Will it get easier after awakening experiences ?

[cervid]

Hey guys,

 

just want to know if it gets easier to re-experience an awakening experience, if you already experienced one. For example, if you realized non-duality or oneness on a psychedelic, will it then become easier to experience the same or similar insight when meditating ? Like you now know what you aim for and therefore it is easier to achieve it again. Like with lucid dreaming, that the first lucid dream is the hardest

 

@Leo Gura could you please share your experience with this ?

[Goldzilla]

Visualize your past experience, go there and expand it further. 

[eputkonen]

@cervid Realizing nonduality is not about an experience.  Having the experience of Oneness or Self is not enlightenment/awakening.  It is about the insight/revelation that shatters the illusion of "me"...and the "me" can never be believed again.  

However, once you have an experience, it is easier to recreate or have a similar experience...but that is not the point of awakening.  Awakening is not making a passing experience permanent in some way (which is impossible).

Edited August 26, 2021 by eputkonen