Concentrate on the space where thoughts arises, if you see close enough you will found something like an invicable wall where thoughts arises, now really concertate on that wall and even be that wall,stay there the whole duration of your meditation...let me know if this works well like it worked for me...i could say this could make you enlightened the fastest way imo...

Because you are not capable of that. You're not conscious yet how all your relationships are actually pawns and manipulation schemes designed by your ego to serve your self-agenda.
That will take some serious work to undo. And if you ever do it, you will become detached from all human beings. (Although the end result of detachment is the exact opposite of what you probably think.)
The extent to which you need relationships is the extent to which your relationships are dysfunctional, and vice versa.
Be careful not to conflate detachment with avoidance. I'm not saying you need to avoid anything per se.

There are healthy and unhealthy ways to be socially withdrawn.
In the healthy version, you desire isolation so that you can focus on working on your consciousness.
Many sages have socially withdrawn themselves to high degrees that would seem unhealthy to most people. But they were just hardcore in their practices. This isn't strictly necessary, but it may be for some people for some period of time until they finish their work.
In the end, there is only the one Self, so all those other people are none other than you. So whether you are with people or not, you are still always alone.
There is no problem being alone as long as you enjoy it and you are not becoming more and more depressed or mentally unstable.

Distinction is a very tricky issue because distinction is the very nature of being.
If you fully understood what a distinction was, you would understand the ultimate nature of reality, and you would be deeply enlightened.
Distinction is NOT a concept!
Distinction is the "substance" of reality. And what then is the nature of a distinction? Nothing!
Yes, paradox here is not a mistake. What you're starting to intuit is that reality has no substance. It's a set of distinct appearances which are actually just a hallucination.
Reality is not made out of matter or atoms or energy. Reality is made out of distinctions!
Creation is distinction. Without distinction you have pure formless Infinity. And with distinction, you also have pure Infinity! The formed side of Infinity.
Form is formlessness. Formlessness is form.
Duality is none other than nonduality.
Infinity contains an infinite number of distinctions.
It's highly worthwhile to contemplate: What is a distinction?
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Mind vs not-mind = a distinction
Automatic vs not automatic = a distinction
Consciousness vs unconsciousness = a distinction
Real vs unreal = a distinction
Subjective vs objective = a distinction
Truth vs falsehood = a distinction
Creation vs destruction = a distinction
The universe vs me = a distinction
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Consciousness is the substanceless substance within which all of these distinctions occur. Like an LCD screen on which images are rendered.
Everything you've ever seen or thought or experienced is a distinction. Including existence itself.

It is the only real thing.
Every other aspect of your experience is an illusion. If you find whats directly real you will find enlightenment. Just ask yourself! because what is directly real is YOU. It is Literally been YOU, always.
YOU are at the center of all experience, you are also the fabric of all experience and every shape that takes form.
Let all thoughts fall away at the waste-side as the tremendous REALNESS of yourSELF pushes through in utter silence. Your NATURE does not need any explanation, definition, paradigm or any other mind construction, your BEING is pure and inadulterated until you choose to think about it.
Even the thought of enlightenment is not real, so cut it the fuck out when you are meditating, cut out all the bullshit and just go for what is real.

Yes, from your current POV and level of consciousness. that's how it appears.
But what you're missing is the Absolute.
You are assuming the Absolute will just be another relative phenomenon. Except the Absolute is not that. It's Absolute!
"Direct experience" of the Absolute is not like a regular experience. That word "experience" is misleading here. We use that word because you do not have direct consciousness of the Absolute and so it cannot be communicated to you in any other way than to call it "an experience". But it's not really an experience, or a perception, or a thought, or a belief, or knowledge. It's something entirely new which you've never encountered before. And yet it's right there under your nose right this second.
What you're missing is that you have 100% raw direct unmediated access to Absolute Truth, prior to perception or experience.
Because you believe that you exist, this sense of self which you think is real has co-opted the Absolute and recontextualized it as "my experience". Such that the Absolute is right there, but you cannot see it because the ego has managed to convince itself that "this is MY experience". Once the ego is realized to be an illusion, "experience" will be recontextualized into the Absolute.
There actually never was such a thing as "experience" or "perception" or "a human looking at the world". That was the Absolute the whole time, but you didn't realized it because you were so self-absorbed that you mistook the Absolute for "my life, my experience, my perception."
If you could understand what I am saying here, you'd already be enlightened and there would be no need to have this conversation as it would be perfectly obvious to you already.
Can you notice that you are not a human being, but that you are God? It's right there! Look! You're God!
See it?
The thing looking through your skull, your eyes, is God. Seriously. Stop fucking around and notice it. Realize what you are.

Just focus your awareness on pure awareness itself.
It's that simple. But it requires building up a great concentration ability. One-pointed focus. The mind will struggle because awareness is empty, and the mind cannot latch onto it.

@non_nothing The key to do nothing is letting go of all control. So you just sit there and every time you notice an attempt to manipulate your experience arise, you let it go. And you keep doing this over and over again until you are completely surrendered to just the present moment.
Surrender all techniques, surrender all desire to manipulate thoughts or change your experience in any way.
It's a wonderful method. But sometimes it also produces lots of monkey mind because you're letting go of all control. This is normal. The monkey mind will eventually subside.
But Kriya yoga is still far superior.
Do nothing becomes amazing after a few months/years of Kriya yoga.

I read this in the internet, now I am sharing with you all.
Read it carefully
The first principle is becoming aware of our thoughts and the nature of thought. By taking the position of just being an observer of the thoughts and images that come and go we recognize all thoughts are the same: they are temporary appearances that come and go like clouds in the sky.
Give no importance to one thought over another. If we pay no attention to any thought but remain in the “observer” role, it seems the space of awareness becomes more open and thoughts less demanding of attention. We discover all thoughts are without substance and importance. We could say our thoughts are “empty”, like clouds: appearances without any core or entity.
The second principle is recognizing our stories and emotional dramas are structured only from thought, our “empty” thoughts. In continuing to observe our thoughts we should notice how they tend to link together in chains of meaning and particular significance. It is this linking together of thoughts that creates our stories, beliefs and emotional drama in a convincing and powerful way. As a result we may spend most of our time going from one mini-daydream to another.
It is this trance-like state of mind that we need to break up again and again as often as possible. We do that by shifting our attention from thought to the presence of the five senses in immediate now-ness. Just notice your physical environment and the direct sensory experience free of analysis. Practice this shifting away from mental engagement in thought to noticing your physical environs as often as possible.
The third principle is recognizing that one’s sense of self is also only an empty story made of thought; a mental construction without an actual identity as an entity that exists independently and with self-determinism.. There is no personal self present other than this make-believe “me” story.
Even science makes clear there is just one unified field of energy as the universe without separate parts. The entire field is inter-dependent without any breaks or splits in the unity. The sense of being an independent entity like a “personal self”, is just an illusion and has never existed in fact.
By observing the “me” thoughts that arise from moment to moment we can notice the “personal me” is nothing more than a chain of linked thoughts about identity that are supported by memories and imagination. Seeing this directly and clearly, not just intellectually, the emptiness of personal identity becomes obvious to the mind at which point the illusion ceases…
The fourth principle is recognizing what exactly is the nature of that which is observing and experiencing the empty nature of thoughts, stories and personal selfhood. What is doing the “recognizing”? What is this impersonal aware consciousness that perceives and knows? In these recognitions there seems to be an ever increasing evolution or revelation of wisdom. As a result one’s cognitive space seems expansive, open and vividly transparent without a center…
The fifth principle is recognizing the inseparable relationship between one’s empty, aware “seeing” and the five senses. One can’t find awareness separate from one’s sensory perceptions. There isn’t first a sensory perception and then an awareness of it. The five senses are this “knowing awareness” seeming to be split up into five separate sensory components. These sensory capacities are not limited to the physical five senses. “Knowing awareness” can perceive independently of the five physical senses with no limitations regarding time and space.
Merging our attention fully with the five senses instead of with the mental phenomena of thoughts, stories and beliefs in personal identity, reveals a state of total “nowness” beyond thought and mind. A limitless vista of knowing transparency and Clear Light reveals itself to be our true nature beyond any descriptions or assumptions of mind. In merging our attention totally with the five senses, the luminous nature of appearances reveals the empty vividness of our Aware and Knowing Space.
If one incorporates and integrates these five principles into one’s daily practice, in my opinion no other methods or practices should be considered necessary…
  

@Dinesh Karki Legally immigrating here will be very difficult these days. The number of permanent residencies given out each year is very tiny. You're about as likely to win the lottery.
The best way to move here is to start a successful business in your home country, then expand it into the US and hire 20 employees here. Then they will give you residency and citizenship.
That's how my dad did it.
As always, if you want something in life, rather than asking others to give you value, you become the provider of value. Don't ask the USA to provide you with free value. Provide the USA with value first, and then the doors will open to you.
This is a general strategy for anything you want it life. Provide massive value to others first without asking anything in return.
If you really want something, you gotta be willing to work for it and be super creative.

Nooby detected. Those people you mentioned are all public figures placed there by real hackers to distract you from what's going on behind the scenes. Don't follow those guys, they're there to distract you and they are ingeniously crafted to look extremely wise and calm and Zen, as if they understood everything and that they are above everyone.
Those people have not yet come close to hacking reality or switching dimensions and experiencing senses you've never even dreamed of.
Do you even know what it feels like to be a tree? The true joy, freedom and existential freedom that comes from that? Or to be water? You literally get to bask in yourself. This is the true power of hacking, not sitting in an empty room trying to silence your mind modeling societies ( systems ).
This is all noob-tier, lvl 1 stuff. When you hack reality you can experience everything, including death, and even no-experience and beyond, then you truly become infinite. Sadhguru is not even worth mentionning, maybe he helped you cure your fear of death/anxiety but he's still very limited.
 

@tsuki The trick is that the notion of "facts" is itself already theory-laden.
To believe in "facts" is already to buy into the false idea that there is an external objective reality independent of the subject.
What is a fact?
That is a good thing to contemplate.
The problem with facts is that they are always entangled with one's mode of perception or the questions one asks. This was the fundamental discovery of quantum mechanics: there are no actual facts. There are only responses to measurements. Change your measuring stick and the facts will also change.
Facts are in a casual strange loop relationship with who you are and your perceptual system. Such that if we change your perceptual system, or your beliefs, we can change everything you consider a fact.
The reason people disagree with and misunderstand each other so much is because they naively assume that everyone shares the same facts. This is false. A person at one level of development & consciousness will literally inhabit a different reality than a person at another level of development & consciousness.
The mind is co-creating "the facts", but denies that it does so. This is a radical paradigm shift from the conventional materialist notion of reality.
To put this very starkly, when you look at an object like a tree, there is in fact no tree there. You only see a tree because that's what your perceptual system pulls out of it. If you had a different perceptual system you would see something radically different in its place. The "actual" tree is in fact a cloud of infinite potential which crystallizes based on how your nervous system pings "it". You can get a taste for this by just walking around the tree and noticing that that tree "object" contains every possible angle from which you're viewing it. Such that what the tree really is, is all the infinite ways one can look at it (not just human, but all possible creatures).

You blindly believe other people exist.
99% of all your beliefs are blind faith. So what's one more gonna do?
No one is asking you to believe in chakras. Yoga is a practice. You do it and see what happens. It's like looking inside a microscope. No one cares what you believe. You just look in the damn thing with enough openmindness to accept whatever shows up.
It might take you a few years of looking to really see what's there. In the meantime, be radically openminded.
Notice, you never asked this question about all the current nonsense you believe. You just swallowed it gullibly.
You never asked: "Why should I believe in the number 5? Does it really exist?"
99% of the things you think exist, don't. So what? Somehow you are still able to wake up in the morning and get things done.

@Timotheus The entire universe is infinitely intelligent. Look, it's reading this sentence right now and understanding it!
But that's just the tip of the iceberg of how smart the universe is. It was smart enough to create itself. Think about that for a moment.
Then notice, you are the universe thinking about how it created itself!
It really helps to reframe your entire metaphysics of what reality is. Rather than thinking of reality as a dumb box of bouncing balls, think of it as an infinitely intelligent disembodied mind. Once you make that reframe, it's no longer puzzling that the universe should be intelligent. Intelligence is just fundamentally what minds do.
The universe was not born as dumb matter. It was born fully intelligent. Because that's what reality is! There is no option for reality to dumb, other than by acting stupid through application of infinite intelligence to trick itself.
Rather than thinking of the universe as a thing which starts out at 0%, think of it as a thing which starts out at 100% and dumbs itself down. So it's not that intelligent apes evolved, but rather than infinite intelligence was dumbed down to create apes, ants, humans, etc.
Imagine that God is a really good method actor playing an ape. That's you! The method actor is so good he can dumb himself down to any level below infinity, precisely because he is infinitely good.
Another way to think of it this: try to imagine why the universe wouldn't be infinitely intelligent. And then realize, there's nothing that would stop it. So it became infinitely intelligent. And here we are. Everything exists because there is no one to enforce any rules upon reality. So reality overflows into an infinite number of directions and dimensions.
When you realize that dumbness is equally as impossible as infinite intelligence, you'll understand why infinite intelligence exists.
The question you should really be asking yourself is: Why did I ever assume the universe was dumb?
Your mind might protest: "But how was intelligence created?"
To which you should tell it: "But how was dumbness created?"

Your vibrational frequency. The faster you vibrate the slower time appears(so to speak). Time doesn't really exist, its an illusion and we function more like frame-rates on a filmstrip. How do you think masters who can effectively meditate for few years gain knowledge as if they have been living for thousands? This is easily noticeable on psychedelics, because you vibrate at such a high rate you tap into other lives, other viewpoints of self ect... throughout existence thus can gain such knowledge, remembrance and understanding within a few hours that you couldn't gain in years normally cause when you vibrate at such a high rate you see self as one with all that exists so you remember all your other "viewpoints" of existence and retain what you are capable of retaining and discard what is not necessary for your own personalized evolution of consciousness/expression.
 

@krazzer I was attending school for a computer programmer. So I had a lot of programming to do in various languages. I was still in this awarness all of the time. Being hyper aware, observant, and focused on breathing. Not controlling breathing, just observant of the breathing mechanism, sometimes slowing my breathing down but generally focused on maintaining the awarness of the breathing mechanism. I was not paying any attention to thoughts at all, and I have still made it. It's possible.

@ChimpBrain That is like saying "I meditated for 1 day and saw no results".
You know better than that.

Ever wonder why Leo always wears that same black shirt? (Or now that stylish collared one? )
It comes down to making fewer, higher quality decisions during the day.
In decision making and psychology, decision fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality of decisions made by an individual after a long session of decision making. It is now understood as one of the causes of irrational trade-offs indecision making.
My question for you is...
How many decisions are you making a day? Are they important decisions or are you burning through vital energy on decisions that don't matter? What are some better systems you could put in place that would radically reduce or eliminate the amount of decisions you would need to make?
All the best!

Journaling, contemplation, and visualization should help a lot with this.
You could use just these 3 techniques + psychedelics to totally transform yourself within a couple of years. But you must do them consistently.
And Kriya yoga too! Kriya is excellent for raising your baseline level of consciousness to almost mild psychedelic levels.

Firstly, the universe does not exist inside a brain. The notion of "the brain" is itself part of the notion "the universe"! So the universe cannot exist inside a brain because that would be like saying the universe exists inside the universe, which is just silly.
The universe exists as a hallucination, nowhere! Not in any brain. Reality occurs nowhere, nowhen. Reality is an impossible object.
Secondly, the past is a concept. There is no such thing as the past. There is only the eternal present which the ego-mind misinterprets as past and future because it is deluded. Everything in reality has already occurred, simultaneously.
Thirdly, with your talk about McDonalds, you are speaking about the relative domain, which is the domain of Maya, the domain inside the dream. Inside the dream you must play by the dream's rules. In this dream, the rules are: if you eat McDonalds (which is an illusion), your body (which is an illusion) will deteriorate (which is an illusion) and you will die (which is an illusion).
When the only reality is illusion, illusions feel very "real" because you have no other point of reference.
Your death feels like a very serious event precisely because your life is an illusion!
Ta-da!

@Psyche_92 Yes, this is a huge problem.
What plan could you make to restructure your life so that you have significantly more time for self-actualization work?
This will probably involve making some radical structural changes, like re-thinking your entire career. This will involve some tough choices. And that is precisely how growth happens: tough choices, strategy, and emotional labor. You must be strategic and position yourself long-term so that you have more free time. If that means you spend 2 years re-training yourself for a new job, for example, then that's what you must do.
When I was in your shoes, I decided to quit my career and start my own business just so that I had the free time and money to do what I needed to do. It took me a 3-4 year detour to get my first business stabilized before I could really dig into my life purpose.
Working 10 hours per day simply will not work. It's a terrible strategy that you must now figure a way out of. Not only does it preclude self-actualization work, it will destroy your health and well-being in the long-term.
Work smarter, not harder.
After years of strategically laying my groundwork I now have the freedom to not work for 10 years without any financial problems. That's what good strategy will yield. I could retire and go meditate for 1 year straight without any worries, come back, and still be richer than when I left. This situation did not happen by accident! I deliberately designed it this way because I realized a long time ago that freedom was the #1 variable to living the kind of life I envision. It's very hard to self-actualize when you are a wage slave.
See video: How To Be A Strategic Motherfucker. I'm real serious about it.

Here's something I wrote down, from today's contemplation. I hope it makes sense.
I am following the Gita (March 18) 
Understand the illusion of Thoughts. Thoughts are giving you a made up story all the time, you make up new Worlds in your mind, you believe in them. The most predominant world is that where you are the center of this life. And when I say YOU, I mean the Ego. Your Self-Image, Your Self-Talk, your most predominant thoughts. You believe you are that, and those are dictating your life. BE VERY Couscous of Made up worlds in your head. They are present all the time. The made up story on how you will attain this or that is the most predominant thought in your head. And that is the root cause of your ignorance. The fact that you hover over the thought of accomplishing C by doing A,B, and the thought of lacking A or B gives you suffering. 
UNDERSTAND and put into practice the fact that you live within YOU, within GOD. You are infinitely intelligent, and scarcity is not real. Society is diluting you most times, with their made up wants and needs, but your thought patterns. Your conditioning and your habits are making you go in this rabbit hole a lot deeper.     
Nothing is done by you. You are not meant to suffer from your actions!
it is relaxed, simple, no mental fever required, just presence. Just willingness to do the right thing.

Triggering the Experience   

Ok, let’s begin. (You should be alone and probably allow at least 40 minutes to do this) 
There will be a series of things for you to do, ponder, or read through. If you really want the experience, you need to take your time and FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. Remember, you don’t have to believe anything. However, you do have to follow what is said (especially when you're told to ponder something). 

Also, DON'T SKIP AROUND because the power of the words may be lost. 

Take your time and read it through to the end. 

[Note: As you read through this material, be aware that your ego may resist somewhat by responding: “This won’t work for me”, “I don’t have time to mess with this”, “Nothing’s happening”, etc.] 
 
First of all, what we’re trying to do is initiate the experience by utilizing several different 'triggers'. Therefore, don't worry if you don't resonate with a particular section provided. 

With that in mind, ask yourself the following question- 
What is the “YOU” that you think you are? 
 
Mirror Exercise
Multiple Personality Disorder

Consider the following hypothetical situation:

“YOU” are not your personality.  
  What is the “YOU” that you think you are?   
 
Just see the logic and look………Look. 

We'll come back to the Soul in just a minute.
Now, let’s examine thoughts. 
“YOU” are not your thoughts. 
What is the “YOU” that you think you are?   
TAKE 15 MINUTES and PONDER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS 
What is the “YOU” that you think you are?   There is no "YOU".

TAKE ANOTHER 10 MINUTES and again PONDER the 5 QUESTIONS above



There is no “YOU”. Sit with it. Ponder it. No need to meditate on it. 
Don’t force it. Just see it for what it is. Let it settle. Let it simmer. 
Let it “take hold”. Surrender to it. 
There is no “YOU”. 
See it. Look at it. Focus.
 
Just look……….THERE IS NO “YOU”..........
Look……………See it………………LOOK………..........


An Equation
It might be useful to look at it like a mathematical equation. You’re saying in essence that there's my Soul and there's "me" (and they both combine to make "me"). 

So, the Equation looks like this: 
In mathematics, you CANCEL OUT TWO IDENTICAL TERMS on opposite sides of the equation.  
Therefore, the Equation: 
Here are two more examples:
EQUATION #1
EQUATION #2 

The “YOU” that you thought was "YOU" is an illusion. “YOU” are a mental construct. "YOU" are a figment of your imagination. "YOU" are a fictional EGO-self (the illusory self). 

"YOU" simply don't exist. A "YOU" is an unnecessary 'extra' in all of these equations. 

THERE IS NO “YOU”.



The Mental Construct of  " I "

If the experience still hasn’t “taken hold”, you may be asking yourself:  
' I ' am aware….. 
' I ' am able to observe…..
' I ' am conscious......
What is the ' I ' that is being referred to?  
 
Awareness exists. Observation exists. Consciousness exists. However, they are not "yours". They do not exist separately (in 'you') even though it appears so. 

Awareness, observation, and consciousness don't require a separate ' I ' to exist. They can exist without the mental construction of ' I '. The mind tries to connect awareness, observation, and consciousness to "something" tangible. So, it creates a separate ' I ' to make sense of things. 


Brief Exercise 

If you cease thought, Awareness is what remains. Try the following:

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The Awareness that looks out of 'your' eyes is the exact same Awareness that looks out of 'mine'. The only difference is that of location (or access point).  [Note: I'm not talking about thought. I'm talking about Awareness.]
  
If you really look, you will not be able to find a separate ' I ' that is behind "your" Awareness. The thing you think of as ' I ' does not exist. In Truth, there is no separate ' I '.  

In other words: 

There is no "YOU". 
 
***Take your time and PONDER the above for several minutes***
 

The Thought of "YOU"

"The experience is still not 'triggering' (after several attempts of pondering all of the above)." 
 
This is likely the sticking point - Your mind logically assumes that since THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, and SENSATIONS exist (This is true), then a separate "YOU" has to also exist because something has to "own" the THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, SENSATIONS, etc. Thus, the first part of the assumption is true while the second part of the assumption (i.e. a separate "YOU") is false. The second part is not true even though it is quite logical.

It's tricky because it really does FEEL like there's a separate and distinct "YOU". However, it's just a THOUGHT or FEELING or SENSATION. There's nothing other than the THOUGHT, the FEELING, the SENSATION. There is the SENSE of a separate 'self', but no actual, individuated, separate 'self'. 


Questions:

Without an actual 'self', you're left with merely a SENSE, FEELING, THOUGHT, CONCEPT, IDEA, PROJECTION, INKLING, ATTACHMENT of a separate 'self', but nowhere is there an actual, separate "YOU" to be found.

 
 Question:
 

***At a later time, take some time and contemplate this***


The FEELING of Existing
 
The FEELING of existing & being alive is real. However, the mind incorrectly interprets WHERE that FEELING comes from.  

The FEELING of existing & being alive does not originate from a separate "YOU". Amazingly, the FEELING of existing & being alive 
is actually coming from the undivided WHOLE of Consciousness (or Awareness, Source, Life, or whatever label you prefer).

In other words, that FEELING of existing that you attribute to "YOU" is actually coming from undivided Consciousness. It is the undivided WHOLE of Consciousness. It is the undivided WHOLE of Awareness.

The greatest falsity in human history all boils down to a misconception made by the mind.

It's an incredible Paradox - The FEELING of existing is not coming from a separate 'self' (even though the mind interprets it that way). That inner FEELING of existing is coming from a unified WHOLE. It is not coming from a separate entity called "YOU".

In other words:

THERE IS NO "YOU"


The Process of Looking

From this point forward, it is no longer based on pondering, contemplating, or questioning. It's now based on LOOKING (for a "YOU"). 

If "YOU" consist of more than just the THOUGHT, FEELING, SENSATION of a separate entity called "YOU", then there must be some EVIDENCE of "something" more.

You must now LOOK to see where that is. 

The definition of 'Looking' is exactly as the word implies - Look for a separate "YOU" as if you were looking for your reading glasses in your room. Through FOCUSED LOOKING, the experience can be 'triggered'. 

Now, it's time to earnestly LOOK for that EVIDENCE (of "something" more). Try your best to not come up with logical arguments or some way to make sense of everything. In order to have the experience, you have to do the work.
 
At this point, you have to literally KEEP LOOKING to find that "something" that is the separate 'thing' called "YOU" (other than a THOUGHT, FEELING, SENSATION).  By going through the PROCESS of Looking, the experience can be 'triggered'. 


What is the “YOU” that you think you are?  THERE IS NO "YOU".

Part of Actualizing yourself is learning about the spiritualities around the world.
One interesting spirituality is pythagoreanism, which takes numbers as god. Pythagoreans are basically the ultimate nerds.
From wikipedia:
Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BC, based on the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, who were considerably influenced by mathematics and mysticism. Later revivals of Pythagorean doctrines led to what is now called Neopythagoreanism or Neoplatonism. Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on Aristotle, and Plato, and through them, all of Western philosophy.
These days, it's hard to find pythagoreans out and about. The closest thing possible are the abstract mathematicians in some universities. They're not as crazy as the O.G. Pythagkreans, but if you press them hard enough, they will reveal personal beliefs that are way crazier than the existence of trolls, goblins, or fairies.
The perennial philosophy is that:
Absolute Truth = Undefined = You = God = Absolute Infinity = Zero
And the conclusions of the pythagoreans were no different from those of other mystics. It just happens to be that they reached their enlightenment through math. That is why I consider them full fledged spiritual practitioners in the vein of hardcore buddhists. I mean would you rather sit for 4 hour of zazen or 4 hours of high level calculus? 
The cool thing about the pythagoreans (or their modern equivalents) is that they bear the truth out out in clear terms. I mean, when it comes to talking about stuff, math is about as clear and logical as it gets. 
But most people don't grasp what's going on because the implications of math are too insane. That is, normal people would rather feel comfortable than accept the straight up Truth. Thats why pythagoreans were so fucking hard core. 
Take a pencil and a piece of paper and follow along to see what I mean.
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Step 1: 0 = 0  
Basic level stuff here. 
Step 2: 0 = 1-1 = (1-1) = 0
Nothing too crazy. Just create and destroy to return to the same place. We can do this as much as we want.
Step 3: 0 = 1-1+1-1+1-1... = 0
In case you're confused, let's add brackets to make things easier to look at.
0 = 1-1+1-1+1-1... = (1-1)+(1-1)+(1-1)... = (0) + (0) + (0) + (0).... = 0 
We still end up with Create and destroy, create and destroy, create and destroy...
Brackets are arbitrary... we can put brackets however we'd like. 
Step 4: 1-1+1-1+1-1... = (1-1)+(1-1)+(1-1)... = 1+(-1 +1)+(-1+1)...
All I did was change the position of one of the brackets -- nothing that breaks the rules of mathematics. 
Step 5: 1+(-1 +1)+(-1+1)... = 1+(0)+(0)+(0)... 
Wait a minute. This is starting to get fishy...
Step 6: 0 = (1-1)+(1-1)+(1-1)... = 1+(-1 +1)+(-1+1)... = 1+(0)+(0)+(0)...  = 1
No... That can't be right... Let me check that again... That would mean...
Step 7: 0 = 1
No. It can't be!
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Oh yes. And things only get crazier from here...
Lets say the letter S represents the same infinite, alternating series of plus and minus 1 from earlier. 
Step 8: S = 1-1+1-1+1-1... 
Now lets play around. What is (1 - S)? Just insert numbers into the equation to see.
Step 9: 1 - S = 1 - (1-1+1-1+1-1...)
Multiply every bracketed number by the negative sign. 
Step 10: 1- S =  1-1+1-1+1-1...
Didn't we say that S = 1-1+1-1+1-1... in the first place?
Step 11:  1 - S = S 
So if we move things around to the other side to solve the equation we get
Step 12: 2S = 1
divide to finish the problem
Step 13: S = 1/2 = 1-1+1-1+1-1....
In review we have:
0     = 1-1+1-1+1-1... 
1     = 1-1+1-1+1-1... 
1/2 = 1-1+1-1+1-1... 
putting it all together we get solid logical proof for 
0 = 1/2  = 1 
In this way, the truth of even one of the most simple mathematical concepts is Absolutely Relative and based on your contextual perspective. 
Fuckkkk. We can't allow this. There has to be some solid answer. Lets keep going. 
Let's imagine a lamp that turns on and off
1 = the lamp is on
0 = the lamp is off
Then lets imagine ourselves turning the lamp on and off indefinitely. 
S = 1-1+1-1+1-1...  = On, Off, On, Off, On, Off...
This is called Thomson's Lamp, after a mathematician named James F. Thomson.  
The universe wants to know what Thomson's lamp looks like at the end of infinity. 
Oh you say we can't do that? That would take all of eternity, wouldn't it?
Actually it would just take one day. Or one hour. Or one minute. Or However long I'd like. 
Lets say I decided to figure out what's going on with Thomson's Lamp in under a minute. I would wait half of a chosen total time to turn the lamp on. Then I would wait half of that time to turn the light off. Then I would wait half of that half to turn the light on again. And so on and so on over the course of just one minute.
I can match each step in turning the lamp on and off to each half intervals of the total time I chose. After an infinitely smaller set of intervals, I will have an infinite number of steps.
This would be called a super task. 
Step 1: ON -  Total Time passed: 30 seconds
Step 2: OFF - Total Time passed: 45 seconds
Step 3: ON -  Total Time passed: 52.5 Seconds
Step 4: OFF - Total Time passed: 56.25 Seconds 
Step 5: ON -  Total Time passed: 58.125 Seconds
... infinite number of times ...
Step 5: ??? -   Total Time elapsed: 1 minute
Thomson had this to say about his lamp's state at the end of the minute:
It seems impossible to answer this question. It cannot be on, because I did not ever turn it on without at once turning it off. It cannot be off, because I did in the first place turn it on, and thereafter I never turned it off without at once turning it on. But the lamp must be either on or off. This is a contradiction.
Thomson jumped the gun when he says his example demonstrates a 'contradiction.' 
See, I'd like you to bear with me when I say that life isn't so black and white. Indeed, life as we know it happens in the undefined state of 1/2, where the lamp isn't ON or OFF even though it can be none other than ON or OFF. 
Here is a graph of the on off lamp where 1 = On and 0 = Off

What we can do is take the theoretical infinite limit of the series. Limits are basically a way to say "alright, where is this stuff headed?" 
Usually, limits require convergence, or a clear direction for the graphed out representation. What you'd end up doing is taking that convergence and finding the average of its direction. 
As you can see in the above graph, however, the lamp is in a state of ON or OFF such that it has no convergence. If anything there is divergence. 
That's fine. Math allows us to keep looking at bracketed versions of the series and take the average of all of the answers and then take the average of that average.
In normal people talk, just look at the little line I placed in the average of the graph: it's 1/2. 
If you still don't understand, watch this video:
When looking at this sum Thomson had this to say:
Now mathematicians do say that this sequence has a sum; they say that its sum is 1⁄2. And this answer does not help us, since we attach no sense here to saying that the lamp is half-on. 
Lets look at this lamp in real life:
Most everyday lamps don't turn on and off at an infinitely fast rate. They go through a partly-on and partly-off state. So the real world version of the lamp would never quite be on or off at end of our little time interval. 
Moreover, if the lamp were able to turn on and off at an infinitely fast rate, it would still appear ON to us despite having an average of 1/2.
To understand what I mean, look at pulse-width modulation (PWM) works for dimming lamps. PWM lights turn on and off thousands of times per second, causing eyes and cameras to sample a mix of on and off time and average the two. When you "dim" the lamp, you actually just change the amount of time that goes by between ON flickers and OFF flickers. 
The key is that since eyes and cameras work by sampling light at a certain rate and pasting images together, you don't realize that there's any flickering going on at all.
Again, in fast motion, it just looks like a light that's on. So, 1/2 looks like 1 and not so much like 0, although it is indeed just at 1/2.  
That's just the surface level.
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Isn't it just a little sketchy that I claimed to complete an infinite task in a finite time as if it were a piece of cake? 
I intentionally ignored the significance of what was going on.
We all do. 
See, every moment of our day is itself a super task. 
Think about it for a moment:
when you walk across the street you have to walk across half of the street when you walk across half the street you have to walk across half of the half of the street when you walk across the half of the half of the street you have to walk across half of the half of the half of the street. and so on towards infinity Thus we have an infinite amount of steps taken in a finite time. This is called Zeno's Paradox.
Scientists handwave the paradox away by saying that reality "stops" at the Planck length, planck time, and light signals of the observable universe, but metaphysically, that is bullshit. (What happens when we cross half a planck length?  and half of that? etc...) Moreover, we don't just quantize reality as a way to talk. We do so unconsciously from the very moment we are born. It's necessary to have a minimum limit to the size of time and space or else we could not function whatsoever. 
The human brain itself seems to localize and quantize infinite awareness. (read: does not create, but instead localizes!) It takes pure infinite energy and pure infinite time and pure infinite imagination and makes it a finite form of energy, time, and imagination. It's like an anchor for pure nothingness to believe it is pure everythingness. 
The brain does this over and over again at a certain frame rate such that reality gets created and destroyed and created again without us noticing. 
You know how movies have a frame rate of about 24 frames per second? We have a frame rate too. Although the eye itself does not have an on and off switch similar to a camera, our entire being itself has a frame rate. Otherwise, we would be stuck going through infinity at every moment. 
This frame rate is what determines our estimation of time's passage.
Again, if you increase the frame rate, you would get a slowed down reality. If you decrease the frame rate, you would get a faster reality. 
The smaller you cut up time, the slower it gets. If you cut it infinitely small, you get infinite time. If there are no cuts then there is simply infinity. 
If you don't believe me, try to swat a fly. Small insects cut up, or quantize, reality at a greater rate than we do and for that reason, they have ridiculous reaction times. Their 'frame rate' is around 250 Hz while ours is about 60 Hz. For that reason, flies see us swatting them at about 1/4th the speed we think we do and they easily escape. 
So to be clear again, time itself is infinitely smooth. But to experience this you would have to take an infinite amount of time, which is simply not feasible for a normal creature. 
The solution is that our brains cut up time and space into distinct units to bootstrap time and get it going.
This 'cutting up' makes reality "pop" in and out of existence every moment. The flickering of creation and destruction gets glazed over so that it all looks like one smooth thing. We would not function very well if we saw everything flickering in and out of existence while time passes from one moment of now to the next moment of now. 
The same general idea applies to why we don't perceive objects as probability clouds, but instead newtonian objects. We would not function if everything we saw 'existed' as a probability cloud. Imagine looking in your lovers eyes only to see right through their head because they are in fact made out of 99.9999% vacuum! 
So, we unconsciously make it look like:
the lamp is On reality is real objects are solid you are "you" When the truth is that:
the lamp is in a non dual state, both On and Off  reality is in a non dual state, both real and not-real objects are in a non dual state, both waves and particles you are in a non dual state, both you and not-you  ----
And it goes further. Lets look at the big bang and cosmic inflation and apply our little numbers for a second by saying
0 = a state of nothingness
1/2 = a state in-between nothingness and oneness 
1 = a state of ultimate oneness
Now,
1 -- Lets "start" with the big bang for a moment. This would be like a state of '1.'
We're talking about an infinitely large universe packed into a space that was smaller than a cosmic string. 
We're talking about a state where all matter and all possibilities and all of existence were packed together in something smaller than all of matter and all possibility and all of existence. 
This is uncalculatably low entropy. It's as mystical as it gets to think that this level of entropy could have ever happened. Its up there with the greatest mysteries of the world. 
Just think about what it would take to gather up so much stuff in one small, highly ordered space. And I thought it took forever to set up a game of Jenga!
1/2 --- Then we have a never-ending inflation outward. Everything explodes outwards at a faster and faster rate forever. This creates stars and planets and ultimately Us. 
We walk around thinking about it, aware of our impending doom looming around the next step, constantly taking action to do something about this doom. 
0 --- No matter what, the inflation continues such that every atom is becomes totally separate from all other atoms. Space is at an unimaginable level of high entropy.
This is the heat death. This is zero. There is nothingness. 
There is so much nothingness that the notion of time itself is a Kosmic joke. If I record a video of the universe over the course 1 planck time, 10 years or 1 google years and play back the video over an interval of 10 seconds, everything will look the same. At this moment, it doesn't matter what happened any more --- all of history erases itself. 
Something strange happens.  A new bubble of oneness - aka a new big bang happens. Even if there's a 1/googol chance of this happening, it would happen because who gives a fuck we have all of eternity to do it. 
From Caltech Physics, Cosmology, and Philosophy professor Sean Carroll's audio course Mysteries of Modern Physics -- Time:
"Although it might be very rare to fluctuate 100 billion galaxies, it may not be that difficult to fluctuate the tiny region of space that is dominated by super–dark energy and is ready to inflate.
○   Imagine we have empty space, nothing but vacuum energy and the very cold thermal radiation we expect because of quantum mechanics. Random thermal fluctuations occur all the time.
○   Because space itself is flexible, perhaps the shape of space can be fluctuated. Perhaps a small bubble can be pinched off that is full of dark energy and ready to inflate. That little bubble can inflate, expand, reheat, and look exactly like our Big Bang.
○   In this way, what we thought was equilibrium—a state of maximum entropy—could be shown not to be equilibrium. We can always increase the entropy of the universe, according to this way of thinking, by creating new universes that split off and go their own way, and this process continues forever."

A related scenario is that the purpose of conscious evolution itself is to induce such universal pinching off! Some call this the omega point.
Imagine if we (or some 'other' conscious beings somewhere at some time) are put here on this universe to help create the type of hyper dimensional superconsciousness that could induce a universal bubble after our own deaths. 
Or imagine that we create a supercomputer that creates a supercomputer that simply recreates the universe through simulation.
Or imagine creating some form of a cosmic consciousness where calculations are made in a hyper dimensional place.
imagine that the cosmic bubble, the simulation, and the cosmic consciousness are the same fucking thing! 
Now imagine that this will happen at the end of our time. In particular, we take all of eternity to figure out how to pinch off a simulated baby-universe somehow.  
Then Imagine that this happened at the beginning of our time. In particular, it took someone or something all of eternity to figure out how to pinch off the baby universe that we exist in currently. It's the most unbelievable thing ever. 
Then imagine that it's happening right now as we gear ourselves up with computers, video games, and space missions for what seems like no good reason other than some weird idea of "progress" that no one can actually define but the smartest people all work toward.
Let's Go back to the scenario of a super simulation. Lets say this cosmic computer created a universe that looks basically identical to the one we live in. 
Imagine the hyper dimensional computer pinching off simulated minds within itself meant to explore the simulation it created. Imagine little robots it can send out with the sole purpose of gathering data -- little probes that can look and feel and touch things from a filtered perspective while figuring out how the hell to create a new universe.
To this Kosmic-supercomputer-mind's simulated perspectives within itself, objects look solid. But when these simulated perspectives look at objects with a microscope they reveal the objects to be 99.99999999% nothing because, again, they're just holographic simulated perspectives. (And by the way, there's no difference between 1 and 99.9999 repeated, so 99.9999 repeated nothingness is  100% nothingness).
To these simulated perspectives, all sensation would be a hallucination. To be clear:
Hallucination
- noun -
1. a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind. 
Since every experience would always just be another part of mind, everything would be a hallucination.
Imagine that this hyperdimensional-Kosmic-Supercomputer-consciousness takes in all simulated perspectives to gather enough data to once again do the impossible. It manages to create - better yet be - that godhead known as the Big Bang Singularity after some time.
Except that, even the hyper dimensional-kosmic-supercomputer-consciousness a simulation!  
What I propose is that we are part of a mind at large that creates simulated holograms within itself to better understand itself before it once again dies and rebirths itself through yet another super simulated non dual existence. This mind at large is conscious and it is conscious of its own impending death and rebirth. And We - and this is a Kosmic We that includes all possible conscious creatures in all possible areas of the universe - are here to create the universe - to create god by inducing further consciousness somehow using our individual perspectives. This has happened before and this will happen again and this happens forever. The mind-at-large is just another part of what ends up forming an even larger mind that forms an even larger one.
We're talking mind-at-larges all the way up and simulated mind-at-larges all the way down. Turtles all the way up and turtles all the way down. 
We could go ahead and say that the universe just does this on its own spontaneously and so It doesn't need anyone. But what I'm saying is that we are what it looks like when the universe does this on its own. We are the spontaneous process. 
We have a universe that's created, destroyed, created, and destroyed over the course of eternity in many different ways. The path doesn't matter. The end state does. That end state gets reached through ever evolving life. 
And what does that end state look like after the course of eternity? It's somewhere in the middle of creation and destruction of course, just like Thomson's Lamp. 1-1+1-1+1-1+1...  = S = 1/2 = Undefined. It would be the place where the lamp exists between On and Off. It would have no end, it would have no beginning.
It would be us! We are what the end of eternity looks like! We're that in-between from the big bang to the heat death!
THIS IS IT! Welcome to the end of eternity, motherfucker! 
Which is fucking awesome - not only do we get an answer to what's going on with reality, we also get a fucking purpose! What better purpose is there than to a) increase your consciousness to b) increase the overall consciousness of everyone and everything to c) create God to d) create you and everything and everyone you've ever loved. You want immortality? You want happiness? You want purpose? You got it: you are your own parent, your own infinite creator traveling from life to life bootstrapping your non dual existence by chipping away with a quadrillion different chisels from a quadrillion different perspective to create a statue of yourself in a place of absolute nothingness! 
You are indistinct, indivisible, indestructible, incomprehensible, invaluable - truly incredible! Your job is to realize and manifest this incredibleness. 
And they say you can't derive an ought from an is.
We are in a state of both nothingness and everythingness glazed over to look like everythingness, just like the pulse-width modulated light. 
Each part of being has smaller parts forever. If you zoomed into at anything, it would disappear into deeper and deeper infinities. It would never have a place to stop. In this way, there's nothing but infinitely divisible parts that are made out of infinitely divisible nothingness. It is truly groundless.
Each whole gets nested within bigger wholes forever. If you zoomed out, you would never find a point where you see the whole thing. It could never be 'whole' because to be whole implies an end. So it wouldn't even have the possibility of reaching wholeness for there's always more to add.
Parts create wholeness except parts don't exist and wholeness don't exist. 
It would transcend zeroness and oneness and simply be non-dual. But we don't see it that way. We see it as naive reality consistent of solid, separate, whole parts with a finite size.  
*sigh* Actually, who am I kidding. These are all just speculations.
Plus, It's not like you'd understand. You'd rather stick to the paradigm that you know the limits of what's true or not true. You'd rather freak out about calling reality a hallucination. You'd rather hide yourself from the possibility that you're essentially stuck in the matrix. 
In other words, lets go back to arguing about about the nature of trolls. Certainly taking trolls seriously is far more insane than taking rigorous, pure mathematical logic seriously.