Awakening - Explained

[Lento]

For those who don't know what a non-dual state or awakening is. I'm going to create this thread based on my experiences, research, and understanding.

Awakening is a state of complete self-expression, without any resistance to oneself whatsoever. There's a lot to say, but I'll try to be brief as much as possible.

In the ordinary state; we, humans, tend to be having lots of fears, and therefore resist expressing many of the things we feel and the thoughts we think. In the higher states, however, the best description I find is that, I lose the resistance completely, I stop having fears, and I stop having any doubts whatsoever, and therefore I start expressing myself fully authentically. It's appropriate to say that 'thoughts' lose their power over me and suffering disappears as there's no desire left (no me, no self). Because really; fear, resistance, and doubt are all one thing, that is desire, which basically is thought, and which basically is the source of all suffering. So, for those who are wondering about "the truth" and God and so on... There are some really important distinctions here;

1. The authenticity, joy, happiness, self-expression, love, etc... that accompany the higher states do not make them any closer to the truth than the ordinary state, or even the lower states of depression, sadness, suppression, suffering, suicidal thoughts, fear, anger, etc... Simply because all states are the truth. And if they weren't, then seriously, what would they be?
2. The higher states do not make any human being superior to another. In fact, it's been fun to me to watch Leo making a fool of himself claiming to be the most superior to us (while being humble as well), all because he's at some ecstatic state, which ironically was just due to the use of psychedelics, and therefore wasn't permanent. So, that being said, and according to Leo's paradigm, Sadhguru is way more superior than Leo has ever been.
3. Masters like Sadhguru are usually older, which means they are more likely to be more mature with more experience. This is very important, because when immature people like Leo get these higher insights they are more likely to misinterpret them, and eventually end up misusing them and misguiding others.
4. Raising 'your' consciousness is not everything you need for living a good life. That's very simplistic. Leo was basically saying that because he was fully satisfied (from ecstasy). But ecstasy is not a permanent state, it'll go away and he'll come back to reality (I mean the ordinary state), and when he returns, he'll realise how foolish it is to make higher consciousness a goal, because higher consciousness is the natural unfolding of the universe. It just cannot stop and the universe is ever expanding (or so it seems to me). You just need to allow the unfolding to happen, even though it seems like the unfolding won't stop even if you resist it. You just can't stop growing!
5. It's only one life, and one death. And nothing really matters. Fear is an illusion and death is not real (just thoughts). For me, that's the takeaway from Leo's recent video, and everything else is a variation of those insights, or simply a distraction.
6. Psychedelics basically remove 'you' temporarily out of the picture. 'You' in this case is the resistance, desires, thoughts, fears, concerns, etc... In a higher state, you'll still be you, but you'll stop identifying with that same you. You as an ego do not actually disappear. You just stop being self-conscious of yourself. You just stop being able to see yourself as an ego. Simply put, the ego just stops appearing on your radar. We can say that you get an EMP hit to your radars. Other egos stop appearing as well. You simply stop being able to see the ego, because all you're seeing will be God.
7. Leo said that the truth is absolute relativity. And he's right, but he still seems to not be able to see how his own biases are taking over his insights (or maybe he's seeing but ignoring, I don't know!). He said that he does not care because he died, but he apparently still had "preferences". He preferred humanity to be at a more peaceful place, and that's why he 'stooped down' to our level and revealed some helpful insights and instructions for how to live better, which again were biased by his knowledge, research, experiences, morality, etc... This shows that he's at least at stage Green of Spiral Dynamics.

That's about it. The resistance to oneself is what creates the duality (two illusory streams going against each other). Without resistance, there's only one stream, God's/devil's stream (it doesn't matter what you call non-duality). That's awakening in the simplest terms. The removal of resistance/self allows for no suffering whatsoever. That's the whole point of awakening. Anything else besides that is an exaggeration and an egoic agenda.

I hope that clarifies something to anyone at all. Godspeed!

Edited January 31, 2020 by Lento

[VeganAwake]

I resonate a lot with what this guy has to say...its worth a listen.

He's been on Buddha at the gas pump and is well known for his non-dual Awakening experience.

❤

Edited January 31, 2020 by VeganAwake

[zeroISinfinity]

Awakening=Self Realization. Actual Absolute state of Conciousness. 

Revelation of your True Nature. 

Source of Infinite Love and that thingy itself. 

There is no self expression there. (oh I saw what you did there Goddins) 

Practises no other way and only you can do it. 

Leo this forum Sadhguru all religions all pointers counts for nothing. Sorry to say. 

 

Edited January 31, 2020 by zeroISinfinity