Zephyr

#20 I'd love to conceptualize, philosophize, theorize these with you. But I'd rather say you would likely be better off if you just sit the fuck down and face direct experience itself. Rather than getting drowned in thoughts about it.

#19 Conceptualization is a very common trap I see in myself and others. We should stop trying to find Truth or what is true. They only lead to more concepts traps. Instead focus on looking through what is not true.

#18 What is which that does not change

#17 Words are too subjective. The same word might mean something different to you than the other person.

#16 What ever the camera perceives is not the camera.

#15 Maybe death is another thought.

#14 Unconditional Love: When you realize there is no one doing the loving. No one trying to love. Yet there is just loving.. Loving that which cannot love or does not know how to love. I wonder what would that be like

Depends on how you define Alpha Using force as a means of leading others seems pretty Beta to me. Itsnt an Alpha a leader in social situations. He does not threaten others. He makes others feel safe. He protects everybody in the group.

duude, imagine what enlightenment would be like,, way way more beyond this. This experiences really pumps me up

Welcome to the journey, bro one love

#13 I don't really quite get it. I'm not even sure if I'm in the right track and all. Concepts about enlightenment use to fascinate me, and I kind of like to discuss it with other people in the forum. Now, it seems that every thread that are posted are almost null and irrelevent to Non-duality work. I don't know if I changed or the forum did. I think the forum did. There's just new people, I guess. But something also in me changed. I could see my ego. I also learned that concepts does not get you to awaken, it helps though. Most of the threads on Non-duality are becoming more futile and unuseful for me. People be only posting irrelevent stuffs such as their concepts, and wants to hear other peoples' concepts.

#12 Is there a doer in the doing? Is there a thinker in thinking?

Another way of saying this is "What ever you percieve, you are not" The Camera Analogy; What ever the camera is percieving is not the camera. Even an image of the reflection of the camera does not make it the camera p.s. I don't really quite get this either

#11 Non-Duality suggests that ownership is a story/thought. We tend to say "My body" instead of saying "Body" (body is another thought) We say "My thoughts" instead of "Thoughts" Instead of "Feelings of Bliss" we say "My feelings of bliss" Instead of "Feelings of suffering" we tend to say "My feelings of suffering"

#10 hal·lu·ci·na·tion həˌlo͞osəˈnāSH(ə)n/ noun noun: hallucination; plural noun: hallucinations an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present.

#9 That's what I thought at first. I thought I was becoming enlightened and no self and shit. Those experiences will come, will go. Sometimes it can even be depressing. Still experiences are experiences. Let them move. My mistake was that I kept chasing them, thinking "This is what Enlightenment is! I got to keep myself in this state" Your experiences, whether bliss or unbliss, does not get you closer or further from awakening.

#8 What are you seeking for?

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#7 Nothing changes. Confused. Feeling lost. Doubts. Enlightened or not Enlightened, nothing changes. Thoughts will be thoughts. Feelings will be feelings.

#6 How would saying "I'm not the brain" be any more different than saying "I am the brain"??

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#5 "all thoughts are the same: they are temporary appearances that come and go like clouds in the sky" All my past assumptions, concepts, ideas about what enlightenment is and how it ought to be like are all wrong. Now that I have a more accurate concept/idea of what enlightenment is -- -- (jk)

There's nothing wrong with being nice (unless if there's fear motivating it)

Why not?

#4 "A wise man once said nothing"