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@Jkris It's a process. One Awakening will not rid you of addictions, but as I mentioned, you have to die to Awaken - and you will come back a different form - but the differences may be slight. The more Awakenings One has the more the form is altered. Therapy and things of that nature are within duality - it can work within its context - but it cannot compare to God realization. In the end with therapy you are just talking to yourself and ultimately you must fix your own problems. Any who dispute this have not awakened. With ego transcendence you can lose the fear of death. It is possible. It is also possible to view the fear of death, while you still have it, as healthy - because you are conscious that death is Bliss - and also conscious that you as the ego still fear it.

Form is form. It is a particular way. It can be short, tall - skinny, fat. It can have illness..it can be "healthy". It is a particular way. Enlightenment collapses this particular possibility into pure potential. But as pure potential you simultaneously have certain realizations as the Absolute. During this blissful non-dual state all form dissipates as does all related with form. God is Absolute perfection. On the gradual collapse back into form you have passageway into the formless. You have broken through the gateless gate or impenetrable barrier. This pathway is now open. Awareness expands. The miracle of Oneness happens. As you are no longer the same form - your old form died and now you are reborn as new form - so too has all things related to your form. This can include illnesses. There is change everywhere in your form. Because you are now a different form.

Yes your ego will come in and want to twist enlightenment for it's own deluded needs simply to move you away from ever discovering Truth. The simplest answer is to be in a state of not knowing. When mediating simply try to be present and free of thought. Notice thoughts will appear but just let them go and bring awareness back on awareness itself. This will allow you to connect with Being - the formless. For me the path was to start with self inquiry that allowed me to become conscious that i was consciousness. But i did the do nothing no mind meditation as well and still do. That's all i do these days. If egoic selfish thoughts come in go meta and dismiss them. Then move on. Keep the mind open and do not be triggered by your own ego.

@Hellspeed maybe its completely unrelated - i have OCD and have been gradually more conscious even without enlightenent. But after liberation it seemed to become much easier and less severe - and that is simply through the miracle of God realization. This whole thing including yourself is being imagined by yourself. God can do whatever he/it wants. So be careful to put limitations on God.

Enlightenment will not cure you of your addictions, mental illnesses etc. But you will be more conscious of them and more self aware of what triggers them and when they happen. That in itself as well as realizing you are God can lessen their severity to a degree but it will not be the cure. You will have to do your own work on that which can take decades. So yes it can help but isn't the end all be all fix.

@karkaore Yes. Think of your ego as a possibility which plays out in some type of form or particular way. When you have the first awakening/mystical experience/mystical shift in consciousness. The ego/relative/duality collapses leaving non-duality - pure Being/pure potential. In that state you are pure isness. Ultimately you will collapse from the Absolute back to the relative. Back to your ego. From the Ego's perspective now you can only imagine the experience of Pure Being. You are not being it any longer. Yes you are being it, but as form or a particular possibility which is within the formlessn or Infinite Potential. The formless just is itself (no form) After many awakenings and many realizations you are really opened up and can feel Kundalini or Being all the time. You also have a sense of non-dual awareness. (There is more to that but i won't touch on here) But you still cannot be pure Being (non-dual formlessness or pure potential) while you are being a particular form or possibility. Thats what i mean by being in your current dual state.

It doesn't stop there. You should be skeptical of your OWN mind! Have you seen his series on Self Deception?

@karkaore its concept and imagination for you currently. But it's there because you are open minded. (Even though you are Being IT right now) And notice too unless you are presently in a non-dual state it is concept to those who are enlightened. And when you are only Being or Formless you are not form. The difference with enlightenent is that you die and become the Absolute. As the Absolute, Absolute Truths are revealed. You are reborn but no longer the same. However when in dual state those Absolutes are still concept to you...it's just that you are aware of them as Absolutes. That is non-dual awareness without being the formless. It's very tricky.

@Rilles are you sure you can stomach the realizations that will come after death? Be ready

@Nahm Disclaimer - God is now entering the realm of duality with this post. "I" Love you too! If i did misunderstand then dually noted.

@Nahm who is there to convince? We can play these games all day and see how language simply dissolves and breaks down. It cannot capture the Absolute. Lets not conflate relative/duality with non-duality the Absolute.

@Neorez right is relative. But there are Absolute Truths which is identical to the One Absolute. All is One.

Listen to music while meditating. Sit with the feeling of Kundalini or Being as i call it and try to be free of thought. Try to not know. That is Love and Love is Bliss.

Indeed the raw feeling of Love prior to thought is the same Love as Absolute Love. Its when you make it relative through thought that it splits into the part. Nothing wrong with the part either.

@Scholar that's right. Thats why the formless must become form in order to be itself and to know itself. It's not even silence. Silence is something

@mandyjw haven't read all of this yet... by the looks of it not sure i need to LOL. But it's definitely not bullshit. It's the essence of everything. So don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Your love is real!

When we typically talk about Love we are talking about relative love. Because we as Egos are relative. Everything is relative to our perspective, including Love. Nothing wrong with that but we have to be conscious that it's just a part of the whole.

To be honest the Buddha or any enlightened being is beyond stages in that stages are dualistic. So from a dualistic perspective you could place him or any enlightened person into a stage but that will always be relative. The Buddha became the Absolute. Stages cannot go there.

There isn't any problem with science. Science can reveal a lot about Reality because reality literally dreamt it up. You notice this especially after you awaken. The way light can be a particle or a wave relative the observer and how they are observing it. Quantum tunneling in which protons pass through seemingly impossible barriers - this sounds very familiar...like what? Like mysticism And much more. So there isn't a problem with science it is just that the scientists themselves have to evolve and comprehend the philosophical and epistemic ramifications of these discoveries. We aren't there yet. Science is within reality. It cannot capture all of reality. But most think it still can - that is the problem. You cannot grasp the whole from the part. You must pass through that impossible barrier

@Peo you can't try..just Be.

@Onecirrus you actually may have hit a non-dual state or had a glimpse even it was very brief. What you described indicates that. The bliss is the feeling of the ego beginning to collapse or extract itself from Being leaving only Being or the formless. God in a state of Being is nirvana (it's all nirvana but this is a mystical shift causing extreme feelings of love and bliss.) You were the Infinity of infinity - the whole rather than the part. Even if for just a few moments. You became pure Isness or Being. You can't will it back. But stick to the practices. Keep meditating. Keep listening to Tolle. Keep listening to Leo. Keep contemplating and notice your consciousness expand. Very nice to hear. God has no judgements.

Solipsism is relative. The Absolute is the Absolute. One can make their own relative perspective all that there is by believing that's all their is (everything is in their mind) and it becomes real for them. But don't discount imagining that their are other perspectives. Imagination is part of Infinity too. Becoming the Absolute reveals the Absolute. But reality is so Infinite that one can make the relative the Absolute from their relative perspective. So it's both. Ta da!

@Shaun only for a finite time

@SoonHei God is the ultimate chameleon

Its all One. The part is still the whole.