Inliytened1

Yes - self inquiry, do nothing, and concentration practices.

You can still enjoy it - so you are right. I do everyday. I'm just saying that you do get robbed of there being self and other. How you interpret that is up to you.

Personally i prefer the word imaginary. It's not a trap it is what is. Thats what Oneness is. It is a hallucination. And you are alone. This is radical stuff. If you haven't had this awakening yet than do not take it on as dogma. Keep your personal view and be skeptical of what i am saying. But if you pursue Truth at the highest level your ego won't like what its going to find. But God will.

Imagine it like this. Imagine you are dreaming at night, and in your dream you are a spiritual teacher standing in front of a bunch of students. After your lecture all of the students tell you how much your teachings have helped them - and how they have experienced awakenings because of the teachings, and how their lives got changed. It really brings you a sense of joy. Then suddenly you wake up. You realize it was just a dream, and that all of the students you thought were real were just part of your dream, in your mind. Then later you learn to lucid dream, and you start dreaming the same dream again. Being lucid, would you feel the same way again about teaching your students? It wouldn't be that easy anymore. You would now to have "play" along with it, but now conscious of the truth. The trick would be up.

The mindfuck of it is you were actually teaching yourself the whole time.

Indeed can get nice blissful states.

All my awakenings happened a few weeks into meditation and then a month or so after that. Nowadays I don't meditate much anymore but i need to get back to it. Leo's correct in that for most people mystical states will be very hard to reach without psychedelics. But if its the right time for you and you are spiritually gifted it could definitely happen and also be extremely powerful. I was fortunate as everything clicked at once within a few months time. And i wasn't seeking anything. It was kind of like a once in a lifetime thing. Though not to say it couldn't happen again with more meditation.. As for my concentration levels - they are really good.. I can block out a tornado if i wanted to lol. A blessing and a curse

Awesome very nice. You can hit divine mystical states sober. All of my awakenings have been via meditation. As far as permanent non-dual states, that would only happen when you're dead. Dead dead - not ego death which is a non-dual state but then a return to duality or this dream you are dreaming. Dead dead is permanent awakening. So you are back in duality now, and while yes its true that duality it is a part of non-duality it is not the whole. It's like you are taking the perspective of the finger and not the whole hand. So as the finger, while you are also still the hand, you're perspective is just the finger. But as Consciousness with a mystical experience you shift to the hand. (Aka the Godhead).

You as well brother.

Well that sucks. I kind of liked you And well, i did actually hit a non-dual state while on the forum before, a year or so ago. But i could barely type at the time as i was drifting between duality and non-duality / state of pure Being. So i guess it's possible. But don't be that guy who just knows it in concept and then walks around saying he's in permanent non-duality. If you have had serious awakenings than you won't mind talking about them right?

I was humoring him on the embodiment that's a choice after awakening. Yes formless equals form. But no you are not in a non-dual mystical state of consciousness now. You would know that if you were ever in a state of samadhi.

@GodDesireOnlyLove lol.

Embodiment is one thing - a permanent non-dual state is another. That's what he is speaking of with mahasamadhi. One will not be in a permanent non-dual state of Consciousnes in finite form no matter how much they embody it. I'm not saying embodying God in finite form is not great, it is. And you are God regardless. But i think what he is chasing is a permanent state of Samadhi right now. It's not necessary. That's why he backed off.

I knew the nothing matters guy was still here haha. Love is. ❤❤

Duality or form is within non-duality or formlessness, but simultaneously it is the whole thing. Pull out your hand. Look at your finger. See it as the finger. Now see that the finger is simultaneously the whole hand. Become conscious of that. That's how God or reality is.

You are. You just aren't conscious of it in your current state of consciousness or you would stop being a human and you would be a cell. Simultaneously you are everything right now but you need a radically higher mystical state of consciousness to become conscious of that.

Formed reality as i call it is nothing but perspectives. Consciousness tricks itself into limitation via form

Guys be careful not to put anyone else on a pedestal. You are God which you already know. So really the deeper levels are just Infinity no matter how incredibly deep they may feel in the present moment when that state of consciousness is actual. They will get infinitely deeper everytime that's fine relative to you. But eventually those states of consciousness fade into memory as you return to normal states of consciousness. Ofcourse memory itself is illusory - dissolving into a conplete state of mahasamadhi God would no longer be on the forum in the form of a human. Formlessness in its purest form. Total Oneness. Total Unity. A merging with the present moment eternally. Once you are directly conscious of this there is no reason to do it "intentionally" unless you want to. That's your choice as God. It does not make you any less God to remain as form. So i gotta say i do not see anything incorrect with what @Meta-Man is saying here. Leo got in a bit over his head. Its all good.

He is talking to himself right now. As are you. Literally. God is mentally masturbating.

@Leo Gura inifnity is spamming itself Lock this thread!

It is fascinating that these ancient cultures had it right the whole time and modern religions got things so twisted hehe. Other cultures don't talk about things such as no self either - other than Buddhism and Hinduism These cultures are a lot closer to Truth than what we have here in America. I was amazed.

Absolute Love = Infinity. Don't try to grasp it with your mind. It's like trying to grasp what nothing is. Anything you think nothing is is something. It is Being itself. It's the fabric.

Indeed. It is pure Love. Way too powerful for a mere mortal

Form and formlessness are absolutely identical. When you hold out your hand and are conscious that this is Infinity - well - lets just say it should give you chills.