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To achieve that level of understanding you must live thousands lives hehehe... just kidding, but that's not something we will be doing in this life. Only master like Jesus for example, he died and came back. You have to be an avatar to achieve that. And once you are at a level where your mind is ready for it, you will do it. Now it sounds crazy, because we are at a very low consciousness level. When they leave the body, they are not dying are they are not losing the experience of existence. They become existence themselves.

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I read parts of the book and opened something new for me that I didn't know that the tibetans also talked about demons, hell, the devil and stuff like that. I think all that is just creations of consciousness, depending on what level of consciousness you are when you die, if you are still attached to fears, etc... all those thoughts come to you and create a kind of "hell", until you learn to accept those thoughts and fears and transcend them. I don't know, just my 2 cents.

The Void As Contemplative Experience http://paulbrunton.org/notebooks/23/8

https://emptinessteachings.com/2013/04/14/the-myth-of-the-self-neurology-weighs-in/

Just look for the presence inside you that is aware of the confusion. Observe the thoughts, be the observer of the thoughts and you will see that you are not the thoughts, so... you are not confused. You are aware of confusion. One thing that helped me a lot to separate my awareness from the thoughts was mindful meditation. There's a lot of videos, even Leo did one. If you are not attached to the thoughts, there's nothing to fear. Fear is just a thought, be aware of the thought, investigate it and you will see that it has no fundaments. Fear arises, but you don't have to be fearful of nothing.

Nihilism needs a person who is a nihilist. But, there's no person. The ego needs to have a "meaning" because it wants objects of the world, it can be money, power, or something that is valuable for it. Awareness doesn't want anything, it doesn't need any purpose, its purpose is just to BE. That's the most important purpose in life. IMO. :-)

Leo, if you come to New York or New Jersey I'll be there!!!

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You are joy and delight. You are pure bliss. What does not feel the bliss is the ego that is always worried, and bored, etc... That's why when you do meditation and you can see reality the way it is, without the filter of the ego, you feel bliss. Because that's what you are, you are pure bliss. :-)

That's true @Nahm, basically what "we" realize is that "we" are that. In reality is not that we are looking for GOD, we are looking for our true nature. :-)

In my opinion there's not such a thing as an atheist. And atheist believes anyway in an idea of creation, it doesn't matter if it is the big bang, or some theory. Like a religious person the atheist sees a part of the truth and he denies the idea of GOD of the religious man. But not GOD/REALITY/THAT/WHAT IS .... because the idea of GOD that the religious person has is just that, an idea. It's not the real thing. If we could describe REALITY with words we wouldn't be here sharing different opinions about what REALITY is... or that Higher Power as @Highest has said. I like that name... higher power. :-)

GOD is just a word ... It's like the story of the blind people who were touching an elephant and they asked them to describe what it was.

Learn programming language! :-P

Maybe you should meet sometimes on a cafe or bar and let everyone know that, so probably others will want to go and see what are you doing. There's always people who want to write or draw or take pictures and they don't have where publish them. Make some posters about the meetings and place it on the school board or hand them out to other students.

A bit late, but I agree... good idea!

You are GOD. As Jesus said, "You and God are one"

I don't know anything...

That happened to me some time ago... did you tried mindfulness meditation? That helped me a lot to get "separated" from the thoughts. You can't control the thoughts, being aware of them is the best way to "control them". Being aware knowing those thoughts are not "your" thoughts. There's not a "thinker of thoughts".

I agree with @AleksM and @SOUL posts. I see time like changes in consciousness. Things are constantly changing and we "measure" those changes in something that we call "time". Same thing with other measures, like inches, or kilometers. There's not distance between objects in awareness, but we have the illusion through our senses that there are, so we can "measure" distances like we "measure" time. But what happens is constant changes in the now. The mind tries to understand what's happening and "creates" the explanation through ideas. But he is not creating anything, mind is trying to interpret reality. And from the point of view of awareness it fails. That's what creates the whole universe. We need to see reality that way to have experiences. Awareness is always there, not moving and not doing anything. Just being aware.

Thanks guys for the comments! I was just curious. Maybe I am wrong but I feel that what IS is more than awareness or experience or anything. We have to be open and reject any ideas to see it, and if we attach to certain idea then we won't be able to see it. Thanks again!!!!

I just want to know opinions. There's some people that think that pure awareness cannot exist, because awareness will always need experience to know itself. So, they conclude that experience and awareness are different words for the same thing. So they say experience is self aware. And you are experience! Can awareness know itself without experience? Is experience and awareness the same thing? What do you think? I would like to know different opinions. Not because I don't have one, but to go deeper into this point. Thanks for participating!!! :-)