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@Teags Maybe this can be of help http://www.uncoveringlife.com/enlightenment-what-it-is/ and this http://liberationunleashed.com/articles/awakening-vs-liberation/ one more: http://liberationunleashed.com/articles/classical-liberation/

I found an app with Enlightening Quotes here: http://liberationunleashed.com/enlightening-quotes-app/

I forgot to mention @Natasha , I checked the video you sent me and it's really good. Very helpful to understand a bit more reality. The optical illusions are impressive. Let me tell you that my brain must be very damage, because I couldn't see the dolphins for a long time lol... I just saw the lovers and it took me long time to notice the dolphins hahahaha.

@Natasha I am going every week, but I want to go at least two times a week. I took some pictures of the outside and some more of the buddha statue inside, I will post them tomorrow.

@Salaam @PeakPerformance this article explains better than me why we can't control thoughts or guide them. http://www.uncoveringlife.com/free-will/ I copy paste this part, but you can read it entirely. Really juicy article. "Commonly, the notion of “free will” means something like: To be able to have chosen otherwise. In other words, “I did this, but I could have done that instead.” But what does it mean that ‘I could have done differently?’ Let’s say that I chose vanilla ice cream. But I firmly believe that I could have chosen chocolate instead. I believe that the choice to take the vanilla flavour came from myself, that the choice was mine. Sure, I may have been influenced by external forces, but I alone ultimately decided whether I wanted vanilla or chocolate ice cream today. Right? But if the choice to take the vanilla was caused by me, what then caused me to cause that choice? There has to have been a prior cause; some force making me decide what to eat—whether internal or external—otherwise that choice to take the vanilla ice cream is simply indistinguishable from a random one. In other words, unless I decide to decide, or something decides for me, the choice is simply random. So, do I decide to decide? Of course not. Then we would have to admit another decision, one that decided that we were going to decide to decide, and so on ad infinitum."

What's meta positioning? and structural integrity of what?

@MartineF Cool, thank you!

I think we don't control our thoughts at all, because there's no one to control them. We think we are the thinker of thoughts, but that is just a thought.

@Natasha This is @Neill (brown robe) and me (blue robe) at Zendo NYC

@cetus56 Very interesting indeed. I have Eckhart Tolle "The Power of Now" and I want to read "Be Here Now" to compare both, but for what you are telling me it sounds they are quite different. I checked Steve Jobs biography and yes, that's the book he read. He also read Beginners Mind, Zen Mind by Suzuki and the Life of Yogananda, among others.

This book just came to me hehehe... "There is no one There is nothing and no one to get No one to receive a teaching No one to give a teaching That being said Who hears? Who reads? Let’s begin... " From the book "The Zen of Advaita" by Nisargadatta Maharaj

Yesterday the mind was doing a big attack, but I remembered all the posts here, specially this one @Ayla and nothing happened. I just stayed in my "being-ness" and all was great. The mind can go crazy, I don't mind. Lol Today I am beginning to notice that something observes the concept "I AM" Thanks!

I am not 100% sure, but I think that one was a predilect book of Steve Jobs. I have to check, it says that in his biography I think.

I just googled Gangaji @MartineF , interesting. Thanks!

Neti Neti

This is not a koan but is a very good advice: ”It is better to do your own path imperfectly, than another’s perfectly.” Krsna

I am reading Nisargadatta Maharaj and it's awesome, blow minding. Very direct Zen. It is helping me a lot. Thanks!

Yes, I like him. I am subscribed to his YouTube channel (not sure if it is his channel, but it has a lot of videos of him). Thanks!!! Never heard about her, I am going to google her. Thanks! Thanks everyone for your posts!!!

Thanks Natasha, I'm going to watch that video. ?

I found something that I think it has a lot to do with what we are talking about Nisargadatta Maharaj: “I do not believe in spiritual paths....all paths lead to unreality.” There is no one, There is nothing and no one to get No one to receive a teaching No one to give a teaching That being said Who hears? Who reads? Let’s begin Nisargadatta Maharaj: “There is no such thing as enlightenment, the realization of that fact is itself enlightenment.”

The universe programmed everything

@Venus Are you looking for self-actualization or self-realization? If you are looking for self-actualization I would buy the life purpose course that Leo is offering. If you want self-realization. Sit still and know who you are, or better said... who is the I AM.

My programming?

Cool, thanks @vizual !!! I knew I wasn't fully accepting reality, even I wanted to believe that I was. I was accepting the ego, but suddenly today I wake up like in a bad mood. I think is the natural response of the ego (programming, conditioning, belief, whatever it is the ego). :-)

I am really feeling that I am nothing. But I am not clinging to that belief.