Aware

@Principium Nexus You are reality. Things only seem to become real, but this is because You are reality. The sustainer of all That You can possibly can think of. Non is equal nor greater than You. One seems only be clouded from the living truth that You are, which shines trough all hearts while non shines through You. You are equal to all, but non is equal or greater than You. That's reality. And this is what I think of You.

@Principium Nexus I dont think fulfillment is based on nothing. Being fulfilled means nothing more then being completely absorbed in You, the One. You still will have your activities like all, but without concidering yourself being the cause of results, may they be positive or not. Intelligent among people are those souls That see action in inaction, and inaction in action. I hope That this makes sense to You.

Readers! Phenomenon, both physical and subtle, don't speak. Phenomenon, both physical and subtle, never approve or disapprove anything. Phenomenon, both physical and subtle, never claimed to be you, or anyone. Phenomenon, both physical and subtle, are composites. Phenomenon, both physical and subtle, are temporary in nature. Phenomenon, both physical and subtle, arise according conditions. Phenomenon, both physical and subtle, cease to exist according to their nature. All, within and without, are phenomenon, although some phenomenon persist longer then others, all must cease to exist. Both the proof and proven, as those proving alike, all must cease to exist. All things, without exception, are equally empty in their nature.

@Nazar Thinking not; about oneness, thinking not; about separation. That, is reality.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nutshell and in depth teachings of Enlightenment Introduction. I share here nutshell teachings of enlightenment before I soon leave (in a few days) the website for a short while. With this understanding, one might cut through any illusion like a diamond would cut any other stone. With thorough study of it, one can understand any other teacher with his teaching for sentient beings more clearly. As a result of studying the following thoroughly, one will directly attain the vision of Dharma, the absolute law of everything. Sensitive beings, that already understand the connectivity, interwoven fabric, dependence of everything and their relationship to it with the illusion of distance, will experience during the reading my direct presence, that is not of this world., will warm their hearts and chest, and see flashes of gold in their minds during reading, activating their crown chakra, this is the signature of my presence. Keep in mind, the deeper you go into this teaching, the more the mind will really start to struggle like a fish been caught and thrown on dry land, it shall struggle. Do Not give up! (Or come back and back again). __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ First the explanation of therms as short as possible: Awareness = Me, Mind without defilements (unbound, all pervasive one). *Desires (craving) = Attachment. Suffering = Disease of the mind. Awareness = Duty, Law. Sense of self = Illusion. Wholesome = Deed born from non attachment. ( = in Accordance with Awareness) Unwholesome = Deed born from attachment. (= Not in accordance with Awareness) Wisdom = Result of Wholesome deeds. Deed = Result of thought. Thought = Result of thinking. Thinking = Intelligence. Intelligence = Everything. *The attachment to the desire, to have or to be or not to be. I refer it to as craving. Short composites and their results in creation: Awareness + Desire (craving) = Attachment. Awareness + Body + Desires = Suffering. Awareness + Body + Desires + Sense of self = Ignorance. Awareness + Body + Desires + Sense of self = Unwholesome. Awareness + Body + Desires + Sense of self + Seclusion = Wholesome + Unwholesome = Unwholesome. Awareness + Body + Sense of self + Seclusion from worldly activities = Wholesome. Awareness + Body = Enlightenment. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "The law: Root: All things are temporary in nature. Nothing is permanent. Everything is a composite, nothing stands on its own. ___________________________________________________________________ _________ There for: All actions lead to its result over time, accordingly. All conditioned things are loaded with suffering; this knowledge will enlighten the path __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Investigation _________ Introduction: I am going to explain and lay out for you the perfect understanding of reality, and with this knowledge, you surely will be able to cut through any illusion you have that prevents you from attaining Awareness, and will skyrocket your meditations and intelligence on a profound level if you put effort to put it into action. After this investigation, I am going to explain with what you have read so far the knowledge about how to end suffering. Cutting through the illusion there is just one, the rest is illusion of the mind. Examples: If direction would be real, it would not need a definition or reference (compass). If space would be real, it would not need a definition or reference (definition). If time would be real, it would not need a definition or reference (Clocks). If energy would be real, it would not need a definition or reference (definition). If gravity would be real, it would not need a definition or reference (definition). Clarification: Awareness is not a composite. All definitions related to some event or phenomena, are always a composite. We invent direction, and you believe it to be real. We invent definitions and theories about space, and you believe it to be real. We invent time and theories about time, and you believe it to be real. We invent energy and you believe it to be real. Within something, whatever it is, is never found the thing it presents. Within the tree, the tree is not found, within the body, the body is not found and so on. Now when meditating, due to that I must explain through words, cut also through: If Awareness would be real, it would not need a definition. Argumentation: (Awareness is all pervasive, it knows no equal, so there is no telling rather its real or unreal). You can pick anything, and state, but this thing or phenomena is really real, then is it related to something? > Then its not real, is empty in nature. But this thing is real, and has nothing to relate it too. Then its not a thing. Or a not-thing (it's still a thing). Where must I cut it off? Its in your mind you belief it to be real. And there it must be cut off. The mind wants to relate to all its conditions, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ " Where and when it arises, there it must be cut through, with the diamond of knowledge, that I shared with you. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ By wisdom the power of evil can be destroyed; strengthen your mind like a strong city __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The end of suffering In depth study _________ Introduction: Now you have the weapon of knowledge, the diamond I shared, I am going to explain according to the definitions (you might want to read them again), how you must become your own way and light, and that the Enlightened Masters of the past, did not have had it wrong, and that although many ways to enlightenment are claimed, they all have similarities. In part 1 I share my clear view of the enlightened stage. In part 2 I will explain and share the knowledge what the core base of the bundle of suffering is, so we can examen this further in other parts. In part 3 I will explain in depth the very mechanics, the core of it all, which includes the knowledge how the cycle of death indeed is valid. ___________________________________________________________________ Examination of what is being free of mind Part 1: Awareness + Body = Enlightenment. If we investigate this, we will get a better idea how the defilements of the mind seem to embody itself being a sense of self. Awareness, does not need anything. Body, does need something. I am sure you answered: No on Awareness, and Yes on Body. If said no on Awareness, it surely has also nothing to do with food, water, shelter and warmth either. There for, if awareness does not need direction, space, time, energy or gravity, because its all pervasive, and the body needs some food and water, some shelter and warmth, why bother these belief systems that it must be real or not real, or a combination of it of some kind when it comes to direction, space, time, energy and gravity? As a result of this examination, one must there for drop these illusionary systems that has nothing to do with Awareness, nor has any of such belief to do with the body. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part: 2 Awareness + Desire (craving) = Attachment. Awareness + Body + Sense of self + Seclusion from worldly activities = Wholesome. Awareness + Body = Enlightenment. If we investigate this, we will get a better idea, how it comes that one remains being attracted to reason with false belief systems and how and why seclusion from worldly activities is key, however we must first investigate what our base point is to overcome. So let us do this first. If we look at Awareness + Desire = Attachment, we can ask ourselves, where this would result. Well, it will result in birth of sense of self. (Awareness + Body + Desires + Sense of self = Ignorance.) So the problem that need to be solved, is to let the craving somehow be tired out, using the fact that everything is based on action and result, and thus everything is changing. When craving ends, all attachments will also over time end due to their temporary nature. The preferred stage is: Awareness + Body = Enlightenment. Because temporary, refers to a process, of actions leading to results, and it is so, due to that things are temporary. You can try blast into it, but it will never hold, and this not holding is always so, there for it needs a more thorough handle that we can use as advantage, and not as a clear disadvantage. Let me go deeper. Before I am going to give you knowledge of the whole bundle of suffering, first we must look at the base we want to examen, that clearly will pinpoint what to get rid of. We don't want to base it exactly on Awareness, that is not what we should overcome, that is what we should attain. Stay with me, its going deeper now, slowly to its core. Awareness + Desire (craving) = Attachment. If we look at the following: Awareness + Body + Desires + Sense of self = Ignorance. The experience of course, is no longer living in accordance with Awareness. And if this is the case one is blind and you might as well show it as followed (I show it in steps): 1. Awareness + Body + Desires + Sense of self = Ignorance 2. Awareness + body + Desires + Sense of self = Ignorance 3. Awareness + Body + Desires + Sense of self = Ignorance 4. Awareness Ignorance + Body + Desires + Sense of self = you = Ignorance Awareness Ignorance + Body + Desires + Sense of self = you = suffering = Ignorance. The last one prescribes the blind man, servant of the senses. So our base point becomes Ignorance to explain the bundle of suffering, and not a bundle of Awareness that is all pervasive, that is a contradiction. And so we also know that by the development of wholesome deeds, we get the result wisdom. _____________________________ Clarification: Awareness is not the element to overcome, but that which should be attained. Ignorance is the stronghold to destroy. Wholesome deeds are born from non attachment, in accordance with Awareness. Wisdom is the result of wholesome deeds. If we destroy ignorance, we enlighten. _____________________________________________________________________ Conclusion: Hence we should now figure out how to develop wholesome deeds to develop wisdom, and destroy our ignorance. Like swans in flight, the wise move stepwise away from the world __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Part 3 The bundle of suffering, and the explanation of the cycle of birth and death Now that we know that we should gather wholesome deeds that will result in wisdom, let us now investigate why and how to develop wholesome deeds. We know that we must destroy ignorance, and there for we should not bother what was before ignorance, but see how ignorance and the whole sequence of suffering is presented and how this is related to the cycle of birth and death if we do not destroy ignorance. Under the condition of ignorance arises motives as well. And these motives leads to sensitivity, and this sensitivity to sense of self, sense of self leads to perception, and these perceptions lead to shapes, these shapes lead to formations, and this leads to reasoning, reasoning to judgement, judgement lead to feelings, feelings leads to craving, craving leads to claiming, claiming to becoming, becoming leads to birth. And that which has been born, will get sick, and will get old, and will eventually die. Now, how is this a cycle? Lets see what happens when someone dies, the body will be out of the sequence: (Awareness + Body + Desires + Sense of self = Ignorance). Ignorance minus Body = Awareness + Desires + Sense of self. The reason why we just cut away the body, is due to that oneness already is, and will just be also when the body leaves, nothing stopped, just the body died, awareness did not. So we just add the rest of the chain that always follows due to action and result. It does not end, it can go from heavens to hell, but this cycle just moves on and on, until one destroys ignorance with wisdom, and lives in accordance with Awareness, attaining Awareness. How to develop wholesome deeds that will result in wisdom? We are almost there now. First lets make things clear. Enlightenment = Awareness + Body. We have learned so far, that which Awareness not need, and not needed for the body, should be abandoned. Then you are left with little food and drinking, some shelter and warmth, and duty (Awareness). So if you would live up to that straight away, secluded from everything and everyone without turning back, with little food and drinking, left with Awareness, then all the rest that is in between, is disease of the mind (suffering). That which should burn up, and will burn up due to that everything is temporary in nature. So, when we add concentration and attention on ourselves and Awareness, then everything quickly burns up, it can't hold by their nature. And, even though the mind always changes, it has no longer something to attach to. The attachment must die, and will die soon, or later. Now you hold but a few moments where the sense of self can come in, which is during drinking and eating. But being mindful also prevents further attachments, it will quickly move away, when eating but little and drinking not to much. This is his last embodiment, free from craving and attachments; is he a great and wise being __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why seclusion from unwholesome behavior? Unwholesome behavior just stimulates person thinking. "He did this to me, and that to me, and there for." So first something is done to HIM, and then the OTHER, is there for in existence as well, and behaves accordingly to this belief. To sum it: Wrong view, intentions, speech, act, effort, livelihood, attention and concentration. Must be secluded from, because they all involve an illusionary self that is separated from anyone and anything else. Views are related to: Everything revolves around me... Wrong intentions are related to he should not have done this or that, I shall there for.... Speech as well, he said this, now I will say that, make excuses, or can lie etc... Livelihood is a bit tricky but revolves also around illusion me, by I can do this, its not me that is hurt or has consequences of it, I just do my job (e.g working with poisons)... Concentration is on separated little you, and same with attention, attention always on things that revolve on yourself, based on gaining something. As you can see, that this as a result will just make a bunch of trouble, the brain everything structures to it. This literally is strengthening those parts in his brain by habit, that surely it will be painful when he must depart from it and live secluded from it. So a lot of what is written above will change the structures within your body, everywhere. The fool is chased by possession, greed destroys the fool himself as if he would be destroying others __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Finally, when one secludes, and remains with Body + Awareness, works hard, always secluded from unwholesome behavior, wisdom will become perfect which destroys ignorance. Or it can be seen as followed: due to that everything is a composite, with the cessation of craving due to seclusion from unwholesome behavior comes peace of mind. Awareness will be attained soon, or later. To cut the strong ties with Mara one must be mindful of his thoughts __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The last thing that will be left to come to its naturally end, will be ones body. When the body eventually also goes, will there be nothing left to start the sequence again, since one lived in accordance with Awareness, and the body was the last thing to come to its natural end, apart from attachment. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ " Finally Awareness - Body =

Bodhidharma - Although it is a nice post you posted. However if I would ask: What is a cup? Would you then say: The cup is easy, so effortless? What is truth, Callum?

@Guivs Thanks for sharing this video. A good add to the post indeed, very binding.

Post here your critical questions that lead to thinking. Or post a critical answer on a critical question, or post a quote from someone else on a critical question leading to questioning/deeper thinking. Examples: What can I know? What is the nature of mind? What is god?

@Prabhaker I explained this in my book as sunlight and a tree. Even though the tree ends, the light goes on transforming.

@100rockets I think that that indeed can be very valid for your investigation indeed! Maybe it leads to, many different you's, and eventually getting into the more subtle versions of you. But all of these are phenomenon, that can't hold, so the law, the knowledge about coming and going, and how they relate, that truly is important. But yes, go ahead, try rather you actually can experience someone else, or that this is still you. And why this must be so.

@100rockets Well, my real question is, how can you be sure about that? How do you know, and what can you know about it?

@100rockets How do you know that? What if there is just one ME, and multiple illusions, that is still one illusion?

Keep it plain. That is then what this woman, Byron Katie said. And that what you think, is what you think, and be clear about it, not doubtful. Leave it at that.

You are the result of your thinking, heir of your thinking, the accumulation of your thinking. Means, if you believe you are your body, then this is a result of your previous thinking. While you are thinking now, which also leads to its result. In this case, death is just the end of that belief. However, no phenomenon, both inside or outside, is containing a self, its empty in nature. Therefor, all things are soulless. There is no "you" that then has this soul if all things are temporary. If you really want to grasp this, you will have to really investigate how both inside and outside phenomenon are equally empty, which is due to that, not you, of you, me, them, ours, because it can't hold.

I wanted to give an explanation, but since you've said this, I'll keep it short: Try your best not to focus on moments you think you've lost, or lose focus.

Just by how much you made peace with not knowing, not progressing, you've progressed and know it to be so.

Enlightenment. Many people fail to see how to get there. Most often they cannot even see the natural world "outside" of them as being law based. Species adapt according to the changing conditions. Those favored by nature, are selected due to natural selection, the strongest may reproduce. Sexual selection, is the drive force of adaptation. Now, understand, that this is law based. This is however the evolution theory, only without the becoming "more complex" over time. Understand, that these laws, these natural laws, work also for inside of us. Mind changes the fastest of all phenomenon. Sense of self is sustained due to sense gratification in the given moment. Attachment to ones desires, is the drive force of sense of self, leading to personhood, sustaining lawlessness as a result. If you look at the first and second group, then actually you see just, adaptation, that unfolds due to attachment. Understand that therefor, due to that adaptation is, chance is not. Chance thinking is therefor a result of previous actions, and the action one still is in, which is sustaining and strengthening this belief, that again lead to its results over time. Understand that both inside and outside, is empty in nature equally. All things are therefor temporary in nature. If this is the case, then see clearly that if not a single phenomenon is asking for any of your approval, is not asking for any explanation, is temporary in nature, is empty in nature... Then what is the basis of you, that supposed to have this free will? You might now clearly see, that everything you are, is a result, at the same time being in action, and being accumulating. Therefor the path to enlightenment due to that all phenomenon are temporary in nature and therefor empty in their nature, and are therefor a composite, is as clear as the scientific method is concerning the "outer world" and its laws. To become enlightened, is as clear as becoming an additional scientist. However, not all become a scientist. And even less become enlightened. Imagine people become scientists just because they randomly study. Its ridiculous really. The same can be said about becoming enlightened. Go educate yourself about Darwin, cut out the "becoming more complex, or chance being the governor" and start to understand that both inside and outside, this whole discern does not exist, because all phenomenon, both inside us and outside us, are equally empty and therefor law based (everything leads to its according results based on the circumstances it arose from, and ceases to exist due to its impermanent nature). Its therefor wrong to conclude: Scientists are scientists because they have had an academic study. Science means "knowledge". However, there is also direct knowledge, which is pure science. This is however the study of both the inside and outside phenomenon, and the relationship between one another in sense of discerning. A science student, uses books, observation material etc... Understand that a noble Student of the pure sciences (that I see as way to enlightenment), uses his own mind as the observation material, and the laws of nature (concerning the changing conditions both inside and outside) as the book to learn from, ignorance is therefor seen as: Sustaining of lawlessness. Or better said, ones thinking to have a choice. Its already difficult to become an additional scientist. Let along someone who understands both the inner and outer by the same laws an additional scientist works with concerning observable material. The difference is, an additional scientist is due to an academic study not free of craving, but must be able to explain the "outer" world. To succeed as the noble student of the pure sciences (becoming enlightened), one must get rid of craving. And must therefor study sufficiently, seeing inner and outer world equally empty due to its nature, and apply this by living up to this, in order to clear "choice thinking," the sustaining of lawlessness, the gambling game. Or can be said as followed: Adaptation (both inner and outer), is one with suffering. There is only suffering. Therefor, living in accordance, canceling out choice thinking, ignorance, sustaining of lawlessness, then one is one with suffering... Then, if one is one with suffering, no longer attached to comparing, how then suffering?

Of course I still need to see your research papers where such conclusions logically came about and are based upon, backed up with hard evidence. Where are the results of your research? Comparing an Enlightened one with psychopathic people is very bold and unwholesome indeed, if not having a strong case with decent arguments and decent proof to back up your claims, and having a decent understanding concerning Enlightened beings and psychopathic people.

@Dodoster I can't imagine that.

@Dodoster I really wonder where that puppet must be then. All inside phenomenon such as the impressions of the senses, feelings, mental shapes, mental formations, intellect perception and sensitivity over things, just fails to hold. Yet all outer phenomenon, also just come and go. Both inner and outer are empty in nature. Where is the puppet that I call me or you?

Hmm: Realizing both inside, and outside of You, is equally empty in nature.

@Dodoster If this is however the case somehow, if I did give that expression, than this is not my intent readers. I will therefor add something to all of that. A whole big list of critical questions... By which I would criticize. I might not have added, that the most funny thing about it, is that I don't know the answers either, and I do know that very well from my part when someone else tries to answer them. It does make me, just that, a conscious fool where it looks, and even might seem to others, that I do know the answers, while this isn't the case at all! Therefor I stated: Its a game: I will criticize, and dodster you took it. Thats all, (and you did well). (however no one just asked: What about you Aware, do you know the answer, and let me ask in return?) However if feelings are hurt, then this is not my intent, let that be clear. @ajasatya We often play this game at home, when we truly are questioning and one thinks to have the answers, one takes the position of not knowing (which one is already in naturally), the other takes the position of thinking one knows, and the one thinking he knows, is the one criticized statement by statement on what he states, until finally the end statement follows naturally (or is inevitable, but not mentioned): I don't know. I just think I know, however: What do we know, and can we know? From here wisdom starts. dodoster and I spoke already in private, that it is indeed just a game. And I do think it is very healthy, due to that many try to escape the sense of self, while such a game, indeed boils up exactly to learn to question it until both realize its a game of pretending, which has not been spoken out here, but in private, as we choose so. And even so that it seems that I do know the answer therefor criticizing however, I say, that is the game, because I don't know the answers either, it only seems so!

@Dodoster The point is very clear, a list, and clear answers. And there isn't any clear answer to be found, and any reader can see that. And that is the conclusion. I have said that I would critically examen the post on the answers given on such questions. But you did not give them. Well after some pointers to get you there, it is now up to yourself to deal with it. I am not further examen them, I see you clearly don't know the answers on such questions. And if you disagree, that can be so. I examined your answers, not the sense of self behind it. I thank you for your attempt to answer the list of questions I presented. But I conclude that you just don't know the answers to such questions, based on the answers you have been giving. And good luck with further practicing, and I definitely advice to question deeply before answering such questions, asking the right questions, lead eventually to knowledge after all!

That is fallacy of course. I am not telling you that you must be Buddha, or that you must answer the way he did. I am referring to his work, letting you question rather you were as clear or not. Buddha is not a person, I refer to his work, that reflects Buddha in relationship with your posting. But if you wanna take it down that road: I am definitely sure that I can review his work as clear as daylight compared to your posts about the questions that I asked. And now you try to escape with: This of course doesn't answer any question on that list I posted which of course you responded on showing you know the answers to them, I hope you clearly see that you after all (and I can just quote the whole bunch of it here...) did came with a post where you were thinking to have the answers. While I don't see any clear answer coming. How from nothing, comes something. What ego is, on top of that nothing you speak off. Its just a wild bunch of guess work where you claimed to have investigated reality, and when asked about it, you speak like: Of course when asked the whole bunch of how to get there, what your daily structure is, we get of course the same vague answers... Of course because the most simple questions asked about life, he can't answer properly. Which will let people think: ... Well I think they know for themselves. You can also just be honest and say: I just don't know. I just thought I knew, but I do not know.