abrakamowse

I don't know how to do it. I will be stuck inside of this bag of meat thinking I am an ego.

I find meditation useful if you do it to slow thought, and to recognize the difference between thought and direct experience. Meditation calms the mind and help to notice those subtleties that otherwise would be unnoticed. It is needed also self inquiry into the nature of reality.

True hehehe ?

Fear plays a big factor , you are right @Faceless

Self Actualization

Yes, I see that... I just finished meditating. My mind was constantly trying to do something. "This is boring". "I want to sit that way", "I want to see the clock", "How long have I been meditating?" "This is too long, I am bored"... and everytime I just stayed from the awareness perspective. I am aware of a thought who "thinks" this is boring... and I could finish meditating denying everything that tried to identify me with the "I" thought. It was hard, when you see it from the "outside" it seems simple, but it is a war.

I suggest to just meditate, observe "yourself", be aware and insights will begin to come to you. There's no way we can leave the matrix by "thinking"

I would say a Kandinsky

Cool, thanks! I am still meditating 30 mins everyday. Maybe is time to try a bit more.

Do you meditate everyday? How often and how long? Just curious

Well, he was enlightened. He was talking as "awareness". So we have to keep being aware or being mindful.

If I stay with "what is"... I feel like I am doing nothing. I just stay where I am, sit and contemplate. Jesus would say "Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

The idea of "I" basically is a copy of the true self. Because the true self is everything and nothing (can't be conceptualized) the little "I" cannot grasp it. So it needs to create the idea of separation to try to "understand". Where does the need of understanding come from? I was thinking that the understanding is the basis of creating an identity. But maybe I am wrong.

A cosmic joke

We are all trolls, aren't we?

The true "I" is and is not. Some time ago I began to think about the I. If in reality the true self cannot be conceptualized, to say that is a self or it is "I" is a conceptualization. Maybe the I thought is just a creation, and illusion that the absolute creates to experience separation and diversity. But in reality there's nothing. No I. There isn't something that can be comprehended or conceptualized.

True Drew. Being all the time just aware or mindful is like if falling from a cliff Lol... because there's no attachments, just being and the mind likes something where to stand. Maybe is just a matter of being in that state most of the time until... BOOOOM! Lol :-P

When I do that there's no thought. Just observation. Thoughts disappear completely.

That's what they are! The brain is just a "receptor"... we don't think, we just perceive the thoughts that are in tune with our spiritual level. But that's just a thought, so... hehehe... the only thing that I am 100% sure is that I am aware of thoughts. But I am not the thinker.

Cool!!!!

Oh, I got you know. It happened to me. There's like a dissociation between the mind and the body. In my experience I think that this is just things consciousness picked up and we are not aware of it, so we react but we don't have idea why. I think the problem is thought, there's nothing to find and nothing is hidden. Thoughts resurface, but they can't grasp what reality is, so they keep in seeker mode, and if we are identified with thoughts, we also think we are the seeker. When there's nothing to be found.

And how do you know what the body is saying?

No worries, I just don't do anything.