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@seeking_brilliance Is that rhetorical?

@Arcangelo nice

He was a very enlightened person and others who were not enlightened looked at him as God and thus the religion came about. But the people were not aware that they were also God and could become enlightened. That got missed completely.

@Nahm i like that analogy. That is showing him the duality and form of infinity. We cannot know the formless of infinity. We can only BE it. Because we ARE it. But it is all One. Shaun is Infinite right now. Love it.

@zeroISinfinity

@Mikael89 it will appear that way from your perspective until it becomes Actual for you. Until you become Actual to where all dualities collapse and all you are is Actuality. There is no denying Truth after that.

@Arcangelo well when i began this path i wasn't meditating to kill the ego. I rather just held an open mind that maybe the metaphysical questions philosophers have pondered for thousands of years could be answered. So it was kind of like an open mind type of thing not to slay the ego. Even now when i meditate i use no mind and try to just BE. Because that's our true nature. We are being right now just through form. I just try to be One with the present moment. Which is Being minus form. Form and duality collapse.

@Mikael89 i did if you scroll up. Horrible isn't a good word. Terrifying is. But it's beautiful at the same time.

@lmfao yeah its hard. But if you can delay pleasure up front and deal with some up front suffering it will lead to less suffering long term. It's not easy because the ego wants only pleasure not knowing that this will ultimately cause more long term suffering. @kieranperez For addictions what can work great is no mind meditation when you feel an addiction coming on. Just BE. Just be yourself and let the pain of the addiction move through you until it finally passes. So stay in a state of meditation and Being while these emotions are moving thru you.

@Truth Addict The Awakened one says this. It takes enlightenment to grasp. But once Awake there is a desire that arises from Love to help others to Awaken. This isn't ego. Of course from your persepctive thats how it could appear - that's because language can't capture Truth so Truth can get corrupted when spoken to those that are not open minded. The snake eating it's own tail.

It does sound like it as he is almost saying that these dualities can be collapsed and the only reason they exist is because the are contrasts. Wonder if it was intentional or not..cool music regardless

It depends on perspective. From your perspective you have free will. God's perspective is Absolute infinity. It contains all possibilities and they have all played out, are playing out, and they never even happened.

@Shaun yes then my first answer applies.

@Rilles haha yeah..its like Mario reaching outsideoutside video game

Wait..did you mean as in the movies happened in real life or that they were actually filmed? If it's the latter then yes thru the perspectives of those filming it it played out in form. But only to those perspectives.

Yes but not in a formed state like you might think..Absolute infinity is formless so it is pure potential. They happened without actually playing out that they happened.

@Shin yeah i had no idea what i was in for...maybe it IS better that way

@Shin lol..hey this is some serious shit...they should be aware of it before they choose the path. Its not for the faint of heart...But to Awaken just makes all of it worthwhile and once your ego gets past the shock its Absolutely wonderful,

The Absolute is not relative. It's One. All form is duality or relativity. But going back his original question - there is a horrifying aspect to the Absolute - and that is to the Ego. Its also incredibly powerful when it comes on - far too powerful for mortals to handle and that's why most of the time the ego won't surrender. But the ego must dissolve and that is terrifying to it. There is a very horrifying realization that you will have and that is to truly become conscioisness that you are a hallucination. The other realization that is terrifying is that you are alone. All of this is from the Ego's perspective of course. But the beauty and the Love are so strong that it will just melt you.

@Truth Addict I'm letting you have the last word I'm going to hide this post.....

@Rilles i like the Avatar...will Mario ever get out?

@chudders Only if you believe the thoughts are you. The fact is thoughts are NOT you. You actually have no control whatsoever over thoughts. OCD is this very issue, and in order for an OCD sufferer to overcome it is to go Meta on the thoughts and become self aware that they are just thoughts. They have nothing to do with the person themselves at all. When you get lost in your own thoughts and attach yourself to them you can get lost in depression, guilt, fear, etc. Great question.

@Shin you're already enlightened

@tedens True.