Nahm

It doesn’t sound like ‘beautiful beauty’, it is the same as saying ‘beautiful beauty’. This is being missed.

There is One Source, and it is not “the ego”. If desire is coming from the ego - the priority in regard to what is true, would by default be to see what ‘the ego’ which is being given so much credit, actually is. When you forget where your car keys are, is it “the ego’s” fault? Or do you look for them, ruling out all the places they are not?

Awareness is not a property or possession of an individual. Humans are not aware. A body mind does not produce awareness. When it is recognized awareness is prior to thoughts like I, me, my, mine, you, your...how one creates existential suffering is recognized. It is Truth. All that is, is Truth. A separate self has ever lived. Awareness is prior to thoughts. Meditation is the way. Awareness is aware of awareness. Awareness is aware of thoughts. That there is a paradox, is a thought like ‘there is a tree’. Tree is a label, a thought, not perception. Likewise, only in believing the thoughts I, me, my, mine, you, your, yours, does there seem to be a ‘you’, and then, a ‘paradox’, and then ‘insecurity’. The resolve is letting go, no longer attaching to thoughts which convince there is a separate self(s). Meditation reveals there is no problem, because there is no separate self to have it. Believing thoughts about enlightenment is the surest way to perpetuate the separate self paradigm. Letting thoughts go in meditation is the surest way to realize the true nature. When the true nature, or ‘truth’ is realized, the false premise that ‘suffering is desire of change’ is seen through. Suffering is the denial of desire of change, and or the denial of no need for change. Suffering is illusory, but is not exceptional either. The more attached to thoughts and physicality awareness is, the less sense that makes. The less attached, the more sense. No one know’s another’s experience. Assumptions can be surrendered in meditation. No one can meditate for someone. No one can let go of thought attachment for someone. No one can let perspectives in discord with truth go for someone. To perpetuate such an expectation is to perpetuate suffering via the myth of the separate selves. Thinking so much that perfection is missed is similar to talking so much silence is missed. The perfection of water is wetness, though ice cubes struggle to recognize this, while it is their true nature. That the true nature is revealed is absolutely inevitable. When you fill the tray, ‘paradox’ isn’t even an arising thought / question. But first, empty it.

Music is the mystical experience.

@Reciprocality ???

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

Perfection.

@Reciprocality Infinity is unbelievable. Life is impossible. One reason people meditate is that it brings the activity of the mind to a rest such that there is not an apparent contextualization of what seemed to be experienced. Without a foundation, experiencing such things does seem to lead to depersonalization or derealization, but these are the prior mentioned contextualization. mind is ‘made of’ Mind. When mind is at rest Mind is already present. mind has a ceiling of duality which Mind seems to have but actually doesn’t. Without samadhi, satori seems to come & go, simplified, without a foundation glimpses seem to come & go.

@Leo Nordin ?? And not even.

Enlightenment isn’t an achievement, nor your death, nor pertaining to your energies, nor a leaving of a body, because there is no subject object situation such that there could be achievement, nor is there a you, nor is there death, nor a body, nor a your energies. It’s more the realization, or, self recognition of this truth, vs a reinforcing of dualities. Ya bamboozled yourself, which is perfectly fine because there is no alternative option. @James123 This is just a fantasy indeed. ???

@zeroISinfinity Well yeah, but that’s if the nihilistic idea came from my comment (none of ‘your’ meaning or ideas come from anyone or anywhere). What if I’m already thinking that I’m thinking existence, but not noticing the duality of thought (such as the possibility of existence being something & not nothing)? Then ‘nothing really exists’ stands to throw a wrench in that, and inevitably I’m going to intuitively want to make sense of this. Maybe it stands to under pin necessity is a contingency, but not necessarily.

@LfcCharlie4 Great to hear! ?? I’d stay in step 1 for now: Write anything you want, whatever comes to mind. ‘Small’ things, ‘big’ things, the more the better. Keep it light and effortless.

@zeroISinfinity Not a nihilistic thought about nothing, this nothing existing, apparently.

@Endangered-EGO Awesome! Awareness of subject objecting thinking brings rumination to a natural end.

@Arcangelo What is / was your plan for financial independence prior to the barbecue incident?

@Loving Radiance causation ...can exist when one believes time? Transpiring means imagining? Without believing the thought that happiness is contingent on causations & future outcomes, as if happiness were an object obtainable & achievable...when these thought conditions are recognized as the suffering and let go...happiness is felt, or, known, as the presence that Is already, and the very source of all one is wanting to experience. The causations are implied in language & thoughts, the actuality of which (language & thoughts) is infinite being (not-two). Continual focus upon the conditions is the activity of the mind veiling ‘it’s’ own source, or, true nature, which is not two. Awareness can actually veil itself in this manor to such a degree that it believes itself to be separate of itself and thus considers the causation of killing itself, not noticing it is itself already. @LfcCharlie4 Indeed. All the thought stories ever told about “the ego” have nothing on a single want written on a dreamboard.

Nothing really exists.

@SilentTears All you.

@mandyjw There are as many falsities as there are problems.

@Reciprocality There is no more a Nahm, than causation transpiring now.

@Reciprocality It seems so, but there was no wanting of an example, which of course then exemplifies that there is no causation.

Being.

This seems as good as any place to put this. “...so do you laugh, or does it cry?” Scott Weiland

@Dlavjr If you don’t like it, pick another story that resounds being.

Example.