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It's okay to use "I" in conversation with others. That's just how humans communicate. You don't awaken in your current body-mind. You are already fully enlightened. All you have to do is to get rid of assumptions that you "are" a body-mind, and all its attachments. Your true self always is, always has been, and always will be. To know it as you know it now, there needs to be a body. But it knows itself by its own light. Every night when you go into deep sleep, there is no longer the body nor is there the mind, still the Self remains, even though there is no-one to experience it. If you ask yourself "where was I when I went to sleep last night?" The answer to this question is immediately apparent, and it's the same answer that applies to your question. However don't look for an answer in words. Just be, and it should be clear. Sages say that you will be born anew into another body, and that you can, in this life, remember your past lives. However I cannot comment on this. Sorry! Again, enlightenment is not something that occurs in the future. It is already here. It's just a matter of you being aware of it. I have also heard this. It makes you wonder!

@i am I AM Haha that's a nice face, but no, in the words of great Alan Watts: the maya world has been seen to be the same as the nirvana world. There is no duality.

@i am I AM It has? How so?

So i gotta say, just by looking at that part of the first video where Leo is saying "i'm not in control, it's out of control..." has my chakras begin to vibrate quite intensely.

Neville Goddard has several books about imagining things into existence. I do think he predates The Secret. I have tried both this and lucid dreaming, with no success. Regardless, self-realization is the ultimate achievement. Everything else is illusion.

There is no one called Trump. There was no one called Hitler. There was no one called Buddha. There is just the Self. Diminish the thought that believes there are separate entities. And it will be revealed that there is just the Self.

Do these dreams happen on their own? Do you follow a certain methodology to make them happen? Are you actively chasing lucid dreams?

Yes.

These are all beliefs, let go of them. You have never been anything but the Self, and have by your own power created all this world, including your body and the regulation of its physiological functions. Let go of all attachments. Surrender. That's the only advice that will work. Everything else is chasing more illusions.

@Nadosa Perhaps. Yet perhaps it is only as difficult as you make it out to be. Regardless the outcome is well worth it. Every human being has the god given right to live a life of bliss.

Then why complain about the depression and the sadness? After all, these fleeting states amount to the excitement and drama of life. Give it a try. What you call boring might end up being bliss instead.

For who do all those thoughts/emotions/feelings arise? Who is the subject? Saying that "I seem to be stuck..." amounts to saying that I am a thought, which in case "thinks" accepting reality seems unfair. Being stuck in the egotistic paradigm is what causes you to not realize your enlightenment. The word "I" and believing to be this "I" is what creates duality in the first place. Realize this and all worries disappear in a blink of an eye, and is replaced by bliss.

Who said there is an I who did self-inquiry? For whom does this perceiver exist? What is "my skull"? Who is owning this skull? Search for that.

I am this, I am that, I got this, I want that. Imagine life without this paradigm. You can even try it. Every time there was a thought that involved the first person nominative, say simply stop it. How would life be?

@2018 The absolute is what you are. You are not "spirit" or "soul" because those are concepts, no matter how vauge or spiritual they might sound. The absolute is what you are when all false identification has been removed. The absolute just is. Its existence is self-sustained. Everything else is a display within the absolute. The absolute underlies everything. In the absolute, there are not "things". There is no "I" there is no you, there is no "vision" there is no "hearing" there is no "thought" etc. In other words, the absolute is what it is. THAT. One who has realized the absolute says I am what I am, but only if pushed by the unelightened to describe itself.

The word consciousnesses is thrown around so wily nilly, that it's very hard to understand what its meant in each context. Regardless I have one question though: Sat Cit Ananda?

@Dodo There is two levels of identification here. Identification with thought, and identification with the body. Things to consider: First, regarding thoughts: having an empty mind is not the same as not identifying with thoughts. In fact, the mind could be very busy, but as long as there is no identification with it, then it's of no issue. In the absolute, the mind itself does not exist, nor do thoughts. For this to occur, you have to realize how thoughts are not reality, but an attempt at dividing reality into pieces. These pieces, are concepts, or thoughts. They are not the real thing, but mental representations. And Thought of thought is itself a thought! The sages say, that you are already enlightened. All that you have to do, is to get rid of believing that you are not, which is realizing that concepts you hold and believe to be are not the truth of who you are. Another way to put it, is that ignorance (as opposed to enlightenment) is only distraction with concepts. Second, regarding the body: Again, the idea is not to get rid of the feeling of hunger, or the need for food, but rather losing identification with either of those concepts. In the absolute there is no such thing as 'feeling' or 'need for food'. Reality, you, simply is. That's we say, I am who I am. Nothing more, nothing less. But again, even "I am" does not exist in the absolute.The point is that reality exists by itself, independent of the various forms and names attributed to it. Realize this.

@MM1988 There is nothing behind it. Christianity has a lot of valuable teachings but this is not one of them. There is no cosmic judge testing your actions, at least not in the popular sense of the man on the cloud doing the judging. That particular topic was written by an ego who was separate from its true nature by a large margin, and it reflects deeply egoistic thought. If you are interested in Christianity, i suggest studying the life of Christ the man and the stories attributed to to him, rather than the bible. The idea of "judgment" is analogues to Karma in the eastern thought. There is a lot of philosophical discourse regarding the topic, but at the end of the day, just be and all this loses its significance.

When this happens. The body will go about on its daily grind, drinking water, eating food etc. etc. All by itself. Of course, in the state i am describing, there is no longer a body who does anything. There is just reality.

@Dodo The idea is not to manipulate the body to not feeling hungry. That is not it at all. The idea is to let go of all identification with an ego, the "I" who thinks is the one experiencing hunger. Let go of "I". Let go of the thought of hunger. Let go of all the names you use to label pockets of reality. In doing so your identification with the objects of reality dissolves. What is left is pure being. Be that. The issue here is that we are trying to explain something very simple, something that you already are, and the tendency of the mind overcomplicate things.

@Ingit Who is this "I" who is experiencing all of this? As long as there is a body, and an I, you will suffer. It doesn't matter what the experience, "I" WILL suffer.

@winterknight As you say, it is hard. Unfortunately i don't think getting into a philosophical debate with a skeptic would do any good for convincing them. Of course we know that there really is no such a thing as a consciousness, or mind, or the brain, or the body etc. and that THIS is the answer. This is a very simple thing, but sadly people tend to overcomplicated things. Thank you for your answer. I think i'm just gonna hold up a flower and be "nobly" silent

Well non-duality is a thought. It's a concept. It requires someone who holds the concept of non-duality as true, and whenever there are is identification with a thought, there is duality. The Buddhists say "One thought believed separates heaven and hell."

@Dodo In the absolute, there is no such thing as "I", "awareness", "hunger", "thoughts", "emotions", "feelings" etc. Awareness is just is. In the words of Sri Ramana: "I am that I am." meaning that awareness which is already you, simply is. You are not the words you use to describe the qualities of experience. Therefore you are not hungry, thirsty etc. but just are. The ultimate goal here, is to BE awareness, not KNOW awareness in the traditional sense of knowing it with your logic. Look at a flower without there being someone who is looking, something that is being looked at, and ultimately the act of "looking." Enlightenment is a very simple thing. All one has to do, is to realize that there is no such thing as an "I". I recommend the self-inquiry method. In this practice, whenever there is a thought or feeling or emotion arises, you simply ask, "who is it that is becoming aware of this thought/emotion/feeling?" You will automatically answer: "I am." By inquiring into the nature of this "I" and realizing that it itself is a thought, that arises for no one, you shall realize yourself to be a field of awareness rather than a concept.

@winterknight Hey. I am also enlightened. I have an observation and then a question: I find that for a lot of people, the biggest obstacle against self-realization (merging with consciousness or awareness, what have you) is that they cannot come to grips with accepting that the brain is not the source of consciousnesses. Do you have anything to tell these people that would convince them?