VeganAwake

Lions and tigers and bears oh my...❤

Happy birthday brother! ?

"His disciples said to him: On what day will the kingdom come? <Jesus said:> It will not come while people watch for it; they will not say: Look, here it is, or: Look, there it is; but the kingdom of the father is spread out over the earth, and men do not see it" -- Jesus Gospel of Thomas

@The observer ❤ hi welcome to the forum...

There isn't an individual and there isn't a path... so what's bypassing?

"The greatest obstacle to Discovery is not ignorance, it's the illusion of knowledge"

Who wants to know?

Consciousness and awareness can be spoken about all day.... but who's the perceiver/observer/witness ? Where is this one?

It's literally the opposite of what you said here. It's seeing reality without the mind's conditioning.(filters,lenses, judgements) It's recognized subject was never apart from object... the separation was an illusion created by the mind and energy in the body. Enlightenment is Awakening from the dream of the separate individual...its simply Truth!! Psychedelics are great for throwing off the minds traditional/natural thinking patterns, and they create a new path for energy to take... it reveals alternatives... Now after this is recognized the trick is not taking any path at all... just stay neutral for a while until the illusion is completely seen through.. ❤

And simultaneously Acceptance and rejection can still occur within this freedom... Also allowing acceptance or rejection is complete freedom!! ?

True acceptance comes from awareness or understanding. Awareness alone is curative... It doesn't mean you have to like someone's behavior or necessarily tolerate it... When you understand the mechanisms that create suffering... unconditional love in all situations results.

@Zenrool There's nothing that goes beyond anything else, there's just what's happening. Of course the mind creates all kinds of stories ❤ “Comparison is the death of joy.” -- Mark Twain “Comparison is the thief of joy” -- Theodore Roosevelt

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@Nak Khid yes exactly a lot of different things could have happened she could have also recognized that he was going to leave her and wanted to die anyways... she could have even told him to kill her or have someone else do it... no one really knows.. It could have been covered up to avoid embarrassment of the family... Maybe she had a brain aneurysm who knows..

Samadhi is the 8th and final stage on the eightfold path of yoga. ... There are different levels of Samadhi, or different stages of connection with the Divine, but when the word Samadhi is used alone, it usually refers to the state of enlightenment, which is the highest form of Samadhi. Samadhi is pointing to stillness of the whirlpool of mind/ego/self. It's pointing to the disentangling of the mind/egoic self agenda/social conditioning. Samadhi is just another word for Nirvana/Awakening/Liberation/Enlightenment/Buddha nature....and so on!! "Samadhi is awakening from the dream of the separate self or the egoic construct. Samadhi is awakening from identification with the prison that I call me. You can never actually be free, because wherever you go your prison is there. Awakening is not about getting rid of the mind or the matrix, on the contrary; when you are not identified with it, then you can experience the play of life more fully, enjoying the show as it is, without craving or fear. In the ancient teachings this was called the divine game of Leila: the game of playing in duality. Human consciousness is a continuum. On one extreme, humans are identified with the material self. On the other extreme is Samadhi, the cessation of self. Every step we take on the continuum towards Samadhi, brings less suffering. Less suffering does not mean life is free from pain. Samadhi is beyond the duality of pain and pleasure. What it means is that there is less mind, less self creating resistance to whatever unfolds and that resistance is what creates suffering. Realizing Samadhi even once allows you to see what is at the other end of the continuum. To see that there is something other than the material world and self interest. When there is an actual cessation of the self structure in Samadhi there is no ego, no self, no duality yet there is still the I am, annata or no self. In that emptiness is the dawn of prajna or wisdom- the understanding that the immanent self is far beyond the play of duality, beyond the entire continuum. The immanent self is timeless, unchanging, always now. Enlightenment is the merging of the primordial spiral, the ever-changing manifested world or lotus in which time unfolds, with your timeless being. Your inner wiring grows like an ever-unfolding flower as you dis-identify with the self, a living bridge between the world of time and the timeless. Merely realizing the immanent self is only the beginning of one’s path. Most people will have to experience and lose Samadhi countless times in meditation before they are able to integrate it into other facets of life. It is not unusual to have profound insights into the nature of your being during meditation or self inquiry, only to find yourself once again falling back into old patterns, forgetting the truth of who you are. To realize that stillness or emptiness in every facet of life, every facet of one’s self, is to become emptiness dancing as all things" - Samadhi ( Maya illusion of the self)

@Inliytened1 ❤

Nothing happens later, it's already here... It's already Paradise it's already Heaven it's already perfect it's already whole & complete. What happens is the mind or ego or whatever you want to call it, places an overlay on top of reality. This overlay kicks you out of the Garden of Eden... This overlay says everything has to have meaning purpose and value... it can't just be existence for existence sake. Then the question of why? arises... we start seeking running on the hamster wheel for the rest of our lives looking for something that was never missing. Meanwhile the birds are singing the wind is blowing the sun is shining the ocean is oceaning the mountains are mountaining.... but where are you? Oh you're lost in your own mind... Lost In Your Own Story running the rat race, running on the hamster wheel looking for something that you will never find because it's already here. This is what Awakening is... There isn't some magical experience you will find anywhere else or in the future ...THIS is already IT...trust ❤ It's just whether its seen or not...

@LfcCharlie4 ❤

@Leo Gura don't pull out prematurely Leo... nobody really knows what's going to happen we just pretend like we do. That's the mystery that's the Wonder... looking at the world again with childlike eyes and splendor. Maybe your next adventure will be a radical shift... but nothing has to end, maybe you will move to somewhere new, start something different, change up your videos, maybe if the search is given up the answer will appear.( "when the student is ready the master appears") Nothing ever promised us this crazy ball and chain trip was going to be perfect peace and Bliss... love hate fear suffering anger boredom happiness joy anguish sorrow fulfillment. It's all IT...it's all WHATS HAPPENING!! Creativity is like God's porn and you've got way too much of it to be pullin out prematurely. Maybe take it easy on the seeking and start basking in the Indescribable mystery of what's already here... it's f****** incredible... I'm only 5 hours away from Vegas don't make me drive over there and give you a bear hug from the US Navy. ? We love you way too much brother!! thanks for everything seriously. ❤

Whatever you decided to do is your path, That's it... Whatever action is taken is perfectly equal to any other action. And every reaction is perfectly equal to every other reaction. Thoughts may say otherwise but they don't mean anything. There is no actual bypassing because there isn't a path that needs to be followed in the first place.

“You are your only hope, because we’re not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we’re aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.” ~ Byron Katie “The minute I don’t agree with you, the minute I question one of your sacred beliefs, I become your enemy; you divorce me in your mind. Then you start looking for all the reasons why you’re right, and you stay focused outside yourself. When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.” ~ Byron Katie "I've come to see that anyone who doesn't question their thoughts is suffering from mental illness. No one has to suffer that kind of pain when life can be so simple." ~ Byron Katie http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Byron_Katie Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do. Byron Katie

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