Khin

Ego don't exist. Enlightenment is realizing that Ego don't exist. What's not working together?

Beyond cause and effect nature.

@Anton Rogachevski Yes... you are right. Isnt satisfaction the same thing? But sad not every everyone sees this way.

It remunded me of my childhood life where I went to eat food at Hindu temple. It was fun to eat with leaves as our plates.

@Bronsoval After life is all depending on your nature of this life. Did Leo say it's nothingness after life? Maybe he meant something else. All physical existences and mental existences are supporting each other and happening together at the same time. For example, your body is changing as well as your mind. When a person is stressful, his body is also affected by his mind and causes illness. Also both body and mind are happening or renewing again and again according to cause and effect nature. If there's a cause, there will be an effect. Every mental state, Buddhist called Nama and physical state will appear at the same time depending on each other. The quality of mind and body must be equal. If not the weaker state will adjust to be equal to the stronger state. For example, if stress level is stronger, body will also turn stressful and weaker. If the mind is happy and full of energy, body will also be energized. Or if the body is very sick, a person will be stressful if his mind isn't strong enough to lift the physical state up. That's the connection between body and mind and how they are supporting each other. So... when the body is very weak to the point where it cannot continue to renew with mental states or mental state is just to weak or stronger than physical state, a person dies. Because the mental state has to seek another physical body that fits well. By the way, we also should know that there is no distance or separation in this universe. So don't be thinking how the mind travel. So... as soon as a person dies, his mind will attach to some other physical body that fits well with the nature of the mind. That way, a human can become an animal or human again or something higher in the universe. Christian refers as angel, Buddhism refers to other beings in universe. You're responsible for everything you have now.

Happiness most people want is out of desire. Ya know, "I WANT to be happy." The happiness come within is peace from satisfaction. "Within" refers to being able to function properly without letting the external materials and social problems get into them.

@abrakamowse Mine is Leo, in US. I also have my first teacher who is a monk in Asia.

@joegarland what type of enlightenment do you want? That's the most important thing to know who we should pick. There are many people saying that they are enlightened. But non of them got my interest but Leo. Because enlightenment or Nirvana or Christian or Buddhism whatever is just a concept. The real thing is in yourself. What do you want? What do you want to know? Only after that, you'll find a right teacher who is chosen by your inner self.

We FUCKING exist.

Trust me, everyone think like that no matter what they say.

To be honest im not working towards enlightenment to bring joy or happiness to myself. My purpose is to block unnecessary emotion and to get out of suffering. especially this disguesting, sick, dying body. Of course I'm still happy and healthy since I'm only 22. But.... nothing stays forever. It is totally ok not to be happy or bliss or in peace as long as I don't reborn.

After saying "I" don't exist, why would even awareness be the remaining? LOL People want happiness and that "Beautiful" something. Doesn't matter whatever you know, just something beautiful or comfortable state. Well..... human nature. ..

Awareness is not the end of the road for "Buddhist enlightenment" Knowing itself is not enough. You must experience it.The way to do is, search how all senses arise. Example, when you body touched something, the sense of touch will arise. If you don't exist or if the object touched in particular time doesn't exist, that particular sense will not appear in that particular moment. It means everthing appear only according to causes. Then search if that sense still exist. In the end, your body will turn blue underground and everything you value will disappear as your senses disappeared. That is to confirm that you as an entity don't exist.

@Andre While meditating? Don't pay attention to experiences. Pay attention to your body and observe when the seeing and hearing occur. Those light and voices can't take you through enlightenment. They sure will disappear with time if you are on the right track. But you might still feel real until you get through it.

@Quizzer oh! Ummmm.... looks like she is having hard time in her life.

well....

Please don't look for that light. Light and other experiences occur during meditation. Especially for beginners. I've seen people passed out because they said someone was talking into their ears. The monk explained that seeing light, feeling smaller and feeling of floating in air are normal. They are signs of focusing on one thing. Signs of being calmness in mind. But hearing and seeing someone is because a person was unconsciously wondering. They will disappear with time.

Do.. "Ahnapana" meditation. Just breathing in and out.

Today's society is all about materialism. To be honest, I have never heard of depression until I came to U.S. sad....

@carlo Heyyyyyy... this is Kiii in actualized.org forum ... just copying Leo. Well! To be honest, I used do nothing technique even before I found Leo videos. Let me share my experience with you. It was about six years ago. I was meditating in the temple on mountain. It was our New Year and many people were dancing and doing whatever with REALLY loud music. I was first listening to those music without knowing myself. Then I remembered I was meditating and should not follow after feelings and emotions. But I couldn't control myself at all. So I was really annoyed. After 45 minutes later, I give up and let my mind go. I decided to look at it without controlling. I decided i would only pay attention to my ears. In my mind I was annoyed by my thoughts and wanted to see how far it would go. As I decided to give my thoughts a freedom, my desire to listen to music disappeared. And music turned into really plain voices which disappeared as soon as they hit my ear drums. When doing "Do Nothing" technique, one should aware of a sense as it comes up and should also aware of when it disappears. It says Do Nothing because you are not supposed to be identifyed with any experience or awareness.

There is no entity. It is named for an illusion of the sense of self. Since sense of self is an illusion, ego also turn out an illusion. No one is acting and controlling. People are only reacting. Here is very funny thing ... they said... "Thanks to mother nature, dogs on Alaska have two layers of fur coat." Actually, dogs themselves are mother nature, aren't they?

Do nothing technique is very powerful method according to my own experiences. If your awareness is not sharp enough, you will daydream as usual. The difference is in do nothing technique, you will see experiences as the way they are without labeling and identifying. Also you won't think of past or future. Not even one second to past or future. If you are day dreaming, you will be thinking about something. If you see something you'll think of whatever it is and think of what could it be or how it was there (stream of thought). First, try not to label. Leo already talked about that in one of his videos. Also, watch his first spiritual video of ' You don't exist.'

We shouldn't ignore anything by saying we don't exist. We aren't fully enlightened people after all. everything is still real. "I exist" is still real and "I don't exist" is just a knowledge for now. So, we should not do anything insane. One thing for sure is there are many thing we don't know out there. So just holding our questions would be the best for now. If we really want to know, then we will sure get the answer in our experiences when the time come. That answer would be better than 'Thinking.'

Nothing disappear after all. Just the form changed. But then, the change = dead because the previous form is no longer there and will never be there again. The nature is impermanent. The reincarnation is real. But it just not the same as most people think.

@khalifa Meditate while laying down or sitting of you are tired. Because You will feel fresher when you wake up. Also, you don't need to rest for too long if you fall asleep while meditating.