Define Enlightenment

[abrakamowse]

http://www.anandavala.info/miscl/I_Am_That.pdf

[abrakamowse]

What does it has to do that there's no boundary? Why do you think that if there's no boundary there's no true self (or no-self if you like to call it like that... it's just different names for the I AM.) The Buddha Mind... it has thousands of names).

There's no boundary because everything is I AM. Nature is perceiving itself through Maya (Illusion).

The I AM is everything that IS. Reality, cosmos, Universe, everything.... you, me, perceiver, perceived, everything at all... nothing escapes from it.

The concept we have of a "self" doesn't apply to the I AM.

 

[abrakamowse]

There's no substance. But, what is consciousness to you and what is the idea of a self? Do you think that I AM is a self? It is not...

 

 

[abrakamowse]

The Tao that can be named is not Tao. Anything we say is wrong because we make it an object. There must be extreme openmindness to understand the real meaning of what we are trying to give behind the words.

I understand you (or at least I know where are you going)  but I think you don't understand what I am trying to say. You said it well when you said everything is real and unreal simultaneously. That's what I wanted to point, the I AM exists and doesn't exists. But maybe you don't give the words the same meaning I give. I don't give to the I AM any meaning, it can't be named.

Thanks for the exchange of ideas anyway.

[abrakamowse]

Like the I AM?

hahahaha... just kidding. No problem. I appreciate your understanding in disagreement.

I am open to your idea, I don't discard anything.

[abrakamowse]

It can be interesting to open a separated thread about this,

Thanks again!

[Travis]

This really hit home. It's amazing how deep this illusion goes. And then to think about the impossibility of illusion existing. It's paradoxical only because of identification. Find out what that last remnant of identification is and...boom. Welcome to abiding non-dual awareness. Haha alright daydreaming time is over. Thanks for the pointer