baby and is the reason why you were so good/authentic at being a baby. And why you are so good/authentic at being an egoic identity now. Meaning that everyone is enlightened and doing their job perfectly. Some have a job of being ignorant of their enlightened nature as the simple presence. A baby is not ignorant. Look at a baby and see how they are the entire moment. Not just taking themselves as the small localized entity called human. "I don't know what are your sources for such ridiculous beliefs but they are really far away from the Truth." This is a belief

I have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyone who claims they do do not understand what a mystery is. I'm talking from direct experience. I've never experienced the lack of awareness/awakeness. I am not talking about a glorified state of superconciousness, but the knowing of any experience - even most ordinary ones like right now. If you can call any experience ordinary. You guys are so funny with this super special thing that someone must reach to be awake/aware. It is everyone's true nature / common truth to be awake /aware. As what? That is a different question. I am not saying the bodymind Dodo is always awake or aware, you are projecting this truth on Dodo and then telling him he doesn't know what he's talking about. He doesn't lol. But cool thing is Dodo doesn't exist, I, awareness exist and express through Dodo. Awakeness/Awareness is the simplest thing, too simple for the Dodos, the Shins and especially the Leos. A simple truth is best received by a simple mind. I just let flow man and if Leo says there's deeper stuff I trust him. But when you talk about something that I literally am... I might not know What that awakeness is, as it's not an object to me as it is the subject- but I know I am it. "It" is even too much of a word to describe the empty knower(Awareness). I AM awakeness. Pure simple, not as a character. The character is asleep. The awakeness is That which knows the dreaming character and world. The awakeness I talk about is also there in dreams at night, so it can't be anything from the waking state - waking and dream cancel each other out. How can I be the waking Dodo if I took myself to be the dream Dodo at night just as easily? And I know for a fact I was there in the dream state, as the dream happened to Me. If we want a picture of what Awareness looks like, then we should look at deep sleep: There no objects appear, but deep sleep happens to Me, awareness is still present. We are talking about something that is also nothing and everything and is us, very rather mysterious, from the waking character point of view. All states appear to you, though, not just waking. So I is beyond the 3 states. We are having a discourse in one of those states. The very light by which we know we are having this discussion, is the self that we are. That light will always be a mystery.

Lets put it this way, I have never experienced the absence of awakeness. I am not saying that I have mastered everything there is to master. I am actually a newbie at most things. But I am not a newbie at awakeness, as it is my eternal nature.

I agree. What I'm saying is that I am not seeing this dissolving as a path, but as the fruits of being. Path implies effort, Awareness/being is effortless and this path you are talking about is best described as a growing tree - the fruit comes naturally, without effort. ajnana to jnana to vijnana = sure, that's a cool story and its worth experiencing. But it can't be the ultimate. Once the ultimate is realised/noticed one realises it was never not "there". Even in Ajnana the Ultimate was just as much there as when there is vijnana.

I am doing the inner work. But I am and always have been awake, that is a prerequisite for doing anything, not the goal for me. The very reason I can do inner work is that I am awake. I am that rock too. I am just as much the rock as I am any other visual/auditory/other perception in my field of awareness. Either I am those or I am not those, in both cases I am just as much the rock as I am the bodymind complex. I just appear to be a character that is other than the rock, but that is all a story. So if this Bodymind complex is enlightened or any other bodymind is enlightened, so is the rock and the blade of grass. There is just difference in appearance... All have the same root/isness... We are all always awake, the Heart knows that, but the mind will always keep the story up that there is more. And there is more, but its more important to love what Is deeply rather than to seek to get something else, like an exotic enlightened samadhi state to finally feel complete.

There is no path to enlightenment. The pathless path - begins and ends with Awareness. The rest is just a fruit of being, not a path to Enlightenment. Unless ofcourse that's how you label it, you are welcome to label your journey any way you wish, but I dont think infinite awareness is limited to a linear enlightenment story of the hero's journey that you propose.

Sure, I am actually talking about the Isness as enlightenment. I am saying that every-thing is doing its job perfectly. A rock is doing a perfect job at being a rock. It's enlightened. Even though it can be seen that consciousness is asleep in rocks. A fool is doing a perfect job at being a fool - he is perfectly enlightened. An "enlightened" being is also doing a perfect job at being "enlightened", so he is perfectly enlightened. It's a mystery! How can the unenlightened be perfectly enlightened? Well, because everything always is the way it is. Always. There are no mistakes. There is only isness. If it is, it is true. It is enlightened. Being a sage/mystic does not equal being enlightened in my books. Either everyone is enlightened or nobody is. There aint no other way!

@Member When we are talking about enlightenment, we are talking about authenticity. Oh yes, babies are some of the most authentic beings out there. Enlightenment is not about knowing some truth, it's about being yourself completely. And not the changing egoic image selves - no. So By your responses I see that you have some glorified state as Enlightenment, while in truth its the most natural thing. It is always here. When you speak from the heart you ARE enlightened. There is only one Heart-You. There are many other alter-egos, but only one Heart you. Thats the one who is enlightened. It's not about knowing some truth and being able to school somebody

I like that <3