Who wants enlightenment? The mysterious ego.

[WaveInTheOcean]

Who wants enlightenment?

The mysterious ego.

What you truly are -- Soul, God, Pure Eternal Consciousness, Love -- is already Enlightened. Of course.

So what is 'spirituality' about? It's about 'unifying' your mind, heart, body with YOU (Ecstasy/Spirit/Soul/Love).

Yoga. Self-exploration. Self-discovery. Meditation. Self-contemplation. Getting in touch with Ecstasy through various practices... -- Breathwork, meditation, sex, tantra, love, community, silence aka 'observing being instead of doing', life-purpose, dancing, music, embodiment exercises, drugs, cathartic art, nature, travelling, casting yourself into the unknown, challenging your comfort zones, psychedelics.

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There are infinite ways. What works for you? What haven't you tried?

What are you afraid of?

The unknown.

The unknown is a symbol for death.

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The only truth, we humans can all agree on around the entire globe, is that we shall all die. Death.

Our physical bodies and accompanying memories (ego) shall die. Sooner or later.

The past & the future are composed of 'nows'.

Do you realize the implications of this?

You are already dead. Don't you see?

There is only NOW.

Time is an illusion. A social construction at best.

Time is the ego's mode of functioning.

Only the ego 'regrets & worries'.

Only the ego is stuck in melancholic/fearful fantasies about the past/future.

Only the ego is 'in a hurry'.

It's all thoughts.

Where do thoughts appear? Now.

Now, now, now, now.

Where do thoughts disappear? Now.

You are Now. Thoughts appear 'in you'.

As long as you are believing you are controlling your thoughts, as long will your thoughts (ego) control you.

Only when 'the need-for-control' is fully 'let go of', shall you see that thoughts are insanely mystical and appearing out-of-nowhere IN YOU (= Pure Consciousness) without any of 'your doing'. And only then will you be free: You are NOW directly in touch with Divine Imagination: thinking without thinking, feeling without feeling, acting without acting.

By letting go of & completely surrendering '(ego)control', you 'remember'/'get back': *true, divine control*.

Liberation.

The past is the future.

The future is the past.

You see how they imply each other?

You can't talk about 'the future' without 'the past' to contrast it with.

But... You are, in actuality, always *right in the middle* - always *NOW* - and the past only happens/appears-to-you as 'thoughts / stories / interpretations' *NOW*, and the future only happens/appears-to-you as 'worrying / expectations / planning / fantasy / predictions' ... NOW!

It is always, always, always ... *now* ...

- don't you see ? ? ?

And thus you are already both alive AND dead, simultaneously!

You just 'are'....

Being'ness.

But by inwardly, intuitively knowing that you will eventually die, while outwardly, acting like you are eternal, there is a deep dissonance IN YOU.

Disconnection. Disharmony. Suffering.

*Ignorance leading to fear of death leading to ignorance leading to fear.*

A strong, deeply programmed survival-loop-of-ego.

How do you get out of it?

By realizing you truly already ARE out of it, and haver never *really* been caught;... only 'in-mind' (imagination).

To ever believe that you are caught is exactly that: a belief. Imagination. Stories.

The ego LOVES stories, haha.

How do you realize you are already God? By letting go of beliefs, by letting go of clinging... to thoughts & old ways of behaving. By being open-minded enough to follow your divine intuition instead of 'always doing what you know & what feels safe'.

'Psyche-delic practices' means 'soul-manifesting practices.'

You can do Soul-manifesting practices sober by just having a really deep vulnerable talk with your best friend or a stranger. What works for you? It doesn't 'have' to be psychedelic substances; that's actually only for the really curious or really fucked-up (imaginary) ego-brain-minds ;-).

It's about being open-minded, curious & courageous enough to surrender to faith, instead of clinging to old conditioned ways of being.

It's about going through 'enough' suffering/devilry/selfishness to understand that you don't want to live in ego (disconnection, ignorance, slave-to-fear) anymore. Enough of all that endless self-inflicted mental pain (=suffering), ignorance (=slumber) and selfishness(=devilry). Enough of that.

It's then about being humble, brave & curious enough to take a leap-of-faith and cast yourself head-on into 'the truth/unknown, whatever 'truth' might turn out to be.

The truth is death itself. And that is the unknown. You see? ... You don't know what dead is. Zero fucking clue; 'no one' does.

Only those "who have already died without physically dying" are, perhaps, lucidly aware of 'what's going on'.

They have become 'no one' (once again).

See, that's the fucking trick: to die (ego death) before dying, and realize that there is no death.

That what 'death' is, is simply equal to what 'the background' is in relation to 'the foreground' in a painting.

They imply each other. Arise together codependently, reciprocally, simultaneously, 'go-together' ... just like heads/tails, physical/mental, up/down, selling/buying, bad/good GO-*TOGETHER* !!

And be open to the possibility that perhaps life itself is actually 'the background' to a much more blissful larger 'foreground' (death). (Death as in 'letting go' -- not physical death per se)

Life IS death.

Death IS life.

All opposites are seen as UNITY.

Oneness.

One.

You are One. Right in the middle of all imaginary opposites.

And here, with Me, right in-the-middle, the golden mean, there is infinite nuances, infinite balance ⚖️  ☯️  ? .

Here, the world is too full to talk about, just: silence, feeling, looking, eyes, accepting, forgiving, listening, loving.

Here, there is no right or wrong, just being.

Here, there is no self, just is'ness.

Here, there is no bad or good, just wonder.

Here there is no selfishness or selflessness, just Eternal Infinite Unconditional Love ('Neutrality').

No judgments, just openness.

Here, everything is nothing, nothing, everything.

Here, everything is mystery, incomprehensible for the mind/the thoughts to understand or know or speak about.

'Mind' expresses itself through thoughts. The social conditioned survivalistic ego 'hides in the mind' and controls the thoughts, as long as it is untranscended. In other words: you feel 'caught' in the meaningless chaos of life; 

like a 'conscious poor-little-me', seemingly 'stuck inside a human brain'

on 'probation' in a seemingly:

physical, robotic, random, nihilistic, chaotic, outside world.

Right?

But be happy, cos if you're a good well-behaved conforming rabbit that blindly chases the carrots of life (authority, religion, science, looks, success, career, money, power, sex, alcohol, new iPhones and cars, achievements of all kinds, then, well, then you're supposed to be HAPPY! ?

Death is simply liveliness.

Destruction, annihilation, letting go of the old, dying ... IS: ... transformation, change, growth, novelty, LIFE.

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Life (mind, thoughts, fear, ego, physical body, survival, safety, sex; judging, dividing the world into good'n'bad; chasing the next dopamine kick) is not your true self. It's a character (body) and a play (world).

Death (letting go of all of the above) is not your true self either! It's a new character, a new play.

Novelty! ?

Eternity! ⏳

Impermanence! ?️

Infinity! ?

☯️♾️???????⚖️☠️❤️?️?

So ... Why did you get disconnected from yourself in the first place? Survival: childhood trauma, of course (which you should work on in some form or the other).

We must learn to love ourselves, before we can really love others.
We cannot fix anyone -- only ourselves.
When we have 'healed ourselves' through our 'inner teacher' (soul, intuition),
we can 'help others' with finding their own inner teacher,
so they, too, can become 'whole' ... again.

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Actual Enlightenment is basically when you integrate all polar opposites into your soul, cos you 'lucidly see' they are complementary (ONE).

Many people seeking enlightenment on this forum are believing that if they became enlightened they could sit in a cave in the Himalayas and meditate for eternity in bliss; like that is the point of enlightenment; like you need to do 5-MeO-DMT 100 times or do 1000x 1 month silence retreats to 'achieve, attain' enlightenment…. BUT. GUYS. Let me be the first to tell you that while psychedelics, silence retreats and meditation/contemplation can be absolutely fantastic for some, if not for many, on the path, it is still just 'external, imaginary solutions' to an 'inner, imaginary problem'.

The inner problem is let go of  when you see that there (truly) is NO problem (only imagination). When you fully let go and see that death is life, life is death. This can happen during regular life, it can happen in a cave in the mountains, it can happen during meditation, it can happen on DMT, it can happen whenever. You have nothing to say in this matter. It is absolutely mystical and beyond your control, if, and when you awaken during this lifetime. God decides. The Universe decides. Not you, your cute little ego. You are just a small, perhaps big, wave skating on top of a bottomless, infinite, eternal ocean. The ocean is doing you, not the other way around;) If you can let go of identification with being a finite wave, you will start feeling and sensing the magic of the whole ocean more, which is liberation, which is enlightenment, which is awakening. After all, your true nature IS the ocean (Infinity, God, Consciousness, Love, Nothingness, w/e u wanna call that which can't be explained through language… *THIS* !).

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To live 'in the world' (the marketplace),
or to live 'outside the world' (the mountains);
now, that is the question!
The hedonist or the ascetic?
What to choose?

I will say one should choose to land 'in the middle'.
But before one can attain/remember the golden mean,
one naturally need to have tried out 'the extremes' first.

In the middle is where you simultaneously live life in the world
(buy and sell at the market place, participate in society, enjoy the small pleasures)
while also being lucid enough to see that it is all 'just':
an inexplicable, incomprehensible, mystical, mind-boggling magical, infinite, eternal dance,
where the best thing to do is to just 'keep dancing' --
always innovating, developing, transforming the dance,
so that it never dies, but stays alive, in motion --
rather than to stop or hesitate and cling to one or two dance steps
becoming scared, angry, annoyed or ashamed
towards other, new or deceased or silly dance steps.
Let the dance happen by itself as it unfolds
rather than tripping yourself up all tight, alright?

To  'strain, hold on, control'  is a  'limiting contraction of Infinity'  to ego.

To  'relax, let go and let happen'  is to become  'whole again with the Universe' - to melt back into the 'Now of Infinity'.

Dance. Dance. Dance. Lifedance.

Follow the Divine Intuition inside & outside 'your ego'. (It is all inside God's mind, anyway).
Your ego is that inside you which is afraid, ashamed, angry, envious, etc.
Act despite fear. That is being brave, that is following the intuition.
Actually embody the sentence 'follow your intuition' by actually doing the things you are afraid of!
Like ACTUALLY  *DOING them*, I mean WITH YOUR BODY .. *not in your mind!* .

(The classic trap on this forum: Replacing direct experience with concepts, trying to eat the menu,
mistaken the finger for the moon, mistaken the map for the terrority, ENOUGH OF THAT! <3  <3)

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“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood.

Dance when you're perfectly free.”

 

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”.

 

"And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

They danced by the light of the moon.”

 

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

 

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”

 

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

 

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

 

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.”

 

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”

 

“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”

 

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

 

“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”

 

“Sleep my little baby-oh

Sleep until you waken

When you wake you'll see the world

If I'm not mistaken...

Kiss a lover

Dance a measure,

Find your name

And buried treasure...

Face your life

Its pain,

Its pleasure,

Leave no path untaken.”

 

"Do a loony-goony dance

'Cross the kitchen floor,

Put something silly in the world

That ain't been there before.”

 

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well."

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
 

“Who're you going with, then?" said Ron.

"Angelina," said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassment.

"What?" said Ron, taken aback. "You've already asked her?"

"Good point," said Fred. He turned his head and called across the common room, "Oi! Angelina!"

Angelina, who had been chatting with Alicia Spinnet near the fire, looked over at him.

"What?" She called back.

"Want to come to the ball with me?"

Angelina gave Fred a sort of appraising look.

"All right, then," she said, and she turned back to Alicia and carried on chatting with a bit of a grin on her face.

"There you go," said Fred to Harry and Ron, "piece of cake.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

 

[Mason Riggle]

Thanks for this treat! 

[WaveInTheOcean]

"Follow the intution inside and outside 'your ego'" --- I actually meant 'your body*'... but what the heck.

And M. riggle: my pleasure, thanks for reading  ! ????☯️

Edited July 1, 2021 by WaveInTheOcean

[WaveInTheOcean]

[Eternal Unity]

@WaveInTheOcean Thanks!

[WaveInTheOcean]

[Javfly33]

How to deal with frustration?

Mind telling you are not going to make it, it's too difficult, etc?

When you have built an identity with being powerless, what can you do to stop this identity?

 

[WaveInTheOcean]

17 minutes ago, Javfly33 said:

How to deal with frustration

When you have built an identity with being powerless, what can you do to stop this identity?

 

You trying to stop it ... is the core of the problem. Let go. It's perfectly fine to feel how you feel. It will pass eventually. Listen to your emotions, don't repress/run away from them.

You need to find ways for you to 'process' these emotions. There are an infinite amount of ways. Exercise, sex, talking to girls, getting lost in something you are passionate about, meditating, psychedelics, write, scream, sing, dance, projects, doing something funny exciting with friends, art, go alone out in the wilderness for a week -- w/e works for you! ??️????????

 

Edited July 2, 2021 by WaveInTheOcean

[Javfly33]

2 hours ago, WaveInTheOcean said:

You trying to stop it ... is the core of the problem. Let go. It's perfectly fine to feel how you feel. It will pass eventually. Listen to your emotions, don't repress/run away from them.

You need to find ways for you to 'process' these emotions. There are an infinite amount of ways. Exercise, sex, talking to girls, getting lost in something you are passionate about, meditating, psychedelics, write, scream, sing, dance, projects, doing something funny exciting with friends, art, go alone out in the wilderness for a week -- w/e works for you! ??️????????

 

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