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@Hellspeed Sure, i've got many questions: How does the experience feel to the body (not the content of the mind)? How would you describe the feeling of radiance in your head? Only at the top, the top half, or entire head? How many years did the opening take to happen? Did it happen in stages or all at once? Did it involve the Kundalini itself to pass through all your chakras to ultimately dissolve in the Sahasrara?

Excellent realizations and excellent ass.

Do you have a constant and fully open Sahasrara?

@SoonHei No all this is confused nonsense. The Self is the fact of your existence. The fact that you exist. It has nothing to do with your persona. You are confusing your persona with your real Self. \\

@moon777light Ignore all the drivel posted above. The point of self-inquiry is to ground you in the Self. Nothing else matters. The Self is your own existence. It is the fact that you exist. It is not a sensation, or feeling, or thought, or emotion. It is not the feeling of trapped air in your chest. You know that you exist, and that existence does not originate from anywhere. You simply exist. Your existence is the first phenomena from which all other phenomena emerge. Self-inquiry is meant to show you that the world of phenomena emerges from this "existence" spontaneously, in form of sense perceptions and subsequent mental labeling. If you take a thought as it appears within you and trace it, you'll see that it just appears out of nowhere. Knowing this, holding on to it at all times, is enlightenment. Do not fall in the trap of "observing the observation", in the sense that don't try to objectify the Self, because it cannot be done.

One that you don't believe yourself to be.

Well this article is posted in a website dedicated to "Exposing Cults & Tantric Abuse". If you go looking for evil you will find it. There's simply not enough evidence.

@Buba It doesn't. Morality is in the mind.

You are God.

Admittedly i'm not the most versed in spiral dynamics, but, Since transcendence towards higher stages is mostly about surrendering to God, I'd say you need to become conscious of the limits of your mind. I always say: "Abandon all reason, ye who enter." for this leap. Also, the leap from yellow straight to coral might be possible. Turquoise deals with mysticism and that is still in part a conceptual framework (albeit with actual experiential phenomena that might be trans-rational), but at the end of the day, the only thing that is important is "surrendering into God." If you don't meditate, then you should sit down and do so. The object is to surrender all your thoughts and feelings to consciousness, which will eventually result in total clarity. At that moment, you are ripe for trans-rational realizations - AKA a direct experience of non-duality.

Non-duality is synonymous with trans-rational. It means that whatever you are labeling as non-dual is not something to be approached from a logical standpoint. Doing so will result in paradoxes that will only resolve themselves experientially and not logically. Also, as other people here have mentioned, non-duality is something the mind ascribes to God. God is the first cause, it exists prior to mind and thus prior to its labels.

@Godheals It'll take exactly as long as you want it to. If you are of average intelligence, it'll take maybe a year to make sense of all the important texts and ideas. The rest is actually experiencing the concepts in your own life - which goes back to my initial statement.

@28 cm unbuffed Don't get discouraged. I'd say questioning these things is actually a good thing. There are certainly people who would take advantage of your naiveté otherwise. But what Cetus is saying is (imo) is that you should gain more personal experiences. Then you'll know what is truth and what is not.

Nope. I'm not trying to sell you anything. It's definitely real.

@28 cm unbuffed What i mean by "Self-Recognition" is knowing everything as one and the same, with that "one" being God. It is the only ground where I could see how universal love could be a thing. Then again such a recognition does not necessitate love, imo.

@28 cm unbuffed Does your notion of love conform to "self-recognition"?

Because God's not judgmental.

@28 cm unbuffed What do you mean by love? What is it?

I highly recommend reading it. It helps that it's quite short too.

@Mikael89 But how do YOU know this, being alive?

@LoveandPurpose To answer the question in the title: Seemingly yes, but truly no.

Yes. The point is not to attain immortality through enlightenment. That is one of ego's clever little tricks to hide itself. The point rather, is to die well. Ironically, embracing your death has a much higher chance of resulting in ultimate liberation - but here language really fails at conveying the point.

@Identity Can you actually NOT let go? At what point in your life had you been able to truly hold onto something? To the extent that you swim with the current you are still. Trying to let go is a paradox, no? Can you intend to be spontaneous? Spontaneity is already your nature. If a wall is painted red, can you paint it the same shade of green and produce a different color? I think you could benefit if you shift your focus in meditation to observing your inherent spontaneity. Next time you sit to meditate and notice a thought arise, ask your self where has this thought come from? Is there an actual source you can follow to find the root of this thought or do the thoughts appear out of nowhere?

@Joseph Maynor All the dead, enlightened gurus of humanity agree with you.

@Buba Neither bad deeds or good deeds exist for the enlightened. The emphasis on abstaining form "bad" deeds is that they are potent distractions that might veil the Self. But the same is true with good deeds. That is why so many people fall in the spiritual trap of chasing good Karma. Good Karma is still Karma which is illusion. They key then is that deeds, good or bad, should not veil the truth of the Self. However, enlightened people may attain a great deal of emotional mastery. Interestingly, a person's emotional body is at rest when it abstains from bad deeds and loves fellow men and women. That is why many gurus are such gentle, good natured souls. It is not that they attained enlightenment through doing good deeds, but good deeds and grace flows out of their Self realization.