The character never awakens. Consciousness does.

[ivankiss]

16 hours ago, Kuba Powiertowski said:

@ivankiss I disagree a bit. Consciousness Is. And as such, it is all it is. Nevertheless, it is not homogeneous. It has different levels and states that manifest differently. Bringing back the knowledge about this, anyone, and I emphasize everyone, if they really want to, can change the frequency ranges on which they operate. This usually happens as a result of fatigue from operating in low-energy patterns. Low energy functioning or even its complete lack does not always mean low self-awareness. There are areas of relatively high awareness that suck energy because they no longer generate it themselves. The so-called Anti-Life. The categories of reality in the Cosmic Dream are always relative. Nevertheless, the scale is vast. Perceiving this journey along the path of Self-Discovery in 0-1 categories, black and white with no intermediate states or shades, is a dangerous simplification. It is also inconsistent with ordinary observation of reality. Even Advaita Vedanta is very nuanced. Just read the Upanishads on which it is based. A shortcut to state 1 exists, but it requires enormous effort and consistency. Regardless of the method. Appreciate the complexity of the maze of which you are a co-creator

 

Yes, I like what you said, it felt good and truthful, but I also disagree a bit.

Similarly, I see danger in over - complication, such as dimensions, planes, states, etc. I know just how easy it is to get lost in fantasyland by believing in such and similar things. 

What's simple, extremely simple, downright effortless... is pure, direct awareness. It requires zero effort from anyone or anything. It is already and always aware. 

It's not that there cannot be any dimensions, planes, states or whatever else. I imagine that's completely possible. It's that it's super easy to get high on these ideas and go down a road that leads one further away from self realization.

[Water by the River]

8 hours ago, ivankiss said:

It's not that there cannot be any dimensions, planes, states or whatever else. I imagine that's completely possible. It's that it's super easy to get high on these ideas and go down a road that leads one further away from self realization.

Yes. Exactly.

Instead of

• getting rid of the illusion of being a ship on the ocean (ignorance, separate-self arisings I-thoughts, I feelings, feeling of being something specific) and truly realizing that one IS the impersonal/boundless ocean with all waves/dimensions that could ever be. And ever was was, only can be, and ever will be just the ocean. With or without the ignorance/illusion of feeling oneself as a ship/individuality being in it.
• but instead of that deciding for: Wave surfing and wave investigating. Lets go on the highest wave and see what the ocean can do. Infinitely consciousness high wave-surfing.

 

Of course that is just the indviduality/ship/ego hijacking the true state of things (impersonal consciousness/ocean), going wave surfing on the highest and "infinitely consciousness" wave/dimension/whatever of manifestation (which is the Relative (manifestation), not the Absolute), and all the while never truly transcending its separateness/individuality/ignorance, but projecting that onto the Infinity of manifest arisings/form ("waves"), and proclaiming that as "infinitely consciousness". Ego=God=Solipsism. Bravo! 

And of course that is not the end of the game. The individual/ignorance is still very much alive. It contracts and suffers again and again.

And Absolute Reality/Impersonal Infinite Consciousness/True God "says" (or better does that to the aficionado of that grasping worldview): Not today darling, no end of suffering before you let go that fascination of wave surfing and trying to become "infinitely" consciousness. Not before you stop chasing your own tail(s). Of which there are, guess what, and Infinity of. An Infinity of tails to chase.

And all of which actually is NOT infinitely consciousness, but just wave-surfing and and becoming aware of high waves of manifestation/dimensions/manifestation-mechanisms, earthly or alien n+1. Projecting certain remnants of the separate self onto Infinity, and not letting the separate self illusion/ignorance truly exhaust itself in the ocean of truly impersonal consciousness.

Infinitely consciousness is dropping into the ocean, transcending ones separate self/ego/ignorance truly, letting it die, understanding all its illusion/ignorance mechanisms, and becoming the impersonal boundless ocean of Absolute Reality itself.

• Maintaining that boundless nondual Awake Awareness of mere appearance in Infinite Reality in daily life.
• Because the clouding-over-ignorance mechanism is truly transcended/seen through/gone/dead, and "one" lives happily ever after as that which one really is: Absolute Reality itself. Self-evident moment to moment nondual boundless Awakened Awareness, all manifestation just mere appearance, always available, not depending on certain substances.

 

But I guess that would require a major philosophical shift, and would create a certain marketing problem or two. Yet, it would feel infinitely better in daily life....

But hey, whatever floats ones ship on the ocean boat so to say... Its a free country Lila! And the self-contraction/ignorance is the spice of the universe, especially on the highest level of expanding the ego to infinitely large God-like dimensions. Where else to view such a show than in this little Samsara of ours?

And as always, to all the "other" players in that magnificant show, good, bad, smart, maybe not so smart, alien, not alien, and so on and on:

Bon voyage! 

And thanks for having the courage to endure the necessary suffering that goes along with playing/identifying with a fragment of the Totality (individuality/separate ego) to keep the illusion-show going in a convincing way! And never forget that when you are tired of all that suffering and confusion, there truly is a way home. Which, funnily, is always right Here, right Now. Hidden usually under a truckload of "me", separation, ignorance and illusion. So lets not make that truckload  bigger than it already is.

Selling water by the River

[Kuba Powiertowski]

@ivankiss I agree. It seems that each path has dead ends that we have to watch out for. Sometimes what seems complicated can be understood after a short reflection, and what seems so simple can become complicated precisely because of our tendency to look for loopholes, as you mentioned. As always, the key is balance.