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Does this sound accurate?: Atman (your consciousness), their, her... His... is Brahman. It's Brahman that's the one consciousness which is our true nature. Atman comes about by a reduction of Brahman (Mind-At-Large) like a whirlpool in a body of water. Scientists don't know yet how, in this universe, but presumably it's the brain in our species which does it. The identification with self/ego and not Atman, consciousness is due to brain processes. If that's accurate, what is then spirituality about for you?

He's responded to you multiple times on this question. Enlightenment doesn't get rid of your nerve endings. Pain is not the same as suffering.

I've watched Adyashanti's Basic Teachings p.1-2 and it's good, around 12 minutes into p.3. Gary Weber who is enlightened recommends Adya. http://www.adyashanti.org/cafedharma/index.php?file=video

Your Pre-Awakened state was a state of your brain. It can be reversed and poof, there's delusion again, but consciousness never changed. Bernardo Kastrup talks about how the "receiver" of consciousness is like an individual whirlpool in a sea of consciousness. I guess it's called Atman? Most people who are enlightened actually say they are in some form or another, that so few do it on the forum isn't out of modesty, but because they aren't. I think.

What happens at night when you go to sleep, does consciousness turn off to turn on during dreaming or when you awake? How come that in consciousness there's vision at a contour of a body, feelings, thoughts, all that are linked to this same body? Might it not be that actually, this body, is a receiver of consciousness, by as yet, an undetermined mechanism in the brain? Because your brain changed once you awakened.

Your brain is the one operating the keyboard to write all of this, why isn't the brain also creating the true you as well?

You're awakened, to some threshold, but what do you think of "enlightenment being capable of endless enlargement"?

What is perceptions in consciousness, like this text? What's the movie on the screen? Why does it seem like there's different movies for different screens, and why does it seem to be due to brains? What do you think of the thought that the brain is a receiver of the one consciousness?

Well, I was asking if you're suffering, and if you experience pleasure.

Good insight, there are even memories that clearly are self-referential or active the self without no direct "I"-thought being in it, for instance visual memories that are autobiographical.

Is there any suffering? Is there any pleasure? Do you still practice? What practice did you do? What's the relationship between consciousness and the brain?

How many self-referential thoughts do you approximately have in a day?

@Rilles @Shin

I think putting notifications on Shin's phone saying "You're dreaming" 24/7 hasn't helped either. I get excited from watching videos about CPU's. All excitement requires deep non-self-referential thinking.

Hahahahaha your picture.

What's the illusion of science?

@Charlotte

Almost banned from the forum for posting a no title/content thread.

Ramana Maharsi never told people to leave their jobs etc except for very rare people, it takes so few non-self-referential thoughts to function in society.

some of this too...

"Think the unthinkable. How to think the unthinkable? Be without thoughts, this is the secret of meditation." --Dogen

Shinzen went to a psychologist for procrastination.