now is forever

@Shin is this a question about your profile picture? keep the osho! at least you can always say you are his reincarnation to get away with copyright infringement!

@Shin you just don’t want to change your face - and i must confess: it’s dashing.

a yes right - the next buddha to come is maitreya. and there are supposed to be bodhisattva on this earth.

you could also say the light is only because there is darkness. and you only know darkness exists because there is light. i only know how i know nothing because there are so many lights around me. ?

mhhh - as i see it and i can only speak of what i glimpsed until now, is awakening exactly what it says, you awaken from the dream into the dream - but what you’ve seen will forever change how you interact with the world. but enlightenment is dissolving all tensions all suffering into understanding, love and compassion - i don’t think it’s only about sweettalk though. and also not only dissolving into understanding but also into change resolving from understanding. conceptionally i mix spiritual enlightenment with intellectual and historical enlightenment into one unity - it’s something you give and recive rather than you achieve and sometimes you need more spirituality and sometimes more science or logic but together they bring light, enlightenment is in words and actions and in both combined. finding emptiness is only to find the light within and to grow it (saying only - but it is the hardest work probably)

@mandyjw that’s your interpretation. am i a priest? are you a non believer? all i‘m saying is that it is always only in the now. and i‘m certainly not there yet.

i belief thats a missbelief - of course does enlightenment exist, and of course you can seek it much more than awakening. awakening happens with you, enlightenment not naturally as enlightenment is a constant searching for the path.

@Highest yeah lauryn hill is great

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hahaha you sure you don’t follow? so you think you can’t follow beyond the mind? ? you‘re sure? there is nothing beyond the mind in that sense, because there is no either or. if mind is a concept then let it be an all including all embracing one.

the mind needs to learn to get embraced then - why does it reject coexistence?

@DrewNows no i don’t, there is no mistake.

that’s not true, while i had heart opening , i had an experience in a meditation group, where except me being light flooded one other person was light flooded too i could see that with closed eyes. so there are enlightened beings. it’s easy to say that there are not - but how do you know - you don’t! likewise don’t conflate awakening with enlightenment - enlightenment only occures when you are free of any longings or any preconceptions - i doubt that many achieve being enlightened permanently. it’s a constant work that has ups and downs - you can walk a path and loose a path.

yes exactly how are you sure your brain does happen in your dreams by the way? how do you know that it is your dreams?

@SoonHei maybe when i laugh

you mean it’s in my tummy

@SoonHei if i‘m a ventriloquist then what would that mean

@Rohit saluja did you ever try it with white noise? i know there is a cure where they try to find the exact tone the tinnitus makes in the ear and with that they somehow make the tinnitus disappear. but maybe white noise could also help. i know this is not about the question you asked, but as i can only tell you the answer to this i only tell you the answer to this - the answer to the other question, only you can answer to that by walking the path.

that’s beautiful

@Highest how does your heart feel? are you going out to nature - i mean spring is here soon. how do you feel towards the people you meet? can you see it? do you listen to music?

@Charlotte cool your doing it!!! l-theanin worked like magic for me - but i also had these magic fermented cacao beans i threw in whenever the craving came up. also strong ginger tea is recommendable. have some alternative herbs at hand for the case you get tempted! pluto recommended mullein then, i like it’s sweet taste but also had some with damiana some weeks ago. these are just for the occasion and better than backlashing . you‘ll do it! if i could, you can, too! edit: i had to overdose with l-theanin for some days. it’s ok because you need to take a lot until it’s risky, but be aware that the other ingredients in your product might not.

it fits in the palm of my hand.

@Shaun so it’s true isn’t it? you are conciousnes experiencing itself all by itself? you are all there is!