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I think the self is never destroyed. It just discovers that it wasn't what it thought it was.

Nice... hehehe... cool comic really. Alan Moore is good. :-)

I just understood better what you were talking about the whole. Thanks, I thought that the whole was all the knowledge. But in fact knowledge is just a small (or big, I don't know) part of the whole. I am really asleep. Crazy. Thanks for those posts @Nahm and @Faceless

@Faceless I know that anything I do can give me liberation. And as you said, doing nothing is in fact doing something. So, this is where it gets complicated Lol... The only thing we can do is prepare ourselves to liberation happen by itself. And wait. Reading between the lines, there's a lot of this stuff in the Bible, but is hidden if you don't have the right understanding. I was deluded long time ago with the Church dogma, until something happened (an epiphany or awakening) that threw me into some crazy stuff where I learn a lot about the "ego". I will post something about that in my journal soon. :-)

Don't forget to mention Truth that it was a comic before being a movie. hehehe.. I am a comic fan and wannabe comic creator. :-P

@Faceless I think ego is beginning to get tired of "not getting it" Lol... I laugh, but is true. I think an understanding that reading and accumulating knowledge won't bring "moksha" is beginning to take place. Right now all I am doing is to continue to slowing down the mind and thoughts through observation. The meditation I am doing is mostly to be aware all the time of everything without reaction. Just observing.

That's awesome.

@Faceless Thanks a lot for that comment! Very clear explanation. I think I know the response, but the problem is ego doesn't want to accept it. I heard also Alan Watts saying that our consciousness is like the whole focusing on one point and that little point is our consciousness. He gave an example when he goes to a place and see people, he doesn't notice everything. But, he saw everything, he perceived everything. And probably deep inside him he can know for example, what color of T-Shirt was one of the person wearing. He put that as an example. Thanks!

Thanks @Nahm I think I am trying too much to have that experience. I need more patience. Thanks again.

That was awesome @LiakosN Thanks for sharing! Something similar happened to me, but without the mushrooms. I also went to the hospital and I was sure I was going to die. Nothing happened, but the ego is really a scared little child. Lol... Nice!

But isn't that some idea or a thought of what we are? Isn't it supposed that I have to know the totality of my experience? Know what others are experiencing, etc? I can infer that from the texts and for the conclusions I arrive after reading about avatars, like Buddha, Jesus, Krshna, etc... but why when the knowledge that we are everything is clear, why can't be experience or know that everything? That's what I can't wrap my head around.

@Samra That looks so good! I will ask in my comic store to see if they have it! I really like comics and I do comics myself. Thanks for sharing! :-)

Really good. Nailed it! :-)

@Faceless Thank you very much! I think I was needing to chat with you, you helped me to clarify the mind. I was not having confidence in my self and I was lost because of that. I know that now. I appreciate that! Thanks Faceless!

So many opinions, so many paths and ways. Everybody says different things about enlightenment. It's time to stop listening to everything and everyone, and begin searching inside oneself. Abide in the self. Have a wonderful weekend.

Great point. Thoughts/beliefs don't create reality, they distort it, they hide reality.

Today I was thinking the same, like my ego (the jiva) really acts by itself. Everything is mechanic. Someone says something, then a thought appears, the jiva do something according to past experiences, etc... I am mostly reading now the forum, not participating because I realized that everything I write is BS and what I understand from others is twisted by the ego and the other people also interprets what I say wrong. Because they filter also through the lenses of their egos/jivas.... So, I prefer to be in silence.

Ramana: "Keep your mind still. That is enough. You will get spiritual help sitting in this hall if you keep yourself still. The aim of all practices is to give up all practices. When the mind becomes still, the power of the Self will be experienced. The waves of the Self are pervading everywhere. If the mind is in peace, one begins to experience them."

Awesome @Shanmugam Thanks for sharing this!

You become conscious when you realize that your are everything. In reality you don't have a subconscious mind, you are it. What is "controlling" the small self (consciousness) is the big self or Buddha self (unconsciousness) . You will create all the experiences needed to wake up to realize you are both, conscious, unconscious, everything... IMO

Yes, God's dream creates or manifest everything.

This is my take. The consciousness that is associated with the body, the idea of a "me" doesn't exist. But somehow thoughts create the idea of a separated self that has not consciousness of the whole self, is not aware of the true self that is everything. Brahman. God. Etc.... In reality we are consciousness, but we identify with the separated idea of consciousness and we create our own reality of the poor me in the middle of a world that is outside me. I recommend you to listen to some Alan Watts youtube videos, he points to that very clearly and simple.

Yes... there's always those two perspectives. Teachers sometimes talk from one perspective and change to the other and that confuses sometimes beginners. It happened to me until I understood that. https://emptinessteachings.com/2014/09/11/the-two-truths-of-buddhism-and-the-emptiness-of-emptiness/

There's things deep down me (or the mind, I don't know) that I feel like they are true. But, thoughts always appears and makes me doubt. That's why we need others who traveled that path before us to know what to "do"... (I put it btw quotes because there's really nothing to do.)

@Faceless I got you, thanks for the guidance.