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perfect. absolutely spot on. @Serotoninluv that's precisely what i became aware of. i dont think i have the write words to express it as you do, but this seems perfect the "non-judgemental" awareness is a strong one. also the process of going from I AM AWARENESS to I AM to AM to IS to nothing <3 Thank you. mapping the process once it's seen makes it easier for me to get back to that place and at the same time, to the one unaware, this would just be so easily missed the fact that it cannot be pointed to becomes infinitely more clear as to way day by day. oh and yes, the tendency to talk about it and all is certainly the movement towards dual constructs which is also ok as long as one can be grounded in the AM-ness... #workInProgress for me.

@MTR first of all. Thanks for that. Never thought about those thoughts as such Especially a follow up you wrote about aiming for an Ego death Had to analyze how i also had projected this many times @Hellspeed wow. Thanks. Your addition at the end was great. That kinda takes this new perspective also full circle. I notice.how my ego did a few things after reading this post.. First was to do a quick replace of the current paradgim with this new look shared in this topic Then it was to continue to read further (food for thought = more thought/story) Then i read and @Hellspeed post kinda pulled me back Next was to write this post! The ego always wants and craves and vreates what it wants next in the story thereby perpetuating itself. I write this paradoxically as i realized this and yet back here to share the insight as a priority rather than dwell in it more.

Was talking to someone about the whole of existence being duality Heads and tails Good and bad Up and down Left and right But then he asked me something and it made me stuck as i dont know myself... Here's what he said: What side is the head of a ball. We dont define existence by non-existance its other way around. Nothing is not something if you define nothing it becomes something. I know an object like a sphere or ball.. unsure where the duality is there... ? Anyone explain? And what would be an answer to him saying that it's the other way around... Kinda makes sense too..

@Nahm wow thank you. Thank you!! Very elegant! God bless

@SQAAD Think of it this way... Even with your dualist POV of the world. A world where you were BORN. Every since your oldest memory which you can recall... has there ever been a pause in experiencing life? Your awareness is present in each passing moment. Enlightenment is just the realization of this ever-present awareness moment by moment. So yes, awareness is always permanent. But you may not be always watching from the ultimate POV.

@tentacion yes. It is a single being. And you are it. That also means i am it. It also means you and i are the same thing It also means everyone is it Now, dont limit your views... Those are just bodies we are talking about It's absolutely infinite for God's sake! So not only is it everyone, it is everything! EVERYTHING!

@non_nothing Why the awareness is interested in that it's the ego / mind who is interested. Awareness is simple aware of this interest being exhibited.

The absolute is simply this present moment and that is what i am just always the present moment, mapped infinitely in all directions, centered around this body/mind (body/mind from the POV of a human life. that which i am calling body/mind is just abstract patterns which appear - kinda like those DMT visuals , except that because we all used to this and exist in this realm since birth, to us they are not random. ) just like language can be this way if i hear someone speaking japanses for example, it will sound like gibberish to me vs someone speaks in english, i have to make no effort and it is understood as it's heard that's what leo meant i guess when he said to stare at your hand. WTF is that shit. looks creepy after a bit one your pre-supposed notions about it slowly fade away now, the NOW, the present moment, the single ever present frame of reality is WHAT I AM the story that's carried as a thought is included in each of these frames which come and go in the NOW life: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< | >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the left arrows are what the past is, but where does it "go" - if you take out the assumption about a sold existing world and us crawling about the earth then you get a single frame with both the earth and you on it. no two things. but ONE so again, where does that past/yesterday go? it just goes out and is replaced with the new NOW, when also goes that tiny | in the middle is how tiny and small and IN THE NOW our life occurs so you can change your life TODAY in that NOW by dropping whatever may have occurred in the PAST and deeply coming to know that IN THE NOW factor of your life the absolute is the NOW. i AM THE PRESENT MOMENT. Totally. completely.

@non_nothing time is an illusion... Relatively speaking. Or in other words, it isn't absolute. It is relative. You can to grasp it this way intellectually... That all of Reality exists already. Like a novel. Already printed and bound in a book format. Ready to read whenever. As you read thru the novel, you will be reading thru an apparent timeline (assuming linear story telling) So there's is an illusion of time as you read thru the book. The book/story is already ALL there. Time is a consequence of you reading thru it. Time isn't a separate thing. Reading it is the time. Same way, time isn't a separate factor with life. The passing of life thru the lense of your mind is Time. As Rupert Spira says, time is eternity seen thru the lense of your mind.

@Whatever Stories (inner world / contraction of awareness) + outter wolrd = wholeness / complete present moment We focus on the stories / inner world / I and as @Jack River said, this clinging is projected ahead into the "future" But as we are focused on just the stories we never find wholeness... Because wholeness, as you can see above isn't just the stories. It's also the rest of it. Stories = duality Wholeness is non-dual and complete. @Inliytened1 hey. I have had "my" moments of wholeness here and there but it's a work in progress

i saw a video once on a pron site, it was under the enlightened category

take the present moment and MINUS your stories about what/who you think you are (which are also contained within the present moment) and you will become the whole, instead of the part MINUS - means to drop the association with the story about who/what you are because though that's part of the present moment, you are not SOLEY that alone. you are ALL OF IT. the WHOLE FRAME OF NOW, not a piece of it.

@Serotoninluv @Nahm yes I agree. I find myself to be in a lot of the intellectual theory and understanding Need to bring it more into direct experience and raising awareness Plan is to develop some strong practice But i wud much rather term that as a non-practice... Being that its so simple that it requires you to out-wit yourself... Dont want to be stuck "doing" a practice But goal is to see the true nature:) Also, side Question and doesn't relate to the search or anything But why do you say Eckhart tolle or rupert spira arent enlightened? Isn't their seeking done.. or in Eckhart's case. Had ego death and now there is no ego there... Isn't that enlightenment? They are aware of their true nature and live from that place moment to moment? No? Just curious why you are saying they aren't enlightened? Is this related to the 10 ox pics? That they maybe up there at step 8 or 9 but aren't at 10 yet?

@TheAvatarState @TheAvatarState @Serotoninluvj but it doesn't seem to bring me any happiness, fulfillment, or extra value to the experience. REAlize there is no me/you there to have happiness. Use the Awakening to know there is no you The audience watching a movie is free from the character's happiness or suffering Unless you become attached to the character.. and that's the example of people getting emotional when watching a sad movie for example REAlize you are the audience and are ever okay with respect to what happens on the screen.

@Preetom thanks that was nice Not trying to take that as more content But the mechanism is nicely explained there I like to think of it this way also, When listening to a song, a song you know... The part of you which knows what's coming next. The part of you who knows the memory of what's to come (not the memory, but the knowing of it) ... That KNOWING is the true self. It can't be pin pointed cuz it will slip away the moment you try to pin it.. it will go meta to that action. Always.

@winterknight are you, as an enlightened / awake consiousness aware of the various facets of Reality? Like infinite intelligence Infinite love Infinite dimensions Infinite facets of Reality? Are all fully enlightened consiousnesses aware of the same facets of Reality? Or it can vary depending on their body/mind's experiences and understanding along their respective path?

@Nahm @Leo Gura @Serotoninluv So an enlightenment experience first and foremost reveals our true nature. And that's it? When does one become aware of its various (infinite) facets? Like leo said, infinite screen or infinite love or infinite intelligence? Does a fully enlightened person (Rupert Spira, sadhguru, Eckhart) have full knowledge of all facets of Reality? Like i have seen a few of leo's enlightenment experience videos and in each of them he talks about a different facet... Are those facets of Reality still content in the dream but it is also TRUE because it's an insight? So essentially, two enlightened beings may not have the same understanding or depth of Reality? The only one common thing would be that they are aware of the TRUTH but their understanding would be varied?

@Nahm <3 @non_nothing bro, ask away!!! WHO IS actually on every base!!!

Had a nice bit of seeing just now! Who is asking the question!!!! WHO!!!!!! I am WHO! Like that baseball game joke about the basemen's name on which player is on which base? Also Thoughts are one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With the damn world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hear in the same space as other sounds in the "real world" the inner outer is one! Nice to notice and contemplate how one talks to themselves!!! Also repeating: "i am not my thoughts including this thought" and watching Epic hahhaa wow Bless

thank you. this is great!

@Hello from Russia yes if you take a back seat and find that your thoughts/visualization is very strongly reflecting your feeling/emtions about that. then you will find what ends up happening is the manifestation of that the only issue however is this, there is no "you" doing any of the visualzation/thinking.. so really, when it happens, it happens.. you can think/visualize it "yourself" as well... but needs to be authentic (aka just happening and strongly so - on it's own )

@brugluiz in asking of that question, it shows you do not know what meditation is meditation does not equal sitting down cross legged or any other way and "doing" something meditation simply means to take a back seat to what's happening when one is enlightened, "she/he" are in a meditative state 24/7

https://www.unilad.co.uk/science/man-set-for-worlds-first-head-transplant-cancels-surgery-after-falling-in-love/

I, as a Muslim who has stumbled upon this non-dual realization of reality find myself asking the following question. Does Prayer work? I mean sure, all is a dream and different story and content within those infinite dreams... but the direct revelation to the prophet and many others from God with his infinite wisdom where God says to ask him for anything no matter if it's the tip of your shoelace which goes missing... So while knowing that what I am is outside of this world/dream and merely watching this all - can my character/ego in the dream pray to God and believe that it will be fulfilled? prayer answered? also, i feel within the dream itself... someone who is fully enlightened speaks from the NOW and the present with the knowledge limited to their experience in that life... eg. a computer scientist who becomes enlightened will not magically know things about space or medicine upon enlightenment... sure they will understand the human mind as that's a common factor for all enlightened beings now someone within the dream who gets direct revelations from God is much more profound and deep... for example Prophet Muhammad was told about how exactly a baby is formed in the womb... and about facts of the world unknown at the time... We created man from an extract of clay. Then We made him as a drop in a place of settlement, firmly fixed. Then We made the drop into an alaqah (leech, suspended thing, and blood clot), then We made the alaqah into a mudghah (chewed substance)... https://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a.htm He has set free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress. and this was discovered as a body of two seas that do not meet. so revelation is truly the direct word of God within the dream of reality and is the most powerful sure all of what i am saying is technically the happening and the word of God and also the words of an enlightened being but revelation trumps all

so elegant <3 thanks