Galyna

Well, I am sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt anyones feelings. I was just sharing how I see it. Let’s just say this: I am not yet in position to talk about such high metaphysical things.

@MrTouchdown when it becomes known/perceived.

It exists as a probability, so infinity holds everything. However it only plays out when it is in awareness.

1. To keep sanity 2. To entertain the Self 3. To develop through interactions 4. To enjoy maya 5. To expand and gain experience in a human body 6. To forget Solitude 7. To experience Being

@eTorro Develop a habit to read, every day. It will boost your vocabulary and help with expressing your thoughts.

When you say: “your” scenario, what you mean? Does it belong to someone? ?

Would it be fair to say that changes are only appearances which don’t hold any ground and couched within nothingness? Kinda like a coin on the sun. You saw its sparkle, you know it was there to later recognize that it was just an illusion of the reflected light. nothing ever happened but appeared as it did ?.

I know, my friend, I really do ! Thanks for stopping by.

I am not sure I understand, can you please elaborate? But one day you wake and you realize: do I want to continue this game and being lied or lie to myself OR do I want to choose freedom? When the pain outweighs the sweetness, then -----> the real work begins. Pain here is being your guiding star/compass. Because you can delude yourself on and on, but one day you say: " I am done, I want to be free, I do not want to lie to my inner self, I choose the Truth." I want to point out here, pain is our guide, it teaches us, it gives us a direction. So.... I am waiting on a moment when pain truly outweighs, to a point of being unbearable, then only in this case, I will work my ass hard to become to my true Self.

Because it is just a thought in my mind. Memory is a tricky thing. Btw, stimulus with action goes first, then mind registers it through the prism of the ego-mind. Creating the illusion of the so-called "doer", your body moves first, then you register this fact, brain is always late. I do not trust memory, brain can present it as if it actually happened, however it might never happen. They have scientific data about it, how victims of murder replaced the negative event with a fake memory to not go crazy.

Would it be fair to say that there is an experience that needs to be outlived? "I" am not in control. Feels more like obsessive pattern that follows the identity, in fact this pattern creates my identity. Now I notice it very clearly. How it arises and desire creates my experience of a human being. It tastes so good, you do not want even to swallow it. This is the hook and mind is so tricky, son of the....It knows I am on a hook, so it keeps offering me the food to perpetuate ego. Me=mind. It feeds itself, food is its life. Inhumane effort is needed to stop the machine.

@RMQualtrough Wow, interesting. Cant say or add anything, never tried psychedelics.

Thank you so much I am going to try it with a clock. Yes, when I become what I observe I splice with the observation and there is nobody there to register time.

Stimulus based on desire, regular thought won't produce any action, and might stay latent. Otherwise every thought would lead to manifestation, this in turn, would be a disaster. everything is made out of consciousness----it is literally consciousness, remove the word "made". There is no fine line, everything is absolutely an appearance within consciousness, which is in turn consciousness. White piece of paper with bunch of printed letters on it, are letters made out of paper? Or are they a paper with blank ink on it? So black ink is a appearance created for a purpose there, to separate and make sense.

Not when you realize that the other is literally you. Would you want to do any harm (emotional gaming I mean, not physical) to another? They are literally You. All you can do is just to love them unconditionally. Game comes from mind. Connection comes from heart. If you realize that there is no you, nor other. What is the point to play? No one can hurt you, because there is no one there to be hurt. Everything happens naturally. Suffering ends when you realize the irony that every connection hinges upon illusory nature of this “I”. but for many people it is better to suffer and pursue the illusion rather than to let go and become undifferentiated awareness. I am struggle with this too. Illusion feels so charming that you want to drown in the silhouettes of others just to never lose the ground. BTW: the other was created precisely to keep this “i” in the illusion. As long as we believe in others, we believe in existence of this separate “I”.

I disagree, been there, done that. not all people can trigger you. There should be an element of a soulmate connection where you recognize yourself in another being. There has to be this attraction where you have a lot in common. Otherwise connection will be just “pale”.

Of course, people love when you listen to them attentively, actually listening but not wait your turn to say something meaningful that might inflate your ego.

Today I came to the conclusion that I can (I don’t know yet how) influence the flow of my subjective time.

Absolutely, so this is what freaked me out. I looked back and retrospected about past events and it seems like a week was one day. However, when I began to notice it, as an observer, for magical reason time slowed down: double slit experiment ?

I remember I was crying in my crib. However, this was a traumatic experience due to abandonment. Again, I realize that this event has never happened and is fiction of the ego-mind that happens right here and right now. But the illusion that event happened when I was little is somewhat persuasive. I get what you are saying, as I clearly see that the time is a mental construct. It is easy to see now how appearances (of anything) juxtapose themselves creating the illusion of a motion.

Not necessarily.

@axiom yeah, because both are fictions

I freaked out a little bit because I had an experience where time went super-fast. Ego freaked out a little bit due the fact that I will approach inevitable end sooner that I expected. Also, yes, something happened to my short-term memory, I cannot remember things at all. How can I if I do not think of them. Friends ask me things to bring or for example doctor's appointment...if I haven't set up the alarm, it will evaporate from my mind. About four weeks ago it took me some time to remember the season we are in, just in a split of the second I could not recollect. I was holding an apple in the grocery store, and my awareness was sucked in so much but I was in a heighten state. It felt that life slowed down. I hope it will restructure , there is a desire to be in this state all the time, but no...naive "little" me, ego had a backlash again. Man, I did not realize I am so attached to my identity, "I" literally does not want to let itself go'. And the mind lurks in all the time by engaging into a new things. Now I completely understand how difficult it is to achieve permanent enlightenment. It is a road in a length of life. Mind creates projections/mirrors and plays with them to not disappear. I want to write a new post about it. Because intuitively, I know that the Higher truth will take up. Ego will surrender eventually and it is just a matter of time.

yes, space and something that "holds" this space.

Time is a mental construct of the ego-mind. Time only arises when there is an identity to whom this time exists. I have noticed that when "I shifts" toward impersonal perception, times slows down vs when "I" focuses on the identity. Similar to undifferentiated attention that flows freely and does not stick on objects and things. Rather it becomes what it "sees" ( do you understand what I am talking about @Someone here? ) I am sorry if it is a bit convoluted. I've described it in my " Collapse of dualities" post. Have you ever become it, when you are looking at something/someone and the feeling of this dense "I" disappears? Inner and outer collapses into One experience which does not have any cognition of self. Einstein proved that time is relative in his Theory of relativity, time depends upon your vantage point, and so there is no single absolute time. Therefore, it is highly relative and hinges upon itself. It is highly subjective and therefore! it is an illusion. Let's even drop science....what is time truly? Memory that is created by the liner perception and sequencies of events. But everything that has ever happened unfolds right now in your field of awareness, do you agree with me? Time is a quality of consciousness so it can self reflect upon itself and create the illusion of physical reality. When people refer to the prove aka from the past like pics and things, they do not understand that illusion of physical reality unfolds as they go creating their past pictures and notions of the past events in their minds. Simple answer hides with the non-dual, non-liner perception. Have you ever noticed that the nature of Consciousness is "to become what it creates" Why do we even say non-dual? Because there is only One thing that can exist at a time, even though there are many appearances that "pretend" to happen simultaneously, but one is always being held within the conscious experience. Very simple to check, try to concentrate on many things at a time and see. There is always one primal perception and "other things" that happen on the background of it. That is the quality of mind to put tag on something it fails to comprehend. We do not have a direct experience of it, it is just a theory that does not hold any ground. Just bunch of symbols, do you agree with me? And yes, so true, because there is nobody there to be aware of it. The biggest joke of Lila. Bury the "character" and they will take "time" with them into the "grave". Sommie, you made a great point. Thanks for putting some time to explain things. But you have not answered my question from the relative standpoint. I was just curious how people perceive the flow of time when experience the impersonal awareness. Does it slow down or get faster for you? I agree with everything you say, but on the personal level, what has changed for "you" with awakening in terms of time flow. Thank you....