Rilles

20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. no pearly gates for you my friend?

I just order a book of Rumis poetry which inspired an idea, post your favourite Rumi poems and quotes here ”Beyond ideas of right and wrongdoing theres a field, ill meet you there” ”You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens”

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For the ego to jump in and fear to take over, I was close to a realization, fear ran up my chest like a river of tiny ants. I’ll keep soldiering on.

@SoonHei Yeah, I was doing a guided meditation, slipped away from it a bit into a very focused self-inquiry and then Bam! had to open my eyes. Not the first that it has happened, but I see it as progress, theres something hiding that my ego doesnt want me to see.

You crawl up my chest like a million tiny ants. It takes the blink of an eye for you to jump in and bend up my eyelids with your lever. What do you know that I dont? What are you hiding? What are you afraid of? Next time the brickwall will crack.

How is the universe not intelligent? It created you didnt it? Matter of fact, it is creating you right now and you dont have to move a muscle.

You are the universe, its impossible to be in the universe and not be the universe, its like a piece of a cake saying “im not the cake im the piece, how stupid of you to say im the cake youre deluded”

Anyone can raise their consciousness, Enlightenment is not the same. Although they are related.

What tv-shows excite you? Why? What happens when you start to get bored? Do you feel like youre missing something in life?

Sit down on a chair for as long as you can, dont set a timer, just sit there, see what the first thing that comes to your mind when you get bored is, go for that.

Go find a chair, put a tomato on it, then go and sit on the floor, talk to the tomato as you read it.

@Evelyn It IS all in your head, your head is all there is, atleast for you. Reality is subjective.

I am a rock I am an islaaaaaanddddd

He didnt explain anything, I dont get it, Is he an atheist? Is he a spiritual guy? If hes actually into non-duality then he’s contradicting what has been said for 1000 years, anyway, is easy to be a critic sitting in your bedroom with a Redbull farting away.

Not to those still stuck in the movie.

Extreme awareness, notice yourself slacking off. Daily meditation.

@Shin Oh but are many different types of nuts, some talk slow ,some talk fast, some dont stop talking, some dont talk at all. Some nuts are brave enough to crack the shell to see whats inside, those are the Enlightened nuts.

Youre already in a madhouse, its called society.

You can recognize an enlightened being by the call and response ratio in his conversation, if he takes more than 1 minute to respond a to a question then he is lost in INFINITY which means he is enlightened. You didnt know this? Phew rookie

I mixed alcohol with weed last night and I had a pretty intense experience to say the least, weed is such an interesting drug because there is no real change in visual phenomena but theres a general shift in perception of reality and strange tactile hallucinations. I always thought getting high was a pretty intense experience but maybe its because I rarely do it and I havent done any psychedelics yet. What do you think? Have you had any intense weed experiences?

Then go watch someone else, there are thousands of enlightened people out there. https://www.poehm.com/en/list-of-enlightened-people/ Heres a list. ?

@Outer Can you recommend a good ASMR video/mp3?

@Joseph Maynor I did post a topic about a week ago. Im fairly new to Spira but I got 4 points for you that has really helped me in my inquiry. •You cant find awareness, dont try to. Notice what is experiencied and what is being aware. •Everything is happening in awareness, there is no experience happening that isnt happening in “you”. There is no distance between you or any “outside” sensation, crucial! •Sensation is always one, when a foot feels the floor;there is one feeling, when you see the environment; there is no perceiver there is just seeing happening. Most of us have grown up believing that there is a duality involved, is this true? Check for yourself. •Awareness is never changed, never ages, and is never tainted by any experience. I’ve verified these for myself.