Can "you" handle every experience as Maya?

[MarkusSweden]

It would be great to always rest in an awareness and understanding that everything that happens is nothing but maya. 

Some situations when its difficult for me, not saying I don't enjoy those moments, I do, but the Maya-awareness as I call it, seem to be absent. 

Probably because there's a slightly amount of fear or unconsciousness, just enough to drag me out of this maya-awareness. 

Here's a few examples. 

* When I find myself in groups of people, specially those groups where some conventional behaviour is expected. Like in a class room or at work place. 

it seem like group psychology-instincts pull me out of maya-awareness and puts me is this survival biologic awareness mode instead.

* In an intimate situation, where my reproduction hormones or whatever it is tend to pull me out of maya-awareness and into this arousal consciousness where duality seem super real. 

*Stress in daily mundane life like plannings, planes to catch, bills to pay, when I'm in hurry not being late to meetings etcetera. All of this also robs me of maya-awareness. 

As awareness raises, one would expected to never lose this maya-awareness, right?  

Right now it's like a variable in me that's either fully present or not at all. 

Edited February 5, 2018 by MarkusSweden

[Faceless]

If you never read about this maya experience or any knowledge similar to it would you experience it as all? 

[MarkusSweden]

7 minutes ago, Faceless said:

If you never read about this maya experience or any knowledge similar to it would you experience it as all? 

Of course not. But we're not normies, we are spiritual junkies!  

I've contemplated these questions for many years, just like most of us at this forum. 

And it make a difference to how I experience and think about life. 

But those situations mentioned in OP seem just as "unconscious" as they always been. 

Not that I suffers from it. It just seem as if we are hardwired in a way that in certain situations all of my spiritual understanding is shut off/absent.

How is it for you? 

Edited February 5, 2018 by MarkusSweden

[Faceless]

12 minutes ago, MarkusSweden said:

Of course not. But we are not normies, we are spiritual junkies!  

I contemplate these questions for many years, just like most of us here at Actualized.org. 

And it make a difference to how I experience and think about life. 

But those situations mentioned in OP seem just as "unconscious" as they always been. 

Not that I suffers from it. If just seem as if we are hardwired in a way that in certain situations all of my spiritual understanding is shut off. 

How is it for you? 

I would totally forget about all ideas, concepts, and theory’s and the experiences promised by such knowledge. If you really want to be free from the conditioned responses of the self/thought. If you really want to be attentive of your self which is awareness then you need to attend to every feeling/thought you have. Only when there is a capacity to observe thought without intention, desire, and other drives to accomplish and attain is there attention. Attention implies that there is no center with its movement of psychological time “becoming” to interfear with the facts of what is. 

If this is what your interested in of course.

[Faceless]

Remember, conforming to an idea is escaping a fact. 

[MarkusSweden]

Just now, Faceless said:

Remember, conforming to an idea is escaping a fact. 

True, thanks! 

[Faceless]

@MarkusSweden ?

[StephenK]

If everything is Maya, then surely suicide accomplishes nothing (the concept of death is a part of maya, is it not?).

[Joseph Maynor]

 

[Leo Gura]

@MarkusSweden If you can handle death, you can handle anything. (And you CAN handle death).

Ultimately, you should be able to handle getting a tooth pulled without painkillers and enjoy it. But that sort of thing only comes with mastery, not with one or two awakenings.

[Faceless]

Lol

[Gabriel Antonio]

It is very hard to feel high consciousness if you have a very hectic lifestyle. You should probably stategize to cut down some commitments.

But just knowing that it is normal to have your awareness decreased when you are on the daily grind already helps to set the proper expectation and avoid frustration. 

Jack Kornfield once said, "If monks lived the ordinary life of a westerner, they'd have a hard time."

Another idea that pops to mind is if you cannot cut down many things from your life, at least try to do them with more gentleness, that is, with less resistance in your body. It is hard to practice softness when you are overloaded though... 

[Jedd]

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

If you can handle death, you can handle anything. (And you CAN handle death).

Ultimately, you should be able to handle getting a tooth pulled without painkillers and enjoy it. But that sort of thing only comes with mastery, not with one or two awakenings.

@Leo Gura Hardcore I'm on a waiting list to see what happens to my back tooth that got chipped deep kinda scary but I'm a long way off enjoying that shit hahah

[Leo Gura]

@Jedd Definitely get Novocaine. Hope you feel better.

[adam747]

Just keep meditating and evolving through inquiry.. Before you know it you will experience life more and more from the seat of the witness and you will use all these moments as teaching moments..

When I first started my journey I always tried to figure out these situations with my intellect.. Unfortunately the mind can't think it's way though these situation. This is a natural process that takes time and should not be resisted. When you have days that challenge you it is perfectly ok. Just spend some time on the cushion that evening and sit with it..

 

[MarkusSweden]

@adam747 tnx, great advice! Very easy to get lost in thoughts and thinking..

Edited February 6, 2018 by MarkusSweden

[Nahm]

@MarkusSweden Be mindful of the most intimate ways that maya fools us. The air you’re breathing, is literally not sustaining your ‘life’. It is sustaining the illusion that you are alive. So let go of calling it air that keeps you alive, and start thinking of it as prana which allows the experience you are having.  May sound counterintuitive, but try keeping your focus on breathing from your stomach all day. The breathing is the direct connection to the truth in this manor. You are actually breathing God. 

Also, when the busy work life, etc, triggers you to think the maya is real, realize without that thinking, you would still be perceiving as maya. So when someone says something to you, just notice you have a reaction of going ‘into your head / mind / thinking’, instead, build the habit of staying aware of what you are seeing, hearing, feeling. Keep the awareness going ‘outward’ so to speak, vs going ‘inward’. This simple little practice is like a prisoner in jail scraping the wall a little everyday with a plastic spoon. Not gonna notice the difference right away, but after sometime, you’re free. 

Another thought for ya, and, not trying to freak you out or anything, I think this might be useful....if you want to experience actual really, any time, just simply close your eyes. That’s it. The illusion is that you can’t see because your eyelid is covering your eye, the truth is, there’s no eyelids bro, no eyes either. The point I’m trying to make is, this can help you to realize / recognize maya for what it is (lol, of course, isn’t).