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@Leo Gura I couldn't answer this one better. What will there be after death? More experience. What experience? You wont know until you die. All you know about what's after is what you have heard from others. Or a belief you hold. Unless you had a near death experience. In which case you might have gotten a taste. I personally didn't have one so not speaking from experience. The whole point of enlightenment is to die before you die and then there is no one left to die. Why will there be another experience after? The possibility of experience is already established ( You experience now ). After your death even if there is a void given an infinite amount of time a new experience will arise. Just as this one you are having now. But since there is nothing in the void to experience for you it will feel like you have died and experience continued without any interruption. I was toying around with the idea of ever lasting non - existence even wishing it upon myself and all beings. But there is a strange thing about reality: It just exists.

@Blissout Sat with myself for long enough. Just sat on the couch . No goal.

@vibv I remember how much the existence can hurt. And I don't think its perfect when people behead babies. Its a shrug of responsibility for another. As people doing consciousness work we must also develop compassion towards the suffering. Perfect and imperfect are concepts of the mind. Reality is neither. @Max1993 Agree. I had enough of his teachings though. I didn't seek to be happy but to be free. Freedom fills way better than happiness. Its chill. Quite. Expansive. And real.

@Max1993 I really enjoyed reading. The big bang is a mind made worldview and as long as you are aware of that this is a very nice story to demonstrate that we have no free will. Yet the concept "No free will" is still a mind made entity which too dissolves. When Mooji was asked the question of free will he answered: "Its both a yes and a no." I think the correct answer will be " "It's neither."

So this is my last awakening. Everything is one. Direct experience is the highest truth and it is all unified. I cant find myself in direct experience = I do not exist. Thank you and have a nice day Daniel.

i agree

@Demeter The void puzzled me a lot and still does. How I got to thinking about it was one night when I sat and listened to trance music focusing on the silence between each kick. I have intuited the existence of the void by realizing where all experience comes form and where it ends. Before your birth - void After death - void And so with every experience in between the two. It materializes out of the void and goes back to it. But since itself the void is not an experience I cant say that I have direct knowledge of it only conceptual and through comparing it to my "nothingness" awakening. Yet I am certain that the void which comes after death is followed by another arising (whatever form it might take) since the possibility for such arising was already established through the very fact of your life emerging from the void that came before it. And even if you spend millions of years in that void before another experience comes, for you it will feel like a fluid continuation from the moment you died. From what I came to see the void as even god dose not persist in it. That is what baffles me. Have a great day! Daniel.

Just watched it and thought some of you might find it illuminating. Good day/evening/afternoon

@LSD-Rumi You are not overrating him in my opinion. These are some of the most beautiful pieces of art I have seen. Thank you so much for sharing

@WeCome1 I hear you . You have changed my perspective. Now I want to become a psychologist and help relief others of their mental suffering. Namaste @funkychunkymonkey Exactly! You help the ones you can. If every enlightened being helps his/her environment all will be enlightened in no time. Enjoy your day Daniel.

The bodhisattva is said to be an entity that almost gets to enlightenment, yet he doesn't go all the way and postpones his/her enlightenment until all beings are awake. In Buddhism it is held as the highest path one could take. But I beg to differ. There is no rush. If an entity has suffered enough it will awaken eventually. It is nobodies job to awaken all sentient beings, and thinking you can is arrogance. I am not against teaching, it can be a form of love. But coming at it with the mindset that you should forsaken your own enlightenment for the sake of others is just spiritual none-sense. Buddhism is a beautiful religion, but the bodhisattva ideal is flawed and I think it is a big trap. (Into which I have almost fallen myself) I wanted to end with J.R.R. Tolkien's poem: “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

Other entities can never be proven since you are forever locked in to your own experience bubble. Through the mind that is. Yet if you listen to your heart instead of the mind, You can start to see that its a whole new avenue of knowledge. You can feel that there are other sentient beings , not know , feel. So if I follow my heart I can definitely say that there are other sentient creatures. Just a point to think (or rather feel) about. Namaste <3

@funkychunkymonkey I agree with what you have said. Its a beautiful post. Thank you Daniel.

I'm ready to give up anything. Just leave me some coffee and cigarettes. I could sit on my sofa for all of eternity smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. But I feel the pull towards guiding others who seek themselves. Its just too much love to keep for only myself. The journey was so painful for me that I feel the meaning of my existence now is to relive others from suffering. If anyone here is in need of help on their path, emotional support, or simply someone to listen to you, I am here. Smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee Namaste

@RubenThaller2001 Watch this video: I was struggling with solipsism before I watched it, after watching it everything has fallen into place. Have a nice day Daniel

I have just watched this video: It can clarify a lot. Namaste

@AlexNonymous6 Thank you for sharing I appreciate it a lot. Your intention is my intention as well. But I go with the Hinayana view which is: The small vehicle , I will try to spread consciousness and enlightenment to my immediate surroundings. I don't think it's a game of number (how many entities you help reach the end of the path). If each of us will help his natural environment without going out of the way to create cults or become a worldwide known guru, all will be enlightened. Enlightenment is possible for everyone but not all are ready. And god has infinite time to wait for those who are not yet ready. If your will to help global enlightenment is rooted in love it is a positive thing and I wont discourage you from helping that. Not one bit. Namaste

So I wanted to share my favorite practice and the one that got me the most results: Just sit. No rules. No aim. No limitations. Sit somewhere you are comfortable and set a timer for as long as you feel like. And for that time all you have to do, is to be alone with yourself. The inquiry will happen naturally. Sometimes it wont. But that's ok. Sometimes you will just sit with monkey mind and it will feel like you are not making any progress. Let it be. Because at other times what I found out is: The inquiry will happen of itself. Because you are curious about some things. The more you do it the more it becomes like a spontaneous meditation, but without the intention to be so. My deepest insights came from this kind of practice , and that is why I wanted to share it with you. Namaste

@Cocolove Beautiful, thank you for sharing. Can you elaborate what your experience of the ego backlash is like? Since I've had some too and I am curious. @Leo Gura So true. My first god realization happened spontaneously in nature as well.

It is simply your sense of the subject of the experience. For me it materialized a a feeling of a pressure behind the eyes. Like the nexus of the experience you are currently having. When you get mad. It is the ego that is mad. When someone hurts your feelings it is the ego that gets hurt. Try to feel what it is like to be you. In a shallow sense . Don't go too deep. I think that if you contemplate this you will see that you can be aware of the ego. You can't solve a problem which you are not aware of. That is why I think it is important to be clear with yourself what the ego is. Before you are going to transcend it Let me know if it helped or you need a clearer pointing's. Namaste

In this analogy the ego is a star. When it's death approaches it crumbles under its own weight and collapses into a black hole. (in this analogy it doesn't have to be big enough like in cosmology) This black hole is a portal for other entities through which they can leave samsara. This is why most enlightened beings begin teaching when they have reached nirvana. And this is the power that draws spiritual seeker towards them. Have a good day. Namaste

So I made a trance tune and used Leos vocal without permission and I feel guilty for that. Leo let me know if you want me to remove it. This is the tune:

@001 Smoke is beautiful in my eyes It looks so free. @Lila9 I really liked your comment it spoke to me directly. I do identify with coffee and cigarettes as being a part of who I am. Amazing hope to have this insight soon Namaste

@davecraw I liked your post a lot. But I still think that the fact that there is someone with an experience just like mine is a belief and will forever stay a belief. Since I take as evidence only my direct experience. A thought came up as I read this thread: If god would have wanted for himself to only experience unity as one being he would have not created this illusion. Thus if he already created 'manyness' it must be that there are many experiences. Just a thought. Namaste