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JustinS replied to pluto's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You = the World, the World = you. Bye bye you, bye bye world. -
Believing in any thoughts = hell
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JustinS replied to Leo Gura's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@blazed Death should be the closest most intimate friend you know. It’s right here sitting next to me on the couch quietly waiting for me to acknowledge him, but I’ve been looking elsewhere or simply ignoring him, “ehh I’ll probably live up to 95 and pass away.” Little did I know at the time that I was already dead. Death was trying to tell me this but I wouldn’t and couldn’t allow myself to believe him. -
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This is it coyote
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JustinS replied to Leo Gura's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Prabhaker Were you a Rashneeshee back in the days? Part of the Oregon thing too back then? To Sheela: "She did not prove to be a woman. She proved to be a perfect bitch." - Osho Getting more and more interesting. -
JustinS replied to Leo Gura's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Prabhaker Great, thanks! This is my first time hearing about this with Osho. I never knew he had such large number of followers. The documentary is getting more and more interesting. "I tell you the county (Wasco) is so fucking bigoted, it deserves to be taken over." - Sheela -
JustinS replied to Leo Gura's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I'm on the 3rd episode. It all went to shit went Sheela decides to arm themselves with guns. Fighting evil against evil! It would've been perfect if these guys were shot to another planet so they can do their thing. Got to say she's inspirational! -
JustinS replied to JustinS's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"Drop your attachment to waking up cause it's feeding everything else. How it is, is how it is. Something is unraveling itself for you, just watch it unraveling itself instead of "I'm making this happen." It's like hold on, less intensity. Just soften the whole things so that something can relax. In the relaxing what I'm tricking you to do is surrendering to the flow that is unraveling you anyway. I'm actually talking about surrendering to it and having control over it. The pull to wake up, you can't stop it anyway. You're not going to be able to stop this, you've gone too far. It's got it's own momentum. So then in the kicking back and in the removing the plug of desire or the pressure to wake up, let's see what balances out. Some kind of middle road will come in." ~ Jac -
Abiding in nondual awareness can still lead to identification with the Oneness, Self, Absolute. Jac takes it a step further to see that duality and nonduality are still within conceptualizations and that there is one step further which is That. To see through the identification of the nondual. The meta of Reality, the inception of nonduality, beyond form and formless. Finish it off. "Nonduality is still within the movie. It's nothing special. Take it off the pedestal if you have it on a pedestal."
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JustinS replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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JustinS replied to JustinS's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"The I actually doesn't exist only in the moments it appears to exist, the moment that a thought is believed to be true. It's not that the I exists and it attaches to thoughts. It's like the I only exists when a thought is to be believed, it's part of the program. So the space between thoughts, there is no I. But we imagine an I continuing and then the I grabs thoughts. There is a space between thoughts, but it's not noticed. It takes an I to notice." ~ Jac -
Happi Pi Day and RIP
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JustinS replied to JustinS's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"Awakening is a shift in perspective. Simply put, it’s the full seeing that what you are was never caught up in story in the first place. When the personal "I" is active it is imagined that there will be phenomenal freedom for the "I," as if the "I" will enjoy being out of its own story. But when the story falls there is a seeing that the "I" was never more than story." ~Jac O'Keeffe -
JustinS replied to JustinS's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"Believing happens and it has to imagine itself -- in the movie; believing that anything is better than silence invariably will lead into suffering; silence is not boring; "silence is boring" can only be said in the movie." - Jac -
JustinS replied to Elephant's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Elephant hahaha practical? Uh uh it helped me see where I wanted to go in terms of quieting of the mind. Its similar to lsd but without the edginess lsd can give for some ppl. Smoother ride. No practicallity but wanting to know whats really true. -
JustinS replied to electroBeam's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Ether After a powerful dose of 5meo you can see that reality is just pure emptiness and has no solid substance to it at all. Its seen through. It’s there but it has no value, only to the mind body organism gives it value by providing concepts. The concept making mechanism has to stop to see this. -
JustinS replied to electroBeam's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You gotta give a round of applause to Maya. You got to out smart her yourself in order to see it for yourself. You are inside Maya and she ain’t gonna let you see outside of her that easily. Ego transcendence for oneself is the only way to see that Maya was never real. -
JustinS replied to Elephant's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Mescaline is my favorite psychedelic. Incredibly gently and smooth and clear headed. I’ve heard they sell san pedro at local cactus shops, walmart, amazon, lowe’s. Carlos Casteneda (Journey to Ixtlan) talks alot of the use of mescaline under his shaman Don Juan in the search for Mr. Mescalito, a short green figure he had encountered while under peyote. Interesting and funny story. I’ve tried it in a shamanic setting where we sing to the fire and look for the blue deer. I didn’t see much but its defintely in a different context than your stay at home trip setting. -
JustinS replied to electroBeam's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@electroBeam Isn't that just a memory? I think memory is of the mind using it to continue it's play in Maya so that it can feel safe and reassured. Look at an object, then look away and get enlightened or do some 5meo/strong ego death psychedelic, and try looking at the same object again. Physically it will look the same but it will be strangely different. The observer affects the ENTIRE dream. Drop the observer, no more object. -
JustinS replied to JustinS's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"You might want to think about this," says Bob, looking at me over the top of the pages he's holding. "These amateurs and hobbyists, as you call them, are your audience." "My audience?" "Well, your intended audience," he clarifies. "It might not be wise to alienate them like this." "If I have an intended audience," I reply, "it's people who know they're stuck and want to get unstuck, not people who don't know they're stuck and just want to pass the time and pass judgment." He sighs with exasperation. We've been having more or less this same conversation for several days. "And who do you suppose is the difference?", says Bob. "The former would receive criticism with gratitude, and the latter as a personal attack. Awakening is a process of breakthroughs, and breakthroughs don't come from incense and candlelight and inner peace. You look at spiritual aspirants as those most likely to achieve awakening, but Maya has them so bamboozled that those who seem the most advanced are simply the ones who are burrowing downward the fastest." "But, Jed, honestly, you can't say things like that -" "Sure I can. This isn't my pet theory, this is what I see, and if I see it, then it's there for anyone to see. All they have to do is look. I can say that, can't I? Open your eyes? Be honest. Take a look?" "Your'e making this all seem too cut-and-dried, It's not that simple." That's why I like having Bob around. He says things like that. "It's exactly that simple," I reply, not for the first time. "Waking up from the dreamstate is a very straightforwards business. It doesn't take decades. It doesn't look like tranquility or like a calm, peaceful mind. It doesn't look like saving others or saving the world or even saving yourself. It doesn't look like a thriving marketplace where merit is determined by popular appeal or commercial success. Waking up looks like a massive mental and emotional breakdown because that's exactly what it is, the granddaddy of all breakdowns. That's the only way it works. I know there are thousands of books out there that say otherwise, and I can tell you that they were all written by Maya." Jed Mckenna (Spiritual Warfare) -
JustinS replied to Shin's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Shin Hahah what is this but still a belief. Don’t believe this <- Don’t believe this saying to the left “don’t believe this” <- Don’t believe this saying to the left “Don’t believe this saying to the left “don’t believe this””...""....""....""....<error> -
JustinS replied to Shin's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
As soon as you think you’re making progress or you’re going somewhere, there goes the mind again and its already contaminated. You are always that which is prior. It doesn’t prefer any particular state or emotions. It is perfect. Don’t believe in anything! -
JustinS replied to Shin's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Self Inquiry is a tool. Asking things like What am I? or I am not this body. These tools itself are within the mind. It’s a stick lit on fire you use to burn all other sticks. Eventually, you will have to throw this stick into that fire also but only if this stick is the last stick (question). I would be especially vigilant in not trying to feel any certain way or even to enjoy the peace of mind after self-inquiry as these are just experiences and mind. Bust through them, door after door, after door, after door. -
JustinS replied to JustinS's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"In our spiritual practice we spend years pulling back from stuff, disconnecting, disconnecting.. ...you've got to go back in, you know it's an illusion. But the patterns of disconnecting from things can be so strong that we can be tentative about reconnecting. What do we do now? Okay, we go back in and test out the things that used to create an I. Test out, go back in, participate whatever you used to do and see what suits your system now. Embrace it, let there be total inclusivity, total inclusivity. So that nothing is of a no-no. Nothing is pulling back from it. Go the opposite direction. If it recreates a sense of an I, great, you've found something that wasn't dropped completely. It might..leave space for that too. Total inclusion. That's the freedom part. That's moving towards liberation. So awakening, Self-Realization is pulling back, from awakening to liberation involves from being totally inclusive." - Jac